My Third Empire

In the southern part of Bavaria, Germany's secret military base H-1, in the center of the separation wall covered with barbed wire, a gate was slowly pushed open by a dozen soldiers, and a new Mercedes-Benz car waiting by the road started slowly and passed the opening. door.

Lieutenant Colonel Guderian, who was the co-pilot of the car, pointed to the open space in front, turned back to Arkado in the back of the car and said with a smile: We will be able to witness the tanks cooperate with the Air Force's assault exercises in a while. well prepared.

There's a carload of middle-ranking officers of the Wehrmacht, this is all I can find, and there are more than a dozen ordnance factory technicians, you have to prepare this exercise for them, not for me! Those officers are the ones who pay for it. , it's the engineers who make the weapons, I'm just an irrelevant person.

Pfft. Gustav Krupp, who was sitting beside Accardo, laughed out loud: As the vice-chairman of the Greater Deutsches Party, I have to tell you seriously, you are the top leader of our party. , is not an insignificant person.

There are 60 150mm caliber cannons and 90 88mm anti-aircraft guns, all of which are of the latest design and can be towed and transported by mules and horses. I promise you that the weapons here are all from the world. The most advanced. Krupp smiled when he saw Arkado, and patted his chest on the rocking car to advertise his weapon: When the French fire one shot, we can return twenty shots.

How is the preparation for the secret weapons section? Arcador crossed the fingers of his hands and looked at Guderian. He was more concerned about other things than artillery. For example, the Wehrmacht has only recently equipped a few tanks. .

The P-2 tank was equipped with 30 tanks. I assigned the tank drivers who returned from studying in the Soviet Union to 5 tank platoons in turn. Now many people are waiting for their tanks. We secretly equip too few tanks. The delivery is too slow. Guderian glanced at Krupp and said helplessly.

It is indeed too few, 30 tanks, 6 tanks are organized in a platoon, and each tank can only be used by three people (a commander and gunner, a communication engineer, and a driver), these 30 tanks can only be used in total. 90 armored soldiers use their own equipment.

Krupp shook his head and killed Guderian's hope of wanting more tanks: Lieutenant Colonel Guderian, do you know how much the Wehrmacht gave MAN's factory? Less than 90,000 Deutsche Marks! These are The money can't even sell the wheels of the tanks! The Wehrmacht owes me and MAN a total of 700,000 US dollars for the heavy artillery tanks, and I will lose tens of thousands of dollars for every cannon I provide you!

He looked at the helpless Arkado, spread his hands and said, This is only part of the reason! We have to avoid the eyes and ears of the Coalition Arms Control Commission! We can only start work in the middle of the night, and we dare not use large machinery. The cost, but also limits the production speed and output. I am a big family, and I have a loan from the United States to survive, but MAN is miserable. They are being collected by the Swedish mines these days! Because they owe others The payment for the goods is still unclear.”

Akado can't spend too much money to buy weapons. After all, several companies in his hands also need to develop. Although these companies have eventually become super enterprises in history, Akado does not dare to embezzle too much funds now. He was afraid that these companies would miss out on development opportunities and would eventually be destroyed by him.

Historically, Hitler's regime used to massacre Jews and confiscate the property of these people to make up part of the financial deficit, but Accardo did not dare to do so blatantly at this time, and his program of the Greater Deutsche Party required him not to do so. Do.

Arcardo had to sigh and come up with what he thought was the best solution: Krupp,

You give me a list and I will inform the Gestapo to start. First, these people must be wealthy; second, industrialists are not allowed on the list, I only deal with pure capital speculators.

Krupp nodded, Arkado was going to raid his house to make up for the economic deficit. Although this method is very informal and has a lot of injustice, it is indeed a way to quickly make up for the financial deficit. Methods.

As far as he knows, Arcardo even condoned the Wehrmacht to mine the coal mines in the Ruhr industrial zone without permission, and sold them to France and Sweden at a reserve price to appease some of France's grievances and to paralyze senior French officials. The private users of high-ranking generals, on the surface, appear to be no different from their embezzlement, but the money is secretly pooled by the Gestapo and used as additional military expenditures for the Wehrmacht.

There was no other way for Arcardo. The 90,000 Deutsche Marks he paid Krupp was still embezzled. Sold it to a nearby restaurant, and only got a little money of 90,000 Deutsche Marks.

Arcardo even used the trick he saw in an unknown book that year. He ordered many merchant ships under the Wehrmacht to deliberately lose the chimney when they went to the ports of Sweden and Denmark, and then bought the best copper locally. quality chimneys and transported back to China as copper raw material reserves. Use this clumsy method to make up for the Allied Arms Control Committee's control of the Wehrmacht's copper stockpile.

He also ordered to monitor all communication calls of the Coalition Arms Control Committee, intercept the secret inspection of letters between them, and arranged for soldiers to monitor all members of the Coalition Arms Control Committee 24 hours a day. He even perfected the interception plan to avoid the last resort. The killing of the French officer occurred again.

Despite these restrictions and resistances, the Wehrmacht has grown and grown thanks to the joint efforts of Sickert and Arkado.

As of January 20, 1924, Germany's top-secret document The Pluto Project Implementation Memorandum showed that Germany already had a regular army of 300,000 people, secretly stockpiled 110 latest aircraft, 17 destroyers, and 30 tanks.

Of course, this army is still very weak, its neighbor Poland has an army of more than 600,000 at this time, twice the German Wehrmacht. But if you look closely at the composition of this German Wehrmacht, it is really scary.

Thanks to the efforts of Arcador and Sickert, more than half of the soldiers of the Wehrmacht had a high school education and a quarter graduated from university. This unit has a reserve of 2,000 paratroopers, 4,000 soldiers who have directly used tanks or received training in using tanks, about more than 1,500 people have boarded gliders, and more than 300 people have actually simulated high-speed aerial combat in the sky of the Soviet Union. .

What is even more frightening is that in the 15th and 22nd divisions of the National Defense Forces, 17 people have applied for technology patents, 94 people have published papers on professional equipment such as artillery, tanks, aircraft, and more than 3,300 people have received air-ground integrated combat training.

These armies have an average of one radio station for every 40 people, 33 people can be assigned a mechanical vehicle - including cars and motorcycles, 2 people have a warhorse, and even more exaggerated is that every soldier in this army can be a platoon leader. work.

They can shoot at least 5 times a day, and their opponents Polish and French armies do not meet this standard of shooting per week, these soldiers are rigorously trained in combat, every tactical move is etched in the bones, they On average, one can participate in a small-scale secret military exercise every two months.

In a secret base in the mountains of southern Bavaria, Arkado spent more than a year accumulating a full 9 million rounds of rifle bullets, 150,000 rounds of the latest 150mm shells, and a full 100,000 brand-new Mauser 98Ks for the Wehrmacht. style rifle. Most of the raw materials used in these weapons and ammunition are smuggled from countries such as Sweden.

Of course, the German Wehrmacht also stored 700,000 tons of oil, 100,000 tons of flour, smuggled 100,000 tons of rubber from China, and relied on the Pluto Project branch White Dove Project to build a new 100,000-kilometer-long road. There are 200,000 kilometers of railways.

Money, money, money is needed everywhere. The stretched finances have driven the generals of the National Defense Forces completely crazy. The production of new weapons requires a large amount of money, the construction of road and railway transportation networks requires a large amount of money, and the reserve of strategic materials requires more money. Wages for the army, maintenance of weapons and equipment, support for a large number of secret troops, research fees for the development of new weapons... Arcardo even fantasized that he could spend a penny in two.

The German Wehrmacht has a variety of economic sources. The serious source is the defense funding given by the government, which is familiar to everyone. The secret source is part of the property of speculative capitalists, part of Accardo’s sneaky accumulation, and export. Income from weapons, benefits from secret cooperation with the Soviet Union, and subsidies for Accardo's private income.

In any case, at the beginning of 1924, the Wehrmacht was reborn, and it now had the strength to face its neighbors alone, to defeat Poland and even challenge France. Rennes revealed to Arcardo privately that he had the confidence to command the 15th Division to break through the defenses of any French army if it hit the French troops head-on.

When Akado gathered his thoughts, he had already sat on the auditorium of the exercise. More than 20 new tanks were lined up on the school ground. The infantry carried by trucks and armored vehicles launched an attack on the established target. They released With the smoke, the advance and retreat were well documented, and the target area was quickly captured. In the process, two biplanes flew by at a low altitude and dropped two stones to simulate air support.

In a round of applause, the soldiers began to shout Akado's name: Arcardo! Akado!

Then, under the leadership of the officers, everyone chanted a louder slogan: Long live the Great Germany! Long live the victory!

Akado stood up, stood at attention and saluted, and loudly replied to the cheering soldiers below: Long live the victory! Long live the Great Germany!