"Your Excellency, this is the British Air Force Lieutenant General Hugh. Dowding, who was shooting our Ju.89 and Do.19, took a lot of pictures. ”

"This is Colonel de Gaulle of France, author of the book "Building a Professional Army"......"

"I've read his books." Hersman interrupted Lieutenant Colonel Galen, who was placing a picture in front of him.

While these foreign officers were carefully observing German weapons and equipment, they themselves were the subjects of observation of the Strategic Deception Bureau, and they were all photographed.

"He's looking at a tank?" Hersmann looked at De Gaulle in the photo, "with his head down." ”

"Yes, he did look at the tanks." Lieutenant Colonel Galen said, "He was also very interested in our armored vehicles and motorcycles, and they all took pictures." However, Admiral Gammelin beside him was very interested in our bombers. ”

"Oh." Hersman nodded. Gan Molin, a very good opponent, is estimated to have been deceived by the Strategic Deception Bureau.

"This is Major General Rommel of Poland."

Another photograph was placed in front of Hersmann, showing a middle-aged man in a strange Polish military uniform, very handsome.

"Rommel?" Hersman smiled, "There's a Rommel in Poland too, and he and Erwin. Rommel wouldn't be a relative, would he? ”

"Actually, there are two Rommel generals in Poland," Galen laughed, "and this is a 'brigade general,' the equivalent of our major general." ”

In Poland, there are three ranks: "General of the Arms", "General of the Division" and "General of the Brigade", and above that there is the marshal. However, foreigners habitually refer to them as "admirals", "lieutenant generals" and "major generals".

"His name is Carol. Rommel was a close confidant of Field Marshal Rez-Himigwey," said Galen, "and he was a very good cavalry commander from the Polish Legion, and he had won the third place in the Olympic equestrian race. ”

"Third place in the Olympics?"

"Yes. He was an equestrian, but had no formal military education. ”

Lieutenant Colonel Galen thought for a moment and said: "In the Polish army, from the colonel upwards, there are very few people from regular military schools. Many of them were civilians who had participated in Pilsudski's 'Infantry Society' before the World War, and had received only the most basic military education. ”

"This is a major weakness of the Polish army." Hersman smiled, "Those of us who have studied military affairs for more than ten years have entered the career of professional soldiers, and they are actually laymen. ”

"The quality of their soldiers is not good either." "According to the Poles' own statistics, in the early twenties, the literacy rate of adults in the lands of the Polish Commonwealth, which originally belonged to Austria-Hungary and Russia, was only 50 to 60 percent. The literacy rate of adults in the land that originally belonged to Germany is as high as 99.4 per cent. ”

The high level of education of the people was one of Germany's great advantages in World War II, which allowed German soldiers to be superior to other countries. In particular, soldiers from Eastern European countries are faster to master advanced and complex weapons systems.

"A bunch of illiterate people, it won't be useful to mechanize them!" Hersman sneered contemptuously, "What about the Soviets? Who's coming this time? ”

"It's Alexander of the USSR. Alexandrovich. Air Force Colonel Novikov," Lieutenant Colonel Galen said, pulling out a photograph and pointing to the man on it, to Hersman, "who was looking at our Ju.89 and Do.19 with a telescope. ”

"Stalin will offer to buy them soon," Hersman said, taking a sip of coffee on his desk, "and these advanced weapons are his toys." If you see it, you like it, and if you like it, you want it. ”

Ju.89 and Do.19 are, of course, available for sale. As long as Stallinken exchanged oil and non-ferrous metals. However, Soviet-German aviation technical cooperation has long been interrupted, and there is no intention of resuming it.

"Also," Hersman gently turned the coffee cup in his hand, "is the Black Plan ready?" ”

The Black Plan was a false plan for an attack on Poland by three of Hersman's henchmen, the Chief of Intelligence of the General Staff (who were the superior heads of the Military Espionage Service and the Strategic Deception Bureau. He is also in charge of the Central Security Directorate in conjunction with the Ministry of National Defence) Lieutenant General Tiperskihi, Lieutenant General Halder, First Chief Operations Officer of the General Staff, and Lieutenant Colonel Galen.

Although it is a false plan, it is still necessary to do it according to the real battle plan, and it needs to take all kinds of things into account, and several preparatory plans must be prepared.

And the operational idea of this fake scheme. It was the same as at the end of the First World War, where tanks covered the infantry and attacked in a very wide frontal area, and the artillery would be used as it had in 1918, concentrating thousands of cannons to bombard the tanks and infantry for a week.

And after the breakthrough of the infantry covered by tanks, there will not be any "blitzkrieg", but a slow advance and outflanking in the "textbook" style. Mechanized troops will also not advance wildly, but will act with large forces and play the role of commandos in positional attacks.

There will still be changes, mainly in the use of the Air Force. Aircraft will become an important factor in determining the outcome of the war, not only will tactical bombers be used to bomb Polish roads and Polish positions, and assembly areas, but will also set up a "strategic bombing command" specifically responsible for bombing cities, and 1,500 to 2,000 Ju.89 and Do.19 will be displayed on many airfields -- of course, they are all flightless fakes. However, in the "Black Plan", these fake planes will be an important factor in forcing Poland to surrender!

Poland's capital, Warsaw, and major major cities will be bombarded indiscriminately until they are wiped off the map...... If the Poles insist on not surrendering.

It seemed feasible that even if the Poles were able to withstand the indiscriminate bombardment, their support for the front would be greatly weakened, which would favor the offensive on the ground.

According to the plan of the "Black Plan", a powerful frontal offensive combined with aircraft bombing and a Soviet attack from the Eastern Front would basically force Poland to surrender in six months. But in the "Black Plan", the surrender of Poland does not mean that Poland will perish, and a political solution must be sought.

This is because Germany's territorial objectives (those in the Black Plan) are the Free City of Danzig, the Polish Corridor and Lithuania, which are 70,000 square kilometres.

The Soviets could take right-bank Ukraine and Western Belarus (excluding Western Ukraine or Eastern Galicia), two lands lost in the Soviet-Polish War.

And the rest of Poland proper, plus Eastern Galicia, became a new Polish nation-state, existing as a buffer state between the Soviet Union and Germany. The Soviets and Germans would jointly guarantee Poland's security, while Poland's own armed forces would remain at about 100,000 men, subject to the strict supervision of the Soviet Union and Germany—this was of course the goal of the Black Plan.

Germany would then seek a rapprochement with Great Britain and France, and a peaceful solution to the questions of Alsace-Lorraine, the German-speaking Belgian territories (reparations), and Luxembourg.

In the Black Plan, Germany's goal on the western border was simply to recover the reparations and then annex Luxembourg and some of the Lorraine iron ore mines on the border with Luxembourg.

In addition, Germany wants to resolve the Treaties of Versailles and Saint-Germain. The treaties should be nullified entirely, Germany would not have to pay any more reparations, and Germany would want to recover a few more African colonies.

And to achieve the above goals, the strategic bombing of Paris and London will be the most effective method.

The Maginot Line was impenetrable, just as the Siegfried Line was impregnable. With Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, the German Army does not look likely to be able to fight better than it did in 1914, although it was able to avoid the defensive lines. Because there was no Maginot Line, the French could not concentrate their forces on the northern front, and they launched a stupid offensive that ended up with heavy casualties.

The French, Belgians, and British were now able to concentrate most of their forces on Belgium, using its rivers and fortresses to build a line of defense that would be difficult to penetrate.

"Your Excellency, the first draft of the Black Plan has now been completed," replied Lieutenant Colonel Galen, "and the first correction will be made after two wargames. ”

Hersman took a sip of his coffee and asked, "So, how does the Strategic Deception Bureau plan to reveal this plan to our enemies?" ”

"Your Excellency," said Lieutenant Colonel Galen, "bits and pieces of information have leaked, and we have been arranging. But it was not easy to send the general outline of the entire "Black Plan" to the offices of the French and British General Staffs, because they were not fools either. He paused, "So we plan to achieve our goal by leaking secrets on the initiative of the Soviet Union, and we can first hand over the general outline of the Plan to the Soviet Union." ”

Hersman raised an eyebrow, "You think the Soviets will betray us?" ”

"Yes," Lieutenant Colonel Galen frowned, "Your Excellency, that's obvious...... The USSR only wanted right-bank Ukraine and Western Belarus, and did not want to continue to follow us to fight against Britain and France. And Stalin would have been worried about our collusion with Britain and France, and then turn around and fight the Soviet Union. Therefore, he will definitely find ways to communicate with Britain and France to avoid declaring war. And leaking this "plan" is obviously a good way. ”

Hersman nodded, it seemed that he had a very good eye, and found such a talent among so many young and promising Wehrmacht officers.

Stalin will definitely leak the Black Scheme! On the one hand, it showed that it had no intention of becoming enemies of Britain and France - the Soviet Union only wanted to regain lost territory; On the one hand, they were also telling Britain and France that Germany did not want to break with them either. Therefore, it would be better for them to adopt a neutral and wait-and-see attitude and watch Poland be defeated by the Soviet Union.

"Good way!" Hersman said approvingly, "Lieutenant Colonel Galen, you have solved a big problem for me...... Maybe after they (referring to Britain and France) saw the "Black Plan", they would really betray Poland! (To be continued.) )