Chapter 24: The Revolution (2)
But this trance was only for a moment, and soon he came to his senses: the reinforcement of the National Socialist Party was at best a light infantry company with three months of training, not to mention completely incomparable with the quasi-special forces of the Brave, and it was impossible to challenge the level of the Weimar Wehrmacht in Germany. Heavy weapons are zero, actual combat experience is zero, as long as the opponent is serious, the probability of kneeling is 99%, if not 100%.
Contini's distracted expression was well concealed, and this surprise was not revealed in the slightest, but a sincere eagerness for the full consideration of the National Socialist Party, which made Goering cry gratefully: what a good comrade and comrade-in-arms of the party, such a large vote of arms was given - it is much more difficult to get arms than to get money!
He said incoherently, "Thank you so much, I don't know how to thank you!" ”
"Herman, we are comrades, close comrades-in-arms, I am also a member of the party, it is my duty to contribute to the cause of the party, not to mention that I have not been able to go into battle in person, I have only provided some logistical support to wave the flag and shout, but you have to risk your lives to go to the revolution, I feel a little ashamed." Contini patted the other party on the shoulder, "Transportation is a big problem, it is impossible to take the train back with the personnel - there are two national border stations in Austria and Germany on the road, and any border crossing may be exposed as soon as it is checked, you let me think about it first, come to my dormitory tonight, and we will discuss a feasible plan!" ”
In the evening, Göring approached Continy, only to find that there was no need to negotiate, and the latter had prepared a full package: 100 G98 Mauser rifles (100 rounds each), 20 MP-18 submachine guns (200 rounds each), 6 French Hatch Chase machine guns with enough ammunition, and 6 more pistols for Göring to give several leaders to use for self-defense.
"The idea is this, these weapons and equipment comrades who returned home this time, submachine guns are equipped with the bravest and most fearless these, 6 machine guns you can load on a truck with steel plate protection for impact!" "Don't expect armored vehicles and tanks, I can't get them with me, but it's feasible to transform assault vehicles with ready-made trucks, and trucks can also carry other comrades who don't have weapons to move forward." ”
Goering nodded: This firepower and shock equipment are much more fierce than ordinary light infantry companies, but I didn't expect that the president has never fought a battle, and he is quite proficient in the doctrine of infantry attack.
"I counted it, and the munitions weighed about a ton after adding packaging, accessories, and ammunition." "I consulted with an aeronautical engineer and the Ca46 transport aircraft owned by United Airlines is up to the task, but with a little bit of risk. ”
CA46 transport aircraft is actually a halfway out of the house, in 1913 Italy Caproni Aeronautical Engineering Company successfully developed a three-engine bomber CA30, in the prevailing single-engine aircraft at that time is an outlier, but also opened the prelude to the Italian heavy bomber, in fact, Italy due to the existence of air supremacy theory, has always had a strategic bombing thinking, CA30 is the earliest attempt, in the actual combat has crossed the Alps to bomb the Austro-Hungarian Empire, achieved good results.
Based on the Ca30, the Italian military continued to improve during the war, increasing the engine power, increasing the flight speed and bomb load, and gradually having Ca33/34/37/44/46 and other goods, and now the latest model owned by the Italian Air Force is the Ca50, in this field, the Italian Air Force surpasses the air forces of other countries, and has better performance than the Russian-made Ilya Mu Romets heavy bomber (4 rounds of heavy bombing), and this unique three-engine design also continued to influence the Italian aviation industry in the 30s.
However, although the Ca-series fought well, after the war, this kind of thing with 3 engines became an expensive toy that could not be raised, and the army retained the most advanced Ca50, and other early models were swept away to United Aviation.
The Italian Air Force was short of money, and the president of Contini was rich, so he gave an order to dismantle all these messy old engines and replace them with the latest Fiat A.15 engine - this is a new product launched by Fiat in 1923, 12-cylinder V-shaped liquid cooling, 415 horsepower, can be ranked in the world. With the new engines, these old Ca series are even better than those owned by the Italian Air Force, with a top speed of more than 200 km/h when unloaded, a carrying capacity of more than 1 ton when fully loaded, and a flight of at least 700 km.
At this time, in the United Power Laboratory, the design index of the "independent innovation" engine based on the Eagle engine products of Rolls-Royce and the BMW 4 engine was only 450 horsepower, and it may not be finalized in 1924.
Contini said of a map: "The people who have been trained at the club will return to Germany from next week, but they can't go back together, they have to be evacuated in batches, in stages, and with different role-plays. Provide our party's weapons, I will secretly transport them to Milan airport in advance, and you will personally fly the plane to send them there, but you can't land at Munich airport, it will be easy to get caught, you have to ask the leader to find an open space in the suburbs and force the landing and arrange personnel to pick it up, after the end of the day, you push the plane into the pond, no one pays attention, then it is better, if anyone notices, it will be faked as if the transport plane crashed halfway, I will ask United Airlines to cooperate with the issuance of a crash statement - this kind of thing everyone does not want. ”
Goering nodded like a chicken pecking rice: when the whole plan of action was bold, especially when the use of United Airlines planes to transport guns and ammunition was a stroke of genius, he suddenly wondered: Did Contini have predetermined that he had flown the transport plane to familiarize himself with the various routes? But if you think about it carefully, it doesn't feel like it, not only the Munich route, but also to Berlin, to Paris, to Frankfurt, to Sicily, he has flown through, there is no specific route to say, yes, this must be a coincidence. If this could all be designed in advance, it would be scary.
He didn't know that there was more to it than that.
"Hermann, it's very dangerous to ship arms to Germany, so my idea is that you have to be as cautious as possible, not only will the arms be all German-made, but they will also be used, with messy logos, and of course you can rest assured that the performance will not be compromised. You can only fly alone that day, and the other navigation and radio crews are not worthy, so as not to leak the news, the time will depart from Milan at about half past two in the afternoon, and it is estimated that you will arrive in Munich in the afternoon and evening, and I will place two identical transport planes in Milan, but the cargo is completely different...... In the future, if I had to report a crash, I would destroy the backup plane along with the cargo, so that everyone would think it was an accident! ”
Goering nodded again and again: "It's a discussion, but people have actually arranged everything, and it's so thorough, meticulous, and reliable, it can be seen that Contini made a revolution at the age of 19 and started such a grand career in Italy at the age of 20.
"Now there are two questions: first, are you familiar with this route? Second, there is a great risk of a forced landing in the field when a person pilots a fully loaded plane, can you overcome it? ”
"I'm familiar with the route, as for the risk...... Goering grinned, patted his chest and said proudly, "Is there any risk in making a revolution?" I'm afraid of death, I won't join the party at all! From the day I became a pilot, I had already put life and death out of the way, and I didn't say anything, I did it! ”