Near half past one, the Praetorian Guard barracks in the southern, western, and northern districts of Berlin finally moved, and under the call of the assembly number, the soldiers ran out of the barracks and went to the playground to assemble. However, even such a gathering seemed to be slow, much to the delight of the putschists who were watching near the barracks, for at this rate the battle would have been long since the Janissaries reached the palace.

Gal Zirier, a Frenchman in a black trench coat hiding in a four-story room in a hotel, pulled the trigger without mercy, and a German ** officer more than 600 meters away collapsed. Through his scope, Zirier noticed that most of the thousands of soldiers gathered in the playground were unaware of it, except that some of the soldiers around the officer noticed that the situation was not good, and they shouted and held their guns on guard, and the crowd suddenly stirred. Zirier quickly pulled the bolt out of the cartridge case and fed the second round into the chamber, then searched the playground under the searchlight for a few seconds, and after a gunshot, another German officer collapsed in a pool of blood.

Zirier unhurriedly put away the gun and hid his body behind the curtain, it was the fireworks set off by the Germans that became his best cover, neither the Germans on the playground nor the people in this hotel could distinguish anything from the gunshots. In a few moments, searchlights around the playground began to search aimlessly in all directions, columns of light swept back and forth over nearby buildings, and the officers on the playground had to be terrified as they shouted orders for the soldiers to regroup.

It took a full four or five minutes for the soldiers on the playground to regain their composure, but Zirier didn't seem to be going to let them stop, and two more shots interrupted the poor soldiers' assembly again. In fact, not only the Praetorian Guard barracks here in Zirier, but every barracks of the Praetorian Guard in Berlin, large and small, were harassed in this way on this night, and the officers and men of the Praetorian Guard, who were known for their elite, were simply stupid in the eyes of the French.

However, whether it was stupidity or conspiracy, the French did not think about it.

For this case. Archduke Friedrich, the supreme commander of the putét, was delighted from the bottom of his heart, and he never imagined that it was this small ploy that slowed down the reaction of the large number of Janissaries in Berlin, who he thought would have to rely on the blood of the barricades and countless soldiers.

In the present situation, Friedrich found himself in abundance of time, which greatly reduced his irritability from the obstruction of the attack on the palace.

Friedrich looked up, and the moonlight was bright on this clear moonlit night, and the dark blue of the night was reflected in a large field of gray-white clouds, and this ordinary scene seemed so beautiful to him.

Chentian at this time. I am looking at this night scene from a different angle: the sea is pitch black, the moon seems to be at the same height as itself, and the clouds of different shapes, the top of which is like a hill, and the upper half of them reflects a faint, bright, silver-gray color like moonlight, which makes people think of stopping and stopping on it.

When all the people of the airship were busy, only Chentian, a big idler, was leisurely enjoying the night view at an altitude of 5,000 meters. The bulkhead calendar was still stuck on November 18, 1914, but in fact the new day had arrived two hours earlier, and the 220-meter-long, 21-meter-diameter, airbag capacity of nearly 30,000 cubic meters of the air giant was flying over the sea more than 120 kilometers south of the North Sea from the coast of the Netherlands.

Three hours earlier, Chentian had bid farewell to King Robert I of England, the former Army General Rupresit, and then boarded the new Zeppelin named the Vostok. In appearance, the behemoth is not much different from its predecessors - a cigar-shaped body, a large pod in the middle of the front position under the airbag, and a rear thruster. The biggest significance of its "newness" is that the 12 huge airbags are not filled with hydrogen.

This is a helium airship. At this time, there is only one helium airship in the world other than Germany!

In the eyes of insiders, it is not technically difficult to build a helium airship, but the difficulty lies in the fact that helium is a very difficult and expensive gas to extract. The most commonly known method was to process the radioactive minerals or extract them by compression and refrigeration in the air. The speed and yield of these two methods for extracting helium are so low that they can only be used for scientific research in normal times. However, since 1907, when American chemists Dee and Mark Farland discovered that natural gas in a place in Dekansas contained 1.5% helium in natural gas and published a formal scientific report on it, it was possible to extract helium in large quantities!

As in another world, this epoch-making discovery was not taken seriously at first due to the very limited use of helium at the time, and it was first introduced to the construction of airships by a group of German scientists (as is history). By the time the war broke out in 1914, the Germans had used this technology to extract tens of thousands of cubic meters of helium, which was enough to build a small airship (historically, the German ** team had such a helium airship in the winter of 1914, when British artillery hit it, but it still returned to Germany with wounds). Later, British scientists conducted targeted research on this, and by the time the Entente had extracted enough helium, the war would be over).

Completed in April 1915, the Vostok was Germany's third and largest L2 cyanide airship. However, because the cost of cyanide extraction was much higher than that of hydrogen, the vast majority of zeppelins used by the German team until the end of the war were still filled with flammable hydrogen.

It is precisely because of his knowledge and trust in the safety performance of the helium airship that Chen Tian boarded the airship as the first and highest-ranking member of the royal family. Of course, his voyage in an airship was not for sightseeing, and when the whole world thought that he was sailing in the Atlantic with the "Lützov", he quietly embarked on the road back to the German mainland. If all goes well, the airship will be flying to Berlin in 7 hours!

Including Chentian, there were 12 members on board the airship at this time: Colonel Reni Adler, commander of the German Royal Guard, Corporal Keith Schchester and Corporal Christopher Steyler, members of the Royal Guard, Colonel Bender Wagru, staff officer of the German Army General Staff, Second Lieutenant Fabian Müller and Second Lieutenant Mamuel Feyer, German Navy airship pilots Second Lieutenant Sven Schiffert and Sergeant Marco Fische, German Navy airship machine gunner and bombardier Sergeant Spetty Land, Private Ralph Brown. Steitz, Private Dennis Foster. There are many commanders, pilots and navigators, communications officers, staff officers, and guards. This is the smallest and highest mobile command in the world!

Chen Tian sat silently on his chair, sometimes looking at the night scene outside through the glass window, sometimes looking at the busy figures of other people in the airship pod, the night was deep, and fatigue gradually climbed up to his forehead. Amid the hum of the four 250-horsepower Maybach engines at the tail of the pod, the Reich ruler fell asleep, unable to hear the gunfire from Berlin, but to see the fierce battles there in his dreams. Especially the bloody battle for the palace.

At this time, the sky over Berlin is still full of fireworks, but most citizens have turned from admiration to weariness, after all, it is not easy to continue sleeping in such an environment, especially for those who do not sleep well and have nervous breakdowns. Fewer and fewer people continued to watch the flowers, even the children yawned and went back to bed, people wanted to complain about the mess of the telephone lines, but few people knew that the two armies were fighting in the dark in the palace in the eastern part of the city.

Colonel Jog Wolff, chief staff member of Archduke Friedrich, was also an officer known for his foul temper and cold face. At this time, he looked at the team of soldiers who were ready to go with a lost look. He didn't know any of them. But the bright "416" on their collars made the colonel feel a lot. This light infantry regiment, which was part of the 1st Infantry Division of the 3rd Prussian Corps, was the first unit to serve after graduating from the Wolf Military Academy, and although he was never appreciated by his superiors during his five years in the regiment----!

"Colonel. The commando team is ready, please review! A lieutenant with the same metal number "416" on his collar walked up to Wolfe, straightening his chest and looking fearless.

Looking at the young man's still somewhat immature face, Wolf's nose suddenly soured, and then looked at the hundreds of soldiers standing neatly behind the lieutenant, they were carrying a black package in addition to the rifles on their backs, although it didn't look big on the outside, but it was enough to blow up a person within ten paces into pulp! Despite knowing their mission and future, there was no hint of cowardice on the faces of these young soldiers, and the scene was enough to make the emotionally fragile cry!

Wolf wanted to say something, but couldn't find even a single word. In the end, I can only seriously return with the most standard military salute.

"Let's go!"

After a burst of footsteps, there was nothing in front of Wolfe.

Across the grand central square of the palace, the bullets on both sides come and go, and the commanders of the two sides who originally wanted to maintain the original appearance of the palace as much as possible can't care so much in the face of life and death, the defender's tanks and grenades have blown up the flower beds and fountains in the center of the square, and the attackers are not showing weakness, not long ago they just pushed two small-caliber infantry guns, and the shallow pits on the outer wall of the palace are their "masterpieces"!

"Wow...... Tweet............"

The sudden sound of a shrill whistle made people's hearts flutter, and then followed. The shouts of the charge resounded throughout the palace, and the attackers attacked again!

In an instant, the palace that had been silent for a long time erupted with countless small raindrops...... The sound of "boom ......" sounded, and the more than ten chariots at the gate of the palace also fired, and at this moment, the grim reaper in the darkness showed a hideous smile.

Although it was difficult to distinguish anything in the flickering light, Colonel Wolf kept his eyes on the other side of the square. After about three or four minutes, several fireballs rose from the entrance of the palace, and the huge explosion that followed shattered the glass of most of the windows on the north side of the palace! The sudden explosion silenced the square for a few seconds, and a moment later an even louder shout erupted among the putschists' soldiers.

Friedrich, who had been waiting outside the palace, finally showed a smug smile, and the throne that everyone coveted seemed to be right in front of him!

While Friedrich's "throne" seems to be within reach, Württemberg's "new king" is enjoying the taste of the throne that has just arrived. It's a pity that at this time, the vast majority of Württemberg residents did not know that such an important thing as "changing the dynasty" had happened. Leopold's failure to wake his people alive with radio was not because he was merciful, but because of the limited time to prepare, his men had not yet had time to concoct an impassioned and righteous "declaration of enthronement"!

"How's it going over there in Berlin? Did Friedrich succeed? Sitting on the "dragon chair" and sipping coffee, Leopold seemed to be in a good mood, and although he had been trapped in the royal palace and almost isolated from the rest of the world, he was not ignorant of Berlin's movements. In Ludwig III's letters, he knew in advance that such a change would take place in Berlin, and of course this was an important factor in his decision to carry out a coup d'état at this time.

"Back to Your Majesty, as far as I know, Friedrich's army is still fighting fiercely with the Berlin Janissaries, and the battle seems to have reached the Imperial Palace!" Leopold's henchman, Herzer, not only has a set of entrapment officers, but also flatters his superiors very tactfully, no, Leopold has not been officially crowned, he has already changed his name obediently.

"Oh, that shouldn't be a problem!" Leopold was a little more reassured that as long as Friedrich succeeded, his usurpation of power would be recognized by the Berlin government, and he would fully support Friedrich's accession to the throne.

"By the way, is there any news from my father?" Leopold remembered his father, who had been placed under house arrest in Potsdam, but he didn't pay much attention or worry about it, because it was part of the "big deal".

"Back to Your Majesty, not yet! But I don't think Friedrich will get along with us! Herzer's speculation coincided with that of Leopold, and both men knew that it would be much easier to have without him than to have one.

"Well, I think Friedrich will naturally contact us after the fact, but he'd better not pay any bad attention......" Leopold thought for a while, and was faintly worried in his heart, but there was no solid evidence, so he ordered very seriously: "Find out the old guy von Vas as soon as possible, and replace the commander of each regiment with our people within two days!" I don't want to have long nights, you know? ”

"Yes, my honorable, great, and supreme majesty!" Herzer hurriedly agreed, this coup d'état can be said to be perfect except for the missing von Vass, although this veteran is the deputy commander of the ** team of the King of Württemberg appointed by Wilhelm III, his influence in the army should not be underestimated, it is incomprehensible that in the previous coup d'état, he neither led his troops to resist nor bowed down, but disappeared inexplicably!