"Is it not only the oil-producing areas in southern Iran to the Soviet Union?" Adolf Hitler quickly heard the voice of Hessman and asked, "Do we want to hand over all other territory of Iran, Afghanistan and India to the Bolsheviks?"

"Leader, this is the condition for the Soviet Union to join us and participate in the World War. We cannot give nothing." Hessman explained, "But Stalin will not join at present, and he will definitely want to continue to wait and see. Otherwise, he will not propose conditions that we absolutely cannot accept."

"He doesn't want to attack Britain and the United States with us at all!" Adolf Hitler interrupted, "I know his idea very well. He wants us to fight the United Kingdom and the United States to fight to the death, and then take a sudden attack when we are exhausted and take everything into our hands!"

Hitler might not be wrong! Hessman thought: Germany and the Soviet Union are too close. From a local political perspective, it is difficult for such two powerful and bordering countries to become friends unless they have a common strong enemy. In the past twenty years, both the Soviet Union and Germany were hostile to the Allies led by Britain and France, so they had such a long period of cooperation and honeymoon.

However, with Germany's victory in the Western Front and the Mediterranean Battle, the Allies had collapsed, France was about to surrender to Germany completely, and the British Empire was in danger. Since the factors that led to the Soviet-German unity no longer existed, it was a matter of time before the Soviet-German counterattacked.

However, it is a decisive time for the Soviet-Germany to rebel against the Soviet Union and Germany. If the peace between the Soviet-Germany can be maintained until Germany has nuclear weapons, Germany will naturally have a sure victory.

If it cannot be delayed for so long, at least it should be delayed until Germany swallows the big cake of the Middle East. With the rich oil resources of the Middle East, Europe's huge industrial potential can be fully realized. In this way, Germany can remain undefeated in the future confrontation with the United States and the Soviet Union.

"Leader, because the Soviet Union is a very dangerous potential enemy," Hessman said slowly, "We should try to appease the war now and postpone the outbreak of war as much as possible. Because we need time to disintegrate the British Empire and digest the spoils we get from the battlefield. In the future, whether the Soviet war can win with the United States depends largely on how much we can exert the industrial and population advantages of Europe, and how much resources we can obtain from the Middle East, Africa and India. So our main task now is to continue to disintegrate the British Empire, and then swallow the resource-rich territory that originally belonged to the British Empire and then digest it. In this process, we should avoid a large-scale war with the Soviet Union."

Speaking of this, Hessmann shook his eyes at another "pro-Soviet" boss, Marshal Schletcher.

Schletcher was in charge of military and political affairs, and war mobilization was also part of military and political work. As a believer in Rudendolf's "total war" theory, Schletcher was very clear that when the European Community's economy had not completely moved into war, even Germany's own industrial potential was not fully realized. The main reason for restricting Germany and the European Community from exploring its industrial potential was the lack of raw materials, especially oil.

Because now is the era of mechanized warfare, if there is not enough oil, even if Germany produces several times the tank, the aircraft will not be able to operate.

Moreover, Germany is now working to expand the scale of its navy and air force, which requires a lot of fuel. Navy warships are all oil tigers, and training and dispatch must burn a large amount of oil. If Germany wants to maintain a European joint fleet that exceeds the Japanese joint fleet, it will be prepared to use millions of tons of oil to supply the fleet every year.

The technology of Air Force pilots is also fed with aviation kerosene. According to the plan of the German Command, the scale of common aircraft of the Air Force and Navy aviation will increase by 300 every month from 1942, and by the end of 1942, the scale of common aircraft of the Luftwaffe and Navy aviation will exceed 10,000. The increase in the number of commonly used aircraft does not mean that more aircraft are built. The so-called "common aircraft" is actually the concept of a combat unit. Behind a commonly used aircraft is not only one aircraft, but various elements that can support an aircraft to take off for combat.

The most important thing is not the aircraft but the pilot. According to the regulations of the Luftwaffe and Naval Air Force, the number of pilots in each aviation regiment should be 1.5 times the number of commonly used aircraft. That is to say, there are 10 pilots who can fight, and at the same time, there are 5 pilots who are training in the training brigade or acting as instructors or are taking vacation to recuperate.

In other words, if the commonly used aircraft of the Luftwaffe and Naval Aviation Army exceeds 10,000, there will be at least 15,000 pilots, and this does not include personnel participating in training or acting as instructors in various flight training schools. Considering that the training requirements for German pilots are very strict at present, the training time is also very long. The total number of pilots and pilots at various levels behind 10,000 commonly used aircraft will definitely exceed 30,000. Therefore, the fuel consumed every year is also an astronomical figure!

"Leader," Schletcher said, "oil has now become a huge bottleneck. On the one hand, we need to expand the navy and air force, and on the other hand, we need to maintain the basic needs of the member states of the European Customs Union. The consumption of oil and synthetic gasoline in 1941 will reach 22 million tons according to the plan. Our synthetic gasoline production can only reach 6 million tons, and oil production includes crude oil and shale oil from Romania, Poland, Western Ukraine, Hungary, Boro and other places in Estonia, with a total of only more than 6 million tons. In addition, we also plan to import 3 million tons of crude oil from the Soviet Union, which is 7 million tons, which requires nearly one-third of the strategic oil reserves to be consumed!"

Hitler looked at his confidant Gorene, and the fat man also opposed turning against the Soviet Union now. He told Hitler: "My leader, if he wants to go to war with the Soviet Union, the army will still need a large number of tanks, armored vehicles and trucks, which will consume a lot of fuel. The fuel consumption will probably exceed 30 million tons per year! The acquisition volume will drop to 12 million tons because it can no longer be imported from the Soviet Union. In this way, the gap in a year will increase to 18 million tons! Our current reserves can only last for a year and a few months."

Hessmann then concluded: "Only when the stable acquisition of oil and synthetic fuel exceeds 36 million tons, we can go to war with the United States and the Soviet Union at the same time and ensure victory!"

The figures he reported were almost three times the steady acquisition of oil and synthetic fuels in World War II in history. For Germany, which controlled most of Europe's productivity, the output of tanks, aircraft and even warships was not a problem. The fuel was the one that really restricted Germany from exerting its strength.

Considering that the United States produced more than 100 million tons of oil in World War II, Germany's acquisition of 36 million tons is actually not much.

"Perhaps we can solve the Soviet Union first while the United States remains neutral!" Hitler said his thoughts. "The Soviet Red Army performed very badly when dealing with the Poles and Finns. Maybe we can solve the Soviet Union in a very short time, such as in a few months!"

"There is no such possibility!" Hessman said in an extremely firm tone, "The Americans will soon intervene in the war, but in fact they have already intervened in various ways. They gave weapons and equipment to Britain, escorted British ships, and provided volunteer pilots. Many of the pilots we captured in the Mediterranean are Americans! And with our victory in the Mediterranean and the collapse of the British Empire, the United States will definitely intervene in the war further. It is only a matter of time before we can directly participate in the war, and we should not have any illusions about this.

And it is also a fantasy to solve the Soviet Union in the short term. Even if the combat effectiveness of the Soviet Red Army is far less than that of us, the Bolsheviks will still choose to fight before exhausting war resources. In order to compete with us for world hegemony, the United States will definitely use their huge industrial power to continuously transfusion blood to the Soviet Union. In this way, we will fall into lasting consumption in the vast and cold land of the Soviet Union. If we want to win without nuclear fission bombs, we must first obtain the Atlantic sea control power, thereby cutting off the Soviet Union's access to foreign aid. The prerequisite for seizing the Atlantic sea control power is to defeat the British and the US Navy!"

First the United States, then the Soviet Union! This is Hessman's usual route. Who made the United States the world leader in later generations, and the Soviet Union became the Russian oil and gas company?

"Defeat the United States?" Hitler shook his head repeatedly, "This is more difficult than defeating the Soviet Union? What if the Soviet Union stabbed us in the back when we were in fierce battle with the United States? Stalin must be thinking so now, right?"
Chapter completed!