"Prince, do you know who is behind this incident? Isn't it the United States? ”

Although Hitler and Schleicher hoped that Hersmann would return to Germany on 25 February, Hersmann, who was stumped by military affairs, did not return to Berlin on an FW-200 plane until noon on the 28th, when the gasoline and ammunition escorted by the Italian fleet arrived safely at the port of Mesematrou. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The meeting of the High Command was scheduled for the morning of March 1, the following day, so Hersman got off the plane and headed straight for his estate in Tsosen. At dinner that day, he met Prince Paul, the regent of Yugoslavia, who was in exile in Berlin, at Tsosen's estate.

Prince Paul looked very tired, almost ten years older than what Hersman had seen at the Geneva meeting last year, and his voice was a little hoarse, and it seemed that he had a very difficult time these days.

Hearing Hersmann's question, the Yugoslav prince smiled bitterly: "Of course, the United States and Britain are making trouble, but where in the whole of Europe are there no people who are fanning the flames?" But only we Serbs were fooled...... This shows that the problem is not primarily Anglo-American incitement, but the lack of clarity of our Serbs. ”

Hersman sighed helplessly. The prince was right, the Serbs were really in bad heads, or they would not have started an anti-German uprising at the height of the German Empire's power. In another time and space, the anti-German uprising in Yugoslavia was even more vexatious, when Hitler did not want to dismember Yugoslavia at all, but was busy preparing for the invasion of the Soviet Union. The Serbs used a nonsensical uprising to delay the invasion of the Soviet Union by one month, which probably indirectly saved the Soviet Union and changed the course of World War II.

The Serbs themselves fell into one disaster after another, first the German invasion, then the mutual vendetta with the Croats and Bosnia and Herzegovina MSL, causing a total of one million deaths, and later allowing a Croat Tito to rule them, and then engaged in decades of strong South and weak Serbia, and finally a Yugoslav civil war led to a strong South and weak Serbia, which completely broke the dream of Greater Serbia......

Thinking of this, Hersman gently turned the tall glass in his hand, "Your Royal Highness, you are a friend of our Germany and at the same time a clear-headed Serbian politician. If you are willing to be a politician who saves the Serbian nation, we can make you the regent or even the king of Serbia. ”

"I'm king?" Prince Paul took his glass and drank it down, laughing, "Your Excellency Marshal, in the minds of the Serbs, I am a sinner who betrayed the country and the nation, how can I be a king?" Our Serbian nation has never lacked heroes. ”

Hesman knew that Prince Paul was talking about Serbian nationalist terrorists. The First World War was triggered by the assassination of the Austro-Hungarian crown prince and his wife in Sarajevo by Princip, an assassin of the Serbian ultra-nationalist organization "Mafia". In today's Yugoslavia, there are still quite a few ethnic extremist organizations similar to the "Mafia", and the current anti-German uprising is related to these organizations.

However, in Yugoslavia, it is not the Serbs who have extremists, the Croats, MSLs, Macedonians, and Slovenes all have their own organizations, and the object of their struggle is the Serbs. Since the creation of a Yugoslavia (not Yugoslavia, but the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes) after the last war, several small Slavic peoples, who already disliked each other, have been fighting each other for a long time.

"So...... His Royal Highness," Hersman frowned slightly, "who do you think has the power to pick up the pieces?" ”

Defeating Yugoslavia is not a problem, it will be done in 8 days in history, and I am afraid it will be even shorter in this time and space. But how to deal with the aftermath is a problem, it is easy for Germany to start a war now, but it is not necessarily easy to end the war.

Prince Paul shrugged his shoulders and said with a wry smile: "A group of people with bad brains, who will have the ability to control them?" If you had to recommend someone, I would recommend Admiral Simovich. ”

"Admiral Simovich?" Hersman was stunned, "Isn't he anti-German?" ”

"Do you really think Duchamp. Is Admiral Simovich so brainless that he wants to be an enemy of the mighty German Reich? He was just trying to cater to them, not really trying to go to war with Germany. If you could stop the invasion, he would never have allowed Serbian troops to invade Croatia and Slovenia. ”

It was true, and now Germany had thirty-two divisions in Croatia and Slovenia, and fifteen Hungarian divisions ready to help. Admiral Simovich is going to take the initiative to attack, so how brain-dead?

However, Germany cannot tolerate a small nation like Serbia holding the banner of opposition to Germany every day in the heart of Europe!

"But he's challenging the authority of the German Empire!" Hersmann shook his head and said with a wry smile, "If Germany can't do anything about tiny Serbia, how can it rule Europe?" ”

"Then ......," sighed Prince Paul, "I would like to give you one last advice, Marshal, that Serbia and Bosnia must not be left under occupation without the rule of their own government. I think a treaty recognizing the secession of Croatia, Slovenia and Batna from Yugoslavia is what Germany really needs. ”

Hersman smiled slightly: "Okay, Your Royal Highness, I will try my best to strive for such an ending." I think...... This should be an important principle for us in Germany to lead the world in the future. ”

His principle is not to turn your opponent into anarchy as much as possible! Even if the leader of this government is not very brainy, it is much better than not having a government to deal with - as a world hegemon, you have to learn to deal with all kinds of people with bad brains!

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"Stalin is crazy, his brain must have been broken, and he dared to make such an unreasonable request to us! This is an insult to the German Empire, which I must not accept, never! ”

On the morning of 1 March, Hersmann arrived at the Ministry of Defense building at 73 Wilhelm Street, and as soon as he entered the conference room of the High Command, he heard Hitler's characteristic hysterical voice.

This time it seems that Stalin has something wrong with his brain!

"Marshal," shouted a mad Hitler at Hersmann as he walked in, "is that bomb ready to blow up a city?" When can it be used to teach the Bolsheviks a lesson? ”

"What's going on?" Confused, Hersman saw that Foreign Minister Ribbentrop was also there, and asked: "Is it that Molotov has made some unreasonable demands?" ”

He knew that Molotov was visiting Berlin for the past two days, but he was now a front-line commander and did not have the time to participate in secret diplomacy between the Soviet Union and Germany.

"He set out the conditions for the Soviet Union to enter the war," Ribbentrop replied, "and the Soviet Union wanted to get the Baltic States, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Republic of Finland, the Kingdom of Poland, Iran, Afghanistan, and India." ”

Was Stalin really crazy? Or is his brain in water ready for war with Germany?

Hersmann was stunned, but after a second thought, he guessed some of Stalin's true intentions.

"Leader, Stalin is not mad," said Hersmann, shaking his head, "and he probably had no intention of going to war right away." ”

"No intention of going to war right away?" Hitler snorted coldly, "I'm afraid I don't want to go to war on the side of Germany!" He then asked, "When will that bomb be ready?" ”

"1944, or 1945." Hersman gave an approximate time with a frown. Now the scientists of the U Engineering Committee have calculated the more accurate critical value and have begun to look for a way to split uranium-235. In addition, while studying uranium metal, which has undergone a chain reaction, they discovered a completely new element, plutonium.

"Are we going to wait until 1944 or 1945 to attack the Soviet Union?" Hitler asked, looking at him as if provoked by Stalin.

"Yes!" Hersman replied in the affirmative, "At least avoid war with the Soviet Union as much as possible until we defeat Britain and the United States." ”

It was not too late to start a war with the Soviet Union, and it was a big deal to bomb it with atomic bombs -- but Hersmann felt that it was completely unnecessary, because once the United States gave in, Stalin would not have the courage to challenge Germany's world hegemony.

However, the window of time to defeat the United States was very short, and the naval forces of Germany, France, Italy, and Japan had to be assembled to annihilate the main force of the United States Navy before the completion of the huge shipbuilding program of the United States.

Otherwise, when the American battleships and aircraft carriers began to dump, Germany would not be able to reach the United States mainland even if it had atomic bombs.

"Victory over the United States?" Hitler immediately asked, "Did the Japanese admiral promise to send the battleship to the Atlantic?" ”

"Not yet," Hersman shook his head, "but sooner or later they will agree." ”

There's no urgency, there's always an opportunity. In fact, even without 2 Japanese super battleships, Germany would not necessarily have no choice. If Pearl Harbor were to be the same as in history, two of the three Colorado-class ships of the United States would have been blown up by the Japanese.

And for quite some time after that, the U.S. Navy had only 3 super-battleships (USS Colorado, USS North Carolidona, USS Washington), while the Germans had at least 6 super-battleships - this is another important time window!

"Well, let Stalin go for now." Hitler gritted his teeth and regained his composure, "Then how should we reply to Molotov?" Do you have any suggestions? ”

"Leader, we should reject their demands on the Baltics, Finland, Poland, Lithuania." Hersman thought for a moment and said: "In addition, the oil-producing regions of southern Iran cannot be given to the USSR. (To be continued.) )