"Führer! Why are you doing this? Why abandoned the whole of Yugoslavia? ”

When Chen Yanlong announced that the whole of Yugoslavia would be divided into six independent states, Hausserl was the first to be puzzled and called Chen Yanlong to ask about the ins and outs of the matter.

"Yugoslavia will let them fight themselves for the time being, we will withdraw most of the troops there, and only leave a small part to be stationed in Croatia, I don't want to engage in a war of attrition with Tito and those Yugoslav rebels, I want to put more troops into North Africa, and the Middle East battlefield, as well as the defense of the homeland!"

Chen Yanlong replied decisively without thinking about it.

"But if we do this, will we give the Yugoslav rebels a chance to occupy all of Yugoslavia?"

Hauser worried.

"Do you think that those countries that have been given a chance at independence will listen to Tito? Will he be able to encroach on their rights so easily? Will they take all their interests away and become a state ruled by Tito? ”

Chen Yanlong asked rhetorically.

"Probably not, if it were me, I wouldn't give up the benefits to others!"

Hausser said frankly.

"And if Tito really wants to deal with the countries of Yugoslavia that are divided by us, then we will provide weapons and equipment and personnel to assist them in dealing with Tito! I believe that there will be many people in Yugoslavia who will support us at that time, because there are so many races there, and many races want to be independent enough to be a country! ”

"And when we have their support, do we still need to be afraid of Tito?"

"Isn't it because Tito is now so powerful that he can develop because we are occupying their land, and embezzling the interests of the Yugoslavs, and killing them? If we stop these behaviors and help them succeed on their own and live a better life, will Tito still be able to advocate them against us? ”

"Anyway, I'm going to divide them and fight with their own people! This will allow me to evacuate the large army sent to Yugoslavia and assign it to other more important places to fight! ”

"So you are immediately ready to evacuate the garrison there and return home for me to rest!"

Chen Yanlong said what he thought.

"I understand, I'll go and prepare for the withdrawal immediately!"

Hauser was silent for a long time, and finally replied with a sigh.

After dealing with Hausser, Chen Yanlong also needed to explain to Field Marshal Keitel, Chief of the General Staff Zeitzler and a large number of high-ranking German officers.

When faced with the opposition of some officers, Chen Yanlong took advantage of Hitler's dictatorial character to suppress them.

But, to put it bluntly, the opposition was only a minority, for many of them believed that the occupation of Yugoslavia would require a large amount of their forces to be stationed and to deal with the attacks of the Yugoslav partisans.

However, after resolving the objections of these senior German officials, Chen Yanlong still needs to deal with the loss of interests of the Axis powers such as Bulgaria and Hungary.

Because when occupying Yugoslavia, these German client states also divided a lot of Yugoslav land, so if they wanted to divide Yugoslavia into six small countries and become independent states, it would mean that they lost the territory of Yugoslavia that they had divided, so their opinions were relatively large.

However, in this regard, Chen Yanlong used new weapons and equipment and new territory to exchange with them.

If the client states that have received these benefits are not willing to give up the benefits they have received in Yugoslavia; Then Chen Yanlong directly asked them to face the attacks of the Yugoslav guerrillas and the rebel army by themselves, and did not send troops to assist in the battle.

However, when these client states got the new weapons and equipment given by Chen Yanlong, and the promised heart territory, they also reluctantly accepted it.

Because it was not fun for them to face the Yugoslav rebel army in Yugoslavia alone and the constant sneak attacks of the guerrillas.

So after weighing the pros and cons, they also accepted Chen Yanlong's decision.

After settling these things, Chen Yanlong fell silent and pondered, thinking about how to go forward on the road of Germany's future national strategy.

He once remembered an article he read on the Internet in his later life, which also wrote like this: "The expansion of Americans is mainly the expansion of values, and on the issue of values; They are always aggressive, sometimes even fighting for their values. Because promoting values is big business in itself, and it's the best business. Americans' expansion is not embodied in tangible boundaries such as territory and resources, but in intangible boundaries such as the human mind. This also answers the above question: Why didn't the United States invade and occupy Canada? Because Canadians already have the same values as Americans, there is simply no need for them. The same answer applies to why the United States did not occupy Switzerland, LinkedIn, or France...... It also applies to why the United States will not occupy Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya in the end......

And the practice of the Americans in later generations is also the same as what Sun Tzu said in the Art of War: "Therefore, the army is used to attack and plot, the second is to attack the enemy, the second is to attack the army, and then the city is attacked." The method of siege is a last resort".

and the statement in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms": "The way to use soldiers, attack the heart is the top, and the city is the bottom." Psychological warfare is the top, and military warfare is the bottom. The meaning is the same.

Chen Yanlong also agrees with the statement of an online article in later generations, but what should he do to help? Should Germany gain a path to rise and become a powerful empire by invading the territories of various countries, or should it use other better ways of expansion to make Germany a more stable and long-term great power?

Regarding this problem, Chen Yanlong at this moment is really very entangled.

Because the famous empires in history that only know that they expand their territory through continuous aggression have no good end, and they all end up in failure.

Even after World War II, the United States wanted to dominate the world with its strong military and economic strength, and in the end it was difficult for him to get what he wanted.

"It seems that it is not easy to be a wise and capable head of a country!"

In the end, Chen Yanlong also sighed.

"It seems that the North African campaign will be solved first, and the battle on the Eastern Front will be solved first! However, the idea of controlling three-quarters of the world's gold reserves and building up a military force all over the world may be realized! At the very least, you can be a hegemon of Europe! ”

Then Chen Yanlong made a decision.