In southern Bavaria, in the middle of the German secret military base H-1, a gate was slowly pushed open by more than a dozen soldiers. A new Mercedes-Benz was waiting on the roadside and slowly started and passed the open gate.

Lieutenant Colonel Guderian, the co-pilot of the car, pointed to the open space in front, turned back to Akado in the back row of the car and said with a smile: "In a moment, we will see with our own eyes the tanks cooperate with the Air Force's assault exercises. This is what I have carefully prepared for you."

"There is a car of intermediate officers of the National Defense Forces behind. This is all I can find. There are more than a dozen technicians from the military factory. You have to prepare this exercise for them, not for me! Those officers who pay for it, and those engineers who make weapons. I am just an irrelevant person."

"Puchi." Gustav Krupp, who was sitting next to Akado, laughed: "As the vice chairman of the Great German Party, I have to tell you seriously that you are the supreme leader of our party and not an irrelevant person."

"There are 60 150mm caliber cannons here and 90 88mm anti-aircraft cannons, all of which are the latest designs and can be transported by mules and horse cars. I will take my life and guarantee that the weapons here are all the most advanced in the world." Krupp smiled at Akado and patted his chest on the shaking car to advertise his weapons: "When the French shoot one shot, we can fight back twenty shots."

"How are the secret weapon parts ready?" Akado crossed his fingers and looked at Guderian. He was more concerned about other things than cannons, such as the National Wehrmacht that the few tanks have been equipped recently.

"The P-2 tanks are equipped with 30. I took turns assigning the tank drivers who have returned from studying in the Soviet Union to 5 tank platoons for internships. Now many people are waiting for their own tanks. We have too few tanks equipped with secret equipment and the delivery is too slow." Guderian glanced at Krupp and said helplessly.

There are indeed too few, 30 tanks, 6 units in one platoon, and each tank can only be used by three people (one commander and gunner, one communications motorist, and one driver). These 30 tanks can only allow 90 armored soldiers to use their own equipment in total.

Krupp shook his head and killed Guderian's hope of more tanks: "Lt. Col. Guderian, do you know how much the Wehrmacht gave Man's factory? Less than 90,000 German marks! This money can't even sell the wheels of the tank! The Wehrmacht owed me and Man's total $700,000. For every cannon I provide you with, I will have to pay tens of thousands!"

He looked at Akado with a helpless look on his face, spread his hands and said, "This is only part of the reason! We must avoid the eyes and ears of the coalition military control committee! We can only start construction in the middle of the night and dare not use large machinery. This increases costs, limits production speed and output. I am still a big business, and I have to live with American loans, but I am in trouble. They are being collected by the Swedish mines these days! Because they are owed others to pay off the payment for the goods."

Akado cannot spend too much money to buy weapons. After all, several companies in his hands also need to develop. Although these companies eventually became super companies in history, Akado dared not misappropriate too much money now. He was afraid that these companies would miss the development opportunities and would eventually be destroyed by him killing the chicken to get the eggs.

Historically, Hitler's regime used the massacre of Jews and confiscating the property of these people to make up for part of the fiscal deficit. However, Akado did not dare to do this blatantly at this time, and his Great German Party program also required him not to do this.

Akado had to sigh and came up with the best solution he thought: "Krupp, give me a list and I will notify the Gestapo to start. First, these people must be rich; second, industrialists are not allowed to appear on the list, I only deal with pure capital speculation merchants."

Krupp nodded. Akado was trying to search his house to make up for the economic deficit. Although this method is very irregular and has great injustice, it is indeed a way to quickly make up for the fiscal deficit.

As far as he knew, Acardo even condoned the National Defense Forces to privately mine coal mines in the Ruhr Industrial Zone, and sold them to France and Sweden at the lowest price to soothe some of France's resentment and paralyze senior French officials. The money was all directed on the private users of senior German generals. On the surface, it seemed like they were corrupt, but the money was secretly concentrated by the Gestapo and used as additional military expenditures for the National Defense Forces.

Akado had no other choice. The 90,000 German mark he paid Krupp was intercepted by embezzling public funds. He used his power to draw out a little egg white for each fried egg in the soldiers' breakfast, and sold the egg whites he saved to nearby restaurants, which made him get 90,000 German marks' "small money".

Akado even used the trick he saw in an unknown book that year. He ordered many merchant ships under the National Defense Force to "deliberately lose chimneys" when they went to ports in Sweden and Denmark, and then purchased good copper chimneys locally and transported them back to the country as copper raw materials reserves. This clumsy method was used to make up for the control of the United Army Armed Forces' copper raw materials reserves by the Alliance Army Control Commission.

He also ordered all communication telephones of the coalition military arms control committee, intercepted secret inspections of letters between them, and arranged soldiers to monitor all members of the coalition military arms control committee twenty-four hours. He even improved the interception plan to avoid the last incident where he had to kill the jurist.

Despite all kinds of restrictions and resistance, the National Defense Forces grew stronger with the joint efforts of Sikte, Akado and others.

As of January 20, 1924, the top-secret German document "The Memorandum of Implementation of the Pluto Project" shows that Germany already has 300,000 regular army troops, secretly reserves 110 latest aircraft, 17 destroyers, and 30 tanks.

Of course, this army is still very weak. Its neighbor Poland has more than 600,000 troops at this time, which is twice that of the German Wehrmacht. However, if you look closely at the composition of this German Wehrmacht, it will be really scary.

With the efforts of Acardo and Sikte, more than half of the soldiers of the German Wehrmacht had high school or above, and one-quarter of them graduated from college. This unit has a paratrooper reserve of 2,000 people, 4,000 soldiers who have used tanks directly or received tank training, about 1,500 people have been on the glider, and more than 300 people have actually simulated high-speed aerial combat in the Soviet sky.

What’s even more terrifying is that in the 15th and 22nd Division of the National Defense Forces, 17 people have applied for scientific and technological patents, 94 people have published papers on professional equipment such as artillery, tanks, and aircraft, and a total of more than 3,300 people have received integrated air-ground combat training.

On average, every 40 people in these armies have a radio station, 33 people can be assigned a mechanical means of transportation - including cars and motorcycles, and 2 people have a war horse. What's more exaggerated is that every soldier in this army is competent for the platoon leader.

They can shoot at least 5 times a day, while their opponents Polish and French teams do not meet this standard every week. These soldiers have undergone rigorous combat training, and each tactical move is engraved in the bones. On average, they can participate in small-scale secret military exercises every two months.

In the secret base in the mountainous areas of southern Bavaria, Akado spent more than a year to accumulate a total of 9 million rifle bullets, 150,000 latest 150mm shells, and 100,000 brand new Mauser 98k rifles. Most of the raw materials used for these weapons and ammunition were smuggled from Sweden and other countries.

Of course, the German Wehrmacht also stored 700,000 tons of oil and 100,000 tons of flour, smuggled and imported 100,000 tons of rubber from China, and the newly built 200-kilometer highway and 400-kilometer railway with the White Dove Project branch, relying on the Pluto Project branch, to seize the time of the construction of 200-kilometer highway and 400-kilometer railway.

Money, money is needed everywhere, and the tight finance has completely made the generals of the National Defense Army completely crazy. It takes a lot of money to produce new weapons, build a highway and railway transportation network requires a lot of money, reserve strategic materials requires more money, pay the army, repair and maintenance of weapons and equipment, feed a large number of secret troops, and research fees for developing new weapons... Akado even fantasized that he could spend a penny in half.

The German Wehrmacht's economic sources are diverse, and the serious sources are the defense funds provided by the government, which is the familiar military expenditure; and part of the secret sources are the property of speculative capitalists, part of which is the accumulation of secret purchases by Akado, as well as the income obtained from exporting weapons, the benefits obtained from secret cooperation with the Soviet Union, and the private income subsidies for Akado.

In any case, at the beginning of 1924, the German Wehrmacht was reborn. It now has the ability to face its neighbors alone, and has the ability to defeat Poland or even challenge France. Rennes privately revealed to Acardo that if he bumped into French troops head-on, he would be confident in commanding the 15th Division to break through the defense line of any French army.

When Akado packed up his thoughts, he had already sat on the observation deck of the exercise. More than twenty new tanks were lined up on the school ground. As the infantry carried by trucks and armored vehicles attacked the established target, they released smoke, advanced and retreated well, and soon took down the target area. During the process, two biplanes passed by at a low altitude and dropped two stones to simulate air support.

Amid the applause, the soldiers began to shout Akado's name: "Akado! Akado!"

Then, under the leadership of the officers, everyone shouted louder slogans in unison: "Long live the Great Germany's will! Long live the victory!"
Chapter completed!