My German Empire - Chapter 21:

“Damn it!” Wilhelm whispered, his situation is very different from the standard ending of a crossover. Others crossed over to finally dominate the world, enjoying full glory and wealth, and living life as a stallion. Why does his situation have to be like a certain Hitler?

“What the hell should I do?” Wilhelm pondered for a while. In January 1940, Koshkin personally led the team to test the two prototypes of the T-34 tanks that had just been released. The long-distance trial test of the tank in the Kiev-Kharkov region left a deep impression on the top leaders in Moscow. After that test the Soviet Union concentrated all their resources to mass produce the T-34 model.

In that case, is it possible to destroy the two tanks during the trail test?

Wilhelm first thought about the feasibility of this plan.

Russia is inherently vast and sparsely populated, and sometimes people will not be seen for hundreds of kilometers. From the Ural Mountains to Moscow, many places on this remote road are no man’s land. Let alone attack a convoy halfway, even if a nuclear bomb is dropped, no one may know.

It seems that sending a special force can complete the task cleanly and withdraw smoothly.

Then, what effect will the success of the operation have? Will the Soviets doubt Germany? Let’s not talk about how much investigation it will take, even if Wilhelm blatantly leaves evidence that Germany did it, what can they do? Will the Soviets declare war on Germany? He will definitely not be afraid of a war after 10 years.

He still remembers that Koshkin died of pneumonia on September 26, 1940 due to overwork and illness, and he did not see the brilliant performance of the outstanding T-34 in the end. His assistant Morozov took over his work and finally completed the development.

Thinking about that Wilhelm couldn’t help but slap his forehead, in fact, there is no real merit in this plan. Even if Koshkin is killed two years earlier, although the prototype will have some shortcomings and flaws, it has been built after all. Unless he bombards the entire factory, otherwise the workers involved in the production will still have design drawings, and it will not be difficult to improve the design.

Wilhelm immediately cut off the plan to attack halfway during trial test and turned to consider the assassination.

Thinking about it, the assassination plan seems to be more feasible. Although he doesn’t know where this Mikhail Ilyich Koshkin is now, at least he knows that he will enter the Leningrad Institute of Technology next year.

The next morning, Geer came to report. “His Royal Highness, we just received a notice from our country that His Royal Highness and his wife has returned to Germany .”

His Royal Highness and his wife? Wilhelm was stunned for a moment, before realizing that it was his unbelievable father and mother?

William II of the original time and space had seven children, but in this time and space he only has one son.

Well, more than one son to be exact.

The emperor traveled to the Netherlands when he was young, and met a woman there, and soon fell in love with her.

The woman named Susan actually gave him a daughter.

It’s just that Frederick III arranged a political marriage for Wilhelm II a long time ago, so the Susan lady did not become the Queen of Germany. And in order not to embarrass her beloved William II, she had never set foot in Germany in her entire life. William II also felt guilty about her. After he took the throne, he asked the royal family to take care of the mother and daughter in a private name.

Obviously, William II is also a master who loves his country more than beauty.

It is a pity that Oscar Hohenzollern (his current father), who was supposed to be William III, is a strange person and has no interest in the emperor’s throne. He is only interested in taking his wonderful wife to travel around the world. It’s like an adventure, and it’s not rare for them to return home after a few years.

William II also had nothing but complaints about his son. Fortunately, this bastard son gave him three grandchildren. William II could only pin his hopes on his eldest grandson, but he did not expect him to be involved in a car accident. That accident directly took away his most respected eldest grandson, his third grandson suffered heavy brain damage and became a vegetative man. Only Wilhelm survived unscathed.

“Are they somehow not well?” It’s not that he doesn’t respect his father, but the original Wilhelm would ask such a sentence every time he heard the news of his parents.

“His Royal Highness and his wife are well.”

“That’s good.” After leaving this sentence, Wilhelm followed the itinerary arranged yesterday, and the group went to Kharkov G International Locomotive Factory after breakfast. This is the main tank design and development organization in the Soviet Union. A special workshop has been built in the factory to produce tanks. The tank design team formed in 1927 has become the core of the newly established t2k tank design bureau headed by Ivan-n-Aleksenko. Engineers involved in the design, manufacturing and testing of T-12 and T-24 tanks were also included.

When seeing the T-24 tank being assembled in the workshop, Guderian almost slobbered.

This is a medium tank with a total combat weight of 18.5 tons and a crew of 5 people. Although in Wilhelm’s opinion these tanks are nothing but a bunch of rubbish, Guderian is quite envious, because for Germany, which is restricted by the Treaty of Versailles and cannot build tanks, these bad boys are already quite advanced.

Looking at Guderian, who had swallowed his saliva several times, Wilhelm couldn’t help but cough, lest he continued to embarrass him. Guderian also suddenly remembered his Highness’s previous instructions, and began to provoke this tank’s fault. “I think the speed of this tank is definitely not fast, right?, after all, its suspension mechanism is not very advanced, it should be said that it is too backward.”

Wilhelm frowned slightly and reprimanded. “Major Guderian, we are guests now, why do you say such things?”

The one singing and one badmouthing aroused Tukhachevsky’s curiosity. “His Royal Highness Wilhelm, don’t blame Major Guderian. He was right. Our tanks have poor maneuverability. I don’t know what opinion Major Guderian has in mind and what kind of suspension is the best?” This latest tank was revealed to the Germans and one of the most important reasons is that this tank is a failure! A total of only a few dozen cars have been mass-produced!

This tank uses a large row of small-diameter road wheels, which are simply inherited from the suspension mechanism of the bulldozer, which makes the maneuverability of this tank quite limited.

What’s more deadly is its turret, which is a multi-action turret.

The main turret is equipped with a 45mm tank gun. There is also a machine gun turret besides the main turret.

It seems to have a very powerful firepower, but it is actually useless!

What are tanks used for? Offense! Therefore, tanks need large-caliber artillery! Need fierce firepower, as for machine guns, not so much!

At the same time, this multi-turret tank is quite tall, runs fast, and is more likely to overturn!

However, although it was a failed work (only used for training and review), the car gave the t2k factory the initial experience in designing and producing tanks, and these experiences were used to produce the American Christie tank (the BT tank) in 1931. At that time, it was extremely successful.