The Third Reich: The Return of the King

North African battlefield.

Rommel, commander of the North African Corps, had a very comfortable life during this period.

Because the strategic focus of the empire was on Eastern Europe, there was basically no fighting in North Africa.

After his army went south to expel the forces in the southernmost colony of Africa, there was basically no action.

Of course, this does not mean that they have no enemies.

In fact, there are still some remnants of enemies who escaped from Europe in the western part of Africa.

Among them, the largest one is the resistance army of Free Gaul.

Rommel did not take this army too seriously.

He had fought with De Gaulle in the Gallic Campaign before, and the opponent was already defeated by him that time.

In North Africa, the opponent’s strength was far less powerful than that in the Gallic Campaign. On the other hand, he had an entire army group in his hands, and with the strong support provided by the Third Reich, he was already invincible in this case.

Even if he suffered a temporary setback on the battlefield, Rommel could fully accept a little loss.

But the Gauls in West Africa are different!

Their main army is the colonial army recruited from the local area. These colonial vassal armies do not fully trust and are loyal to them.

It is impossible to rely on these colonial people to fight for them.

The real core army in Dai Gaole’s hands is just a part of the French army he brought from Gaul, plus the French army originally stationed in the West African colonies.

Even if the immigrants from Gaul scattered in the colonies are added, the army they can mobilize that is absolutely loyal to Gaul will not exceed 500,000. Moreover

, considering that the industry in West Africa is very backward, even if they form an army, they do not have many weapons and equipment.

Originally, they could also obtain weapons support from the British Empire and the Eagle Sauce, but when one of these two countries was driven away and the other was destroyed, the supply of weapons for the Free French Chicken faced great difficulties.

In view of this, Dai Gaole set his sights on other countries.

There are not many countries that have not been touched by the Third Reich. Europe has completely fallen. Even for the few countries that have not fallen, they absolutely dare not risk offending the Third Reich to provide weapons to Free Gaul!

After all, heaven is too far away and the Third Reich is too close. If the matter is exposed, then they will definitely bear the wrath of the Third Reich!

No country will take such a big risk to do such a business with completely disproportionate benefits and risks.

As for Asia, there are not many independent countries here. In addition, due to the geographical barrier, the Mediterranean has become the inner lake of the Third Reich. If Asia wants to transport arms to West Africa, it needs to go around the Cape of Good Hope.

And it is not safe along the way. The navy of the Third Reich has begun to move east from the Mediterranean and start to operate in the Indian Ocean.

It can be seen that the Third Reich is preparing for the next attack on the sun that never sets in South Asia.

But in this case, the route from Asia to West Africa will be completely cut off, and it is impossible to transport things from here.

As for North America, although there are two major countries in North America, Mexico and Maple Leaf Country, the Third Reich stationed Model’s Second Army in North America and selected about 1 million troops from German immigrants.

With such a large armed force at their doorstep, these two countries will definitely not risk selling weapons!

So, after a round of calculations, the only country that could possibly sell them weapons was Latin America!

Latin America is isolated overseas, far away from Europe and Asia. In addition to the existence of the Amazon forest, the infrastructure here is very poor, the environment is also very bad, and the major cities are concentrated in the southern hemisphere. It is even farther away from Europe, and the straight-line distance has exceeded 13,000 kilometers!

Such a long distance, coupled with such a pitiful income, has caused the Third Reich to have no appetite for this place for the time being.

After the head of state won over Colombia and prepared to let the other party join Latin American countries to clean up the local thorn Samba country, he didn’t care much about the things here!

Dai Gaole, who was entrenched in West Africa, saw this and immediately seized the opportunity and sent people to Samba country for secret contact.

In his opinion, Latin America is the closest region to West Africa outside of Europe, and although the industrial strength of Samba country is not as good as those of the traditional powers, it is also considered powerful among emerging countries!

In 1930, the industrial strength of Samba country could be ranked among the top ten in the world.

Moreover, this country has a relatively good production capacity of weapons and equipment. Although the specifications are not completely consistent with those of Gaul, they can still be used. After all, Gaul’s 8mm caliber bullets are unique in the world and very strange. There is no other firearm of this caliber in the world.

Therefore, in the absence of military factories and the inability to produce weapons and equipment, importing arms from abroad has become a necessary choice!

The Samba country was very surprised by the visit of the secret envoy sent by Dai Gaole.

They felt that this was a good opportunity to earn arms fees. After all, arms trade is often a very profitable trade, which can bring them a lot of real money, so no one can refuse this kind of business.

Moreover, although Dai Gaole represents only Free Gaul, it is not the real Gaul.

However, this is at least the largest country in Europe. If weapons can be exported to the army of the former largest country in Europe, it will be very helpful to enhance the national pride of Samba!

After all, it is very face-saving to say this kind of thing!

However, in addition to these benefits, they must also consider the huge risks in this transaction!

The biggest risk is actually very obvious, that is the attitude and reaction of the Third Reich.

The Third Reich regards Gaul as its vassal and puppet state, and naturally does not allow another Gaul resistance regime to exist outside.

Therefore, their attitude towards Free Gaul has always been to kill the other party and leave no way to live.

In this case, if Samba rashly agrees to the arms purchase request of Free Gaul, it will inevitably offend the Third Reich.

Weapons are not like antiques and paintings that are bought back and hidden and not shown to outsiders!

This thing is bought back for war, and who is the enemy of Free Gaul?

Isn’t it the army of the Third Reich?

So as long as they use this weapon on the battlefield, it will inevitably be noticed by the Third Reich.

Once the Third Reich notices it, Samba will definitely be targeted, and it may cause a lot of trouble for itself!