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Part One Twenty Years Epilogue (1) The Death of Ludendorff

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    (I feel that the plot seriously collapsed in the later period. This is the consequence of revising the outline)

    As the navy marched into the southwestern suburbs of Berlin, the rebel soldiers carefully avoided their superiors and conveyed their desire to end the chaos in Berlin with dignity to the counter-insurgency army on the eastern front who had come from afar.

    The direction of the stagnant Eastern Front Army in the northwest suburbs of Berlin began to change. Under the leadership of General Hoffman, the Eastern Front counter-rebellion Army suddenly joined the battle group, easily tearing through the rebels' "paper" defense line, and seizing the lead in the Navy.  Retaliation preceded the siege of the army headquarters.

    The action of the Eastern Front Army to surround the Army Headquarters can be understood as a warning to the rebels, and it can also be understood as a maintenance of the dignity of the Army.

    Whether it is the Eastern Front Army, the Western Front Army, or the Berlin garrison involved in the rebellion, they are all the German Army after all.  No matter how demoralized the Berlin rebels were, they were confused and desperate about their future, they did not want to surrender to the navy, so they bypassed the general of the Berlin Garrison Headquarters who insisted on following Ludendorff to self-destruction, and contacted the East in private.  Line Army.

    Similarly, no matter how much the lower-level officers and soldiers of the Eastern Front Army insisted that "the Army does not fight the Army" and were unwilling to fire on their own people, they still could not remain indifferent in the face of possible retaliatory actions by the Navy. On the night of the Great Purge, the Army accidentally shot Tirpitz  , arrested their Navy Minister, surrounded the Navy Headquarters, and put the right-wing Fatherland Party that relied on the Navy to a boil. The Army had no reason not to believe that the Navy would not counter-siege the Army Headquarters, and Ludendorff, the Director of Munitions who had not been dismissed from his post,  , so the army officers and soldiers on the Eastern Front finally demanded action.

    The German Army may be the proudest group of people in the world. Their emphasis on and persistence in the glory that belongs to the German Army are often shown to be inhumane.  Although the lazy and greedy fat man at the Eastern Front Army Headquarters was Wang Heidi¡¯s ally, he knew that the Army had made many unforgivable mistakes in this mutiny, and could understand the Navy¡¯s resentment towards the Army, but he still did not want the Navy to  to punish the Army.

    "Since there is no emperor anymore, then the army affairs should be handled by the army itself!"

    With the idea of ??ending the Berlin Mutiny in a dignified way, Max Hoffmann walked alone into the gloomy and silent army headquarters, hoping to persuade Ludendorff to resign and quietly leave Germany and go into exile to avoid the ensuing military trial.

    ¡°General, is this your winning strategy based on the tradition of militarism, which proposes to insist on militarizing the national economy and adapting it to wartime, establishing a highly efficient military government, and concentrating the material and spiritual strength of the entire nation to fight a quick and decisive war?¡±

    ¡°Perhaps it was Hoffman¡¯s brilliant general who frightened the guards guarding the Army Headquarters, or perhaps the Army Headquarters was already on the verge of collapse. In short, Hoffman broke into the office of the Imperial Demand Director without notification.  In the dark corner of the room, I found Ludendorff, the hero of the East-West Battle in 1914, the founder of the defeat of Russia, the proposer and executor of total war, and the inventor of trench unit penetration tactics.

    Hoffmann, a terrible swordsman who had repeatedly failed in battles, looked at Ludendorff, who was extremely sick, with an unprecedented serious expression:

    "General Ludendorff. We can tolerate your arrogance and arrogance, and we can also tolerate your jealousy and suspicion. We can even accept the fact that you are a complete tyrant after leaving Marshal Hindenburg behind the scenes to mediate. But we cannot tolerate it.  You are destroying the Army's most precious traditions and order! So please resign and leave Germany secretly, and don't let the Army, which has been criticized by many, continue to be discredited"

    "Hoffman, you have no right to slander me like this! Apart from my selfish jealousy of Hindenburg's unearned gains and Heidi Seelem's genius, I dare say that no one in Germany can compare with my love for the army and the empire.  love!"

    The dazzling light from the corridor seeped in through the open door, and Ludendorff stretched out his hand to block the unfamiliar light.  Then he heard the angry cynicism of Hoffman, who had always had a gap with him.

    Hoffmann¡¯s understatement stimulated Ludendorff, who had an ego and had been proud all his life.  The director of munitions crawled out of the darkness, and while moving towards his desk with difficulty, he defended himself while covering his chest that was rising violently:

    "From the moment I met Hindenburg, I knew that his mediocrity could not carry the glory of the Army. And from the moment I met Heidi Sillem, I knew that the rise of the Navy was unstoppable, so I took advantage of  and abandoned Hindenburg, worked hard to suppress the Navy and the Workers' Party, drove away the Emperor, and concentrated the power and responsibilities in my hands. You can call me shameless, or you can call me hypocritical, but in the final analysis, I did it for the sake of the Army.  , so that we can withstand the emerging navy, stand solidly and proudly on the German soil, and for the empire to expand its territory to the Pyrenees and Poland, not the decent peace of naval idealism!"

    HoffmannI didn¡¯t believe Ludendorff¡¯s words at all. If he suppressed the navy and the Workers¡¯ Party, it was because he had insufficient structure and strategic vision. He failed to realize that the navy, which was not afraid of the British, and the right-wing Workers¡¯ Party in the early stages of the war were not the enemies of the army. He pursued  The highly efficient military government was also based on a noble starting point, so what explanation should be given for driving out the emperor to deal with the Junker landowners and sidelining the good old Hindenburg?  !

    He, Ludendorff, is simply a careerist who wants to get ahead in an army that hates civilians crazily!

    "Perhaps you think I am a careerist, but I don't think so!" Hoffman still wanted to make a mocking sophistry, but Ludendorff continued his topic before Hoffman could speak: "Don't be in a hurry to refute me.  Think about what the top brass of the Army did when Tirpitz was tinkering with the Naval Expansion Act. Think about what the top brass of the Army did when the Navy continued to challenge the Army's hegemony in the empire under the leadership of Sealem. Think about what the top brass of the Army did.  Think about what the top brass of the Army did when the Workers' Party made demands for imperial rights. The top brass did not realize that the Navy and the Workers' Party challenged the Army and subverted the traditions of the Empire, nor did they realize that victory on land was the key to the Army and the Empire.  The only chance to win, they always bother to do anything!¡±

    "So you did it, and almost destroyed the army and empire that you kept saying you expected to be strong!" Hoffman sneered, and unconsciously raised his voice: "General, the Navy and the Workers' Party were not our enemies from the beginning!  Have you ever imagined that if the navy had not won the Battle of Jutland, whether we would have been able to survive until 1917 with all sea transportation lines cut off? Have you ever imagined that if there had not been the third naval political storm in 1915, Albert, who was cheering for the war, would have been able to survive.  Will and Blunt launch two workers¡¯ rebellions in 1917 as planned?!¡±

    Hoffmann¡¯s words obviously touched Ludendorff¡¯s soul, leaving Ludendorff speechless who had always closed his heart and was stubbornly unwilling to admit certain facts.

    Ludendorff suddenly remembered that in the Army Junior Military Academy in 1877, Ludendorff, who was only 12 years old, was forced into a corner by other military students and humiliated in every way.  Started to read the oath of the Junior Military Academy loudly:

    "I am a glorious young German soldier, and I am responsible for the future strength of the German Empire!"

    "Hoffman, please tell me, am I still a devout patriot?" The oath of the Junior Military Academy in 1877, the patriotism that swept the country in 1914, and the waiting outside the shipyard gate in the cold winter of 1914 for Sealem's death.  Jealousy, forcing Dick to betray Sealem and the Workers' Party in 1915, the status and nobility gained through general war in 1916, draining the emperor's cauldron in 1917, and last night's purge, memories flowed together like a river without a dam.  Entering Ludendorff's mind directly destroyed the spirit of the strong-willed munitions director.

    Ludendorff clung to the thick corner of his desk and asked in a trembling voice: "Hoffman, please tell me, am I still a devout patriot?"

    "Maybe" Hoffman sighed, but the figure of Heidi Silem appeared in his mind unconsciously, so he could only shake his head, leave the advice of "resign and leave Germany" and left.

    Hoffman quickly walked out of the depressing atmosphere of the Army Headquarters building and came to the open space outside the building to breathe in the fresh and free air until desperate gunshots were heard from inside the building.

    The era of military strongmen ended in such a bleak way, and in the south of the Army Headquarters, Wang Heidi, who was extremely drunk, was pointing to the flaming east, where there was the Parliament, the Charlottenburg Palace, the Prime Minister's Office, and the Commander of the Gendarmerie.  Ministry, and the future of Germany!
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