My Third Empire

It didn't take long before the snipers in the buildings on both sides opened fire. They were ordered not to shoot at Hitler. This order was given by Arcado himself.

It's not that Arkado is soft-hearted. Just as Hitler didn't kill Arkado just now, he was unwilling to kill him intentionally in front of hundreds of Wehrmacht soldiers. Arkado also had his own considerations for not killing Hitler.

He needed such a person to deal with his opponents in the Wehrmacht, and also needed such a person to muddy the waters of the political world to make it easier for him to fish in troubled waters. Even though he knew it was very dangerous, he still had to take the risk of trying to keep Hitler alive.

But others were not as lucky as Hitler. The future Air Force Marshal Hermann Goering beside Hitler was shot through the head by a sniper. When he fell to the ground, his legs were still twitching, and his blood spattered. Hitler hit him, screaming in horror.

Hitler sensed danger, he bent over and leaned against the corner of the wall beside him, but Schebner Richter beside him was not so lucky, he was shot in the thigh, so he fell down.

Unfortunately, when he fell, he instinctively stretched out his arm to the side, trying to hold onto something, but he grabbed Hitler who was trying to avoid it. With such a pull, he dislocated Hitler's arm directly.

Hitler felt that he was hurt. He didn't know that his shoulder was just dislocated. The pain in his bones made his last shreds of courage vanish. Hitler dropped the pistol, turned and ran back.

When he ran like this, he left behind the 3,000 Nazi party members who were still in chaos, making the farce even more out of control. The Nazis did not even have any decent resistance, and were disarmed by hundreds of Wehrmacht soldiers. They knelt on the ground and raised their hands, and they didn't even dare to look up.

The incident broke out too quickly. When Hitler ran into a car not far away, the driver started the car and drove several hundred meters away. With body temperature, one foot was still twitching.

Akado couldn't wait that long. He directly ordered the soldiers to go to Hanfsdangel's villa to arrest people, because he knew that Hitler had only one place to go, and he was afraid that the time when Hitler was in prison was too misplaced, and history would not It developed in a direction he was familiar with. The point where he wanted to turn things around was in Project Barbarossa, in the battle of the Soviet Union—not now.

A total of 17 Nazis and three police officers were killed in this farce-like conflict. One of the more dead Nazis was named Hermann Goering, a little-known person so far.

Hitler really hid in Hanfsdangel's villa. When the Wehrmacht arrived there, he attempted suicide, but finally gave up the plan. He was extremely depressed when he was handcuffed and said nothing along the way.

The work of adjudicating Hitler is not Arcardo's business. Although he knows that Hitler will have a beautiful turnaround and the Nazi party will truly rise after this trial, he is also waiting, waiting for the rise after the rise. The Nazi Party devastated conservative political forces. Borrowing a knife to kill, even if the last borrowed knife hurts himself.

Taking this opportunity, Arkado rushed to the mountains in southern Germany, inspected the secret military base there, and ordered to sell another 500 cannons, 100,000 shells and 50 old-fashioned biplane fighters to China without currency. Settlement, these arms are all purchased with rubber.

This transaction was done secretly through transport lines in the Soviet Union, although the cost was very high,

However, it can not only solve the plight of the lack of rubber in Germany, but also hide from the eyes and ears of some Britain and France, so the price is still within the affordable range.

Chiang Kai-shek, Germany's new friend in China, generously agreed to the Accardo deal, and secretly established a joint trading company in Guangzhou jointly controlled by the German and Guangzhou revolutionary government, which exported rubber to Germany in exchange for artillery and shells.

In order to make up for the increasingly huge secret expenses of the National Defense Forces, Accardo even persuaded President Hindenburg to sell the ownership of a Chinese railway under the name of a German company to a Chinese company, and the profits obtained were directly used to buy rubber produced in Myanmar and Malaysia. raw material.

Immediately afterward, Accardo did not return to Berlin, but flew directly to the Ruhr industrial area in Germany and visited the Krupp weapons factory there. Gustav Krupp, who had already received the news, rushed to the factory in person and took Arkado to visit his industrial empire. Then I went to MAN to inspect the production progress of the tank.

When he saw the site of the second P-2 tank, which was almost completed, he was almost speechless with excitement. Because of Accardo's suggestion, the P-1 tank that was still on the drawings was completely rejected. The armor was too thin, the firepower was too weak, and there was no room for radio equipment. The tank number 1 is now out of Krupp. Engineers' eyesight.

It's a prototype of a No. 2 tank - although none of the No. 1 tanks were produced, the designers kept it in their own way, and they went over the number 1's in their naming Numbering.

After improving the transmission and shock absorbers, the P-2 tank is equipped with a 20mm rapid-fire gun and a machine gun. These weapons are concentrated on a turret that can be rotated. According to performance indicators, This tank chariot completely surpassed its imaginary enemy, the French Renault tank.

The front armor of this tank is 15mm thick, and bolts can be used to temporarily thicken the front armor plate of these tanks according to Arkado's requirements. The designers and the drivers sent by the Wehrmacht love this tank, see When Arcador arrived, they all hoped that this new tank could be mass-produced as soon as possible.

Although Krupp has not made rapid progress in the tank project due to financial and technical difficulties, in the production of artillery, the Krupp factory seems to be like a duck to water.

With Accardo's cues and requirements, the Krupp factory has now started using the assembly line to produce standardized and generalized 88mm caliber cannons. The cannon was produced as a standard anti-aircraft gun, and could also be used to flatten anti-tank fire in a pinch, with occasional cameos with HE shells to support fire.

According to the requirements, most of the parts of this artillery can be used in common with the 88mm anti-aircraft gun used by the Navy. This design allows Krupp to save two factories and ten artillery production lines. Those outdated artillery production equipment in a large number was transported to the Soviet Union by train. , sold at a high price to the Red Army factories, which were seriously under-industry.

Oil was imported from Romania and the Soviet Union, which used up a lot of real gold and silver from the Wehrmacht. Iron ore had to be imported from Norway, which made Germany’s foreign exchange reserves even worse. Although Arkado had many promising factories, because of these factories and the The company's own development needs, and Arkado can't squeeze more money to support the continued expansion of the National Defense Forces.

And because of the secret operation of the Greater Deutsche Party, and the fact that some of the veteran generals of the First World War represented by Hindenburg increasingly distrusted General Seekert, President Hindenburg ordered the commander of the new 2nd Division of the Wehrmacht, General Tzeichwitz, to be replaced. , The 2nd Division was commanded by Colonel Luz, the battalion commander of the transport battalion of the former Director of the Transport Corps, and the transport battalion was handed over to Major Guderian, a follower of Arkado.

Because Colonel Lutz was promoted by Accardo to the Director of Transport Corps, it can be said that Hindenburg handed over all the 2nd, 15th, and 22nd divisions to Accardo.

However, in the subsequent promotion list of the National Defense Forces, Colonel Luz was allowed to be promoted to major general, but Arkado, who had been promoted to colonel for a little longer than Luz, was not nominated for promotion to major general. Sickert did not know whether it was out of personal anger or justice. , used his strength in the Wehrmacht to prevent Arkado's promotion this time.

The price Sickert paid for preventing Arcador's promotion was also very high. He was forced to agree to the promotion of Colonel Lutz, and personally approved Lutz as the division commander of the 2nd Division, and he reluctantly offered to Hindenburg. Handed over control of the new 3rd Division.

But what no one expected was that Major General Lutz, the division commander of the 2nd Division, secretly joined the Greater Deutsches Party the day after he was promoted to major general, becoming the only three generals in the Greater Deutsches Party at this stage.

However, things were not all smooth. For the first time, different voices appeared in the Greater Deutsche Party. Dr. Einstein wrote to Akado because of his opposition to the general policy of Akado's military expansion and preparation for war, rejecting the military science and technology consultant of the National Defense Forces. In the letter, he harshly criticized Arcador for initiating war despite a hard-won peace conspiracy.

Accardo had to reply to this righteous but stubborn scientist to apologize, admit that he had tarnished the sacred scientific cause, and promised to give up the use of the results of the research of Einstein and other scientists to expand the war.

He also let Krupp and Foreign Minister Gustav? Stressmann to clear the relationship, introduced Einstein to the University of Berlin as a professor, let Major Gaskel arrange for at least 20 Gestapo to monitor and protect him.

At the subsequent Wehrmacht development meeting, Accardo persuaded Hindenburg to agree to the proposal to expand the transport battalion of the Director General of Transport Corps, and secretly expand the battalion into Germany's first armored force, the 25th Armored Division. Heinz Wilhelm Guderian, who has the most experience in the German armored forces and has the most thorough theoretical research, was promoted to lieutenant colonel and was temporarily responsible for the expansion task.

Hindenburg, who was also not very optimistic about the prospects of the armored force, agreed with Arkado's suggestion without thinking, and General Sickert, who had never felt that the armored force could make a difference, did not bother to interfere, so German history The first armored corps was formally established.