Chapter 15

"It's shameful to have a country but no defense!" With his own motto, sikert began the prelude of the routine exercises of the national defense forces: "you are the national defense of Germany! The drill begins

Recently, hickett was very proud. By means of robbery, he dug out more than 10 million Deutschmarks from the long stretched state funds, and used the money as a deposit to order 200000 sets of new military uniforms, which made his German team look decades ahead of the old rivals of Britain and France.

Moreover, initiated by him, akado carried out in detail and completed an ambitious huge plan of "rearming the mind and morale", focusing on the cultivation of soldiers' personal skills and subjective initiative to master more advanced technical forces.

Originally, hickett did not pay attention to advanced scientific and technological equipment, but emphasized spiritual power. However, in the process of implementation, akkado transformed this slightly wrong idea into a correct idea of attaching importance to both spiritual power and advanced scientific and technological equipment.

With the order, the routine exercises of the German defense forces began. The infantry in groups of four, carrying heavy Markham heavy machine guns, ran between the shotholes. The signalmen holding the order flag were sending messages in smoke. The exercises were conducted in a noisy way among the backward equipment.

This kind of bizarre exercise makes the officers of the coalition arms control committee who come to observe can't help but laugh. They look at their once powerful opponents, and now they dance like clowns in front of them. Their happiness can't be simply described in words.

They saw the brand-new German armored car in front of the enemy's position quickly swayed around, and then they retreated to their own position far away. Then a group of soldiers gathered around the map, sketched and analyzed for a long time before they ran back to the position to prepare for the attack.

They saw the German cavalry troops on thousands of horses attacking the defensive position composed of more than a dozen machine guns on the opposite side. They even threw dozens of smoke bombs that made the horses cry before the attack.

They saw several people in the German machine gun group carrying a heavy Markham machine gun slowly running forward, while the soldier who ran to the position first with a range finder didn't wait for the machine gun group to take place, so he picked up the instrument to measure the data and raised his right hand to signal that he had hit the target.

The whole scene of the exercise was chaotic, in the words of French observers: it was just playing.

In particular, when they got the report on the conclusion of the national defense military exercise, several judges burst into tears and laughed.

The report has the following interesting words:

At nine o'clock in the morning, the first cavalry regiment advanced and captured 19 enemy machine gun positions. The battle was successfully completed. The cavalry attacked the machine gun positions and won.

At 10:27 a.m., the second barracks of the first division defended the attack of enemy tanks, destroyed 20 enemy tanks and beat back about 30 others - the infantry won the tanks.

This report also said that in the afternoon, an infantry company even boasted that it had shot down two enemy planes.

The German army bypassed the Treaty of Versailles and armed a large number of marginal products they needed with limited funds. Although the treaty stipulated that Germany could not own tanks, it did not strictly limit the number of armored vehicles. Therefore, akkado purchased about 400 new armored vehicles for various units of the national defense force, These armored vehicles give several main divisions of German simulated tank forces world-class investigation power.

Contrary to the idea that the whole world thought that Germany would replace tanks with armored vehicles, akado did not regard these armored vehicles as a substitute force for tanks, but strictly ordered the troops to regard these armored reconnaissance vehicles equipped with advanced observation equipment as front-line Scouts of tank forces, so as to provide enemy intelligence for tanks that did not exist at all.

On the contrary, the invisible tank forces are actually cavalry forces all over the world. Akado has equipped nearly 40000 war horses for his 20 main divisions of the national defense forces. These slightly outdated cavalry forces are actually simulating large-scale tank forces. He is also responsible for simulating mechanized towed artillery, self-propelled artillery and armored Grenadier.

If a general who has fought in World War II comes to the scene of the exercise, he will think he is crazy, because the experience of the training exercises conducted by the German defense forces is actually summed up after five years of war.

Those machine gun teams that focus on the movement of machine guns, if equipped with general machine guns or light machine guns, are simply the perfect operational standard for the movement of machine gun positions.

Those soldiers who attack enemy positions on horseback can easily achieve the ridiculous achievements they have achieved today if they are replaced by tanks and chariots.

And those front-line command analysis based on perfect investigation and artillery support based on precise coordinates may not be better than the German army in 1944.

The disadvantages are not necessarily without advantages. Because the general military service system is prohibited in Germany, and the total number of German troops is limited to no more than 100000, the selection criteria of the national defense forces are extremely strict. Volunteers have to pass a series of physical and psychological tests - even if akado shamelessly and secretly doubled the real size of the IDF, the harsh selection conditions have not been relaxed.

After joining the army, the service period of soldiers should be at least 12 years, and that of officers should be no less than 25 years. Once in the army, every soldier will receive special training in a certain aspect, focusing on their leadership. As the Treaty of Versailles stipulated that Germany could not establish formal military academies, after negotiation, sikert and akado decided to bypass this stipulation and establish a military education system at the company and regiment levels of the army. Private soldiers were trained as sergeants in the company level military education system, while sergeants were trained as officers in the regiment level military education system. Akkado assured hickett that once the war broke out, all the German soldiers in active service could be promoted at least one level, and the size of the army could be expanded tenfold or even more in an instant. This army has been tested in the semi annual military exercise, testing its own professional skills and sense of honor for its military career. Although there is no modern high-tech military equipment such as tanks, airplanes and anti-aircraft guns, they used cardboard and wood to make models for training during the exercise. The so-called incoming enemy planes sometimes use toy balloons as training tools. But if you get close to them, you'll hear a single soldier yelling "I'm XX platoon" or "this is an eight person machine gun team" when he's carrying a radio call. "The national defense forces are not joking," exclaimed a foreign observer who saw a little bit of the truth. The German team should attract the attention of all staff in the world. " So hickett can't help but be elated, because his number one subordinate, Lieutenant Colonel akado, who was unknown two years ago, made use of the existing conditions, and after more than a year's efforts, he finally made the national defense force, a new force, blossom and bear fruit, and became a first-class armed force that the whole world looked up to. However, a large number of simulated tank troops and cavalry whose actual role was too marginalized during the exercise dissatisfied hickett very much. He finally found akado chatting with a group of "tank soldiers" driving tractors on the afternoon of the beginning of the exercise“ Akado, I give you too much trust, so that you forget yourself! Should I take back some of my power to let you know that the IDF is not someone's toy? " As soon as he got to the place where there was no one, hickory began to shout at akado. Akkado seems to have known this for a long time, because although general hickett, whom he is familiar with, has a foresight, he also has a stubbornness beyond ordinary people: "general, can you really be sure that your decision must be right?" Sike TE was stunned. He frowned and looked at akado. He fiddled with the stone under his feet: "you know what I'm talking about. If you know, why do you do it?"“ Because I am sure that the decisive factors for future war are oil and metal, the cluster impact formed by the large-scale centralized use of tanks, and the deep encirclement and destruction of the enemy by the army relying on mechanization. But the equipment you trust can not do what I said. " Acardo looked at hickett with a smile: "how can you push 100 kilometers every day and fight immediately by the cavalry and bicycle troops you mentioned?"“ But this is the national defense force! This is the last point of German military power. What I can do is to ensure that this power is steadily promoted, rather than blindly believing in some utopian theories written on paper. " General hickett said: "Germany can't take the risk! You can't take the responsibility, either! "“ You can't afford the responsibility! general! If you let Germany miss this development period because of your stubbornness, when the next war comes, Germany will be defeated because of the lack of a tank, a truck or a cannon! How are you responsible? " Acardo stares at hickett and retorts without any hesitation. The old general in front of him was bole, who promoted him, his boss who almost fully supported him, and he was even a close friend who shared the same ideals in revitalizing the German defense forces. But in front of each other's insistence on the concept, the two finally became red eyed. Looking at akado, sikert sighed at last. His drooping shoulder made the stubborn old man ten years old: "I take back the power of reorganization supervision of the first division, but I give you the power of reorganization supervision of the new third division. We'll wait for three years. After three years, if you can prove your theory, I'll let you go. If you fail, I'll shoot you myself! "“ If my theory of war is not confirmed, I will not wait for you to do it. " Akado sneered: "general, I will give you an account." Hickory walked away without looking back: "I hope you're not joking with tens of millions of defense funds." "I never joke about my dream," akado replied firmly