Chapter 118: 118 The Sudetenland Controversy
"Long live the Führer!" the two Wehrmacht generals raised their arms and saluted Accardo, who walked into the conference room. A meeting on German military planning against Czechoslovakia was taking place here, and the atmosphere in the entire conference room was somewhat tense.
"Long live Greater Germany!" Accardo waved in return, then walked straight to the map, looking at the small wooden blocks that were constantly being pushed by the secretaries with long poles.
He looked at it for about two minutes, then looked up at his Minister of Defense Schleicher, and the new army commander-in-chief next to Schleicher, General Brauchitsch: "Tell me, how is the deployment going?"
"My Führer, the army mobilized 7 divisions of troops, concentrated on the Khayb, Karlovy Vary, Most, Ust, Dechin lines. General Brauchitsch pointed to the map of the border between Germany and Czechoslovakia.
Then he pointed with his whip at Austria, Germany's new territory, the "Eastern Province": "In addition, we have two infantry divisions in Austria, as well as the 26th Cavalry Division under the command of Major General Rommel. ”
"In the event of a counterattack by Czechoslovakia, Major General Rommel's 26th Cavalry Division will penetrate the city of České Budějovice and attack the city of Strakonice, threatening the rear of the Majeno Line on the Czechoslovak border and forcing its border defenders to retreat. As Brauchitsch spoke, a secretary moved a small piece of wood on the map with a push rod and demonstrated to Accardo the change in the position of the troops on both sides.
"Once we crossed the border line, our armored forces were able to use their speed advantage to annihilate the retreating Czechoslovak troops on the road. Schleicher explained: "This battle plan allowed us to avoid a positional war on the Czechoslovak border. ”
"It's a pity that the entry of troops into Czechoslovakia has been delayed!" Accardo propped his chin on his hand, obviously a little dissatisfied with the plan: "What are we trying our best to plan the Sudetenland? Is there still hundreds of thousands of workers in the factories there! Do you think that when war breaks out, these equipment and workers will stay where they are and wait for us to pass over time?"
He pointed to the map as he spoke: "Once a frontal battle breaks out for more than twenty-four hours, the speed of the advance of the armored forces will be known to the whole world, and the only secret weapon we can get our hands on will be revealed." Isn't that too much to pay?"
"There is no way to avoid this, my Führer. Brauchitsch said helplessly: "We have only one offensive plan that we can adopt, a frontal assault on the Maginot Line, and we will lose a division of troops within two days of the battle, which is not a loss that the Wehrmacht can bear." ”
Catherine, who was standing on the side, also stepped forward and reported to Accardo: "My Führer, the Air Force is only equipped with 37 of the latest Me-109 fighters, and these aircraft cannot ensure air supremacy in the entire theater, and the plan of our Air Force is to temporarily abandon the frontal battlefield and ensure the safety of General Rommel's offensive group." ”
"The General Staff Headquarters deduced that within three to five days of the start of the battle, the French troops would attack our western defensive line, where the Siegfried Line would not be able to withstand the French attack. General Bock also advised: "My Führer, the fact that we have taken Austria is already a very good situation, and there is no need to risk it for the sake of Czechoslovakia. ”
Accardo knew that this was not an adventure, it was simply a difficult situation to ride a tiger. If he stopped his actions in Czechoslovakia, how could he explain to the whole world his professed slogan of liberating all the Germanic peoples? Those Germanic people who had already taken action would be ruthlessly suppressed by their countries, and Accardo would forever lose their support and understanding. What is even more terrifying is that the French and the British will see clearly that Germany is bluffing, which will directly affect the implementation of Germany's entire strategic deployment.
"We must put on such a posture!" said Accardo sternly, "to show the whole world that we are about to attack Czechoslovakia! Leave the rest to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs! Time will be on our side! Believe me, the British and French will not choose to defend Czechoslovakia to the death, they prefer to give it to us and let us stop the westward advance of the Soviets." ”
By the time Accardo had finally persuaded his generals to continue preparing military operations against Czechoslovakia, and had assured them that Germany would not be drawn into war anytime soon, it was already ten o'clock.
He smiled awkwardly as he walked out of the war room, took the coat that Anna had handed him, only to find that the sweat had soaked through the shirt he was wearing, and then walked out of the door of the Wehrmacht Headquarters, which he knew so well, and got into the car and rushed straight to the Reichstag, where he had an important speech to make in the afternoon.
Sitting in the back seat of the car, hugging Anna's slender waist, Accardo breathed a heavy sigh that Germany was still not strong enough, not strong enough for everyone to think they would win.
The convoy stopped in front of a restaurant, and Anna got out of the car to buy a hamburger and a Coke with a working set of french fries for Accardo. This fast-food restaurant belongs to the catering division of the Bailanhua Group, and its name is Accardo, and it is called the McDonald's fast-food chain. This kind of fast food was popular with people as soon as it came out, because it was fast and cheap, and became the favorite of workers and employees.
However, no one would have thought that the de facto ruler of a country would be so busy that he would have to buy such cheap food on the way to satisfy his hunger. Accardo munched on a burger with patties and vegetable leaves in a rocking car while asking Anna to help record the speech and then talk to Merkel.
"If the King of England had been as busy as I was, Austria would still be a country by now. After swallowing the last bite of the burger and rinsing his mouth with Coke, Accardo smiled and said to Anna beside him: "When the business is over here, I will give myself a vacation to visit the famous mountains and rivers of Germany." ”
Anna smiled, then nodded, and finally leaned on Accardo's shoulder, muttering back, "I'll be with you......"
In his speech to the Reichstag in the afternoon, Accardo took out the famous speech of Hitler! This is an inspiring rhetoric that the old song of the other world appreciates, but now Accardo is ready to plagiarize it to encourage his audience: "The Germanic nation has reached the most dangerous time, England, France, and other countries are looking down on us, and our government is cowardly and incompetent. ”
"They forgot the pride of the Germanic peoples and abandoned the dignity of the Germanic peoples. They want to retreat on the road of saving their Germanic compatriots, they want to give up the Czech Germanic people who are bent on their arrival for us! They are a disgrace to the Germanic nation!"
Accardo raised his arm and clenched his fist in the air: "Are we going to watch these ill-intentioned nations and rulers humiliate the great Germanic nations? Do we also have to retreat? Do we also have to retreat? Do we watch our compatriots' homelands fall to ruin?
"Friends, we are descendants of the great Germanic peoples, we have noble blood, do we want those inferior peoples to rule over our friends, relatives and even ourselves?"
He waved his hand as if to wipe out a qiē: "No, we are the descendants of the noble Germanic peoples, we don't want our lower peoples to rule over us, we want to rule over those lower peoples, and make them submit to our feet!"
"We want to move forward, we want to recreate the glory of the Germanic nation!"
At this point, the entire Congress, under the leadership of Speaker Lloyk Carter, burst into warm applause.
When the applause had subsided, Accardo saluted again and ended his speech with the loudest voice he could shout: "Friends, go forward! Let the lower peoples tremble under our feet!
The speech did exactly what Accardo had hoped, and the members of Congress thundered with joy at his encouragement. The collective vote on the resolution "German Armed Intervention in the Question of the Enslavement of the Germanic Peoples in the Sudetenland" legalized the use of military force by Germany, and the German Foreign Office became even more justified on the question of the belonging of the Sudetenland.
In the evening, Accardo met with German Foreign Minister Angela Merkel, who had been summoned by him, and the two of them analyzed and summarized the current diplomatic situation, and Accardo gave Merkel a death order, requiring him to deal with the attitude of Britain and France towards the Sudetenland within five days.
After all, his film company has produced more than a dozen excellent films that shocked the world, and as a famous screenwriter in the industry, as a German head of state who has achieved extraordinary achievements in politics and art and business, he was invited by the organizers to attend the opening ceremony of the festival.
Unlike Germany, which was thriving, Czechoslovakia was now depressed by riots and riots. Production in the world's top 10 industrial countries came to a standstill, the economy collapsed, and countless civilians poured into the streets, holding high flags in the hope that the German Führer would come to the rescue of the country.
On January 2, 1934, just after the New Year, the British government, at the last urging of Germany, was the first to take a stand by recognizing German ownership of the Sudetenland and Germany's de facto control over Czechoslovakia. The Czechoslovak diplomatic envoy who rushed to England did not even see the British king.
The next day, the German armed forces crossed the Czechoslovak border, and after ten minutes, the Czechoslovak border troops gave up their resistance, and within hours the Machinot Line was lost. The German armoured forces drove straight into Prague, the largest city in Czechoslovakia.
On January 4, 1934, the United States and Japan recognized the annexation of Czechoslovakia to Germany, and on January 5 France announced that it would not make any comments on the matter.
Although the sporadic resistance of Czechoslovakia continued, the Germans had achieved their desired strategic goal: they had taken control of the entire industrial system of Czechoslovakia and had hundreds of thousands of skilled craftsmen in their hands.