Chapter 47 47 Sharp Fangs

After all the drama, the parliament finally completed the vote by show of hands, and at this moment Krupp and Dressmann, who were sitting below, were already smiling on their faces.

A man in a suit walked up to the high platform at the front of the hall, coughed twice, and loudly announced: "Ahem, ahem! On behalf of the President of Congress, I announce that the following decision has been made by the Congress because the majority of the members of Congress have voted by a show of hands!"

He glanced around the parliamentarians around him before he lowered his head to read his manuscript, looking very solemn and reverent, his somewhat hoarse voice echoing throughout the halls of the Reichstag.

"First, the Reichstag recognized the legitimacy of the Greater German Party, and the German People's Party was dissolved and merged into the Greater German Party in its entirety. ”

"Secondly, seven of the independents declared their membership in the Greater German Party, and 133 members of the Social Democratic Party left the party, all of whom joined the Greater German Party. ”

"Thirdly, the Chairman of the Greater Deutsche Party, Major General Arcardo Rudolf, the Deputy Chairman Mr. Gustav Krupp, and the Deputy Chairman, Minister Gustav Stresmann, shall immediately become Honorary Special Members of the National Assembly, with the right to vote and make proposals, and this decision shall take effect immediately. ”

"In my own name alone, I would like to congratulate the Greater German Party on becoming the second largest party in the Reichstag, and on the President of the Greater German Party, General Accardo Rudolf, for such an extraordinary achievement at such a young age. After saying that, the middle-aged man put down the manuscript and applauded.

As soon as the Greater German Party appeared, it caught the old party Social Democrats by surprise and won an unprecedented victory on the battlefield of the Reichstag.

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"German President Hindenburg and the General Headquarters of the Wehrmacht jointly issued the following order. Accardo loudly announced in the command field with a letter of order: "Recognize the position of the Greater German Party in the army, support the full popularization of the Greater German Party in the Wehrmacht, and not allow the dissemination of any political party other than the Greater German Party in the army." ”

After he finished speaking, he raised his head and looked at the officers below and the soldiers of the guard battalion with his blue eyes, and said no more. He was waiting, waiting for the officers and soldiers below to give him an answer, to give him the answer he wanted.

After a period of waiting, one of the officers and soldiers below finally reacted, "Long live Big Germany!" and an officer finally broke the silence and shouted a slogan.

"Long live the Greater German Party!" shouted more and more soldiers and officers in disarray, and soon all sorts of voices shouting this slogan converged, more and more neatly and louder.

"From today, the national army began to implement new etiquette standards, the old traditional military salute was abolished, and a new military salute was implemented, and the new military salute was unified as raising the right arm 45 degrees high and bringing the fingers together and forward. The meaning is 'Germany and its people and interests above a qiē!'. The salute must be accompanied by the chanting of 'Long Live Großdeutschland'. The name of this ritual is 'German Rite'. Accardo picked up the text of his speech and continued his speech.

On his left-hand side, Gehr immediately stretched out his right arm and shouted: "Long live Großdeutschland!"

All the officers below stretched out their right arms, as if they had suddenly appeared in a dense jungle, and at the same time countless voices shouted: "Long live Big Germany!"

At the same time, in the barracks on the outskirts of Berlin, where the 1st and 15th Divisions were stationed, countless soldiers raised their right arms and stood up in a neat position and shouted: "Long live Big Germany! Long live Big Germany!"

Wren, who was standing in the stands, looked at the Hulk on the side: "See, this is the army, this posture, this momentum, it's comfortable to watch." ”

"It's not just that that makes you comfortable, it's also the 20 new cannons in the arsenal behind the barracks. Hulk looked at Wren and made a joke.

"I heard that it was Chairman Accardo who proposed to unify weapons specifications and simplify logistics support, and he is really not an ordinary person. Wren smiled and continued.

"At the end of 1918, when Chairman Accardo Rudolph was a second lieutenant in our regiment in the gas defense group, I knew that he must be a great man. Hulk said with some embarrassment, he was already the regiment commander back then, and Accardo was just a second lieutenant, and time has passed, and Accardo has now become his top boss.

"Of course, the chairman is not comparable to people like you and me, you introduced me to him back then, and I am still grateful for your introduction at that time. Wren glanced at his old friend Hulk beside him and said solemnly.

"Needless to say, this morning's flag-raising ceremony seems to be over. Hulk interrupted Wren's thanks with a wave of his hand, "There's nothing to be grateful for, aren't we brothers?" ”

"Yes, don't talk about the outside world. From now on, we will fight together for the great Germany. Wren smiled open-mindedly.

Together, the two men raised their right arms.

The people below also raised their right arms, and the slogan of Long live the Greater German Party resounded again on the school grounds, which was deafening.

On the school grounds of the Wehrmacht General Headquarters, I watched everyone in front of me raise their arms and become members of the Greater German Party. Accardo smiled, very happily. His Greater German Party finally surfaced, baring its sharp fangs like a dragon.

"Look at the newspapers! Look at the newspapers! The Greater German Party was founded yesterday! Improve the people's living standards! Become the most influential political party in Germany!" A newsboy waved a newspaper in his hand and shouted loudly, his father had always been the technical backbone of the factory, had joined the Greater German Party in the march yesterday, and this morning he was instructed to build more momentum for the Greater German Party.

So he shouted, and just now, he had a few of his friends who sold newspapers to help shout, and now the whole street echoed with the voices of their children.

As a result of his decisive victory in Congress, President Hindenburg agreed to another secret purchase plan by the Wehrmacht, and on the same day, Accardo again secretly purchased 60 P-2 tanks from the MAN company, which was paid for by the government's secret funds, allowing Accardo to save another amount.

The savings of Accardo's private funds were entered into the secret accounts of the Wehrmacht, and with the deposit of weapons remitted by China, the Wehrmacht privately purchased an additional 60 P-2s, so that Accardo added a full 120 P-2 tanks to Guderian and Rommel's two armored divisions, giving these two divisions a little bit of armored divisions.

The 25th Panzer Division now has 100 tanks in Guderian's hands, which is more than half of the rated strength of the 25th Panzer Division (Accardo planned its full strength of 160 tanks when the division was reorganized).

Rommel, an adviser to the newly formed Wehrmacht's 26th Division, which has 80 tanks since its formation, is testing the actual combat capabilities of the armored forces with exercises, and this newly created armored division is stationed in the famous German city of Hanover, far from the French border.

Moreover, Accardo equipped the three main infantry divisions of the 1st, 15th, and 22nd with a new weapon, an 88 mm long-barreled anti-aircraft / anti-tank gun, which can easily penetrate more than 50 mm of steel plate armor at a distance of 1,000 meters, and can be used for air defense tasks of field troops.

Although they were only of a practical nature, symbolically equipped with about 20 guns in each division, and collectively referred to as 88mm field guns (in order to disguise the true purpose of these guns, these German divisions and even each division were equipped with four less 150mm guns), but these weapons were indeed equipped to the troops in broad daylight, completely ignoring the officers of the Allied Arms Control Committee.

The new M25 helmet, designed by Major General Arcardo Rudolph himself, began mass production (the famous M35 German Army helmet), and the first helmets were transported to distant China by 15 newly launched Hercules-class transport ships to equip Chiang Kai-shek's troops who were in dire need of armament.

It was also because of this order that Accardo had the money to purchase tanks and new anti-aircraft guns and other weapons for his troops, and it was precisely because he sold 50,000 steel helmets to China that Accardo had the money to equip the German troops with an additional 300 long-range radio equipment.

The M25 helmet also attracted other foreign users because of its good shape and exquisite workmanship, and Spain purchased 100,000 of these helmets for its own army, and these orders made the German helmet factories make a lot of money, and also made them more and more supportive of the leader of the party Großdeutsche Rudolf, who supported the military industry.

In any case, Accardo turned the Wehrmacht up again at the end of February 1925. More than half of the soldiers and officers within the Wehrmacht joined the Greater German Party, which was armed with 180 new P-2 tanks, nearly 200 aircraft, and more than 300,000 soldiers.

And before that, at the end of 1924, Accardo had done something even more important for his own fate, that is, he had Guò connections to get the Bavarian Supreme Court of Germany to accept the prosecutor's protest against Hitler's early parole, and to leave Mr. Adolf Hitler, who was supposed to be released from prison on December 20, 1924, until the end of February 1925.

Although the book was still published, Hitler still received the sympathy and support of many people, but the one thing he cared about the most was that he did it, that is, the reorganization of the Nazi Party, which had been launched immediately after Hitler was released from prison, was artificially greatly delayed.

In any case, Accardo had already shown his sword at the beginning of 1925, like a tiger showing its sharp fangs - and it was up to the Nazis and the Social Democrats and the Allied Arms Control Committee to take on them.