Chapter 260 260 Waffen-SS 0th Division
A tall SS officer entered the room, stood at the door and saluted, the heels of his boots clattering together with a crisp sound: "Long live Führer Accardo, Rudolph!" The SS officer was followed by nearly twenty soldiers with MP-44 assault rifles on their backs.
These soldiers were not the same as ordinary SS soldiers, nor were they like the Wehrmacht infantry. They wore SS uniforms, but instead of the eagle holding the national emblem, they had a strange pattern of the eagle holding a skull. But the most striking feature of these soldiers is not on their chests, because they all wear the armband of the swastika on their left arm.
It is not mysterious that they are the most elite force within the SS directly under the command of the Acadorians, and within the SS they are called the gendarmerie brigade, and the insiders of the Greater German Party call this unit the "Accardo Banner", in fact, the official name of this unit is the Waffen-SS 0th Division - the only Waffen-SS unit that "never exists" without going to war.
Admission to this unit must be strictly selected, and only those young people who worship the name Accardo Rudolph as a god are eligible to join this unit. The only credo of this force is loyalty, extreme loyalty to the Acados. After a year of brutal training, these men obeyed any orders of the Führer in full obedience, and even if they were allowed to commit suicide, there was at least a ninety percent immediate execution rate.
The lead officer walked to Accardo's bedside with a blank face and handed Accardo a document under his arm. Then he stood on the edge of the bed with his chin held high, motionless. It seems to be waiting for the order of Führer Accardo.
Accardo took the information, lowered his eyes, and looked carefully, the whole room was silent, and it was a little quiet and terrifying. Accardo's eyes swept down with the words, a slight sneer on the corner of his mouth.
Mercedes saw a corner of the article with her peripheral vision, and the specific content on it made her hair stand on end. There is a list of German politicians who ran around last night to support a new Führer. Even she was horrified of the origin of the text—that Accardo had an independent intelligence network that she didn't know about, and who was spying on the whole of Germany.
Some things can be done, and some things can't be solved in a fool's way. Accardo fainted this time, causing many of the jumping clowns to surface, and also giving Accardo a chance to clean the house.
After reading the last page of Wen Jiàn, Accardo also seemed to breathe a sigh of relief. Those who he fancied, and those who had wisdom, did not disappoint him this time. The news allowed Accardo to get rid of the fools who got in the way without having to go through the pain of cutting flesh. It was obviously a very pleasant thing to be able to maintain his dominance of Germany without breaking his bones.
"Fanny, schedule a speech, and in two hours I'm going to address a national audience. The content is a specific response to the assassination. Accardo said with a glance at Fanny.
Then he reached out and took Augustus' hand. He smiled and said, "I am very happy that you can come to visit me from so far, and it is really a very happy thing for me to have your help." ”
Everyone knows that this time Accardo fell ill, and the most likely person to take over the position of head of the Reich was Chancellor Augustus, and he was in Berlin, and the position was also the most advantageous. However, when he heard the news of Accardo's illness, Augustus was able to quickly rush to the stone castle, which was a sign of great loyalty. Accardo was very happy when he said it, and he was referring to this thing.
Accardo had studied history in his previous life, and he knew how important loyalty was to his subjects. Countless kings have died at the hands of their subordinates, and many great policies have been put to rest because of the deaths of men.
And as the history he knows best, World War II Germany is by no means monolithic. The Wehrmacht had always been resentful of Hitler and often disobeyed Hitler's orders. Although this kind of rebellious psychology has often created earth-shattering results, the more it has become the most direct cause of the defeat of the army.
In another time and space, because the plan to invade France was so different that the Wehrmacht planned an assassination of Hitler, which directly led to Hitler's distrust of the Wehrmacht, so much so that it later became a pretext for Hitler to interfere in military operations. This also laid the groundwork for the joke-like situation of the corporal leading the general.
However, in this plane, it seems that the Wehrmacht has a high tolerance for Accardo's dictations. The farce of assassinating Hitler was also not played out on Accardo, which had a lot to do with Accardo's background in the Wehrmacht. Unlike Corporal Hitler, he made his fortune within the Wehrmacht, and he worked his way up from the lowest level to the rank of general before entering politics, and his prestige in the Wehrmacht was countless times greater than that of Hitler.
Although compared to Hitler, Accardo's command over the entire Wehrmacht was stronger, enough for him to keep the Wehrmacht at his fingertips, and no such thing as assassination would occur. But he still couldn't avoid some careerists picking it out and using his fainting as an opportunity to usurp power.
So everyone in the room knew that Accardo was now planning to settle the score. No ruler would sit idly by and ignore such a thing as betrayal and demolition, let alone the Führer Arcardo Rudolf, who was almost the same as the entire German Führer.
Accardo smiled and nodded to Augustus, then looked at his marshal Brauchitsch, still with a smile on his face: "My marshal, I am very grateful that you can come and see me." ”
"My Führer. Brauchitsch stepped forward, bowed his head and said, "The Army will always stand with you! ”
"Heartfelt thanks to the Army for their support. Accardo smiled and replied, "It's a blessing to have you friends by my side." You did a great job last night! I have no doubts about the loyalty of the Wehrmacht Army under your command!"
Brauchitsch breathed a sigh of relief from his words, and he secretly made up his mind to let the ill-intentioned old generals go home and retire after he returned. This time he was on the right side, apparently gaining further trust from the Führer, and at least he, the Marshal of the Empire, could continue to contribute to the expansion of the Empire. This news is more important than anything else, God forbid.
Accardo looked at Marshal Brauchitsch, who was relaxed, smiled, and then continued to ask, "Is there any news from the navy?"
"Seven hours earlier a telegram was received that Admiral Raeder was already on his way home, and that General Lütjans's troops had returned to Williamsport under the protection of shore-based aircraft. Brauchitsch hastened to reply: "A telegram of commendation has been sent according to your orders, and soon we will be able to celebrate this historic victory." ”
"Send a telegram to Catherine, asking her to arrange for planes to protect and support both fleets as much as possible. Accardo thought for a moment and said, "Supervise the Kiel military port to make the Admiral Hipper and the Prince Eugen a priority construction project, and ensure that the 3rd Fleet of the High Seas Fleet is completed smoothly." ”
Accardo seemed to be in a good mood, and with the help of Mercedes, he slowly got up from the bed: "This order is issued in the name of the Supreme Command." ”
"Besides......" Accardo grabbed Mercedes' hand and walked to the center of the room, where Anna and the tall SS officer followed. Fanny, on the other side, walked back into the crowd of officials.
Accardo walked up to the minister of the Greater German Party and squinted at the sweaty guy: "Is this room hot? Or is it ...... You're not feeling well, either?"
"I, I...... My Führer. Please...... Forgive...... Forgive me for my selfishness...... I'm just ......" The minister was incoherent and stammered, not knowing how to finish a sentence in its entirety.
"Let me finish for you. Accardo smiled and said, "Last night the Stone Fort sent a total of dozens of telegrams, most of which were sent by Marshal Brauchitsch, and the content was an order to maintain the stability of Germany. And you also sent a telegram asking Mr. Krupp to support you as the new chancellor. ”
Accardo nodded as he spoke: "You are self-aware, and you know that you have no chance to get into the position of Führer, so you want to try to replace Mr. Augustus as the Prime Minister of the Empire...... Yes, I still can't remember your name, I didn't expect such an obscure person to have such ambitions. ”
"My Führer!" said the man, whose language became fluent, and he fell to his knees with tears in his eyes, crying out loudly: "Give me a chance! My Führer! I am blinded by demons! I am a whimsy! I am not a man! Let me go!"
"Pull it out, don't stain the Führer's bedroom carpet. Augustus glanced at the man kneeling on the ground in pain, shook his head and said. Accardo waved his hand, and soon two guards walked in and dragged the guy who had taken advantage of Accardo's illness to make trouble.
"Hang him and send his family to a concentration camp in Poland...... Participate in the simplest labor. Accardo sighed and said helplessly: "I won't name the others one by one, and if there is conclusive evidence, pull them out!"
The tall officer behind him nodded, then waved his hand in the direction of the door, signaling his soldiers to come in. Then one by one, the guards dragged the dejected officials and politicians out of Accardo's bedroom.
"Now, it's a lot cleaner. Accardo found a place and sat down, looked at the people who were still standing half of the room, and said, "Since everyone is here, let's have a meeting to arrange everything clearly, and then let's go." ”