Because of the advance notice, when Chen Dao and Marshal Heinrich rushed to the headquarters of Lieutenant General Vlasov, there were three columns of soldiers standing neatly on the square in front of the headquarters.

Seeing the arrival of Chen Dao and Marshal Heinrich, Lieutenant General Vlasov came forward with the men beside him, who were also wearing lieutenant general's uniforms.

Lieutenant General Vlasov was a pedantic man with large black-rimmed glasses.

After the salute, Chen Dao looked at the lieutenant general beside Vlasov and enthusiastically stretched out his right hand.

"Hello, General Max, long time no see."

"Hello, General Rosen." As Lieutenant General Max spoke, the Hitlerian mustache above his lips curled up.

After the greetings, the scheduled award ceremony officially began.

During the campaign to conquer the Crimean peninsula, the Second Army of Vlasov's First Army undertook a number of auxiliary tasks, and this ceremony was to award medals to those who had made meritorious contributions to the battle.

Under the presentation of Lieutenant General Max, Field Marshal Heinrich was responsible for the award of the Iron Cross of the 1st degree, and Lieutenant General Chen Dao and Vlasov were responsible for the award of the Iron Cross of the 2nd degree.

After awarding the medals to all 141 people, Chen Dao and Marshal Heinrich stood aside and watched the second part of the ceremony.

Lieutenant General Richard Marks, secretary of the 1st Vlasov Corps, was in charge of the induction ceremony for the new members of the "Hitler Youth".

According to the regulations, in the 1st Vlasov Army, all soldiers and officers who were interested in joining the Hitler Youth could submit an application for membership.

Once the application is submitted, the person becomes an active member.

Activists who have won the Iron Cross of the Second Class in battle can become reserve members of the Hitler Youth, and those who have won the Iron Cross of the First Class can officially join the Hitler Youth.

This group of 32 recipients of the Iron Cross of the First Class, following behind Lieutenant General Richard Marks, raised their right arms and shouted in unison: "I solemnly swear here that I voluntarily join the Hitler Youth." By joining the tour, I will completely renounce my citizenship and allegiance to any foreign prince, monarch, country or sovereign to which I have previously belonged.

I will support and defend the will of the Führer against all enemies, both at home and abroad. I will be sincerely loyal to the Führer, and I will take up arms in defence when the Führer so requests; I will do non-combat military service for the Führer when the Führer so requests, and I will do important work for the country under the command of government officials when the Führer so requests. I hereby freely swear that there will be no mental obstacles, excuses or reservations, and that the Führer is with us. ”

Looking at Lieutenant General Richard Marks, who was standing at the front of the team and impassionedly took the lead in taking the oath, Chen Dao sighed heartily.

How would Americans feel if they knew that their oath of naturalization was used by me as an oath of membership for the "Hitler Youth"?

Vice Admiral Richard Marks, who turned out to be the deputy commander of the 4th Battalion of the German Navy's "DreamWorks" unit.

He was later assigned the task by Chen Dao to lead a company of DreamWorks soldiers to join Lieutenant General Vlasov's First Army and form a branch of the Hitler Youth in the First Army.

After accepting the mission, the original Major Richard Marks took off like a V-2 rocket, and was promoted from major to lieutenant general, and at the same time served as the branch secretary of the 1st Army Corps, on an equal footing with Lieutenant General Vlasov.

After the start of the war on the Eastern Front, millions of prisoners entered the German prisoner of war camps, and Chen Dao decisively treated these prisoners differently according to the plan set before.

The SS was ordered to form four major production and construction corps "Eastern Ukraine", "Western Ukraine", Belarus and "Baltic".

Soldiers whose homeland is confirmed to be from the three Baltic states, Ukraine and Belarus among the captives will be integrated into the four major production and construction corps, whose main task is to engage in production and restore the economy damaged by the war.

The rest of the prisoners were taken care of by Lieutenant General Vlasov, who had defected to Germany, and recruited those who hated the Soviet government and Stalin to form a Russian expeditionary force to fight Stalin and his henchmen.

After the establishment of Vlasov's First Army, several difficult problems were placed in front of Chen Dao.

First, how can the purity of this force be guaranteed, and what if there are bad elements who do not want to live a hard life in the prisoner of war camps and pretend to take refuge?

Second, how can the combat effectiveness of the troops be guaranteed? Fighting side by side with this army, what if you are betrayed and cause the battle line to collapse?

Third, how to maintain military discipline? In the event that this force harassed the locality, the local people would certainly have to settle the accounts on the Germans.

After thinking about it, Chen Dao finally decided that Lao Xi would definitely not let these Russians join the National Socialist Party, but fortunately, there was another group with a very strong political attribute, the "Hitler Youth", to choose from.

With an order from Chen Dao, Major Richard Marks received the task of leading a company of DreamWorks soldiers to join the First Army to form a regimental branch to take charge of the ideological work of the troops.

At present, Richard Marks, the secretary of the regimental branch, is doing a good job, and 32 regiment members were recruited in the Crimean campaign alone.

What makes a good actor? Acting like something is a good actor.

After the swearing-in ceremony, the award-winning personnel were evacuated, and the 32 new members were taken to work by the old members, and after training, they will be assigned to all levels of troops as regimental representatives.

Chen Dao and Marshal Heinrich walked into the conference room under the leadership of Lieutenant General Vlasov, and after taking their seats, Chen Dao said: "Mr. Marshal and I have come this time to finalize the construction of the troops. Next, we will launch a summer offensive, in which you will also carry the heavy responsibility. ”

"After the Crimean campaign, the Second Army is now being replenished, and the Second Tank Brigade assigned to the Second Army will be formed," said Lieutenant General Vlasov. Within a month, this unit will be able to go into battle. The 1st Army and the 1st Tank Brigade were ready to go into battle. ”

Chen Dao said: "In the next campaign, we will use the doctrine of the great in-depth campaign on the battlefield for the first time, and only facts can test the power of this kind of campaign method, and only the facts can let me know how to combine the doctrine of the great in-depth campaign with the doctrine of blitzkrieg warfare to achieve the destructive effect of one plus one greater than two." ”

Marshal Heinrich glanced at Chen Dao and thought to himself that this "Your Excellency Brother-in-law" did not have today's position only because of nepotism.

He also knew the "Doctrine of the Great Depth Campaign" and studied it carefully.

The "Doctrine of the Great Depth Campaign" was written with the assistance of Lieutenant General Vlasov, who had been interviewed (fought) by Chen Daoyue (tortured) almost all the high-ranking generals of the Soviet Army who had been captured.

According to Chen Dao's original intention, the "Doctrine of the Great Depth Campaign" was studied by senior German generals in order to effectively resist the attack of the Soviet army.

After Chen Dao himself studied it, he believed that this was a very effective campaign method, which had its own advantages with the German blitzkrieg theory, and that it was necessary to test the actual combat effect of this campaign method.

However, there is a big drawback in this campaign method, that is, when the offensive starts, the first infantry divisions to enter the battle are reinforced by tank regiments (brigades), and after the infantry divisions open a gap in the enemy's defense line or seriously weaken the enemy's defense line, the armored units will successively enter the breakthrough to expand the results.

After research, Chen Dao, Guderian, Mandolfer and others immediately concluded that the first batch of infantry divisions put into battle would definitely suffer heavy casualties, and Germany did not have so many cheap infantry to use as consumables, and this method of operation was not suitable for Germany.

With the formation of Vlasov's First Army, Chen Dao determined that the days when Germany lacked cheap infantry were gone forever, and that the German version of the "Doctrine of the Great Depth of Campaign" could meet the Russians.

What a shocking thing it is for the Russians with Russian weapons to beat the Russians using the methods of warfare invented by the Russians.

This was a conspiracy, and the Romanians and Italians would not be willing to use them as cheap infantry.

Lieutenant General Vlasov and the 1st Army under his command willingly carried out this task, there was no conspiracy in it, yes, there was non-existent.

After confirming that the First Army under Vlasov's First Army would be used for the main attack, Chen Dao, Marshal Heinrich, Lieutenant General Vlasov, Lieutenant General Max, and others carefully began to study the details.

"In my opinion, the campaign should still start by deceiving the enemy, and when deceiving, he provokes the enemy, especially Stalin. This difficult task is about to fall to you, General Vlasov. Chen Dao said.

Seeing Chen Dao's expectant gaze, Vlasov felt a lot of pressure in his heart.

Chen Dao once said that you are Russians, and the enemy on the other side is also Russians.

You are using Russian weapons, and the enemy on the other side is using Russian weapons.

The enemy on the opposite side has a party branch, and we have a regimental branch.

If such a battle cannot be won, there is only one reason, and that is the incompetence of the commander.

So, you should understand what I mean? My dear General Vlasov.

With the belief that he would win, Lieutenant General Vlasov said: "This is the second major battle that our First Army has fought since its establishment, and we will definitely win the first success." ”

Field Marshal Heinrich watched the conversation between Chen Dao and Vlasov with a cold eye.

General Heinz von Rosen himself said that he was a man of hatred, and we carried out Operation Captain Hook again.

Could it be that this General Vlasov and his troops are playing the role of Captain Hook?

If the Russians, especially Stalin, had learned that the first to break through their line of defense was a group of Russian traitors under the command of a Russian traitor, they would have gone on a rampage, and perhaps they would have been able to send two or three fronts of troops to pursue them.