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Chapter 471: Marshals everywhere (seeking a monthly ticket)

Brahchi has been feeling weird lately. As for why he feels this way, it probably has something to do with Reinhardt being promoted to three field marshals in one go.

Prior to this, Reinhard respected Brachitch as the sole field marshal of the army, and used this as a step to give Brachich a compensation for relinquishing his power as commander-in-chief of the army.

At that time, there were only two serving marshals in Germany. One was Field Marshal Brauchitsch, and the other was Field Marshal Raeder.

Brauchitsch, the marshal, was the psychological compensation given to him by Reinhardt, so that Brauchitsch would not be dissatisfied because he was demoted to Army Chief of Staff.

After all, in Germany, the glory of a field marshal is much more glorious than the position of army commander-in-chief. Prior to this, except for a few field marshals appointed by Kaiser Wilhelm II in peacetime, he had only independently commanded one battle.

Only German generals who win a battle or capture a large fortress can obtain the rank of field marshal.

Brauchic quickly accepted such a step.

As for Redel's position as Admiral, this is more or less closely related to Reinhardt's background and navy.

As the original "naval faction", it would be unreasonable for Reinhard not to establish a marshal in the navy.

As for the Air Force, both Catherine and Hugo have a high chance of becoming marshals.

Historically, after the Battle of France, Kesselring was promoted directly to marshal by Hitler, bypassing the rank of general.

In this life, Kesselring is still being kept in the general position by Reinhardt and continues to train according to the rules.

As for the Air Force, they were not promoted to marshal after the Battle of France. The two Air Force generals, Catherine and Hugo, have been hanging on like this and continue to compete for the position of marshal.

As for the army, at least the German Army defeated the French Army, which was once the world's number one. In this war, Germany broke through the Eben Emaar fortress complex in Belgium, bypassed the world-famous Maginot Line, and defeated it in one go.

The Allied Forces of Britain, France and Belgium.

With such great achievements, it seems entirely reasonable for Reinhard to appoint three marshals.

Moreover, Reinhard believed that he had restrained himself too much compared to Hitler's historical practice of appointing 12 marshals at once.

In order to take care of the mood of the Army, Reinhard even considered two excellent generals in the Air Force, but because of Manstein's suggestion that "they have made contributions, but they are by no means comparable to the Commander-in-Chief of the Army,"

Arrangements for the air force's promotion to marshal have been put on hold.

In the end, General Fedor von Bock, who commanded Army Group B to advance towards the Low Countries and attract the main force of the northern coalition forces into the encirclement, was promoted to field marshal based on his military exploits.

Gerd von Rundstedt, who commanded Army Group A and carried out decisive actions in the Battle of France, cutting off the defense lines of the Three Kingdoms in the Ardennes and determining victory in one fell swoop, was promoted to field marshal without any controversy.

The promotion of the third marshal was somewhat controversial. He led Army Group C against Colonel Wilhelm Little von Loeb, who continued to launch small-scale attacks on the Maginot Line and the Upper Rhine, and was responsible for feigning attacks to attract the enemy's attention.

Will.

This general's achievements are relatively less dazzling, and it seems that anyone can accomplish his tasks. Therefore, compared with the promotion of the other two marshals, it is inevitable that some jealous generals will occasionally discuss him.

But because of Lebu's unique and high reputation in the German Army, especially in the artillery, his promotion was ultimately impeccable.

In this way, Brauchitsch, the only marshal in the German army, met three more marshals of equal rank in an instant, sharing his unique glory.

The key is that Brahitch can't find anything to find fault with in Reinhard's promotion to marshal this time!

The three promoted marshals can be said to be the three most senior marshals in the army. Whether it is Lundstedt, Lebu, or Bock, they are all much more senior than Brauchitsch.

Apart from anything else, at least Brahchi, who is about to turn 59 this year, is still the youngest among the four field marshals!

In fact, Reinhard wanted to get himself the title of Marshal of the Empire and award himself the medal of Iron Cross plus Large Cross. After all, he also believed that he was the fastest-promoted general in Germany and had great military exploits.

However, Reinhard finally gave up the title of Imperial Marshal in view of Paulus's advice, reminding him that doing so would be in danger of devaluing the Marshal.

As for Lieutenant General Guderian, who set a new record for attack speed in the history of war, he led the 19th Armored Corps in less than six days to break through the Ardennes and drive straight across France for more than 400 kilometers.

Lieutenant General Hans, who blitzed Norway and led the 30th Infantry Division to completely annihilate the British and French Norwegian Front, and then moved to France.

And most of your meritorious deeds have also received rewards for being promoted to the first level.

Perhaps they caught up with the craze for promotion to marshal. In addition to Germany, Italy, which was following behind Germany, also promoted a naval marshal.

That's right, this naval marshal secretly joined Leifer under Rossi's command.

After being confirmed as Rossi's person, Leifer received a notice to participate in the marshal promotion ceremony in the second week, and successfully became the first marshal to graduate from the Italian Navy since the beginning of World War II.

As for the British, they wanted to portray Lord Gott as a hero in defeat, a wise general who pulled his troops back to Dunkirk.

For this reason, they even blamed the subsequent failure of Dunkirk entirely on General Alexander, who took over.

Unfortunately, Lord Gott intuitively could not accept such a propaganda-like title of marshal, and declined Churchill's offer of promotion to marshal.

In the end, Churchill gave up the idea of ​​competing for promotion to marshal like Reinhardt, and promoted Lord Gott, the original marshal candidate, to governor of Gibraltar.

As the defeated party, France, whether it was Pétain's Vichy French regime or de Gaulle's Free French regime, was embarrassed to be promoted to marshal.

Therefore, Pétain merely promoted Bélante, who had the merit of being promoted to marshal, to governor of Algeria.

De Gaulle, on the other hand, gave himself the rank of general and assumed the military and political power of Free France. He was also in charge of the navy, land and air forces of Free France.

Interestingly, Quisling, the actual leader of Norway, believed that Norway also needed a marshal.

Therefore, he forcibly promoted Vice Admiral Oger, who had participated in the German-Norwegian Combined Fleet, to marshal for his victory in the North Sea Battle.


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