"The British Empire supported in principle the aspirations of the German people for national security, and understood the efforts of the Germans to protect the Fatherland......"

"The British Government once again reaffirms its support for the German people to emerge from the shadow of war......"

"Suspicious of the so-called! firmly believe that this is a deception laid by conspirators who undermine peace and affect regional stability......"

"The British Government will continue to trust Germany and cooperate with Germany in a number of areas!" The Royal Navy will work hard to ensure the safety of German merchant ships on the high seas......

"God bless the people of England and Germany......"

In the afternoon of the same day, Colonel Smith, military attache of the British Embassy, on behalf of the British Government, the British Foreign Office and the British Royal Navy, held a solemn press conference and made the above statement in front of the reporters' flashing lights.

The Greater German Party endured the humiliation and finally ushered in a satisfactory settlement of the "exposure incident". The diplomatic barrier to international isolation of Germany was broken down by Britain, and Germany became a recognized ally of Britain.

The politicians who tried to use external forces to force the Wehrmacht to relinquish command were dumbfounded, and they lost a dozen leaders on the night of what was called the "Bloody Night", but received nothing, not even the most basic sympathy, and these politicians who betrayed their people were called traitors, insulted and spat on to the fullest.

"Now you've won back the advantage. Tukhachevsky looked at Accardo, who was pouring wine for him, and said with a smile: "It's really not cheap to drink your wine, who will make up for the losses of our Soviet Union?"

"Okay! General Tukhachevsky, you don't have to be cheap and sell well! Technical support for nearly 200 submarines is not a small project. Accardo also laughed: "Throwing out one plan to cover up another plan, using the truth to cover up the truth, this is the most clever intelligence war." ”

"Don't pat me on the back!" Tukhachevsky laughed even more happily: "You are the most clever master of intelligence warfare! You sell one piece of intelligence, but make two countries more dependent on you Germany at the same time." ”

"Let's not flatter each other!" Accardo waved his hand and said with a smile, "In addition to saying goodbye to you this time, you must have very important questions to ask me." ”

"How do you know?" Tukhachevsky was stunned.

Pointing to his temple, Accardo smiled, "Conscious." ”

"I would like to know why you always look at the British and betray us, even though you are secretly allied with us and assist us in the construction of the Soviet Union's infrastructure." Tukhachevsky looked at Accardo suspiciously: "You must know that many times the end result of currying favor with both sides is to be isolated by both sides at the same time. ”

He drank the last sip of the wine, stood up, and said, "One day you will suffer because of this kind of right and left! ”

With that, he walked out of Accardo's office.

"You're wrong, my friend!" Accardo gulped down the last sip of the wine, and then muttered in a voice that only he could hear, "It's true that there will be no real friends left and right, but it will have another ending, which is to kill all the fake friends together." ”

Accardo originally thought that in order to end the "exposure incident", he sent away the members of the Soviet delegation of Tukhachevsky and his party, and he could rest for a while. But the coming year of 1929 was destined to be an eventful year.

In the spring of that year, April 11, 1929. Ibn Saud, the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, who was swelling and increasingly dissatisfied with the distribution of his country's resources, waged a "war of unification" against several small tribes around him. The war grew in scale with the tacit and even even support of countries such as Germany, Great Britain, and France, and in exchange for more oil, German rifles, British tanks, French steel helmets...... Countless arms were chartered from German "Hercules" transport ships to the Middle East, exchanged for countless oil and dollars to be shipped to European countries.

Britain commissioned Germany to build two battleships, "Heroic" and "Perfect", began to lay keels in Kiel, for which Britain paid 16 million pounds, and the two new battleships will use new twin turrets and German precision shooting sights to fight against the Soviet-class battleships of the Red Regime.

The British were very depressed about this money, because the cost of the battleship "King George V" was only 7.4 million pounds, but one had an intelligence from the Baltic Shipyard in Leningrad, the Soviet Union, so that Britain had to pay for the two battleships that were supposed to be the German "Bismarck" and "Tirpitz".

But what really kept Accardo busy was that Mercedes-Benz finally came up with a near-perfect design, which made Accardo determined to start trying to mass-produce the future main combat vehicle of the German armored forces - the new German tank No. 4, codenamed "Project Four", was finally designed.

This tank can be said to be an industrial masterpiece of this era, combined with the design experience of Accardo's previous life, this tank can be described as perfect.

It had a single piece of sloping armor at the front of the hull, a staggering 50 mm thick, and a wide hull held up by six pairs of large-diameter wheels - one more pair of wheels than the later T-34 to cope with the weight changes that came with the wider hull.

This newly designed, completely different from the previous German tanks, uses a wide track, and the staggered track structure used by large-diameter load wheels can adapt to more complex muddy combat environments and harsh road standards.

According to the habits of German tank vehicles, this No. 4 tank has a total of 5 members, namely the driver, the mechanic, the gunner, the loader, and the commander. This is a very reasonable configuration of WWII tank crews, capable of quickly processing information and stable operations for a long time.

The use of the suspension system of the new German tank, which was improved from the suspension system of the American Christie tank, has greatly improved the maneuverability of this tank, and its reliability is better than that of various other suspension systems that Germany has been secretly developing.

In order to accommodate this suspension system, as well as the large diameter of the load wheels, as well as the sloping front armor plates, the German tank for the first time used a gearbox rear layout, which allowed the turret to be slightly forward, rather than in the middle of the tank body, as in the case of the No. 3 tank. Of course, according to Accardo's Tiyì, a basket was welded directly behind the turret to hold some tank crew's sundries, and this practical design also slightly corrected the aesthetics of the German tank turret's position.

The only thing that makes Accardo regret is that the tank still uses a gasoline engine instead of a diesel engine for power. Although the diesel engine has many advantages and is more powerful and reliable, due to a series of problems such as German resources and habits, this tank can only be propelled by a gasoline engine for the time being - this is a small regret for an Acredo.

The main thing was that the tank had a large, angular welded turret, large enough to hold a 75mm short-barreled gun - enough to destroy any tank vehicle already in service in 1929, and it could be replaced with a more powerful tank gun at any time if necessary.

So it's a big pants to buy so that you can wear it when you're more obese. It has an empty spare fuel tank in the engine compartment, a larger turret for more comfort insiders, and a much slower speed due to the larger hull, but it's still the most powerful supercar in German hands.

And the most important thing about this tank is its cheap construction and simple production process. It took about the same number of hours as the No. 3 tank in production, was simpler in work, had significantly higher protection, and had more firepower. On top of that, it has a lot of room for improvement.

What is somewhat depressing is that the total combat weight of this tank has already exceeded 30 tons, reaching a staggering 33 tons. Its weight can be regarded as the behemoth of tank fighting vehicles of this era, compared to the weight of its predecessor No. 3 tank is just over 21 tons.

However, Accardo still encouraged this kind of weight breakthrough, knowing full well that in the coming war, the weight of a tank of 30 to 40 tons was completely justified and was the weight of the mainstream medium tank.

Accardo was very pleased with the design, and the tank could be described as an enlarged version of the T-34 with a Leopard turret mounted on the hull. It combines the advantages of the German tank sighting system and the power of the artillery with the simplicity and reliability of the manufacturing process of the Soviet tanks of the previous life. Once it appeared on the battlefield, it was enough to become a model for tank design all over the world.

So Accardo ordered the Krupp plant and Mercedes-Benz to jointly produce the new tank, and personally named the tank "Panther". It was expected that by the beginning of 1933, the Wehrmacht would be equipped with 700 of these new vehicles, replacing the No. 3 tank as the standard equipment of the German armored forces.

Unlike Guderian, who was divided into two categories, "support tanks" and "combat tanks," Accardo concentrated on developing "destroyer tanks" to deal with enemy tanks -- and as for supporting infantry operations, Accardo was prepared to hand over the new German "No. 3 assault gun" to complete the work.

However, just as Accardo was complacently planning the production and equipment of the Wehrmacht's No. 4 tank, a shocking news came. This news caused Accardo's career, which was thriving, to suddenly suffer an immeasurable setback.