In southern Bavaria, in the middle of the barbed wire fence wall of the German secret military base H-1, a gate was slowly pushed open by a dozen soldiers, and a new Mercedes-Benz car waiting on the side of the road slowly started and opened the gate.

Lieutenant Colonel Guderian, who was the co-pilot of the car, pointed to the open space in front of him, turned back to Accardo in the back of the car and said with a smile: "In a while, we will be able to see with our own eyes the assault exercises of the tank and the air force, which I have carefully prepared for you." ”

"There's a carload of mid-ranking Wehrmacht officers in the back, all I can find, and a dozen technicians from the munitions factory, and you're going to prepare for this exercise for them, not for me! It's the officers who pay for it, the engineers who make the weapons, I'm just an inconsequential person. ”

"Poof. Gustav Krupp, who was sitting next to Accardo, laughed: "As the vice-chairman of the Greater German Party, I have to tell you solemnly that you are the supreme leader of our party, not an insignificant person. ”

"There are 60 150 mm cannons and 90 88 mm anti-aircraft guns, all of the latest design, which can be hauled and transported by mule, horse and cart, and I guarantee with my life that the weapons here are all the most advanced in the world. Krupp looked at Accardo and smiled, patting his chest on the rocking car to advertise his weapon: "When the French shoot one shot, we can shoot back twenty shots." ”

"How's the secret weapons part going?" Accador crossed his fingers and looked at Guderian, who was more concerned than the artillery, such as the fact that the Wehrmacht had only recently been equipped with a small number of tanks.

"The P-2 tank is equipped with 30 tanks, and I have assigned the tank drivers who returned from studying in the USSR to 5 tank platoons in turn, and now many people are waiting for their own tanks, and we secretly have too few tanks, and the delivery is too slow. Guderian glanced at Krupp and said helplessly.

It is indeed too few, 30 tanks, 6 in a platoon, each tank can only be used by three people (a commander and gunner, a communication mechanic, a driver), and these 30 tanks can only allow a total of 90 armored soldiers to use their own equipment.

Krupp shook his head, stifling Guderian's hopes for more tanks: "Lieutenant Colonel Guderian, do you know how much money the Wehrmacht gave to the factory of the MAN Company? Less than 90,000 Deutsche marks! This money can't even sell the wheels of the tanks! The Wehrmacht owes me and the MAN Company a total of 700,000 dollars, and I will pay tens of thousands of dollars for every cannon I provide you!"

He looked at Accardo, who looked helpless, spread his hands and said: "This is only part of the reason! We have to avoid the eyes and ears of the Coalition Arms Control Committee! We can only start work in the middle of the night, and we dare not use large machinery, which increases the cost and limits the production speed and output. I'm a big family, and I have a loan from the United States to get by, but the man is miserable, and they're being collected by the Swedish mines these days! Because they can't pay off the money they owe. ”

Accardo can't come up with too much money to buy weapons, after all, several companies in his hands also need to develop, although in history these companies eventually became super enterprises, but Accardo didn't dare to embezzle too much money now, he was afraid that these companies would miss the opportunity to develop, and eventually be destroyed by him.

Historically, Hitler's regime used the massacre of Jews and the confiscation of their property to make up for part of the financial deficit, but Accardo did not dare to do so blatantly at this time, and his Greater German Party program demanded that he not do so.

Accardo had to sigh and come up with what he thought was the best solution: "Krupp, you give me a list, and I will inform the Gestapo to do it." First, these people must all be wealthy, and second, industrialists are not allowed to appear on the list, and I deal only with pure capital speculative businessmen. ”

Krupp nodded, Accardor is going to raid his house to make up for the economic deficit, although this method is very informal and has great injustice, but it is indeed a way to quickly make up for the financial deficit.

As far as he knew, Accardo even connived at the Wehrmacht's private exploitation of coal mines in the Ruhr industrial area, and sold them to France and Sweden at a reserve price, to appease some of France's grievances and paralyze France's high-ranking officials, and the money was used for the personal users of the German generals, ostensibly no different from their corruption, but the money was secretly pooled by the Gestapo and used as additional military expenses for the Wehrmacht.

Accardo also had no other way, the 90,000 Deutsche marks he paid to Krupp were still intercepted from embezzlement of public funds, and he used his authority to extract a little egg white from each of the soldiers' fried eggs for breakfast, and sold the saved egg whites to nearby restaurants, so as to get a "small money" of 90,000 Deutschmarks.

Accardo even used a trick he had seen in an unknown book when he ordered many Wehrmacht-owned merchant ships to "deliberately lose their chimneys" when they went to the ports of Sweden and Denmark, and then buy the best copper chimneys there and ship them back to China as copper raw material reserves. This clumsy method was used to compensate for the control of the Wehrmacht's copper raw material reserves by the Allied Arms Control Committee.

He also ordered the interception of all communications and telephone calls of the Allied Arms Control Committee, intercepted the secret examination of correspondence between them, and arranged for soldiers to monitor all members of the Allied Arms Control Committee 24 hours a day.

Despite all these restrictions and resistances, the Wehrmacht grew stronger with the joint efforts of Sickert and Accardo.

As of January 20, 1924, Germany's top-secret document showed that Germany had 300,000 regular army troops, and secretly stockpiled 110 state-of-the-art aircraft, 17 destroyers, and 30 tanks.

Of course, this army is still very weak, and its neighbor Poland has an army of more than 600,000 at this time, twice as many as the Wehrmacht. However, if you look closely at the composition of this German Wehrmacht, it is really scary.

Thanks to the efforts of Accardo and Sickert, more than half of the Wehrmacht soldiers had a secondary school degree or higher, and a quarter had graduated from university. The unit had a reserve of 2,000 paratroopers, 4,000 soldiers who had worked directly with tanks or had been trained to use tanks, about 1,500 people had boarded gliders, and more than 300 had simulated high-speed aerial combat in the Soviet sky.

What is even more terrifying is that in the 15th and 22nd Divisions of the National Defense Forces, 17 people have applied for scientific and technological patents, 94 have published papers on artillery, tanks, aircraft, and other specialized equipment, and a total of more than 3,300 people have received training in air-ground integrated operations.

On average, these armies have a radio station for every 40 people, 33 people are given a mechanical vehicle - including cars and motorcycles, two people have a war horse, and even more exaggerated is that every soldier in this army can be qualified for the job of a platoon leader.

They can shoot at least 5 times a day, while their opponents, the Polish and French * teams, do not shoot this standard every week, these soldiers have undergone rigorous combat training, every tactical move is carved into the bones, and they can participate in small-scale secret military exercises every two months on average.

In a secret base in the mountains of southern Bavaria, Accardo spent more than a year amassing 9 million rounds of rifle ammunition, 150,000 of the latest 150mm shells, and 100,000 brand-new Mauser 98K rifles. Most of the raw materials used in these weapons and ammunition are smuggled from countries such as Sweden.

Of course, the Wehrmacht also stockpiled 700,000 tons of oil, 100,000 tons of flour, smuggled 100,000 tons of rubber from China, and built 200 kilometers of new roads and 400 kilometers of railways in a hurry.

The generals of the Wehrmacht have gone completely mad with the overstretched finances, and they need a large amount of money to produce new weapons, a large amount of money is needed to build a road and railway transportation network, and more money is needed to reserve strategic materials...... Accardo even fantasized that he could break a penny in half and spend it.

The Wehrmacht's economic sources were varied, the most serious sources were the government's defense funds, which were familiar to everyone, and the secret sources were partly the seizure of the property of speculative capitalists, partly the accumulation of Accardo's surreptitious extracts, and partly the income from the export of weapons, the benefits of secret cooperation with the Soviet Union, and the subsidies of Accardo's private income.

In any case, at the beginning of 1924, the Wehrmacht was given a new lease of life, and it was now in a position to face its own neighbors alone, capable of defeating Poland and even challenging France. Wren privately revealed to Accardo that he was confident that he would command the 15th Division to break through the lines of any French corps if it ran into French troops head-on.

When Accardo collected his thoughts, he was already sitting on the viewing platform of the exercise, and more than two dozen new tanks lined up on the school ground, accompanied by infantry carried by trucks and armored vehicles, launched an attack on the set target, they released smoke, advanced and retreated, and quickly took the target area, in the process, two biplanes flew low and dropped two stones to simulate air support.

Amid applause, the soldiers began to chant Accardo's name: "Accardo!

Later, under the leadership of the officers, everyone shouted even louder slogans in unison: "Long live Greater Germany! Long live victory!"

Accardo stood up, saluted, and replied loudly to the cheering soldiers below: "Long live Victory! Long live Big Germany!"