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"Are you sure the information is correct?"

The information that the Gauls wanted to carry out large-scale construction in the border areas was quickly stolen by the Gestapo spies hidden in Gaul, and the information was safely sent out overnight.

After receiving this information, Himmler did not dare to be careless. I ran to the office in Mainz early the next morning to report the matter to him!

"We are not sure yet, because only one agent has sent back such information, and the other agents have not responded yet!"

For countries like Gaul, the Gestapo has put a lot of effort into building its own intelligence network. With the financial support provided by Mainz, the Gestapo has developed very fast in the past six months.

Although it was not established at the time It's a long time, but so far, the number of international spies of the Gestapo has reached more than 100, and there are close to Chengdu in Gaul.

After all, Gaul is currently the most hostile to Hans, and it is also the most likely. A country that would take action against Hans, so it is extremely important to closely monitor Gaul's every move!

"Well, I understand. Please continue to follow up on this matter. If there is any new information, notify me as soon as possible!"

Mainz waved his hand and asked Himmler to retreat.

But after Himmler left, Mainz showed a smile.

"Did you start building the Maginot Line so early? The Gauls really don't want to give up!"

After walking to the map and taking a rough look at the border between Gaul and Hans, and finding the approximate location of the Maginot Line based on historical memories, Mainz laughed.

In real history, Gaul The Ruhr people also built this defense line that is extremely famous around the world.

In 1925, three years after the Ruhr crisis broke out, the entire country quickly emerged from the war under the leadership of the Weimar Republic. After recovering from the epidemic, industrial development advanced by leaps and bounds, and the overall national strength was booming, the Gauls already felt that something was not good in their hearts!

They were very worried about future retaliation from the Hans and their victory in World War I. The fruits would be snatched back by Hans, so in 1925, a plan was started to build an independent fortification area in the border area with Hans.

In 1927, this plan was expanded to complete the entire border between Gaul and Hans. Starting from 1928, the Gauls began to carry out large-scale construction in the border areas, and the Gallic government also gritted its teeth and approved the financial allocation for the construction of the Maginot Line.

This took 13 years until the German army began to attack in 1940. Although the defense line still under construction in Gaul was not breached by the enemy, it still failed to prevent the Iron Tower City from raising the white flag…

The Maginot Line of Defense is definitely an achievement in the history of human warfare, except for the Great Wall of China. In addition, I am afraid no one will build such a long and expensive defense line on such a large scale!

The Maginot Line is about 390 kilometers long, including the Metz fortification area, the Saar flood area, and the Lauter fortification area. Area, Lower Rhine fortification area and Belfort fortification area.

About 500 permanent fortifications of various purposes were constructed in this 390 kilometers long, with a density of 15 permanent fortifications per kilometer of frontage. Special reinforcements have been carried out, and they are all constructed with reinforced concrete. The top cover and walls of the strongest reinforced concrete fortifications are 3.5 meters thick. Even a 380mm cannon cannot directly penetrate these fortresses.

However, worry! Hans and the Germans came up with some black technology and just kept doing it. Since they had spent more than 5 billion francs, they just made the fortifications more gorgeous!

So, the crazy Gauls used it! After the reinforced concrete fortifications were poured, a layer of armor was attached to the outside of the fortifications. These armors, made of high-quality steel, are 300 mm thick and can withstand direct hits from two 420 mm mortar shells. That 3.5-meter-thick steel reinforced concrete fortification, this kind of fortress, 9.99% of the artillery in the world can't do anything with it!

In World War I, the armies of all countries used poison gas weapons, although the poison gas bombs could not explode the outer shell of the fortress. However, poison gas bombs can poison the soldiers in the fortress, and no matter how strong the fortress is, it can only become a pile of scrap metal after losing the defense of the soldiers.

Therefore, in order to prevent the Germans from using poison gas bombs to attack, high The Lu people also specially built underground fortifications under these surface fortifications.

During the war, soldiers retreated to the underground fortifications when they were fighting in the machine gun fortifications and artillery fortifications made of armor or reinforced concrete on the ground. To ensure the survival and combat needs of the soldiers, the French army built very complete underground fortifications.

The underground fortifications not only have filtered ventilation rooms and special exhaust ducts to protect against gas bombs, but also include high-value targets such as command posts, rest rooms, food storage rooms, and ammunition depots.

In order to maintain the normal operation of the equipment in the underground fortifications, the Gauls also built special power stations and power grids for each fortification to ensure that the underground fortifications would not lose power, allowing them to contact the outside world through radio stations at any time!

To be honest, apart from being immovable, such a fortification is simply an enlarged version of a tank, and it is indestructible and can eat and live in one unit!

There are more than 5,800 fortresses like this on the entire Maginot Defense Line!

From this number, we can see how crazy the Gauls were!

Of course, in order to build these fortresses, the Gauls spent a lot of money!

If the Gauls could invest the money in building these fortresses in the construction of their own army, then the results of the historical Gallic campaigns might not be so tragic.

Mainz was naturally very happy when he learned that the Gauls were planning to build the Maginot Line.

He was not worried at all about the Gauls building defensive fortifications such as fortresses. After all, World War II had proven that the Maginot fortifications that the Gauls spent a lot of money to build were of no use at all.

What he was worried about was that the Gauls were still evil and planned to invade Hans. That would give him an even bigger headache!

But since the Gauls are so sensible and just start to hide behind closed doors and devote themselves wholeheartedly to their own Maginot Line of Defense, Mainz no longer needs to worry about the French invasion!

From now on, after eliminating the direct threat to Hans from the outside world, Mainz can finally start to transform and develop the German army according to its own ideas!

After all, the Sun Never Sets and Eagle Sauce gave the German army 500,000 standing army quotas during the Ruhr crisis. Mainz would naturally not let go of such a good opportunity to expand the army!