The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Three days later, a detailed report on the civil unrest in the Kazan region was placed in front of Führer Mainz.

As the planner of this operation, Mainz already had a general understanding of the contents of the report.

However, he still looked through it curiously.

“Are the factories in the Kazan area seriously damaged?”

He asked Himmler while flipping through the report in his hand.

“The destruction was quite serious, the scale of the exchange of fire between the two sides was large, and the scene was very chaotic. A large number of factories were blown up in the fight between the two sides, and some were blown up by our people during the chaos.”

Himmler’s SS was naturally no stranger to this kind of thing, after all, they had done this kind of thing more than once or twice, and it could be said that they were quite skilled.

“Well, that’s good. Kazan does have many factories. Since we don’t plan to directly incorporate Kazan into the territory of the Empire, we must destroy it as much as possible!”

From a strategic perspective, the Empire should not occupy Moscow.

Because Moscow is the capital of the Mao Bears after all, occupying it will undoubtedly attract a lot of hatred.

However, as a conqueror, occupying and controlling the other side’s capital is itself a matter of great political significance.

Therefore, weighing the pros and cons, Mainz decided to keep Moscow and drive Denikin’s Mao Bear puppet regime to Kazan.

Kazan is not too far from Moscow. In the future, when the puppet regime stabilizes, they can contribute money, labor and manpower to build a new railway, using the Empire’s standard rails and abandoning the Mao Bear’s wide rails.

In this way, Kazan will be closer to Moscow. If you take the train, you can arrive in half a day. The German troops will set out along the railway and can control it within a day. Kazan region.

Therefore, as long as a sufficiently strong army is left in Moscow, the Empire does not actually need to worry about the Russians. The

Russians’ transportation hub is undoubtedly their capital, Moscow, whether it is leading to the Ural Industrial Zone in the east, Stalingrad in the south, or Leningrad in the north.

Trains to these places need to pass through Moscow. By controlling this place, it is very convenient to control the Russians’ land in Eastern Europe.

In this case, Moscow not only has great political significance, but also has a huge military role.

During World War II, many people believed that the Battle of Stalingrad was the turning point of the war on the Eastern Front, but in Mainz’s view, the Battle of Moscow that broke out before was more important. The Battle of

Moscow interrupted the rhythm of the German army’s unstoppable offensive. The German army returned empty-handed while the Russians preserved their most important domestic transportation hub.

If Moscow was captured by the German army, it would not only deal a fatal blow to the morale of the Soviet army, but would also have a huge negative impact on the transportation of materials to multiple battlefields on the north and south lines of the Soviet army.

Without Moscow as a transit station, it would be difficult for materials transported from various places to be smoothly transported to the front line.

If the materials cannot be transported to the front line, no matter how much is produced in the rear, it will not be able to be delivered to the front-line troops.

Without the supply of materials, the Soviet front-line troops will find it difficult to resist the German attack, and the situation on other battlefields will also change dramatically!

This change will undoubtedly develop in a direction that is beneficial to the German army!

So from the perspective of hindsight, The failure of the Battle of Moscow was a heavy blow to the German army. After that, when the Soviet army recovered, they no longer had the opportunity to threaten their capital.

Even during the Battle of Stalingrad, in order to ensure the safety of the capital, Starling launched a fierce attack on the defense line of the Central Army Group and fought a protracted and heavy casualties in the Battle of Rzhev!

The Soviet army suffered heavy casualties in this battle, but the German army lost its position and eventually withdrew from Rzhev. From a strategic perspective, the German army was defeated even though it won!

It was precisely because of these concerns that Mainz decided to leave Moscow.

He planned to station an army group here. In this way, relying on the railway network, this German army can radiate a range of one thousand kilometers around and control more than 3 million square kilometers of land.

And if the battle of the puppet regime of the bear in the east is not going well, once the situation gets out of control, the German army can also set off immediately and rush to Kazan to help them resist Starling’s attack.

“There is one more thing!”

Himmler hesitated for a moment, but decided to tell Mainz

“What’s the matter?”

Mainz stopped what he was doing, looked at Himmler curiously, and asked

“Well, the second most important person in Kazan, Liu Annov, survived the previous melee. He brought a lot of remaining troops to our side and wanted to surrender to us. Führer, please take a look at this matter.……”

Himmler felt that this matter was a bit tricky, because it not only involved the Third Reich itself, but also the puppet regime of the bear.

If Liuannov was accepted, it would inevitably cause dissatisfaction among Denikin and others.

In their view, Liuannov was undoubtedly a great threat to them. If such a person was allowed to have too much contact with the head of state, he might get the support of the head of state.

Once they got the support of the head of state, Denikin and others would be in danger!

After all, they were just a group of puppets. If they lost their value, they would be abandoned in a minute!

If you don’t want to cause tension among the puppet regimes that Denikin and others had already surrendered to, it’s better not to accept Liuannov. However

, Mainz saw some other qualities in this guy.

Being able to survive the fight with Starlin and run to the German army to surrender with a group of troops loyal to him, the other party should be quite capable, otherwise the team would have disbanded on the road.

A defeated general can still make his subordinates follow him wholeheartedly, which must be capable.

Mainz would not give too much power to a capable person, because that would threaten the Third Reich itself.

But if he was ignored, it would be a waste.

So Mainz thought of a good place to go.

“What is the current situation in Central Asia?”

Mainz did not directly answer Himmler’s question, but asked an irrelevant question.

“Uh, are you referring to the areas in Central Asia where the Russian bears are?”