Chapter 48: Richthofen
Hitler's next target was Paris!
Paris doesn't know how many enemy troops there are, but there are tens of thousands, and the four or five thousand combat forces in Hitler's hands are completely insufficient, let alone attacking, even the defense is a little difficult.
Hitler, however, still demanded an attack on Paris. Hitler's ideas were discerned only by a few people, such as Manstein and Wessure.
This idea is mainly considered from a political point of view.
Hitler was the head of the Security Service and had some experience in politics. Victor demanded domestic stability, and how to stabilize the country, in addition to improving the people's living welfare, another way is to win foreign wars.
Now that the Reich is in short supply of materials and the people's living standards are declining, the only hope of the German people is to win this war as soon as possible, as long as they win the war, they can not only get rid of the current difficulties, but also have a vast colony and become the world's largest power, as long as they can win the war, then the current previous difficulties can be solved.
This is equivalent to the spiritual food of the people.
However, since the signing of the treaty with Russia a few months earlier, the German war has made no progress, and the German people have not only been denied the benefits of the war, but have become even more miserable when Russia ceded large tracts of territory to Germany.
Now that the country is in turmoil, perhaps only a military victory at the front can slightly ease the anger of the people.
Therefore, Hitler had to attack Paris.
Hitler reported his ideas to the General Staff of the Army Group, and Ludendorff quickly replied: "Your unit has completed the task of holding back the enemy for two days, and authorized Hitler, the commander of the Berlin regiment, to move at his own time." ”
It was already evening after receiving Ludendorff's reply, Hitler was excited, and ordered all his troops to go to Paris, Hitler led the Berlin regiment and the cavalry regiment to go first, the infantry regiment walked slowly, and there were two battalions of the infantry regiment left behind in Hedu Town. Hedu Town is easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is only more than 30 kilometers away from Paris, and it can be reached in a few hours, and it can be retreated to Hedu Town at any time.
"Captain, we will enter the city of Saint-Denis at once, and after the city of Saint-Denis, we will reach the outskirts of Paris." Weikrich and Hitler marched side by side, and the French reinforcements defeated by Hitler were said to be on the outskirts of Berlin, which also meant that they had to be cautious now to avoid being ambushed by the enemy.
"Oh? The city of Saint-Denis? ”
The city of Saint-Denis is located in the northeast of Paris and is a satellite city of Paris, among which the most famous is the Saint-Denis Church, which was formerly the royal mausoleum of France, where most of the French kings and queens are buried.
The main reason Hitler knew that St. Denis was a royal mausoleum was because the German hero Richthofen was buried in the city of St. Denis.
"Let's go and see the Richthofen crypt and let the soldiers rest in place."
Richthofen's tomb was not far from the marching route, and it took ten minutes to ride a horse.
It was the middle of summer, the night sky was cloudless, the first quarter moon hung high in the night sky, and the faint silver light shone obliquely on the cold stone tablet.
The stele is marble, tall and large, and the inscriptions on it are golden. In front of the tombstone, a circle of wooden guardrails was erected, and the tomb was arranged like the owner's private courtyard, surrounded by flowers, and even the ground was paved with marble slabs.
Originally, only a few people such as Hitler and Kleist were going to the city of Saint-Denis, but many soldiers and generals knew that there was a cemetery in Richthofen nearby, and they all asked to go and pay their respects, and Hitler fulfilled everyone's wish and ordered the whole army to take a detour to the city of Saint-Denis, passing by the cemetery of Richthofen.
The soldiers lined up in a long line, walked lightly, passed the grave, and paid their respects with their eyes to this hero of the German ace of air combat and in the hearts of all people throughout Europe.
Richthofen was born into a famous family, noble, handsome, resolute, resolute, and skillful, and was the ace pilot who shot down the most enemy planes in the world war, and was awarded the Blue Max Medal.
He drove the "Red Baron" three-wing fighter to sweep the entire battlefield on the Western Front, like a raging flame, rolling around, bringing pain, panic, panic and trembling to the enemy, bringing joy, joy, solace and self-confidence to his own people, whenever the German soldiers on the position saw a blood-red fighter flying in the sky, the soldiers were all thunderous and morale-boosting, and his great charm made him one of the most prestigious air heroes in the history of human air warfare, and his fame spread all over the world.
For a pilot, it is his duty to be able to shoot down one enemy plane, to be able to shoot down ten enemy planes is a trump card, and to be able to shoot down nearly a hundred enemy planes is a myth.
In addition, Richthofen was a gentleman, not only did not attack the parachuting pilot, but also did his best to rescue the wounded enemy, so that he won the respect of the whole of Europe.
Three or four months earlier, when Richthofen had been shot down over the territory of France, it caused a strong shock, and no one would have believed that the myth of invincibility would be ended, and many Allied soldiers fled their positions to pick up fragments of the plane as a memorial to the place where he fell. Someone wept over this, and there were even Germans who planned to use 20 divisions and 5000 artillery pieces to get his body back!
The Entente held a grand funeral for the "Red Baron": buried in the national cemetery of Saint-Denis, six Allied captains carried the coffin of the great adversary and guided slowly by a clergyman. When the coffin entered the tomb, the soldiers on both sides fired their guns into the sky to show the highest respect!
"He was a great German soldier!"
Hitler's solemn military salute to Richthofen, a few months ago, Richthofen created the "Bloody April", the British were beaten by Richthofen and his teammates to dare not fly, so that the fame of Europe was all over Europe, Kaiser Wilhelm II personally awarded him the Blue Max Medal, for propaganda and protection, he was left in Berlin, not allowed to fly on the front line, and spent more and more time on managing affairs and social occasions.
At that time, Hitler was forming the Security Bureau, frequently going to various banquets, and Richthofen met several times at banquets.
Later, tired of the comfortable life in Berlin and yearning for the free sky, Richthofen slipped back to the front line, still driving his "Red Baron" into the air.
Unexpectedly, Richthofen died so suddenly.
The last time Hitler saw him, he smiled and said: "Since I have taken your tank, then you will have the opportunity to play in our air force in the future, and I will let you fly over the Alps in my plane." ”
Hitler closed his eyes, and the blonde young man sitting in the fiery red fighter plane came to his mind, with a confident smile, a proud record, a heroic ending, a white scarf fluttering in the wind, circling like a dance, the boundless sky was his stage, and freedom was his dream.