"The date of the Spanish election has been set?"

"It's set, January 1936, and the transfer of power is February 1936."

"Polls?"

"The Left Yi Front has a relative advantage, and the Left Yi power in Spain is already strong, and the last time it was because the Left Yi United Front collapsed before the general election that the Right Yi coalition won the election. But this time the left-Yi republicans have united, and the people are also enraged by the right-Yi rule of the past few years, and are ready to make a big move, and it seems that they can be elected. ”

In a conference room at Tsosen's General Staff, Infantry Admiral Hirschman was briefing at a meeting by the head of military intelligence, Canaris. The meeting was attended by members of the so-called "Green Solutions Group". Including Hersmann, Guderian, Kesselring, Manstein, Canaris, Halder, Modell, Rommel, Falkenhorst, Tipelskich and others.

Since the German command was now in the hands of Ludendorff and not Hitler, the command structure of the German army was also World War I-style - the Great General Staff was in charge of everything, rather than a large number of high commands, staffs, and headquarters.

In wartime, the General Staff will be divided into three, as in the last world war, with the Eastern Front Headquarters, the Western Front Headquarters and the Berlin Headquarters.

According to the current plan, once the Green Plan is ready to be implemented, Hersman will be appointed commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front in the capacity of Deputy Chief of the General Staff. All of these people who have come to attend the meeting today will be senior staff members of the General Headquarters of the Eastern Front or commanders of the main army groups attached to the Eastern Front.

Although the "Green Plan" is "political, military secondary", it is still necessary to be prepared to fight.

And if you want to base yourself on fighting, you will naturally have a combat target.

On the current Eastern Front, Germany will face six countries: Poland, the Baltics, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and the Soviet Union. Other countries either can't reach it or can't manage it.

Thereinto. The Baltic and Austria were already completely controlled by Germany and were de facto part of Germany.

The Soviet Union was on the side of Germany - although the Soviet Union would not openly support Germany until the outbreak of war, in the event of a war between Germany and the Polish-Czechoslovak alliance, the Soviet Union would fight 100 percent alongside Germany!

And the position of the Kingdom of Hungary is also very much in favor of Germany - although it is the French-installed Admiral Horti who is now in power, the Hungarian people have a deep blood enmity against France, the Czech Republic, Romania and Yugoslavia!

If Admiral Horti dared to support the Czechs against Germany. Then wait to be strangled to death.

So Hungary's position was either in favor of Germany or neutral, and it was impossible to be an enemy of Germany.

The only uncertainty is the Polish Confederation, although Hersman is ready to come up with the two big pies of the Chekhin region and Carpathian Ukraine. But it is difficult to say what measures Britain and France will take, and whether it will be possible for Czechoslovakia to cede land for help, such as the cession of Ceskhin and Carpathian Ukraine to Poland.

Therefore, the Green Plan prepared for war with Poland and Czechoslovakia at the same time, and for the worst - to trigger the Second World War!

In addition, a careful choice was made regarding the timing of the launch of the "Green Plan" - Hersmmann was ready to select the opportunity to come to power on the Spanish Left Yi front. Instigating an incident in Slovakia.

Because everyone knows that the backstage of the Spanish Left Yi Front is the Third International! If Spain's Left Yi Front comes to power and pursues a series of J-Left policies. Then Britain and France, and especially France, will probably be on the edge of their seats.

Under these circumstances, Britain and France would either appease Germany on the Czech question and let Germany and Italy send troops to Spain, or they would take action to extinguish the Spanish Revolution themselves. Whatever policy Britain and France adopted, they had to accommodate Germany on the Czech question. Otherwise, it is possible to trigger a world war between the Soviet Union and Germany against Britain, France, Italy, Poland and Czech Republic!

"Will the right-wing government of Spain hand over power?" Hersman thought for a moment, and then asked—of course he knew the answer. Now it's just knowingly asking.

"Yes!" "Handing over power is a high probability event," Canaris said. Because it is not the extremist Falangists in the Right Yi who are in power now. It was only stupid moderates who were in power, otherwise there would not have been the 1936 election. ”

"Then the time for the launch of the Green Plan was determined to be February 1936." Hersman has made a final decision!

He said: "Before the troops are fully mobilized, the adequacy rate of the mechanized forces must be higher than 100 percent, and the air and naval aviation must be kept on combat alert." If it is decided to launch the second plan, which will be solved by military means, then it will be necessary to destroy the Czechoslovak Air Force at the first time. If Poland supported Czechoslovakia by force. Then the Polish Air Force must also be inflicted a heavy blow at the first time. ”

That is, the offensive will be launched by the Air Force in the first place!

This was almost a common practice in World War II and subsequent wars (and there were exceptions), although before World War II, many countries were ill-prepared for enemy air raids.

"All the airports in western Czechoslovakia, except for those controlled by the Fredeland Army (Sudetenland). It must be destroyed as soon as the war begins, and the same must be prepared for Poland. ”

After Hersmann said this, he looked at his close confidant, the commander of the Luftwaffe, Admiral Kesselring.

"Rest assured, Your Excellency, the Luftwaffe will complete its mission," said Kesselring, who stood up from his seat in a blue Air Force uniform, and said in a tone of great pride, "because our Luftwaffe has the best aircraft in the world, whether it is a fighter or a bomber, we have a clear advantage!" ”

Although Germany has not given up catching up with the world's advanced level in the field of liquid-cooled engines in the past decade, the main models of the Luftwaffe are currently using air-cooled engines.

The most powerful fighter was the D.31 series, introduced by Fokker in 1934, which was the latest addition to the D.21 series, which was also designed and produced by Fokker. The D.31 series features an enclosed cabin, retractable landing gear, an external disposable drop fuel tank and a 1,600 hp twin-row, 14-cylinder BMW 145 engine – the most advanced of all production air-cooled engines in the world, at least one generation ahead of those in the United Kingdom, the United States and France.

It is precisely because of the leadership in the field of air-cooled engines that this Fokker D.31 fighter, which did not exist in history, has become a guarantee for the Luftwaffe to seize air supremacy.

However, Germany's potential adversaries, Britain and France, have not given up their efforts to fight for air supremacy. British and French aircraft designers also knew that they could not compete with Germany on the route of air-cooled engines, so they made efforts on the route of liquid-cooled engines in which they had advantages.

According to reliable intelligence, the British company **** Aircraft and the French company Morana-Sonier are stepping up the design of new fighters with good aerodynamic shapes and liquid-cooled engines.

However, before the mass production of these new British and French fighters, the skies of Europe were still D.31!

This is also where the confidence of Admiral Kesselring of the Air Force lies.

In addition to the D.31, Henschel's Hs-123 series attack aircraft and Junkers' latest Junkers Ju.78 series of medium fast bombers are among the best in their class.

Moreover, the Luftwaffe currently has not only a leading position in equipment technology, but also a great advantage in the number of equipment.

Because Germany's economy was the first to recover, and since 1932 has been growing at a high speed, the German government has more powerful financial resources to promote the "100,000 pilots plan" and the "5,000 military aircraft plan". The former was a pilot training program that called for massive pilot training in peacetime, with the aim of bringing the number of pilots in Germany to 100,000 by 1939!

The latter, on the other hand, required the Luftwaffe and naval aviation to expand their fleets to 5,000 aircraft by 1939. According to the plan, by the spring of 1936, the Luftwaffe should have about 3000 military aircraft, which would be the second largest in the world after the Soviet Union in terms of numbers.

Of course, Germany's military power is not without its shortcomings. The German navy was inadequate, not only were its surface ships unprepared for war, but even its submarine forces were very ill-prepared - in Schleicher and Hersmann's plans, war would break out after June 1939, not early 1936.

And according to the plan, at the initial stage of the war, from 1939 to 1941, the combat mission of the German Navy was only to disrupt trade. Therefore, the expansion plan of the Navy will be divided into two phases, which will be divided into 1939. Before 1939, the Navy mainly focused on accumulating horizontal hull technology (design, construction and application), developing shore-based aviation and carrier-based aviation, and developing submarine forces. Only after 1939 will large surface ships be built on a large scale.

This secret plan for naval expansion, codenamed "Z", was proposed by Admiral Raeder and represented the collective interests of the German Navy, and Hersmann naturally had no choice but to comply.

Therefore, the revision given by the General Staff was only to increase the number of submarines to about 300 by June 1939 - this was also the case with the commander of the submarine force, Karl Murphy. Dönitz's request.

But now it was only 1935, and there were less than 50 operational submarines under Dönitz's command, of which only 20 could be used for ocean-going operations. Even by February 1936, the number of submarines was only about 60, which was simply not enough to blockade Britain in wartime.

However, it was not impossible for Germany to win in 1936 - the key was to unite with the Soviet Union!

Because the Soviet Red Navy currently has more than 80 submarines of various types, including about 20 large submarines that can be used for ocean-going operations, as long as the Soviet Union goes to war against Britain and France, then the submarines of the Soviet Union and Germany are enough to pose a great threat to Britain's overseas routes. (To be continued.) )