The next day, Hoffmann left the three senior generals who were excited about the situation and left Berlin to go straight to the Penemide Rocket Base. This is a fishing village town located in northeastern Germany, facing the Baltic Sea, about 200 kilometers from Berlin, and the location is very secretive, and the car needs to travel about 4 hours. Sperer still traveled with him in the same car, but this time he did not drive the Chief Adjutant Lieutenant Colonel Fritz Dalgers out of the car.

"I haven't seen Comrade Bauman travel with the Head of State for a long time." Spel suddenly asked, "He was inseparable from you before."

"Bowman?" Hoffman raised his brow and smiled. "He has been fascinated by catching spies recently, and he has endless energy all over his body. The day before yesterday, he reported to me that he followed the clues of the Canaris treason group and caught a conspiracy group composed of former Social Democrats, Christian conservative intellectuals and civilians. He called these people the Claysau group."

"Claysau?" Speer recalled the name and suddenly reacted and screamed in surprise, "Isn't this the name of the Moltke family's manor?"

Hoffman nodded: "Yes, the leader is Count Helmut von Moltch. He was originally an international law expert in the Foreign Intelligence Department of the Intelligence Agency. From the family genealogy, he was the grandson of the old Moltch (the German General Staff of the Franco-Prussian War), and the nephew of the little Moltch (the German General Staff of the First World War). In addition to him, there are also a bunch of people known as the Graf-Neun, who were all from Junker nobles."

"The royal family has also been involved?" Spel knew that the head of state had always been very vigilant about William II and his direct descendants who abdicated in the Netherlands.

Hoffman sneered: "No, the old emperor and his two sons are much smarter than the so-called 'youth talents' of these ignorant Prussian noble families, and they are cleverly avoiding it."

The Nine Earls was named the 9th "Potsdam" Infantry Regiment of the National Defense Forces. The regiment was formerly the 1st Guards Infantry Regiment of the Second Empire. It has always had close relationships with the royal family and the Junker nobles. After the founding of the Weimar Republic, the 9th Regiment was stationed in Potsdam, which was located in the suburbs of Berlin, for a long time, and there were a large number of descendants of nobles among the officers. Before going to the Eastern Front, Treskov used this as a team to secretly form a conspiracy group within the regiment. Since Treskov served in the regiment with Schmont in 1918, he used Schmont as the chief adjutant of the head of state, to plant the two confidants who were serving in the 9th Regiment at that time, the reserve major, Earl of Carl Hans von Hardenberg, and the reserve lieutenant, Earl of Von Lerndorf Stennott, to Bock.

The command acted as his liaison officer and eyewitness, and transferred Major Linstofer, an important member of the Claysau group, to the Ninth Army under the Central Army Group. Under his arrangement, Count Fritz Dietlover von der Schulenberg, a member of the Claysau group, joined the army on the front line and joined the Supplementary Battalion of the 9th Regiment as a reserve lieutenant. In addition, Lieutenant General von Haze, who served in the "Nine Earls", Ludwig, the son of General Hammerstein Ekward (the general was dismissed in 1939 for the Red General case), and others, Treskov tried every means to transfer them all to the Eastern Front and established a network of relations within the Central Army Group. According to Bauman's investigation and Treskov's explanation, 19 officers who had served in the 9th Infantry Regiment joined the conspiracy group.

“This is so shocking.”

"So, do you think the Junker nobles who resisted the general mobilization system are because of economic reasons? Wrong, what they are seeking is much greater than you think." Hoffman said in an admirational tone. "If you change to Gorene to do this, you must avoid it and dare not reveal it. He has an instinctive fear and humility towards the Junker nobles. Bauman is much more courageous than him, and he has the energy to stab it to the end. The bigger the person he is, the more excited he is. Even poor Schmont was targeted by him and had to return to Berlin from the Eastern Front for inquiries from the Security Bureau. It was Zeitzler who jointly guaranteed that he did not shake his position."

"He is really a friend who accidentally caused trouble." Spel now knows why those big guys are so scared and hated Bowman, and secretly calls him "the most thorough lackey of the head of state." He thought that Bowman had always followed the head of state the tightest, but he didn't expect the reason to be here. Since the plot group incident, Bowman's terror index has risen sharply, and there is a tendency to surpass Himmler, which has always been gloomy and scary.

"I have to say that Bauman seems to be a natural anti-espionage material. He has a very good sense of smell. Several heads of the General Security Bureau praised him as a natural expert in front of me. I asked what the reason, guess what they said?

Not only did Spel be curious about this answer, but even Lieutenant Colonel Dalgers in front of him also pricked up his ears. Bauman was his old superior.

"The General Security Bureau searched a villa of Junker nobles, but could not find any evidence. Several people were at a loss. As a result, after a few minutes, Bauman found evidence from the smelly feeding trough in the stable. He proudly claimed that Junker nobles thought they were hiding in dirty and unwilling to approach... "

Everyone who heard it laughed. The head of state just used the word "smell" so well.

Hoffman seemed to be in a good mood: "Tell you another joke, one day Bowman came over mysteriously to report to me that he had installed special medicine in his teeth."

"**?" Spel was shocked.

"Yes. Because he watched the entire process of the Security Bureau interrogating the prisoners throughout the process, he said, 'Before watching, I thought I could hold on for 15 minutes by imagination. After watching the execution process, I thought it would be difficult to hold on for more than 10 minutes. After carefully understanding the relevant scientific principles and personally experiencing them, I felt that even more than 5 minutes was a luxury. He thought he had made too many enemies and decided to do this to prevent unexpected accidents. Once he was persecuted by a small person in the future, he could finish it with a slight bite. After that, he specifically advised me to pretend too."

"You?" Speer was startled.

Hoffman waved his hand: "I did not agree or object to his behavior. I only asked 'Comrade Bauman, what if he accidentally fell and knelt his teeth after pretending? Just like I suddenly fell in the Eastern Front Command last time'. He frowned and thought for a long time but couldn't answer me. The next day he told me that he went to the dentist to take it down again. So if you pay attention to the observation in those two days, you can see that he often covered his mouth with his hands - just for the delusion of being persecuted in his mind, he was squandered by the dentist twice in vain."

Imagine that Bauman covered his mouth, everyone laughed again.

Taking advantage of the time of traveling, Sperer gave a brief report on military production after laughing: the production efficiency after implementing the "three-shift" adjustment has been greatly improved, and the output in the past two weeks has been more than a month before. At the same time, he told Hoffman that the team on the exploration of tungsten mines had set off, and the team on the exploration team on the exploration of oil in Libya earlier also set off.

Hoffman was very satisfied with this. He took out a map and handed it to Sperer - this is a map of the mineral distribution that he had thought about in the past two days. Most of them were located in the areas controlled by the Third Reich and its allies, such as the chromium mine in Albania, the nickel mine in the Lapland Marsh in Finland, the aluminum mine in the Helikon Mountains of Greece, etc. The latter took a look and carefully collected it. If all these minerals were true, the resources needed to maintain the war in the Third Reich would have basically been settled. The only concern was the labor issue, but now the head of state had arranged prisoners of war and Jews, and Sperer felt that he had sufficient confidence in the future.

The Penemide Base was hidden in a wooded area. For safety and confidentiality, the nearby population had long been moved away. Before the convoy arrived at the entrance of the base, Major General Wald Dornberg, the head of the base, and some important scientists, were waiting at the door to greet him. The guards who arrived early were lined up with a tight lineup. Hoffman saw the young authoritative Dr. von Braun, the third republic of rockets in the greeting crowd. He was wearing a suit and looked very eye-catching among the crowd in military uniforms.

After shaking hands and greetings, a group of people surrounded Hoffman and others and walked towards the base launch site. Major General Dornberg seized the time to report: "I heard that the head of state is coming to inspect. We have worked overtime recently to advance the launch of the A-4 rocket (the front-drive of the V-2 missile) that was originally planned to be tested in October to today."

"Very good. It's the first time for me to witness this guy taking off in person." Hoffman knew that this was a project that Braun was directly responsible for, so he asked, "Doctor, are you sure?"

"I'm very sure." Braun was confident and pointed to the open space in front of the left, "Please look at the head of state, right there."

Following the direction of his finger, Hoffman had seen a high-mounted A-4 rocket. It was probably in a hurry. The rocket was not painted and shone with the true color of aluminum alloy under the sunlight. Braun introduced that the rocket had completed the injection of liquid propellant, so he refused Hoffman and others' request for a close visit on the grounds of safety.
Chapter completed!