Chapter 6: I'm Watching You Little Guy

  Early in the morning, the armed party guards were very busy. Today is absolutely an extremely important day for them. Yes, very important. The armed party guards will appear on the streets of Berlin for the first time and they will be under the spotlight of the whole world. Although this attention is not entirely kind, what does it matter?

  They polished their boots until they shone, pressed their uniforms so that there was not a single wrinkle, and the Mauser 98 rifle was maintained to reflect sunlight in the morning sun. Everywhere, soldiers were queuing up to get their hair cut, trying to give a good impression of their quality. The excited armed SS soldiers made the camp feel very noisy.

  Compared to the lively armed party guard camp, the national defense army has a lot of order. National Defense Army soldiers get up on time every day, and under the slogans of military officers, they will repeat the daily morning exercise relaxation training, and then complete the physical training or other subjects' training for that day under the command of the company commander.

  The young officers who graduated from the military academy looked very downhearted. They would be serving in a new armed force a week later. Although they accepted it, everyone felt uncertain about their future. The Armed Party Guard? Well, they were going to serve in the Armed Party Guard being established by Hilter. They really couldn't tell the difference between Hilter's party guard and Hitler's party guard. But since they had received their orders, what else could they do?

  It's not just the military and non-commissioned officers who are about to be transferred who feel puzzled. The lieutenants of each company have also violated their own principle as soldiers, which is to obey orders, and asked their superiors: "Why do they need to be transferred? Those military and non-commissioned officers are the backbone of our unit, if they leave, it's hard to imagine what will happen to my company!"

  The answer they got was: Military secret.

  In fact... even the school officials in the training department are complaining to their superiors.

  A platoon of Guardsmen assembled and formed up at the platoon leader's shout, and under the urgent three-word command "Present Arms", "Eyes Front" and "Fire", a burst of gunfire rang out in the armed Guardsmen's camp. The sound of the guns carried far away in the early morning just after sunrise.

  The SS troops began assembling company by company.

  Hitler was escorted out, with everyone following three steps behind him. Hitler came to the assembled SS troops, walking slowly step by step, his head held high and a proud face. Finally arrived at the open-top car, he got on with Himmler's support.

  Hitler stood on the open car, quietly looking down from above, and the dense SS troops in front of him made him breathe unconsciously faster.

  All armed SS men 'crack' their rifles from their shoulders into a rifle salute position, take a deep breath and shout with all their might: "Heil Hitler!"

  Loud and majestic, with a particularly respectful slogan, combined with the standard armed soldiers in a square formation, giving people a passionate and blood-boiling enthusiasm.

  Hitler's body was slightly trembling, he was too excited. He could finally lead his soldiers into the capital of the Republic, and he firmly believed that after entering the capital, everything would be changed; those stubborn, stupid, and inflexible bureaucrats would be eliminated!

  Hitler turned his head towards the barracks of the Defense Army, he saw that the soldiers of the Defense Army didn't care about the situation here at all, but were focusing on their training, he suddenly felt very suffocated, he... was ignored.

  But never mind, Hitler was a very stubborn person, he thought again; finally able to show off in front of the proud, arrogant and stubborn national defense army! Pretend to be nonchalant! One day, you will cry and beg to pledge allegiance to me!

  Hitler decided to let go for the time being, turned his head to look at his soldiers, raised his right hand, and spoke into the already prepared loudspeaker: "If someone says: you're dreaming! I can only answer him by saying: you fool, if I weren't a dreamer, where would we be today? I always believed in Germany, you say I'm a dreamer; I always firmly believed that the nation could rise again, you say I'm an idiot; I always believed I could regain power, you say I'm crazy; I always believed poverty will come to an end, you say that's utopia. Who is right? You or me?! I am right, and I always will be!"

  The armed party militia responded with a chorus of some sort of slogan.

  Hitler was very pleased, he felt that his chest seemed to be less stuffy. "A nation is going through turmoil, we are being favored by the god of fortune. Today, we will enter the capital, what awaits us will not be a success without effort. I have always emphasized; every generation should experience at least one war baptism. What we are doing now is a difficult war, this war can only have two results; either the enemy steps over our corpses or we step over the enemy's corpses!"

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  Boom! Boom!! Boom!!! Three consecutive cannon shots. However, this was not a salute, but rather Leb had somehow managed to bring in three 88mm cannons with his soldiers and they were conducting artillery training not far from the armed SS troops' formation.

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  Hitler's reaction was quick, or rather everyone on the SS side reacted quickly. At the first sound of gunfire, soldiers had already dispersed and were lying down on the ground, while Hitler swiftly 'threw' himself onto the car seat. They could only quietly lift their heads to take a peek.

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  In the distance, the wooden target was blown to smithereens by cannonballs. The 88mm artillery fired out a grenade-like powerful shot, and the smoke slowly dispersed in the wind, with three craters filled with wood shavings.

  Leb burst out laughing "Hahaha", repeatedly shouting "Good!" He ordered the loader to load different shells again, and shouted provocatively: "Fire!!!!"

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  "Damn it!!!" Hitler finally realized what was happening, he didn't care about his image and quickly got up, pointing at the national defense army that was training artillery fire, wanting to say something, but seeing the cannon fire seemed to be adjusting its angle, finally aiming at him, which made him swallow the curses he had prepared.

  The armed party guards were after all just a newly formed armed force, the soldiers hesitated, standing up again in formation under the slogans of their commanders. Their clothes were covered with mud, their majestic image quickly losing points.

  Hitler saw the expression on his soldiers' faces, he was furious, "Before God and the world, it is always the strong who have the right to carry out their will. My soldiers, are you afraid? We used to be, and in the future we will continue to take risks for everything! You must follow my solemn oath: what we need is courage, not cowardice!!!"

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  Leeb was delighted, he once again did something dishonorable as a lieutenant general, anyway he loved this feeling. Fire the salute? I'll call in the artillery to fire the salute! You dare to compete with me for people, the outcome of Walter von Brauchitsch, the head of the Army Training Office, will be your example!

  Hmmm... Braunhut was so angry when he found out that Leb had been appointed as the head of the Experimental Department that his blood pressure shot up and he had to be rushed to the hospital. He's still recovering now.

  Feng Erte was the direct superior of this group of artillerymen, and he also liked to use artillery to suppress the arrogant actions of those militiamen. He asked: "General! We still have 105mm cannons that haven't been tested, shall we bring them over for a trial shot?"

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  "We must grit our teeth and go all out to do one thing; otherwise, we will accomplish nothing!" Hitler's anger had not dissipated, he really hated being interrupted during his speech, and it was the sound of artillery fire!!!

  He strained his voice to its highest pitch, vowing to outdo the cannon fire, "We should be joyful, for the future will entirely belong to us! Those..."

  A louder and more violent explosion of cannon fire again interrupted Hitler's speech.

  Lao Xi couldn't take it anymore. He wanted to bite those artillerymen to death one by one, or drown them with his saliva.

  "Those who threaten us will one day be punished!!!!!!" Hmm... Old Xi took advantage of the gap between the cannon fire to shout loudly, fortunately his throat was trained, otherwise this loud shout would have been enough to tear apart a weak throat. He turned his head again towards the direction where the artillerymen were conducting shooting training, and when he saw the 105MM cannon, he completely lost his temper. The 105MM cannon had left too deep an impression on Old Xi, during World War I, how many German soldiers were torn apart by the 105MM cannon, becoming a bloody mess flowing in the trenches.

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  Leb patted von der Trenck's shoulder vigorously, "Good! Good fellow, haha... I'll reward you!" He had already taken off his general's uniform jacket and was personally carrying shells to load.

  Hmmm... Poor Old Xi met the only unorthodox general in the National Defense Army.

  Observe a moment of silence...

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