New Wehrmacht

　　Because of the Portsmouth Peace Treaty, Lyon canceled subsequent travel plans and immediately returned to Germany. However, Lyon did not return directly to Berlin, but went to the Deutsche Shipyard in Kiel.

　　The shipyard was formed in 1925 by the merger of the Royal Kiel shipyard and several other shipyards, which were originally owned by the German government in the previous life. However, in this lifetime, because Lyon confiscated several shipyards from the traitor Joseph, Lyon became the largest shareholder of the merged German shipyard and controlled the entire German shipyard.

　　Lyon's purpose was to gather the current admirals and hold a meeting on the reconstruction of the navy.

　　After the end of the last war, although the German navy was not allowed to have large combat ships, the navy was not disbanded, so the German navy should have everything except large ships.

　　So the moldy naval command, who had nothing to do all day, immediately rushed to Kiel as quickly as possible to attend the naval reconstruction meeting after receiving Lyon's notice.

　　Admiral Raeder, then commander-in-chief of the Navy, presented Lyon with a huge plan for naval reconstruction with a red face at the beginning of the meeting, which called for the construction of 10 battleships, 3 pocket battleships (armored ships), 3 battle cruisers, 2 aircraft carriers, 5 heavy cruisers, 44 light cruisers, 68 destroyers, 249 submarines, 90 torpedo boats for the Navy, which became known as the German Navy Project Z.

　　Leon was dumbfounded when he saw this plan, and he asked Raeder suspiciously: "Raeder, you're not crazy, are you?" How is this plan possible? The 10 battleships alone add up to 358,000 tons of tonnage, you know, the treaty stipulates that we can only have 100,000 tons of capital ship tonnage. "

　　Hearing this, Raeder withdrew his plan in disappointment and said: "There are only 100,000 tons of capital ships, then we have no way to fight against the British Royal Navy." "

　　Leon spread his hands helplessly and said, "How could the British allow us to have a navy as powerful as theirs?" I'm already happy to have us 20% of their gross tonnage. "

　　Raeder roughly estimated the existing gross tonnage of the British Navy, which is about 2 million tons, so that Germany can have a gross tonnage of 400,000 tons. Raeder breathed a sigh of relief, this 400,000 tons is quite a lot, and it is not impossible to defeat the Royal Navy if used properly.

　　Thinking of this, Raeder and several admirals around whispered a few words, and then said to Leon:"So be it, 100,000 tons of capital ship tonnage We build three 33,000-ton battleships, and the other 300,000 tons of tonnage are used to build 50,000-ton pocket battleships, how about it?"

　　Leon was speechless, why was Raeder so attached to the battleship. In fact, it is not to blame Raeder, who has been the commander of the Navy for so long, and has only one light cruiser and six rotten former dreadnoughts that can no longer be rotten, and everyone will have some obsession.

　　After thinking carefully for a while, Leon said: "The future naval battle is no longer the era of big ships and huge artillery, and the future naval battle will become the world of naval aviation." So I propose to first build 2 battleships of 50,000 tons, then secretly build a 23,000-ton aircraft carrier for technical experiments and secret training of naval aviation, and the rest of the tonnage is divided into 100,000 tons to build various auxiliary ships, 50,000 tons to build 30 destroyers of 1,500 tons, 50,000 tons to build 50 submarines of 1,000 tons, 60,000 tons to build 4 heavy cruisers of 15,000 tons, and 60,000 tons to build 10 6,000-ton light cruisers, so that our navy can develop healthily. "

　　Raeder was a marshal after all, and when he calmed down and thought carefully for a while, he understood that Lyon's plan was the most suitable for the current Germany. He looked at several other admirals beside the sound, and then said to Leon: "General Leon, just follow the plan you said." "

　　An officer in charge of recording quickly wrote down the shipbuilding plan, and then Leon and Raeder checked that it was correct, and directly gave it to the accompanying engineer Ship designers, who designed naval ships that fit the current German situation.

　　Lyon returned to Berlin immediately after the meeting, the navy affairs were settled, and the army's affairs were not yet arranged.

　　Lyon had long arranged for 200,000 old imperial troops to work in agriculture and receive military training, so expanding the army at this time seemed extremely simple. However, Lyon did not directly recall all 200,000 old armies, but recruited 50,000 of them, while recruiting 150,000 from male citizens aged 18 to 22.

　　This is considering that most of the 200,000 old army are over 30 years old, and the Wehrmacht needs new blood at this time, so although a large number of recruits will reduce the combat effectiveness of the Wehrmacht, Lyon chose to recruit a large number of new soldiers.

　　In fact, this choice is also very good for Lyon, because in Germany now, all young people think that Lyon was sent by God to save Germany, and their feelings for Lyon are fanatical worship, so with these 150,000 young people joining the Wehrmacht, Lyon can better control the entire army.

　　The expansion of the army was only a small part of the reconstruction of the army, and then Lyon, Strauss and a bunch of staff officers of the war department worked hard for two months to arrange the establishment of the new Wehrmacht. The original 100,000 Wehrmacht were dispersed throughout the army to form the skeleton of the new Wehrmacht, and then filled in by recruits, so that the recruits could form combat effectiveness as quickly as possible under the leadership of veterans and survive the period of weakness after reconstruction.

　　The army of three hundred thousand will be reorganized into thirty infantry divisions, and then every three divisions as a corps.

　　At the highest level, Germany will form three major army groups, namely the Southern Army, the Center Army, and the Northern Army. The commander-in-chief of Army Group Center was Strauss, and the chief of staff was Fedor von Bock (this person was one of the ten famous German generals in later generations, known as the "Holy Flame of General Kuss Lin"), and the group army commanded the first, second, third and fourth armies of the Wehrmacht.

　　The commander-in-chief of Army Group South was Rundstedt and the chief of the general staff was Manstein, and the group army was under the command of the Fifth , Sixth and Seventh Corps of the Wehrmacht.

　　The commander-in-chief of Army Group North was Brauchitsch (Brauchitsch did not become commander-in-chief of the army due to the appearance of Lyon), and the chief of staff was Flåmburg (he also did not become commander-in-chief), and he commanded the 8th, 9th and 10th armies of the Wehrmacht.

　　Yes, Manstein was transferred from the armored forces, because the last battle in Munich made Leon realize that it was too dangerous to make Manstein commander of the front-line forces, and Manstein's strategic skills were far superior to his tactical skills, so Leon made him chief of staff of the army group and promoted him to major general.

　　Also transferred was Guderian, who was promoted to colonel and transferred to the post of German Panzer Director, specializing in the design of tactics for armored forces. Rommel, on the other hand, was promoted to commander of the newly formed First Panzer Division of the Army (all three Panzer Regiments were expanded into Panzer Divisions, and the commanders of the other two Panzer Divisions found suitable people to replace them), not because Lyon favored one over the other, but because Rommel was good at tactics and lacked strategy, so he could only serve as the commander of the front-line troops.

　　Two months later, Lyon received a letter of appointment from Reichstag to promote him to the rank of general to the position of commander-in-chief of the Wehrmacht, which had been vacant.

　　Previously, because Lyon was too young and lacking, although the entire Wehrmacht was obeying Lyon, Lyon could only bear the rank of major general, but after this trip to England, Lyon finally had enough qualifications to be promoted to a rank that matched his status, and the embarrassing situation of a group of lieutenant generals in the German military under the command of a major general was finally resolved.