Königsberg dock, East Prussia, Germany, January 10, 1937.

In the easternmost part of the German Empire, there was already a battlefield scene of total mobilization. The Germanic peoples, having rejuvenated themselves from the great humiliation of defeat in the First World War, tore apart the Treaty of Versailles, re-armed themselves, with the acquiescence of the two world empires of England and France, and bloodlessly annexed Austria and Czechoslovakia. Now it's finally time to fulfill their promise - march east! Until the time came to crush the entire Bolshevik Empire! The German port city, backed by the Boro Sea and facing east, has been completely transformed into a huge barracks, warehouse, transport hub, airfield, and base of operations. Supplies and equipment brought in from the western region are stored here. The Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS wearing black uniforms and red sè armbands disembarked here, rested and assembled, and then loaded into various vehicles and headed for the border with Lithuania.

Before destroying the Soviet Union, Germany had to swallow Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, the three countries of the Boluo Sea that stood between Germany and the Soviet Union! And Britain, France, the United States, and of course China, these world powers are ignoring this! At this time, German and Soviet diplomats were running around the capitals of the three countries with ultimatums full of threats and intimidation. Coax and intimidate the leaders of these countries into relinquishing their sovereignty and joining the German Empire or the Soviet Fatherland. According to some tacit understanding, unknown to outsiders, Estonia will become part of the happy Soviet family! If her upper echelons don't run away, they will be part of the gulag labor camps scattered all over the Soviet Union! Lithuanians and Latvians would become second-class citizens of the German Empire, and their homeland would become part of Germany under the swastika, while Jews living in both countries would ...... Of course, it's going to be unlucky.

But now the three almost desperate nations have not finally given in, and they have all gritted their teeth and mobilized, each with a small army to dig trenches on their western or eastern borders. If by the end of the month, they have not surrendered, Germany and the USSR will go to war! At that time, perhaps the tanks and planes of the advance force of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, which had traveled all the way to Europe to help, would be of use.

German Minister of War and Commander of the Air Force, Hermann. Goring. Commander of Army Group North, Karl Brown. Rudolph. Gerd. Feng. General Rundstedt, as well as several high-ranking officers who had served as military advisers in China. and Admiral Raeder, the commander-in-chief of the German Navy, who arrived from the port of Kiel. They have been waiting in the port of Königsberg for a long time. They were all waiting for the arrival of the advance force of the Chinese Expeditionary Force.

During this time, Germany and Bolan again began negotiations or quarrels on the formation of a joint high command! Both Bolan and Germany believed that there was a need for a unified command to command the German, Bolan, Chinese, Italian, Romanian, Hungarian and other ** teams on the European theater. However, there has been no conclusion to the discussion of who should be in charge of this joint high command. The Germans naturally believed that their army and air force were the main forces in this battle to destroy the Soviet Union. The United High Command should be led by the Germans! And Marshal Himigvi of Bolan stubbornly believed. The Bolan army and the German ** team have the same strength, so they must also have the same power! Therefore, the Bolan army could not obey the command of Germany, the two sides should not interfere with each other, even the battlefield should be clearly divided, and the well water should not interfere with the river water. Just when the question of who commands whom between Bode has not yet come to an end. The quarrel between the two countries over the ownership of the command of the Chinese expeditionary force and the 250,000 White Russian troops that will soon arrive in Europe has begun again!

The Bolan side believes that the Chinese and Russian armies should be the first to be the first of the German armies and be responsible for one aspect alone. Bolan suggested that the Russian-Chinese forces should be responsible for attacking Leningrad, and at the same time they did not need to be under German command! The Germans, on the other hand, took it for granted that they should command the Chinese and Russian teams. Moreover, Germany also hoped that the elite Chinese armored division could operate alongside the German armored division...... And behind this question is the question of whether Germany will fulfill its promise to restore the Russian Empire after the destruction of the Soviet Union. To this end, Himigvi and Hitler sent more than a dozen long telegrams in succession to discuss this issue with China and Russia.

As for China and Russia, or rather Luo Yaoguo and Anastasia, they are noncommittal about this, but they only shirk the fact that sending troops is to serve the overall war situation. They are far away in the east and do not understand the situation and cannot control it remotely, so it should be resolved through consultation among the senior commanders of the various front-line parties.

Therefore, when this army arrived in East Prussia, Germany, as the host, attached unprecedented importance to it, and sent a large number of high-ranking generals, including Goering the Fat, in the hope of winning the support of the high-ranking officers of the Chinese expeditionary force at the first time, so as to consolidate Germany's position as the leader of the anti-GC international alliance.

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At the same time, Luo Yaoguo suddenly summoned the commander-in-chief of the various armies of the Chinese National Defense Force, the commanders of the group armies, and their chiefs of staff, and all the senior generals of the navy and air force to go to Wuhan on February 22 to attend a high-level military meeting.

This seemingly important meeting was held in a large conference room on the top floor of the General Staff Building, from which you could see the smoky East Lake of Wuhan in the distance. However, the generals who came to the meeting were no longer in the mood to look at the scenery, because they knew that the establishment of the wartime base camp of the Republic of China would be announced at this meeting! After that, China will fully transition to wartime.

The atmosphere in the conference room is now solemn. Everyone was waiting for this most important meeting in the history of the Wehrmacht. The high-ranking generals of the front army and the group army gathered together. Even Zhang Xueliang, who had just returned to China to take up the post of chief of the general staff of the Chinese border guards, was among them, and he came to attend the meeting as a representative of the Chinese Border Guards. Everyone was waiting for Luo Yaoguo to enter this conference room. On the wall of the conference room was a huge map of the situation of friends and foes in Northeast Asia. It is obvious that the line between the Heilongjiang River and the Amur River, as well as the junction of the ancient province of East Méng, Heilongjiang Province and Chita Prefecture of the Soviet Union, is densely covered with symbols representing the troops and arrows of various colors. Apparently this is where the next war is about to break out!

Footsteps rang out the door. An Sihua was the first to take the lead and stood up, and then all the officers stood up, and everyone was in a military posture. Luo Yaoguo appeared in everyone's field of vision. As is often the case with military activities, he wore a dark green marshal's uniform and a medal of the Order of the Blue Sky and White Sun, which was personally awarded by Sun Yat-sen after the Battle of the Middle Road in 1927. It is clear that the wearing of this medal at today's meeting has a special significance.

He came to the front seat in the middle of the conference table, accepted the salute of the crowd, and then slowly spoke: "I have brought you here today for the purpose of describing the current international situation to you. In this way, you will be able to see the factors that make our decisions. At the same time, it is also to enhance the confidence of the whole army in victory. ”

At this he paused. Then he glanced around, "I'm afraid the war with the USSR is going to break out early!" Although at present, all parties are not fully prepared. But the Bolsheviks clearly did not intend to attack them after we were ready for everything with Germany, the Boland, the Japanese, and the Russian Empire. Information from Bolan shows. It is quite possible that the Soviet Red Army will launch an armed offensive against Bolan around December in the winter of 1937, that is, after the land in Eastern Europe is completely frozen! But this attack is sure to fail. Because there will be 2 million troops on the Bolan side. At the same time, the German Empire would also amass more than a million troops in East Prussia, Lithuania, Latvia and other places. And we will have a large number of troops transported there! So there is no need to worry about the situation in Europe, I have invited you today to discuss the situation in the East.

When the USSR attacked Bolan, of course, we had to declare war on the USSR! There is no doubt about this, because there is a treaty between us and Bolan. But should we immediately attack the Soviet Union? If you want to attack, where do you start? I'd like to hear your advice on this. ”

There was a buzzing voice below, and the generals and officers of the National Defense Force (including Zhang Xueliang) couldn't hide the joy on their faces, and everyone's strength was enough. Just waiting for Luo Yaoguo to make the decision to attack.

At this time, An Sihua coughed lightly, pointed to the Soviet Far East on the map, and said lightly: "According to intelligence (provided by Zhang Xueliang), the Far East Special Military District of the Soviet Red Army has a strong strength of thirty infantry corps, three cavalry corps, one tank corps, two aviation brigades, and three ** artillery divisions!" Moreover, they also built a Chita-Heilongjiang-Amur River defense line. The line of defense is more than 2,000 kilometers long. It has a modern defense system composed of deep trenches, barbed wire, minefields and batteries in important areas...... According to the lessons of the First World War, such a line of defense is very difficult to break through from the front! If in the winter in the Far Eastern Siberian region, which is extremely unfavorable for the offensive, attacking such a line of defense will allow us to suffer unimaginable casualties.

It is well known that the temperature in the cold winter of the Far East and Eastern Siberia is often as low as -tens of degrees Celsius, and the officers and men of our Wehrmacht from the warm regions are simply not able to adapt to such cold, and our enemy is the Soviet Red Army, which is constantly accompanied by cold weather. Therefore, attacking the heavily guarded Soviet lines in winter was not worth the cost. The ministry suggested that if the Soviet Union launched a war against Bolan in the winter of 1937, we could only launch a diversionary offensive in the Far East...... It was really decided that Xing's offensive should be launched before the end of April 1938, according to the original plan. It is believed that with the combat effectiveness of the Bolan army and the German ** team, they should be able to defend against the offensive of the Soviet Red Army. ”

Luo Yaoguo had been quietly listening to An Sihua speaking there, smiling and nodding frequently while listening, seemingly agreeing with him. And everyone's eyes in this conference room were also focused on him.

Luo Yaoguo straightened his clothes and stood up. smiled and said: "Comrades, General An Sihua's opinion is very reasonable. The Soviet winter was too cold for us to adapt to Chinese, and the 'Amur Line' carefully constructed by the Soviet Far Eastern Front was very strong...... We can't sacrifice the lives of the Chinese at will, right? As he spoke, he turned his head and looked at Zhang Xueliang, whose eyes moved. Brother Han Qing, you have been in the Far East for many years, so you should know the situation there well, right? Tell me, how are we supposed to defeat the Soviet Red Army there? ”

Zhang Xueliang was shocked when he heard this, snapped upright, strode to the front of the map, picked up the baton, and pointed heavily at the far east. "Report to Chief of the General Staff of Luo, it is true that the post has been in the Far East for many years in the name of the General Political Commissar of the Volunteer Army, and also has some knowledge of the situation on the Amur defense line in the Soviet Far East. According to the observation of the department, the entire Amur defense line is not actually impregnable, but it is relatively well defended in some important areas......

In addition, this line of defense did not cover the entire eastern part of the Soviet Union with China, and the southern borders of Chita, Buryatia, and Baikal regions were almost undefended. Blyukhel had long feared a bypass by Wehrmacht armoured units from the steppes of the ancient province of Méng in the east, south of Manchuria. Detour to the south of Chita and outflank the rear of the Far Eastern Front. In order to fill the holes in the line of defense. Field Marshal Blyukhel of the Far Eastern Front reserved a large reserve in Chita, the capital of Chita Oblast, consisting of one tank corps, ten infantry corps and three cavalry corps. Moreover, these infantry corps were all equipped with the most advanced anti-tank guns and other anti-tank weapons of the Soviet Union. Long-term training in anti-tank warfare is a killer weapon used by Blyukhel to restrain the Wehrmacht's armored units! ”

He paused. The baton was pointed at Baikal again. "Baikal is the choke point connecting the Soviet Far East with Central Siberia, through which the Trans-Siberian Railway passes...... Moreover, it was not part of the Far Eastern Front, where the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR created an additional Baikal Military District. This total strength is only four divisions, and all of them are reserve units with poor equipment and poor training, and the full strength rate is only six or seven percent. If we can sneak up on the Baikal Military District of the USSR with an elite force through Méng Gubei......"

Luo Yaoguo waved his hand and stopped Zhang Xueliang from speaking. He smiled and said, "I already know General Hanqing's suggestion. But in the winter of 1937, was it possible for the Wehrmacht to accomplish this task? ”

"Impossible." "In winter, the lowest temperature in Baikal can reach more than minus 50 degrees. It is simply impossible to fight. ”

Luo Yaoguo nodded, "It seems that it is impossible for us to attack the Soviet Union before the spring of 1938...... Unless we attack the USSR first! Sihua, Jiansheng, Delin...... What do you guys think? ”

"Impossible!" Bai Chongxi, commander of the Northeast Front, put down his gold-rimmed glasses and was the first to object, saying: "Our preparations for war will not be completed until October this year at the earliest...... But this season is less than a month away from the harsh winter of the Soviet Union. It is impossible for us to defeat the Soviet Far Eastern Front in a month, and in the winter the war will inevitably be deadlocked. ”

"I agree with Brother Delin." Li Zongren, who has already taken office as deputy chief of the General Staff, echoed: "At present, the National Defense Forces Engineer Command is building a large warehouse and barracks in Kulen, repairing roads and waiting for the northern side to enter the country...... However, the entire construction period will not be completed until the end of September, when the Northern Front will be able to move north, and it is estimated that it will take at least a month to properly place the entire front army's 500,000 troops in place, and then it will have to hoard enough supplies to meet the needs of hundreds of thousands of people for combat...... There will be no time to complete the preparations before winter this year. ”

"Sihua, what do you think?"

An Sihua sighed and said, "Fuwen, I think so too, time is pressing, and it is impossible for us to complete the preparation this year...... According to the original plan, we would not be able to complete preparations for full-scale war until the end of April 1938. ”

"Well, in that case, let's make a plan for a war in April next year!" Luo Yaoguo's eyes were deep, and he glanced around, "We have been preparing for this battle for almost ten years, and we are ready in all aspects such as the army, materials, science and technology, industrial base, national political system, and diplomatic relations...... Now it's time for the final war mobilization! ”

He stood up one of them, and the generals also stood up, he propped his hands into fists on the table, and his eyes swept around: "By the order of the president!" The wartime base camp will be set up secretly from now on! Ladies and gentlemen, from now on, our Republic of China is already in a full-scale war with the Soviet state! In this war, our goal is not only to destroy the Soviet Union, but to build a world empire that belongs to the Chinese! That will be a powerful country that is better than the Han and Tang Dynasties, and a paradise for all our Chinese to develop and prosper in the next thousand years! ”

There was silence in the conference room, and Wang Zizi shouted loudly: "Long live the Republic of China!" Long live the Wehrmacht! With him, there were also younger officers such as Zhang Xueliang, Hou Jingru, and Lin Yurong, all of whom were waving their fists with red faces, shouting slogans full of gunpowder!

The world war, now it is ready, the rest, just waiting for the performance on the battlefield!

After Luo Yaoguo moved for a short time, he quickly regained his composure and turned his head to look at Zhang Xueliang: "Is your party ready to participate in this battle of national rejuvenation?" ”

Zhang Xueliang snapped upright: "Our party's 200,000 tigers have all been mobilized, and with an order, we can send troops to the Far East!" ”

"It's naturally great that your party can send troops." Luo Yaoguo nodded with satisfaction, and explained a few more words: "This time, the Northern Front army went to Siberia through the ancient north, which is the top priority of the entire war!" Your party must do a good job of secrecy and not let the Soviet Union learn of our army's intentions. In addition, after the completion of the expansion of the Kulen airfield, one aviation division and one infantry division of the Wehrmacht will be stationed immediately, no problem, right? ”

Zhang Xueliang nodded: "Please rest assured, Your Excellency the Chief of General Staff, we GCD people are first and foremost Chinese!" ”

Luo Yaoguo smiled and nodded. Xin said: "You Zhang Xueliang may not have any major concepts of right and wrong, and those few Chinese gods may have to consider the future and fate of the party, and they will not be buried for the Soviet Union." But among the hundreds of thousands of party members and comrades, there were many real Bolsheviks! But that's really what I want......"!