Chapter 118: The Collapse of Germany II
readx; In just a few seconds, Hitler was dead, dead in the hands of the Wehrmacht!
And the next moment, Hitler's guards didn't have time to think about why Colonel Riters wanted to assassinate Hitler, they all pointed their guns at Colonel Riters, and the next moment, Colonel Riters's body was covered with more than a dozen bullet holes, he fell before he could fire the fourth shot, and his eyes were still wide open when he fell to the ground, as if he saw the scene of peace in Germany, and he was willing to die for Germany. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
If you want to assassinate Hitler in close quarters, whether you succeed or not, you will die in the end. But Colonel Ritters did not hesitate, and when he found that the pre-arranged snipers did not shoot Hitler, he did not hesitate to shoot at Hitler. He knew very well that once he fired, he would inevitably be shot to death in the next instant, but he did not hesitate, and seized a few short seconds to send three bullets into Hitler's body, and the moment he hit Hitler, he knew that Hitler was dead.
For the sake of Germany, he did not hesitate at all! Even if the Hitler in front of him who was killed by him was very kind to him, but compared with personal feelings and national interests, it is nothing.
Major Andri, who was in the distance, looked at the situation through the scope, he didn't actually know that Colonel Riters was also an assassin, he only knew that there were people inside who cooperated with him. Now he doesn't care what happens to Colonel Riters, he only knows that Hitler has been shot several times, and even if Hitler is Superman, he will not survive.
Immediately, he instructed his deputy: "Inform the marshal, just say that the Führer is dead, please start the plan immediately!" ”
Immediately, they also left directly, panting while running with their deputies to report the situation through a portable telegram for individual soldiers.
When Witzleben and others learned of Hitler's death, they immediately informed everyone on the spot of the news, but instead of clapping and cheering as they imagined, everyone in the audience fell into an atmosphere of silence.
The feelings of everyone present for Hitler are also complicated, except for a few generals who have personal grudges with Hitler, most of the others have no hatred for Hitler, more just disappointment, they originally expected Hitler to lead them against the enemy as before, but Hitler has now lost this ability, and has lost the most necessary reason, not only refused to cooperate secretly with China, but also clamed for the destruction of the whole of Germany to continue to resist.
But reasonable people know that this is unrealistic, not to mention that Germany simply cannot resist the joint attack of the Allied Forces, the Allied Forces, and the Soviet Army, even if the conventional military forces can resist, but they will definitely not be able to withstand China's nuclear bomb attack, after all, no one knows whether Chen Jingyun will also throw a few nuclear bombs on Berlin, Germany!
Although the nuclear bomb is a sharp weapon for the country, it is not easy to throw it around, but if Germany really defies the sky, not only resists the attack of the whole world, but also inflicts heavy losses on the Chinese expeditionary force, Chen Jingyun will definitely not hesitate to throw a nuclear bomb at Berlin.
Regardless of how they felt about Hitler, now that Hitler was dead, they had little time to tell whether Hitler was right or wrong, and the most important thing now was to contact the generals of all sides who were leading the army to fight abroad in China and Germany.
Witzleben and others did not have much time, they had to take control of Berlin and then the entire German military power in the first place, and obtain capital for future armistice negotiations.
In fact, there was no need for the Germans to inform him that twenty minutes after Hitler's assassination, Chen Jingyun, who had already fallen asleep, was urgently woken up, and then Lieutenant General Zhao Zijin, director of the Military Intelligence Department, handed over a telegram with the words "Top Secret" printed on it. This is a report sent directly back home by MI agents, and the report is very short, just four short words: The dark moon has risen!
The Dark Moon Project is the code name of the MIA's plan to assassinate Hitler, although this plan is mainly led by the Germans, but the agents of the MIA have always been involved in it, mainly as liaisons.
"Are you sure he's dead?" Chen Jingyun asked.
Lieutenant General Zhao Zijin said: "Our intelligence officers have confirmed it, and we have also received an urgent notice from the Germans that they have launched a coup plan and ask for our cooperation!" ”
After Chen Jingyun heard this, he didn't think much about it, and immediately ordered Yan Jing Kuang, who was in a hurry around him, to say: "Call Chen Yi, Guan Shijie, Ma Yinchu and others over, and immediately convene an emergency strategic meeting!" ”
Hitler is dead, and this requires China's most timely response, not only militarily, but also diplomatically. When Witzleben assassinated Hitler, it took time to take power in Germany. Now, Chen Jingyun has to make sure that Witzleben and others have enough time to take control of power in Germany.
It can be said that whether or not the coup d'état in Germany can succeed is directly related to China's strategic situation in the coming decades, so for China, it is necessary to help Germany at this time, not only diplomatically but also militarily.
It didn't take long for the huge conference room of the presidential palace to sit down all the military and political dignitaries who arrived in a hurry, including Marshal Chen Yi, who was second only to Shen Gang in the military, including Marshal Guan Shijie, the number one boss of the navy, and at the same time Air Marshal Wu Shizhong, and then General Guo Hengsi, chief of the army staff.
And different from the previous strategic meetings, this time in addition to these old people, there is also a young man, he is Chen Huatian, Chen Huatian's current position is a member of the Central Committee of the State Military Commission, a permanent secretary of the General Staff, and the rank of army general. But in terms of position, he is not qualified to participate in such a strategic meeting at the highest level of the republic. But the reason why he was able to sit here today and participate in the supreme strategic meeting of the Republic for the first time was because of his status as the heir, Chen Jingyun spared no effort in cultivating Chen Huatian, in addition to accelerating his growth in the military, he also began to let Chen Huatian get in touch with some strategic decisions at the highest level, and at the same time, he also vigorously supported the personnel of Chen Huatian's faction, such as Admiral Lu Jian is a staunch supporter of Chen Huatian, if Lu Jian was not a supporter of Chen Huatian, Chen Jingyun would not have promoted him to marshal so easily, In order to allow Chen Huatian to control the navy more smoothly in the future.
Secondly, the promotion of Hong Ronghan to rear admiral, and the appointment of Hong Ronghan to the Seventh Mobile Fleet in the European Mediterranean Sea is also one of them, because Hong Ronghan is a relative of Chen Huatian's eight classics, and the entire Hong family is the most staunch supporter of Chen Huatian in the whole of China because of Hong Ziping's relationship. It's just that I didn't expect Hong Ronghan to be a little unlucky, it was originally just a gilded trip that he could be killed, which made Chen Jingyun regretful, and made Chen Huatian's heart ache, for Hong Ronghan, Chen Huatian paid more attention to Hong Ronghan, because Hong Ronghan would become his most powerful arm in the navy when he grew up, but God would make people.
Due to Hong Ronghan's death, Chen Jingyun wanted to compensate Hong Zitai on the one hand, and on the other hand, he also wanted to re-support a third-generation leader of the Hong family to support Chen Huatian, so he was already planning to train Hong Zhiguang's second son Hong Rongqing, who was forty-three years old and served as the commander of the field corps and deputy division commander. It is difficult for him to be directly promoted to major general and go to important positions at the level of major generals such as division commanders, so he returned to China and went to Wuhan to serve as the deputy director of the academic affairs department of the Central Army Military Academy.
But Hong Ronghan's death, the third-generation leader of the Hong family, in order to maintain the prosperity of the Hong family after the martyrdom, Hong Zitai and Hong Zhiguang have begun to operate, wanting to withdraw Hong Rongqing to replace Hong Ronghan's position. For Hong Zitai's arrangement, he wanted to compensate Hong Zitai and let the Hong family be able to strongly support Chen Huatian's ascension in the future, so Chen Jingyun also acquiesced to this move, and it won't be long before Hong Rongqing will be transferred to the Strategic Department of the General Staff, and it is not surprising that next year there will be the post of commander of the real power division of the field troops, and in another three or four years, he will continue to rise to the rank of lieutenant general.
To a large extent, Chen Jingyun did these things to pave the way for Chen Huatian's ascension, and these things were done, and it was natural for Chen Jingyun to let Chen Huatian participate in the highest-level strategic meeting.
However, before entering the conference room, Chen Jingyun also personally instructed him: "Wait a minute, listen more, don't say more!" ”
The first time he participated in a meeting at the strategic level of the entire country, Chen Huatian could only sit in on it, and he still had to go a long way to speak and make decisions.
As Chen Jingyun walked into the conference room with Chen Huatian, several people inside stood up.
Chen Jingyun raised his hand slightly and pressed down: "Sit down!" ”
Immediately, he sat on the main seat, and Chen Huatian sat at the bottom of the square table very consciously. Although it was strange that Chen Huatian would appear on today's occasion, it was no secret that Chen Jingyun wanted to cultivate Chen Huatian's mind, and most of them knew that this kind of thing would come sooner or later.
Chen Jingyun spoke first: "The reason why I called you here is because something happened in Germany!" Speaking of which, most of the people present have already guessed something, and on the way here, they have already guessed why Chen Jingyun held an emergency meeting, and there will not be too many reasons, either the Soviet Union and the United States are at war against China, or something has happened in Germany.
"According to the information of the Military Intelligence Service, some senior generals of the Wehrmacht have successfully staged a coup d'état and assassinated Hitler, and the coup officers in Germany have begun to take over Berlin!"
Hearing Chen Jingyun say this, everyone present was overjoyed, they all knew that the Military Intelligence Department had been in contact with the Germans and tried to assassinate Hitler for a coup d'état, but no one was sure whether this kind of thing could succeed, for this reason in the past few months, China has been making preparations with both hands, on the one hand, waiting for the coup d'état to succeed on the German side, and on the other hand, it is continuing to increase troops in Europe, in order to fight for the greatest interests of Europe after the war by force when the coup is unsuccessful.
Now that Hitler is dead and some of the senior generals of the German Wehrmacht have begun to take over power in Germany, the next thing China has to do is to preserve Germany's vitality as much as possible, and completely tie Germany to China's chariot, so that China can gain a strong ally in Europe to contain Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union.
And there is not much China needs to do to achieve this goal!
After an all-night emergency meeting, the Chinese Foreign Ministry held a press conference the next morning, and released enough news to make many people's jaws drop!