Seventeen Devil's Right Hand

Sickert rushed back to the headquarters of the Wehrmacht the next day. After all, it is not a good thing for a commander-in-chief to stay in the exercise area all day long. Although the whole world knows that the German Wehrmacht is now only a few people and a few guns, the commander-in-chief Similar to the people in charge of the army commanders of other countries, Sickert still does not want to admit this helpless fact.

Therefore, staying in his office and imagining that he has more than a dozen army groups is a very comfortable thing for Sickert.

"Second Lieutenant Grace!" While feeling refreshed, Sickert called his heartfelt female secretary: "Today, the purchase report of Accardo should be submitted? Did you mention the payment for the purchase of the car?"

This question threw Grace into her conversation with Arcador yesterday:

Grace asked Akado worriedly: "But if the general asks, I dare not hide it! If it is revealed, the general will no longer trust me, and your concealment will fail!"

Arcardo laughed: "My close friend bought a company in Munich with a sum of money, the name of the company is very interesting, the name is Bayerische Motoren Werke, the Bavarian machinery factory, and I nickname this company 'BMW'. "

Akado pointed to the plan and said with a smile to Grace: "In the future, all my cars and armored vehicles will be marked with the word BMW, and you will not say anything when you report to the horse Sickert. If he finds out , you can put the blame directly on me."

"What do you mean?" Grace asked, frowning.

"In the future reimbursement, in the procurement of the National Defense Forces, the number of BMWs is actually the number of BMW motorcycles and cars. It's not a real horse, understand?" Arcado finished this conversation.

Thinking of this, Grace smiled and reported to General Sickert, who asked the question: "In the report submitted by Lieutenant Colonel Arcador this time, he purchased a BMW 300. It seems that he still likes horses."

"This Akado, who was stubborn with me yesterday, didn't he secretly correct his radical mistakes in the end? This young man! Humph." Sickert smiled, took the report and flipped through it roughly. When there were 200 cars written in the car purchase column, he snorted unhappily, closed the original report, and threw it aside.

"Go down!" Sickert closed his eyes, pinched the bridge of his nose, and waved at Grace and said, "I'm tired and need to rest."

At the same time that Sickert was deceived by Accardo's BMW name in the headquarters, Accardo was personally training his armored commanders at the exercise site. he

Pointing to a wood on the opposite side, Arkado patiently told a group of young soldiers and officers around him.

"You should order your troops to stop here and send armored reconnaissance vehicles to scout here and there! Confirm the enemy's position, and then arrange an attack. You are all important talents of the Wehrmacht, and I don't want to do it because of an unprepared one. If you attack carelessly, you will lose any of you!" Arkado sternly described his principles of warfare.

He stretched out four fingers, and bent one each time he said a word: "Find the enemy, find the weakness, strike with a thunderbolt, rest and replenish! This is the basic principle of warfare! Do you understand!"

"You must always maintain your most reliable comrade-in-arms, the tank! Clean the gun barrel, take care of the engine, and make sure that all the hatches can be opened and closed freely." Arcador would tirelessly tell these young tank soldiers in almost every exercise, because Arcador knew that each of them was the most valuable asset.

"Sir." A German officer of about thirty-five years old was taking notes of Arcardo's words, and he raised his hand with the pen to ask for the floor. When Akado looked at him, he asked nervously, "What if we lose air dominance?"

Arkado looked at the officer who asked the question with great interest. His face was familiar to Arkado, and seeing this great figure in history here made Arkado very excited. After a few seconds, Akado asked, "Captain, what's your name?"

"Sir! My name is Heinz Wilhelm Guderian! I'm a company commander of the 10th Hussar Battalion." Guderian saluted and introduced himself loudly.

Arkado is a bit dumbfounded, the famous blitzkrieg tactical expert in World War II, the world's leading theoretical founder of the armored force, General Guderian, known as the father of the armored force, and now he is a company commander under him. It's amazing.

"How to make the sky belong to us, that's my problem; your problem is how to get the most brilliant victory with the least cost!" Arcador answered Guderian's question with a smile, then pointed at him and continued. : "Okay! That's all for today. Come with me."

Taking Guderian to the bottom of a big tree, and seeing that there was no one around, Arkado turned back and said to Guderian: "You have a thorough understanding of the theory of armored soldiers I said! Who gave you the analysis? ?"

"Sir! I participated in an observation exercise, the British Royal Tank Battalion once demonstrated the power of tank assault, and I came back and wrote a very detailed report! Fortunately, the British did not appreciate the exercise, and unfortunately we also I don't have the energy to discuss these." Guderian said sadly: "My report did not get any response, so I can only deduce my assumptions by myself."

As he said, he looked at Arkado eagerly: "However, one day, my cavalry unit was trained as a virtual tank unit, which gave me hope all of a sudden, I didn't expect you to be so talented in Germany. Visionary officer, I believe you will lead us to victory in the next war!"

"If I want to thoroughly understand everything about the armored soldiers, I can't do it! Captain Guderian! There are so many things that I need to do in person, my time is limited after all, so I need people who understand me and support me. ." Akado stroked the thick trunk of the big tree with his palm, and said a little lonely and a little sentimental.

"Lieutenant Colonel! I am willing to be your supporter! I think I can understand you! From the day I heard about you, I have been your fanatical follower!" Guderian's face flushed with excitement, Ah Cardo even had a little doubt that Guderian would overthrow and rape him in the next second.

It's a pity that the basic love scene was not staged, and Guderian said excitedly there: "Lieutenant Colonel Arcador! Let me become your loyal follower! I am willing to give my life to prove your theory of armored soldiers!"

"Basing a theory, especially a practical theory, is very boring, it needs huge data support! So I plan to ask you to help me get the first detailed data to verify our armored theory! Would you like to? ?" Akado looked at Guderian and asked, he planned to train the young man in front of him into a future super commander.

"Extremely happy!" Guderian saluted.

"This year, in the fall of 1921, I will transfer you to the Directorate General of Transport of the Ministry of Defence! Get a full understanding of the logistics of armored motorized units there! Then I will immediately arrange for you to go to Munich, to a motorcycle there Internship in the chemical transport camp. Is there a problem?" Akado asked.

Guderian's face was full of excitement: "Very happy! Sir! Heinz Wilhelm Guderian promises you! I will dedicate myself to the German armored troops!"

After sending away his stubborn fan and the future general Guderian, Arkado sat on the lawn and sighed against the tree. He didn't talk to Guderian casually, he was really tired. .

In fact, as early as more than a year ago, Arcardo began to work hard for the future of the Luftwaffe. Although General Sickert's preference for cavalry and bicycles is somewhat anachronistic, he was far-sighted in anticipating that the Air Force would become an independent armed force, in which he coincided with Arcador.

So with Sickert's approval, Arcador set up a department called the Special Aviation Division in the revamped General Staff. This department reserved 180 places in the small officer corps and absorbed some first-time officers. The old pilot of the World War. Arcador assigned these "special mission advisors" to major units, instilling Air Force awareness in their soldiers and officers.

The idea is that even in the absence of aircraft, infantry and virtual armoured officers can develop tactics during exercises that take into account the likely actions of friendly and enemy aircraft.

During this period, the work of dismantling the production capacity of Krupp and other German arsenals was not carried out thoroughly by the Allied Arms Control Commission because of the large number of countries.

Under Arcardo's behest, the Wehrmacht secretly hid 1,500 brand new cannons from the Krupp factory in a secret base in the mountains. The operation was carried out at night by the presence of the Wehrmacht, just in time, before the officers of the Arms Control Commission arrived at the Krupp factory.

The Krupp factory itself also secretly shipped another 1,500 cannons to a leather bag company in the Netherlands to hide.

During the inspection, an Allied inspector found that Krupp had handed in a full 3,000 fewer cannons than the French intelligence estimated. So there was a dispute between the two sides.

Those on Krupp's side argued that French intelligence had exaggerated. In the end, the inspectors of the Coalition Arms Control Commission made a compromise and broke the deadlock. In front of these inspectors, the Krupp factory restarted production and produced a full 3,000 cannons. These brand-new cannons were transported away and destroyed. Factory jigs and presses were also removed.

From this incident, it is not difficult to see that the entire coalition arms control committee is full of loopholes in monitoring the size of Germany's armed forces.