It was difficult for the navy and army to agree on whether to send troops to Siam, and the two sides quarreled endlessly. The military conference, which was personally chaired by President Eric Adrian, was once again doomed to be fruitless.

On the Air Force, only some of the mid- and lower-ranking generals of the Berlin Command participated, and apparently had no say, but they didn't seem to care about it.

Only the leaders of the army and navy vied with each other to speak at the entire forum, but they insisted on their own words and refused to give in to each other. At present, the representatives of the Air Force, who are in a relatively low position, are happy to stand by and watch, and although there are different voices, most of them are cynical. President Eric Adrian did not say a word, but listened carefully to the opinions of all sides as he watched what he said.

On June 12th, it was drizzling in Berlin, and in the hazy rain and fog, people rushed to and fro with colorful rain gear. This summer is different from previous years, every day is scorching and sunny, and it is rare to have such a gloomy weather. Berliners love the sun, but this summer's sunshine was too much, and it still brought a lot of troubles.

Hipper's weakness at the meeting to resolve the diplomatic turmoil, coupled with Rundstedt's high spirits, ended up at a disadvantage in the war of words. Eric, who has always remained neutral, did not take sides, but immediately announced an adjournment to calm both sides before speaking.

The representative of the Air Force did not speak, which made the meeting lose the main event, the current German army, the army is the waist pole of the Ministry of Defense, but the battle of thousands of miles, no matter how powerful the army is, it is just an empty word. The reason why Eric did not speak is that the problem is that the United States, Britain, France, and Italy cannot send them all, and even if the German troops are transported to Southeast Asia, there is no guarantee that all the troops will be brought back. Brauchitsch's views were similar to Eric's, and although he also advocated a crusade against Siam, this action did not seem realistic given the actual situation.

Admiral Hipper, the elder, was angry, and immediately after returning to the headquarters, a meeting of naval officers at the rank of colonel and above in Berlin was convened. Hipper, who is usually not very angry, was unusually rude this time, and repeatedly used foul language throughout the conference, even the respected veterans such as Scheer did not let go. Colonel Sauken, who had been newly transferred to the navy, had been diligent and responsible for his work, but he was also severely reprimanded by name.

This resentment stemmed from the chamber of the presidential palace, and Hippert had enough of hearing Rundstedt's ridicule of the navy, and also saw his own shortcomings.

If naval construction were a different story, Hipper's confidence would have been overwhelming, but now he didn't have a real warship except for running around on the shore with his old subordinates, let alone an expedition of 10,000 miles with the army.

The anger did not seem to be exhausted, and in the end, even the chief of naval affairs, Lutyns, and Raeder, who was supervising the construction of the ship, also scolded them again and again.

One of them, Raeder had returned from the port of Kiel, and this time he was Hipper's punching bag.

"Mr. Raeder, I would love to see results now, not just as long as you are working hard, I want a real warship, a weapon of the sea that will strike fear into the hearts of the enemy! Do you understand! I hope you can clearly understand that at this meeting, you also have a share of the shame suffered by the Navy! Hippert tapped excitedly on the table.

Raeder understood Admiral Hipper's character and did not dare to refute it, except to sit upright on the sofa and be trained, and then repeatedly admitted that the supervision was ineffective.

General Scheer can be regarded as an old colleague of Hipper, although he is a little embarrassed, but he knows that Hipper's anger is only against the matter and not at a certain person, because the construction process of the navy is too long, and he can only accept criticism.

For the criticism of the old general, everyone could only stare at it with big eyes, and did not dare to look directly at Hipper. Ruttejens tried to divert the topic several times, but never had the opportunity.

"How's Project Z going? Stir up some dry goods for me! As if he had enough training, Hippel finally began to inquire about Raeder's shipbuilding supervision.

"The construction is going very smoothly, depending on the situation, it can be launched in August next year as originally planned, and if there is no problem with the power, the sea trial will be carried out at the end of the same year." Raeder immediately rose from his seat and gave a new military salute.

Hipper stood up and walked around the conference room with his hands behind his back, and then said very seriously: "I'm afraid this won't work, the speed is too slow, if those sticks of the army are determined to choose to attack Siam this year, the navy will lose this opportunity to make meritorious contributions!" ”

Raeder agreed with the old admiral's point of view, and stood there nodding vigorously. Hipper waved his hand lightly, motioned for Raeder to sit down, and then turned to Lütjens and Scheer and said, "Your Excellency the Chief of General Affairs, my old face is lost in the presidential palace today, and in the future, I will not go to such a military meeting, and you and General Scheer will attend." ”

Lütjans was really relieved to see Admiral Hippert slowly gentle. At this time, Eric called from the presidential palace and asked Lütjens about the state of Admiral Hipper's suffering from the army. When he learned that the old general had returned to the headquarters, he was furious, and he comforted him very sincerely, and asked Lütjens to write a pros and cons analysis of the march into Siam, and to listen to Hipper's opinion.

Subsequently, Hipper and Scheer also answered Eric's phone calls.

Putting down the phone, Lütjans turned back and asked Raeder: "We can consider the order of construction, strive to launch before the army operation, shorten the sea trial time, and directly serve a few ships, the number is not too much, but the tonnage should be large enough, as long as it can protect the entire transport fleet." ”

Hipper's eyes looked directly at Ruetyans, very surprised at his thoughts: "Are you going to postpone the aircraft carrier construction plan?" ”

Lütjans nodded, and then continued: "It's just a matter of borrowing the slipway from Blomforth to build 6 warships, they now have 3 large slipways, and the destroyers of Plan Z are all built modularly, if you use their shipyard, the progress can be reduced to 2 months." ”

Raeder opened his mouth, eager to stop Ruetjens from doing this, because Eric was most concerned about the construction of aircraft carriers, and he was afraid that delaying the aircraft carrier plan would affect President Eric's strategic decision, and if the president was angry because of this, the entire navy would not be able to eat and go around.

Both Hipper and Raeder shared the same fears, and neither was indecisive about Lütjans's claims.

The next morning, Hipper unwittingly walked to General Scheer's office.

Seeing Hippert enter, Scheer quickly put down his work, got up to give up his seat, and poured a steaming cup of green tea.

Both of them are people from the imperial era, and they are usually not polite.

"Dear General Scheer, for the construction of naval ships, I think the two of us should take a good look at it, it's very important." Hippert no longer has the domineering style he used to have, and still looks like a good old man.

"Thank you for your appreciation, in fact, with regard to the construction and development of the Navy, except for the President of the Federation, you can make any correct decision, and we will definitely strictly follow it." Scheer said very sincerely.