Germany is using strategic reserves of oil, and it is much more than the demand for oil and other industrial raw materials in history. This is the inevitable result of the expansion of domestic production capacity and the improvement of the military's modernization. Tanks, cars, aircraft, warships, and submarines are all oil users, and the number of these equipment is several times higher than that in another time and space.

"The coal-to-oil project is expanding. In addition to providing some crude oil with poor quality, it can also provide napalm bomb production." Another general in charge of logistics told Akado: "Biorefining oil is also replacing some industrial oils, and we are trying to improve our energy environment as much as possible."

Akado looked at the full map of the Third Reich behind Lundstedt and asked slowly: "So, how are the returns on our oil investment in Libya?"

"My head of state, Libya's infrastructure environment is really bad. The oil production capacity cannot meet the demand at all. We can only use the oil there to supplement Marshal Rommel's military operations in Egypt. As for domestic transportation, it depends on how much capacity expansion can be achieved in the future."

After all, Libya is Italy's traditional sphere of influence. Part of the oil produced there belongs to Italy and needs to be transported back to Italy to supplement the navy's use. The other part of the oil material is transported to Rommel, because it is necessary to accumulate an attack on the Middle East.

The oil development in the Middle East was a period of peace and was jointly invested by several superpowers around the world, so the progress was very fast. In just a few years, it became one of the world's major oil producing areas. Libya, as the Tibetan private sector of Germany and Italy, only started to be built and mined after the war, so a year later, the oil production capacity still did not meet the expectations of both sides.

Although this oil field eased North Africa's transportation pressure, saved the German army a lot of consumption, and reduced the number of British submarines hunting in the Mediterranean, it still could not meet the increasingly large demand for German oil. As for the North Sea oil field, Akado is now starving to death with a treasure mountain. He knew that there was oil there, but he could not mine it.

As a future man who traveled through time, Akado knew where Germany's weakness was as an industrial country. He knew that Germany lacked tanks and other equipment in the war, and also knew that Germany missed many opportunities at the end of the story due to oil shortages.

That's why he worked so hard to integrate Germany's industrial production capacity and used his own way to change Germany's industrial design method, giving birth to many convenient and high-quality weapons and equipment. However, this innovation also put Germany in a vicious cycle.

Because the performance of the German tanks and other heavy weapons and equipment was too leading, they suffered less losses during combat. In addition, excellent performance and low failure rate, these heavy weapons and equipment survived in a large number of cruel battlefield environments, so that the number of German tanks increased sharply.

In fact, Germany has so far been designed in advance and efficiently and has considerable compatibility, resulting in almost zero waste due to unclear development links. Taking the weapons of the German armored forces as an example: most of the No. 2 tanks arranged by Germany have been sent to the Allies or transformed into self-propelled anti-tank guns. The improved chassis of the No. 2 tanks that are still being produced in small quantities are mainly for paratroopers to use as combat vehicles.

The No. 3 tank has also been discontinued, but its chassis has been produced as a carrier of self-propelled artillery and assault guns, and there are even signs of expansion. The Leopard tank has also been the backbone of the German armored forces due to its successful design, and its chassis has been improved to a large number of armored vehicles including self-propelled artillery and assault guns.

The Tiger tank is the fist of the German armored forces, surpassing the world's tanks and becoming an unbeatable super weapon in the hands of the German army. It can be seen that Germany has never wasted production capacity since its first tank production, and what it produces is useful.

In addition, since the No. 3 tank, German tanks have been known for their low failure rate and excellent reliability. Therefore, German tanks have been around the way, except for tanks destroyed by the enemy, few scrapped tanks appeared. Therefore, the number of front-line tanks can be described as terrifying.

Such a huge number of tanks made Akado's troops invincible, and finally there was no need to worry about being submerged by the terrifying tank ocean of the Soviet Union. However, the most direct cost of doing so was that the consumption of oil resources was also terrifying.

It was not that Akado had tried hard. In peacetime, he threw out the Middle East Oil as a killer, and promoted the exploitation of Middle East oil resources. It was precisely because of this that he secretly accumulated a large amount of crude oil reserves, and at one time, as high as 5 million tons of crude oil allowed his oil accumulation plan to be supported by the Defense Force generals at that time.

The subsequent blitzkrieg attack on Poland and the fierce battle between France achieved incredible victory, which also allowed Germany's oil reserves to rise instead of falling, reaching the most exaggerated 11 million tons in history. France's rapid defeat allowed the Germans not only to gain foreign exchange reserves such as gold, but also to gain a large amount of industrial facilities, but also to gain unimaginable strategic resources.

Relying on these strategic resources, the Battle of the English Channel was successfully launched, Germany's strategic plan to invade Britain was implemented, and Germany completed the construction of the "ultimate Atlantic barrier", making the possibility of fighting on both sides no longer exist, and completely completing the European Western Front Strategy.

However, since the Battle of Britain, Germany's oil reserves began to go downhill with little income. Although it was slow, it was still thrilling: the British had almost left too many strategic materials for the Germans. After Germany fought the British, crude oil reserves fell to 10 million tons.

At this time, in order to improve the living standards of the people, Germany carried out a series of economic revitalization reforms within the country. As the head of state, Akado promised that every family would own their own cars. Germany would start to popularize high-end luxury electrical equipment such as televisions in 40 years. This allowed Germany's civil industry to develop on a large scale and also brought the domestic consumption of oil to a new level.

At the end of 1938, Germany's crude oil reserves fell to 8 million tons, and the National Defense Forces stationed in France and Germany began to reduce its strategic fuel reserves. In early 1939, the Navy had to join the "living life with tight belts", and the departure of the aircraft carrier fleet was reduced to twice a year.

Because the war was going too fast, there was no return on oil investment in Syria. Rommel's Middle East strategy was forced to stagnate due to the bloody battle on the Eastern Front. Because of the growth and development of domestic industrial capacity, German crude oil has almost decayed to a worrying level.

Indeed, the total amount of crude oil reserves is nearly 3 million tons more than when the war started, but the current German army and the area of ​​the German-ruled areas have expanded several times or even dozens of times, and the industrial production capacity is more than five times larger than before. In this state, burning all the crude oil that was originally estimated to be burned in one year will probably take only five or even three months to burn it completely.

"Master Blaushichi." Akado was a little worried when he thought of these matters about energy. He looked at the nominal boss of the army and asked, "If Vlasov relaxes some restrictions and allows him to form a new Ukrainian army and fills the southern front, will it be effective?"

Boluoxiche was stunned, then frowned and thought. Finally, he spoke hesitantly and answered the question of the Head of State Akado: "My Head of State, this can indeed alleviate some problems, but... but how much can it be alleviated, the General Staff and I need to evaluate it before we can give the result."

"Plan to go in two parts!" Akado made up his mind, then stood up and walked to Lundstedt's side, pointed to the map and said, "Let the three new armies of n, o, p each draw some troops out and handed them all to Qusiral! Let his N army first form combat power and directly pull it to the southern line to ensure that the Caucasus Battle can end smoothly. As long as we seize the Caucasus oil-producing area, we can improve the current passive situation."

Then he turned around and said to Lundstedt: "Master Lundstedt, the attack in the central region, stopped completely after capturing Smolensk. The next focus is to seize the Caucasus, which is a compromise that must be made for oil."

The more Akado said, the more irritated he was, he was the only one in the conference room who knew what he was talking about and what it meant. He was repeating the order issued by Hitler, giving up the plan to attack Moscow, and the entire army turned around and went south to fight an "economic war."

There are still differences. Hitler's southward battle is not as large as Acardo's current scale, and the strategic goal of competing for the Caucasus oil field is not as certain as Acardo now. What is even more reassuring is that the current war situation in Acardo is much better than that Hitler faced back then.

It is precisely because of this that Akado dared to fight. If he embarked on the same old path as Hitler, what he considered was to bet on. Another thing that made him feel that he had the capital to bet on was because of the current time, he had the whole spring and summer in the direction of the Caucasus, which was much more time than in another time and space.

"Generals! The victory and defeat are here!" Akado pointed to the map and said, "Seize the Caucasus! Defeat Stalin!"
Chapter completed!