Just as his thoughts were racing, Fang Yan saw Hitler turn his gaze back to himself, and said with regret in his words: "Jonas, it's a pity that when I met you, you had already been admitted to the Marine Officer Academy. If you are able to join our party, you will be the district governor of the Prussian region today, or the national leader of the 60,000 SS troops; You know, I've always seen you as the best example of the superiority of the Germanic peoples! Unfortunately, God will not give anyone a chance to start over, and I have no way to share the power in my hands with you. ”

"Honorable Führer, thank you immensely for the trust you have placed in me!" Fang Yan responded respectfully, with a free and open-minded expression, "Although I was unable to join the glorious National Socialist Party due to the arrangement of fate, my heart will always be closely linked with you, the Führer, and the National Socialist Movement. Fortunately, I still have close family members working with you in the party and the government, which makes up for my regret that I can't follow you; General Raeder also showed me the same great kindness and favor, and I was promoted to the rank of major at the age of not yet 28. I carry out my duty in the Navy, and I also carry out my mission for the German Fatherland and for you, the Führer; I don't have too much extravagance for my personal status. ”

Hitler was slightly stunned when he heard this, as if he didn't expect Fang Yan to have such a cheerful attitude. He looked deeply at the handsome and graceful face that was a few steps away, and a slight complexity emerged in his gray eyes: although he currently held the power of the entire country, he still had no way to give any meaningful feedback to this old man. The group to which the other party belonged was a self-contained professional navy, in which the National Socialist Party could not intervene at all; And the wealth owned by the other party and his family also made the "special allowance" policy that Hitler was currently using to win over the Wehrmacht generals completely meaningless in front of him. Speaking of which, a considerable part of the personal allowance that Hitler now gives to the Wehrmacht generals every year comes from the political contributions provided by the Brom family!

"Jonas, I don't have anything to repay you directly right now. But rest assured, the promise I have made to your family will be fulfilled in the fullest at all times. Hitler solemnly shook Fang Yan's hand and said slowly. Fang Yan's heart moved slightly, but his face replied with thanks, although he couldn't judge how true Hitler's words were, but this was already a considerable early signal for his plan.

After some more conversation, Hitler finally turned and left. After all, Fang Yan is not the only guest today, there are still many heavyweights who need to be seriously dealt with by him, the head of state. However, after such an episode. The weight of Fang Yan and his family was immediately greatly improved, and people saw that the Führer showed special favor for this young and handsome officer, and his attitude was envious even for the most core party sticks! Soon, Fang Yan became crowded here, and all kinds of people for various purposes came to talk to him and show goodwill, completely ignoring Fang Yan's military status as just a major.

Although Fang Yan has the slightest potential ambition that does not belong to his current identity, because he has just pretended to be at peace in front of Hitler, and is currently in full view; Therefore, in front of these visitors, Fang Yan could only talk to them briefly. Blamed everything on the cheap father and uncle. At 9 o'clock in the evening, the birthday banquet in the Prime Minister's Office finally came to an end; Fang Yan and his family boarded the car back to their accommodation, during which time he had already outlined the general strategy and steps to win over the army.

A few days later. Four men dressed in armored uniforms were putting the finishing touches on a gray-and-black tank at a military training ground on the outskirts of Berlin. To several observers, the tank's exterior was extremely avant-garde and refined: it had four pairs of large load-bearing wheels with a diameter of almost 1 meter. The front of the car has a large inclination angle of 60 degrees to the normal, and the lower front inclination angle is as high as 45 degrees. At a height of 1.4 meters above the ground, the upper middle of the hull is equipped with a hexagonal pig-head turret with a long barrel protruding from the center. Its overall shape is very different from the multi-turret tanks that are currently quite popular in various countries.

Fang Yan's eyes narrowed slightly, and he looked at the new tank in front of him with a happy face, which was already quite similar to the T-44 Shen Yun in appearance. After more than two years of technical research, his ideal first-generation tank was finally built by his own Volkswagen factory with his large investment. The hard indicators of the tank in front of him fully meet his requirements, and on the basis of meeting the requirements of light weight and simple structure, the three elements of firepower, protection and mobility are perfectly combined in one place. And the appearance of this type of tank called "Lynx" is an opportunity for Fang Yan to prepare for his family to make contact with the army: he wants to let the army's top brass see that the Brom family is not only a shipyard belonging to the navy, but also worthy of their need and trust in terms of land weapons!

Nearby, several men in army officer uniforms were also pointing at the avant-garde vehicle - they were the people sent by the army to observe the results of the prototype's field tests. Among these people, a middle-aged young general with a round face made Fang Yan pay special attention. Although this person was the first time he had seen in his life, the personality and facial features that were eight points similar to Serb, the god of files, made Fang Yan immediately judge his identity: it was Guderian, who had been the director of the German armored forces two years earlier!

"Dr. Polscher, is it true that the total combat weight of this tank is only 12 tons?" Although he had read the report many times, when Guderian saw that the tank was equipped with a 50mm L40 cannon, he couldn't help but ask the thin engineer next to him with suspicion. You must know that in the No. 3 tank research and development project launched in early 1935, the Army Ordnance Bureau vetoed Guderian's strong desire to equip it with a 50-mm gun on the grounds that the technical difficulty was too high, and only reserved space for replacing the 37-mm gun with a 50-mm gun in the future -- and the No. 3 tank was already an 18-ton heavyweight when the project was actually established. At this moment, the prototype car that Guderian saw almost subverted his cognition; He really couldn't understand how this cannon could be loaded with such a lightweight tank.

"General, this tank is indeed 12 tons, and this is the result of my counting of all 4 members as 75kg." Although he is also uncertain about the physical performance of his work, Porscher is still active and confident when it comes to weight. He paused, and then added: "Actually, Major Jonas played an irreplaceable role in the successful weight reduction of this tank. It was he who suggested that I place the transmission at the front of the car and came up with several creative ideas to make the interior of the car more compact and reasonable. If it weren't for his assistance, I would never have been able to compress the height of this tank's hull to just 1 meter, and its full combat weight would have been unstoppable due to the drastic increase in the defensive area. ”

Hearing Porscher's words, Guderian could not hide his shock and looked at the handsome young man on the other side; He originally thought that the other party was just the youngest son of the head of the family, and helped his father inspect the factory during his vacation, but he never expected that this new star in the navy was also a member of the tank design team! Seeing Guderian's expression as if he had bumped into a ghost, Fang Yan, who was helpless in his heart, had to repeat to Guderian what he had said to Polscher after the military salute: that is, the tank was originally a weapon invented by the navy, and even today, this kind of land cruiser and naval warship still have quite a lot of areas of communication.

Under Guderian's still puzzled gaze, the preparation of the prototype car numbered 001 on the field was completed. Four members of the team entered the tank through the conning tower and the hatch in the front of the hull, and the engine emitted a faint wisp of light smoke with a roar. Since Farben's coal-to-oil technology can only effectively produce gasoline and jet fuel, but cannot achieve large-scale mass production of diesel, this new tank still uses a mature and reliable gasoline engine for fuel supply considerations. However, in terms of space occupation and its own weight, the low-power gasoline engine is not inferior to the diesel engine, except for the inability to attach an auxiliary fuel tank, and when hit by a shell, it will become a lighter, and other indicators of this type of tank are not inferior in any way.

"This tank is very maneuverable!" Witnessing the smooth process of the prototype car climbing a dirt slope, Guderian's gray-brown eyes couldn't help but reveal a bright light. Polscher, who took this into account, immediately explained the reason to him: although the tank was powered by a 160 hp engine and did not produce very much power, thanks to its weight of only 12 tons, it had a thrust-to-weight ratio of more than 13 hp/t, and even when off-road, it still boasted a speed of more than 20 km/h. On a smooth road, it can reach speeds of up to 40 km/h. Guderian was also satisfied with the tank's internal oil reserves, and the 200km road journey was enough for it to complete the blitzkrieg mission that he had imagined interspersed with encirclement. (To be continued.) )