Chapter 173: Exercise Visel (2)

Zhang Jun plans to start from this aspect, sending a shadow to collect evidence of Canaris's crimes. As for the assassination of Canaris, it will definitely not work, the shock caused by this is too great, in case it is leaked, even if Zhang Jun has Hitler to protect him, he will not be able to save Zhang Jun, so Zhang Jun will definitely not choose to assassinate Canaris. The defeat of Canaris can only hope that the "Shadow" can surprise him, since the historical Canaris has been in contact with the Wehrmacht officers who opposed Hitler, there will be more or less clues of clues.

From the very beginning of Hitler's rise to power, the relationship between the Wehrmacht and Hitler was unclear, and it can be said that the Wehrmacht was loyal to Germany, loyal to Hitler, and opposed to Hitler. Hitler never had a thorough control of the Wehrmacht, and about 50 percent of the Wehrmacht were loyal to Hitler, 49 percent were wall-riding, and at least 1 percent were against Hitler, and it rose to about 20 percent in the later stages of the war.

These opponents against Hitler are organized and have connections with each other, Zhang Jun is planning to start on this, find evidence to bring down and kill Canaris, and purge those officers who oppose Hitler in Shunteng, Zhang Jun's relationship with Hitler is destined to Zhang Jun must do this, otherwise it will be Hitler and Zhang Jun who die, and there is no possibility of compromise on this.

After a few people watched the new Wiesel exercise, they stopped talking, including Canaris also lowered his head and did not speak, although Canaris and Kesselring are both older than Zhang Jun's qualifications, but Zhang Jun is now the commander of the position, and they must accept Zhang Jun's command in this exercise.

"General Kesselring, do you have anything else to say?"

Zhang Jun began to ask General Kesselring to talk by name, General Kesselring had a good relationship with Zhang Jun, and during the Polish campaign, he sent a large number of air forces to support Zhang Jun, and Zhang Jun always kept this friendship of Kesselring in his heart.

Kesselring is a pure German person, and will never participate in political struggles, Hitler agrees with Kesselring, Zhang Jun is sure that Kesselring is a German person loyal to Germany and has a chivalrous spirit, and Kesselring's ability is also undoubted.

"Okay, I'll talk about my opinion, commander-in-chief, are the two air corps arranged in your plan, one Wehrmacht air corps and one SS air corps, fully manned and unconditionally under my command."

It seems that Kesselring was still worried that the SS Air Corps would question his orders and even refuse to carry out his orders, so Kesselring asked Zhang Jun so euphemistically.

"General Kesselring, of course, I promise to send anyone who does not obey your orders to a court-martial, and all the soldiers in Germany are ashamed to refuse the orders of their superiors, which is completely contrary to our fine traditions, and this behavior is also unforgivable. General Kesselring, you have full decision-making power to command these two air forces, and not even I, or the great and sacred Führer, can interfere with your command, so you can exercise your command with confidence. ”

Zhang Jun's sentence is not only for Kesselring, but also for Canaris, no matter how old your Canaris qualifications are, now that I am the commander-in-chief, if you Canaris dare to disobey the military order, I don't mind sending you Canaris to a military court, and then send you to the execution ground.

What kind of person is Canaris, admiral, who has been crawling and rolling in the army for more than 20 years, and is definitely an old fritter in the army, although Canaris hates Zhang Jun, he also knows that there is no way to compete with Zhang Jun with his own strength, and some of the officers he contacts have unclear attitudes and small numbers, which is not enough to shake Hitler, as long as Hitler does not kill Zhang Jun, the bitch will be fine, which Canaris thinks very clearly.

After all, Canaris has been the director of military intelligence for many years, and he has a large number of officers' information in his hands, and some officers may have a little handle in the hands of Canaris, in this case, they may be coerced by Canaris and forced to participate in Canaris's cabal, all of which Zhang Jun of course doesn't know, Zhang Jun wants to kill Canaris depends on chance, not that he can do it, Canaris is an admiral, and he has a lot of connections.

When Kesselring heard Zhang Jun say this, he quickly stood up and gave a military salute to avoid Zhang Jun:

"Hey! Hitler, in this case, I pledge to fulfill all the tasks of the Air Force in this exercise, and I vouch for it with the honor of a Wehrmacht. ”

"Thank you, General Kesselring, thank you, Germany, Germany needs a chivalrous spirit like yours."

After Zhang Jun finished speaking, he looked at Canaris, Zhang Jun's meaning was very clear, Canaris is now you are speaking on behalf of the Navy, in this case, Canaris dares to say that he refuses to carry out the order issued by the Führer, of course he does not dare.

"I agree to carry out the order according to the exercise plan."

Canaris didn't speak after saying the above words with a grim face, but deliberately lowered his head to look at the drill plan, if there was a camera in the book, you could clearly see that Canaris's eyes reflected a cruel gaze, at this time Canaris must be cursing Zhang Jun's bitch raised by the crumb, Zhang Jun is planning to get Canaris, then Canaris must be thinking about how to get rid of Zhang Jun at this time.

The people who had finished the meeting quickly left to prepare, and Zhang Jun's SS had prepared all kinds of materials and were already transporting them by train. For the transfer of the army, the long-distance movement of special armored units, the number of trains required is very large, this is the reason why Zhang Jun mobilized his armored troops without holding a combat meeting, according to Zhang Jun's plan is the 320,000 men of the 1st SS Panzer Army, all of them should arrive at the designated position on November 7, and at the latest can be later than 12 o'clock on the 8th, otherwise go to the military court to report.

And the task of organizing the transportation of troops is Mr. Rommel, Hartmann is the air nanny, and Rommel is Zhang Jun's logistics nanny, what rotten sesame things, Zhang Jun lost to Rommel, and Rommel also willingly, hard-working, and very good completion of the task.

The mobilization of the Navy and Air Force will be much faster, and it will be completely timely to mobilize and prepare from now on.

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Zhang Jun decided to invade Denmark and Norway in northern Europe first. The main Denmark is located between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, which is a key point of maritime communication. Norway is strategically located in the northwest of Scandinavia, bordered by the Barents Sea to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and the North Sea to the south. By occupying these two countries first, Germany could break the blockade imposed by Britain and France on the German navy, enable German ships to enter the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean unimpeded, and establish a naval base on the west coast of Norway to restrict the movement of the British navy, thus ensuring the security of the northern flank of Germany's attack on Western Europe. At the same time, iron ore supplied from Sweden to Germany could be transported from the port of Narvik in northern Norway to Germany via the Norwegian sea. Germany consumes 15 million tonnes of iron ore every year, of which 11 million tonnes are imported from Sweden via Norway.

In addition, former Defense Minister Quisling, the leader of the Norwegian 'National Congress Party', had long wanted to unite Norway and Germany into a 'German-Scandinavian Community', which was exactly what Hitler wanted, and he also wanted to establish 'a Greater German Confederation'. Therefore, Hitler completely agreed with Zhang Jun's occupation plan based on several considerations.

Denmark and Norway are both small countries with weak national defenses. Denmark has only two infantry divisions and a naval ship of only 20,000 tons. After the non-aggression pact with Germany in 1935, Denmark did not prepare for war, believing that the increased war preparedness would arouse German suspicion. Norway had six infantry divisions, but they were understaffed and scattered, with two divisions near the capital Oslo and the rest in Christiansund, Bergen, Trondheim and Narvik. In addition, there are 64 ships and 190 aircraft, all of which are overaged. Norway's defensive battle plan was based on the expeditionary forces sent by Britain and France. In response to these weaknesses of Denmark and Norway, Zhang Jun adopted a blitzkrieg and used airborne troops in the blitzkrieg. Zhang Jun's blitzkrieg attacks on Denmark and Norway will be the first large-scale airborne operation in the history of warfare.

The airborne combat plan for the "Wiesel exercise" designated by Zhang Jun is divided into two phases:

In the first stage, paratroopers were used to parachute into strategic places in Denmark to ensure the rapid advance of troops landing from the sea and troops crossing the border from the ground, while another paratrooper unit was used to seize important airfields in southern Norway to ensure the landing of the main forces, and then to assault Norwegian ports from behind to receive the landing force ashore.

Denmark is a country of two parts, most of the country is a peninsula, bordering Germany, the SS panzer division can be pushed flat, paratroopers occupy the main bridge, and the capital of Denmark, Copenhagen, is on a large island, it is necessary to have an air force and navy, quickly occupy the capital of Denmark, so as to force the Danish government to accept German protection as soon as possible, and withdraw from the Anglo-French alliance.

In the second stage, it will be airborne in central and northern Norway as appropriate, so as to ensure the rapid development of ground forces into the interior. The specific tasks of the Airborne Forces on the first day of the offensive were: in Denmark, to seize one airfield on the east and west sides of Aalborg, which served as an important springboard for airlift and attack on Norway, and at the same time to seize the Waldingburg Bridge, the gateway to Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark; In Norway, seize the Fornebu airfield near the capital Oslo and the Sola airfield in Stavanger on the southwest coast of Norway, where an air base was established to defend against British attacks from the sea. The planned combat units include the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 3rd paratrooper divisions, and about 30,000 airborne combat troops...... (To be continued.) )