My Third Empire

Germany needs to revise the Treaty of Versailles again! Just as Britain's maritime interests cannot be violated, Germany's borders on both sides also need security guarantees. We need a legitimate expansion of a group of Wehrmacht to defend against threats from Poland and the Soviet Union. Recently, the French have shown more and more aggression, so Germany needs strength to protect itself from aggression. After finishing speaking, Accardo looked at Smith, who was a little embarrassed.

Smith was silent. He really wanted Germany to reach a naval agreement with the United Kingdom, so that the United Kingdom could reduce the pressure on naval construction. The First World War had already stretched Britain’s finances. Is the strategic goal of maintaining the world’s largest navy in place? what an easy thing to do. But once the German Navy withdraws from the competition, even if it builds a few fewer warships, the British Navy can save a large number of warships to deal with the growing Italian Navy and the US Navy.

After thinking for a long time, Smith finally spoke: Are you sure that this Wehrmacht will be deployed on the border between Germany and Poland? And the scale is not huge?

Our neighbor Poland has 600,000 regular troops and more than 1,000 aircraft. Do you think our little request is too much? As long as the British government understands our behavior, then Germany will expand an army of 100,000 people to defend it from the east. Threatening, none of these troops will be sent to the German-French border, but we require at least one armored unit and a small number of aircraft. Arkado said, took out a document and handed it to Smith, motioning him to take a look.

Smith glanced at the cover and was stunned, because the title of the document turned out to be The Hades Project. He grabbed the document excitedly and carefully read the terms.

It is clearly written that Germany plans to secretly arm 250,000 soldiers to deal with the growing threat from the East and the aggressiveness of France. The whole plan is only a limited expansion of the Wehrmacht, so that it has a certain defensive capability, and let Smith I am very happy that most of the German naval expansion plans in the Pluto Project are some destroyers for defending ports, and most of the artillery calibers are small toys with a caliber of 150 mm.

Smith is more gratified that even the 150mm caliber artillery, the Germans intend to give up, those 88mm caliber artillery is not a threat to British warships at all - as for the torpedo, its range of several kilometers is compared to the British ones. For a cannon with a range of more than 20 kilometers, it is simply scrap metal.

I have to report to London before I can give you an answer! Colonel Smith asked as he closed the file and stood up.

Accardo pointed to the Project Hades document in Smith's hand and said: Don't mind if I take it back. For the German Wehrmacht, this is still a classified document. If it weren't for such a bad thing, I would Nor is it willing to show it to a foreign officer.

Since you can show it to me, why don't you give it to me, and I will rely on it to convince our officials. Smith waved the document in his hand and asked, Is it okay?

Okay! I hope this document can be exchanged for peace. Akado sighed and said helplessly.

Peace. Oh! Peace. Smith walked to his wine cabinet, took out two glasses, poured whiskey, handed one of the glasses to Arcardo, and raised the glass himself: To Peace.

Respect for peace! Akado also raised his glass with a smile.

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The French were completely dumbfounded. In Germany, they were faced with overwhelming criticism. Everyone seemed to be talking about the Treaty of Versailles.

Demonstrations are everywhere against the disaster France has imposed on Germany. Germans don't buy French goods, they don't eat French food, and they even attack French people in the streets.

If it was only Germany that resisted France so much, it would be better, because after all, France used thunderous means to deal with the German Wehrmacht this time. But first, the Netherlands and the Germans stood together, and the French suffered a small loss. Subsequently, the British expressed their understanding of the situation in Germany, and some members even proposed to revise the Treaty of Versailles. After a series of diplomatic mediations, the German Foreign Ministry described the situation of the victimized country in Germany as extremely miserable, arousing widespread sympathy from the international community, and for a while France was left alone.

The Netherlands was unwilling to hand over its own interests and helped the Germans destroy the evidence, leaving France without the means of attacking for a while, and then the Dutch statement directly slapped the French in the face.

The German Wehrmacht then came forward to clarify the matter, claiming that there was no attempt to violate the Treaty of Versailles, and then spit bitterness to the media, pointing to the map and saying that a soldier of his own would need to patrol 4 kilometers to maintain the entire German border. The national defense force is stretched thin, and there is reason to make journalists around the world stand on the side of the national defense force.

And a shot from the back of the British made the French even more difficult to say. Germany’s unilateral compromise to the United Kingdom made the United Kingdom satisfied, and the practice of exchanging naval strength for army strength is also very in line with British interests – what the UK has always hoped is Germany Mutual constraints with France and no time to take care of the sea.

Belgium is even more direct. Seeing the UK’s position, it also turned to Germany that afternoon. In order to sell well, it even took the initiative to convene the British and French ambassadors and proposed a proposal to revise the Versailles Peace Treaty with Germany.

Afterwards, German President Hindenburg delivered a speech at the presidential palace, encouraging the German people to break free from their shackles, and accepting in good faith the proposal of the Belgian envoy to revise the Treaty of Versailles again, trumpeting the unparalleled friendship between Germany and Belgium and Britain. And when the speech was about to end, he finally mentioned a personnel appointment. Major General Arkado Rudolph was appointed as the chief of the general staff of the German Wehrmacht because of his outstanding achievements, and he was solely responsible for the negotiation with the representatives of Britain, France and the three countries.

Under the advocacy and instigation of the United Kingdom, there was Japan's false agitation on the side, as well as the bargaining with France and various results. After more than 5 months of arduous negotiations, the New Versailles Contract was finally passed. In December 1925, it was implemented in the Allied Arms Control Commission.

The Wehrmacht Army became the biggest beneficiary, and almost all provisions were changed, giving Army officers a sense of rebirth.

The new contract stipulates that the German Army will maintain a scale of 250,000 people and can use automatic weapons such as light machine guns and submachine guns without restrictions. limit.

Another relaxed condition is to allow Germany to set up an Army Flying Corps, which is responsible for the reconnaissance of the German border and the transportation of important military personnel and materials. It is allowed to equip 40 speed-limited biplanes and 10 transport aircraft.

The result of the debate with France is that the New Versailles Contract takes care of the French national mood and adds the following clauses.

Germany still cannot deploy armed forces in the demilitarized zone on the Rhine, and cannot deploy more than 30,000 troops in two divisions on the German-French border. At the same time, the newly added German regular army of more than 100,000 will be dispersed and deployed on the German border and will not be allowed to move closer to the French border.

Even though this contract is still a shackle restricting the German armed forces, Arcador has turned this unfavorable situation into an effective counterattack. He broke the Versailles Contract and opened the door to another expansion for the Wehrmacht.

The first is the size of the National Defense Forces. 250,000 troops have been recognized, and more than 100,000 troops can be brought to the surface. This has effectively alleviated the already fragile secret funding system of the National Defense Forces. At least 100,000 people's wages and equipment costs can be asked for money from the government instead of relying on privately raised funds to support.

And Germany was allowed to upgrade its light weapons and automatic weapons, which made a big step forward in the modernization of the Wehrmacht infantry, at least the old and cumbersome weapons such as the Maxim heavy machine guns can be brought to an end.

Secondly, the German army was allowed to use aircraft, although only a poor 50, but this was a leap from nothing, which allowed the Wehrmacht system to blatantly train and recruit its own pilots without having to hide it.

The most gratifying thing is that Germany was allowed to establish its own armored force. Although the number is less than one-fifth of Poland's, the Wehrmacht can purchase its own tanks and chariots and start its own armored force training. Sneaky in the mountains of southern Bavaria is more than twice as strong.

After the negotiation was over, and the news came back to China, Major General Arcador Rudolph immediately became a household hero in Germany. The photo of him standing alone in front of a group of British, French and Belgian diplomats with his back to the camera was posted on various German pages. Front page headlines of big newspapers.

The title of the Greater Deutsche Zeitung is the most condensing. It named the photo Who wants to follow this person, and it became the best newspaper I bought at once. It has been reprinted 10 times and the supply is still in short supply. Almost everyone in Germany has one.

People took to the streets, shouting Akado's name, and gathered in front of the gate of the Coalition Arms Control Committee building for a long time, refusing to leave. Fifteen degrees to the sky.

Made him into a god that everyone admires? A leader who makes everyone crazy. Let these crazy people follow him through fire and water. Jaeger Hugo looked out the window and shouted Akado's name. The parade crowd asked Fanny, who was also looking down at the crowd, Is this what you want?

No! It's not enough! These are far from enough! Fanny was a little short of breath with excitement. She leaned against the edge of the window and said, Next time, you should make him more handsome.