My Third Empire

The British Empire supports the German people's desire for national security in principle, and understands the efforts made by the German soldiers to protect the motherland!  …

The British government once again reiterates its support for the German people to emerge from the shadow of war!  …

I am skeptical of the so-called Pluto Project! I firmly believe that this is a hoax by conspirators who destroy peace and affect regional stability!  …

The British government will continue to trust Germany and cooperate with Germany in many fields! The Royal Navy will work hard to ensure the safety of German merchant ships on the high seas!  …

God bless the people of England and Germany!  …

In the afternoon of the same day, Colonel Smith, the attaché of the British Embassy, ​​on behalf of the British government, the British Foreign Office and the British Royal Navy, held a grand press conference, and issued the above statement to the reporters' flashing lights.

The Greater Deutsches Party endured the humiliation and finally ushered in a successful solution to the exposure of the Pluto Project incident. The diplomatic barriers that isolated Germany internationally were broken by the United Kingdom, and Germany became a recognized ally of the United Kingdom.

The politicians who tried to use external forces to force the Wehrmacht to hand over command were dumbfounded. They killed a dozen leaders on the night known as the Bloody Night, but they got nothing, even the most basic There is no sympathy for them. People call these politicians who betray their own people traitors, and they abuse and spit them out.

Now you have won back the advantage. Tukhachevsky looked at Akado who was pouring wine for him and said with a smile: It's not cheap to drink your wine. Who will make up for the loss of our Soviet Union?

Okay! General Tukhachevsky, you can't be cheap and good! The technical support of nearly 200 submarines is not a small project. Arkado also laughed: Throw a A plan to cover up another plan, to cover up the truth with the truth, this is the most brilliant intelligence war.

Don't flatter me! Tukhachevsky laughed even more happily: You are the most brilliant master of intelligence warfare! You sell an intelligence, but at the same time make two countries more dependent on you Germany. .

Let's stop touting each other! Akado waved his hands and said with a smile: When you come this time, in addition to saying goodbye, you must have important questions to ask me.

How do you know? Tukhachevsky was taken aback.

Pointing to his temple, Akado smiled and said, Self-consciousness.

I really want to know, you have secretly formed an alliance with us to assist us in infrastructure construction in the Soviet Union, but why are you always flirting with the British and betraying communism? Tukhachevsky looked at Arkado suspiciously: You must know that in many cases, the final result of pleasing by both sides is to be isolated by both sides at the same time.”

He drank the last sip of fine wine, stood up and said, One day you will suffer because of today's right and left! I personally recommend that you choose a side and pour it over completely, so that you can get a real ally.

After he finished speaking, he walked out of Arcardo's office.

You are wrong! My friend! Akado also drank the last sip of the fine wine, swallowed it with endless aftertaste, and then murmured in a voice that only he could hear: It is true that there will be no true friends in both directions. , but it also has an ending, which is to kill all the fake friends together.

Akado originally thought that in order to end the exposure of the Pluto Project incident, he sent away Tukhachevsky and other members of the Soviet delegation, and he could rest for a while. But this coming 1929 is destined to be an eventful year.

The spring of the year, April 11, 1929. Ibn Saud, the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, who is ambitious and increasingly dissatisfied with the allocation of his country's resources, launched a unification war against several small tribes around him. With the acquiescence and even support of Germany, Britain, France and other countries, this war has continued to expand in scale, and in exchange for more oil, German rifles, British tanks, French helmets... Countless arms have been rented by Germany's strong force. The God transport ship was shipped to the Middle East, which was exchanged for countless oil and dollars to be shipped to European countries.

The two battleships Handsome and Perfect commissioned by the United Kingdom to build the keel began to lay the keel in Kiel. The United Kingdom paid 16 million pounds for the goods, and the two new battleships will use the new twin-mounted turret, equipped with German Sophisticated shooting sights used against Soviet-class battleships of the Red regime.

The British people are very depressed about this money, because the cost of the King George V battleship is only 7.4 million pounds, but there is a piece of information from the Baltic Shipyard in Leningrad, Soviet Union, which made Britain had to pay for the two battleships that were supposed to be the German Besmarck and Tirpitz.

But what really kept Accador busy was that Mercedes-Benz finally came up with a near-perfect design, which made Accado determined to start mass-producing the future main chariot of the German armored forces - code-named Fourth Project No. 4 the German new tank Panzer IV has finally been designed.

This tank can be said to be an industrial masterpiece of this era. Combining the design experience of Arcador's previous life, this tank can be described as perfect.

It has a whole piece of sloping armor plate at the front end of the hull, with an amazing thickness of 50 mm. The wide hull is supported by six pairs of large-diameter road wheels - compared with the later T-34, it has an extra pair of weights. wheels to cope with the weight changes brought about by the wider body.

This newly designed tank, which is completely different from the previous German tanks, adopts a wide track and a staggered track structure used by large-diameter road wheels, which can adapt to more complex muddy combat environments and harsh road standards.

According to the habit of using German tanks, this No. 4 tank has a total of 5 members, namely the driver, the electromechanical operator, the gunner, the loader, and the commander. This is a very reasonable WWII tank crew configuration, able to process information quickly and maintain stable operations for a long time.

The German new tank suspension system, which was improved from the suspension system purchased from the American Christie tank, has greatly improved the maneuverability of this tank, and its reliability is better than various other suspension systems that Germany has been secretly developing.

In order to adapt to this suspension system and large diameter road wheels, as well as the inclined front armor plate, the German tank used the gearbox rear layout for the first time, which made the turret of the tank slightly forward, not like the third tank. The same is arranged in the center of the tank body. Of course, according to Arcardo's proposal, a basket was welded directly behind the tank turret to hold some sundries for tank soldiers. This practical design also slightly corrected the aesthetics of the German tank turret position.

The only thing Arcado regrets is that this tank still uses a gasoline engine instead of a diesel engine. Although the diesel engine has many advantages and the power is stronger and more reliable, due to a series of problems such as German resources and habits, this tank can only be propelled by a gasoline engine temporarily - this is a small regret of Arkado.

The main thing is that this tank has a large and angular welded turret, large enough to accommodate a 75mm short-barreled gun - enough to destroy any tank vehicle in service in 1929, and it can be replaced at any time if necessary. Installed as a follow-up more powerful tank gun.

So it can be said that this is a pair of pants to buy one size larger so that you can wear them when you are more fat. It has an empty spare fuel tank in the engine bay, its turret is larger to make the interior more comfortable, its speed is a lot slower because of the larger body, but it is still German The most powerful super chariot in hand.

The most important thing about this kind of tank is its cheap cost and simple production process. This kind of tank takes about the same man-hours as the No. 3 tank under production, the process is simpler, the level of protection is greatly improved, and it has more powerful firepower. The most important thing is that it also has a wider room for improvement.

What makes people a little depressing is that the total combat weight of this tank has exceeded 30 tons, reaching an astonishing 33 tons. Its weight can be regarded as a behemoth among the behemoths of tanks and chariots in this era. In comparison, its predecessor, the No. 3 tank, only weighs more than 21 tons.

However, Arcador still encourages this kind of breakthrough in weight, and he is very aware that in the upcoming war, the tank weight of 30 tons to 40 tons is completely reasonable, and is the mainstream medium tank weight.

Arcador is very satisfied with this design, which can be said to be an enlarged version of the T-34 hull fitted with a Panther turret. It combines the advantages of the German tank sighting system and artillery power with the simplicity and reliability of the previous Soviet tanks in the manufacturing process. Once it appeared on the battlefield, it was enough to become a model for tank design all over the world.

So Arkado ordered the Krupp factory and Mercedes-Benz to jointly produce this new tank, and personally named the tank Panther. It is expected that by the beginning of 1933, the Wehrmacht will be equipped with 700 vehicles of this new type, which will replace the No. 3 tank as the standard equipment of the German armored forces.

Unlike Guderian and many other armored commanders of this era, Arkado did not obsess about dividing tanks into two categories: support tanks and fighting tanks, but concentrated on developing annihilation tanks against enemy tanks. Class tank - As for the work of supporting infantry operations, Arkado is ready to hand over to Germany's new equipment No. 3 assault gun to complete.

However, just as Arkado was proudly planning the production and equipment of the No. 4 tank of the Wehrmacht, a shocking news came to him. This news made the thriving Akado's career suddenly suffer an immeasurable setback.