On April 30, 1937, three days after the bomber of the German Eagle Legion carried out a large bombing on the Spanish town of Guernica. The old friend of the Soviet people, the good friend of Comrade Lenin, the close friend of Comrade Stalin, General Ludwig von Heinsberg-Hissmann visited Moscow.

He arrived on a Juncker ju.90 passenger plane, which is a passenger model of ju.89, which is very comfortable and stable. When he got off the plane, two Soviet children wearing red scarves presented flowers to him and Chloe. His other "friend", Marshal Tukhachevsky, who was likely to be killed in more than a month, then stepped forward and shook hands with Hesman cordially and hugged him.

Neither of them mentioned the "inhumane" bombing, as if it had never happened.

"Welcome, Your Excellency General!" Tukhachevsky said in fluent German.

"You are the marshal! Mikhal Ir Nikolayevich, congratulations!" Hessman replied in fluent Russian.

The Soviet Union implemented the military rank system in November 1935. Tukhachevsky became the first batch of Soviet marshals and also served as the first deputy people's committee member of national defense and the minister of the military training department.

"I've been pretending it long ago, it's too late for you to congratulate you." Tukhachevsky said half-jokingly, "Ludwig, you are still a marquis, and I'm not as good as you."

This sentence will become a crime in more than a month to attempt to restore the reactionary rule of the Tsarist rule in the Soviet Union!

"It's just a false reputation, there's not much annuity to get," Hessman shrugged indifferently, and pointed at his wife. "But she likes to be a marquis. I actually became a royalist for her."

"Ludwig, you're kidding me again." Chloe glared at her husband, and then went to shake hands and hug Tukhachevsky's wife Nina Tukhachevskaya.

But Hessman just glanced at this beautiful woman with sympathy. After her husband was killed, she would definitely not be able to survive!

As for the possibility that Tukhachevsky would not die by chance, Hessman felt it was very slim. Although he did not order the intelligence department to frame Tukhachevsky, Hessman knew very well that Stalin in history would not believe that Tukhachevsky was a German spy. People with such status as Tukhachevsky had everything in the Soviet Union. How stupid would it be to be a German spy? This kind of thing was just a need for the power struggle within the Soviet Union...

"Mikhal Ir Nikolayevich. The general outline of your plan to attack Poland has been brought." After the greetings, Hessmann got back to the story. He had just been transferred from his new adjutant, Lieutenant Colonel Hans Spidal, who had just been transferred back to the General Staff from the French military officer, waved, "Hans. Give the documents to the marshal."

The entire text of the Black Plan is impossible to bring, and it is not necessary. What the Soviets want to know is just a rough idea, when to fight, where to attack, what tactics to adopt, and of course... and how to recover from the aftermath, which requires the Soviet and German countries to resolve through negotiations.

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"Why didn't the mechanized troops conduct a large-scale deep assault? Didn't you do that in that exercise in 1935?"

The next day, when Hesman met Tukhachevsky again in the People's Committee of National Defense at No. 19 Znamenka Street, Moscow, the other party suddenly asked this question.

"Why isn't the way of mechanized war?"

He asked this in Russian because there were three other Soviet marshals present who did not understand German, Marshal Alexander Ilyic and Yegorov, who looked very strong. He was the chief of staff of the Workers and Peasants' Red Army; Marshal Xie Miao Mikhailovich Budoni, who had a Cossack-style beard, who didn't look very smart. He is now the deputy People's Commissar of National Defense and in charge of cavalry work. The last one with a "Hitler-style" mustache looked a little slow, which was Kremente Yevremovich Voroshilov, the Soviet People's Commissar of National Defense.

According to Hessman's situation, these four Soviet marshals were actually divided into two factions. Tukhachevsky and Yegorov were the so-called "military experts", who were the official officers of the former Tsarist Russia and joined the Bolshevik Party after the August Revolution.

Budoni was born as the "Chairman of the Soldiers Committee". He was a veteran before joining the revolution. Voroshirov was a professional revolutionary from child labor. After the February Revolution, he entered the military because he became a representative of Soviet engineers and a local leader of the Bolshevik Party. He was a self-taught military strategist.

Later, Voroshilov, who was a student, fought in Tharizin with Stalin, who was also self-taught, because he hated "military experts", so he tried to command blindly. He actually won, but lost 60,000 people. As a result, he was criticized by Lenin at the Eighth Bolsheviks. Stalin was transferred back to the Central Committee, and Voroshilovgen was sent to the position of commander and was exiled to Ukraine. As a result, he became a political commissar in Ukraine and joined forces with Budonni, the commander of the First Cavalry Army. Then he and Budonni became iron buddies again. Through his relationship, Budonni and the first cavalry army were Zhukov, Timushingo, Rokosovsky (these were all soldiers and had never entered the Tsar's military academy. Comrade Stalin hated the people who came out of the Tsar's military academy the most), etc., and they all became Comrade Stalin's military team.

Tukhachevsky and Yegorov were both "military experts", and these "military experts" were all figures valued by Trotsky during the Soviet Civil War. Therefore, the great purge of the Soviet Red Army can also be seen as Stalin's purge of "military experts" and "Trotskyist suspects" who were born in the former Tsarist army.

After a large number of reliable young officers who entered the military academy to study after the end of the Civil War, it was understandable that Stalin cleaned up some unreliable "old men"...

As for how much combat effectiveness the purge damaged the Soviet Red Army, in Hessman's opinion, the main problem was that the German army was too capable of fighting, as if it was a cheat. France, which had not experienced the great purge, could not resist Poland when it met Germany? The British did not have a strait to block it. It was almost over for 40 years and 41 years.

If Tukhachevsky and Yegorov commanded the Red Army that had not undergone a great purge to step on Poland, France and Britain would have swept? It is impossible. Just look at the Zhang Gufeng incident in late July and early August 1938 in history. It would be difficult to fight the Japanese Kwantung Army under Buluhell.

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"Because we do not have enough national strength to mechanize the entire army." Hessman greeted several Soviet marshals, and then everyone sat down at a conference table covered with green wool fleece tablecloth and began to discuss the "Black Plan".

"We must mechanize the entire army?" Yegorov shook his head. "According to the view of the French theorist Charles de Gaulle, a small number of mechanized troops as sharp knives is enough to tear the enemy's defenses."

"That's the experience of World War I," Hessman talked freely. "If we encounter the army of World War I, we can indeed succeed. But we are now facing some mechanized infantry. Even the Polish army with backward equipment has hundreds of tanks and a larger number of armored vehicles. Those tanks and armored vehicles can be equipped with 20mm machine guns and 37mm anti-tank guns.

This is equivalent to mechanizing and armoring anti-tank firepower... If we had anti-tank firepower that could move rapidly in the last World War, the tanks of the Allied Power would be destroyed in large quantities by us. After the Iron Fist 1935 military exercise, we also conducted many confrontational exercises between armored divisions and infantry divisions equipped with mechanized anti-tank firepower, and the result was all the armored divisions. We believe that if an infantry division can have dozens of self-propelled anti-tank guns that can move rapidly, it is enough to block the assault of the armored division in a preset position."

Hessmann was not completely fooling the Soviets. In fact, the German Wehrmacht had been conducting similar drills in the past two years. Moreover, a motorized infantry division equipped with a type of assault gun battalion could indeed destroy an armored division. Unless the armored division in the attack could be supported by a powerful tactical air force.

Compared with the ju.89 and do.19, ju87 dive bombers, HS-1 attack aircraft and the ju.88 medium bombers under development are the keys for Germany to sweep Poland and France.

Tukhachevsky and Yegorov looked at each other and nodded slightly. The Soviet Red Army actually conducted similar exercises. The result is also difficult to prove that the concentrated tank troops will definitely defeat infantry divisions equipped with a small number of tanks and a large number of anti-tank weapons. Unless the attacking side has a great advantage in tank performance or an overwhelming air advantage!

Moreover, the Soviet Red Army recently noticed that they may have some problems in the capture of air supremacy. This is the alarm bell that the Spanish Civil War sounded to them! The Germans' b-109, Folk D.31, and even the old Folk D.21 formed an overwhelming advantage over the Soviet I-15 series and I-16 series in terms of performance.

Without air superiority, the Soviet tank troops are likely to be hit from the air! Even an old-fashioned aircraft like HS-1 (which flew first in this time and space in the late 20s) can still pose a major threat to the Soviet ground forces.
Chapter completed!