"Kurt, Ludwig, you don't have to tell me about the merits of expanding the army, I'm not stupid enough to know what's going on. But I still have to ask if France and Belgium are really ready to use force. How do we cope? ”

In a spacious, once used office by the German Emperor Wilhelm II, the aging President Hindenburg sits in an armchair and looks at Schleicher and Hersmann with cloudy eyes.

He has lost his decisiveness and judgment, and he is confused for a while, and may have Alzheimer's. Hersman sighed inwardly.

In fact, Hindenburg did not just learn about Hersmann and Schleicher's plan today -- this plan was drawn up by the Department of Defense and the General Staff together, and it took nearly half a year to rehearse and deduce it, and all possible contingencies were taken into account long ago.

Hindenburg and Ludendorff knew before the plan was made. And after the plan was formulated, it was handed over to the two of them for review. In the end, Hindenburg nodded, and it was only possible to advance to the point where it is now.

"Your Excellency," Hersman could not afford to deal with a president, who was mostly demented, and could only patiently explain, "if the enemy wants to fight, then we will accompany him to the end!" ”

The plan has been set for a long time!

the plan of the existing and French heads-up; There was also a plan to unite the Soviet Union with France and Poland -- although the Soviet Union's first five-year plan had not yet been completed, Poland had taken the right bank of Ukraine in this time and space, and Lenin was "angry", and even the children of the Soviet Union knew that "white Poland must be eliminated." Therefore, once Poland declared war on Germany, Stalin could only join it head-on.

In fact, in January 1931, Stalin had already carried out some mobilization at the request of the German side, forming the Ukrainian Front and the Belarusian Front. The SB-1 twin-engine medium bomber (a Soviet-German fast bomber with night flight capability) was also constantly being dispatched to violate Polish airspace and create a tense atmosphere on the Soviet-Polish border - frightening, of course. Stalin did not want to fight Poland now, but he also did not want Poland to kill Germany.

"Can we beat France?" President Hindenburg seems to have forgotten that there was Poland and asked only France.

"Able to resist, if the French show signs of an offensive," Hersman said, "the Army will send 10 divisions to seize the favorable terrain in the Rhine region." Establish defensive positions. They will hold out there until the expansion is completed......"

"Is it possible?"

"It can be done, because our air force will provide support to the ground forces." "We have 150 J.28H heavy bombers (TB-2, but not the original model), 300 Junkers J.30 medium bombers (SB-1, 150 of which are torpedo bombers), 350 Hs-120 dive bombers (Henschel, which produced locomotives, also entered aviation in the late 20s and developed this dive bomber jointly with Fokker) and 450 Fokker D.20 fighters. The performance of these aircraft is very superior, far ahead of their French counterparts. And the pilots who flew those planes were also very good! ”

Because of the support of the Soviet Union and civil aviation orders, Germany was still leading in 1931. Although the Great Depression slowed down the ramp-up, the 14-cylinder, 1200-horsepower air cooler is now very mature. The 14-cylinder, 1,400 hp air-cooled engine has also started trial production in small batches.

With these air-cooled engines with superior performance. Not only does the German aircraft manufacturing company still control more than 70% of the world's civil aircraft, but it also produces several military aircraft with very good performance.

"Your Excellency, if there is a war with France," said Hersmann, "we will, according to General Duhey's doctrine, rely on air superiority to force the other side to sue for peace." ”

"Du what?" Hindenburg asked, squinting.

"Julio. Duhei, an Italian general. Ludendorff was younger and clearer than his "big brother" Hindenburg. He suggested that the Army would be of little use in future wars. You can only squat in the trenches, and the victory or defeat will be decided by the bombing of aircraft. ”

"That's right......" Hindenburg nodded. Our planes can be blown up to Paris? ”

"We have 450 bombers that can reach Paris!" Schleicher said very proudly, "And the French fighters flew too slowly to catch up with our bombers." ”

He was actually lying to Hindenburg, the J.28H with bombs was not very fast and would definitely be overtaken by French fighters. However, the J.30 did run very fast, even with bombs, faster than the fighters in service with the French! Other than that. Both the J.28H and J.30 have night flight capability. Now the night fighter equipped with radar has not yet been invented - there is simply no such high-end radar. Therefore, the way fighters intercept bombers at night is to install a searchlight on the fuselage, but it is basically useless......

So Germany now has 450 planes that can go to Paris and drop bombs in the dark!

"Your Excellency, war is a rare event," added Hersman, "and we have built these planes only to train pilots and to intimidate the French...... If they don't take any drastic measures. These planes will continue to hide in the snow. If they shout and shout to kill, then use these planes to have a military parade. It is possible to make the planes go around Berlin in circles, so that 1,250 planes can fly 2,500 planes. ”

These 1,250 planes were the secret existence of the Luftwaffe (most of the pilots were not active military personnel), the open Baltic Air Force and the Baltic naval aviation, and the only thing in the German military power that could get their hands on it. It may be good to scare people, but it's certainly not enough to really fight.

"And we also prepared pacifists," Schleicher said, "and the general's cabinet is only a transition, which will not exist for more than two months." When compulsory military service is implemented, the generals' cabinet will hand over power to democratically elected pacifist politicians. ”

"Who are the elected pacifist politicians?"

"Adolf. Mr. Hitler, the leader of the National Socialist Workers' Party of Germany! ”

"Oh, a socialist?" Hindenburg breathed a sigh of relief, "Then I will rest assured, everyone knows that socialism loves peace." It is a way for us to be wicked and let him appease the French...... Well, I approve the appointment of Admiral Seckert (retired) as Prime Minister of the caretaker government until the parliamentary elections are over and a new government is elected. ”

……

The day after Hersmann met President Hindenburg, who was somewhat senile, the leading European newspapers published the latest list of the German caretaker cabinet in the most prominent place on the front page of the front page - a cabinet formed by President Hindenburg's presidential decree (a power conferred on the president by Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution).

"General's Cabinet...... And a marshal president! What do these Germans want to do? Do they want to fight with us? ”

Inside the Prime Minister's Office in Paris, France, Prime Minister Pierre. Reival was anxiously moving around his office, and in a chair near his desk, Foreign Minister Aristide, who was nearly 70 years old. Brian squinted his eyes, as if drowsy.

"What do you say we should do, Mr. Brian?" Prime Minister Reival turned around a few times, and finally returned to Briand - although he was the prime minister of the left-Pai coalition government, Reival still had to listen to Briand on the diplomatic line.

"It's just a caretaker government," Briand glanced at Reival who looked like ants on a hot pan, "and nothing will happen to them in two months." ”

Will it be a caretaker government? Reival will be skeptical.

"I know the Germans, they are not like the Russians," Briand smiled, "a military dictatorship will not exist in Germany, and if they do, their people will probably ......."

Before he could finish his sentence, the telephone on the Prime Minister's desk rang sharply and loudly. Reival and Briand glanced at each other, Reival grabbed the telephone receiver, and after listening to a few words, his face suddenly changed greatly.

"Pierre, what's wrong?" Brian asked.

"Something is wrong!" The French Prime Minister's voice trembled a little, "Germans, the Germans are going to tear up the Treaty of Versailles!" ”

"What? What the? The old man, Brian, couldn't hold his breath at this time, and stood up from his chair suddenly, "What the hell is going on?" ”

"They, they announced the resumption of compulsory military service, to, within two months, the German Wehrmacht will be reorganized into the Wehrmacht, and the number of the army will be expanded to 800,000! Mr. Brian, what shall we do now? ”

Aristide. Brian's body shook, and he nearly collapsed in the office. The expansion of the army was clearly the first step for Germany to tear up the Treaty of Versailles! If sanctions are not imposed immediately, the consequences may be dire.

But how many sanctions does France have?

"Mr. Brian, do you want to send troops to the Ruhr now?" Reival asked in a low voice.

Recapture of the Ruhr area? Brian shook his head and said heavily: "We can't act rashly, it's not 1922...... Germany was not without the power to resist. If you want to use force, you have to be prepared to pay huge casualties! Moreover, without the help of Poland, we will most likely suffer defeat. ”

Poland...... It won't help! Because in the past few days, the Polish ambassador has been going to the French Foreign Ministry every day to ask for help - the Soviet Red Army has massed in Ukraine and Belarus, and fast bombers (reconnaissance type) have violated Polish airspace every day!

Under these circumstances, how could Poland be at war with Germany again?

"Monsieur Briand, are we just going to let Germany go?" Reival wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and his tone of voice was much more relaxed.

"No, they can't be let go like that." Briand was silent for a moment, "We're going to sanction Germany!" We are going to sue Germany to the League of Nations and demand collective sanctions against Germany! ”

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Although the time for Germany to return to compulsory military service was advanced, the French prime minister was not replaced, and Reival in the book was in power for the first time. Historically, the left-wing Pai government in France has been like this, and they are not willing to work hard - they are all elected by people who are not willing to work hard! In fact, to put appeasement on the head of the right Pai is to wronged them, these things are all done by the Left Pai Madonna, the origin of the European Madonna. (To be continued.) )