"Report!" an officer knocked on the door of Accardo's office.

"Please come in!" Accardo was busy looking at the financial statements and didn't look up.

The officer walked up to Accardo's desk and gave a German salute: "Long live the Führer!"

Accardo finally looked up: "What's the matter?

"My Führer. The officer bowed his head and said: "The news just came that the Z43 destroyer was sunk off the coast of Poland, and our army killed 95 officers and men, and the number of wounded is still being counted." ”

Accardo frowned, he found that he had rarely smiled since the war against Poland - economic growth slowed, the people were depressed by the war, British and French sanctions had made Germany's energy contradictions more prominent, and now the military had problems.

He sighed, slowly stood up, and asked, "What is the specific situation? Why was it sunk? The destroyer ran to the near sea and the shore guns bombarded each other? Didn't the naval commander have a long brain?"

"Führer, when the battle plan was drawn up, the army asked the navy to provide fire support as much as possible, and you were holding a meeting on economic innovation organized by the speaker of the Krupp parliament at that time, so you did not attend. The officer saw that Accardo was in a bad mood and said with some trepidation.

"How can Raeder be so ridiculous?" Accardo walked around the table and said hatefully: "The new warship that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to build, the officers and sailors that I have spent more than ten years of hard work to accumulate!

"Führer! I don't think the generals meant that......" the officer hastened to persuade him.

"That's not what I mean?" Accardo glanced at the officer, "What did I say in my technical development instruction manual for the Navy? Well, how did I tell them? How did I ask the Navy to draw up their battle plan?"

Accardo suddenly felt a very powerless sense of collapse, he felt that a huge country could not be controlled by him alone, and he wondered if Hitler was also unable to control every detail in those days.

Accardo even had an inexplicable thought: was it that these generals were also disobedient to Hitler at that time, and whether they really dragged Hitler back, so that Germany finally came to an uncontrolled end, an ending that no one wanted to see.

"My Führer, please calm your anger. The officer weakly persuaded, and then did not know how to speak.

"Go, go and get General Brauchitsch! I want to hear his full account of every aspect of the war against Poland!" said Accardo, waving his hand. He knew in his heart that it seemed that he needed to maintain a thunderous image, make everyone nervous, ask about everything, and reduce the damage to an acceptable range.

Originally, when he designed the Z-type destroyer for the Navy, he did not consider the task of ground support at all, and in his mind, ground support was handed over to naval aviation, rather than relying on naval guns to bombard.

Therefore, the Z-destroyers were only equipped with 88 mm cannons as their main guns, which was completely to strengthen every anti-air link, and Accardo wanted these warships to follow firmly around the aircraft carriers and provide the most effective anti-aircraft and anti-submarine protection for the German Navy's fragile aircraft carriers - as for the anti-ship attack, it was completely carried out by carrier-based aircraft.

That's why Accardo was relieved to build his destroyers and cruisers with civilian technology, because these warships didn't need to think about how to support the damage caused by artillery battles: their enemies would be destroyed by aviation forces in places they couldn't see with the naked eye, so these warships, including aircraft carriers, didn't need a strong body.

However, this kind of destroyers and cruisers, which are built at a rate of first-class and have strong anti-aircraft firepower, and even German aircraft carriers, have a flaw, that is, they have a defensive power against direct destruction weapons such as artillery. So this time something went wrong, and a destroyer was hit by heavy artillery only once, and it sank directly without being able to salvage.

Germany lacked steel, and even less armor was used to build ships, and in order to save this armor, German destroyers had little adequate armor protection, and cruisers only symbolically installed armor plates in critical areas. In desperation, Accardo chose numbers and construction speeds, abandoning his usual level of defense. This departure from the shipbuilding traditions of the German Navy was drawn up by Accardo himself, and no one was allowed to question it.

Even if it is an aircraft carrier, it only installs armor protection in some necessary places, and most of the defense measures are based on sinking the opponent's warship first. However, the entire German High Seas Fleet is a thin-skinned meat bun with strong firepower and first-class attack, but it can only be regarded as second-rate in terms of defense.

Accardo knows better than anyone that such a navy, pulled out to conduct a decisive battle of the fleet on the ocean, relying on the technological superiority of the large-scale use of naval aviation, may achieve certain results, and even gain an advantage over the traditional navy, but if there is no aircraft carrier as a core, this fleet is a toothless tiger, not even a sick cat.

The problems exposed by the navy caused Accardo to infinitely expand the shadow parts of the empire that he could not control, and it made him feel uneasy, forcing him to start thinking about every detail he didn't know, and he wanted to have a sense of security now more than ever.

Brauchitsch was finally late, and as soon as he entered the door, he was startled by the cold face of Accardo: "Long live the Führer?......!

"Who asked the navy for artillery support in the Danzig area?" Accardo said in a cold question: "As commander-in-chief of the army, do you know that there is a plan for this? Why don't you report it to me?"

Brauchitsch was stunned, he had not yet received the news of the sinking of the naval warship, but asking for naval support has always been a traditional means of littoral warfare, and this kind of trivial matter has not been heard of reporting to the Führer's level before?

However, he saw some clues from Accardo's unkind face, so he had to bow his head and explain: "My Führer! Asking the Navy to provide limited support when necessary is a tradition of littoral warfare, and this kind of tactical issue has always been discussed and decided by the General Staff.

"The destroyer Z43 sank. Accardo also knew that Brauchitsch was to blame, but the loss of a warship at once was really not a good feeling: "What idiot let the warship support the coastal waters? Did the destroyers, which only have 88 mm caliber high-level dual-purpose guns, go to the coastal waters to die?"

"My Führer! Brauchitsch immediately confessed his mistake, knowing that the loss of a destroyer by the Navy was indeed due to poor planning, but he did not raise the matter to the level of loss of control: "I will have the officers of the General Staff review this matter and make a detailed report to prevent this kind of incident from happening again." ”

Accardo nodded, and somewhat discouraged, after all, Brauchitsch was picked up by him, and there should be no problem with loyalty, and these anger should not be vented to an army commander-in-chief: "I'm sorry! When I think of soldiers on the front who have sacrificed their lives because of our mistakes, I feel that I have not done my best." ”

"My Führer, even the most perfect battle plan, in the process of implementation, there will be all kinds of problems, this is unavoidable. You don't need to blame yourself too much. Brauchitsch had a moving expression on his face, which made it impossible to tell whether it was true or not, and he nodded and comforted: "My Führer, our army has now won the most brilliant victory in the history of human warfare, and you should be happy for the soldiers on the front." ”

"In the future, we must have comprehensive communication with the navy without any problems! This is how all branches of the armed forces must cooperate with each other!" Accardo thought for a while and said: "Something like this that hinders each other's face, and the soldier's life is compromised! Resolutely not allowed to happen again!

"Yes, my Führer!" said Brauchitsch.

"How's going on over there in the Army?" Accardo asked, pointing to the map hanging on the wall directly in front of his desk, "Give me a brief overview of the battle." ”

"The results of the Air Force have not yet been delivered to me, but according to my analysis of the intelligence sent by the command of the various army groups, the Air Force has already won the battle for air supremacy. They inflicted destructive interference with the Polish army, which made our advance very smooth. ”

"Army Group D, commanded by General Modell, has advanced to the Sayre Bridge and has established a bridgehead there, and I have ordered them to continue their advance towards Krakow. Brauchitsch pointed to the south.

Then he pointed to the middle: "In the central region, we only fought a containment battle, so the results are not obvious. ”

Then he pointed to the top of the map, glanced at Accardo and continued: "To the north, Rommel's 7th Panzer Corps has converged with Army Group P in East Prussia, but the Polish Pomeranian Corps has escaped. ”

"Are you ready for what's next?" asked Accardo casually.

"Of course, but the plan is too large, what would the Führer want to know?" replied Brauchitsch: "The logistical plan is very large, our army has captured 17 locomotives of the Polish army, and is repairing part of the railway destroyed by the air force. ”

"What about the frontal battlefield?" Accardo asked again, he didn't know a lot about warfare, and he couldn't expect a second-rate military fan like him to know how to lead troops into battle, so he had to ask casually to prove his concern.

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