Leon was tired from a long day's work, and a conversation with Sophia made him feel much more relaxed.

Humming a song, he took off his military uniform in the office, changed into a suit, and prepared to go out to pick up Sophia.

"General!" Just as Leon was about to go out with joy, a secretary of the Secretariat of the War Department did not knock on the door, but directly pushed the door and shouted anxiously.

"Oh my God!" Leon helplessly supported his forehead, why couldn't he stop today's affairs, "Who wants to see me?" I'm going out right now, tell him to come back tomorrow! ”

"General, it's not that someone wants to see you, it's the Wehrmacht that has a problem!" The secretary was sweating profusely.

Leon was stunned when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "What's the matter?" What's wrong with the Wehrmacht? ”

"Half of an infantry regiment stationed on the outskirts clashed with their commander!"

"Conflict? Is it serious? Did the parties use weapons? ”

"No weapons were used, but the head of the regiment was beaten and bleeding!"

"It's a rebellion!" Leon was furious, and had made an appointment with Sophia to have dinner with her, but now he had to change his plan to solve the problem first.

Leon suppressed his anger and said to the secretary, "You go out first, I'll change my clothes and rush over immediately." ”

After the secretary walked out, Leon hurriedly changed back into his military uniform, then picked up the phone nervously and called Strauss's house again.

It was still Sophia who answered the phone: "Hey, hello, this is Sophia von Strauss, may I ask who you are?" ”

Leon was a little ashamed and said, "It's still me, Leon." ”

"Leon?" Sophia was a little confused.

"Sophia, I have to say sorry to you." Leon said embarrassedly, "Maybe I won't be able to accompany you to dinner in the evening, there is something wrong with the troops, and I will solve it." ”

Sophia was silent for a while and said, "It's okay, you go, I don't care." ”

Although she said that it didn't matter, Leon could still hear the loneliness in her tone, but there was no way, there was a problem with the army, and he had to rush to solve it in person.

After hanging up the phone, Leon got up and walked out of the office, and then took some of his subordinates to get into the cars that were already waiting at the entrance of the combat department, and hurried to the troop station.

As soon as he arrived at the station, Leon went straight to the regimental headquarters and asked the regimental commander with a white bandage: "What is happening here?" Why did your soldiers clash with you? ”

"Hello General!" When the regiment commander saw that Leon was coming in person, he hurriedly stood up and saluted, and then said aggrievedly, "Some soldiers want to apply to me to join the People's Will Party. But as you know, our German troops have not allowed soldiers to get involved in politics since the Prussian period, so I turned them down. There were some quarrels, and I punished them, but I didn't expect so many people to support them, more than half of them demonstrated in front of my regimental headquarters, saying that they wanted freedom of belief, and I reprimanded them a few words and then a conflict broke out. ”

Leon felt so angry and amused that he patted him on the shoulder and said, "Gather all the soldiers, and I'll take care of these things." ”

The regimental commander hurriedly rushed out to gather his troops, and in a short time all 2,800 men of this infantry regiment were assembled.

Seeing that the troops were assembled, Leon walked out of the regimental headquarters, looked at them seriously, and said: "I heard that there was a conflict here in you, and you hurried over without even eating dinner, can anyone tell me what happened!" ”

More than half of the people below lowered their heads when they heard this, not daring to look directly into Leon's eyes.

One of the soldiers was more daring, and he said loudly to Leon: "General, we want to join the People's Will Party, and we demand freedom of belief!" ”

Leon glanced at the soldier appreciatively, and in any case, his courage was commendable, and then he said: "But it is absolutely forbidden for soldiers to join political parties in our army, and we must not break the tradition!" ”

"General, we joined the People's Will Party only to help Germany with you, we have no political intentions." The soldier said anxiously, "If you don't agree, then we will have to choose to retire and join again." ”

"The motherland has spent a huge price on cultivating you, and you can't be sorry for the motherland's investment!" Leon scolded.

"General, we really want to be with you." The soldiers below pleaded up.

Leon was happy to see that so many people wanted to join the People's Will Party, but he couldn't make an exception because of this, otherwise it would displease some officers who adhered to tradition.

"Well, I'll go back in the evening and see if there's a way to do it without wasting your talents and without breaking the tradition." Leon rubbed his somewhat aching head and said.

"Thank you, General!" When a group of soldiers heard this, they immediately became happy.

"That's it!" Leon waved his hand, "That's all for today's matter, let's go back to eat and rest." But don't turn your fists at your own people next time, or the next time we meet will probably be in a court-martial. ”

The soldiers laughed.

On the way back, Leon looked out the window into the dark night and fell into deep thought.

In fact, as early as the founding of the People's Will Party, a small number of soldiers submitted applications to join the party, but Lyon rejected their applications for party membership out of respect for tradition. His blatant membership in a political party has already upset some people, and if soldiers were allowed to join, it could provoke a backlash from traditionalist officers.

And today's conflict made Lyon realize that if he blindly suppressed it, I am afraid that before the officers could rebound, the soldiers themselves would choose to retire in order to join the party.

Since the soldiers want to join the party so much, let them join the party and join the party with a completely new identity! Leon made up his mind.

"Ludwig, what do you think of Reinhardt?" Leon asked Ludwig, who was in the same car.

"Reinhardt Tristan Eugen Heydrich?" Ludwig, who was sitting in the passenger seat, turned his head and said, "He is a very good person, strict and meticulous, and he has always been my deputy." ”

"What would you think of him taking over the Gestapo?"

Ludwig didn't show much expression when he heard this, but replied: "I think it's very appropriate to let him take over." ”

Leon looked at Ludwig and smiled: "Have you ever wondered where you would go if I let him take over the Gestapo?" Aren't you worried about yourself when you praise him like this? ”

"Chairman, I'm just telling the truth, I should be happy that someone can do better than me. I should have died a long time ago, but the obsession with revenge sustained me. Ludwig said lightly, as if he was not talking about himself, "Besides, the current Gestapo has lost its enemies. Combined with spies, it is no longer a combat organization, more like an intelligence organization, and to be honest, I really don't fit in with the current Gestapo, like a wasted person. ”

Leon patted Ludwig on the shoulder and said, "Ludwig, don't feel useless, but I do intend to transfer you out of the Gestapo and let Reinhardt take over you." ”

"I intend to draw soldiers from the Wehrmacht who believe in us to form an armed force belonging to our Party, and you will be its supreme commander."

"I've got the name in mind, and I'll call it the Waffen-SS."