This was said by Marshal Brünburg, and Zhang Jun's words were much simpler, perhaps Zhang Jun did not think there was any need to slap the Wehrmacht's ass.

"Hey! Hitler, understood. ”

"General Moder, you immediately mobilized the spy organization in Romania to collect a lot of information about the Romanian side, I think the British and French will not let us do their wish, they will definitely try their best to sabotage our plan, and we can't openly tear up with the British and French now, so your activities must be carried out in the dark, I authorize you to use other means when necessary to deal with the people who pose a threat to our plan, understand?"

Diplomats and spies from Britain, France, the Soviet Union and Germany gathered in Romania in an instant, and their goal was a "arms for Romanian oil plan" against Germany, and the situation in Romania was turbulent for a while.

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On September 25, 1939, the German Führer - Hitler had fully recovered his health and began to preside over the work of the country, and the first meeting that Hitler presided over was the Honours Conference, and the German High Command had sent the list of all the German Iron Cross medals to Hitler, but Hitler was not satisfied, and there were still more people who had won the Iron Cross or above this time.

For example, the Iron Cross Medal of the 2nd degree, eligibility requirements: showed an extraordinary act of bravery in battle, completed his mission.

There were so many that Hitler had a thick book of material in his hands, and thousands of people were awarded the Iron Cross of the Second Degree......

Then there is the list of winners of the Iron Cross of the 1st class, which is very small, only a list of lists, and the number will not exceed fifty. Finally, the winner of the Knight's Iron Cross, in order to receive this medal, he must have been awarded the Iron Cross of the 1st class, and continue to show extraordinary bravery in battle, complete his mission, and need to accumulate 20 victory points.

There are very few who can meet this condition, and only a few high-ranking commanders have received this honor, such as Guderian, Kruger and several other army group commanders, all of whom are members of the Wehrmacht.

On the back are the Silver Oak Leaf Knight's Iron Cross, the Silver Oak Leaf Knight's Iron Cross, the Diamond Double Sword Silver Oak Leaf Knight's Ten Medals, and the Diamond Gold Double Sword Gold Gold Oak Leaf Knight's Ten Medals. It is even more impossible for anyone to receive such a medal before the beginning of the war, and it is impossible to accumulate such great exploits.

What made Hitler dissatisfied was Zhang Jun, the commander of the First Panzer Army of the SS, Hitler's "little radish head", Hitler actually did not find Zhang Jun's name in the list of winners of the first-class Iron Cross and the knight's Iron Cross, and even the name of Rommel, the deputy commander, was in the list of first-class Iron Cross winners.

Zhang Jun's own estimate is at least the first-class Iron Cross Medal in hand, and now there is no Zhang Jun's share, which makes Hitler very dissatisfied, you must know the rigor of the German ** team, it is impossible to underreport, not to mention that Zhang Jun is still the head of the equipment department, and it is impossible for others to forget Zhang Jun.

"Field Marshal Blunburg, why is there no name of Zhang Jun, the commander of the 1st SS Panzer Army, Zhang Jun took Warsaw, the capital of Poland, in one day, is this credit not big enough, or because you retaliated, you are telling me a reason."

In the face of Hitler's questioning, Blenburg did not dare to slack off, and quickly stood up and wanted Hitler to report the reason:

"Report to the great Führer, it is like this, the commander of the 1st SS Panzer Corps, Zhang Jun, has no battlefield discipline and does not implement the battle plan formulated by the Ministry of Defense at all, and as a result, he was surrounded by 300,000 Polish troops under the city of Warsaw, if it were not for the full support of the Air Force, the 1st SS Panzer Army would have been completely annihilated, we absolutely cannot tolerate this kind of behavior, and we must deal with it seriously, so there is no name of Zhang Jun in this award, which is also discussed and studied by the Ministry of Defense collectively."

This really wronged Zhang Jun, Zhang Jun rushed directly to the city of Warsaw was directly ordered by Hitler, and the German Ministry of Defense knew that now they chose to forget about Hitler's order and only find trouble with Zhang Jun.

The situation at that time was indeed too critical, if it were not for the help of more than 200 B-29 strategic bombing planes from Germany, Zhang Jun would not have been able to hold the ring defense circle of more than 50 kilometers he had established under any circumstances, and as long as the materials carried by Zhang Jun were finished, the fate of the 1st SS Panzer Corps would have been very miserable.

If the Ministry of Defense canceled Zhang Jun's award for this matter, it was still for Hitler's sake, if they didn't know that this matter was actually ordered by Hitler, Zhang Jun would definitely be sent to a military tribunal by the Ministry of Defense.

There are two reasons for the Ministry of Defense to do this, the first is to combat Zhang Jun's arrogance, those old guys in the Ministry of Defense just canceled Zhang Jun's Iron Cross Medal, and did not ask Hitler to make other punishments against Zhang Jun, for the Ministry of Defense has already made a huge concession, and they don't want Hitler to lose face, and Zhang Jun won in the end, and also cut off the retreat of hundreds of thousands of Polish troops, which is also meritorious, even if the merits are worth it.

The second reason is that the Ministry of National Defense is a little Jiujiu, they are dissatisfied with Hitler's overstepping command, and by dealing with Zhang Junlai, they told Hitler euphemistically, although you are the Führer, you can't overstep the command of the troops, otherwise what else do you want our Ministry of Defense to do, and what position can you do alone.

Who was Hitler, and how could he not understand what Blenburg meant, Hitler thought to himself:

"You self-righteous fellows, when I can bring you honor and victory, you will treat me as the Führer, and if I Hitler brings you defeat, you will ruthlessly abandon me, don't I know? This is why I have worked hard to support the SS, and it is not for you to force it, and whatever you may think, it is necessary to vigorously support the SS, who are absolutely loyal to me. ”

Hitler, who was silent for a moment, began to speak, and at this time there was no anger on Hitler's face, and he was replaced by a serious face:

"I said Marshal Blunburg, your ideas and practices are not wrong at all, for the commanders who violate the battle plan, we cannot be tolerated, we must deal with it, and it is dealt with seriously, I agree to cancel all the accumulation of Zhang Jun's early military exploits, I think, it should be from the Czech Republic to the city of Warsaw, and all the accumulation of military exploits in between is canceled, but Zhang Jun only used one armored corps to take the Polish capital This credit still needs to be commended, otherwise we will become meritorious and not rewarded, and there will be no punishment, So I propose to give Zhang Jun the Knight's Iron Cross with silver oak leaves. ”

As soon as Hitler finished speaking, all the senior German generals attending the meeting stopped talking, and the SS was supposed to have Himmler, the national leader, to attend the meeting, but Himmler was blown up by Varner, and he was recuperating from his injuries, and he was also absent from this meeting.

The current command is silent, and the sound of a needle drop can be heard. It seems that these high-ranking generals of the Wehrmacht want to use silence to confront Hitler, and now Hitler feels a little unable to step down, and in this kind of public, even if someone wants to hug the Führer's thigh, they dare not anger everyone, and everyone is staring at each other and keeping silent.

Or is it the Air Force Commander-in-Chief Kesselring who is a little more flexible, Germany now needs Hitler to unite everyone and lead everything from victory to victory, and it will be a tragedy for Germany if the Wehrmacht and the Führer are incompatible with each other for a small medal.

Kesselring hurriedly stood up and spoke:

"Great Führer, I think it's good to let General Zhang get the Iron Cross Medal of the Second Class, colleagues."

"Hmm."

"Okay."

"Yes."

Zhang Jun's medal was thus decided, the Iron Cross of the second class, the low-grade kind of Iron Cross Medal, tens of millions of people received this honor in this Polish campaign, and the thick list on Hitler's desk was.

In this Polish campaign, several people in the SS won the first-class Iron Cross medal, such as the "rookie battalion" battalion commander Piper, the "storm commando" captain Otto, the squad leader Benson, the deputy commander of the 1st SS Panzer Corps, Rommel, and the Italian Major General Vincent, all won the first-class Iron Cross medal, and the SS was the highest in terms of the proportion of troops participating in the battle, and you must know that the Wehrmacht had more than one million troops participating in the Polish campaign, and they only won more than 40 first-class iron cross medals.

September 26 was a very important day for Germany, from the Czech War to the Polish campaign, when the public ceremony of the German medal finally began, and the medals awarded by the original himself were the winners of the Iron Cross of the First Class and the Knight's Iron Cross, numbering about sixty people.

The awarding of the Iron Cross Medal of the Second Class was organized by the commander of the army himself, and Zhang Jun was not qualified to be awarded by the Führer himself, so Zhang Jun did not go to beat up the scene, but secretly flew to Warsaw to check the production and living conditions in Poland under the control of the SS.

Although Zhang Jun did not receive the desired medal, Hitler's compensation order for Zhang Jun was soon lowered, Zhang Jun was promoted to the rank of SS general, and the Waffen SS was expanded into an armored army.

Zhang Jun, who returned to Warsaw, changed into a suit and began to wander around Warsaw as an ordinary person, of course, this time Zhang Jun returned to Warsaw with the Shadow Guard team. Zhang Jun still attaches great importance to this safety work, and Rommel also went to Berlin to confer the medal at this time, and it is estimated that Rommel will rush back after the award, and Zhang Jun understands Rommel's attitude towards work.

Zhang Jun and the cold beauty Bai Qingyue walked together on the streets of Warsaw, now there is no trace of war in Warsaw, the streets are very clean and tidy, all the shops are open, and the goods in the shops are also very rich, but most of them are made in Germany. Although there are a lot of people on the streets now, it seems that Warsaw is recovering well. (To be continued.) )