"This cannon was designed to deal with the super-fortresses built by the Red Army on the Crimean peninsula, and it could solve the ammunition depots and barracks buried deep in the ground, and easily destroy the enemy's batteries and fortifications. Accardo said with a laugh.

A few French countries are full of displeasure, your subordinates just blatantly mentioned the Maginot Line, and pulled out such a big killing weapon, but now you keep saying that it is a new weapon used to fight *, isn't this trying to cover up? If it is really used to fight*, what are you really doing with this thing on the German-French border?

However, now the rank of this judicial official is too low, and he really can't make any protests or other nonsense in front of Accardo, so he has to swallow his anger and prepare to go back and quickly evaluate, at least let the country make some preparations as soon as possible.

They have now returned to the outskirts of Kaiserslautern, chatting and laughing around the fireplace in their elaborately furnished cabins. Smith and Accardo chatted without a word, but never said anything about the train guns.

Accardo's diplomatic action was an arms diplomacy carefully planned by several masters of the German Foreign Office, so the backhand was quite well prepared, and after the display of force that should be shown, the sweet dates that should be taken out were the back.

"Colonel Smith, I have to congratulate the Royal Navy from the bottom of my heart. Accardo smiled and suddenly turned the subject to the ocean: "The British Empire is about to usher in a new peak." ”

"I don't know why Yuan Xiansheng wants to congratulate us?" Smith asked with a smile, narrowing his eyes, "Recently, there was news that the fourth battleship of the Soviet Union was launched, which doesn't seem to be good news for all of Europe. ”

"Because the German battleship of the new design for Britain has already been built. Our Navy is currently on trial voyage and will be ready to be handed over to the Royal Navy within a month. Accardo threw his own bait, which could also be counted as a bargaining chip.

The British were not French, they did not share a border with Germany, and even if the European continent was a pot of porridge, as long as the fleet beyond the Royal Navy appeared in the Atlantic, the British Isles would be impregnable. The German battleships were designed and built with their own ingenuity, and the commissioning of this battleship would undoubtedly bring an increase in the strength of the British Royal Navy.

"Thank you very much for your generosity, Führer. Smith really caught this chip and raised his voice: "Britain will strengthen cooperation with Germany in **** and other fields, and in principle, it will also agree that Germany will buy Saudi Arabia's oil at a normal price." ”

What a tough guy. Accardo snorted coldly in his heart, but the smile on his face deepened: "Thank you! The German people will always be good friends of the British people." "Who doesn't know that Germany has just gained a foothold in Romania and needs to go so far to the Middle East to buy a bullshit oil?

However, Germany hoped to send four more ships of arms to the Far East in the name of Great Britain. Would Colonel Smith be interested in participating in one?" said Accardo, who made a real request, and brought a favor to the British government by the way.

"Japan is becoming more and more ignorant of convergence! They have already swallowed a large area of China's land! What do they want? Swallow the entire Chinese market? They are not afraid of dying!" Smith gritted his teeth with hatred at the mention of Japan, taking advantage of the First World War and the world economic crisis, Japan accelerated the pace of annexing China, which put the British government's interests in China in jeopardy, so on the Far East issue, Britain has always worn the same pants as Germany.

"The Japanese are not greedy enough, and they are innocent. It does this only to provoke you, the British Empire, and the Americans. Eventually, they will be forced to vomit everything they eat. Accardo reassured.

"I just don't understand why the Chinese didn't go to war. Smith snorted.

"Obviously, it is very unwise for the Chinese to give up the northeast region for some reason. Accardo patted Smith on the shoulder and said, "Their Chairman Chiang gave up the area controlled by the warlords in order to hide his strength and weaken potential opponents. ”

"His troops now have 11 divisions full of German equipment, as well as 110 Italian and American fighter planes! I heard that the Soviet Union also sold 70 I-16s! They don't dare to go to war! What an idiot!" Smith knew that China had a lot of family backgrounds, but in fact he still said that China's war potential was small, and Sickett worked hard under Chiang Kai-shek for five years, and helped the Kuomintang to buy more family business than it seems.

"So we should show some attitude and give the Chinese courage." Accardo smiled and said, "But I still think that peace in the Far East is in the interest of all of us." ”

"Six ships of munitions! We have a batch of obsolete fighters, and we will also transport them over there!" Smith nodded and said, "At least we can't let the Japanese do whatever they want again! We have our bottom line!"

Three days later. France adopted the weapons and equipment development plan known as the "Giant Cannon Act", and began to study train guns with a caliber of more than 500 mm and fast train guns with a caliber of 370 mm, and customized 30 train guns of large and small calibers as soon as they opened their mouths to consolidate their already impregnable Maginot Line. They also retained the option to continue with additional orders, in which the number of large-caliber guns purchased reached a staggering 170.

The British were not idle, and the 381 mm caliber "Queen" train guns began to be mass-produced, and two were deployed in the first month, but in comparison, the British government was much more conservative in the procurement of such weapons, and they planned to deploy 10 such cannons on the mainland, and 12 in Belgium.

On the contrary, less than an hour after the tour had been gone, Colonel Frederick, commander of the 7th Infantry Division of the Wehrmacht, ordered his troops to help the engineers begin to dismantle the "super cannon", which could not be moved at all and could not really fire.

The steel was to be transported back to the factory and re-forged into iron shells and other parts, the eight wagons and the containers stacked on them were to be returned to the German Bahn command, and the Germans had no interest in building large-caliber train guns, and even Krupp, who was very fascinated by cannons, had the courage to persuade Accardo to build 283 mm train guns for heavy fire support.

As a result, such a German train gun, whose caliber was smaller than that of the train guns equipped by various countries and could be quickly deployed, was also vetoed by the Führer. Accardo's instructions made Krupp embarrassed: This artillery is the steel used by the artillery of a division of the Wehrmacht! Which do you think should be produced first?

Although Germany had little interest in large-caliber train guns, seemed to have forgotten the once glorious Paris cannons, and no longer seemed to intend to compete with Britain and France, in fact, the pace of German improvement and innovation of artillery has not stopped. The Krupp plant, after inspecting Soviet weapons factories, chose to buy the Soviet 76. Design drawings of the 2-mm "Jack-of-all-trades" howitzer, which was used to design the German 75-mm howitzer. It also signed a contract with the Swedish company Bofors to supply Germany with 7,000 40-mm anti-aircraft guns and their design drawings.

To this day, the British still believe that the caliber of tank guns in future wars will not exceed 40 mm, while the French are fooled into endlessly reinforcing their Maginot Line. As a result, Germany gained an even clearer advantage in the world arms race, which had begun.

At the same moment, De* The industrial enterprises are producing a strengthened version of the No. 4 tank, which is separately named the Leopard tank; the navy is in a hurry to get the aircraft carriers into the water; several aircraft manufacturers are working overtime to produce fighter jets for their allies; the entire German industrial machine has been pulled up, and the factory chimneys are emitting black smoke day and night-109C export fighters have brought vitality to Germany's arms sales, the Italian leader Mussolini has purchased 100 in one go, the Spanish general Franco has also obtained the coveted 150 aircraft, the Romanians have quietly bought 110 aircraft, Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria also bought some more or less. Now the Germans can unceremoniously say that their ME fighter is a world fighter.

Counting the 200 export D0-17 bombers, the German aircraft manufacturing company turned a lot of money, so the Luftwaffe, which has deep pockets, uses more mature and more advanced FW-190D fighters, and in the past few months it has been equipped with 350 of them. Including the high-altitude ME-109A used as a homegrown interceptor, and the HE-51, which is ready to be phased out, the Luftwaffe has more than 1,000 aircraft for the first time, and Air Force Lieutenant General Catherine finally has enough strength to compete with her opponents.

German intelligence has devised numerous deceptions to trick any force they can get their hands on. Some of these deceptions have succeeded, as in the case of the Super Railroad Cannon, and some have failed, and even the agents on the mission have died on the streets of the enemy. These Germans, or foreigners loyal to the Führer, died without even their names, and even in the archives destroyed by German intelligence, they were only letters.

Accardo closed the memo report submitted by the intelligence services, which was densely packed with names of many intelligence officers who had fallen to the police, and he rubbed the bridge of his nose and sighed for these heroes of the German nation.

There was a knock on the door of the Führer's office, and Secretary Sindra stood upright at his desk: "My Führer. Mr. Yamashita has arrived and is waiting for you in the conference room outside! He has come to represent the Japanese Government this time and hopes to carry out comprehensive cooperation with us. ”