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Chapter 3: Sisterhood and Infatuation [Act 3] Intricacies (13)

Stauffenberg glanced at his busy figure, raised an eyebrow at Eric, and asked with a smile: "Ricky, try to guess again whether the Führer will listen to General Pettzer's advice?" ”

Eric didn't smile, but he already knew in his heart that Hitler would never accept it humbly, otherwise the Polish Army, including the Poznan Army, would have been strangled to the end, so why let the Army Group South fight so hard? But in order to avoid Stauffenberg's outrageous complaints, he tapped his friend on the shoulder and beckoned Wilkes to go out for a walk with him.

By the time the three of them had left the temporary headquarters, it was nearly late at night. The dark sky was full of stars and the moonlight was bright. Eric lightly discovered the extremely conspicuous constellation in the northern sky, and couldn't help but raise his hand to point at it, and said to his friends: "That constellation is really beautiful, it is as radiant as a diamond." ”

"Isn't that Ursa Major?" Wilkes stared at the constellation with steely blue eyes and scratched his head, "In comparison, I think Ursa Minor is more important, because the North Star in Ursa Minor is always pointing brightly to the north, facilitating night marches. ”

Still pointing to one of the stars, Eric frowned and muttered, "Bright? Wilkes, have you not noticed that the companion star [96] next to the ζ star of Ursa Major is not inferior to the North Star? Strange, isn't this companion star of the fourth magnitude? Why is it so dazzling as a first-magnitude star, what is going on? ”

"Ricky (sir), how can this star be brighter than the North Star? Didn't the instructor at the Berlin Military Academy tell us that because the brightness was not enough, it was used by the ancient soldiers to check the eyesight of soldiers? This 'mystical' astrology is long gone! Stauffenberg and Wilkes looked at the constellation together, but they never noticed any vision, and couldn't help but smile at Eric.

Eric glanced at it again in confusion, and when he saw that it was emitting the usual soft starlight, he had to admit that he was dazzled for a moment, and smiled generously.

But Stauffenberg and Wilkes didn't know that the star was really shining brightly. Unfortunately, no one in the entire Northern Hemisphere saw it except Eric, let alone the vision of the Big Dipper, known in the West as the "Ursa Major".

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The illuminated doors of the empty carriages were brightly lit, the figures of the people were longing, and the radio waves and telephone ringing were constantly ringing, maintaining close and fast contact with the special trains, the carriages and Heydrich in Berlin. Along the way, Schulenburg handled all kinds of intelligence and letters carefully and diligently, and did not dare to slack off.

After seeing a tall female secretary hurriedly leave the carriage and hand over the urgent information to Wolf, Schulenburg leaned back in his chair and stretched his long waist, rubbing the corners of his forehead, secretly thinking that this business trip was really hard: although Heydrich had secretly instructed him many precautions for living with Himmler when he was at Rungesdorf Airport, especially Wolf and Andrew, who made Himmler obey, the inexplicable alienation of these three people and many colleagues still deeply stung him.

Exegesis:

[96] The star ζ Ursa Major is the opening star of the Big Dipper, magnitude 2. 4, located at the end of the bucket handle second, Taoism called "Wuqu Xingjun". Its companion star is Kaiyang Zengyi, which is known in the West as 80 Ursa Major and has a visual acuity of 1. People of 5 can find this star in the clear night sky, and it forms the famous twin star with Kaiyang. The North Star was known as Beichen and Gou Chenyi in ancient China, and in the West it was called Ursa Minora A, with a magnitude of 2. 0。

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