forty-two helping a distant friend

Sickert glanced at Akado, smiled, and sat back on the sofa again. Now that the situation was settled, he felt a little relieved.

Remember when I just brought you here? Sickert raised Erlang's legs and said with some nostalgia: At that time you were still...

I was still a captain at that time. Arkado continued with a smile: You gave me a plan for the formation of the 1st Division, let me read it, and then let me give my opinion. I said that a machine will be formed. Powerful mechanic, you agree to try.

But I don't trust mechanized divisions in my bones. Those cars and armored vehicles are very unreliable. Sickert glanced at Arkado and said, I promise you to try it, but at that time I really couldn't make the Wehrmacht deal with it. The war in the future, so I let you go with a tentative attitude.

In the end, I made you very satisfied. Arkado smiled proudly: I said it! In the entire General Command of the National Defense Forces, only I can do this job.

You did a great job! Assembled a sniper unit, developed the Gestapo, secretly implemented the Pluto Plan you made, dispatched missions to the Soviet Union, and made unannounced visits to China. You have accomplished both the tasks I gave you and your own tasks. That's why you go against my will and I still can't bear to deal with you. Sickert said with a sigh.

Akado stood at attention, bumped the heel of his leather boot with a crisp sound, gave Sickert a standard military salute, and then bent down ninety degrees: Thank you General for cultivating a humble position! I will inherit yours. The will to turn the National Defense Forces into the world's most powerful army.

Without my constraints, the Wehrmacht will be your only word, Akado! You'd better not let me down. Sickert stood up, walked over to Akado, and patted Akado on the shoulder : I handed over the Wehrmacht to you.

Akado nodded: General Sickert, thank you for everything you have done for the Wehrmacht.

General Harmon has followed me for many years. I hope you will treat him well. Sickert seemed to remember something, walked to the desk, picked up a pen, wrote a lot of names and positions in the notebook, and then handed it over to Akka many.

He looked at Akado's puzzled eyes, and smiled very singlely: What we are fighting for is the future of the National Defense Forces. Since you win, then prove that you are the better choice! I have no good wishes. Yours, because after all, we used to be competitors, and we really don't have anything to give you, so let's give you these.

He pointed to the names and positions on the paper: These are my people, and I'll give them to you. If you don't mind, I can call each of them and explain.

Akado laughed and said, General Sickert, I have no intention of killing you, and you don't have to tell me so much. You can take a week off, and then find time to spend the afternoon with the people on this list. Tea.

Sickert raised his eyebrows: You really don't kill me? Are you so confident that I won't make a comeback?

Your Excellency, as you said, we are fighting for the future of the Wehrmacht, so one day if I lose, it will prove that the Wehrmacht will go to a higher level under your leadership, right? Arcador said.

Sickert sighed, stretched out his finger and gave a dash of Arkado: I just made sure today that I didn't choose the wrong person.

I have prepared a villa for you in the suburbs of Berlin, I hope you like it. Akado waved: Ger, send General Seekert downstairs!

Sickert laughed and walked out of the office where he had been sitting for more than four years.

The next day, the German government announced that it would allow General Seeckert to resign and hand over the powers of the commander-in-chief of the Wehrmacht, in view of General Seeckert's reckless move to invite the former German crown prince to watch the military exercise.

At the same time, General Kurt von Hammesstein was appointed as the new commander-in-chief of the Wehrmacht, and Arkado Rudolph was promoted to major general, leading a secret agency General Staff of the Wehrmacht ordered by Hindenburg. .

In fact, General Kurt von Hamestein is just a pretense. All the affairs of the Wehrmacht must be decided by the General Staff of the Wehrmacht, and the power of the entire Wehrmacht has fallen to the newly promoted Arkado Ruth. In the hands of Major General Dolph.

The newly appointed Arkado immediately ordered Guderian to be promoted to Colonel of the Wehrmacht, commanding the 25th Armored Division; Hulk was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel Acting 1st Division Commander; Cruze was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel Acting 3rd Division Commander; Brauchitch, who joined the Grand Deutsches Party, was a colonel and commanded the 4th Division; Lutz continued to command the 2nd Division; Rennes continued to command the 15th Division.

In addition to the 22nd Division Commander Carter, who was originally formed by Accardo himself, the Wehrmacht directly controlled by Accardo's direct line has as many as seven divisions and more than 100,000 people. He has firmly controlled Bavaria and the Ruhr Industry. District and the surrounding areas of Berlin, holding most of Germany in their hands.

Akado wouldn't listen to Sickert's side, believing that those generals who originally supported Sickert would turn to his sect, so he transferred the generals who were related to Sickert to some cold spots. Yamen, the worst thing is Colonel Nazmer, a die-hard loyalist of Sixt. He was assigned to Guderian's armored unit as a regiment commander. Guderian was very take care of.

However, Seeckert’s old friends are also full of smart people. General Tzeichwitz applied to join the Greater Deutsches Party the day after Seeckert stepped down, and his application was approved, so he was appointed commander of the 19th Division. , took over from another old subordinate of General Sickert.

And Sickert Accardo did not let him idle, he found a very suitable job for his old boss - to send this experienced general to China.

Originally, General Sickert went to China in 1933, but Akado sent Sickert, who had just retired, to China at the end of 1924 out of consideration of national complex and self-interest. This is a full 9 years ahead of the time when Sickert went to China in history.

Chiang Kai-shek, Germany's old friend in China, was very happy and personally received Sickert, the former commander-in-chief of the Wehrmacht, and after a long discussion, he appointed Sickert as a personal military adviser.

Akado hoped that Sickert could help Chiang Kai-shek strengthen the Chinese army, play a greater role in the possible future Japanese invasion war, hold back the Japanese, and make Japan exhausted on the Chinese battlefield.

Of course, Sickert alone is not enough. Arkado sold a large number of equipment eliminated by Germany to Chiang Kai-shek, including more than 2,000 bicycles eliminated by the 1st Division of the Wehrmacht.

The equipment itself was to be handed over to the newly formed troops in the second line, but Accardo's national defense forces were in a hurry to use the money, so they had to sell the equipment. China picked up a cheap benefit, and Germany got the much-needed funds.

However, General Sickert, who went to China in advance, also encountered unprecedented difficulties. Because of the advance time, Chiang Kai-shek had not been able to control most of China, which made Sickert's work not fully popularized, and Chiang Kai-shek was busy cleaning up the warlords. The separatist Central Plains,

Another unfavorable factor is that Mr. Sun Yat-sen, the leader of the Kuomintang, is seriously ill at this moment, but he still accepted the invitation of Zhang Zuolin, Feng Yuxiang, Duan Qirui and others to go to Beijing to discuss the country, and Akado knew how much A few months later, the great man in history will die in Beijing, but the land of China in the dawn is plunged into a brief darkness.

Even with so many difficulties, Sickert still brought many surprises to Chiang Kai-shek. With the rigor of a German soldier, he made Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang army look brand new in just a few months.

Germany's secret plan to aid the Soviet Union also reached its peak, with German engineers building two of the Soviet Union's largest tank factories in Kyiv and Minsk, and ten large arsenals in other locations for the production of artillery shells and guns.

The Soviets were also very generous. They paid Germany a large amount of oil and raw materials instead of foreign exchange reserves. They also assisted Germany with nearly one million tons of corn and potatoes for free. Although the peasants in many parts of the country are still hungry, it has not affected the dream of an industrial empire at the top of the Soviet Union.

The National Defense Forces themselves were not idle. Accardo saved a little bit of money and bought another 30 brand new P-2 tanks from MAN in one breath, which suddenly increased Guderian's 25th Armored Division. Doubled the number of tanks, although the supply is still in short supply, but after all, the shortage of tanks has doubled.

In addition, the Bai Lanhua Group Company under Accardo has officially taken root in the aviation industry. He established Imperial Airline to produce a new type of twin-propeller transport aircraft and undertake various air transport operations in Germany.

However, the company's main business is to provide training for Accardo's newly established German paratroopers, and to transport German rapid assault troops and important military supplies in a possible war.

At the same time that Acado's slow reorganization and development of the Wehrmacht, Accad's old friend Adolf Hitler was sorting out his dictation in prison, which is the famous Mein Kampf. He turned the Nazi Party from a small party into a big party because of his wonderful court arguments and self-reports.

So he is actually very free in prison, he has a separate room, there are even bright windows in the room, he is even allowed to visit by his friends, and his assistants can come to his cell every day to write his autobiography.

He is waiting, waiting for the day when he gets out of prison, on that day he will be reborn into Nirvana, invincible like a phoenix from the ashes.

Unfortunately, Arcador is also waiting, waiting for a time to unleash the devil, he needs Hitler to disrupt the political situation and create an unprecedented good time for his Greater Deutsches Party to surface.