Leon had been tired all day, and a conversation with Sophia made him much more relaxed.
He hummed a song, took off his military uniform in the office, changed into a suit, and prepared to go out to pick up Sophia.
"General!" Just when Leon was full of joy and ready to go out, a secretary of the Secretariat of the War Department did not knock, and directly pushed the door and shouted anxiously.
"Oh my God!" Leon helplessly helped his forehead, why can't he stop today's affairs, "Who wants to see me again?" I'm about to go out and tell him to come back tomorrow! "
"General, it's not that someone wants to see you, it's that there is a problem in the Wehrmacht!" The secretary was sweating profusely.
Leon was stunned when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "What's going on?" What went wrong with the Wehrmacht? "
"Half of an infantry regiment stationed on the outskirts clashed with their commander!"
"Conflict? Strict is not serious? Did the parties use weapons? "
"No weapons were used, but the head of the regiment commander was beaten and bleeding!"
"It's just a rebellion!" Leon was furious, and had originally made an appointment for Sophia to have dinner with her, but now he had to change his plan to solve the problem first.
Leon suppressed his anger and said to the secretary: "You go out first, I will change my clothes and rush over immediately." "
After the secretary walked out, Leon hurriedly changed back into his military uniform, then hesitantly picked up the phone and called Strauss's house again.
It was still Sophia who answered the phone: "Hey, hello, this is Sophia von Strauss, are you?" "
Leon was a little ashamed and said, "It's still me, Leon." "
"Leon?" Sophia was a little puzzled.
"Sophia, I have to say sorry to you." Leon said embarrassedly, "Maybe I can't accompany you to dinner at night, there is something wrong with the troops, and I will solve it." "
Sophia was silent for a while and said, "It's okay, you go, I don't care." "
Although she said that it didn't matter, Leon could still hear the loneliness in her tone, but there was no way, there was a problem with the army, and he had to rush to solve it himself.
Hanging up the phone, Leon got up and walked out of the office, and then took some subordinates to get into the car that had long been waiting at the entrance of the combat department, and quickly rushed to the troop station.
As soon as he arrived at the station, Leon went straight to the regiment headquarters and asked the regiment commander with a white bandage on his head: "What happened here?" Why did your soldiers clash with you? "
"Hello General!" When the regiment commander saw that Leon had personally come, he hurriedly stood up and saluted, and then said aggrievedly, "Some soldiers want to apply to me to join the People's Will Party." But you also know that our German troops have not allowed soldiers to get involved in politics since the Prussian period, so I refused them. There were some altercations during the period, and I punished them, but I did not expect that there were so many people who supported them, and more than half of them demonstrated in front of my regiment department, saying that they wanted freedom of belief, and I accused them a few Then the conflict broke out. "
Leon felt angry and funny, so he patted him on the shoulder and said, "Gather the soldiers, I will take care of these things." "
The regiment commander hurriedly rushed out to assemble the troops, and soon all 2,800 men of the infantry regiment were assembled.
Seeing that the troops had been assembled, Leon walked out of the regiment headquarters, looked at them seriously, and said: "I heard that there was a conflict here between you, and you hurried over without even eating dinner, can anyone tell me what happened!" "
More than half of the people below lowered their heads when they heard this, not daring to look directly into Leon's eyes.
One soldier was more daring, and he said loudly to Leon: "General, we want to join the People's Will Party, we demand freedom of belief!" "
Leon glanced at the soldier appreciatively, no matter what, he was courageous, and then said: "But in our army, soldiers are absolutely forbidden to join political parties, and we cannot break the tradition!" "
"General, we joined the People's Will Party only to help Germany with you, we have no political intentions." The soldier said anxiously, "If you don't agree, then we will have to choose to retire and join again." "
"The motherland has spent a huge price in cultivating you, and you cannot be sorry for the investment of the motherland!" Leon scolded.
"General, we really want to be with you." The soldiers below plucked up the courage to plead.
Leon was happy to see that so many people wanted to join the People's Will Party, but he could not make an exception because of this,Otherwise, some officers who abide by tradition will be dissatisfied.
"Well, I'll go back at night and see if there's any way to do it without wasting your talents or destroying traditional methods." Leon rubbed his somewhat aching head and said.
"Thank you General!" A group of soldiers heard this and immediately became happy.
"Okay!" Leon waved his hand, "That's it for today, let's go back to eat and rest." But don't aim your fists at your own people next time, or the next time we meet may be in a court-martial. "
The soldiers laughed when they heard this.
On the way back, Leon looked out the window into the dark night and fell into deep thought.
In fact, as early as the founding of the People's Will Party, a small number of soldiers submitted applications to join the party, but Lyon rejected their applications to join the party out of respect for tradition. Openly joining political parties has already upset some people, and if soldiers are allowed to join, it may provoke a violent backlash from traditionalist officers.
Today's conflict has made Lyon realize that if he blindly suppresses it, I am afraid that before the officers rebound, the soldiers themselves will choose to retire in order to join the party.
Since the soldiers want to join the party so much, let them join the party with a completely new identity! Leon made up his mind.
"Ludwig, what do you think of Reinhardt?" Leon asked Ludwig, who was in the same car.
"Reinhardt Tristan Eugen Heydrich?" Ludwig, who was sitting in the co-pilot, turned his head and said, "He is a very good man, rigorous and meticulous, and has always been my deputy." "
"What would you think if you let him take over the Gestapo?"
Ludwig didn't have much expression when he heard this, but replied: "I think it is very appropriate to let him take over." "
Leon looked at Ludwig and smiled: "Have you ever thought about where you should go if I let him take over the Gestapo?" Praise him so much, don't you worry about yourself? "
"Chairman, I'm just telling the truth, I should be happy that someone can do better than me." I should have died a long time ago, but the obsession with revenge sustained me. Ludwig said lightly, as if he was not talking about himself, "Besides, the current Gestapo has lost its enemies." Combined with espionage, it is no longer a combat organization, more like an intelligence organization, to be honest, I really do not fit into the current Gestapo, like a waste. "
Leon patted Ludwig on the shoulder and said, "Ludwig, don't feel useless, but I do plan to transfer you away from the Gestapo and let Reinhardt take over from you." "
"I intend to take out the soldiers who believe in us from the Wehrmacht and form an armed force that belongs to our party, with you as its supreme commander."
"I have thought of a name, so I will call it the People's Will Party Armed SS."