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A 1942 Maybach "Leader" luxury bulletproof sedan was parked at the main entrance of the building. A very handsome and personable lieutenant colonel in his thirties got out of the passenger seat, opened the door of the back seat of the car, and then saw the Imperial Marshal Hersman get out of the car, straighten out his military uniform, and then stretched out his left hand and whispered: "Klaus, my scepter." ”

The lieutenant colonel who opened the door for Hesman immediately handed Hirschman a beautifully carved marshal's scepter, and then tried to carry the handbag for Hirschman, but was stopped by Hirschman. It's not that there's something shady in the bag, it's that Hersman always feels uncomfortable when he sees his new lieutenant holding the bag.

Because the full name of this lieutenant colonel is Chris. Feng. Stauffenberg...... It's the guy who put a bomb in a bag to kill Hitler, and of course this is in the original history!

As a royalist militarist from a high-ranking aristocratic background, Stauffenberg was certainly loyal to a royalist leader like Hersmann.

In fact, he and Hersmann were still relatives, and the Stauffenberg family and the Heinsberg family were both well-known Catholic families in western Germany, and they were also well-connected earlly families. Of course, there is a marriage relationship between the two families, and this is Chris. Feng. Stauffenberg was a distant cousin of Chloe, and not long after marrying Chloe, Hersmann met Chris, who was a child at the time. Feng. Stauffenberg. Since then, Hersmann has had a good relationship with the Stauffenberg family. Feng. The reason why Stauffenberg would now be Hersmann's adjutant.

In terms of mastering the Junkers officer corps, Hersmann was much better than Hitler. Because he himself is the "most perfect" Juncker, impeccable in both origin and experience. Moreover, together with Schleicher, he contributed to the restoration of the German Kaiser, and promoted the line of the Soviet Union, which was also recognized by the "old fellows" of the Junker officer corps, pioneered by Kaiser Wilhelm, and now has achieved a series of great successes.

So there is no so-called "opposition" in the German Junker aristocracy and officer class. At least the Reich Central Security Directorate, led by Admiral Stockhausen, and the Reinhardt. The Military Intelligence Directorate, headed by Major General Galen, did not detect the existence of such a faction.

Even if it's Ludwig. Admiral Baker, a historical "anti-war faction", is now following Schleicher, the militarist leader (Beck was originally promoted by Schleicher and Hammestein), to be the commander of Army Group England (which was a bluffing force) preparing to invade Britain.

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"Ludwig, how are you talking with the Dutch?"

In a rectangular conference room in the Defense Building, Hersmann heard the voice of Marshal Kesselring as soon as he entered the door.

Kesselring has now taken over Hersmann's squad as chief of the General Staff, he has been transferred from the army to the air force, and he has also commanded the air force to fight the navy, and he is an "all-round" general, and he is most suitable to take over as the chief of the general staff of the Wehrmacht. So Hersmann chose Kesselring as his successor among three candidates: Kesselring, Halder and Guderian. Halder became the First Quartermaster General, Kesselring's deputy. Guderian became commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front, and together with the commanders of the four army groups, Reichenau, Liszt, Moder, and Manstein, went to guard against Stalin's thunderstorm.

Today, Kesselring arrived at the Ministry of Defense building in Berlin early in the morning from Tsosen to attend a very important meeting of the High Command.

"The Dutch agreed to the independence of Dutch Guiana." Hersmann sat down in a chair opposite Marshal Kesselring, placed the heavy leather bag in his hand on his lap, opened it, and took out a handwritten secret agreement from it -- it was a secret agreement between Hersmann and Dutch Prime Minister Dirk. An agreement signed by Gil in which the Dutch government agreed to recognize Dutch Guiana in the event of an independent revolution.

"Independence?" Marshal Kesselring smiled and shook his head, "These Dutchmen really can think of it. ”

"Leave this to the Central Security Bureau, there is no problem with the cooperation of the Dutch colonial authorities." Hersmann took the coffee cup from a female secretary of the Department of Defence, took a sip of his coffee, and then said to Kesselring, "But our men must also enter at once, and take control of Dutch Guiana before the Americans can do it, and preferably both British and French Guiana." ”

"Okay," Kesselring nodded, "the General Staff will make a plan immediately...... When are we going to enter South America? ”

"The sooner the better, of course!" "Because history won't give us too long of an opportunity, once the Americans make a wire-controlled glide bomb, we won't have a chance to get a springboard in South America," Hersman said. By the way, the code name of this project is 'Springboard'. ”

"So how about implementing it before May 1942?" Kesselring thought for a moment and said, "Before we invade Ireland, and by the end of April we will have at least one Ju.288 group armed with HS239 gliding bombs ready to fight, and this group will pose a great threat to the U.S. Navy." ”

Ju.288 was a very promising project during Kesselring's tenure as Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force. This aircraft was designed by Juncker and was considered the successor to the Ju.88.

The aircraft is equipped with a 24-cylinder Jumo222 turbocharged engine with a maximum output of 2,500 hp (the Jumo222 is also available in a non-turbocharged version, so the Ju.288 is also available in high-altitude and low-medium altitudes). The maximum level flight speed can reach 670 km/h, the ceiling can reach 12,500 meters, the bomb load is 3.6 tons, and the maximum range is 5,985 kilometers!

The anti-ship capabilities of the Ju.288 are unprecedentedly powerful, not only can they dive and drop bombs like the Ju.88, but they are also equipped with two epoch-making controllable gliding bombs, the HS293 and the Fritz X. In addition, the maximum range of 5958 kilometers and the combat radius of more than 2200 kilometers also make this aircraft a killer weapon for Germany in the Atlantic!

The aircraft used to receive the Ju.88 flight was not only a high-end cargo such as the Ju.288, but the more economical and practical Do.217 bomber developed by the Dornier company has now begun to equip the troops in large quantities.

Although the maximum range of the Do.217 is much smaller than that of the Ju.288, only 2148 km, the maximum speed is only 557 km/h, which is not comparable to the 670 km/h of the Ju.288. But the bomb load of the Do.217 could reach 4 tons, which was the largest of all known twin-engine bombers (excluding such pseudo-twin engines as the He.177). Moreover, it also has relatively good dive performance, and can also carry HS293 and Fritz X remote-controlled gliding bombs.

In the Luftwaffe's plans, the future Air Force's twin-engine tactical bombers will form a high-low mix of Ju.288 and D0.217.

As for Germany's new generation of heavy bomber projects, significant progress has also been made, with the ME.264 project and the Junkers Ju.390 project, jointly developed by Messerschmitt and Fokker, in the final rounds.

At the same time, Fokker also came up with the Fokker 108 (that is, the P.108) as an emergency model for the Luftwaffe to replace the aging JU89 and DO.19 aircraft.

"By the way, is the 8th draft of the Sea Lion Project ready?" After discussing the "springboard", Hirschman turned the conversation to "sea lions".

The "Sea Lion Project" was a battle plan to solve the British mainland, but the main battlefield was chosen in Ireland. It was Hersmann himself who proposed this plan, and it was Hersmann's eldest brother, Field Marshal Schleicher, who carried it out.

However, the "Sea Lion Plan" is an extremely complex plan, including a deception plan before the launch of the campaign, a plan for a decisive battle at sea before the start of the landing, a plan for landing and airborne landing in Ireland, a plan for a decisive battle with British forces in Ireland, a plan for a total blockade of the British mainland based in Ireland, and finally a plan to deal with the entry of the United States and the Soviet Union into the war.

Of course, the plan of fighting against the United States and the Soviet Union will not be included in the "Sea Lion Plan". As early as 1941, after the end of the Mediterranean campaign, the General Staff of the Wehrmacht began to secretly draw up operational plans against the United States and the Soviet Union, the former codenamed the "Barrier Plan" and the latter the "Blue Plan".

The core idea of the "barrier plan" is to use the Atlantic Ocean as a barrier and Guyana as a bridgehead to keep the United States out of Europe, while at the same time placing the battlefield of the confrontation between the United States and Germany in the Caribbean.

At the heart of the "blue plan" was the seizure of Ukraine, the Soviet Union's heavy industrial base, and the resource-producing Caucasus – provided that the Soviet Union went to war with Germany first. Hersmann's reluctance to go to war with the Soviet Union remained unchanged, because if the Soviets and Germany went to war, the United States would be able to reap the benefits, and Germany would be caught in a two-front war. However, from the current analysis of US-Soviet relations and Soviet-German relations, the risk of Soviet-German war is becoming more and more great. Therefore, it is necessary to consider the solution of the "Soviet question".

However, the solution of the American problem and the Soviet problem must be placed after the defeat of Britain, and the pace of aggression and expansion under Hersmann's control is still steady, which seems reassuring. This is also the reason why he can have the unanimous support of Juncker militarists.

"It's all done," Kesselring smiled, "it's not easy, it's all the 8th draft...... The whole set of plans is almost a million words, and 18 sets of landing plans have been made, taking into account all kinds of possibilities. In fact, the difficulty of the entire Sea Lion plan is the landing, after all, we have not fought a major landing battle. If it weren't for Paulus's return from Japan, we wouldn't have been able to make these 18 sets of plans. (To be continued.) )