Chapter 98 98 Development
"Of course I'm interested, sir, but what I want to know is, what good can I do, and how much power do you have. Hitler asked solemnly.
"I have some of the support of the military! These troops are now loyal to President Hindenburg! But this old fellow is now optimistic about Accardo! So I have come to you again!" the old man spoke very slowly, as if he were going to use all his strength to speak.
Hitler was silent for a few seconds, and then as the car shook, he spoke again: "I'm sorry! I can't believe what you're saying! In the past time, too many people have written me empty checks that are not useful, so I need to see the real thing before I can make a decision." ”
"I can take you to meet someone, so you know why I have gathered so much power, and you can know what the price you have to pay. The old man thought for a moment and said.
"Who?" asked Hitler, narrowing his eyes.
"Our Crown Prince William. The old man said softly, as if he was afraid that others would hear.
Hitler raised his eyebrows, and then blurted out: "Crown Prince Wilhelm? He wants to be restored? Impossible! Sickert was the end of the year! I don't want to be the second!" Sickert can be said to be in full swing back then, but just once he revealed his sympathy for the royal family, he was completely knocked into the abyss, and he, a small leader of the Nazi Party, would inevitably be doomed if he embarked on this old path.
"We have learned our lesson, and we are no longer ready to challenge the democratic forces in Germany!" the old man replied to Hitler's doubts: "So this time we will not make mistakes! We will no longer fantasize about returning to the pinnacle of power in Germany, we need something else! To be precise, we only want money now." ”
"How much do you want?" asked Hitler, frowning.
The old man snorted and replied proudly: "Mr. Hitler, we want them all! All the Wehrmacht munitions will be provided by Crown Prince Wilhelm, the butter and bread of the Germans will be produced by Crown Prince Wilhelm, the cars on the streets, the houses on the side of the road, the clothes on their bodies...... We want to monopolize all of this! We want the economy of the whole of Germany and the whole world. ”
"No! You can't have that much money to merge so many businesses. Hitler sneered and sneered: "These fields belong to many different consortia and companies, how can you control them all?"
"As long as you win, as long as you become the only leader of this country, we will have a chance!" said the old man with a smile, "and this is the main reason why I have come to you! Because now only your Nazi Party can shake the rule of the Greater German Party." ”
"Are you going to ?......" Hitler asked with a sudden cold shudder, staring at the old man.
The old man saw Hitler's reaction and nodded with a cruel smile: "That's right! If Krupp and other big businessmen are dead! Then we can smoothly take over these companies that are facing collapse, and under your power, they have no ability to resist at all." ”
"It's crazy. Hitler shook his head.
The old man laughed and said, "If you don't go crazy, how can you achieve unexpected results?"
"I take power, and you take money?" Hitler thought for a moment and confirmed again.
"Fair, isn't it?" the old man narrowed his eyes and laughed twice, "So this plan is called." ”
"You have won! I agree to cooperate!" Hitler thought for a moment and finally nodded: "I want to meet with the senior officers of the Wehrmacht!
"No problem!" The old man was very satisfied with this cooperation: "I will arrange it immediately!"
Hitler gritted his teeth fiercely, and kept muttering in his heart: "Accardo! This time I have united the forces of France against you, and I have gathered the forces of the royal family and the old army faction -- I want to see if you will be surprised in the parliamentary elections!"
At this moment, Accardo did not know that someone had formed a strategic alliance against the Greater German Party, and he was concentrating on his other enemy, the Allied Arms Control Commission.
In the past six months, the Germans have produced 500 150 mm cannons and brazenly equipped them with infantry divisions deployed on the Eastern Front.
These cannons replaced the 88-mm anti-aircraft guns disguised as howitzers, and at once the German artillery equipment almost doubled, and many first-line German infantry divisions even mothballed some artillery because they did not have so many artillery manpower.
For example, in addition to the traditional tank divisions, the 25th Panzer Division and the 26th Cavalry Division, the 11th and 12th Divisions of the Wehrmacht were also equipped with P-2 tanks. And these tanks are second-hand goods that were eliminated from the first two main tank divisions.
Now Guderian's 25th Panzer Division has all been replaced with new Leopard tanks, that is, new tanks codenamed P-4 tanks, which have completely exceeded the prescribed standards and can be said to be the standard sample of the German tank of the future. So the 25th Panzer Division became the strongest armored division in the world at the moment.
Of course, Rommel's 26th Cavalry Division was not a vegetarian, they were equipped with a large number of No. 3 tanks, although the P-3 tank was not as advanced as the P-4 tank, but it was better than the technical maturity, and the 75 mm caliber assault gun improved from this weapon was recognized by the artillery units and was being mass-produced in a hurry.
As a special weapon of German artillery, the No. 3 assault gun was listed outside the arms ban by the German side on the grounds of "not violating the treaty", and by the time the Allied Arms Control Committee came to its senses and strictly ordered the production to be stopped, more than 400 self-propelled guns had been produced and deployed in various German infantry and armored divisions.
After careful calculation, Accardo found that his armoured forces were beginning to take shape, and the Wehrmacht now had nearly 695 P-2 tanks, 391 P-3 tanks, and 347 P-4 tanks - and more than 400 assault gun fighting vehicles. The number of his armored weapons was already close to two thousand, which was several times the number of armored weapons stipulated for Germany.
At the same time, Germany is armed with 2,900 motorcycles, 1,132 armored personnel carriers, more than 1,700 off-road jeeps, as well as 3,700 trucks and more than 270 special trailers. These equipment allowed one out of every nine German soldiers to carry a vehicle, and with the nearly 100,000 war horses that Germany retained, the German Wehrmacht became the most mobile force in the world for a time.
Counting the 70 fighters secretly equipped by the growing Air Force, Germany now has more than 130 fighters and more than 40 transport planes (some of which are equipped as parts, while others are from the original civil air transport sector), although these aircraft did not bring any essential changes in the balance of power to the Luftwaffe, but they have openly trained batch after batch of excellent pilots for the Luftwaffe.
Although the Wehrmacht has grown stronger again in the past year, some of these strong forces were exposed to France and Britain during the Rhineland crisis, and they also directly attracted the attention of France and Britain. The most immediate consequence is that the French-led Allied Arms Control Commission has become more stringent than ever in its oversight of the Wehrmacht, or at least the Wehrmacht.
So although Accardo now has the heart to kill the Nazis, he doesn't have the energy to do it himself - he must now accompany French and Belgian arms control investigators to various military bases in Germany to inspect those military installations and weapons that "never exist."
So in the afternoon of the same day, Accardo had to go to the outskirts of the 1st Division station, accompanied by the investigators of the Arms Control Commission to check the number of armored vehicles there. Early the next morning, Accardo flew again to the Kiel military port, because investigators from the Belgian Arms Control Commission had received information that the Wehrmacht had built an airfield outside the Kiel military port and was using non-establishment fighter jets to train pilots.
"Colonel Grudo. On the plane, Accardo smiled and shouted to the Belgian soldier sitting across from him: "All the accusations against the Wehrmacht are true, I don't know who gave you such and such information, but it turns out that all this information is wrong!"
"General Accardo! You may not admit it, but you and I know very well in our hearts! The Wehrmacht is playing with fire! You are trying to restore your military strength! And this military power is far beyond the scale you can use for self-defense!" Grudo stared at Accardo's face, hoping to see something in his face, but unfortunately he didn't see anything - Smith didn't, so he couldn't.
"Colonel Grudo, is this what you call a secret military airfield?" Accardo pointed to a short runway below the plane, as well as the two three-winged civilian planes parked above: "This airfield is reported to us and you! This is a perfectly legal civilian airport!"
"Yes, but this runway can take off military planes!" Grudo said with a sigh, "and I can't check what's in the hangar here." General Accardo, are you right?"
Accardo smiled and nodded, "You're right, but I really don't have time to go around with you to inspect all this mess of civilian facilities! I'm going to rush back to Berlin to get ready for the upcoming parliamentary elections." ”
The corners of Grudo's mouth raised a wicked smile, and he stretched out his hand to shake Acardo's hand: "I'm really sorry to delay you for so many days, General! I'll do the rest of the inspection alone! I wish your Greater German Party a successful election!"
Accardo nodded, "Thank you!
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