"Stay the same for the time being, as if nothing had happened." With that, Dougan raised his right arm.

"Hey! Reinhart! Major General Wilma hurriedly returned the salute.

Dogan nodded reservedly, then turned and stepped onto the boarding gangway. The snow on the field runway had been cleared, and the JU52 transport plane, painted in silver and black, slowly lifted off the ground amid the roar of its engines, circled the airport twice, and then slowly climbed northwest direction.

"Good afternoon, Your Excellency, the captain said that the weather is good today, and it is expected that we will land in Poznan in two hours." The flight attendant placed a copy of the day's newspaper on the small table in front of the general.

Dougen's JU52 is a business jet belonging to the General Directorate of Imperial Intelligence, with a standard livery from Lufthansa, which can take off and land at any civilian airport in the world without causing unnecessary associations with others. The voyage is planned to take more than five hours across Poland, with a short stop in Poznan and a refueling stop before a direct flight to Berlin.

"Thank you, please give me a cup of coffee and a cup of black tea for the colonel." Dougan picked up the newspaper.

"Please wait, I'll get it to you soon." The waiter respectfully agreed.

"If all goes well, you should be back in Berlin by seven o'clock in the evening, General Dougan, you can finally get some rest." Kirsten looked up and said with a smile.

Ever since she boarded the plane, she had been busy reading the operational report on the cross-border operation.

"No kidding, Colonel Kirsten. Where I might have time to rest, there's a lot of work to be done over there in Berlin. ”

"Randolph is back in Berlin now, and he should be able to help."

"Hopefully, Randolph had just left Egypt when I set off, and it should have been these two days in terms of time, and he would never have missed this New Year's parade." Dougan shook off the newspaper in his hand, but glanced out the window.

Berlin is still cloudy today, and the capital hasn't had a few rains since the beginning of winter. Winter temperatures throughout Europe in the '40 were colder than usual, with severe frosts in Germany and northern Poland, and a record of -41 degrees Celsius in Schedelce in Poland.

Because the winter of '39 was also unusually cold, the Soviet soldiers who invaded Finland can testify, and European meteorologists generally believe that this situation may last for a few years, but there are also those who believe that the winter temperature of '41 should be warmer.

"Now that we have a plan for the winter exercise, let's hurry up and arrange it, and I don't need to teach them how to do it." The Führer stood in front of the window in the corridor with his hands behind his back, looking at the view from the garden of the Prime Minister's Office.

The construction of the underground command post in the corner of the garden has been suspended, and the pouring of the second underground structure has already been completed, because the low temperature will affect the solidification of the cement, and the work can only be continued after the weather warms up. The engineering troops erected a camouflaged structure on the ground with wooden planks, and painted balconies and windows with paint and coatings.

Brauchitsch tugged at the collar of his uniform with his fingers, and then replied respectfully: "Yes, my Führer." ”

The sun was shining outside the window, but the atmosphere in the corridor at the moment was indescribably oppressive, making the commander-in-chief of the army feel a little difficult to breathe.

"Wierle, has the order been carried out?" Xu Jun tilted his head slightly, and the red marble pillar reflected the handsome side face.

"My Führer, the execution was completed twenty minutes ago." Wehrle replied with a serious expression.

In the opinion of the lieutenant general, this was a trial that had been delayed for too long, and if it were not for disagreements within the army, these men would have been executed two months ago.

The convicts had been held in the Berlin Military Prison and were all Wehrmacht soldiers, with the highest rank being a colonel and the lowest being a second lieutenant. The crimes they have committed can be described as varied, and the only common denominator is that all of them were committed in the occupied territories and that the victims were all innocent local civilians.

The Führer's attitude towards crimes committed by military personnel is zero tolerance, and according to military regulations, these people should also be sent to the execution ground to be shot, the problem is that these people are all heroes of the Wehrmacht, and many of them have made outstanding achievements in previous operations on the Western Front, and there are not only a number of recipients of the Iron Cross of the Second Degree, but even the Iron Cross of the First Class.

Some generals in the high command believe that they must be severely punished, but there are also many generals who hope that they can open up the net and spare the lives of these people, so that they can be sent to hard labor camps and give them the opportunity to make meritorious contributions to their crimes.

As a result, the handling of these people has been delayed until now, and if Xu Jun hadn't happened to see a report, these cases might have to be delayed until next year.

When the Führer figured out what was going on, he couldn't help but be furious, and immediately summoned Brauchitsch and Keitel to the chancellor's office, and scolded the two marshals for being bloody.

This is not a question of human affection, but is directly related to the order and discipline of the Wehrmacht. The reputation of the German army among the European people was already very bad, and there was really no shortage of burning, killing, raping, and plundering in previous wars. This time on the Western Front, Xu Jun spent a lot of effort to re-establish the image of the German army as disciplined, but he was ruined by these rat droppings. Xu Jun couldn't wait to hang these garbage with his own hands, how could he leave their lives.

In the end, the Führer personally issued an order, since these guys want to be guilty and make meritorious contributions, then contribute their heads, and use this in exchange for the hearts of the people in the occupied areas. All offenders were stripped of their military status after trial and beheaded as civilians.

As mentioned above, Germany still retains the death penalty of beheading, and the delicate ones are pushed to the guillotine, and the rough ones are directly pressed on the meat chopping board. Because of the anger of the Imperial Head, these unlucky eggs can only be solved with an axe. The death penalty was carried out on the day the sentence was announced, and Xu Jun did not want these people to live for 40 years.

Brauchitsch was called to the Führer's office after lunch, and then he was questioned by the Führer for half an hour, except for the winter exercises at the beginning of next year, and the rest was about the preparations for the Victory Parade.

Regarding the latter matter, the commander-in-chief of the army could not explain clearly for a while, why there was a delay in the implementation of the plan, and His Excellency the commander-in-chief had ordered Halder to find a way to remedy it overnight, and he really did not want to bear the wrath of the imperial head alone.

"There are only three days left until the victory parade, and I don't want to continue to put pressure on you, and I hope you will not fail to live up to my trust." After Xu Jun finished speaking, he waved his hand and signaled that the marshal could leave.

"Hey! Reinhart! Brauchitsch hurriedly saluted as if he had been granted amnesty, then turned and strode with steady steps towards the exit at the end of the corridor.

"Is there anything you want to report?" Xu Jun looked at the back of the commander-in-chief of the army and asked Tysenhofen, who was standing aside.

If it weren't for the fact that he found the adjutant quietly approaching, it seemed that there was something confidential to report to him, Xu Jun didn't want to let Brauchitsch go so easily, this old guy is getting more and more slippery now, and he needs to beat it like he did today.

"Lieutenant Colonel Randolph is back, my Führer." Tysenhofen replied with a strange expression: "He also brought back a gift for you." ”

ps: I'm a little unwell, and the number of words in this chapter today is a little less, I hope you can understand.