Because of the birth of the Portsmouth Peace Treaty, Lyon canceled his plans for subsequent trips and immediately returned to Germany. However, Lyon did not go directly back to Berlin, but went to the Deutsche shipyard in Kiel.

The shipyard was formed in 1925 by the merger of the Royal Kiel Shipyard and several other shipyards, and was originally owned by the German government in the previous generation. However, in this life, because Lyon confiscated several shipyards in the hands of the traitor Joseph, Lyon became the largest shareholder of the merged German shipyard and controlled the entire German shipyard.

Lyon had come here to convene the existing admirals for a meeting on the rebuilding of the navy.

After the end of the last war, although the German Navy was not allowed to have large combat ships, the Navy was not disbanded, so the German Navy still had everything else except for the lack of large ships.

So the fast-moldy naval command, which had nothing to do all day, immediately rushed to Kiel as fast as possible to participate in the naval reconstruction meeting after receiving the notice from Lyon.

Admiral Raeder, then commander-in-chief of the Navy, submitted a huge naval reconstruction plan to Lyon with a flushed face at the beginning of the meeting, which called for the construction of 10 battleships, 3 pocket battleships (armored ships), 3 battle cruisers, 2 aircraft carriers, 5 heavy cruisers, 44 light cruisers, 68 destroyers, 249 submarines, and 90 torpedo boats, which was later known as the German Navy Plan Z.

Leon was stupid when he saw this plan, and he asked Raeder suspiciously, "Raeder, you're not crazy, are you?" How is this plan possible? The combined tonnage of 10 battleships alone is 358,000 tons, and you must know that the treaty stipulates that we can only have 100,000 tons of capital ship tonnage. ”

Hearing this, Raeder retracted his plan in disappointment, saying: "With only 100,000 tons of capital ships, then we have no way to fight the British Royal Navy." ”

Leon spread his hands helplessly and said, "How could the British allow us to have such a powerful navy as theirs?" I'm happy to have 20% of their total tonnage. ”

Raeder roughly estimated the total tonnage of the British Navy, which was about 2 million tons, so Germany could have 400,000 tons of gross tonnage. Raeder breathed a sigh of relief, these 400,000 tons are a lot, and it is not impossible to defeat the Royal Navy if they are used properly.

Thinking of this, Raeder and several admirals around him whispered a few words, and then said to Leon: "Then let's do it, how about we build three 33,000-ton battleships with 100,000-ton capital ship tonnage, and the other 300,000-ton tonnage to build 15,000-ton pocket battleships?" ”

Leon was speechless, why was Raeder so obsessed with battleships. In fact, it's no wonder that Raeder, who has been the commander of the Navy for so long, has only one light cruiser and six rotten ex-dreadnoughts under his command, and everyone will have some obsessions.

After thinking carefully for a while, Leon said: "The future naval battle is no longer the era of big ships and huge guns, and the future naval war will become the world of naval aviation." So I propose, First build two 35,000-ton battleships, then secretly build a 23,000-ton aircraft carrier for technical experiments and secret training of naval aviation, and the rest of the tonnage is divided into 100,000 tons to build various auxiliary ships, 45,000 tons to build 30 destroyers of 1,500 tons, 50,000 tons to build 50 1,000-ton submarines, 60,000 tons to build 4 15,000-ton heavy cruisers, 60,000 tons to build 10 6,000-ton light cruisers, so that our navy can develop benignly. ”

Raeder was the marshal of the navy after all, and when he calmed down and thought carefully for a while, he understood that Lyon's plan was the most suitable for Germany now. He looked at the other admirals next to him, and then said to Leon, "General Leon, just follow the plan you said." ”

An officer in charge of the record quickly wrote down the ship-building plan, which was then checked by Leon and Raeder and sent it directly to the accompanying engineers and ship designers, who designed the naval ship that fit the current situation in Germany.

Lyon returned to Berlin immediately after the meeting, and the affairs of the navy were settled, but the affairs of the army had not yet been arranged.

Lyon had long since arranged for 200,000 of the old Imperial Army to work in agriculture and receive military training, so the expansion of the army at this time seemed extremely simple. However, Lyon did not directly recall all 200,000 of the old army, but called up 50,000 of them, and at the same time recruited 150,000 male citizens between the ages of 18 and 22.

This is considering that most of the 200,000 old army members are over 30 years old, and the Wehrmacht needs fresh blood more at this time, so although a large number of recruits will reduce the combat effectiveness of the Wehrmacht, Lyon still chose to recruit a large number of new soldiers.

In fact, such a choice is also very beneficial to Lyon, because now in Germany, all young people think that Lyon was sent by God to save Germany, and their feelings for Lyon are fanatical worship, so with these 150,000 young people joining the Wehrmacht, Lyon can better control the entire army.

The expansion of the army was only a small part of the army's rebuilding work, and Lyon, Strauss, and a bunch of war staff officers worked hard for two months to arrange the establishment of the new Wehrmacht. The original 100,000 Wehrmacht was dismantled and dispersed throughout the Army to form the skeleton of the new Wehrmacht, which was then filled in by new recruits, so that the recruits could form combat effectiveness as quickly as possible under the leadership of veterans and get through the period of weakness after reconstruction.

The 300,000-strong army would be reorganized into thirty infantry divisions, and then one for every three divisions.

In terms of the highest establishment, Germany will form three major armies, namely the Southern Army, the Central Army, and the Northern Army. The commander-in-chief of Army Group Center was Strauss, and the chief of staff was Fedor. Feng. Bock served as one of the ten most famous German generals in later generations, known as the "Flame of Kuszin"), and the group army was under the jurisdiction of the first, second, third, and fourth armies of the Wehrmacht.

The commander-in-chief of Army Group South was Rundstedt, the chief of the General Staff was Manstein, and the Army Group was under the jurisdiction of the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Armies of the Wehrmacht.

The commander-in-chief of Army Group North was Brauchitsch (Brauchitsch in this life failed to become commander-in-chief of the army due to the appearance of Lyon), and the chief of staff was Flåmburg (he also failed to become commander-in-chief of the army), under the jurisdiction of the eighth, ninth and tenth armies of the Wehrmacht.

That's right, Manstein was transferred out of the Panzer Corps, because because the last battle in Munich made Lyon realize that it was too dangerous to have Manstein as the commander of the front-line forces, and Manstein's strategic talent was far superior to his tactical talent, so Lyon made him Chief of Staff of the Army Group and promoted him to major general at the same time.

Also transferred was Guderian, who was promoted to colonel and transferred to the post of German Armored Director, specializing in the design of tactics for armored units. And Rommel was promoted to the commander of the newly formed First Armored Division of the Army (all three armored regiments were expanded into armored divisions, and the commanders of the other two armored divisions found suitable people to replace them), not because Lyon favored one over the other, but because Rommel was good at tactics and not enough in strategy, so he could only serve as the commander of the front-line troops.

Two months later, Lyon received a letter of appointment from the Reichstag, promoting him to the rank of general, to the position of commander-in-chief of the Wehrmacht, which had been vacant.

Previously, because Lyon was too young and lacked qualifications, although the entire Wehrmacht was obeying Lyon's orders, Lyon could only hold the rank of major general, but after this trip to Britain, Lyon finally had enough qualifications to be promoted to a rank that matched his status, and the embarrassing situation of a group of lieutenant generals commanded by a major general in the German military was finally resolved.