Section 524 The thunder of the Rhine spring

After the fall of the Malay Peninsula, the road to Australia was already open, and in addition to the more than 10,000 U.S. troops stationed in the Philippines as the United States was ordered to show its presence in the Far East, the northern shore of Australia already bordered the Democratic Empire of China.

At the same time as the Royal Chinese Air Force was indiscriminately bombarding Rangoon, Burma, the well-equipped 15th Army mountain troops, assisted by the Bangladesh Defence Force 1, attacked Rangoon. At this time, the British garrison in Yangon consisted of only 6 infantry battalions and a small number of volunteers, and there were no fortifications at the base or port. As soon as the two armies clashed, the British army lost its armor and collapsed. In just three days, the Wehrmacht became the new master of the crossroads of Southeast Asia with more than 400 British killed and 1,200 prisoners. The 15th Army of the National Defense Force, which was stationed in the Indochina Peninsula, continued its offensive against northern towns such as Chiang Mai in Thailand. The IDF met no organized resistance and occupied the Thai capital, Bangkok, on the fourth day of their entry into Thailand. The Thai government was dissolved, the new royal Thai government also joined the Chinese subject state system, and all the countries of Central and South China were on the Chinese chariot.

At this time, Germany was still immersed in the joy of last year's victory over its old enemy France, although Britain still had more than half of it conquered, but the army had landed, what else could stop the advance of German tanks? In contrast to the optimism of the general public, in one of the basements of the General Intelligence Directorate of the Wehrmacht, several German generals were discussing something, and each of them seemed worried, as if the enemy's tanks had been driven under the Brandenburg Gate.

"Your Excellency, our situation is already very obvious, we have not advanced an inch for three months, and we cannot defeat Britain with the support of the Americans by relying on our army and air force alone, not to mention that Red Russia is already ready to move on the Eastern Front, and the empire will fall into the dilemma of fighting on two fronts. If we don't end the war in time, we will end up repeating the same mistakes, there is no doubt about it, can you expect the noodle soldiers who are supplied with more wine than cannonballs to hold back the millions of Red Russian troops? ”

"General Baker, please be calm." Dressed in an admiral's suit, Canaris tasted the fragrant Darjeeling black tea in his hand, the pre-war inventory of the British, "I agree with you, I think this is the basic premise of our sittings, but what we are discussing now is how to correct this fatal mistake. ”

"That person is still in place, and none of this can be changed." A German officer with the rank of major general muttered, and the whole room fell silent, and he was talking about the layer of window paper that everyone dared not pierce. The major general's face turned pale all of a sudden, and it was clear that these ill-intentioned companions intended to hold him accountable for his words, that is

"I completely agree with you, Major General Trisco." General Baker smiled and patted the major general on the shoulder, "By the way, he will not give up his scepter, at least not until he is summoned by the Lord." ”

"Okay, since everyone agrees, the next time we meet, we will agree on a specific aftermath plan." Canaris raised his glass and said, "For Germany!" ”

"For Germany!" The generals who rushed out left Major General Tresko alone, and of course Canaris didn't leave, smiling as he continued to fiddle with his bone china tea set.

"Don't worry too much, my friend. Believe me, you will be a hero who saved Germany, and there will definitely be a place for you in German history" Listening to the boss's flicker, Tresko believed half of it, that is, he would definitely leave a name in German history, not necessarily whether he was a national hero or a traitor.

"You are not alone, our friends will give you the necessary help." Canaris handed over a delicate tin box, "This is a gift for you, he will guide you." Good luck, my friend. ”

"May God bless Germany." Since Major General Tresko accepted the task, of course he had to do a good job of planning, and when he opened the tin box that General Canaris* had given him, he found that there was something resembling a music box inside, and a note that read, "Please trust the person who will call you right away, he will provide all the help you need." ". At that moment, the phone on his desk rang without warning, and the ringing made the highly nervous Major General Tresko almost throw the box in his hand.

When he picked up the phone with a trembling force, a nondescript voice came from inside, "General Tresko, I am your most loyal and reliable friend. Come to the phone booth at 6 p.m. at the intersection of Russe de Brusmond and Avenue Theatre, and I'll surprise you. Good bye. ”

Major General Tresko, the head of the logistics department of the German Command in France, had previously contacted nearly 20 staff officers and plotted to assassinate Hitler. He was already ready to fly, and when he was instructed in the phone booth to walk to the Seine, a speedboat happened to pass by, and he was pulled into the speedboat in a daze. When he arrived at the village of Ganadell, he hurriedly disembarked and drove back to Paris in a Citroën sedan parked on the highway without turning off, while the small package that looked like a bread bag was still lying quietly in his passenger seat, waiting for the moment of the shock.

At this time, Hitler was inspecting the headquarters of the 2nd Panzer Army in Cherbourg. Tresko planned to bomb his own bomb in the form of two bottles of Cointreau (a crystal-clear fruit wine made from a perfect blend of sweet, bitter orange peels from around the world) in a plot to blow up Hitler's landline. During the lunchtime meeting at the headquarters of the army group, Tresco pretended to be inadvertently asking one of Hitler's attendants if he could bring two bottles of wine to his friend at Hitler's headquarters in Berchtesgaden, which was where Hitler's plane was about to go. This seemingly ordinary request was accepted naturally. Later, Lieutenant Schlablendorf, a close friend of Tresko's who was operating in the Eagle's Nest as a liaison officer, waited at the airport with a package containing two bottles of wine to determine which plane Hitler would be flying in, then set off the bomb and handed the package to the attendant.

Originally, the assassination would have failed because the pilot raised the flight altitude to avoid the effects of turbulence, causing the detonator of the bomb in the baggage compartment to freeze, but this time the condiment in the Cointreau wine was different, and it became a composite detonation device with an electronic timer and a barometric pressure sensitive switch, which not only timed to explode fifteen minutes after takeoff, but also determined the double insurance that the flight altitude would cause an explosion if it exceeded 5,000 meters. So when Sitara's plane took off under the escort of fighter jets, Tresko returned to the garrison headquarters and told his comrades in Berlin by phone in secret words that the assassination was already underway. They estimated that the package would explode when the plane reached the skies over Lancer, France. Afterwards, Schlabrendorf wrote: "Nervously awaiting news of the accident. Soon we were pleasantly surprised to find that the long trench coats (Gestapo) and black skins (SS) outside were all scurrying around like headless flies, and they were panicking like the end of the world. Then we heard the shocking news that the Sitara landline plane had crashed over Lancer. I went to the telephone and called Paris, and told General Tresko that he was afraid he would have to prepare two more bottles of Cointreau. ”

At this time, Berlin had become very chaotic, and Goering, who had commanded the war in Britain, could not wait to fly back to Berlin in an attempt to seize the German military and political power as Sitara's close comrade-in-arms and political successor. However, what is very surprising is that General Brauchitsch, chief of the General Staff, issued a martial law order in Berlin an hour before Goering's plane landed, and all units were not allowed to move. As a result, both the German and French garrisons received orders for martial law in the air, but no one remembered to inform the special plane of the Fat Man who was in the skies over the Netherlands, and when his Junker 52 entered the airfield outside Berlin, it was quickly locked by the antiaircraft artillery unit, and after hitting several small-caliber anti-aircraft shells, the special plane exploded in the volley.

Next, General Himmler, Leader of the SS, Minister of the Interior, Commander-in-Chief of the Reserves, attempted to attack General Brauchitsch's General Staff for treason, but before he had given the order to mobilize the SS and the secret police to disarm the General Staff, news came that his deputy, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the SS and Head of the Reich Central Security Director, Reinhard61 Heydrich* would bring him to justice on charges of violating the regulations governing martial arts and attempting to provoke infighting between the SS and the Wehrmacht. Also executed were Propaganda Minister Paul 61 Joseph 61 Goebbels, Minister of Armaments Albert 61 Speer, Chief of Staff Martin 61 Baumman, Head of Military Intelligence of the Wehrmacht General von 61 Kartenbron and others. The entire Workers' Party and government hierarchy was almost half swept away.

The purge soon spread to the middle and lower ranks of SS officers and secret police, and it was at this time that a big man who had not had much presence for a long time intervened, he was Rudolf 61 Walter 61 Richard 61 Hess, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and it was discovered that the deputy Führer was the best choice for the second leader of the German Workers' Party, both in terms of seniority and legal reasons. When Rudolph. When Hess arrived at the Home Office under the protection of the Führer's Guard, the panicked SS almost immediately fell to His Excellency the Führer, and Admiral Reinhard 61 Heydrich* committed suicide without waiting for the moment he was captured, and detonated a howitzer shell in the office building.

Hess then made a series of moves, first with the Minister of War Werner 61 von 61 Blunburg Field Marshal, Chief of the General Staff General Brauchitsch, the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy Admiral Raeder, and the Acting Commander of the Air Force, Air Force Admiral * * held a five-hour closed-door negotiation, and then he met with representatives of various departments, parliaments, and foundations for two consecutive days, and finally won the unanimous support of all walks of life in Germany five days after the assassination of Sitara, and was sworn in as the second head of the German state in the Reichstag.

The great changes in Germany have surprised the world inexplicably, just when the turmoil in Germany was surging, Admiral Canaris, who was the initiator, was leisurely drinking afternoon tea in a tea shop in Bern, and the Oriental man in his 60s sitting opposite him was the king of the spy sea kings who made countless people famous - Yu Jian, the lifelong director of the Social Investigation Department of the Chinese Democratic Empire, and one of the two major spy chiefs in China, and the report in his hand was only one line of words: "Berlin news, Rhine spring has come."