Major Military Exercise

"It is shameful to have a country without defense!" Seeckt started the routine of the National Defense Force's routine exercise with his motto: "You are the national defense of Germany!" "The exercise begins!"

Recently, Seeckt was proud, and utilizing nearly robbery, he dug out more than 10 million German marks from the long-stretched national funds, used the money as a deposit, and ordered 200,000 sets of new military uniforms. These uniforms made his German team look decades ahead of their old rivals in England and France.

He also claimed that Akado's meticulous execution completed an ambitious "rearming ideas and morale" massive plan centered on training soldiers' skills and subjective initiative to master more advanced technical forces.

Originally, Sickert did not pay attention to advanced scientific equipment but emphasized spiritual power. However, during the implementation of Akado, this slightly wrong idea was transformed into a correct emphasis on spiritual power and advanced scientific equipment. thought.

With the order, the routine exercises of the German Wehrmacht began. The infantry ran in groups of four, carrying the bulky Maktin heavy machine gun between the shotgun pits. The exercise was being performed vigorously on obsolete equipment.

This weird exercise made the coalition arms control committee officers who came to observe not help but look at their once powerful opponents, who now danced like a clown in a lame dance in front of them. Simply described.

They saw a brand new German armored vehicle quickly sway in front of the enemy position and then retreat to their position far away. Then a group of soldiers gathered around the map to draw a sketch and analyze it for a long time before they ran back to the position to attack.

They saw the German cavalry troops riding thousands of horses assault the defensive position composed of dozens of machine guns across from them. They even shot dozens of smoke bombs that choked the horses' tears before the attack.

They saw several people in the German machine gun group carrying a bulky Maktan heavy machine gun and ran forward slowly, but the soldier carrying a distance measuring instrument who first ran to the position did not wait for the machine gun group to be in place. The instrument measures the data, and he raises his right hand to signal that he has hit the target.

The whole exercise scene was chaotic. In the words of the French observer, "it was just playing around."

Especially when the report of the conclusion of the National Defense Forces exercise was obtained, several French officials laughed in tears.

The report contains the following interesting text:

At nine o'clock in the morning, the 1st Cavalry Regiment advanced and captured 19 enemies' machine-gun positions. The battle was completed—the cavalry assault machine gun position won.

At 10.27 a.m., the 2nd Infantry Battalion of the 1st Division defended the enemy tanks, destroyed 20 of them, and repulsed about 30 more.

The report also stated that in the afternoon, an infantry company even made a bold statement about shooting down two enemy planes.

The German team bypassed the "Versailles Peace Treaty" and purchased a large amount of the marginal products they needed with limited funds. Although the treaty stipulated that Germany could not have tanks, it did not strictly limit the number of armored vehicles. Each unit purchased about 400 new armored vehicles. These armored vehicles gave several of the main divisions of the German Tank Simulator a world-class reconnaissance force.

Contrary to the world's idea that Germany uses armored vehicles to replace tanks, Akado did not use these armored vehicles as a substitute for tanks but strictly ordered the troops to use these armored reconnaissance vehicles equipped with advanced observation equipment as the frontier scouts of tank troops to provide enemy intelligence for tanks that do not exist.

On the contrary, those invisible tank troops are cavalry troops all over the world. Akado equipped nearly twenty thousand war horses for the 20 main defense divisions in his hands. These troops are slightly outdated on horseback. It is simulating large-scale propulsion tank troops. It is also responsible for simulating mechanized drag artillery, self-propelled artillery, and armored grenadiers.

If a general who had fought in World War II came to the site of the exercise, he would think he was crazy because the training exercises carried out by the current German Wehrmacht had been summed up after five years of war.

Those machine gun groups carrying heavy machine guns, if equipped with general machine guns or light machine guns, are simply the perfect machine gun position movement standard.

Those soldiers riding horses to attack enemy positions can easily achieve the ridiculous results they have achieved today if they are replaced by tanks.

And with the front-line command analysis based on perfect reconnaissance and the artillery support accurately implemented according to coordinates, even the 1944 US *team may not be able to do better with the German troops in sight.

The disadvantages are not necessarily without benefits. Since the prohibition of the implementation of the universal military service system in Germany and the restriction that the total number of German troops cannot exceed 100,000, the defense forces have extremely strict standards when selecting service personnel. Volunteers must pass a series of physical and psychological tests; even if Akado shamelessly doubled the true size of the IDF secretly, this harsh selection condition has not been relaxed.

Soldiers must serve for at least 12 years after joining the army, and officers must serve for at least 25 years. Once in the army, each soldier will receive special training in a certain area, with an emphasis on the leadership skills of these soldiers.

Since the "Versailles Peace Treaty" stipulates that Germany cannot establish a regular military academy, Seeckt and Akado decided to circumvent this rule and establish a military education system at the company and regiment levels. He was trained as a sergeant, and the sergeant was trained as an officer in the regimental military education system.

Akado assured Seeckt that once the war broke out, all German soldiers on active duty could be promoted at least one level, and the size of the army could be expanded tenfold or more in an instant.

This army was tested in a semi-annual military exercise, testing its professional skills and a sense of honor for its military career. Despite a lack of modern high-tech military equipment such as tank aircraft anti-aircraft guns, they constructed training models out of cardboard and wood. The so-called attacking enemy aircraft are sometimes used as toy balloons.

But if you are close to them, you will hear a single soldier always calling when holding a radio call: "I am in a certain row" or "Here is a group of eight machine guns."

A foreign observer who saw a little bit of a sigh exclaimed, "The National Defense Force is not a joke." "The German team should attract the attention of all the staff in the world."

Therefore, Seeckt couldn't help but be surprised because, under his number one, a lieutenant colonel named Akado, who was still unknown two years ago, used the existing conditions. After more than a year of hard work, the new force of the National Defense Force finally blossomed. has become a first-class armed force that makes the world look at itself.

However, the large number of tank-simulating forces and cavalry that were marginalized in the exercise made Seeckt very dissatisfied. He finally found Aka, who was chatting with a group of "tankers" with tractors on the afternoon of the start of the exercise. many.

"Akado, I gave you too much trust, so you are a bit forgetful! Should I take back some power so that you know that the National Defense Forces are not some people's toys? Akado was enraged by where people were.

Akado seems to have known this for a long time because although his familiar General Seeckt has a forward-looking vision, he also has a stubbornness that surpasses ordinary people. "Can the general make sure that your decision is right?"

Sickert looked at Akado, frowning for a moment, and fiddled with the stones under his feet. "You know what I'm talking about, and if you know why, why do you want to do this?"

"Because I'm pretty sure that it is oil, metal, and the cluster impact formed by the large-scale concentrated use of tanks that will decide the future of war." Due to their large depth, the troops rely on mechanization to destroy the enemies. It cannot be done with the equipment you have faith in. to what I said, " Akado looked at Seeckt with a smile: "How can you say that the cavalry unit and the bicycle unit can advance one hundred kilometers a day and can immediately enter the battle?"

"But this is the National Defense Force! This is Germany's last military force. All I can do is ensure that this force is steadily improved, rather than blindly believing some utopian theory written on paper. General Seeckt said cruelly, "Germany cannot afford this risk! "You cannot afford this responsibility either!"

"You can't afford this responsibility either!" General! If your stubbornness made Germany miss this period of development, when the next war comes, Germany will be defeated because of a lack of a tank, a truck, or a cannon! "How are you responsible?" Akado stared at Seeckt, refuting him without giving in.

The old general in front of him is Bole, who promoted him, and the boss, who almost fully supported him; they can even be said to be like-minded close friends who revitalized the German Wehrmacht. But in front of each other's ideas, the two finally had red eyes.

Looking at Akado stupefyingly, Seeckt finally sighed. His sagging shoulder suddenly made this stubborn old man ten years old: "I take back the supervision of the first division, but the new We will wait for three years for you to supervise the editing supervision of the third division. If you can prove your theory after three years, I will let you go. If you fail, I will shoot you by hand!

"If my theory of war cannot be confirmed, I will not wait for you to do it." Akado sneered. "My lord, I will give you an explanation."

Seeckt went away without looking back: "I hope you are not kidding with tens of millions of defense funds."

Akado replied firmly: "I never joke about my dreams."