Germany, East Prussia, Königsberg Air Base.

Around a long-range Dornier II bomber parked in the hangar, the crew was working with the crew and technicians to carry out technical overhaul and maintenance of the 18-ton behemoth alone.

"Alas, the Russians really didn't fight, we flew......" The young air sergeant sitting in the machine gun tower made of steel plates and bulletproof glass in the lower part of the belly was originally adding lubricant to his two 7.92mm machine guns, but at this point, he stopped and counted with his fingers, "I only flew 57 times, and I am still 43 times away from the first level of the index!" Oh, and if you rely on non-combat attendance, you don't know when you'll be promoted! ”

At this moment, a slightly older pilot with a little stubble poked his head out from under the open bomb bay cover and said in a tone of lesson: "Boy, be content, 57 safe flights are enough to get battle medals and war service bonuses!" As for promotion, hum, as soon as the war is over, many people here will probably have to be transferred to the reserves! ”

"If you all go to the reserves, we'll have to go back to the aviation department to repair those civilian aircraft, alas, how boring!" A guy who looked to be in his early thirties and wearing a dark green crew uniform also came up, "And ah, the salary has also dropped by 1/3!" ”

"Hah! That's the point, Mr. Scouter! Another air sergeant in the machine-gun tower on the back of the aircraft was also doing the same thing as his companion, although he said this, he was actually very worried that he would be transferred to the paid reserve or ordinary reserve, and the end of the war would have caused them to "lose" the wartime flight allowance of 20 euromarks per day, and if they left the front-line combat units, it would be difficult to guarantee even the ordinary salary of a pilot of 200 euromarks per month. The enviable income suddenly shrank sharply, and the psychological and economic loss can be imagined.

"yes, why are the Russians so unbeaten?" The pilot, who was sitting in the co-pilot seat of the nose cockpit, also said gloomily, "Also, they prayed to us for peace because the empress died, will they resume fighting after a while?" ”

In the translucent nose machine gun turret and bomb sighting room under the cab. The bombardier, who was about 40 years old, immediately said: "Second lieutenant, you don't know the situation of the Russians, they don't have the strength to fight if they want to!" It is said that our constant bombardment has destroyed all their arsenals, shipyards, and most of their heavy industrial facilities, so should their soldiers fight us with bayonets? ”

The co-pilot shook his head, he originally wanted to say something, but he happened to see the captain walking from not far away with a piece of something, and he was shocked.

With similar thoughts. The crew members and the dozen or so crew members next to them stopped their work one after another, and if the bomber was to be mothballed in the warehouse, then the twenty or thirty people who relied on it to "eat" would have to be temporarily "unemployed."

"Guys......" There was no joy or disappointment on the captain's face, which made his subordinates sweat even more, but the captain seemed to be deliberately trying to sell the pass, and when he walked to the side of the plane, he still prolonged, "This is an order from the Air Department!" We ......"

Everyone looked at the paper in his hand with admiration.

"I'm afraid we're going to have to work overtime in the last few days!" "The Air Department has asked us to modify our planes within a week, and then disassemble them and seal them for shipment, after which we will enjoy two weeks of paid vacation." Regrouped in early September. Everyone be ready to go far away, we will most likely be out for at least half a year! ”

"Captain, what does this mean?" Sitting in the belly machine gun tower, the young man was a little puzzled.

"This means that we will remain a standard bomber group for a long time to come. It means that we are going to go somewhere else to continue the fight, and it means that ......" Before the captain could finish speaking, there was a cheer in the distance, and it seemed that the other crew members began to cheer after getting the news.

"Means we don't need to go into the reserves!"

"It means that we can continue to fly and continue to accumulate combat service indicators!"

"Oh yes!"

The captain smiled and watched his boys cheering there, and when everyone's excitement subsided a little, he continued: "Guys, don't be too happy too soon! First of all, the wheelhouse, the middle and rear rest cockpit and the tail turret were changed to a closed independent pressurized cabin, and the middle bomb bay only left an airtight pipe connecting the cab and the cockpit at the very top, and at the same time, the four machine gun towers on the back, belly, and left and right of the fuselage were replaced with remote control machine gun towers using twin 13mm large-caliber machine guns. The positions of the machine gunner were all transferred to the cockpit. Finally, the protective armor of the cab, cockpit and engine will be replaced with thicker steel plates! ”

"Oh...... Will the aircraft be able to cope with the new equipment? An old crew member under the fuselage asked his own question in surprise.

"Uh...... According to the statement of the Air Department, these planes were reserved for these modifications when they were firing, probably because they were worried that the enemy would discover these new technologies too soon. Tomorrow the equipment for the modification will arrive, and the aircraft factory will send special technicians to help! As he spoke, the captain handed the piece of paper to the head of the crew, and it turned out to be a technical drawing containing text and line drawings.

"Hmmm! Well! The leader of the crew looked at it carefully for a while, then raised his head, "These modifications are completely feasible!" Just hurry. A week is enough! ”

The crew and the young men of the crew and the crew were happily preparing to go, but few people thought about the purpose of these modifications, independent pressurized cabins, large-caliber machine guns and remote-controlled machine gun towers, these are the secret equipment on the Dornier III ultra-long-range bomber with a range of 4200 kilometers and an altitude of nearly 10000 meters.

However, the captain who was still full of joy just now said in a deep voice: "It seems that we are going to fight against a strong enemy!" ”

In Königsberg Bay, not far from the air base, the docks of Königsberg and Pilau are filled with ships waiting to be refitted, from battleships, battle cruisers, and aircraft carriers to destroyers and submarines. -- In the port of Pilau, outside the harbor, more than 20 light and heavy cruisers were neatly arranged next to piers 2 and 3, and their refits were mainly concentrated above deck, and the triple 203-mm guns of the heavy patrol and the triple 152-mm guns of the light patrol were retained. The former single-mounted 88-mm high-level dual-purpose guns were replaced with more powerful single-mounted 105-mm guns or double-mounted 37-mm guns, and the single-mounted 37-mm machine guns were removed and replaced by twin 20-mm guns or quadruple-mounted 13-mm large-caliber machine guns, in addition, a classified instrument codenamed "Hawkeye" was installed on each cruiser, and the heavier cruiser was installed with a slightly larger IIB type, with a sea detection range of 7-8 kilometers and an air detection range of 31-34 kilometers. The light patrol is installed with a slightly smaller IIC type, and the sea and air detection distance is slightly smaller than that of the IIB type, which can greatly improve the shooting accuracy of the main gun and anti-aircraft guns in cooperation with the commander.

In the northern military district of the port of Königsberg, the battleships "King" and "Elector" and the medium aircraft carrier "Prince" are parked in the dry dock, and the two veteran King-class battleships are undergoing the second modernization, the main works are the installation of the "Hawkeye IIA" shipborne radar for large warships and the addition of broadside mine-protection protrusions at the waterline position (the King-class used to use double longitudinal partitions in the watertight area of the ship's amidships to improve protection), and the laying of high-tensile steel armor on the roof of the ammunition magazine and the roof of the engine room, The layout of the five twin 50-fold diameter 305 mm guns remained unchanged, but the ground gun barrels of all 10 main guns were replaced, and the original 1 single 150 mm broadside auxiliary guns on the ship were replaced by twin 105 mm guns capable of anti-aircraft fire, and the 10 88 mm single-mount high-level dual-purpose guns were replaced by six 105-mm single-mount guns and four 37-mm twin anti-aircraft guns. In addition, six 37-mm twin anti-aircraft guns and eight quadruple 13-mm anti-aircraft machine guns were installed on the sides of the bridge and chimney.

Launched in 1914, the "Prince" is considered a veteran aircraft carrier in the German Navy.

This was also its second modernization, with a set of Hawkeye IIA ship-based radars and additional anti-aircraft guns being fitted to the carrier, as well as armored reinforcements to the flight deck and ammunition depot. This increases the total tonnage of the aircraft carrier to 28,000 tons, and is expected to carry six combat reconnaissance aircraft, 24 fighter jets and 45 dive bombers from a naval wing, and is specifically designed to provide air fire support to the Marine Corps.

In other repair docks, many destroyers and submarines are also being refitted, for these light ships, equipping a radar for air defense and night combat has great benefits, but the heavy equipment is not enough for them, so they are only installed with simplified versions of the "Hawkeye IIE" and "Hawkeye IIF" radars, these two radars have a very limited detection range of sea surface targets, and the detection range of air is only about 15 kilometers.

In the civil dockyard south of the port of Königsberg. Other light cruisers and destroyers were being refitted and repainted, with new blue and gray camouflage paint visible in the areas that had been painted, and German gray in the German navy where they were not. However, don't think that this is a new idea of the German Admiralty, in fact, the ownership of these destroyers has been owned by Australia and New Zealand, and in the second week after the end of the Russian war, the government-in-exile of Germany, Britain, Australia and New Zealand began to hold four-party talks in London to discuss the matter of Australia and New Zealand directly purchasing arms from Germany on credit, and these light ships that are ready to be decommissioned within 10 years will also withdraw from the active service of the German Navy in advance and transfer to the lineup of the Australian and New Zealand armies.

At this time, Australia and New Zealand had already begun to send officers and sailors to receive them, and in the secret plan of the German High Command, it was very likely that Germany would form a four-nation alliance fleet with Britain, Australia, and New Zealand to fight in Oceania in the future.

Although a series of air battles over Russia proved that German fighters still have the dual advantages of pilot and fighter performance in the face of Japanese fighters, the Luftwaffe did not slow down the pace of updating equipment, and the Henkel 77, Messerschmitt training I, and Fokker K fighters successively passed the test flight of the prototypes, and after the evaluation of the Luftwaffe technical advisory group, the Messerschmitt training I fighter was selected as a new type of fighter for priority installation, and the first batch of 400 was required to be completed within the year. The Heinkel 77 and Fokker K fighters needed to be further improved in order to be able to obtain orders from the Luftwaffe.

With the end of the fighting on the Black Sea and Baltic coasts, the German marines returned to their homeland one after another and began to carry out a major post-war reorganization, the original 1st Heavy Landing Division, the 2nd Mixed Operations Division, the 3rd Mixed Operations Division, and the 4th, 5th, and 1st Mounted Infantry Divisions were changed to a new mixed combat division, and the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th divisions were added, bringing the total strength of the Marine Corps to 10 divisions and 3 amphibious fleets, totaling more than 270,000 people. After actual combat testing, the "Water Beast" amphibious tank of the same level as the No. III tank began mass production after a slight improvement, in order to replace the previous full weight only nap, equipped with 20 mm machine guns and not 92 mm machine guns of the "boat" type light amphibious tank (the earliest amphibious tank in history was made by the British in 1920, and then the United States, France, the Soviet Union, Japan and other countries also successively manufactured their own amphibious tanks, including the Soviet Union's lower 57, the United States M1931, Sherman DD and other most famous), at the same time, amphibious armored vehicles of all classes are also in full swing to equip the troops, and from early September, various marine divisions began to conduct frequent landing exercises.

On the army side, in the first two months after the end of the Russo-German War, most of the allied forces remained in the areas that had been annexed to Germany by the armistice, with the exception of some Bohemian, Hungarian, and Romanian troops who withdrew to their own countries. The Russian Revolutionary Government firmly rejected the peace agreement reached between the German government and the Sokolov government, and demanded that Germany withdraw from Russian territory except Ukraine and the Caucasus in accordance with its previous commitments, but the large number of German troops allowed the Russian revolutionary government to pay lip service to protests. Not only that, Germany also exchanged some Russian prisoners to the Sokolov government, and hinted that the Sokolov government took the initiative to send troops to attack the areas controlled by the revolutionary army, and the situation in Russia became more and more complicated.