My Third Empire

It is shameful to have a country without defense! Sickert started the routine exercise of the Wehrmacht with his motto: You are the defense of Germany! The exercise begins!

The recent Sickert can be said to be proud of the spring breeze. By means of almost robbery, he dug out more than 10 million Deutsche Marks from the long-stretched state funds. Using this money as a deposit, he ordered 200,000 sets of new military uniforms. The uniforms made his German troops look decades ahead of their old British and French rivals.

And advocated by him, Arkado implemented it in detail, and completed an ambitious plan of re-arming the mind and morale, focusing on cultivating the personal skills and subjective initiative of soldiers to master more advanced technical forces.

Originally, Sickert did not focus on advanced technological equipment, but on spiritual power. However, in the process of implementation, Akado transformed this slightly wrong idea into a correct one that attached importance to both spiritual power and advanced technological equipment. Thought.

With an order, the German Wehrmacht's routine exercise began. The infantrymen ran in groups of four carrying the cumbersome Maxim heavy machine guns between the shot craters. The signal soldiers holding the command flag high smoked to convey the message. The exercise was lively and lively deduced in a piece of backward equipment.

This kind of weird exercise made the officers of the Coalition Arms Control Commission who came to observe could not help laughing. They watched their once powerful opponents now dance in front of them like clowns, and the joy in their hearts could not be expressed in words. simply described.

They saw the brand-new German armored vehicle swaying quickly in front of the enemy's position and then retreating to their own position far away. Then a group of soldiers circled in front of the map to sketch and draw, and after analyzing for a long time, they each ran back to their positions to prepare to attack.

They saw the German cavalry units riding thousands of war horses assault the defensive position consisting of a dozen machine guns on the opposite side, and even before attacking, they fired dozens of smoke bombs that choke the war horses to tears.

They saw a few people in the German machine gun team carrying a heavy Maxim heavy machine gun and running forward slowly, and the soldier who ran to the position first with a ranging instrument on his back didn't wait for the machine gun team to be in place, and took it up. The instrument measures the data and raises its right hand to signal that it has hit the target.

The entire exercise scene was chaotic, in the words of a French observer: it was just a joke.

Especially when they got the report on the conclusion of the Wehrmacht exercise, several French officers burst into tears.

The report contained the following interesting passages:

At nine o'clock in the morning, the 1st Cavalry Regiment advanced forward and captured 19 enemy machine gun positions. The operation was successfully completed - the cavalry assault machine gun positions were victorious.

At 10:27 in the morning, the 2nd Infantry Battalion of the 1st Division defended the attack of the enemy tanks, destroyed 20 enemy tanks and repelled about 30 others - the infantry actually won the tanks.

And this report also said that in the afternoon, an infantry company even brazenly reported that it had shot down two enemy planes.

The German army bypassed the Peace of Versailles and used a limited amount of money to arm the marginal products they needed. Although the treaty stipulated that Germany could not have tanks, it did not strictly limit the number of armored vehicles. The troops purchased about 400 new armored vehicles. These armored vehicles gave several main divisions of the German simulated tank force a world-class reconnaissance force.

Contrary to the idea of ​​the world that Germany replaced tanks with armored vehicles, Arcador did not consider these armored vehicles as a replacement force for tanks,

Instead, the troops are strictly ordered to use these armored reconnaissance vehicles equipped with advanced observation equipment as the forward scouts of the tank force, providing enemy intelligence for those tanks that do not exist.

On the contrary, those invisible tank troops are actually cavalry troops all over the world. Arkado has equipped nearly 40,000 war horses for the 20 main divisions of the National Defense Forces in his hands. These troops on horses are a little outdated. It's simulating massively advancing tank troops. It is also responsible for simulating mechanized drag artillery, self-propelled artillery, and panzer grenadiers.

If a general who has fought in World War II comes to the exercise site, he will definitely think that he is crazy, because the experience of the training exercises conducted by the German Wehrmacht is actually summed up after five years of war.

Those machine gun groups that carry heavy machine guns to move, if paired with general-purpose machine guns or light machine guns, are simply the perfect standard for machine gun position movement.

Those soldiers who rode war horses to storm the enemy's positions, if they were replaced by tanks, could easily achieve the ridiculous achievements they have achieved today.

And those front-line command analysis based on perfect reconnaissance and accurate artillery support based on coordinates, even the American army in 1944 may not be able to do better than the German army in front of them.

Disadvantages are not necessarily without advantages. Due to the prohibition of universal military service in Germany and the limitation of the total number of German troops to no more than 100,000 people, the Wehrmacht is extremely strict when selecting service members. Volunteers must pass a series of physical and psychological tests - even though Arkado shamelessly doubled the true size of the Wehrmacht, this harsh selection condition has not been relaxed.

After joining the army, the service period of a soldier should be at least 12 years, and an officer should not be less than 25 years. Once in the army, every soldier will receive special training in a certain aspect, focusing on the leadership of these soldiers.

Since the Treaty of Versailles stipulated that Germany could not establish formal military academies, Sickert and Arcador decided to bypass this regulation after negotiating and establish a military education system at the company and regiment levels of the army, and private soldiers at the company level. Sergeants train to become non-commissioned officers in the regiment-level military education system.

Arcador assured Sickert that once the war broke out, all active German soldiers could be promoted to at least one rank, increasing the size of the army tenfold or more in an instant.

The army was tested in semi-annual military exercises, which tested its professional skills and sense of honor for its military career. Although there is no modern high-tech military equipment such as tanks, planes, and anti-aircraft guns, they used cardboard and wood to make models for training during the exercise. The so-called incoming enemy planes sometimes used toy balloons to act.

But if you get close to them, you'll hear a single soldier on the radio always shouting: I'm a platoon of so-and-so or Here's a machine gun team of 8.

The Wehrmacht is no joke. The German army should attract the attention of all the staffs in the world, exclaimed a foreign observer who had seen a bit of a doorway.

Therefore, Sickert cannot be unhappy, because his number one subordinate, Lieutenant Colonel Arkado, who was unknown two years ago, took advantage of the existing conditions and after more than a year of hard work, finally let the new force of the National Defense Forces blossom and bear fruit. , has become a first-class armed force that has impressed the whole world.

However, the large number of simulated tank troops and the cavalry whose actual role was too marginalized in the exercise made Sickert very dissatisfied. He finally found Akka who was chatting with a group of tank soldiers driving a tractor in the afternoon of the exercise. many.

Accardo, I've given you so much trust that you've gotten carried away! Should I take back some of my power so you know the Wehrmacht isn't someone's toy? In the place of people, he drank angrily at Akado.

Akado seems to have known this for a long time, because although the general Sickert he is familiar with has an advanced vision, he also has a stubbornness beyond ordinary people: Can the general really be sure that your decision must be right?

Sickert was stunned for a moment, frowned at Akado, and fiddled with the stones under his feet: You know what I'm talking about, and since you know it, why do you do it.

Because I'm pretty sure that what determines future wars is oil, it's metal, it's the mass impact formed by the large-scale intensive use of tanks, and it's the large-scale encirclement and destruction of the enemy by the troops relying on mechanization, but the equipment you trust can't be done. That's what I said. Akado smiled and looked at Sickert: With the cavalry and bicycle troops you mentioned, how can it be possible to advance 100 kilometers a day and be able to fight immediately?

But this is the Wehrmacht! This is Germany's last military force. All I can do is to ensure that this force is steadily improved, rather than blindly believing in some fanciful theories written on paper. Sickert The general said fiercely: Germany can't take this risk! You can't take this responsibility either!

You can't afford this responsibility either! General! If Germany misses this period of development because of your stubbornness, when the next war comes, Germany loses a tank, a truck or a cannon. How are you responsible? Akado stared at Sickert and retorted without giving up.

The old general in front of him is Bole who promoted him, and his boss who supports him almost fully. They can even be said to be like-minded friends who revitalize the German Wehrmacht. But in front of each other's insistence on the idea, the two finally still have red eyes.

Looking at Akado in a daze, Sickert finally sighed, his drooping shoulders suddenly made the stubborn old man ten years older: I take back the reorganization and supervision of the first division, but the new The reorganization and supervision of the third division will be handed over to you, and we will wait for three years. After three years, if you can prove your theory, I will let you go, and if you fail, I will shoot you personally!

If my war theory is not confirmed, I will not wait for you to do it. Akado sneered: Your Excellency General, I will give you an explanation.

Sickert walked away without looking back: I hope you're not kidding about tens of millions of defense dollars.

Accardo replied firmly: I never joke about my dreams.