The suggestion of general mobilization was rejected by the confident Hitler!

However, the establishment of the General Administration of Arms to unify the arms production in Germany was also approved by Adolf Hitler.

"Ludwig, I would like to recommend Hermann Gorene as the Director of the General Administration of Arms." Hitler told Hesman in his prime minister's office. "Grene is the Minister of Economy. His work has been effective over the years. I believe he can make arms production meet the needs of war."

"Hermann," Hessmann nodded to the fat man Goring, who was sitting next to him, "Let us fight for the future of the German Empire together!"

Fatty is not the best candidate, his ability is not as good as Spel. But there is a director of the General Administration of Arms that is better than the various yamen in charge.

In addition, Fat Gorene also has enough authority. In the past few years, he has formulated and supervised two four-year plans, and the results look very good. Under his command, Germany produced 26.6 million tons of steel, 473 million tons of coal, 70.2 billion kWh of electricity, 250,000 tons of electrolytic aluminum and 520,000 cars in 1937. In addition, Germany's shipbuilding industry has also been restored, and the construction of the "Schernhorst" class battleship and the "Sedlitz" class aircraft carrier illustrates this.

However, the General Administration of Military Affairs will not completely hand over to Gorene. It’s not that he doesn’t trust Gorene’s ability. In fact, Gorene is quite capable, but has been corrupted by power in history. In this time and space, Gorene’s power is not enough to corrupt him. However, knowing the future development direction of weapons and equipment is Hessman’s greatest reliance, so the jurisdiction of this department is still in the military.

The General Staff and the Ministry of Defense have the right to jointly decide the candidates for the Director of the General Administration of Arms, Deputy Directors and Directors of the subordinate bureaus (Army Bureau, Air Force Bureau, Navy Bureau and Reserve Bureau). Moreover, the Director of the General Staff is only responsible for organizing production. As for the production of weapons, it is necessary to decide the Ministry of Defense, the Army (General Staff), Navy and Air Force are all represented in this committee, and the General Staff and the Ministry of Defense have the final decision-making power.

In other words, the power to produce what and not produce what is controlled by Hessman.

Of course, the arms production plan approved by the Arms Commission will eventually be signed and confirmed by Prime Minister Hitler. Hessman handed over the latest version of the naval "priority" shipbuilding plan to Hitler.

"Mr. Prime Minister, this is part of the latest plan for Plan Z," said Hessman. "This shipbuilding plan was formulated with the goal of defeating Poland in 1939, defeating France in 1940, and defeating Britain in 1941."

Victory against France in 1940? Victory against Britain in 1941?

Hitler and Fatty Goren looked at each other and both felt like they were listening to people talking in their sleep.

Hessman said: "Before defeating Poland, the navy will mainly fight submarines and interchange. Before defeating France after defeating Poland, the navy will mainly fight submarines and interchange and attack British local fleets as the auxiliary strategy. After defeating France, the navy will fight with the goal of fighting for sea control and sea rights in the North Sea and the Mediterranean."

"Why is there a Mediterranean?" Adolf Hitler interjected.

"Because the General Staff expects that Italy will become our ally after Germany defeats France," Hessman said. "Then the focus of the war will turn to the Mediterranean."

"Aren't you attacking Britain immediately?" Hermann Goering asked with a smile, "Aren't you going to defeat Britain in 1941?"

"Yes," Hessman nodded seriously. "We will surrender to Britain in 1941! But the battlefield to achieve this goal is in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. We will suffocate Britain with submarines, while also seizing their oil and threatening their most precious colony, India... and the successful implementation of this strategy will make our strategic resource supply quite abundant, which will help us integrate the power of Europe."

Unlike Hitler's historical lack of emphasis on the Mediterranean battlefield, Hitler may have believed that Mussolini's ability to conquer this region, Hessmann attached great importance to it. He knew that Germany needed to maintain the war and become a European leader in the Middle East and North Africa.

The rich oil in the Middle East, various metal resources from Turkey and Iran, and Egypt's food and cotton are extremely important materials. They can allow European factories to run at full speed and allow Europeans led by Germany to live a comfortable wartime life.

"...the priority in the plan: two Bismarck-class battleships will be completed and put into active service within 1940."

At this time, Hitler whispered a plan for the construction of large surface ships that he was most concerned about. At present, the German Navy already has some new large surface ships, including two "Schernhorst" class battleships and three "Germany" class armored ships. But in general, the strength of the German Navy is still very limited and needs to be strengthened urgently.

"Four Admiral Hippel class heavy cruisers will be fully equipped and put into active service within 1939; two Seedlitz class aircraft carriers. One will be equipped and conducted sea trials in 1938, and the other will be delivered to the Navy within 1939..." Hitler looked up at Hessman, "That's all the priority?"

"Yes," Hessman nodded, "there are only those confirmed at the moment."

Regarding the shipbuilding plan, the General Staff and the Navy have a great disagreement, and the bargaining continues.

...

Charles de Gaulle struggled to drill out of the narrow tank hatch. The Pole's 7TP light tank was too small for him, a tall man. But he was still very satisfied with this Pole's tank.

"Admiral, this is a very good tank. It's almost as good as our R-35 tank." Charles de Gaulle jumped off the 7TP tank and ran to the French Army Chief of Staff General Gan Molin, surrounded by a group of Polish generals like stars.

The visit of the Ganmolin military delegation meant that the comprehensive deepening of the military alliance between France and Poland and also gave the Poles a reassurance.

"I think Poland should speed up the construction of 7TP tanks," Charles de Gaulle suggested, "and then use all 7TP tanks, the R-35 tanks we provide, and the British Vickers tanks, so that it will be enough to form 4 to 5 tank battalions. If these tank battalions are formed into two tank brigades and mixed with two motorized brigades in progress, they can form two light armored divisions."

The 7TP tank is a tank produced by Poland's self-produced "machine", equipped with Swiss or British engines, and purchased the turrets and artillery of Bofors in Sweden (some models also use self-produced turrets plus British artillery and Browning's machine guns). It is a very good light tank. However, the production is not high, and only 130 to 40 units were produced in history.

In this time and space, because Poland won the right bank Ukraine and Lithuania, its financial and industrial strength were enhanced. Therefore, it was able to produce more 7TP tanks, and at the same time purchased more British Vickers light tanks and French Renault R-35 light tanks (historically, the Poles also had these two tanks). However, the total number was not much higher. According to the organization level of 49 units in a battalion, the Poles' light tanks could form up to 5 battalions. In addition, Poland also produced more than 800 ultra-light tanks of the TK series, but these ultra-light tanks can only be used to support infantry and have no value in forming armored troops, so each Polish infantry division has a company equipped with TK tanks.

...

"Tell us your thoughts to our Polish friends."

In a combat room within the Polish Ministry of Defense, General Ganmolin asked Charles de Gaulle to tell the French Army General Staff's idea of ​​future wars. From the time when Germany was still bound by the Treaty of Versailles in the 1920s, the French team has been studying how to defeat Germany again with Poland and Britain. Many versions of the plans have also been formulated, and some of them are aimed at the Soviet-German alliance.

Charles de Gaulle took the baton from a Polish officer and walked to the front of a huge military map. The map shows the severe defensive situation currently facing the Polish Federation. The Polish Federation is "too big" and there are too many places to defend, and is surrounded by the territory of Germany, East Prussia, Baltic, Bohemia, Slovakia and the Soviet Union. It is almost impossible to adopt the strategy of "a battle for every inch of land".

"We believe that the Polish Federation will not be able to deploy heavy troops on every border line in future wars," said Charles de Gaulle. "Therefore, we can only adopt a strategy of combining key defense and mobile defense, and divide the entire Polish Federation into 'key defense zones', 'mobile defense zones' and 'temporary abandonment zones'."

Charles de Gaulle used his baton to point Brest and Pingsk, which belonged to the Polish free state; Kiev and Lviv, which belonged to the Ukrainian free state (the capital of the Ukrainian free state).

"Brest, Pinsk, Kiev and Lviv are all key defense areas." De Gaulle said, "Since Poland faces multi-line war, it is unrealistic to stick to the entire Pisusky line of defense. The Polish Federation does not have so many troops.
Chapter completed!