Chapter 61: Ruhr Agreement

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Mercedes-Benz was ordered to start mass production of 300 No. 3 assault guns, while stepping up the development of No. 3 tanks with turrets. The National Defense Force announced that 100 of the No. 3 assault guns were used as stocks and spare parts reserves. In addition, the partiality of international public opinion on the "New Versailles Peace Treaty" made this blatant over-standard production not investigated and punished by the Joint Arms Control Committee.
And these No. 3 assault guns completely exceeded the "New Versailles Peace" limit, weighing 21 tons, equipped with a slanted and thickened front armor plate, equipped with the latest short 75 mm caliber cannon, can support infantry can also be used Deal with the opponent's tank.
Of course, according to Akado's conception when designing the "Pluto Plan", the German armored forces will use the armored division as the core, each division will prepare two armored regiments, each regiment will have two battalions, and each battalion will prepare four armored companies. A company is equipped with 21 tanks, so a standard armored division of the German Wehrmacht should have 336 tanks.
However, the National Defense Force currently has 370 No. 2 tanks (the cumulative number of purchases over the past year) and 41 No. 3 assault guns-these more than 410 tanks were assigned to the 25th Armored Division of Guderian and Rommel to build The 26th Cavalry Division.
In terms of quantity, the two IDF tank divisions are not full, for example, Guderian ’s 25 armored division has only one regiment of full tanks, and the other regiment has only one armored teaching battalion. Rommel ’s forces also faced the same situation.
However, the current situation will be greatly improved. Daimler-Benz will equip these two troops with bright and honest production tanks. The troops of these two divisions will also replace most of the tanks with No. 3 assault guns and subsequent occurrences. Number 3 tank.
Those eliminated No. 2 tanks were simply dismantled and removed the 20mm caliber cannons, replaced with machine guns posing as armored vehicles and assigned to another unit, the 27th Armored Division that the Defense Force recently secretly established.
In this way, the German Wehrmacht has three tank divisions, and these new troops with advanced combat capabilities are all in the hands of Akado. This does not include several mechanized divisions equipped with armored vehicles and automobiles: Division 1, Division 2, Division 3, Division 4, Division 15, Division 22. Almost one-third of the National Defense Forces have been motorized, and their overall mobility has surpassed that of neighbors France and Poland.
Of course, even the weight of the tank, the protection ability, and the caliber of the tank gun are somewhat different from those of France and Britain, but the German tank is superior to its opponents in maneuverability, and except for some of the earliest serving No. 2 tanks, there is no radio German tanks are equipped with radio equipment, which makes the German tanks far superior to French tanks in command and cooperation with each other.
This revision of the new peace treaty benefited the German Navy even more. Akado deceived the British authorities with the half-truth "Pluto Project", making two 10,000-ton armor that did not exist. The ship was replaced with three real light cruisers, and the x general cruiser plan was launched-the Navy had a new weapon with a long range and a high speed.
The British still have no idea what the German Navy is thinking. Except for a few old battleships and cruisers left by the First World War, the German Navy has only three "Luzov" and "Count Spey" with more than 10,000 tons. "Admiral Admiral", "Admiral Sher ", the rest of the newly-commissioned naval warships are all destroyers, with a tonnage of only 4,000 tons.
What is even more ridiculous is that these destroyers are all the same, with a comfortable living environment and huge internal space. The weapons are only a few ridiculous 88mm caliber cannons and dozens of 37mm anti-aircraft guns. The newly equipped three X-class light cruisers are similar to these destroyers. In the eyes of the British, they are just enlarged z1 class destroyers.
The three cruisers built in Kiel use the same parts as the z1 class destroyers. Most of the weapons and equipment on the ship can be used universally, except that these three cruisers have three single-barrel 150 mm main guns and are equipped with more Many anti-aircraft guns. Compared with the British cruisers of the same period, these three boats are not even a threat.
Of course, the Germans have German savvy. They are equipped with small caliber artillery on these ships. The space saved can store more food and fuel, and can travel longer distances-enough for their future. Big guy escort.
The biggest change is also the Luftwaffe. In the past, when it was the most prosperous, the Luftwaffe could dispatch thousands of fighters to participate in combat. Even after the end of the First World War, the Luftwaffe still had 14,000 fighters.
However, after the war, Germany was forced to cancel its own air force, countless fighters were transported or destroyed, and German airspace became a blank area without defense.
But now it ’s different. Germany is allowed to retain its own air power. Although this air force is too small to be small-it only has 50 aircraft of all kinds. In terms of number, even the Chinese air force behind the Far East is better than it. Powerful, but this is a leap from scratch, can not help but cheer people up.
Under the understanding of the Germans, the "New Versailles Peace Treaty" stipulates that the German-equipped reconnaissance patrol aircraft must be bi-winged. As for the speed limit, there is no such thing. So a new type of combat reconnaissance aircraft was designed by Henkel , Used to re-arm German air force.
This aircraft flies faster than the British active fighter "Bulldog" and is equipped with powerful machine gun firepower. It can be said that this he-51 fighter is the pinnacle of biplane design. Once equipped, it has become Central Europe The fastest fighter in the region.
The command of the Air Force was handed over to Major Kesseling, who had just returned from the Soviet Union. The 40 combat reconnaissance aircraft were divided into two squadrons. The first combat reconnaissance squadron was commanded by Captain Dick. Captain Bill Hof served as the squadron leader of the 2nd Fighter Reconnaissance Squadron.
Such a large-scale military expansion naturally drove the entire German industry. Akado personally flew to the Ruhr area in western Germany to meet the German heavy industry capitalist group represented by Krupp on behalf of the military of the National Defense Forces.
The two sides signed the "Ruhr Agreement", which will be called Germany's first five-year plan in the future, which clarifies the scope of production of weapons and equipment of each factory and the number of purchases of the National Defense Forces, including even Germany's entire economic plan in the next five years.
The "White Pigeon Project", a sub-project of the "Pluto Project", continues to expand. Germany will build another 400 kilometers of highways and 350 kilometers of railways to connect the entire German territory to quickly deploy the scattered forces across the country.
As an ambassador to Akado, Merkel visited the Soviet Union with low profits for the Soviet Union to build 3000 kilometers of railways and 3000 kilometers of highways. These financial aids were all signed in the form of secret cooperation to Stalin, the new leader of the Soviet Union who had not been in power for a long time, to help him stabilize his position.
In return, the Soviet Union provided Germany with oil worth US $ 4 million and a huge amount of food. Moreover, the number of German soldiers secretly trained in the Soviet Union was expanded to 1,000.
Subsequent German aid to the Soviet Union's heavy industrial bases in Kiev and Minsk also received equipment from Germany. These precious industrial foundations provided the Soviet Union with steel and its derivatives, including tanks and armored vehicles.
Of course, a crazier plan was provided by the Germans to Soviet leader Stalin, that is, German engineers helped the Soviet Union build a brand new battleship. This battleship named by Stalin as the "Soviet" class equipped with 9 406 mm caliber cannons , Can be called the super sea overlord.
Stalin especially liked this super weapon and ordered the "Baltic Shipyard" in Leningrad to immediately build the first "Soviet Union" with the help of German engineers, followed by the second large shipyard "Navy Shipyard" in Leningrad. Build the second ship.
In Stalin ’s plan, a total of 15 Soviet-class battleships were built to counter the Japanese threat from the Far East and the British warships from Europe. With the help of German engineers, Stalin believed that it would be entirely possible to rely on the Soviet Union to compete with the British Empire at sea.
So a strange phenomenon occurred. The Germans were constantly building small-tonnage cruisers and destroyers as warships, while the Soviets built super battleships with a displacement of more than 45,000 tons with the help of the Germans.
With the payment of the Soviet Union, the German industry has shown unprecedented vitality, and the whole of Germany has become a huge arsenal and construction site. The social unemployment rate was almost zero for a time, and prices were stable. People lived in peace and contentment. Germany swept away the haze of the defeated country and became the most economically dynamic country in Europe.
Under the desperate propaganda of the German newspaper, the second half of 1925 was called the year of Great Germany. The Great German Party brought an unprecedented Christmas to the German people through the "New Versailles Peace Treaty".
In September 1926, just one year after the signing of the Ruhr Agreement, Hindenburg commended Major General Akado Rudolf on behalf of the government. One bonus and another 4 million marks were generously allocated as secret funds for the National Defense Forces.
At the end of 1926, Germany actually had 42.5 million Army troops (because the expansion was carried out in secret, which was less than expected), a total of 633 tanks of various models, 60 Air Force 1400 aircraft, and the Navy had a new z1 There are 21 class destroyers and several other old ships (3 x-type light cruisers are still not in service during the trial phase).
When the capitalist businessmen's group that was full of money finally decided to take a break, they remembered that there was another important thing that had not been implemented, so they hurriedly started again.