707 turned to war VIII Hitler's assumptions

The tide of history is moving forward. Paul. Feng. President Hindenburg, a collaborator of Chancellor Hitler, the second president of the Weimar Republic, and the last obstacle to Hitler's emergence as a dictator, died on August 2, 1934, after a long illness. When he died, only his family and priests could be by his side, and the garden, corridors, and living rooms of his estate were filled with officers of his Prussian officer corps, the nobles of old Germany, German industrialists, the upstarts of the Nazi Party, and foreign diplomatic officers from friends in the East. All of them were full of grief and awaited the birth of a new and powerful German Third Reich! According to President Hindenburg's will and the consensus of the German upper class, the successor to the presidency will be Chancellor Adolf of the German Empire. Hitler, and the presidency and chancellorship will henceforth become one, turning into the Führer of the German Reich! And Germany's preparations for war will also be on the fast track because of this.

The door to Hindenburg's bedroom finally opened with a bang, and a Lutheran priest dressed in a black "colored" priest's robe was the first to come out, announcing the death of the old president in a solemn tone. All the people who waited here hung their heads deeply, and some of the devout believers were still drawing crosses in front of their "chests", and their eyes were full of tears. It is not only mourning the end of a great man and his era, but also welcoming a new era with a "stirring" mood. Hindenburg's family at the Oscars. Feng. Hindenburg's leaders all came out. Hitler, who had been waiting in the hall for a long time, stepped forward and held Oscar tightly. Feng. Hindenburg's hands expressed their condolences to him, and then all the guests stepped forward to express their condolences to him in turn. The last one to step forward was a short, stocky, dark-skinned Oriental, who was Zeng Qi, the ambassador of the Republic of China to the German Empire.

"My father's last wish was for the greatest soldier in the East to come to his funeral." Oscar. Feng. Hindenburg shook Zeng Qi's hand, paused slightly, and said: "The funeral will be held at the end of next month, and I hope that Marshal Luo will be able to come to East Prussia at that time." ”

Of course, this so-called last wish was not made by Hindenburg himself, the old president who had long been confused, and not long ago regarded Hitler, who had come to visit his patients, for the abdicated German Emperor Wilhelm II. It is estimated that he has a "hair" disease similar to senile "sexual" dementia. And the one who made this request and hoped that Luo Yaoguo would come to Germany in the name of attending the funeral should be Hitler or the German Army Corps Bureau (General Staff). According to the information that Zeng Qi has, the German Army has also begun to prepare a battle plan to attack the Soviet Union, and the Germans have always thought that they are the main force in this war. Therefore, the power to organize the overall battle plan should also be in the hands of Germany. However, Germany could not unilaterally draw up a battle plan without taking into account the ideas of its allies......

Zeng Qi looked at Oscar. Feng. Hindenburg replied in a low voice: "I will convey to Marshal Rowe the will of President Hindenburg, and I believe that he will accept the invitation to come to East Prussia to bid farewell to the greatest president of the German Empire." Your Excellency, please pay your respects......" As he said he bent down slightly and bowed to Oscar. Feng. Hindenburg expressed his condolences.

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Luo Yaoguo took a leisurely walk in the "flower" garden of the General Staff Building of the National Defense Forces with his hands behind his back. This large-scale building was built not so long ago and was part of the preparations for war. This is because with the expansion of the Wehrmacht and the approach of war, the work of the Wehrmacht General Staff is becoming more and more arduous, not only to be the chief steward and chief instructor of the millions of troops, but also to organize one war plan after another...... And behind a successful war plan, there are often dozens of alternatives and abandoned plans. In order to be able to undertake this series of heavy work, the scale of the General Staff Headquarters naturally had to be expanded, and the original small office space naturally could not accommodate the ever-expanding brain of the Wehrmacht, so there was this new Wehrmacht General Staff Building, which covers an area of more than 1 million square meters, is six stories high, and has a total construction area of 550,000 square meters.

Of course, such an expanded General Staff could not let Natalie, a pregnant woman, be the secretary general, and Major General Xiao Yuhan, who once served as the deputy minister of propaganda and national education as a representative of the military, has now been recalled and has once assumed the important responsibility of secretary general. At this moment, Secretary-General Xiao Da was holding a notebook and following behind Luo Yaoguo, recording some of the words he ordered. At present, several major powers in the world, except for the United States, which is still living leisurely, have begun to make intense preparations for war, especially China, Germany, Poland, and the Soviet Union, the four protagonists of future wars, are going all out to prepare for this life-and-death battle. The alliance between China and Germany and Poland also seems to be getting closer, and after the death of German President Hindenburg, Luo Yaoguo and Field Marshal Himigvi, chief of the Polish Army General Staff, both received invitations to attend the funeral. Obviously, this funeral will turn into a meeting between the leaders of China and Germany, and perhaps Hitler, who has just sat on the throne of the Führer, is eager to establish his position as the leader of the anti-Soviet alliance at this "summit".

Luo Yaoguo did not mean to be unhappy about his hard work to contact all parties to organize an alliance, but he wanted to let Hitler, who "got something for nothing", act as the leader of the alliance, he smiled and "groaned", and casually instructed Xiao "Yu" and said coldly: "Send a telegram to An Sihua in Lanzhou, and ask him to go to Germany with me to attend the funeral in Hindenburg." Anastasia to Vladivostok also sent a letter, asking her to also go to Germany for this funeral, and let the commander-in-chief of the Russian army, Denikin, also go...... By the way, Lin Yurong, chief of staff of the Far Eastern Front, will also attend this funeral, he has been fighting the Soviet Red Army in the Far East for almost three years, and the German side should listen to his advice. ”

Xiao "Yu" Han Nuonuo nodded in agreement, and suddenly asked regretfully: "Auxiliary marshal, I'm afraid it's not appropriate to let the Russian 'empress' attend President Hindenburg's funeral, right?" Hitler wanted to bury Hindenburg in Tannenberg, where Hindenburg commanded the German ** team to defeat the Tsarist Russian army, would the Russian "empress" feel unhappy? ”

Luo Yaoguo glanced back at Xiao Yuhan and smiled faintly: "Traceless is careful, if you don't remind me, I really forgot it." But now Anastasia can't care about this, and finding a way to please Hitler is the most important thing. She wanted to restore her dynasty without the support of this German madman...... This "female" queen is not an ordinary person, she knows the priorities, and she will also talk about people and talk nonsense, which is not simple. He thought for a moment, and then said, "In this case, I will draft the letter to the 'female' emperor myself, and I will explain the situation to her." ”

Xiao Yuhan had been secretly looking at Luo Yaoguo's face with the corner of his eyes, and found that the corners of his mouth pulled slightly when he mentioned the "empress", and he "revealed" a somewhat strange smile, so he immediately comprehended and handed over a sentence: "Assistant, why don't you ask the 'empress' to go to Shanghai first, go to Germany with you, and explain the situation to her on the way, right?" ”

Luo Yaoguo looked at Xiao Yuhan with a little bit of abuse in his expression: "Without a trace, you will vote for me!" Xiao Yuhan hurriedly said: "Where did the assistant marshal come from, the development of special friendship between you and the 'empress' is entirely for the sake of national interests, and if the Soviet Union is destroyed in the future, we also need a Russia with a certain strength to act as a buffer between China and Germany." ”

Luo Yaoguo winked at Xiao Yuhan and said with a wicked smile: "I really like Caucasian 'women' with hot bodies. Anastasia is this type, although she is not as beautiful as Natalie, but she is still a beauty, so I will sleep with her. If I didn't like her, I wouldn't sleep with her for the good of the country! As he spoke, he patted Xiao Yuhan on the shoulder again: "After this funeral, it is estimated that an important military meeting will be held, and the overall plan for the war against the Soviet Union may be discussed...... I guess this is also a bargaining meeting between countries, and you go and ask MacArthur and Bai Jiansheng to come to the office and wait for me. ”

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Standing in front of the map, looking at the horizontal lines and several huge arrows outlined by Guderian on the map, the eyes of the German Führer suddenly flashed, as if he thought of something interesting, but in an instant, it dimmed, and it became as if nothing had happened just now.

Guderian did not notice the changes behind him, and as the director of the armored forces, his job was to assemble the most powerful armored forces in the world by the end of 1938 and to develop a plan for the corresponding use of armored forces...... According to the expansion plan approved by Hitler, the German armored forces will form ten armored divisions according to the standards of Chinese armored divisions before the start of the war! All of them use the 20-ton No. 2 tank and the 30-ton No. 3 tank, which were jointly developed by China and Germany.

After two years of continuous improvement, the former has now basically been perfected. It had the No. 2A as an infantry tank, and the No. 2D with a 75-mm 40-caliber anti-tank gun; and the No. 2 assault gun, modified from the chassis of the No. 2 tank and armed with an 88-mm gun; The 150-mm self-propelled gun on the chassis of the No. 2 tank was also used - the No. 2 self-propelled gun.

The 30-ton Tank 3 is an upgraded version of the 2nd Tank, and the first model of this tank, the 3D A, has already been tested. No. 3 A type weighs 32 tons, has a crew of 5 people, the main weapon is a "door" 75 mm 48 times the caliber of the main gun, the secondary weapon is two "Ting" 7.92 mm (German version) or 7.62 mm (Chinese version) machine guns, the car model is 2.92 meters, the vehicle height is 2.39 meters, the use of Christie suspension device, 500 horsepower diesel engine developed by MAN company, the maximum speed is up to 55 kilometers per hour, the maximum range is 470 kilometers, and the armor is 18-60 mm high-quality armor steel at an angle. According to the development plan, the No. 3 tank would complete all development and development work by the end of June 1937 and put into production, and by the end of April 1938, before the outbreak of war, at least 10,000 No. 3 tanks should be equipped with the Chinese and German armies. In addition, the armies of the two countries will have at least 15,000 No. 2 tanks. At the same time, the Polish Army will also receive a small number of No. 2 tanks and several thousand obsolete No. 1 tanks.

With such a large armored assault force, the protagonist of this war of aggression against the Soviet Union is, of course, the armored forces. As the authority in the world to command the operation of armored forces, Guderian, who has been promoted to lieutenant general, has taken over the task of formulating a general battle plan.

Guderian, who was ordered to come to the Chancellery to explain the general battle plan to Hitler, quickly sketched the situation of China, Germany, Poland, Soviet Russia, and other parties on a blank topographic map of Eurasia from memory, as well as the road map for future advances. This made Hitler admire, and he smiled and asked: "General Guderian, tell me what you think, we will be able to destroy this evil empire easily!" ”

"Nope! I don't think it will be easy to destroy the USSR, my Führer. ”

Guderian turned his head, saluted and looked at the map again, and replied bluntly: "The information from the stalemate Far Eastern Front shows that the Soviet Red Army is an army with strong strength and tenacious combat effectiveness, their infantry unilateral combat effectiveness is stronger than that of the squadron, and even no less than the Germans, and their artillery firepower is also very powerful, but they are lacking in both armored forces and air force, but after all these years of war in the Far East, The Soviet Red Army also had already mastered a certain amount of experience in anti-tank warfare and anti-aircraft operations. From a certain point of view, although the war in the Far East consumed the national strength of the Soviet Union and greatly slowed down the pace of heavy industry construction in the Soviet Union, it also allowed the Soviet Red Army to gain valuable practical experience in the Far East battlefield! Führer, I think you also know how much difference there is between a recruit who has absolutely no real combat experience and a veteran who has been in battle. ”

"Guderian, are you too pessimistic? We, together with China, Poland, and Belarus, are going to throw in eight to nine million troops! If necessary, we can put in more troops, and by then we will have nearly 30,000 tanks, assault guns, self-propelled guns, and more than 20,000 combat aircraft of various kinds. Hitler looked at Guderian with confidence in his words.

"I'm not saying that I can't defeat the Soviet Union, but that I won't win easily."

"Why? Is it because the Soviet army was more experienced than ours? ”

"That's one reason, but it's not the main one." Guderian's eyebrows twisted slightly, picked up the command baton and pointed fiercely at Warsaw and Vladivostok, and said: "The main reason is that our alliance is actually not united, the 'Polish' and the White Russians have their own plans, even the Chinese have their own plans." As far as I know, China, Poland and Belarus did not intend to fight a decisive battle with the Soviet Union, and they pinned their hopes of victory on the decisive "sexual" victory of the Wehrmacht over the Soviet Red Army. They all wanted Germany to fight hard with the USSR, and then pick up the ready-made benefits themselves...... Therefore, the three million "Polish" troops, the three million squadron ** and the 500,000 White Russian army are likely to not play much role, and only three hundred to four million German ** troops can really be relied on!

"How...... Doesn't the squadron play much of a role? They are the initiators of this alliance. ”

"That will depend on the deployment of the USSR, if they abandon the Far East, Eastern Siberia, Eastern Central Asia, etc. Shrink the Eastern Front to Western Siberia, so that the squadron will not take any forceful action on the Eastern Front. Therefore, it is very likely that this war will have 3.5 million "elite" German troops and 3 million half-hearted "Polish" troops against 650 to 7 million Soviet Red Army, which lacks mechanized equipment and air force, but is determined and ready to sacrifice everything! We can still win in the end, but there will be a tough battle before that. ”

"So do you think we have a way to make the Chinese play a greater role in this war?" Hitler asked, narrowing his eyes.

Guderian shook his head, and seemed to be a little uncertain, he said: "I don't know, it all depends on the Soviet Union, if they decisively abandon the unimportant eastern front and transfer their forces to Europe, I don't think the squadron will throw millions of people to fight in Siberia, where the extreme climate and harsh 'communication' conditions cannot support the large army to fight." ”

"Well, I understand what you mean, I will find a way to leave the Soviet Red Army with a hundred to one and a half million people to deal with the Chinese. You now need to make three plans, one is to unite the "Polish" army to attack the Soviet Union; Second, we attacked the Soviet Union from Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia alone; The third is ...... The plan to attack Poland first, and then the Soviet Union. ”

The last scenario proposed by the Führer of the Third Reich made Guderian secretly surprised, and after looking at the map and thinking for a long time, he muttered: "My Führer, are you referring to the situation of attacking the 'Poland' and then attacking the Soviet Union ...... 'Poland' fall to the Soviet Union?" ”

"I don't know, it may be that 'Poland' Lan defected to the Soviet Union, or it is possible that 'Poland' Lan was completely defeated by a sudden attack by the Soviet Union!" Hitler paused slightly, and then said: "Make another plan for the squadron to fight in Europe...... The premise was that the USSR abandoned the Far East and Eastern Siberia, and if that happened, we would ask the Chinese to send a hundred to one and a half million troops to Europe to fight in the war, in addition to which they would need to send at least half of their air force and eighty percent of their armored forces. ”

Guderian looked at Hitler in amazement, he didn't understand why this head of the German Empire would think of sending the squadron to fight in Europe? Wasn't he confident enough in the fighting power of the Wehrmacht?

Hitler didn't explain, but slowly paced in the office, turned around twice, turned his head and suddenly asked: "Guderian, do you think the Soviet Union is likely to attack first?" ”

"Attack, attack whom?" Guderian's thoughts didn't come back for a while, he looked into the mustache's eyes, and only after a while did he suddenly open his mouth wide, and then shook his head affirmatively: "You mean that the Soviet Union attacked 'Poland', no, probably not!" ”

Hitler curled the corners of his mouth slightly, looked up at the huge map, and said: "Pilsudski is terminally ill, he will not last until 1937, and then 'Poland' may fall into a leaderless situation, if we reach a tacit understanding with Stalin again...... Then nothing is impossible. ”

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