"It's up to you." Schniewenger's face was serious, and he said solemnly, "How to reach a tacit understanding with the Führer, so that the political influence of the Party and the professionalism of the army can be separated from each other, so that the latter can always remain independent, is the most important problem that the Navy will solve at present." If this can be achieved, the Navy will be able to maintain its efficiency and combat effectiveness for a long time to come, and will not have the kind of order collapse that you feared. ”

Raeder was silent, and he had already understood all the ideas that Schnywinger was trying to express. In the face of Hitler, who had won a great victory on the Western Front and had already entered the hall of final victory for most of his body, the commander-in-chief of the navy, whose value had plummeted, could no longer choose an enemy. The only way to compromise is to bow down to them, hoping to lift the ban on the military's non-participation in politics in exchange for the other side giving up the tacit understanding to reach out to relevant professional fields and preserve the existing professional order as much as possible. Otherwise, under the burning of jade, he will definitely be the biggest loser. Considering that the overall pleasant cooperation experience between the two sides over the years, it is better to leave each other with a free and easy back.

"In this matter, General Brom is the best breakthrough. He is all too familiar with everything about the navy, and I believe that he will certainly not want to see the professionalism of the navy undermined by political shocks. And his identity is just right as a talking point between you and the Führer, leaving plenty of buffer space for both sides. Schnewenger paused, then added, "As long as you can move him, there is a good chance that the Führer's side will be changed." After all, the Führer is not an unreasonable person, and he also wants the navy to be a sharp halberd in his hands forever. ”

"If this is done, how can the navy still belong to the professional force of the country in the future?" Reddell said abruptly. Schniewenger let out a low wry smile and said, "My marshal, at this point today, do you still want to maintain the complete independence of the navy?" The man who rules Germany today is Adolf Hitler, the master of Europe! It is already very good to be able to maintain the professional independence of the Navy. Or look at the current situation in the Army? ”

Hearing the last sentence, Raeder's eyes darkened, and he didn't say anything more. In order to seize military power from the Prussian aristocratic officer corps, Hitler set up a separate central committee in addition to the Army General Staff and set up a so-called "Supreme Command" -- the latter could not only directly dispatch and command the troops, but also had a staff team that formulated battle plans, which completely degenerated the General Staff from the role of the army's brain to an executive subordinate.

In addition, Hitler, who boasted of being a military genius, frequently went into micro-maneuvers to interfere in the army's established decisions. The Manstein plan was ordered to overturn the yellow plan, and Guderian was ordered to halt the advance on two occasions, and the list goes on even more if you add in the impact on tactical details.

While the strategic success of Hitler's army was incredible, Raeder had no doubt about the outcome of his intervention in the navy. If this corporal of the army can even command a navy of a completely different nature, then he is really not a man, but a god who is born to know! So what do you want professional soldiers to do? Hurry up and resign and go home to retire!

In the midst of the heavy melancholy, Raeder suddenly had a thought, and couldn't help but speak: "Do you think that Jonas chose to join the Führer precisely because he saw today's situation?" Schnewinger was stunned when he heard this, and said, "It's unlikely, right?" The review of the "Music Society" said that General Brom had written this song from the heart of his heart, and that such a melody and lyrics could not have been written without infinite respect for the Führer. Don't you have the same attitude? If he was really a careerist full of selfish desires, who wrote this song? ”

Raeder slapped his head with his fist and said in annoyance, "You're right, just now I was confused and confused. I didn't expect Jonas to hide so deeply, and it wasn't until today that his true colors were revealed! If I had discovered his true attitude earlier, I would never have made him stand out from the ranks of officers......"

Before he could finish speaking, Raeder saw Schnywinger chuckling softly at him, his expression full of mockery. Without waiting for Raeder to change color and ask, Schniwenger had already taken the lead in speaking: "Marshal, I want to ask you, if you had known the Führer's ambition to control the army, would you have supported him to take power seven years ago?" ”

"I ......," Raeder's voice got stuck in his throat. His eyes changed suddenly, and all kinds of thoughts flashed through his mind like flashes of light, so that he could not speak against his heart. Yes, how many of the brilliant achievements that Germany has created today can leave Hitler? Even if it were only for the navy, if it were not for Hitler's diplomatic strategy, the German navy would have had to wait many years to break free from the shackles of the Versailles Treaty. A large number of cutting-edge ships such as Bismarck and Zeppelin will not appear, and he, the commander-in-chief of the navy, can only command a contingent of 15,000 officers and soldiers, and his authority is no different from that of an ordinary division commander abroad!

Schnywinger saw the change in his expression and said lightly, "You got the answer, right?" The same goes for General Brom. Without his prophetic foresight, the strength of our carrier-based air forces today would have been drastically reduced by an order of magnitude. And without his brilliant engineering skills and creative integration of ideas, our warship design would still be on the old path of the old empire, and its ship performance would be at least three notches lower than it is now. As for today's situation at sea, it is even more impossible to realize, who would have thought and actually carried out the Scapa Bay surprise attack? ”

Raeder was silent. Schniwenger slowed down his tone and continued to advise: "Admiral Brom has made great contributions to the Navy. Even if he is not politically perfect, it should not be a reason for your current hostility against him. If some things can't be avoided, just face them calmly. After all, you can't be the commander-in-chief of the Navy forever and retire one day. General Brom, on the other hand, has at least 35 years of golden service remaining. ”

"I see." Raeder closed his eyes and said in a calm voice.

A cool breeze blows through the verdant pine forests of Scandinavian Sweden, and in a baroque villa on the outskirts, a beautiful woman as delicate as a begonia rose is listening to a record song on the gramophone with a blank expression. Her lips were a little pale from the hard pursing, her slender and delicate hands twisted and twisted unnaturally, and when the record was finished, she sat down on the sofa as if she had lost her strength, her clear blue eyes full of confusion.

"How so, how could Jonas write such a song?" The glamorous woman muttered, but her delicate body couldn't help but start to tremble continuously. Her legs slowly bent together, her jade arms hugged her calves and curled up in the sofa, stunned, a few tears quietly slipped from the smooth white beauty.

Since the 1940s, it has been as if the conspiracy organization has fallen into a cold winter in which the environment is forever deteriorating. The Norwegian naval battle broke the British fleet, and the Weser River exercise reached the northern corner of the Barents Sea; The million-strong division marched to Dunkirk, and the armored cluster swept across the entire territory of France...... One victory after another by the German army brought Hitler's prestige to an unparalleled peak. All the citizens cheered wildly for him, and the conspiracy was defeated like never before, even falling apart to the point of a few sparks and fleeing into the deepest dark corners.

Isn't it? The world they depicted was shattered by Hitler's thunder again. As early as the Sudetenland crisis in 1938, they judged that Hitler would provoke a major war in Europe that was bound to be lost, and began to run and contact people from all walks of life to prepare for a coup d'état; As a result, as soon as the Munich Treaty was signed, Hitler proved to be far-sighted, and the conspiracy organization suddenly fell into chaos and split, and a considerable number of people turned their minds and were hypnotized by Hitler's magic from then on.

A year later, in August 1939, having finally recovered from the chaos, they concluded that Hitler's insistence on the Danzig question would lead to a war in Europe; At that time, the fragile western wall defense line would simply not be able to hold back the attack of 100 French divisions, and Germany, which was caught in a two-front battle, would be defeated. As a result, their prophecy was only half right. Although the European war broke out, France was a teammate who could not move. Throughout the Polish campaign, the French army was hanging out en masse, which caused the conspiracy to suffer another setback, and began to doubt their own sanity and life.

After two naval battles and the recently concluded campaign on the Western Front, the beliefs of the members of the conspiracy group were almost completely shattered. The British Navy, which once overwhelmed the world for more than three centuries, and the French Army, which had suffered 5 million casualties in four bloody battles, still persevered, fell so cleanly at Hitler's feet today, which is a situation that will never happen in a dream! In the face of the fact that the worldview they once believed in was so continuously and rudely shattered, almost everyone could no longer adhere to their original beliefs, and only a very small number of backbone elements who were particularly strong-willed, or whose identities were sharply opposed to Hitler's, were still desperately gritting their teeth and persevering.

However, now, Fang Yan's ode to the head of state, which goes straight to the soul, has made up for their incomparably fragile hearts, and its effect is tantamount to pouring a basin of ice water on their heads under the harsh winter weather. Will Dr. Schacht, who is staunchly anti-war, quit and give up? And what will the Chief of the Army General Staff Halder do? There are also active senior generals such as Witzleben and Hopner, who won a big victory on the Western Front, and how much did they still have the intention of resisting Hitler?

The beautiful woman thought in a daze, and the sadness and pain in her heart almost suffocated her. I don't know how long it took, she seemed to think of something, and her eyes gradually became condensed, and a wisp of firmness and stubbornness jumped and flashed in her eyes.

"Jonas, I know you're not that kind of person. I'm going to make sure you really want to know what you're really up to. ”