Chapter 179: Trading Paratroopers

At the same time, the Germans often used paratrooper units and a small number of landing troops at sea to bypass the British positions and enter the rear area. Whenever this happened, the British were forced to retreat quickly, or they were cut off and surrendered. From November to 27, the Allies began to withdraw after their last resistance in northern Norway, and the Germans occupied all of Norway.

The German airborne assaults on Denmark and Norway were the first successful airborne operations and airlift supplies in the history of warfare. As many as 900 transport planes have built the world's first 'air bridge', and the "Condor Falling from the Sky" is also a pioneering achievement. Although the SS lost 170 transport planes and more than 1,000 airborne casualties due to bad weather and poor airfield conditions, the entire campaign was a success. This airborne assault provided experience for later airborne operations in various countries, and countries even regarded it as a model.

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Germany's early military victory was brilliant and earth-shattering, directly scorching the world, looking at the Germans with trepidation, for fear that he would accidentally provoke this demon, so when Germany occupied Denmark and Norway in a very short period of time, all the countries in the world chose to be silent, and no country said a word for Denmark and Norway.

The big countries of Britain and France have chosen to remain silent, and other small countries will not jump out to provoke the Germans, as long as the Germans do not come to "blitzkrieg" themselves, thank God, there dare to do justice. The world of World War II was a world of the jungle, and beating and being beaten depended on the strength of one's own country.

In the general headquarters of the "Wiesel Exercise", Zhang Jun was discussing with Rommel, a battlefield fox and political idiot, how to dig a foot in the wall from the Wehrmacht. Now there are 70,000 paratroopers in Germany in the world, a total of 7 paratrooper divisions, and the three paratrooper divisions that Zhang Jun borrowed from the Wehrmacht after actual combat training, since these three divisions were loaned to Zhang Jun's SS, will Zhang Jun return them to the Wehrmacht? Who is still a stupid pig, Zhang Jun doesn't want to be a stupid pig, that is more than 30,000 elite paratroopers who have gone through actual combat, that is the type of troops that Zhang Jun has dreamed of, the training of this paratrooper requires a long process, Zhang Jun has no time to train his own paratroopers, how can these three paratrooper divisions in hand, Zhang Jun will not return them to the National Defense Force no matter what.

The problem is that the Wehrmacht's grandsons will never do it, and unless Zhang Jun comes up with enough benefits, it is possible for the Wehrmacht to agree to transfer the paratrooper division to the SS, does Zhang Jun have such "benefits" in his hands to give the Wehrmacht's grandsons? Of course, Denmark and Norway were gifts from Zhang Jun to the Wehrmacht, and the SS already had Poland, which was enough for the development of the SS, and if Denmark and Norway were forcibly included in the SS, it would inevitably cause a fierce backlash from the Wehrmacht.

Zhang Jun did not have the will to clash fiercely with the Wehrmacht, which was a disaster for Germany, and the interests had to be divided in order to resolve some of the rivalry between the Wehrmacht and the SS.

"My deputy commander, how do you feel about how our paratroopers are being used this time?"

At this time, Rommel was also in high spirits, excited and a little lonely, and then said to Zhang Jun with regret:

"Commander, this Visel exercise, the commander has used the paratroopers to the extreme, and at the same time has achieved unparalleled brilliant achievements, it seems that the role of this paratrooper is to cooperate with our super blitzkrieg, then the power of our super blitzkrieg will have unprecedented attack power, but unfortunately those three elite paratrooper divisions are from the National Defense Force, and we can't intercept them, hey...... It's a shame. ”

"Huh...... My deputy commander, you seem to be disappointed in what you said, I said that we can keep these three paratrooper divisions, do you believe it? ”

"Ah!! It's great that you can intercept three paratrooper divisions, Commander, but the Wehrmacht probably won't want to. ”

Zhang Jun saw that Rommel had not yet enlightened, so he had to tell Rommel directly:

"My lieutenant!! Let's exchange Denmark and Norway for the three paratrooper divisions of the Wehrmacht, no matter how it can be said, the Wehrmacht has taken a huge advantage, and our Party Guards have suffered a big loss, in fact, we are simply the SS cannot be so insatiable, holding all the benefits in our arms, and we must give up some major benefits to the Wehrmacht, so that we in Germany can not have a situation of fierce competition between the Wehrmacht and the SS, understand? We are clearly giving the benefits to the Wehrmacht, and the Wehrmacht should show it a little, so we will give us the paratrooper division we borrowed and give it to our SS, my deputy commander, do you think that the Wehrmacht's grandsons can withstand such temptations? ”

"No, the Wehrmacht will definitely change."

"That's not a solution, our battlefield is in the Soviet Union, what do you want this Denmark and Norway to do. Now these two countries are chicken ribs for the SS, tasteless food, and it is a pity to abandon it, so it is better to exchange it with something useful to the SS, so that it is worth the money. ”

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Zhang Jun's telegram soon reached the German Ministry of Defense, and Field Marshal Bremborg did not dare to make up his mind, because the Wehrmacht and the SS are already in competition, and this has a bearing on the distribution of power in Germany in the future, and if the SS becomes the main armed force in Germany, the position of the Minister of Defense, including the General Staff of the High Command, Zhang, will change hands.

The Führer of Brünburg really did not dare to decide such a big matter without permission, so he hurriedly called Marshal Keitel, as well as the other commanders-in-chief of the army, navy and air force, Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Walter, commander-in-chief of the navy, and Ritter, commander-in-chief of the Air Force.

"Let's look at this telegram, it was sent by the son of the SS Zhang Jun, who wants to hand over the control of Denmark and Norway to our Wehrmacht, it seems that this son of a son is still very interesting, but the son of a son wants us to lend us the three paratrooper divisions under his command, everyone tell us their opinions."

This time it was the Minister of Defense who said it first, in fact, Brünberg still admires Zhang Jun very much, Germany just needs young people like Zhang Jun, so that he has momentum, but in order not to show his intention to admire the SS in front of his colleagues, Brunburg had to take the lead in asking questions with a foul mouth. It seems that there have been some changes in the attitude of the Wehrmacht towards the German SS, mainly because of the SS's crazy achievements and the fighting style of daring to gamble for their lives, which makes people look sideways.

"Well, this deal is a big advantage for us, the control of these two countries is very important, resources and manpower can add our strength, I agree to exchange."

"Our navy also agreed to exchange that as long as the Wehrmacht controlled Denmark and Norway, our warships and submarines would have free access to the Atlantic, which was too important for the German navy."

"Since everyone agrees, let's call back! Let's just say that we are all for the sake of Germany, so we can't bear to let three paratrooper divisions join the SS. ”

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Zhang Jun was secretly trading with the Wehrmacht, while Hitler and Goebbels were busy with the sacrifice of Canaris, Hitler organized a separate memorial service for Admiral Canaris to remember and honor this person who had made great contributions to Germany, and Goebbels spared no effort to promote the heroic deeds of Canaris in order to inspire the German people. Hitler also made a point of awarding Canaris the Knight's Iron Cross with silver oak leaves. It can be said that Canaris is the only person who has received this honor since Hitler came to power, and Canaris's family has received a large pension, and Canaris's family can live happily.

But Canaris did not die, he was captured by the Norwegian Navy, and then the Norwegian Navy took this most valuable captive to England. Now the British wartime cabinet is happy, this is a godsend! The Norwegian Navy actually caught the former director of Germany's military intelligence, the current commander of the High Seas Fleet, as long as Canaris is willing to cooperate with the British, no matter what Canaris asks, Britain will find a way to meet Canaris's requirements in exchange for Canaris's intelligence, even if Canaris provides a spy hidden in Britain and France, this is also a very important intelligence.

The question is whether Canaris is willing to betray his homeland, from the analysis of Canaris's historical behavior, in the early stage of World War II, Canaris did not betray Germany, but this Canaris has some lists against Hitler, Canaris did not report to Hitler, nor did he arrest these people, it is certain that Canaris is a spy leader who loves Germany, but he does not approve of some of Hitler's strategies, and it was only after Germany completely fell into strategic passivity that Canaris began to betray Germany.

Canaris was sent to the British Ministry of Defense, and Churchill met with him at the first time, but Churchill did not get any statement from Canaris, and Canaris did not refuse Churchill, nor did he affirm that he wanted to cooperate with Churchill.

In order to open a gap from Canaris, Churchill used various means to make Canaris shake a little, and when Canaris was ready to accept the British offer, and was about to tell Churchill what he knew, an unexpected little thing changed the outcome of the whole incident.

On November 27th, the bored Canaris said that he wanted to read the newspaper to relieve his boredom, and the guard handed the newspaper he had just bought and had not had time to read to Canaris, and this newspaper was published about Hitler in Germany personally holding a memorial service for Canaris, as well as Hitler's award of medals to Canaris and so on.

Canalis was stunned that he would never return to Germany...... (To be continued.) )