Leaving the drawings to the person in charge of the R&D project, Li Ling has reason to believe that according to Germany's military R&D capabilities, it should be able to be equipped with an assault rifle no later than the beginning of 1942 at the latest, so that this weapon can completely change the combat style of the whole world. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

After getting the last big thing he could think of, Li Ling's heart was relaxed, and he was full of joy that he hadn't even forgotten to 'design' a tactical vest for new weapons, well, in fact, it was not designed by Li Ling at all, it was completely the tactical vest that he copied from the PLA in later generations

In addition to the intense preparations, Li Ling seemed to have nothing to do throughout the spring of 1941, but this spring was not very good, because the spring of 1941 was experiencing an unprecedented cold winter in Europe.

In this unusually cold winter, everything seems to have been frozen, and the production capacity of Germany's major military factories has been affected to varying degrees in this winter, so that Heydrich and Keitel have wanted to postpone the Barbarossa plan several times, if it weren't for Li Ling's insistence that it must not be postponed, I'm afraid these two people don't know how long to postpone the time.

Compared with Germany, in the Soviet Union, which was closer to the Arctic, they were even more miserable, with nearly 10,000 people dying of freezing and starvation in the Soviet Union that year, and the Soviet arsenals were barely able to work at full capacity for a single day.

In addition, the bottom line of launching a full-scale attack on Germany in early May originally formulated by the Soviets was a bit high, and the span was a bit large, and the Soviet military factories had not even completed 50 percent of the original production plan by the end of March 1941, in this case, in early April 1941, Stalin finally decided to have to postpone the implementation of the original plan for heavy thunderstorms, and postponed the original early May to mid-May, which was postponed for half a month.

However, at this time, Stalin did not know that according to the original time node of the thunderstorm plan, the time of the Soviet Union's surprise attack was half a month earlier than that of Germany, which was originally something that could directly change the direction of history, but because of the extremely cold weather of this year, it had to be postponed to almost the same day as the start time of the Barbarossa plan formulated by Germany!

Fate always plays a joke, and when the time came to the end of April, the Soviet Union and Germany still did not realize that they had their own intentions, but it was precisely because of this that Molotov suddenly invited German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop at this time, inviting him to Moscow's Red Square to participate in the military parade to celebrate Labor Day.

How could Ribbentrop refuse such an invitation?

Not only did he have to go, but he also had to take a lot of people with him, but these people did not simply go to see the parade, but to evaluate all aspects of the Soviet army according to the parade, such as their mental outlook, such as their will to fight, and, of course, their weapons and equipment.

However, it seems that Molotov did not have such intentions to invite Ribbentrop, his idea is quite simple, first of all, the Soviet Union and Germany have not yet torn their skin, and even the two sides still seem to be close allies, the Germans are still importing a lot of oil and ore from the Soviet Union, and the Soviets also import advanced tank engines from Germany.

Secondly, at this time, the Soviets had clearly set the time for their attack, and the time of their attack was set for one day in May 20-21, and now they invited Ribbentrop to come over, in fact, to seek psychological stimulation and deter this ignorant opponent by the way.

Soon, the German side responded, and Ribbentrop was to take a fifteen-member German delegation to Moscow's Red Square to participate in the military parade.

On May 1, 1941, this day seemed ordinary, but it was a little unusual, a large number of Soviet planes flew over Red Square in Moscow, and on the road in front of Red Square, a large number of Soviet soldiers, tanks, artillery, and cars were assembled, and a large number of Soviet people formed a parade!

This is a country with workers and peasants as the main body, a country with workers and peasants as the basic one, Labor Day is their most important holiday, colorful flags fluttering on Moscow's Red Square, and people celebrating are listening to the speech of their leader Stalin!

The members of the German delegation standing on the viewing platform kept taking out their cameras to take pictures, with an unbelievable expression on their faces, and the German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop, who was the head of the viewing group, did not hesitate to praise the strength of the Soviet army, and at the same time praised Germany for having such a strong ally, not an enemy.

Such sycophants were indeed very useful to Molotov and his ilk, and what he wanted to see was to hope that the Germans would feel timid in their hearts about their huge army, and it was clear that Ribbentrop's performance fulfilled Molotov's idea.

However, apparently Ribbentrop did not think so at all, and all he had to do today was to find a way to make the Soviets think that Germany was completely unwary of them, and that was enough!

At the end of the parade, Ribbentrop remained unhurried, calmly wandering among the high-ranking officials of the Soviet government, and even attended the dinner that day, until the next day he took his delegation back to Germany by plane in full view of everyone.

The departure of the German viewing group made Stalin suddenly have the idea of attacking Germany immediately, because Ribbentrop's performance was too cowardly, which was simply the same as the previous Ribbentrop, no matter what Ribbentrop did, with a kind of arrogance, today when Stalin first met Ribbentrop, he still had a sense of arrogance, but after the parade began, Ribbentrop's attitude obviously changed!

However, this thought was only fleeting, after all, what Stalin wanted to ask for was a stable word, so it was not delayed for so many days.

Unbeknownst to him, however, as soon as Ribbentrop returned to Germany, the German generals in his delegation rushed headlong into the High Command and began to compile the data, and at the same time intensify the cleaning of the photographs taken and analyze the equipment of the Soviet troops.

In addition to the army, there was also an air force general who followed Ribbentrop to the Soviet Union, the army was half busy, this air force general was happy to be idle, who let him see the Soviet air force at a glance?

The whole of Moscow's Red Square flew over the old planes, and the vast majority of them were biplanes, which were a piece of garbage that was not even as good as in front of the Luftwaffe fighters, and the Soviet Air Force was a lump of flying in the eyes of the general (to be continued). )