Chapter 38: 38 Death's Scythe

It didn't take long for the snipers in the buildings on either side to open fire, and they were ordered not to shoot at Hitler, an order given by Accardo himself.

It's not that Accardo is soft-hearted, just as Hitler was unwilling to deliberately kill people in front of hundreds of Wehrmacht soldiers if he didn't kill Accardo, and Accardo also had his own considerations for not killing Hitler.

He needed someone to deal with his opponents in the Wehrmacht, and he needed someone to muddy the waters of politics so that he could fish in troubled waters, and even though he knew it was dangerous, he still had to take the risk of trying to keep Hitler alive.

However, others were not as lucky as Hitler, and Hitler's future air marshal Hermann Goering was shot through the head by a sniper, and his legs were still twitching when he fell to the ground, and his blood splattered Hitler's body, which scared him so much that he screamed.

Hitler sensed danger and leaned over to the corner, but Schner Richter was not so lucky, he was shot in the thigh and fell to the ground.

Unfortunately, when he fell, he instinctively stretched out his arm to the side, trying to hold on to something, but he grabbed Hitler, who was trying to dodge. With such a pull, he directly pulled Hitler's arm out of his place.

Hitler felt that he was wounded, he didn't know that his shoulder was just dislocated, and the sharp pain in his bones made his last ounce of courage disappear, Hitler dropped his pistol, turned and ran backwards.

As soon as he ran away, he left behind the 3,000 Nazi party members who were still in chaos, making the farce even more out of control. The Nazis did not even put up a decent resistance before they were disarmed by hundreds of Wehrmacht soldiers, who knelt on the ground and raised their hands so high that they did not even dare to raise their heads to look at them.

The incident broke out so quickly that when Hitler ran into a car not far away, and the driver started the car and drove a few hundred meters away, the body of Hermann Goering, who was once a famous air marshal in history, was still carrying body temperature, and one foot was still convulsing.

Accardo couldn't wait that long, he directly ordered the soldiers to go to Hanfstanger's dacha to arrest people, because he knew that Hitler only had such a place to go, and he was afraid that the timing of Hitler's imprisonment was too misplaced, and history would not develop in the direction he was familiar with. The point at which he wanted to turn things around was in the Barbarossa Plan, in the battle of the Soviet Union - not now.

A total of 17 Nazis and 3 policemen were killed in this farcical clashes. One of the more Nazi members who died was Hermann Goering, a hitherto little-known man.

Hitler was hiding in the dacha of Hanfstanger, and when the Wehrmacht arrived there he attempted suicide, but eventually abandoned this plan, and he was unusually depressed when he was handcuffed, saying nothing along the way.

The trial of Hitler was not a matter for Accardo, although he knew that Hitler would have a good comeback and that the Nazi Party would really rise after this trial, but he was also waiting, waiting for the rising Nazi Party to destroy the withering and conservative political power. Borrowing a knife to kill someone, even if the borrowed knife hurts you in the end, you don't hesitate to do it.

Accardo took this opportunity to rush to the mountains of southern Germany, inspected the secret military bases there, and ordered the sale of another 500 cannons, 100,000 shells, and 50 old biplane fighters stored there to China.

The deal was done secretly through the Soviet Union's transportation routes, and although it was very costly, it was still within the affordable range of solutions to Germany's lack of rubber and to hide from some British and French people.

Chiang Kai-shek, Germany's new friend in China, generously agreed to the Accardo deal, and secretly set up a joint trading company in Canton that was jointly controlled by Germany and the Canton Revolutionary Government, which exported rubber to Germany in exchange for artillery and shells.

To compensate for the Wehrmacht's growing covert expenses, Accardo even persuaded President Hindenburg to sell the ownership of a Chinese railway owned by a German company to a Chinese company, with the profits going directly to buy rubber raw materials produced in Burma and Malaysia.

Immediately afterward, Accardo did not return to Berlin, but flew directly to the Ruhr industrial region in Germany, where he visited the Krupp arms factory. Gustav Krupp, who had already received the news, personally rushed to the factory and showed Accardo a tour of his industrial empire. Immediately afterwards, he rushed to the MAN company to inspect the production progress of tank cars.

When he saw the site of the second "P-2 tank", which was almost finished, he was almost speechless with excitement. Because Accardo's construction and the P-1 tank that was still on the drawing board was completely rejected, the armor was too thin, the firepower was too weak, and there was no room for radio equipment, and the No. 1 tank was now out of the eyes of the Krupp engineers.

This is a prototype of the No. 2 vehicle - although none of the No. 1 vehicles were produced, the designers kept it in their own way, and they crossed the number of the No. 1 vehicle when naming it.

With improved transmissions and shock absorbers, the P-2 was equipped with a 20-mm rapid-fire gun and a machine gun, which were grouped on a rotating turret, which completely surpassed its imaginary French Renault tank in terms of performance indicators.

The front armor of this combat vehicle reached 15 mm thick, and the front armor plates of these tanks could be temporarily thickened by bolts at the request of Accardo.

Although Krupp did not make rapid progress in the tank project due to financial and technical difficulties, in the production of artillery, the Krupp factory seemed to be like a fish in water.

With Accardo's tips and requirements, the Krupp plant has now begun to use assembly lines to produce standardized and generalized 88 mm caliber cannons. The cannon was produced as a standard anti-aircraft gun, and could also be used for flat-fire anti-tank fire in times of need, and occasionally with high-explosive shells to support fire.

According to the requirements, most of the parts of this artillery could be used in the same 88-mm anti-aircraft guns of the navy, and this design allowed Krupp to save two factories and ten artillery production lines, and the obsolete artillery production equipment in large quantities was transported by train to the Soviet Union and sold at high prices to the factories of the Red Army, which were severely inadequate in heavy industry.

Oil was imported from Romania and the Soviet Union, which used up a lot of real money for the Wehrmacht, and iron ore had to be imported from Norway, which made Germany's foreign exchange reserves worse.

Because of the covert operation of the Greater German Party and the growing distrust of General Sickert by some of the veteran generals of the First World War represented by Hindenburg, President Hindenburg ordered the commander of the new 2nd Division of the Wehrmacht, General Chasiewitz, to be replaced, and the 2nd Division was replaced by Colonel Lutz, the commander of the transport battalion of the former Transport Headquarters, and the transport battalion was handed over to Major Guderian, a follower of Accardo.

Because Colonel Lutz was promoted by Accardo to the headquarters of the transport corps, it can be said that Hindenburg handed over the 2nd, 15th, and 22nd divisions to Accardo.

However, in the subsequent Wehrmacht promotion list, Colonel Lutz was allowed to be promoted to major general, and Accardo, who had been promoted to colonel for a long time before Rutz, was not nominated for the promotion of major general.

The price Sickert paid to prevent Accardo's promotion was also very great, he was forced to agree to the promotion of Colonel Lutz, and personally approved Lutz as the commander of the 2nd Division, and he reluctantly handed over control of the new 3rd Division to Hindenburg.

However, what no one expected was that Major General Lutz, the commander of the 2nd Division, secretly joined the Greater German Party the day after he was promoted to major general, becoming the only three generals in the Greater German Party at this stage.

For the first time, however, there were different voices in the Greater German Party, when Dr. Einstein, who was opposed to Accardo's general policy of expanding armaments, wrote to Accardo, refusing his post as military scientific and technical adviser to the Wehrmacht, and in which he severely criticized Accardor for "provoking war in spite of the hard-won conspiracy for peace." ”

Accardo had to write back to apologize to the righteous and stubborn scientist, admitting that he had tarnished the sacred cause of science, and promising to abandon the use of the research of Einstein and other scientists to expand the war.

He also had Krupp reconcile with Foreign Minister Gustav Streesmann, introduced Einstein to the University of Berlin as a professor, and arranged for Major Gaskoll to have at least 20 Gestapo officers monitor and protect him.

At the subsequent Wehrmacht Development Conference, Accardo persuaded Hindenburg to agree to the expansion of the Transport Battalion of the Transport Headquarters, which was secretly expanded into the 25th Panzer Division, Germany's first armored unit. Heinz Wilhelm Guderian, who had the most experience in the German armored corps and had the most thorough theoretical research, was promoted to lieutenant colonel and temporarily assigned to the task of expansion.

Hindenburg, who was also not very optimistic about the prospects of the armored forces, agreed to the construction of Accardo without thinking about it, and General Sickert, who had never felt that the armored forces could make a difference, did not bother to interfere with it, so the first armored force in German history was officially established.