Chapter Seventy-Nine: Emergencies

Under the watchful eyes of more than 20,000 Berlin citizens, the 248th Infantry Division of the Red Banner, the 2nd Infantry Division of the French Army, the 131st Infantry Brigade of the British Army, and the 82nd Airborne Division of the US Army, the military parade from the Reichstag to the Brandenburg Gate began.

The parade of infantry phalanxes began with Soviet soldiers, and on the podium, Marshal Zhukov of the Soviet Union, Marshal Montgomery of Great Britain, General Eisenhower of the United States and General Delatelle de Tarsini of France, represented the high-ranking commanders of the Allied forces.

Accompanied by majestic military music, Soviet soldiers walked past the rostrum one by one, and not far from the wall hung giant portraits of the Allied triumvirate, Churchill, Truman and Stalin. Reporters from various countries held cameras and took pictures of the queue, and although Alan Wilson did not have a camera in his hand, his eyes did not leave the column. Whether it is admitted or not, in the matter of military parades, compared with the socialist countries, the Anglo-American-French side is indeed almost meaningless.

If there was no parade of Soviet Red Army soldiers, the little commissioners would not have bothered to come, it would have been better to watch the mass parade.

Sure enough, after the Soviet soldiers walked past the rostrum, the French phalanx appeared, which was much inferior.

"The parade phalanx of the French doesn't seem to be too serious!" The Pioneer of Insult Ivor muttered quietly.

"We are allies!" Alan Wilson reminded softly, but this is who maliciously arranged the order of the Soviet Union followed by France, and such a comparison does not look like a French soldier.

Of course, this is only a one-sided understanding of the two diplomats, and any national phalanx that appears has murdered a lot of films, and there is no lack of applause, and it cannot be prejudiced just because it is a French phalanx.

After the foot phalanx, the heavily armed phalanx began with the British and the Soviet finale appeared. The British troops attending the parade came from Field Marshal Montgomery's 7th Armoured Division, which was the ace of the British army since the time of the North African campaign, and was greeted with cheers from all the British present.

The final weapon pulled out by the 7th Panzer Division for the parade was the Comet cruiser tank, and in the North African theater, there were no artillery on British tanks that could destroy German tanks. This is also one of the reasons why the British army suffered consecutive defeats. To this end, the British Ministry of Defense decided to develop a cruiser tank with more powerful firepower on the basis of the Cromwell cruiser, which is where the Comet tank came from.

The main gun of the Comet cruiser tank is a seventeen-pounder gun, which is known as the strongest tank gun of the Allies on the Western Front, although Alan Wilson, who is the commissioner of Hyderabad, has been trying to sell this tank to the Indians, but since it is his own child, it is naturally all advantages, and Alan Wilson also joined in the cheers.

Of course, he had reason to cheer that the Sherman tank of the US army was not better than the Comet cruiser tank at all, and in some indicators it was inferior to the Comet tank, and it was not inferior to those Soviet and German cattle, and compared with the US army, the British army in 1945 was not inferior at all.

With the French and American heavy weapons phalanxes, the finale of the heavy weapons phalanx, the heavy tank regiment of the 2nd Guards Tank Army of the Soviet Union, appeared.

"What's that?" General Eisenhower stared at the Soviet tank that appeared, this is an unprecedented Soviet tank that has not been mastered by the US military, but from the terrifying appearance, it can already be seen that this Soviet tank, the British and American tanks in service are by no means opponents, and the huge main gun seems to have the power to destroy everything.

Compared with Marshal Montgomery, who was simply curious about the performance of weapons, General Eisenhower obviously paid more attention to the deep-seated question, was this the Soviet Union through this military parade to show military strength to deter the United States, Britain and France?

The generals and officers of various countries present were all talking. This is a new type of combat vehicle that they have never seen before. Its rounded turret and unique body shape impressed the generals of the Central Powers.

Two rows of IS-3 heavy tanks slowly drove in front of the rostrum, causing a lot of discussion, and Marshal Zhukov looked full of ambition, in stark contrast to the officers of other countries.

Eisenhower also noticed this, and just wanted to silence himself so as not to be laughed at by the Soviets, a staff officer quickly came to Eisenhower's side and whispered something at a very fast pace.

"What?" General Eisenhower lost his voice, apparently even more disgraced than the Soviet heavy tanks he had just seen.

Eisenhower's gaffe caused a stir of eyebrows, because the Soviet tank had just passed, and many people thought that it was a new Soviet weapon, which frightened the commander-in-chief of the American army.

Eisenhower didn't have time to think about these things, the news that had just come was more important than the Soviet tanks in front of him, and he whispered directly to the staff officer, "Now that they have poured into Austria, why don't you stop them?" ”

"The only force that Austria was able to hold the border was the Soviet army, and we did not have an army in the occupied areas." The staff officer smiled bitterly and said, "The armies of the United States, Britain and France have not yet officially entered Austria, and they only have nominal forces, and they were supposed to talk about this matter in the upcoming meeting." ”

Eisenhower's head was buzzing, and it was indeed an oversight at this glance, but it led to such serious consequences.

The problem is that he simply cannot solve this problem, and this is not something that either he or Marshal Zhukov can decide. As to when the four countries will be able to enter Austria and occupy the four countries, only the current leaders of each country can decide.

"General Eisenhower, Marshal asked me to ask, is there anything wrong with you?" Before General Eisenhower could figure out a solution, a Soviet officer came over and greeted him in proficient English.

The huge fleeing procession, after a whole night of marching, had approached the German-Austrian border. Stimulated by the desire to survive, these refugees approaching the German border step by step not only did not show any fatigue.

Women and children in front, adult men in the back, full of desire to survive, maintained the pace of the march throughout the night.

General Eisenhower, who was still at the parade in Berlin, finally insisted on finishing the parade and immediately asked his staff officers to contact the American agencies in Austria to find out what the current state of this group of refugees was and where their destination was, and at the same time informed the British representatives of the movements in the border area.

In fact, Alan Wilson also knew the news after the military parade, who made him a liaison officer who specialized in dealing with this matter before, although he knew it, but Alan Wilson also understood that he must not be clever in this matter, and it was not okay to conceal it and not report it, so he quickly went to the residence of Cabinet Secretary Edward Bridges to report.