"Look at the newspaper! Read the newspaper!" A newsboy waved the newspaper in his hand and shouted loudly in the middle of the street: "His Royal Highness the Former Crown Prince participates in the military exercise and watches the ceremony as the chief guest! The military supports the restoration of the imperial family!"

In the other direction, a young schoolbag stall owner was also shouting loudly: "Come and see! Come and see! The Kaiser has sent his own son! General Sickert, Commander-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht, openly supports His Majesty the Emperor!"

The curtain was drawn on the high window, and a judge wearing a round-to-round military cap turned his head and looked at his Belgian colleague and said: "Is it necessary to add such a boost? ”

Colonel Grudo smiled slightly: "We have obtained a lot of information, Germany is arming itself on a large scale, we just have no evidence for the time being, we all know that Germany has at least 10 divisions of troops." ”

"So what? The big men above us are well aware of the Wehrmacht's hidden strength, but they all pretend they don't know anything. The French officer spread his hands and said, "I'm not from the Coalition Arms Control Committee, I'm just here to visit friends." ”

Colonel Grudo spread his hands and said helplessly: "Lieutenant Colonel de Gaulle, you must know that no one except us sees the rising Wehrmacht as a threat. The bigwigs felt that Poland was much stronger than Germany. Germany's hidden strength was not to be feared, and once the war began, France could cross the Rhine in three days, and Berlin would be in a few months. ”

"Shall we just watch them destroy?" Charles de Gaulle said depressedly, "to make a small gesture here to prevent the Wehrmacht from rearming itself?"

"This is not a small move on our part, you must know that the Wehrmacht has been secretly expanding its strength with the support of General Sickert, and if we can directly let Sickert get out of this time, then the expansion of the Wehrmacht will suffer a setback. Grudo said with a smile.

"But you still can't do anything with Colonel Accardo? De Gaulle said with a frown.

Colonel Grudo nodded: "So we had to take General Sickot first, and Colonel Accardo's strength is not as large as we imagined, and his promotion was prevented by Sickot, which shows that Accardo's background in the military is not as terrible as we estimated." ”

"That anonymous call didn't come again?" asked De Gaulle suddenly.

"No, there have been no phone calls since President Ebert's death, and we have never had any information of this value. Grudo said, shaking his head.

"The intelligence section shows that one of President Ebert's secretaries is also missing at the same time, and it looks like we've lost a good ally. De Gaulle said with a sigh.

Colonel Grudo nodded, "We'll take care of it, and take care to protect the next ally who takes the initiative to come over." ”

"Look at the newspaper, read the newspaper!" the newsboy downstairs shouted louder.

The German capitalists were outraged, and they gathered to demand that the German government punish General Sickert severely, claiming that "this arrogant old man must be paid for a little." By this morning, four spokesmen of the old aristocracy and seventeen large conglomerates had already approached President Hindenburg and made two completely opposite demands to the old marshal, who had just taken the presidency.

The capitalists and business advocates demanded that President Hindenburg severely punish General Sickt and remove him from his post as Commander-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht, because Sickert's invitation to members of the royal family to visit the exercises was beyond his purview and threatened Germany's national security.

However, some of Hindenburg's former colleagues and a few old aristocrats spoke differently. They asked Hindenburg to support Sickert, to suppress the unreasonable demands of the capitalists, and some even directly demanded that Hindenburg welcome His Majesty the Emperor back from Holland and regain rule over the great German Empire.

The next day, Hindenburg called the Bavarian barracks and quickly found his trusted young confidant, Colonel Accardo Rudolf.

"Can I trust you?" asked Hindenburg, looking at Accardo.

"I got here as soon as I got off the plane, Mr. President. Accardo stood in front of Hindenburg: "If you need it, I can immediately take charge of the city of Berlin." ”

"Are the police and the Gestapo reliable?" Hindenburg continued.

"Major Gascoll is in the office, he can carry out any order for us. I contacted the police chief at the airport, and martial law in Berlin is ready at any time. Accardo continued.

Hindenburg nodded, and asked the third question of the meeting: "Lieutenant Colonel Accardo, am I a betrayal of the royal family by doing this? I have served them for decades." ”

"President Hindenburg, are you willing to betray and sacrifice all those who elected you president, including your own life, to fulfill your loyalty?"

"Take this article to Sickert's office, he was dismissed. Hindenburg was stunned for about a few minutes, then picked up a copy of the document from his desk, and said to Accardo very lonely: "Convey my words to all the businessmen you know for me, Hindenburg will defend the democratic regime until the last moment." ”

"Yes! Long live Großdeutschland!" Arcator saluted, then turned and walked out of Hindenburg's office.

Walking out of the president's office, Accardo called General Sickett's office from the phone of the president's secretary.

"Hello! This is the office of the secretary of the General Headquarters of the Wehrmacht, and I am Captain Grace, the secretary of General Sickt, what can I do?" Ms. Grace, the secretary who had just been promoted, picked up the phone and greeted.

After hearing what she said, Accardo ordered: "I am Accardo, you now call General Harmon in the name of Sickert and ask him to go to the headquarters of the 15th Division with his guards to find General Wren. ”

"You're going to do something to General Sickt?" Grace whispered, "I'm not going to do anything for you to be sorry for General Sickt." ”

"I'm not the one who will deal with Sickert! It's President Hindenburg! I will shoot General Sickert and still have a way to live, if I change to someone else Sickert, it will be over!" said Accardo with a frown.

There was silence on the other side of the phone for a long time, and finally Grace's voice came: "Okay! I'll help you." I want the rank of major. ”

"No problem, Major Grace. Accardo nodded, and hung up the phone.

Then he grabbed the receiver again and connected to the 15th Division headquarters: "General Wren, I'm Colonel Accardo Rudolph. ”

"Long live Big Germany! Mr. Rudolf, what are the orders? On the other end of the phone, Major General Wren asked without hesitation.

"Harmon will come to you! Hold him for me, and send someone to cooperate with the party members of the 1st Division to take over the 1st Division of the Wehrmacht. Accardo ordered: "No soldier is allowed to leave the barracks without my orders." ”

"Yes!" Wren hung up.

......

Sickert was restless in his office, and for two days the newspapers attacked him with impunity, and some even said that he was a lackey of the Kaiser, and that although he had the heart to restore the Kaiser, he dared to swear to God that it was not now.

German newspapers attacked him overwhelmingly, and foreign newspapers also added fuel to the fire, and for a while Sickert felt that he was in an extremely embarrassing situation.

"Bell, bell, bell. The phone on the desk rang, and Sickert grabbed the receiver: "I'm General Sickett, who are you?" ”

"I'm Crown Prince Wilhelm! I'll call you at a friend's apartment! You should act at once! Mobilize troops to take charge of Berlin! Otherwise, it'll be too late!" An anxious voice came from the other end of the phone: "A friend of mine has called and said that Hindenburg has fallen to the merchant's side!"

"What?" Sickett was startled and stood up, and saw two police cars parked outside the window, and many policemen were gathering around.

He immediately hung up the phone, grabbed the receiver again, and connected to the command of the 1st Division on the outskirts of Berlin: "Hello, I'm looking for Major General Harmon." ”

"General Sickett, what a coincidence? I'm Major General Wren, the commander of the 15th Division, and General Harmon is a guest at the headquarters of the 15th Division, and he and Commander Hulk have a lot to talk about. After saying that, he hung up on the other side of the phone.

"Bastard!" Sickett slammed the receiver of the phone into the carpet.

"That's not good! General Sickert! You've fallen on public property. Without knocking on the door, Accardo pushed open the door of General Sickert's office with Gel, and said with a smile when he saw Sickert smashing the phone.

"You tricked Harmon into going to the 15th Division?" Sickert asked, staring at Accardo, "You also planned this reporter's attack?"

"I don't have that much energy, this incident is mainly the hands of the Allied Arms Control Committee, they plan to obstruct the revitalization of the Wehrmacht, you were caught by them, so there is this attack. Accardo said: "I just asked some journalist friends to help report on this incident, which was a small favor for them." ”

"Marshal Hindenburg was also persuaded by you?" asked Sickert unrelentingly.

Arcardo laughed: "My Excellency, I have never convinced President Hindenburg, you see, he is His Excellency, not a marshal. No one wants to let anyone else point fingers at him, especially His Excellency the President, who has been pointed at before! ”

"I want to know, what are you going to do with the Wehrmacht if you win?" Sickert asked, staring at Accardo, his words full of unwillingness and loneliness.

"I will not do anything, the Wehrmacht will continue to carry it out! It will become stronger in my hands. Accardo said solemnly.