"Captain Hersman! Hi Captain Hersman! ”

Hersman, who was immersed in drafting a "personnel transfer plan" attached to the Thor Plan, answered and looked up. I saw Captain Kesselring carrying a leather bag, like an office worker sitting in an office, and walked into this small office. As Ludendorff's aide-de-camp, Hersmann also had a small office in the Grand General Staff building, next to Ludendorff's office, and shared it with the major adjutant named Reinhardt.

But the latter followed Ludendorff like a fart all day, so the office was mostly empty - Hersmann was actually working here for the first day, and he didn't have to leave for Switzerland in a few days.

"Oh, Captain Kesselring, you're here."

"Yes, I am here, and it says that there is a top-secret task for me to complete, and that I have been told to go to the adjutant's office to report to a man named Ludwig. Feng. Captain Hersman reports for duty. I guess that person is you, right? ”

"That man is me." With flashing eyes, Hersmann stood up from behind his desk, walked over to Kesselring, the future "Nazi", and shook his hand. "Albert, you're in luck! Because we have a very important task to accomplish...... This mission will make us a major in a few months. ”

The promotion from captain to major in the German Empire Army crossed an important threshold that many would have been stuck for many years without the opportunity. And participating in the movement to bring the Bolsheviks to power was clearly an opportunity to take a big step. Hersmann, on the other hand, had few acquaintances in the Grand General Staff, so he thought of Kesselring, a later Nazi marshal, a rather brilliant general, capable of commanding both the air force and the marines.

Hersman thought to himself that it would not be a bad thing if he could give Kesselring a chance to be promoted and make him his friend.

"Really?" Captain Kesselring was skeptical.

Hersman nodded, and said, "If you're lucky, we'll all be lieutenant colonels before the war is over." ”

"Lieutenant Colonel?" Kesselring rolled his eyelids, almost suspecting that Captain Hersman had drunk too much. Promoted to lieutenant colonel around the age of 30! Did Hersmann think he was a member of some German royal family?

"Ludwig, you're trying to coax me, aren't you?" Kesselring Road.

"You'd better take a look at this document first."

Hersman handed Kesselring the largely drafted "Personnel Movement Plan" and pulled a chair over for him to sit at his desk.

"Bolsheviks! Russia! Oh my God, are we going to send those anarchists to Russia? ”

The Bolsheviks and Russian anarchism have some origins, but they are by no means the same faction. However, it was not easy for a junior officer of the Second Empire, such as Kesselring, to distinguish the difference between the two.

"The Bolsheviks were not actually anarchists, they just did not want the tsar's government and at the same time wanted to create their own. And our task is to help them establish power in Russia, a Bolshevik regime that will break the Tsar's army and allow us to win the war on the Eastern Front! ”

"That's right...... If it works, it's great. Kesselring looked carefully at Hersmann's plan.

Hersmann's "plan for the transfer of people" was simply to gather the Bolsheviks in exile in Western Europe in Zurich, Switzerland, then take a "special train" to the northern German port of Sasniz, then take a ship to Trelleborg in Sweden, and then take a train to Petrograd via Sweden and Finland with the help of the Swedish Social Democrats.

Since Sweden's Social Democrats have joined the Swedish coalition government; The Socialist Party of Russian Finland (with the Tsar as Grand Duke, but with its own government and parliament) was the largest party in Finland, and the Bolsheviks did not part ways with the Socialist Party - the Bolsheviks were the "majority" of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, a member of the Second International, and a fraternal party with the Socialist Parties of Sweden and Finland.

Therefore, there was no danger for Lenin and the Bolsheviks to pass through Sweden and Finland, the only danger was to cross the sea from Sassnitz to Sweden, with a certain chance of being attacked by the submarines of the agreed countries. For this reason, Hersmann also planned to require the ships to fly the Swedish flag and arrange for destroyers to escort them, in short, to send Comrade Lenin and Hersmann himself safely to Russia.

"Ludwig, are we going to stay in Russia for a while?" Kesselring put down the draft plan and asked in a low voice. "I don't think our mission is just to escort them home, right?"

"After completing the escort mission, one of the two of us was to stay with Lenin, and the other was to remain in the Grand General Staff as a liaison officer."

Hersman shrugged his shoulders, "I don't have any acquaintances in the Grand General Staff, Albert, can you be this liaison officer?" ”

"I'm going to stay in Berlin?" Kesselring looked at Hersman's slightly chubby face and frowned, "What can I do?" ”

"Of course it's important," Hersmann said, pouring Kesselring a cup of coffee with beans he had brought back from Switzerland. "Sending Lenin and the leaders of the Bolsheviks back to Russia was only the beginning, and the work that followed was even more difficult, to help the Bolsheviks win power in Russia, and to profit the German Empire in the process."

Kesselring took a sip from his coffee cup, the rich aroma swimming between his teeth, he hadn't had such a good coffee in at least two years.

Seeing Kesselring sipping his coffee in high spirits, Hersman continued to sell his plan.

"Albert, although the Russian Revolution was an earth-shattering undertaking, we are not the protagonists after all...... We are not big names in front of the stage, we will not even leave our name in any history books about the Russian Revolution, we are the heroes behind the Russian Revolution, and at the same time we are the middlemen of the revolution. ”

"Revolutionary middlemen?" Kesselring gently lowered the coffee cup in his hand, "What do you mean?" ”

"Middleman," said Hersman, smiling slightly, gesturing with his hands, "is to persuade both ends and do everything in their power to get the deal done." ”

To put it bluntly, it is a flickering at both ends, and the middle is profitable. Hersmann estimated that the Russian Revolution was a big deal! Participating in this period can not only promote yourself, but also make a lot of money.

But Hersmann could not have done this big deal alone - even if he became an iron buddy with Lenin and Stalin - he had to have a team to manage the deal with the Soviet Union, so that he could get the Soviet Union right (which in the original history was also an important means of Germany's revival after World War I) and completely control it.

However, Hersmann was only a small captain with limited energy, and the only one who was more familiar in the large general staff was this Kesselring. So while he hadn't left Berlin yet, and he could still talk to Ludendorff, he proposed to bring Kesselring and Karl, who had been sent by Kesselring to fight before. Stockhausen is all involved.

"Two-way persuasion?" Kesselring frowned, "Sounds like a Jewish businessman." ”

"Almost," said Hersmann, laughing, "I was in Petrograd, staying with Lenin, doing the work of Lenin and the Bolsheviks, and asking them to pay as high a price as possible for everything Germany had to offer...... Such as loans, weapons and ammunition, military advisers, armed intervention and, of course, peace! And you are responsible for lobbying the big men in the Great General Staff to accept as much as possible the terms I have won from Lenin and the Bolsheviks, which is not an easy task, no easier than convincing Lenin. ”

"I'm the only one to convince the big guys in the Great General Staff?" Kesselring hesitated slightly, he certainly knew how stubborn the big names in Germany were.

"How is that possible?" Hersman shook his head and said, "Sending the Bolsheviks to Russia was part of the Thor Plan, which was co-chaired by the Great General Staff and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Soon a team codenamed "Thor" will be formed to take care of this, and the two of us are just the errands in this group. Admiral Ludendorff and His Excellency Foreign Minister Quellmann are in charge, and some mid-level figures will join in. However, nothing is a big thing that is inseparable from the little people who run errands, right? And we'll be two of the more important ones in a group of little people. Albert, would you like to participate? ”

Kesselring smiled: "Of course I want to participate!" This is an opportunity to be promoted to major. Ludwig, I owe you a favor! ”

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