The Rise of the Third Reich

"Well, opening a military school to teach special operations... Ludwig, this is a good idea. If we can train 1,000 Hungarian officers who have mastered guerrilla warfare, the Allies will suffer a lot in Hungary! "

In the car driving to Charlottenburg (Major General Vorbeck was arranged to live in a villa near the Charlottenburg Palace), Hersmann sat in the passenger seat and discussed opening a military school with Major General Vorbeck and Captain Hipple. Training of guerrilla officers.

Major General Vorbeck was very appreciative of Hersman's ideas, and his success in East Africa should be replicable. And he was not the first soldier to use guerrilla warfare to defeat a powerful enemy. The Spaniards once used the same method to mired Napoleon's army. The Boers in South Africa also used a small number of troops to cause considerable casualties to the British Empire. What is the reason why the Hungarians cannot do what the Spaniards, Boers and black Africans can do? In Europe, the Magyars are also considered a nation that is relatively good at conquering and fighting.

And training Hungarian guerrilla fighters is just the beginning. If the special operations school can succeed in Hungary, it will be able to export guerrilla warfare experts to other places in the world in the future. For example, Turkey is about to be partitioned, India is enslaved by the British, or China has become a semi-colony.

"We ourselves must also study special operations, not only guerrilla warfare, but also special forces operations." Hersman said his thoughts, "infiltration, sabotage, assassination, and of course preventing the enemy from carrying out the same combat operations... These operations are not carried out by guerrillas who have only undergone short-term training, but by elite officers and soldiers who have undergone strict selection and long-term training and have special equipment and tactics."

"We have conducted similar operations in East Africa," Captain Hipple said with some pride. "In 1915, I often led small squads to penetrate into British East Africa and attack weakly defended Ugandan railways and bridges, and achieved many results. !”

"That's amazing!" Hessmann said in a flattering tone. "We don't do that much in Europe, at least I don't know of any successful examples of this. We just squatted behind trenches and barbed wire, using cannons and machine guns. Shooting at each other. I believe that the next war will definitely not be like this!”

"What will it be like?" Major General Vorbeck asked with interest.

“Maybe there will be air power that can determine the outcome of the battle. Maybe there will be thousands of tanks rushing on the battlefield. Maybe there will be mobile warfare like the major generals did when fighting in Africa. Maybe there will be countless soldiers carrying parachutes. Jump directly from the plane to the rear of the enemy's position..."

"Using a parachute? It's really a good idea." Captain Hipple squinted his eyes. "Maybe it can actually be realized. There's no guarantee."

"It can definitely be achieved," Hessman said. "The internal combustion engine was invented by the Germans. It only appeared more than 50 years ago. At the beginning, it only had 4 to 5 horsepower. But now there are 200-horsepower internal combustion engines... It seems like 200 horsepower. It has increased by forty or fifty times in more than 50 years. If the horsepower of internal combustion engines increases by another ten or twenty times in the next twenty or thirty years, the war will never be what it is now! Let’s study things from different aspects.”

It is not Hersman's turn to study how to fight mechanized warfare now. He is not the chief of general staff or the first director of munitions, nor is he the director of the Strategic Operations Division. He is just the head of the military intelligence department, but special operations falls under the jurisdiction of the military intelligence department.

"Ludwig, what are your thoughts on special operations?" Major General Vorbeck asked thoughtfully.

"There are many," Hessmann had already started studying this matter. The Stasi also had a special special operations department. "Special operations should be subdivided into several categories: First, elite special operations, which are composed of a small number of rigorously trained elites who undertake particularly important combat tasks behind enemy lines, such as assassinating political figures, destroying important facilities, and attacking enemy command or logistics centers... …”

"Theodore, you are familiar with this matter." Major General Vorbeck turned to Captain Hipple and said.

“The second is guerrilla and light mobile warfare, including launching, organizing and commanding guerrillas and conducting guerrilla operations behind enemy lines and the construction of guerrilla base areas behind enemy lines; the third is organizing and commanding light field corps developed and merged from guerrillas to conduct mobile warfare... "

Hersman continued to talk about his ideas. In this life, he was a Junker officer with a professional background, and his knowledge of trench warfare was very rich. But the knowledge of guerrilla warfare and light mobile warfare comes from the memories of later generations.

Don't think that guerrilla warfare and light mobile warfare are tricks that can't be put on the table. As an elite Junker officer, Hessmann knew very well that there was no superiority in combat methods, only whether they were suitable and whether they could be won.

"As far as I know, in addition to your experience in East Africa, Major General, Soviet Russia is currently using the same method." Hessman said thoughtfully, "We have reports in this regard. They have organized guerrillas in Siberia and the Far East. . And they also sent civil war experts to us in Germany to support the German Bolsheviks.”

"Damn it!" Major General Vorbeck cursed, "Isn't there anyone to deal with them?"

"Of course someone will find them out and beat them to death!" Hersman said, "But this is not the job of the special technical school...Major General, in fact our special technical school will be jointly established with the Russian Bolsheviks."

"Co-organized with the Bolsheviks!?"

"They pay most of the expenses and provide civil war experts as teachers in the school." Hersman said, "This is also an opportunity to learn, to learn the Soviet Union's guerrilla warfare experience... Some of our people will pretend to be Hungarian students to study. And we can also observe their teaching and study their teaching materials. In addition, we can also gain necessary experience and lessons through the Hungarian War."

"But they will also learn all our skills." Major General Volbeck said gloomily.

This special technical school was originally a Russian-German military cooperation project. Hersman talked with Borodin for several hours yesterday afternoon before finalizing the specific terms of cooperation, including cooperative schooling, fund sharing, guerrilla technology exchange and foreign student training.

And support for Hungarian revolutionaries will also be carried out by both sides. However, the only one that can be put on the table is the Soviet Union. Anyway, the Soviet Union is not afraid of attracting hatred. Lenin and others are going to export revolution. All German military advisers active in Hungary must retire from the army in advance, and they will be hired by the Hungarian authorities in their "personal name".

"Not all, only guerrilla warfare and light mobile warfare." Hessman said, "This is what Hungary needs now, and the operations of the special elite forces will be carried out in a secret base in East Prussia (actually Courland) for research and training, and have nothing to do with supporting the Hungarians' resistance. Theodore, are you willing to accept this mission?" Captain Hipper said half-jokingly: "Of course, I am willing to serve, but you have to give me a promotion." "No problem, I will take care of it." Hessman replied with a smile, "Major General, what about you? Are you willing to be the principal of the special technical school?" "I am willing!" Major General Volbeck shrugged, "It is my mission to help the Hungarians resist the Allies... Even if those Hungarian soldiers are Bolsheviks, as long as they can strike the Allies!" —— Please collect and recommend