The Third Reich: The Return of the King

In addition, in order to ensure Hans's interests in the Celestial Empire, it is necessary for the Celestial Empire to have sufficient self-protection ability, otherwise, the Celestial Empire's own ability is too weak to protect itself in the face of invasion by other countries.

Then Hans's hard work on the layout and construction of the Celestial Empire was cut off by other powers in the blink of an eye, which is too uncomfortable!

For this purpose, Mainz agreed to contact the revolutionary government in Nanyue, and he did not put his eggs completely in the basket of the Northeast Army, but cooperated with the two regimes in the north and south on the principle that whoever can control the entire Celestial Empire is the object of Hans's cooperation.

As for the direct warlords in Jiangsu and Zhejiang?

Mainz has no interest in the direct warlord at all, and only hopes that the direct warlord will die sooner!

After all, the direct warlords are the forces supported by the sun that never sets, and it is impossible for Hans to win them over, since they can't be wooed, they are enemies!

Listening to Perfect Inz's explanation, everyone understood the good intentions of their general.

However, everyone still can't understand Major General Mainz's insistence on developing the Daqing oilfield.

"What's so incomprehensible about this, think about it, who is the most vigilant in the Celestial Empire?"

Ribbentrop had already realized it by this time, so seeing that everyone had not yet woken up, he took the initiative to explain.

"Footbasin?"

"The sun doesn't set?"

"Gaul?"

"Hawk-chan?"

"We?"

Everyone chattered and guessed the five hooligans in the world at this time.

"Eagle sauce, the sun never sets, and we can rule out, our three countries are far away in Europe, and we don't have the ability or heart to conquer the entire Celestial Empire!"

"Then why not exclude the Gauls?"

"Well, because the Gauls have been very active in the expansion around the Celestial Empire since the nineteenth century, not only launched three wars against the Celestial Empire, but also wiped out the Celestial Empire's younger brother Nanyue, at this time it is already bordering the Celestial Empire on land, with the bridgehead of Nanyue, it is really possible for the Gauls to attack the Celestial Empire itself, which is not the same as the sun never sets, we and the eagle sauce!"

Ribbentrop's words reminded everyone, and when they think about it, they feel that this is indeed the truth.

The biggest threat to the Celestial Empire is not necessarily the most powerful country in the world at present, but it must be the closest to the Celestial Empire, and it is best to have neighbors with adjacent territories, because only if the two countries are next to each other, in that case, it will be more convenient to attack!

If you think about it this way, the biggest threats to the Celestial Empire are the foot basins, the woolly bears, and the Gauls.

The main body of Gaul is still in Europe, so the threat of Gallic is the least, and the essence of the woolly bear is in Eastern Europe, so the threat of the hairy bear is not too big.

The biggest one is naturally the foot basin, which can be seen from the several wars launched by the foot basin in the past few decades!

Since the Meiji Restoration, the foot basin first annexed Liuqiu, defeated the Qing Dynasty in the First Sino-Japanese War and annexed Duwan, and then completely expelled the woolly bear from the Far East with the Russo-Japanese War, annexed Goryeo, and was still short of the Liaodong Peninsula, if it were not for the intervention of the three countries, the footbasin would definitely not clear the Liaodong Peninsula!

The expansion route of the footbasin is very clear, because to the east of the footbasin is the endless Pacific Ocean, and on the other side of the Pacific Ocean there is the world's largest economy.

After the defeat in 1898 for Havie, although the footbasin held a grudge against Eagle Sauce, they also recognized the reality that they could not compete with Eagle Sauce until they gained a firm foothold on the Asian continent and gained a larger territory!

So, after the setback on Hawk-chan's side, the footbasin devoted all his energy to expanding to the west!

And after more than forty years of preparation, the footbasin already has the strength to attack and gradually encroach on the Celestial Empire at this time!

At this time, the Celestial Empire was in a period of warlord melee without a central government, and the Celestial Empire during this period was simply a soft persimmon kneaded casually for the foot basin, if they really invaded the Celestial Empire, the difficulty would be much simpler than invading a unified country!

Therefore, the footbasin has stepped up preparations for the war against the Celestial Empire over the years, and after they took the opportunity of the first war to send troops to occupy Qing Island, they have not returned this place to the Celestial Empire until now.

Not only did the footbasin not return the island to the Celestial Empire, but also continued to send additional troops to the Jiaodong Peninsula, intending to fully occupy the Jiaodong Peninsula, and then use this as a springboard to attack the entire Celestial Empire!

Such wolf ambitions have long been known, and in order to resist the foot basin, the Celestial Empire in 1919 had a vigorous May Fourth Movement, the Beiyang government even set May 9 as the day of national shame, the entire Celestial Empire from the people to the government, the hostility to the foot basin has risen rapidly, the foot basin at this time, probably in the Celestial Empire is the most hated, the most unpopular country!

So it's not just the footbasin that is preparing to launch an invasion of the Celestial Empire, but the Celestial Empire has also been vigilant against the footbasin and is always on guard against the attack of the footbasin.

"There will be a war between the footbasin and the Celestial Empire, but it's just a matter of early evening, and the footbasin has a small land area, all kinds of resources are very scarce, and they lack all kinds of minerals, especially oil, so once they know that the Celestial Empire has a big oil field in the northeast, do you think they will do this?"

Mainz took over the topic and said to the crowd.

When everyone heard Mainz's words, they suddenly realized: since the footbasin has long been eyeing the Celestial Empire, it is only a matter of time before they invade the Celestial Empire, and once they know that there is oil in the northeast region of the Celestial Empire, then the footbasin will definitely be the first to attack here!

"But what's in it for us?"

Isn't the footbasin attacking the Celestial Empire destroying Hans's interests in the Celestial Empire?

From this point of view, it seems that there is no benefit at all in exploiting the Daqing oilfield!

"The good thing is that we can detonate the conflict between the footbasin and the woolly bear in advance!"

This sentence is even more inexplicable to everyone, wasn't it just now discussing the Celestial Empire and the footbasin?

How did it suddenly become a matter between a footbasin and a stuffy bear?

Major General Mainz's thinking jumped too much, causing everyone to be a little unable to keep up with the rhythm.

"General, can you explain in detail, I find that my brain seems to be a little insufficient!"

Himmler actually vaguely understood something in his heart, but he was happy to create a stage for Major General Mainz for him to perform, so he deliberately said so.

But the others, who were really a little confused, didn't quite understand how this matter had anything to do with the woolly bear, so after hearing Himmler say this, they also echoed it.

"Yes, General, give us a detailed introduction, we really don't know much about the situation in the Far East!"

Mainz was quite helpless, this time it was not young rookies and army backbones like Manstein and Guderian that he brought over, many of the people he brought over were not military people, they were okay with the situation in Europe, but for the situation in the Far East, they were blinded and didn't know anything!

Mainz had no choice but to introduce them to the grievances and hatred between the woolly bear and the footbasin, from the Russo-Japanese War, to the Sakhalin dispute, to the footbasin's firm anti-red hairy bear stance, and after explaining these things to everyone one by one, everyone figured out that there was such a deep grudge between the footbasin and the woolly bear.

"The location of the Daqing Oilfield is relatively far north, belongs to the sphere of influence of the woolly bear, after the footbasin occupies here, they can get the oil of the Daqing Oilfield, and they can also get the coal and iron ore in the northeast, copper ore, etc., these are extremely important for the footbasin industry, especially the military industry, if they occupy here, the war machine of the footbasin will become more powerful, and then the footbasin will have two options:

First, they will attack the Celestial Empire in the south and annex the Celestial Empire, but in the process, they will be intervened by Western countries, and they may also be directly obstructed by the woolly bear, so this decision is very risky!

Second, go north to attack the woolly bear and drive the woolly bear back to Europe completely. After expelling the forces of the hairy bear, the footbasin will no longer have any worries in East Asia and the Far East, and they can continue to go south and annex the Celestial Empire!"

"So, if you were a hairy bear, would you sit back and watch the footbasin occupy the Daqing oil field and the entire northeast?"

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