An order from Hindenburg brought an end to Major Hersmann's happy life in Petrograd. He puts on his military uniform again, starts life as an office officer, and has to meet his girlfriend Chloe. Feng. Heinsberg broke up temporarily.

"Ludwig, do I have to go to Petrograd?"

In the large house with three living rooms near Kurthornstrasse, Chloe prepared dinner in the kitchen in an apron, and at the same time did not forget to talk aloud to Hersmann, who was sitting in the dining room reading the newspaper—if there was anything in this era of neither computers nor mobile phones that pleased Hersmann's soul in the afterlife, it was probably the German machismo that still existed in this era. Even when a woman like Chloe was with Hersman, she obediently cooked, cooked, and cleaned the room, never complaining, as if everything was taken for granted.

"Must go," Hersman said, closing the newspaper, which was full of all sorts of good news, and picking up the coffee cup on the coffee table and taking a sip of Chloe's own coffee. "My dear, actually, I don't want you to leave."

It's a truth that a beautiful and considerate girlfriend like Chloe would be a man who would love to tie her to his side.

"But the relationship on the Russian side must be maintained," Hersman said, "and it is so important for my future!" The relationship is like planting flowers, which must be carefully cared for, watered, fertilized, pruned...... No one else can represent me, only you. ”

"But I'll miss you." Chloe's voice sounded a little unhappy.

"I'll miss you, too," replied Hersman, "but fortunately we won't be separated for long...... By early next year at the latest, we'll be together forever. ”

Hersman said this in a somewhat low tone.

"What's wrong? Hirschman, you're not happy? Chloe came out of the kitchen with two tender steaks grilled. I guess, it's not because you're with me forever, right? ”

To be together forever certainly means to get married, and Hersman and Chloe's romance has developed so quickly that it has reached the point of talking about marriage. They agreed that as soon as the war was over, they would get married and have another bunch of little Hesman......

"Of course not, I love you, there's no doubt about that!" Hersmann smiled at Chloe, "But at the beginning of next year, the German Empire may no longer exist......"

"Bang dang!" Chloe slammed the salad plate to the ground, and she looked at Hersman in a daze. "Oh God! It's horrible! Will Germany turn into a second Russia? ”

She did not doubt Hersmann's judgment, because Germany now really resembles Russia before the February Revolution! Even if Germany itself did not have problems, the Austro-Hungarian Empire would sooner or later disintegrate, and then Germany would be affected.

"No, I was transferred back from above, just to prevent this from happening, and I will be responsible for formulating relevant plans."

The first directive received by the Eastern Division of the newly established Military Intelligence was to develop a plan codenamed "Gray" - the general term for a series of plans to deal with defeat. The situation that the "Gray Plan" will face is that Germany is facing an irreparable disaster militarily, that is, defeat!

"God, what did we do wrong?" Chloe inhaled sharply, her white teeth gnawing at her red lips with a look of grief. She was a countess of the Second Empire, and she was not at all the same species as the Virgins of later Germany...... She has been repeatedly brainwashed by German nationalism since she can remember, and her love for the country and the emperor is more than everything! Although he was a little mentally prepared for the upcoming defeat, it was still a little difficult to accept it now when he heard Hirschman say it himself.

"We didn't do anything wrong!" Hersman stood up and walked to the table, pausing beside Chloe, reaching out and gently caressing her fragrant shoulder. "In addition to starting a war without being prepared...... But we must not make the same mistake again. This is also the value of our existence in the East! ”

Although Field Marshal Hindenburg did not have the next war in mind, his instructions to the Eastern Office did not say anything so long-term. But Hersman had a sense that time was running out.

Because through the understanding of the history of World War II in later generations, it is very clear that the biggest boss, the US imperialism, has a huge war potential. Until the war was won, of all the major belligerents, probably only the United States had unlimited potential to exploit - the United States accounted for 38.7 percent of the world's industrial production before World War II, compared to Germany only 13.2 percent. The total number of casualties in the war in the United States was only 1.07 million, of which 400,000 died, and the casualties accounted for only about 5% of the maximum number of people mobilized in the United States. In other words, at the end of World War II, the United States, an industrialized beast, was far from exhaustion!

Unless Hersmann was sure that Germany would seize the British mainland in one fell swoop after the end of the Battle of France, the United States would lose its springboard to land on the European mainland. Otherwise, even if Hersman could stabilize the Soviet Union, victory would have been extremely difficult. Moreover, many things are not wishful thinking, whether the USSR will enter the war, whether Soviet-German relations will break down, it is difficult to say now.

Therefore, at the end of the First World War, it was necessary to preserve Germany's military and industrial strength as much as possible, to allow them to retain a little more strength under the devastation of the Treaty of Versailles, and to keep Germany's technological superiority advanced after a long period of hardship, so that the chances of victory in the future would be greater.

Cooperation with the Soviet Union, in Hersmann's vision, was the best way to preserve Germany's power - but cooperation with the red monster of the Soviet Union was not enough by personal friendship. The Bolshevik fighters did not recognize their relatives for the cause of human liberation! Naturally, Hersmann would not have been naïve enough to trust Lenin and Stalin. So, after sending Chloe to the train to Petrograd. He then boarded the train to Fort Madgar with a young corporal who had just entered the East.

This time the corporal who accompanied him was recruited from among the Russian-German who had emigrated to the Gulf of Riga. Rosenberg was taken seriously by Hersmann, who was probably the old Nazi who wrote the book "On Race" and advocated anti-Jewish and offensive Russia, and the madman who served as Minister of Eastern Occupation Affairs in World War II (in charge of the occupied territories of the Soviet Union) and was later hanged in Nuremberg - the Nazis' anti-Jewish and offensive policies against the Soviet Union were largely the result of his promotion.

Hersman saw that the name of this scourge was on the list of "activists" sent by Major Halder (based in Riga), and he did not hesitate to bring him under his command - the destructive power of this person outside may be too great, it is better to absorb it into the organization and control it as soon as possible.

"Major, your coffee." In the eastbound train car, Rosenberg, a year younger than Hirschmann and with a baby face, diligently brewed a pot of coffee for Hirschmann, and then inquired about the purpose of the trip. "Is there anything important about us going to Magdeburg?"

"Visit," said Hersmann, taking the military kettle with the coffee, taking a sip, add, "Magdeburg has the largest prison in Germany. ”

"Uh, you have a friend in jail?" Rosenberg was a little surprised, he knew that Hersman was a very good person, and if his friend hadn't committed too much of a crime, it wouldn't be difficult to get out, right?

"No, that person isn't my friend." Hersman shook his head. "But I'm going to find a way to get him out of prison...... Because he shouldn't be in jail right now. ”

"Oh." Rosenberg blinked, still confused. "Major, may I ask who he is? So I can go through the formalities for you to visit the prison......"

Hersman glanced at him and said lightly, "That man's name is Yozef. Clemens. Pilsudski! ”

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