Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

Yannick pretended to be embarrassed. "I'm wondering how your country's minerals can be transported to our country quickly and conveniently. For such a large amount of transportation, it is impossible to use trucks and can only be transported by rail."

After the original time and space mustache came to power, he organized the army and prepared for war. Naturally, he paid more attention to the construction of railways. He unified and loosened various railway companies and established Deutsche Bahn, which was renamed Deutsche Bahn in 1937. Dopp Müller, Director General of the German Railways, became Reich Minister of Transport after pledging allegiance to Mustache, and the entire railway system began to develop more sophisticated wartime transportation plans.

During the Blitz on Poland in 1939 and the French War in 40, German railways successfully completed their tasks, including transporting soldiers and evacuating residents. Because Germany did not mobilize at that time, many new trains still performed domestic civilian and passenger transportation tasks. , the German Railways sometimes used old war-ready locomotives to perform war missions. The same was true for the acceptance and adaptation of Polish and French railways, which had standard track widths and relatively modern technology. In Poland, the Germans established the Eastern Railway, which is at the same level as the German Railways. On the western line, in principle, the railways are still under the jurisdiction of the host country, but in Paris, Germany established the western railway transport department ETRA to supervise the operation of the local railways.

Until 1941, the German railways seemed to be operating very well, and soon Barbarossa came. Considering the transportation mobilization problem for attacking the Soviet Union, the Germans formulated the Otto Plan and comprehensively expanded the Eastern Railway. It was completed on June 15, only one week ahead of the attack on the Soviet Union. In order to complete the military mobilization to attack the Soviet Union, from February 25 to June 23, the German Railways and the Eastern Railway secretly used a total of 34,000 trains to transport the personnel, equipment and supplies of 141 divisions to the Soviet-German border. The German Army General Staff commented: The performance of the railway system exceeded our expectations.

However, the performance of German railways exceeded expectations, and the condition of Soviet railways could not bring any surprises to the German army. Compared with the West, where railways are distributed vertically and horizontally in an orderly manner, the Soviet railways as a whole present a primitive state: the most dense (relatively speaking) railway network hubs in the Soviet Union are in Moscow, Leningrad and Donets. On the border, there are only four double-track railways that may be used by the German army: the Neman River to Leningrad, the Bug River to Moscow via Orsha, the Bug River to Donets via Klimenkok, and the San River to Odessa. Of course, these four east-west railways also intersect with six north-south railways, but they are still sparse in the vast western territory of the Soviet Union.

At the same time, due to the limited knowledge of the German intelligence agency about the Soviet Union, the Deutsche Bahn also seriously underestimated the primitiveness of Soviet railways. The Germans only knew that the Soviet railways were broad-gauge railways. After they invaded the Soviet Union, they discovered that the Soviet railways were still at the level of World War I: most of the railways (except Kharkiv to Moscow) were built on soft sand foundations. and the sleepers are also relatively soft pine. For example, the German standard railway bearing capacity standard is 49 kilograms per meter, and the Soviet Union's is 38 kilograms per meter. The German railway lays 1,600 sleepers per kilometer, and the Soviet Union has 1,440 sleepers. The Germans fix the rails. Use screws and washers, the Soviets just used long nails. Similarly, the railway bridges in the Soviet Union are basically worthless and must be re-reinforced to transport tanks and other heavy equipment, not to mention railway dispatching equipment. Basically, most of the equipment is an antique from the First World War and is electronically controlled. The device is even more rare.

The German General Staff requested the German army to seize as much of the Soviet railway network as possible, and hoped that the Soviet army would destroy as little railways as possible when it retreated. Fortunately, this was achieved as much as possible and as little as possible. The German army's advance and the Soviet army's Being caught off guard, the railway fell into the hands of the Germans basically intact, but the German Railways pessimistically believed that it was in tatters and worthless. In response to the pressure, Germany established an Eastern Operations Office in Warsaw to try to coordinate the efficiency of rail transportation on the Soviet battlefield. Although the number of trains sent from Germany to the front line every day has successfully increased from 600 to 900, there are indeed very few supplies that can actually be sent to the front line. With the arrival of the cold winter in Russia, the Eastern Railway finally collapsed: Army Group Center had a minimum daily supply of 75 trains, but in fact it was only 40 trains at most, and only 25 trains at least. Army Group North had a quota of 30 trains, but in reality it was only 10 trains. .

It was not until the spring of 1942 that Speer took over the German Railways. Under the energetic management of Speer, the German Railways quickly recovered its vitality that had been defeated by the severe cold.

Of course, Yannick must take precautions and resolve these troubles early. "It is a troublesome thing to transport the minerals here, and it is also a troublesome thing to transport the finished products back. It is too difficult to rely on the existing means. Unless..."

"Unless what?" Tukhachevsky asked eagerly. He also wanted to know what solution Yannick had.

"Unless the railways can be unified." Yannick stated his plan without changing his face. "But your country's railways are not compatible with Europe's. If your country's railways are transformed to the same width as Europe, then it will be very convenient to transport minerals."

"!!" Tukhachevsky raised his eyebrows slightly. He was certainly not a fool. He certainly knew what railway specifications meant. Once the railway specifications are unified, it will be convenient to transport minerals now, and it will also be convenient to transport strategic materials in the future!

Yannick did not give Tukhachevsky time to think and continued. "It is best for this railway to go from the border to the Ural Mountains, so that various minerals from the Ural Mountains can be transported continuously." In the future, the German army can also drive straight in along this railway, and supplies will be extremely convenient.

As for whether the Soviets would agree? Yannick didn't know either.

Maybe they will agree after the Soviets review the drawings of the "super battleship" and find that they do not have the ability to build it. After all, on the surface, the Soviet Union took a big advantage in building this "super battleship." As long as they mine the minerals from the mountains and transport them to Germany, they will be able to get a "super battleship" in the near future.

Where can I find such a good thing? Apart from Germany, no other country is willing to do this! Ask Britain, France, and the United States if they are willing?

After pondering for a long time, Tukhachevsky shook his head. "Although His Highness Yannick's proposal is good, we don't have the extra funds to renovate the railway. Moreover, if this railway is renovated, then other trains on our railway network will not be able to run on this line. It will be very difficult for us. It’s inconvenient to say.”

"This is simple." Yannick said casually: "In this case, let's just build a special line for transporting ore from the Ural Mountains to the border and connect it to Europe. Wouldn't it be convenient? Specialized in transporting ore. As for this line The investment will of course be made by you, but you can also consider using the ore to convert it and leave it to us to solve the problem."

In this era, it is not difficult to build railways, and it does not require the high-speed trains of later generations. It does not require advanced seamless rails and ballastless tracks, and it does not require the allocation of large amounts of demolition compensation like later generations. In the Soviet Union, it was said that Land acquisition can be acquired immediately!

Therefore, all that was left was the money to build the railway. If the Soviet Union had no money, it would still use ore to pay for it!

However, he also knew that Tukhachevsky could not make a decision on such a large project now. "Your Majesty the General, you can go back and discuss it." If the Soviet Union really doesn't agree to build the railway, then he can only move out of Plan B and use containers, which can at least improve a lot of efficiency.

The meeting ended in a pleasant atmosphere where both parties felt they had earned something.

Tukhachevsky boarded the return plane with monkey-version drawings of armored reconnaissance vehicles, tanks, trucks and other equipment. And on the plane, he heard a shocking secret from Natasha, the 150-ton super tank successfully developed by Germany!