"It is shameful to have a country but not a defense!" Sickett started the prelude to the routine exercise of the National Defense Force with his motto: "You are Germany's national defense! The exercise begins!"

Recently, Sickett was proud. Using nearly robbery, he dug out more than 10 million German marks from the long-strapped national funds, and used the money as a deposit to order 200,000 new military uniforms. These uniforms made his German team look decades ahead of his old rivals in Britain and France.

And he advocated that Akado implemented in detail and detailed manner, completing an ambitious huge plan to "rearm thoughts and morale", focusing on cultivating soldiers' personal skills and subjective initiative to master more advanced technical strength.

Originally, Sikte did not pay attention to advanced scientific and technological equipment, but emphasized spiritual power. However, during the implementation process, Akado transformed this slightly wrong idea into a correct idea that attaches importance to both spiritual power and advanced scientific and technological equipment.

With a command, the routine routine exercise of the German Wehrmacht began. The infantrymen carried bulky Maxim heavy machine guns in groups and ran between the shot craters. The communication soldiers holding the command flags blew thick smoke to convey the news. The exercise was lively deducing the exercises in a backward piece of equipment.

This weird exercise made the officers of the coalition Arms Control Commission who came to observe laugh. They watched their once powerful opponents danced crappy dances in front of them like clowns, and the happiness in their hearts could not be simply described in words.

They saw brand new German armored vehicles swaying rapidly in front of the enemy's position and retreating to their own positions far away. Then a group of soldiers surrounded the map to draw and analyze it for a long time before they ran back to their positions to prepare for attack.

They saw the German cavalry riding thousands of war horses assaulting a defensive position composed of more than a dozen machine guns on the opposite side, and even fired dozens of smoke bombs that made the war horse cry before the attack.

They saw several German machine gun team running slowly forward with a bulky Maxim heavy machine gun. The soldier who ran to the position, carrying a range measuring instrument, picked up the instrument measurement data and raised his right hand to signal to hit the target.

The whole exercise scene was chaotic, and in the words of French observers, it was like a joke.

Especially when the report on the conclusion of the National Defense Forces exercise was obtained, several officials burst into tears.

The following interesting passages are written on the report:

At about 9 o'clock in the morning, the First Cavalry Regiment advanced forward and captured nineteen enemy machine gun positions. The battle was successfully completed - the cavalry assault machine gun positions were actually victorious.

At 10:27 a.m., the Second Infantry Battalion of the First Division defended against enemy tank attacks, destroyed twenty enemy tanks, and repelled about thirty other - the infantry actually defeated the tanks.

The report also states that in the afternoon, an infantry company even reported that it had shot down two enemy planes.

The German team bypassed the Treaty of Versailles and armed the marginal products they needed with limited funds. Although the treaty stipulated that Germany could not own tanks, it did not strictly limit the number of armored vehicles. Therefore, Akado took the initiative to purchase about 400 new armored vehicles for various units of the National Defense Forces. These armored vehicles gave several main divisions of the German tank troops a world-class reconnaissance force.

Contrary to the idea that Germany used armored vehicles to replace tanks, Akado did not regard these armored vehicles as alternative forces for tanks, but strictly ordered the troops to use these armored reconnaissance vehicles equipped with advanced observation equipment as frontier scouts of tank troops to provide enemy intelligence for tanks that do not exist at all.

On the contrary, those invisible tank units are actually cavalry units all over the world. Akado equipped nearly 40,000 war horses to the twenty main divisions of the National Defense Forces in his hands. These slightly outdated units riding horses are actually simulating large-scale advancement tank units. They are also responsible for simulating mechanized drag artillery, self-propelled artillery and armored grenades.

If a general who fought World War II came to the exercise site, he would definitely think he was crazy, because the current training exercises conducted by the German Wehrmacht were summarized only after he fought five years of war.

Those machine gun teams carrying heavy machine guns move, if equipped with general machine guns or light machine guns, are simply perfect machine gun positions moving combat standards.

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

For those front-line command analysis based on perfect reconnaissance and artillery fire support based on coordinates, even the US team in 1944 may not be able to do better with the German troops in front of them.

The disadvantages may not be without benefits. Since the universal military service system is prohibited in Germany and the total number of German troops must not exceed 100,000, the standards for the National Defense Forces when selecting service personnel are extremely harsh. Volunteers must pass a series of physical and psychological tests - even if Akado shamelessly doubled the real scale of the National Defense Forces, this harsh selection condition has not been relaxed.

After joining the army, the soldiers will serve at least 12 years, and the officers will not be less than 25 years. Once they enter the army, each soldier will receive special training in a certain aspect, with the focus on the leadership ability of these soldiers.

Since the Treaty of Versailles stipulated that Germany could not establish formal military academies, Sikte and Acardo decided to bypass this provision after discussing and establish a military education system at the company and regiment level of the army. Privates were trained to become sergeants in the company-level military education system, and sergeants were trained to become officers in the regiment-level military education system.

Akado assured Sikte that once the war broke out, all German active-duty soldiers could be promoted at least one level, and instantly, the size of the army could be expanded ten times or even more.

This army was tested in a six-year military exercise, testing its professional skills and a sense of honor for its military profession. Although it does not have modern high-tech military equipment such as tanks, aircraft, anti-aircraft guns, they used cardboard and wood to make models for training during the exercise. The so-called incoming enemy aircraft sometimes use toy balloons to act as it.

But if you get close to them, you will hear a single soldier calling with a radio call: "I am a certain platoon" or "This is an 8-person machine gun team."

A foreign observer who had seen some tricks sighed: "The National Defense Forces are not a joke. The German team should attract the attention of all the staff in the world."

So Sickett had to be proud, because his number one subordinate, Akado, a lieutenant colonel who was unknown two years ago, took advantage of the existing conditions. After more than a year of hard work, he finally made the new force of the National Defense Force bear fruit, becoming a first-class armed force that has attracted the attention of the whole world.

However, Sickett was very dissatisfied with the large number of troops that simulated tanks and the cavalry whose actual roles were too marginalized. He finally found Akado, who was chatting with a group of "tank soldiers" driving tractors on the afternoon of the day when the exercise began.

"Akado, I have given you so much trust that I have lost your heart! Should I take back some of the power so that you can know that the Wehrmacht is not a toy for some people?" As soon as Sickett walked to a place where no one was, he yelled at Akado.

Akado seemed to have known this for a long time, because although General Sikte, who he was familiar with, had a forward-looking vision, he also had a stubbornness beyond ordinary people: "Can you really be sure that your decision must be right?"

Sicket was stunned, frowned at Akado, and fiddled with the stones under his feet: "You know what I'm talking about, since you know, why do you still do this."

"Because I'm very sure, what determines the future war is oil, metal, and cluster impact formed by the large-scale concentrated use of tanks. It is the army's large-scale encirclement and destruction of the enemy by mechanization. But the equipment you trust cannot do what I said." Akado looked at Sikte with a smile: "How can you rely on the cavalry and bicycle troops that you mentioned to advance 100 kilometers a day and be able to immediately enter the battle?"

"But this is the National Wehrmacht! This is the last bit of German military power. What I can do is to ensure that this force is steadily improved, rather than blindly believing in some fantasy theories written on paper." General Sickett said fiercely: "Germany cannot take this risk! You cannot bear this responsibility either!"

"You can't bear this responsibility either! General! If Germany misses this development period because of your stubbornness, and when the next war comes, Germany is defeated because of a tank, a truck or a cannon! How do you be responsible?" Akado stared at Sikte and retorted without giving in.

The old general in front of him was the mentor who promoted him, and was the boss who almost fully supported him. They could even be said to be like-minded friends who revitalized the German Wehrmacht. But in the face of each other's insistence on the concept, the two finally had red eyes.

Looking at Akado in a daze, Sicket finally sighed. His drooping shoulder suddenly made the stubborn old man ten years old: "I will take back the reorganization supervision power of the First Division, but I will hand over the reorganization supervision power of the new third division to you. We will wait for three years. If you can prove your theory in three years, I will let you go. If you fail, I will shoot you with your own hands!"

"If my war theory is not confirmed, I will not wait for you to do it." Akado sneered: "God General, I will give you an explanation."

Sicket walked away without looking back: "I hope you are not kidding about tens of millions of defense funds."
Chapter completed!