Chapter 727 Assassination Plan (2)

"Stalin wants to send someone to assassinate me?!"

The news quickly reached Yannick. However, he did not appear to be too panicked, because from the outbreak of the war to now, Reinhard had uncovered no less than fifty assassination plots against him, and he was used to it and was not surprised.

Moreover, Yannick was very open-minded about the assassination. After all, he was the one who led Germany to launch this war. No matter how ridiculous and righteous the reason for starting the war was, war was just war and there was no justice at all. During the war, countless families were broken up and their families separated. Of course, some people's hatred would be focused on him, and it was only natural for people to want to seek revenge from him.

Of course, he understood, but he did not have the magnanimous heart of a Bodhisattva, so he sentenced all the assassins he caught to the most brutal death penalty.

He couldn't help but think of the mustache who also led Germany to start the war in the original time and space. He also suffered dozens of assassinations. Among the assassins were Germans and foreigners. There were formal methods of assassination, and there were also many crooked methods.

For example, in March 1943, Mustache inspected the Eastern Front and held a meeting in the Smolensk area. At this time, Colonel Henning von Treskov, who served as the director of the Operations Division of Army Group Center (he usually pretended to be a fanatic) Nazi elements, but actually the backbone of a conspiracy group) seized this precious opportunity and prepared to get rid of the mustache. He took out two bottles of wine and asked a combat staff officer from the headquarters to send the two bottles to Berlin to several of his friends in the headquarters. The so-called fine wine bottle contains a bomb that has been released and is counting down to explosion.

The combat staff readily agreed and took the two bottles of wine on the plane. The colonel and his companions watched the plane take off with joy. It's almost impossible to miss: the bomb explodes in the air, the fragile aircraft is instantly reduced to parts, and Mustache has no chance to escape. But what puzzled them all was that a few hours later, news came that the plane had reached its destination safely.

The conspirators quickly found an excuse, claiming that the gifts were given by mistake, and took back the two bottles of wine. After dismantling it, it was discovered that the fuze, which had worked without problems in many previous experiments, actually malfunctioned and did not trigger the explosive firing pin. Because the Russian frontline was still cold in March, and the aircraft did not have pressurized cabins and air-conditioning equipment at that time, the temperature was even lower when flying thousands of meters in the air, and the crew needed to wear cotton-padded coats. The fuse failed in the cold temperatures, malfunctioned, and ultimately the bomb failed to explode—the most critical step gone awry.

Later, on July 20, 1944, Stauffenberg, Chief of Staff of the German Reserve Army, placed a leather bag containing a time bomb under the conference table near Mustache's seat in the conference room of the "Wolf's Lair", the headquarters of the Eastern Theater. Because the bag was unintentionally moved, when the bomb exploded, it failed to achieve its purpose, and Mustache was only slightly injured.

In addition, there are various funny assassination methods. For example, an American writer William Seabrook took a different route. He firmly believed that black magic could be done and killed the evil devil thousands of miles away.

Seabrook gathered a group of like-minded friends in a cabin in Maryland. They made a dummy wearing a Naz uniform, labeled it with a mustache's name (I don't know if he wrote his birth date), and read After a curse spell, fake nails were inserted into the heart of the dummy, and finally the dummy's head was chopped off with an ax and buried deep in the woods. From then on, they began to wait for the magic to take effect. Maybe their skills were not enough, or the mustache skills were too high, but in short, they did not succeed.

Another example is the imaginative plan thought up by the British. They developed a type of estrogen that can turn men into women. This bizarre plan was too sensitive and remained dormant for more than half a century before it was made public.

In the book "Secret Weapons: Technology and Competition that Won World War II" published by Professor Brian Ford of Cardiff University in the UK, he mentioned that "the British government once made a serious plan to secretly release females into the mustache's food for a long time. Hormones, making him more and more feminine and less radical, thereby curbing his enthusiasm for war. "The importance of hormones was already recognized through experiments and used in some treatments... This." The feasibility of the plan was very high, because at that time the British government had successfully placed spies around Mustache to serve his diet, and it was completely feasible for Mustache to have his own food taster. If poison is released, these innocent people will be the first to fall. Hormones, on the other hand, have no taste, can escape the taste buds of taste buds, and the effects will only appear if they are taken for weeks or even months. Come out. No one would have thought it was caused by the addition of female hormones to food.”

However, this plan was ultimately difficult to implement due to various reasons, and it ended up being just talk on paper.

"These idiots." After reading the information sent by Natasha, Yannick curled his lips in disdain; the Soviets probably never dreamed that the second-in-command of their military intelligence agency would be a German insider. "Wait until they arrive and catch them all, and then show these people's confessions to Yakov. Maybe he and Stalin will completely turn against each other." Poor Yakov actually wanted to be assassinated by his own father. That's what it means to be a ghost. When the time comes, let Yakov make speeches criticizing Stalin on the radio every day. I wonder if Stalin will be angry to death.

"I understand." Reinhard took out another telegram. "This is the information sent by Molotov. In recent days, Stalin has been urging Budyonny to take the initiative to attack our army, but Budyonny has not made any move yet."

"..." Budyonny is not a fool. It is safer to defend the city, but if he leaves the city to attack the German army, it is almost a dead end.

As for the garrison guarding Smolensk, because of Timoshenko's defection, he was replaced by Marshal Boris Mikhailovich Shaposhnikov. Yannik didn't care much. Once they closed the encirclement of Smolensk, the Soviet army in Smolensk would be trapped. Even if Shaposhnikov had great abilities, it would only be a matter of time before he was wiped out.

It's funny to say that because of the last time Timoshenko "recruited" Rokossovsky, Zhukov, and Konev on the radio, Stalin recalled all three of them to Moscow and appointed them as senior staff officers of the Supreme Command; the famous "troika" of the original time and space was so depressed in the headquarters, and could only express some opinions that Stalin might not adopt.

This made Yannick very happy, so he asked Timoshenko to make a radio speech every once in a while, and mentioned these three people in each speech. In the end, it seemed that these three people would come and rebel as soon as they left Moscow.

"Let Natasha check the families of the senior commanders trapped in Belarus and Ukraine. Doesn't Stalin like to shoot the families of prisoners? Let's do him a favor and shoot these families first."

"Yes, I understand!"