At the same time that Stalin had self-destructed the Great Wall, Reinhardt, far away in Berlin, had already begun a new round of award ceremonies.

Through this ceremony, Guderian and several other armored generals who shined in the high-speed breakthrough into Austria and Czechoslovakia received the Knight's Iron Cross, which symbolizes high honors.

Guderian, who had long joined Reinhardt's faction, was appointed by Reinhardt as the director of the mobile forces of the Third Reich in Greater Germany, and concurrently served as the commander of the 19th Army of the Armored Corps, and was promoted to lieutenant general.

Counting the senior staff officer Manstein, who has been constantly brought into major military meetings by Reinhardt in the past few years, and gradually shows up. The new generals of the three major Wehrmacht armies under Reinhardt have been widely circulated.

On the battlefield of Spain, Rommel led 10,000 German troops to dominate the situation and decide the victory or defeat of a million-man level, which is enough to prove that his position is by no means obtained by sloping a beard.

In recent years, Manstein has demonstrated his planning and analysis skills at major military conferences, as well as his mature concept of strategy and tactics, which even veteran generals such as De Stead have praised.

But compared to the above two, Guderian, who is biased towards the academy, has never had the opportunity to prove himself. In the eyes of many veteran generals, the success of Guderian's armor theory in war games is one thing, but the actual combat is another. Therefore, they have been inappropriate about Reinhardt's intention to promote Guderian.

It's not that Reinhardt won't fight for Guderian, who is the first to follow him. It's just that for the older generation of generals left by Sickert, Reinhardt didn't want to use brutal means to bring them to their knees.

If nothing else, let's take Rundstead, a master of infantry tactics that even Manstein respected. Historically, it has been many times because of disagreements and hard tempers, many times because of disagreements and hard tempers, many times refused to be appointed and submitted resignations.

Fortunately, Reinhardt specially arranged for secretaries to record them, and gave gifts and messages to these old generals during the New Year's holidays, and used the way of doing things brought by the East to win over many generals who had never seen this kind of "Oriental enthusiasm".

It was in this way that Reinhardt's SS was able to retreat before the Wehrmacht could intervene after a shootout with the SA in the city of Berlin. Sickert's asylum was one thing, but Rundstead, then commander of Berlin's Third Military District, turned a blind eye on another.

Even before his death, Sickert took Reinhardt to visit the old general many times. Suffice it to say that Rundsteadt's prestige in the German Army.

If it weren't for the current Commander-in-Chief of the German Army, von Brown. Brauchitsch clearly expressed his loyalty to Reinhardt, and was the first senior general in the Wehrmacht to jump out to support Reinhardt's military campaign to merge Austria and Czechoslovakia. Perhaps, the current commander-in-chief of the German Army, it will be the turn of Rundstead, the oldest general, to be the general.

Of course, Reinhardt's choice of Brauchitsch was not entirely because he was in place and took a clear side. Another reason is that he also fell in love with Brauchitsch's steady and meticulous military thinking.

During the Weimar Republic, Brauchitsch relied on his down-to-earth but courageous style to advance step by step without significant but incomparably smooth promotion.

Seventeen years ago, Brauchitsch served as a staff officer in the 1st Military District in Berlin and then was transferred to the 2nd Artillery Command. He later served as company commander of the 2nd Field Artillery Regiment from 1921 to 1922, and then served as a staff officer for three years.

From 1925 to 1927 he was the commander of the 6th Artillery Regiment. Subsequently, he became Chief of Staff of the 6th Military District of Münster.

After that, he successively served as Director General of the German Army Training Bureau and Director General of Artillery.

After the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, the general, who retained the rank of major, was promoted from major to lieutenant colonel, colonel, major general, lieutenant general with Reinhardt breaking through the Treaty of Versailles, and by the beginning of 1936, he had been promoted to artillery general.

In the words that Sickert had left to Reinhardt: "General Brauchitsch was a steady soldier, good at hard and hard fighting, and engaged in a long and protracted war with his opponents." Engaging in a purely military contest with the Anglo-French forces would allow Germany to remain undefeated for ten years! ”

Sickett's words have certain historical limitations. After all, he didn't know that Manstein had later drawn up a "Scythe Harvesting Plan", nor did he know that this plan had led to a crushing defeat for the invincible French Army, supported by reinforcements from the British, Belgian and Dutch countries. However, it also affirmed Brauchitsch's superb military attainments from the perspective of trench warfare.

Although compared to generals like Rommel who were tactically savvy, daring to commit troops, and daring to take risks, Brauchitsch may have been a little less than satisfactory.

However, the tactics of "shallow" generals such as Rommel promoted by Reinhardt were too aggressive, and victory or defeat was instantaneous.

Given the historical context, Reinhardt may be able to give them the freedom to do whatever they want.

However, once history changed dramatically. Reinhardt hopes that there will be a steady general by his side who can come up with different references.

In addition, Blaschsch was the authority on the organization and training of the German Army, and a commander with proven competence. Compared with the new general Rommel, who only relied on new equipment and tactics to win on the Spanish battlefield, Manstein, who only gave advice at military meetings, and Guderian, who was an "academic", the appointment of Brauchitsch, a "general who does not care about politics", as commander-in-chief of the army, was obviously more convincing to the generals in the army who did not participate in the Socialist Workers' Party.

In addition, Brauchitsch had accepted the new leadership of the Nazi army without objection, promised to bring the army more closely to National Socialism, and agreed to a large number of personnel changes in the army's top generals.

Reinhardt didn't think there was anything wrong with such an appointment.

Before 1937, Reinhardt promoted more than 30 army generals and thousands of officers, completely filling the vacancies in senior positions brought about by the Treaty of Versailles.