Chapter 65: Burning Fever

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In Lynn's world, the summer of 1950 was busy and enjoyable. On May 20, Daimler-Benz AG's Mainz plant was reopened, and he was there as president to cut the ribbon and listen to the cheers of the people. On June 5th, North Rhine-Westphalia, Aachen, Europe's leading wind tunnel test site was established in the headquarters of the old aviation manufacturing enterprise Junkers, Lynn came to inspect and was moved by the wonder of science and technology; On June 11th, the Bavarian government financed the reconstruction of Fokker. Achilles Aircraft Manufacturing Company officially put into production, and the FA-223 transport helicopter has become the company's hot main product, and the monthly output will gradually increase to 10 aircraft; On July 8th, Led Zeppelin founder Ferdinand. Feng. On the birthday of Count Zeppelin, Lynn attended the aviation entrepreneur conference organized by the German Ministry of Aviation, and felt the confidence and vision of well-known German entrepreneurs and designers. On July 14, Daimler-Benz's engine plant in Cologne was put into operation, which is responsible for the production of Maybach gasoline engines for vehicles, with a monthly output of 150 units, matching various models of armored transporters and military trucks; On July 18, the U.S. technical team approved the improved design of the E-50 heavy tank carried out by Dr. Porsche and his team, which means that the total number of 800 E-50 combat vehicles is about to enter the model design stage, and the total number of 400 E-75 combat vehicle project design is being carried out by the famous tank engineer Heinrich Heinrich. At the same time, the German Army has decided to equip the E-50 and E-75 as the new generation of standard tanks of the German Army, with an initial purchase of 70 E-50 and 30 E-75; On July 27, Rheinmetall's factory in Düsseldorf secretly assembled a line of guidance equipment from Northern Europe, thus starting mass production of the R-5 air-to-air guided rocket, the F-60 surface-to-air guided rocket and the Tekken IV heavy guided anti-tank rocket. In addition, Messerschmidt's ME-323 large transport aircraft, Borgvard's SDKFZ251 half-track armored vehicle, Junkers' Yumo 211 piston engine and Yumo 109 jet engine, Rheinmetall's MG42 machine gun and MG131/151 aviation machine gun, Herne's MP44 assault rifle, Krupp's 88mm gun and other weapons and equipment have also been given a new lease of life this summer.

Just a few months ago, few could have predicted such a rapid recovery for German industry. On the surface, this is due to the military purchase orders of the United States, France, Hungary and other countries, and there are certain accidental factors, but it can be traced back to the source. All this is closely related to the hostility and fear of the Soviet Union in the Western world. More than 10 years ago, Yuan's Third Reich took advantage of a similar international environment to develop into a first-class military power, and once again embarked on this road, which can be described as a familiar way to control domestic and foreign affairs. According to the strategy of the Yuan base camp. Lynn expanded the KPD threat theory internally, co-opted neutral factions and excluded dissident forces in the Cabinet, Congress and local governments, provoked contradictions and frictions when necessary, and used public opinion tools and even special means to eliminate the threat; Externally, we have joined hands with France to promote European alliances, expanded the scope of coal and steel joint ventures in Germany, France, Belgium and the Netherlands, actively sold arms to Central and Western European countries, and vigorously advocated the theory of the Soviet threat and infiltration in public opinion.

Unlike the conniving attitude of Western countries. In order to maintain political and strategic pressure on Germany and even Western countries, the Soviet camp not only resolutely counterattacked in public opinion, but also constantly put on deterrent military moves. Although this has made some German people and political forces call for the cessation of armaments, more people are worried about the Soviet Union's aggression again. In the face of the Soviet Union's tough posture, the United States and France made superficial concessions and secretly increased their support for Germany, while the attitude of the British government, which had previously taken a cautious stance, also changed. They secretly released the last of the Third Reich war criminals held in Britain, former SS operatives who had been sentenced to long prison terms or even life imprisonment. Not only that, but Western countries have also given Germany the green light in terms of minerals and energy. This enabled it to purchase iron ore and bearings from Sweden, oil and rare metals from South America and Africa. After such a summer's rearmament, the size of the GDR's industry and the strength of its army have increased several times since the beginning of the year, and judging from the current situation of Germany itself and the situation of foreign investment, such growth is completely beyond the laws of modern economy, and constitutes an equation that economists cannot calculate. …,

The German people were both happy and worried about Germany's extraordinary development, and as the Western world speculated, the Soviet Union was reluctant to withdraw its troops from Germany, and they had been waiting for the Third Reich entrenched in northern Europe to return to Germany itself, which had no natural protection. It's good to catch all the old and new opponents. After more than a year of rest, the Soviet army gradually recovered from the fatigue and fatigue at the end of the war between the Eastern and Western camps, and the streamlined army had more sophisticated equipment and logistical support, and the strategy of concentrating combat and transport vehicles on the main forces on the front line also relatively improved the mechanization of the Soviet army, enabling it to carry out a quick offensive on the vast Central European plain. At the end of August, the Imperial headquarters sent Lynn a warning that intelligence indicated that a rapid and fierce offensive was being brewed by the Soviets. In order to annihilate the imperial forces that had returned to Germany proper, he took the opportunity to support the German Communist Party to come to power and exterminate dissidents.

At this time, the Democrat army had secretly expanded to 350,000 people, plus 160,000 Tei people transported back to the mainland from Denmark and Norway, and nearly 500,000 troops on land, but neither Yuan nor Lynn believed that this armed force could resist the offensive of the Soviet army head-on, and it was even more advisable to divide troops to defend the German-Polish, German-Czech and German-Austrian borders. Considering that the Western Allies did not have a military obligation to guarantee Germany from aggression, and that the Soviet army was likely to launch a short-term war under the pretext of border friction, it was unrealistic to expect the Western Allies to directly send troops to the war, and the use of the atomic bomb for deterrence or defense would fall into political passivity, helping the Soviet Union to turn the tables on events such as the nuclear explosion in the Norwegian Sea and the nuclear attack on New York, which would then cause the Western Allies to stand on the opposite side of Germany.

If it were to be decided by the German Cabinet and the Reichstag, compromise with the Soviet Union would be the dominant opinion for the time being. Upon learning of the imminent Soviet attack, Lynn flew to Hanover as soon as possible. After the clouds covered the sky, he and Yuan walked slowly in the garden, and outsiders had no way of knowing the content of their conversation for more than half an hour. After the conversation, Lynn met with the Imperial generals gathered by Yuan. More than half a year ago. It was under the command of Rommel, Kleist, Manstein, and Hausser that the 300,000 Imperial Army fought a fierce battle against a million Soviet troops, and although they failed to achieve victory in the end, they proved their first-class combat power with their outnumbered performance. In the headquarters of the simply furnished base camp, Lynn had many days of deliberation with the backbone of these imperial forces. The result was a bold and risky battle plan.

With the imminent war against the Soviet Union confirmed, Lynn sent presidential envoys to Washington, London, and Paris to inform the Soviet Union of its imminent attack on Germany and to seek military assistance from the United States, Britain, and France. No matter how secretive the Soviet Union's preparations for attack were, the capabilities of the American and British spy agencies would still be able to discover something, and whether it was the United States, which was far ahead of the Soviet Union, or Britain and France, which were in the same Europe, all suggested that the German government avoid fighting by compromise - Lynn had foreseen this, so the envoy made it appear that he agreed. In the name of precaution, he asked the United States, Britain, and France to secretly assemble weapons and equipment on the Franco-German border, so as to support the German team against the Soviet army when war was inevitable.

While seeking assistance from the governments of the Western Allies, Lynn launched a secret purge at home, using agents of the Imperial intelligence agencies and German special operations forces directly under his orders to capture local leaders and organizers of the German Communist Party in eastern Germany, and carried out anti-infiltration operations in the eastern border area, capturing a number of Soviet spies. In order to interfere with the Soviet army's preparations for the offensive, Lynn ordered the media to publish news about the formation of a jet interceptor wing by the Luftwaffe. Misleading the Soviet Union into conducting aerial reconnaissance of many airfields in northeastern Germany, and then using surface-to-air missiles to shoot down Soviet fighters that crossed the border to reconnoiter in one fell swoop, thus making a big fuss. As a result, international public opinion accused the Soviet Union of violating Germany's sovereignty, thus delaying the pace of the Soviet army's attack. Taking advantage of the time gained by the diplomatic incident, the Reich headquarters transferred 100,000 troops, fighters, and submarines from Northern Europe to strengthen the combat forces of Germany to the greatest extent. After the main Soviet armoured forces were massed across the railroad line to western Poland, Lynn issued a secret mobilization order to herald the first level of reservists into the army, and sent the Military Adviser's Office, now the German General Staff, to Hanover to merge with the Imperial Base Camp to form the Joint Staff. At this point, Rommel, Manstein, and Guderian, the three famous generals of the German army in World War II, finally realized the post-war cooperation, and the professional soldiers who were worried about losing the war also got the opportunity to be ashamed! …,

September 14th. A heavy rain doused the heat that lasted for days, but it couldn't keep everyone's head down. In some parts of Brandenburg and Saxony, the KPD and its supporters staged an early uprising because of the hunting and killing of their comrades, and they declared that the government, parliament, and army of the GDR had degenerated into a military dictatorship under the infiltration and control of the Third Reich, contrary to the will of the German people for peace and freedom. It also violated the guarantee agreement signed at the time of the withdrawal of Soviet troops, and therefore asked the Soviet army to send troops to help the German people regain state power - Moscow gave a clear reply after just half an hour, announcing that the Soviet army would enter Germany to arrest the war criminals of the Third Reich, and inviting the other victorious countries of World War II to participate in the operation to exterminate the fascist remnants and maintain justice and peace.

In the face of the enemy's internal and external attacks, Lynn sat in Berlin and calmly refuted the fallacies of his opponents through radio broadcasts, and officially issued a national mobilization order, signaling the enlistment of all reservists and announcing the issuance of weapons to the militarily trained militia. Despite the fact that there were more than 400,000 KPD supporters in various places and armed with large numbers of firearms, their attempts to capture the city to meet the Soviet forces were quickly thwarted. In Ketbus, the German Army, which had been prepared for a long time, broke up the attack of more than 30,000 rebels on the city with two battalions, killed and wounded more than 2,000 rebels in the battle, and captured many organizers; In Dresden, although the rebels occupied important buildings such as the government and the parliament for a time, the Germans who came from the east, west and north quickly recaptured them and routed the rebel army. On the banks of the Oder River on the German-Polish border, the KPD tried to seize the bridge while the German border guards were unprepared, but the border guards decisively attacked them head-on and blew up every bridge over the Oder River before the Soviet troops launched a strong attack, frustrating the Soviet army's plan to quickly enter the German mainland.

With adequate operational preparations, the army units in the eastern part of Germany and in the border areas managed to control the situation at the beginning of the incident, but the main forces of their own side were strategically concealed and standby, and these forces alone could not withstand the onslaught of the heavy Soviet group. Under the cover of aircraft and artillery fire, the Soviet vanguard, which had a large number of mechanical bridge-building equipment, forcibly crossed the Oder River in only one and a half hours, erected five bridgeheads on the west bank, and the number of pontoon bridges quickly increased to twelve. The international community was in an uproar over the armed rebellion of the German communist forces and the brazen offensive of the Soviet army, and the majority of the German people were also stunned. Thankfully, they did not have to suffer the sorrow of the Poles in 1939, and the Western Allies did not "stab Germany in the back" at the call of the Soviets - in fact, the Allied generals did not believe that their troops could share the victory with the Soviets when they entered Germany, and their soldiers did not have the courage and confidence to confront the Soviets. With the Soviet troops already crossing the German-Polish border, the United States, Britain, and France decided to fulfill the secret agreement they had reached with Germany and hand over to the German team the weapons, ammunition, and equipment that had been hoarded in eastern France in advance, including more than 200,000 German-made firearms, P38, K98, MP38/40, MG34/42, and so on, as well as more than 700 German-made artillery pieces of various types, and more than 300 combat vehicles. The reason why there are German-style weapons of such a scale mainly depends on France, a "big picker of rags". After the end of World War II, the rebuilt French team used all kinds of loot captured and divided, and American, German, and domestically made equipment accounted for a considerable proportion. This time, taking into account the demands of the German side and the diplomatic stance of the Western countries, the weapons assistance provided by the United States and Britain was directly handed over to France, and the German-style weapons equipped by the French team were exchanged for the German team, and the German soldiers could use them immediately, and if they were captured by the Soviet army, they would not be given a handle. (。

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