A loud roar reached Ludwig. Feng. In Heinsberg-Hersmann's ears, he is now standing on top of Lenin's tomb, made of polished red granite and black marble. At the top of Lenin's tomb is a viewing platform flanked by a viewing platform made of gray marble. On major holidays or celebrations in the Soviet Union, the country's leaders parade the procession and the armed forces here.

Hersmann's arrival in Moscow coincided with May Day in 1932. So he was invited to the review platform on Lenin's tomb on Red Square, and inspected the Red Army with Stalin, Molotov, Voroshilov, Kalinin and other Soviet bigwigs.

Rumbling toward us was a phalanx of 25 tanks, a very tall tank that Hersman had never seen before—he had never seen such a tank in his life, and his Stasy agents had not discovered the existence of such a tank this time—and Hirschman had visually examined it, and it was a tank that was more than three meters high, with two turrets stacked on top of each other, and looked very imposing. The lower turret is supposed to be a 45mm main gun, and the smaller one above is a machine gun turret with a 7.62mm machine gun.

Twenty-five of these steel behemoths, roaring and belching black smoke, rumbled past Lenin's tomb amid the cheers of the crowd.

"This is a T-24 tank, with a total combat weight of 18.5 tons! 1 45mm cannon, 4 7.62mm machine guns were installed. ”

Stalin, dressed in a military coat and a large military cap, introduced the most powerful tanks of the Red Army in a very proud tone. He knew that this was an advanced weapon that Germany did not have!

Now the superiority of Germany is in the Air Force, they were in the air during the world war, and they have maintained it until now. However, German tanks were relatively backward, and the Treaty of Versailles banned the production of tanks in Germany. Even agricultural tractors could not be produced (although they were later deregulated, tanks could still not be produced). Although the Germans used their satellite Baltic Republic to open tractor factories, they secretly developed tanks from 1924 or 1925.

But Germany, which was fully restricted, lagged far behind in this regard, according to the reports of the intelligence services of the Red Army, at the moment Germany has only one small tank of 5 tons, and it is produced only in small quantities. It is used for tactical experiments and training, and it has no combat effectiveness at all. A steel behemoth of almost 20 tons like the USSR is at least 10 years ahead of Germany!

"That's amazing, the 18.5-ton tank is 5.5 tons heavier than the French Charles D1 tank! Probably only the B1 heavy infantry tank of the French is bigger and heavier than it, right? ”

Hersmann said compliments, but in his heart he couldn't help but admire the Germans' own armored forces, they didn't have any advanced and powerful tanks, and the tanks that the French had in 1931 were better than the ones they used in 1940. But the German panzers still won an overwhelming victory with inferior equipment. It swept through Western Europe as if it had been opened.

It's a pity that the resources at my disposal over the years have been limited, so I can only use good steel on the blade, and I haven't invested any money in tanks. So now the German tank is still about the same as in history, or a little ahead, the pocket-sized tank No. 1 has just been in trial production, and only a few dozen have been built to replace the FT-17 (copycat French) light tank produced by the Riga Tractor Plant, as a training tank for the weak German armored forces.

"We're going to build a 30-ton tank like the B1 heavy infantry tank soon!" Stalin said in a nonchalant tone. "We have already carried out trial production at the Putilov plant, and we believe that it will be ready for active service within 2 years."

That's the T-28 tank, right? Hersman said. This tank was not very useful, but it allowed the Soviet Union to accumulate a lot of experience.

"Ludwig, your Germany has restored compulsory military service, the army has expanded to more than 800,000, now is the time to develop medium and heavy tanks, right?" Stalin turned his head to look at Hersmann and laughed. "Perhaps we in the Soviet Union can help you Germany, we have spent a lot of energy in this area, and have successively designed and manufactured the BT-1, BT-2, T-24 and T-26, and have a wealth of experience."

Hersman had little interest in developing tanks with the Soviets, and he knew that Stalin would not help for nothing. He looked at the leader of GCISM. Waiting for him to prescribe conditions.

Stalin looked around, it was an order, except for Molotov and Voroshilov, who accompanied Stalin on the parade, the guards guarding Lenin's tomb, all turned and left.

"You've done a terrible thing lately, and it's going to give us a lot of trouble!" Stalin said.

"Haunted?" Hersman frowned, "Is it the Polish-German Non-Aggression Declaration?" That's really bad stuff...... Some people in our country have always had illusions about a peaceful rise. ”

It was, of course, Hitler who fantasized about a "peaceful rise". More than a year after Hitler came to power, Hersmann found that this "big devil" was a real pacifist compared to himself! He certainly wanted to break the shackles of the Treaty of Versailles and get Germany on its feet and build a strong and united German empire.

Hitler, however, wanted to achieve these ends by peaceful means, and he apparently had some lack of understanding of the two enemies, Britain and the United States.

"It's not the Polish-German Declaration of Non-Aggression," Stalin shook his head, "it's just a piece of waste paper, worthless!" ”

The first five-year plan was nearing completion, and Stalin was already emboldened. Compared to the tremendous achievements of the Soviet Union in the past few years, Poland's progress can only be described as turtle-fast. He believed that with the passage of time, the gap between the national strength of the two countries would become wider and wider. If the three five-year plans were to be completed, the Soviet Union would have been able to crush Poland without much help from Germany at all.

By that time, the Soviet-German alliance was simply dispensable. Truth be told, there is no Germany that can lose a share of the spoils.

"It is your National Socialist International that is bothering us!" Stalin said, "This is the really bad thing, because socialism is ours!" ”

Sure enough, it's Lao Maozi! Hersman laughed, Stalin now has a little capital, and he is still domineering.

At this moment, there was another loud roar, far and near, from the sky. With a telescope, Hersmann held up a Zeiss 6x military telescope with one hand, and looked into the sky, flying the famous TB-2 heavy bomber. In a zigzag formation, one team after another, flew over Red Square in turn.

"Comrade Stalin," said Hersmann, shaking his head, "if you think that National Socialism is not socialism, then just criticize!" It can be approved in the Soviet Union or internationally. And we can also publish articles to refute it. I think this is a debate among comrades in search of the truth...... Mere debate will not affect the deep friendship that already exists between our two countries. ”

The debate on socialism with the Soviet Union was actually a propaganda ploy that Hersmann wanted to use - because facts speak louder than words! Germany is certainly an advanced country than the Soviet Union, and the German working class is certainly better off than the Soviet Union. In this way, National Socialism is likely to gain more people's acceptance.

"Well, then," said Stalin, apparently not believing that the Soviet system was inferior to Germany, "since you think so, then you're welcome." There was a palpable displeasure in his tone.

"Comrade Stalin," Hirschman laughed, "debate is the business of the theoreticians, let them reason." We're all doers, so let's discuss some practical issues. ”

"Practical problems?" Stalin thought of aviation-technical cooperation. Although the cooperation between the two sides has not stopped, the current work is carried out on old projects that were determined before 1931. No new contract has been signed between the two sides since 1931.

After losing Germany as a source of technology, the upgrading of Soviet aircraft and aero engines suddenly encountered difficulties -- as a result of more than ten years of cooperation, the Soviet aviation industry had made great progress, but it had also become heavily dependent on Germany. Once they lost the support of Germany, the Soviets could still produce airplanes and engines, but they suddenly did not know how to develop new products.

"Navy, we can carry out full cooperation in the field of the Navy." Hersmann's answer disappointed Stalin a little - the golden age of Soviet-German aviation-industrial cooperation had passed. Now that Germany has begun to rearmament, it can build up its air and naval aviation in an open and open manner, and naturally there is no need to accumulate experience through Soviet-German cooperation.

Moreover, through long-term cooperation with Germany, the Soviet Union has learned a lot of skills, and in the field of air-cooled engines, their products are even a generation ahead of the United States and Britain.

In addition, the size of the Soviet Air Force and Naval Aviation was worrying, with thousands of warplanes of all kinds, undoubtedly the largest air force in the world at present. I really can't continue to grow, otherwise it will really be a problem to raise tigers.

Hersmann then added: "Comrade Stalin, we have just reached an agreement with the British on naval arms control. We in Germany can have 35% of the strength of the British Navy. That is, we can now start building heavy cruisers, battleships and aircraft carriers. So we intend to start designing a 1st class battleship and a 1st class aircraft carrier in the near future, which the USSR can participate in if it is interested...... I think the era of the great development of your Red Navy will soon come, right? (To be continued.) )