"Brother, doesn't it mean that Spain has stopped, why are we still working overtime?" A young man in the work clothes of Southern Heavy Industries asked his friends around him.

"This shipment is certainly not what the Spanish side needs."

The older worker, Duan Chang, didn't pay attention, and whispered, "The caliber has been changed since two months ago, and this batch is 79 caliber, how could Spain use this before?" ”

"Yes, I heard that the old sleeve of the Kuomintang used this kind of 79 bullets, but is there anyone who wants this kind of gun now?"

A young man who has just been working for more than a year is worried about whether his salary will be cashed in.

"How can our Southern Heavy Industries products not sell?"

The old employee pouted, very disdainful, "This 79 caliber was originally the standard caliber of the German Mauser, but when our Long Live Lord introduced it, the caliber was too large, and the waste of ammunition was changed to 7.6, but now our Qin crossbow rifles abroad are much more sold than the Mauser, and it is rare to see 79 calibers." ”

"The Germans used this 79 caliber, could it be that these guns were sold to the Germans?"

The young man asked in surprise.

"Hey, don't be fooled, there's no section chief to turn around, hurry up, don't finish the task. But there is no performance award. ”

They didn't know that two stevedores were talking about the same thing in the warehouse a hundred and ten meters away, but their conversation was much more hidden.

"Old Teng, this batch of goods is not like the kind that was sold to Spain before, are you looking good?"

"That's right, Shimada-kun, the packaging of this batch of rifles seems to be...."

"Shut up, what's wrong with you?"

The stevedore covered the mouth of the other stevedore, seemingly panicking.

They let go of their hands when they saw that no one was paying attention.

The other stevedore also seemed to understand, his face full of shame.

"Is there something wrong with the packaging?"

"Lao Tian, this packaging is made of foam sponge and wooden strips, and it also uses iron bars as a frame, which is different from the big wooden boxes sold to Spain before to pack straw."

"Well, the regular military has high requirements for precision, so the Chinese will not hesitate to strengthen the packaging."

"Yes, and I think the Germans bought it."

"How so?"

"The day before yesterday a guy stepped on the oil I spilled and broke a box, and the package of my rifle had a warning in German printed on it. Yesterday I secretly opened a box, and the instructions inside were also written in German and Chinese. And it also seems to be a bit large in caliber, although I didn't bring a ruler, but it seems to be larger than the caliber of existing rifles. I think it is."

"79 caliber? Well, some weapons were sent to Germany. It doesn't matter, since it has little to do with the empire, but it also reports to the country in a timely manner. ”

"Okay."

The guy known as Lao Teng went out to buy a newspaper with his head down, and passed on information by the way.

Japan's intelligence agencies almost collapsed after the scandal of the defection of a large number of high-ranking intelligence officers such as Kawashima Naniwa to China, but with the restoration of national strength, an independent intelligence agency was once again established within the establishment of the navy.

I have to say that these Japanese intelligence officers guessed completely correctly, because these arms were ordered by Germany, and there was only one reason, Sitara's army wanted to continue to expand, but German industry, especially the military industry, was castrated by the French, and it was impossible to meet the weapons needs of this million German ** team and the same number of stormtroopers in a short period of time.

The inexpensive Zhong** fire has become the first choice of the Germans.

There is one of the most important reasons why he is in a hurry to get the goods, that is, as the head of Germany, Sitara is not a German.

If it were someone else, they might choose to take a shortcut such as tampering with their origins, but Sitara is very sincere, I don't just swallow my hometown of Austria, if Austria becomes a state of Germany, then it doesn't matter whether the German Führer was born in Austria or East Prussia.

In fact, Germany and Austria are both countries with the German nation as the main body, and the problem of German-Austrian integration has been going on for a long time.

Before and after the end of the First World War, Germany and Austria had the intention of achieving the union of the two countries for different purposes.

Long before the end of World War I, the German Quartermaster's Director, Ludendorff, wrote to the Foreign Office, asking them to consider achieving a German-Austrian merger to compensate Germany for "the loss of other parts of the war as a result of the war"

。

Taking into account the consequences of the defeat and the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire on Austria, the Austrian Provisional National Assembly passed a resolution on 12 November to annex with Germany.

However, in the process of establishing the Versailles system, the Entente regarded the weakening of Germany as an extremely important content, so they strictly forbade the German-Austrian merger.

Article 80 of the Treaty of Versailles and the Treaty of Versailles?

Article 88 of the Germanic Treaty provided that the independence of Austria could not be changed without the permission of the Executive Council of the League of Nations.

In 1921, after the deterioration of the Austrian economy, in order to maintain the stability of the capitalist order in Europe, Britain, France, Italy and the Czech Republic signed the "Protocol on the Restoration of Austria" with Austria on October 4, 1922

, providing economic assistance to Austria, but demanding that Austria guarantee "not to renounce its independence"

to "refrain from any negotiations or to assume any economic or financial obligations aimed at directly or indirectly jeopardizing such independence"

。

That is, in the case of Lang's concubine's intention, it was the work of these evil mothers-in-law of the Entente countries to beat the mandarin ducks, and after that, Austria's independence was actually maintained by Britain, France and Italy, or Sitara's classmates would have taken a small German passport long ago.

In the 20s, Germany was in the period of post-war recovery, and neither subjective and objective conditions allowed for the realization of German-Austrian integration.

After the Workers' Party seized power, the German-Austrian merger once again became a serious international issue.

Sitara initially tried to use the methods of supporting the Austrian Workers' Party and using them to carry out subversive activities within Austria in order to achieve German-Austrian reunification.

On July 25, 1934, a group of Austrian Nazis suddenly broke into the Vienne Chancellery, shot and killed Chancellor Taulfis, while others seized the radio station and proclaimed Lintron (Austrian Minister to Italy) Chancellor.

The rebels were quickly suppressed, and Mussolini sent four divisions to the Brenner Pass and sent an urgent telegram to the Austrian government, promising Italy to support Austria's independence.

Under these circumstances, Sitara had to deny any involvement in the rebellion plot, temporarily reined in, and waited for the time to carry out the plan to annex Austria again.

Dumb classmate has a long history as a pig teammate, and he actually pitted Sitara at this time, making the German-Austrian merger a twist and turn.

By the second half of the first decade, the international situation was very beneficial to Germany.

Italy launched a war of aggression against Ethiopia last October, which was connived at by France and Britain, and Italy itself was unable to compete with Germany for Austria because of its war of aggression.

In March of the tenth year of the Etherine Era, Germany reoccupied the Demilitarized Zone of the Rhine, in flagrant violation of the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Convention, and without interference from Britain and France.

In view of all of this, the new Chancellor Schuschnigg had to do everything he could to avoid German intervention and make Sitara tolerate the status quo.

On July 11, the tenth year of the Taichu Dynasty, Schuschnigg and the German Minister to Austria von ?

Papen signed a secret agreement and a communiqué for public publication.

In the communiqué, the German government stated: "Recognition of the full sovereignty of the Austrian Confederation"

； The two sides do not interfere in each other's internal affairs, including the question of Austrian National Socialism; Austria recognizes itself as a German state.

The secret agreement, however, required Austria to conduct its own diplomatic activities in accordance with the foreign policy of the German government; The real administrative zhì sex amnesty, the real amnesty is the amnesty of the Austrian Workers' Party and the government; Appointment of the "National Opposition in Austria"

Share government affairs.

Through the German-Austrian Agreement, Germany basically controlled Austria's internal and foreign affairs.

Following Italy's annexation of Ethiopia and the re-entry of German troops into the Rhine Demilitarized Zone, Germany and Italy joined the Franco rebels at the end of July and openly attacked the Spanish Republic.

This act of armed intervention, in flagrant violation of international law, is still condoned by Britain and France.

In the eleventh year of the Tenth Dynasty, Sitara decided that the time was ripe for a definitive solution to the Austrian question.

On 5 November, he convened an important secret meeting between the Minister of Operations, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Commander-in-Chief of the three armed services.

The meeting, which was recorded by Colonel Hossbach, Sitara's military adjutant, resulted in a memorandum, commonly known as the Hossbach Memorandum.

According to the memorandum, Sitara believed that Germany's future depended entirely on how to address the need for living space.

To solve the living space, we must first develop to Europe, not to look for colonies overseas.

Germany's first objective should be the seizure of Czechoslovakia and Austria, which could not be done without the use of force.

So, will the great powers intervene?

Sitara estimated that Britain would not participate in the war against Germany in the face of difficulties, and that without British support, France would not have been able to take military action against Germany.

In short, Sitara was determined to annex Austria and Czechoslovakia.

Italy had already expended a great deal of strength in the war of aggression against Egypt, had invested a large number of troops in the intervention of the Spanish Civil War, and because of the strong resistance of the Republic, it had to increase its troops again and again, so that it could no longer compete with Germany for Austria, and even ask for help from Nazi Germany.

Following the proclamation of the Rome-Berlin axis, Mussolini joined the "International Pact Against Peasants and Workers" of Germany and Turkey on November 6 of the following year, and the three countries formally formed a fascist aggressor bloc.

On the occasion of the signing of the anti-agro-industrial pact, Mussolini told Ribbentrop: "He is tired of 'standing guard' for Austria's independence"

Today Italy is not as concerned with this issue as it was in previous years, because Italian development has shifted to the Mediterranean and colonies.

Although it was not known that Italy was a paper tiger, Italy's abandonment of Austria still removed a major obstacle to Germany's annexation of Austria.

This book is from/book/html/29/29227/