The Third Reich: The Return of the King

“Damn! The people on whom the sun never sets are such a piece of shit!”

“Isn’t it true? They have occupied this place for at least 200 years, right? Why didn’t they develop it properly?”

“I finally know how Napoleon died. No one can stand living in this crappy place for a few years!”

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On St. Helena, a group of German soldiers were complaining loudly.

It has been a week since they landed.

During this week, except for the first few days, they still had a little curiosity in their hearts. In the remaining days, when they figured out the situation on the island, the Germans were dumbfounded!

As a large island in the central region of the South Atlantic, St. Helena has great development value. The

British have occupied this place for nearly 270 years. For such a long time, they have never developed it well.

There are no ports, no airports, and even few houses on the island.

Most of the local residents are indigenous people. They live in some dilapidated and low houses. The German army certainly dare not live in such houses. The climate environment of St. Helena is obviously a tropical marine climate, with high temperature and heavy rain, and mosquitoes and flies breed.

In this environment, living in such a place can easily lead to the spread of diseases. If one person gets sick, in such a narrow space on the island, it is likely to spread to the entire army soon.

Therefore, after the German army landed on the shore, in addition to sending a part to investigate and collect information on the island, the remaining soldiers almost all became engineers, busy building various infrastructure. The first thing they had to build was the dock. After all, without the dock, the ships on the sea could only float on the sea and could not dock.

Fortunately, there were many transport ships in their fleet, carrying a large number of engineering equipment.

There was a small port built by the Portuguese more than 300 years ago on St. Helena Island. This port was later known as Georgetown Port.

The Portuguese had a good vision. This port was a natural deep-water port with very good hydrological conditions. It did not require too much dredging to directly berth large ships of tens of thousands of tons.

However, the water depth of the port was sufficient, but the scale of the dock was too small. There was no suitable berth for the hundreds of meters long giant ship.

Therefore, the German army had to speed up the construction of the port. After several days of hard work, they barely built a floating dock and stopped the fleet’s transport ships. Other ships anchored in the port, and the personnel on the ship took turns to get off the ship and go to the island to take a walk.

The area of St. Helena is not small. With an area of more than 120 square kilometers, it is definitely a large island.

However, because it is a volcanic island with a volcano in the center of the island, there are not many places where people can live.

The scale of the German fleet heading south this time is very large. The number of sailors on the naval warships alone exceeds 50,000, and the Marine Corps has also dispatched a large number of troops, with a total number of nearly 150,000.

Such a large force suddenly appeared on an island with a total population of only more than 2,000 people. The congestion caused can be imagined!

Not to mention that the indigenous people on the island did not build houses well, even if they built very good houses, considering the size of the population on the island, these houses would definitely not be enough to live in!

As a last resort, the German army could only live in field tents.

However, the poor climatic conditions on St. Helena made the German soldiers miserable.

It often rains on this island, and it is often heavy rain and strong winds. This causes the tents to be blown around in the wind and rain. A lot of rain falls on the soldiers in the tents, and their bedding and personal belongings are all soaked.

In order to prevent the soldiers from catching a cold and causing an epidemic, the German high-level officials discussed and decided to hurry up and invest heavily in building houses.

If the accommodation problem cannot be solved, the soldiers will soon lose their combat effectiveness due to the rain.

However, it is not easy to build houses for more than 100,000 people.

In addition to the need to mobilize a large number of laborers to work, they also need a lot of materials, including cement, steel bars, concrete, mixers, and skilled bricklayers.

And there are only a few of these things in their fleet, so most of them must apply to the country.

It’s just that St. Helena is too far away from the empire. Even if the empire immediately approves their request, it will take at least a month for the things to be shipped over.

So, during this month, they have to endure the harsh environment on the island by themselves.

It is no wonder that the German soldiers were full of complaints. Anyone who was thrown into such a bad environment would probably complain!

“Hundreds of people got sick yesterday, and the fleet’s medical ships are almost full!”

Steiner came to the headquarters on the island, which is a manor where the legendary Gaul emperor Napoleon lived and lived for more than a hundred years ago.

The conditions here are slightly better, at least there are houses that can shelter from the wind and rain.

However, the conditions are not much better, and neither Steiner nor Nimitz are very satisfied with this place.

“Well, not only are there not enough beds, but also medical supplies!”

Nimitz sighed and said to Steiner

“This won’t work. We can’t just sit there and wait!”

Steiner said worriedly.

The 100,000 marines under his command were all elite soldiers in the army, and most of them were veterans who had followed him since the Viking Division.

If these soldiers died on the battlefield, it would be a worthy death, but if these soldiers died of illness on this barren island, he would definitely not accept it.

“Let alone you, I can’t stand it either. The sailors in the navy are no worse than your army, especially those technical soldiers. I will be heartbroken for several days if I lose one of them!”

Nimitz couldn’t help but say, he didn’t want to stay here.

When drawing up the battle plan before, they took it for granted.

They thought that St. Helena Island was close to Samba, so it was a good sea transit station. As long as they occupied it, they could threaten the long coastline to the east of Samba!

However, who would have thought that this island was so desolate, and the infrastructure here could not provide them with support at all. Their previous battle plan had to be adjusted, otherwise the operation might fail.

“In that case, why don’t we leave here and head north!”

“Go north? You mean back to the Azores?”

“Of course not. Wouldn’t it be desertion if we went back directly? I mean to go to the northwest!”