Chapter 117: The Collapse of Germany I
readx; At noon on July 16, in a certain air defense fortress in Berlin, Germany, many high-ranking German generals gathered together, there were famous German field marshals, and there were also many first-class generals and generals, some of them were generals who retired for various reasons, and some were military generals who held real power, but today they sat together for the same reason. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"The plan has been launched, Colonel Riters and they are in place, and the results are expected to be available within an hour!" One of the German lieutenant generals said so.
"The Chinese, are they all connected?" Witzleben, who sat at the top, asked.
The lieutenant general said: "We have all been contacted, as long as we successfully control the army, they will support us as soon as possible, according to the Chinese, their Tenth Army is ready to enter Hungary, and once we succeed, their Tenth Army will continue to move north rapidly, providing us with the necessary time to reorganize our army!" ”
"In addition, they have promised that once our operation is successful, their Ninth Army will also move west into northern Italy as soon as possible, and cooperate with us to stop the Allied forces from moving north."
"As long as we have the cooperation of the Chinese, we will be able to gain valuable time for rectification, and when we have gathered our troops, we will be able to rebuild the French defense line with the greatest strength and force the Allies and the Soviets to negotiate an armistice with us!"
The goal of these senior Wehrmacht generals was very clear, that is, to prevent Germany from being carved up by the major powers after the war, and preferably to avoid the name of the defeated country, and to maintain Germany's territory and position before the war.
To achieve such a goal, not only the support of the Chinese is needed, but also the efforts of the Germans themselves, at least the generals of the German Wehrmacht must control the German [***] team in the shortest possible time and govern the German political axe. In other words, Germany had to have strong armed forces in order to force the Allies and the Soviets to negotiate peace with them.
If you are unable to control the army and allow the German [***] team to collapse, then you will lose the capital to cooperate with China, and you will lose the basis for negotiations with the Allies and the Soviet Army. At that time, Chen Jingyun will inevitably give up on them without hesitation, and it is best to be forced to choose to carve up Germany with Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union.
Therefore, the most difficult thing for all of you in the Wehrmacht is not to assassinate Hitler, but how to seize power in the shortest possible time after the successful assassination of Hitler, so as to ensure that Germany does not fall into a total collapse because of Hitler's death.
For Chen Jingyun, a Germany that can maintain stability and strength is an ally to cooperate with, not a Germany that has collapsed completely.
Therefore, the assassination of Hitler was only one part of their many plans, and more work was on military coups, including the elimination of Nazi diehards in a short period of time, gaining Berlin, and enlisting the support of high-ranking military generals abroad.
Just when these people continued to secretly discuss and liaise with one military general after another, the assassination of Hitler officially began.
This assassination of Hitler actually began to be planned a long time ago, and even took a long time to select assassins, and finally the coup generals co-opted a female secretary next to Chen Jingyun, obtained Hitler's recent schedule, and then used Colonel Hitus, who was responsible for arranging Hitler's security work, to personally arrange for the assassins to approach Hitler. Prepare for the assassination in the short time that Hitler left the bunker.
In order to succeed in the assassination, the integrated officer arranged for an ace sniper to carry out a long-range sniper, and if this could not kill Hitler, then Colonel Riters would personally go out and use his pistol to learn about Hitler's life.
The coup generals were able to attract so many people to participate, naturally there is a reason, on the one hand, with the approach of the Allied forces, the Soviet army and the coalition forces, a German knows that if it continues, it will definitely be defeated and divided, and at this time the coup generals said that as long as we kill Hitler and obtain German power, the Chinese will fully support Germany and avoid the fate of Germany being partitioned, many people are shaken. On the other hand, Hitler has become more and more crazy during this time, completely losing the sanity of previous years, and the Hitler in the state of 1945 and the Hitler before 1941 are almost two different people. Not to mention the continuous mistakes in strategic command, and in the implementation of dialogue and wooing diplomacy in those years, Hitler failed to pull China into the chariot of the Axis powers, and even let China declare war on Germany in the end, although this kind of thing was very unjust for Hitler, he did not say that he did not want to win over China, but Chen Jingyun really did not give him this opportunity. But the people and the generals did not see it that way, and in their view, the reason why Germany was in danger of extinction was entirely due to Hitler's responsibility.
People are always accustomed to blaming the leader for any mistake.
When many Germans thought that Hitler could no longer lead Germany out of the predicament, they did not hesitate to abandon him.
Not only were there many high-ranking Wehrmacht generals here, but even the people around him thought so, otherwise Witzleben and others would not have attracted so many people to Hitler's side to participate in the assassination.
It's a pity that Hitler didn't know at this time that the assassination he suffered a few months ago was completely different from today's, and that only a few coup officers participated in the assassination, but now, even his close friends were involved in the assassination, and when the security personnel were involved in the assassination, no one could save Hitler's life.
At 16:20 p.m., on the roof of a small four-story ruined building, two officers wearing German [***] uniforms were lying on the roof of the building, one of them was holding a Mauser 98K rifle most commonly used by German snipers in World War II, but the scope on the rifle was not the three- or four-fold scope used in the early stage of the war, nor the six-fold scope used in the late war, but the non-standard eight-fold scope, which was the same specification as the rifle used by the sniper assassin who assassinated Chen Jingyun at the beginning of the year.
This assassination was Hitler, naturally you can't use the color of the road to raise money, not only the scope is eight times larger, but even the Mauser 98k rifle in his hand is selected from hundreds of 98k sniper rifles with the best accuracy.
With a good weapon, you must have the best marksman, and this shooter is named Major Andriy, a veritable ace sniper in the German army, shooting and killing countless Soviet soldiers on the Eastern Front, of which more than 100 can confirm the results, and hundreds of them cannot be determined.
As for his participation in the assassination of Hitler, the reason for this, as was that of the other officers involved in the assassination plan, he believed that Hitler was already Germany's greatest obstacle and must be removed.
His assistant was already looking through a telescope at a small building not far away, which looked inconspicuous, but it was the entrance to one of Hitler's local fortresses, and every once in a while Hitler would come out to breathe. And they are going to take advantage of this time to snipe Hitler.
"The target has appeared, pay attention, the wind direction is due south, the wind speed is five, and the distance is seven hundred and fifty!" The assistant spoke slowly.
And Major Andriy also put Hitler's body into the crosshair in front of the scope, for this assassination, they have been preparing for a long time, and the sniper locations they have chosen are thousands of choices, the sniper distance has already been calculated, and all he has to do now is pull the trigger.
With a crisp 'pop', a bullet was fired from the 98k rifle, and the bullet did not move in a straight line in the air, due to the influence of the earth's gravity and wind speed, Andri was not actually aiming at Hitler himself, but at his upper right. The bullet drew a subtle curve in the air that could not be separated by the naked eye, and then successfully hit Hitler.
However, although he hit the target, Major Andriy cursed in his heart, and then quickly fired a second shot, because the first shot only hit Hitler's left hand. He wanted to kill Hitler, not just one of Hitler's arms.
But at this time, Hitler was already screaming, and several guards around him were also tightly surrounding Hitler.
Major Andry's second shot hit one of the guards standing in front of Hitler, and before Major Andriy could fire the third shot, the guards surrounded Hitler and then half-dragged Hitler into the bunker.
However, at this time, there was another gunshot among these people, and it was not one, one two or three times. If the camera had been close to observe, it would have been found that Colonel Riters, who was only a meter away from Hitler, was holding the Luger pistol in one hand, and the muzzle of the gun was still emitting faint green smoke at this time, and Hitler's body had already appeared three blood holes, and if it were not for the support of two guards around him, he would have fallen long ago.
Colonel Riters's sudden attack made several guards around him dumbfounded, they didn't expect Colonel Riters to be one of the assassins, and seized this opportunity to directly give Hitler three shots, and one of them also hit Hitler's neck, at this moment Hitler has a big blood hole in his neck, blood is constantly spurting out, and Hitler has obviously lost his breath at this time, and his body is just convulsing for a while.
Hitler, the war madman who started World War II and almost brought the whole world into the war, finally ended his life on this day. He may be spurned by thousands of people in this life, but in any case, his life can be regarded as magnificent, from the street painter in Vienna to the Iron Cross winner in World War I, to the beer hall riots in the twenties~ and then to the ruling Germany in the thirties, in his early career, you can almost see the necessary qualities of a hero, in the thirties he turned the tide, brought a seriously wounded and dying Germany back into the ranks of the great powers, and relied on his incredible strategic talent to successfully annex Austria and the Czech Republic, It can be said that he was a great and successful leader before this. It was only in the years that followed, that his decision-making skills declined rapidly, and although he achieved great results such as blitzkrieg against Poland, France, the Low Countries, Denmark, and Norway, it also set Germany on the road to ruin.
In fact, such a person can no longer judge right and wrong, right or wrong cannot describe a person, the only word that can describe him is: loser!