After listening to the translation's relay, Lieutenant General Terauchi Shouichi wrung his eyebrows, looking like he was thinking hard, and after a long time, he slowly shook his head and said, "No, it's not 1927 anymore." As he spoke, he strode over to a huge military map hanging on the wall, his eyes solemn. On the map, the coastal areas of the "Japan" Sea in the Far East of the Soviet Union are defended by air, and there is no problem if they want to land. However, along the Far Eastern Section of the Trans-Siberian Railway, the units of the Soviet Red Army that had been reconnoitred were already marked with numbers, and after the "Birobidzhan Incident," the numbers of the Soviet Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, which had five armies, and fifteen divisions, were densely packed there.

Countless red symbols symbolizing the defense line lined up along the Sino-Soviet border.

Terauchi Toshiichi held a baton along a series of troop numbers along the Sino-Soviet border, a noble lieutenant general of the Japanese army who had participated in the Second Russo-Japanese War in 1927, when the Japanese landed in Nikolaevsk, marched along the Amur River, and finally captured Boli and cut off the retreat of the Soviet Far Eastern Front. However, it is clear that the situation is different now than it was then!

"The Red Army of four corps was deployed on the Trans-Siberian railway line, two of which were deployed on the line from Boli to Ussuriysk. Moreover, the main forces of the Soviet Far Eastern Front could come back at any time, and they were not now unable to move because they had to defend Vladivostok. So our raid won't succeed. ”

Shouichi Terauchi just said his opinion in a flat tone, just like the group of elites in the General Staff of the National Defense Force, he looked at the young and unspeakable lieutenant general of the National Defense Forces who was sitting next to Wang Zhongyi and nodded with a smile, as if he was waiting for Lin Yurong to further clarify his views.

"Your Excellency, I agree with you in part that we really can't easily defeat Boli this time." Lin Yurong spoke, his tone slow and solemn: "But this is the only way we can 'disrupt' the deployment of the Soviet army. The strength and armament of the Soviet Far Eastern Front are not inferior to ours in this case, relying on the first defense of the trenches, and if we only attack from the front, we will definitely meet in front of the solid defense of the Soviet army! So, we must find a way to get the Soviet Red Army to leave on its own, the line of defense that they have been building for a whole winter! ”

Speaking of this, Lin Yurong sighed heavily: "For us, the behemoth of the Soviet Union is still too powerful!" ”

After more than a year of war in the Far East, although the Soviet Red Army performed poorly on the battlefield and suffered heavy losses, they still relied on their absolute superiority in strength to "force" Vladivostok step by step, and once "forced" their opponents to a desperate situation, although at present China, Japan, and Russia have gathered nearly 500,000 troops in Vladivostok, but Wang Zhongyi and Lin Yurong still did not defeat the Soviet Far Eastern Front and pushed the front to the Amur River.

In the eyes of the Hua, relying on the Shedanka defense line to stubbornly defend and attract hundreds of thousands of troops of the Soviet Union is considered to have completed the task, so why bother to take the good life to fill the strong defense line of the Red Army?

"Don't forget that the cost of the Sida Cup far exceeds ours, so we can't fight with him." Lin Yurong reminded in a loud voice: "We should take advantage of the complex terrain in the middle and lower reaches of the Amur River to fight a campaign against the Soviet Red Army. Terauchi Shouichi took his glasses, glanced at Lin Yurong coldly, and said lightly: "I kind of understand the suggestion of His Excellency the Lieutenant General, what you mean is that we don't have the strength to eat the main force of the Soviet Far Eastern Front in one bite, so we can only attract them from the strongly defended positions, and then eliminate them little by little!" ”

When it comes to "eliminate little by little", Terauchi Shouichi's tone is slightly raised, and it seems that there is a little appreciation in it.

"I agree with General Lin's suggestion that this should be the only way to defeat the Soviet Red Army and seize the Far East. But...... Who should fight in the Amur Valley? China? "Day" book? Or Russia? ”

When Shouichi in the temple spoke, Lin Yurong tilted his head slightly and whispered to Wang Zhongyi beside him. Lin Yurong really wanted to be in charge of the operation on the Amur River, but the only one responsible for transporting troops to land in Nikolaevsk was the Japanese navy...... From this point of view, the Japanese Army is the first choice.

"This glorious task should be undertaken by the Imperial Russian Army!"

Wang Zhongyi and Lin Yurong were pondering what reason to use to persuade Terauchi Shouichi, but Denikin on the side stood up first and said loudly: "I think Her Majesty's army is the most suitable to fight the Bolsheviks along the Amur River!" Because it was also the Russians who made up the Bolshevik army,........., Her Majesty the Empress, like their mothers, would have thrown themselves into the arms of their mothers as soon as they had the opportunity to break free from the control of the Bolsheviks! ”

After finishing speaking, the old Tsarist Russian veteran looked at the commanders of the Chinese and Japanese armies with some hostile eyes, and then squeezed out a little smile: "Count Temple, General Wang, I hope that at that time, the [Japanese] and [Central] ** teams will launch a feint attack on the Bolshevik troops north of the Shedanka Line, and try to attract their attention. ”

There is some truth in Denikin's words, there is no possibility of compromise between the Soviet Red Army officers and soldiers on the battlefield and the Chinese and Japanese armies, and the Chinese and Japanese ** teams in this time and space do not like to capture prisoners very much! And that "pseudo-Russian Imperial Army" is different, in a sense, Empress Anastasia is the orthodox Stalin of Russia, just a Georgian who usurped the supreme power of Russia! And for those rural sons in the Soviet Red Army, the tsarist era was at least well fed, and the Bolsheviks were almost equal to starvation!

"Well, I agree with General Denikin's suggestion." After Wang Zhongyi discussed with Lin Yurong in a low voice, he still supported Denikin.

"The Japanese Vladivostok dispatch army also agreed that the Russian army would undertake operations on the Amur River."

Terauchi Shouichi then said: "However, we hope that the air force of the [Chinese] country can provide air cover for the actions of the Russian army on the front line of the Amur River, and we also hope that the armored forces of the [Chinese] country can participate in the operation in Vladivostok." ”

"Well, I'll relay your request to the Wehrmacht General Staff." Wang Zhongyi nodded and said with a smile: "But whether it can be approved or not, I can't guarantee it." ”

There was a rush of footsteps at the door. Then came the secret and raised his head, "rubbing" and "rubbing" his eyes: "Please come in." "It was Zhang Xueliang who came in, he was still holding a thick stack of documents in his hand, and a while ago Zhou E came to the border guard staff to issue a defense plan... This stack of documents should be a good plan, right?

"Han Qing, please be seated. The defense plan is ready, right? Is that all? "Zhou %'% asked.

Zhang Xueliang sat down and said with a smile: "The operational plan for defending against the offensive of the Kuomintang army is still being formulated, and according to the basic principles of military science, before formulating a defense plan, we must first fully assess the military strength and war potential of both the enemy and us, and then decide what kind of defensive methods should be adopted. He pointed to the thick stack of documents on the table and smiled bitterly: "But I'm afraid this conclusion is difficult to accept."

Zhou Elai frowned and asked Zhang Xueliang, "What's wrong?" Could it be that we could not resist the military encirclement and suppression of the Kuomintang? ”

Zhang Xueliang said helplessly: "E, the difference in strength between the two sides is too great, our border guards now only have 200,000 people, and the weapons and equipment are only the standard of light infantry at best." After the completion of the expansion, the Wehrmacht is estimated to have a total strength of 1.3 million to 1.4 million, and the level of weaponry and equipment has basically reached the level of the first-class army in Europe, and it has all advanced weapons, including tanks, heavy artillery, aircraft, battleships, and aircraft carriers, and these advanced weapons can basically be localized... The war potential of the two sides was even more different, and by the time the Kuomintang provoked the war against the Soviet Union in 1938, the total strength of the Wehrmacht was estimated to be around five million! And no matter how much our border guards are expanded, they are only four or five hundred thousand people, and there is no food to eat! ”

Zhou Elai sighed, and Zhang Xueliang said again: "Brother Elai, the above is not the most deadly, if it is only the huge difference in strength and weapons and equipment between the two sides, we can also use guerrilla warfare, rely on the support of the people in the base areas and the Kuomintang to the end, and drag them down, but in our strategic layout, we are not allowed to do this." ”

Zhou Elai nodded and sighed: "You mean that the Baotou Special Administrative Region and the Méng ancients, our military production center is in Baotou, Suiyuan, once the war starts, the National Defense Force only needs to 'force' Baotou along the Pingsui Railway with a heavy army group, and we can be forced to fight a decisive battle!" And the méng ancients were mihuo by Tibetan Buddhism and would not help us, so it is not realistic to rely on them to fight guerrillas. ”

Zhang Xueliang sighed and said with a bitter face: "Yes, so the comrades of the General Staff have tried their best to think of how to defend against the attack of the National Defense Forces. At present, the gap in strength between us and the Kuomintang can no longer be bridged by strategy and tactics, unless we can find some way to rapidly increase our own strength or ...... Eighty percent of the Kuomintang's strength has been quietly depleted, and then perhaps the two sides may still be able to compete with each other. ”

"Rapidly increase your own strength or the strength of the Kuomintang is consumed" Zhou Elai repeatedly muttered these two sentences, and suddenly his eyes flashed: "Very good!" Since we have found a way, we can work hard in this direction, and there is no difficulty that cannot be overcome in front of our GCD people! I don't know if Han Qing has any good proposals? ”

Zhang Xueliang smiled bitterly, hesitated for a moment, and said: "E, let's still think of a way..............." "What's the way, let's say it." "After studying the comparison of the strength of our party and the Kuomintang, our General Staff also analyzed the current situation of the Soviet Union by the way.

They are still mired in the quagmire of civil war, and in the future they will have to face the joint attack of the four imperialist countries of China, Germany, Bo, and Japan, and it is very likely that they will destroy the country, and we can only start with the legacy of the Soviet Union if we want to rapidly expand our strength, if we can ...... "Zhou E to wave his hand, he has long studied this issue with "Mao". However, it is a last resort, and now is not the time to discuss. Because once the Soviet Union is destroyed, it means that the imperialist countries such as China and Germany will gain huge benefits from the partition of the Soviet Union, and even if China and G can get part of Siberia, it will be impossible to defeat Chinese imperialism again.

Zhang Xueliang didn't seem to see Zhou Elai's gesture, and continued to lower his voice and said: "Comrade Elai, if we want to achieve the greatest benefits after the fall of the Soviet Union, the only way is to participate in this war, one by one, and join before the outbreak of the war, and we can't wait until the general trend is decided!" The General Staff has done a wargame deduction for the future war of the Soviet Union, and found that the méng Gu under our control may be a key point in the future war of the Soviet Union! The Soviet Union will face threats from three fronts in the future, and their use of forces will be very tight, and they will have to deploy their forces in the places where the enemy is most likely to invade, that is, the western border of the Soviet Union, the border between Central Asia and China, and the Far East. Due to the restoration of the Romanov dynasty in Vladivostok, the Soviet Union will inevitably deploy heavy troops in the Far East, while Siberia will be more relaxed because of the fact that Méng is controlled by us, so it should be more lax If we can cooperate with the Wehrmacht at a critical moment......" Zhou Elai sighed inaudibly, and finally did not make any comments on Zhang Xueliang's "great rebellion" suggestion, but said lightly: "The defense plan staff still needs to be formulated quickly...... Northern Shaanxi, Baotou, Zhongyi Fort, these places are very important to us, we must focus on protecting ......" The sea gently lapped the steel hull of the battleship, and the Zhanjiang Military Port was silent at night. The distant mountain peaks only have a hazy shadow under the starlight, and on the occasion of the sea and sky, a bright moon sprinkles ten thousand points of clear light. It was a quiet night, and the essence of the Nanyang Fleet, which had just completed a large-scale sea exercise, the four huge aircraft carriers Zhongshan, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Fujian, the four armored cruisers Jiyuan, Pingyuan, Zhiyuan, and Jingyuan, and the battleship Zhenyuan, the world's strongest battleship with a standard displacement of 40,000 tons (35,000 tons in public), were all quietly moored in this huge military port. These huge war machines, in this night, look like monuments to human industrial civilization, showing the mighty power of China's maritime power to all who see them!

On the long pier, Luo Yaoguo was walking and chatting with a tall fat man in the uniform of a German Nazi Party stormtrooper. Behind them were a group of officers wearing white and dark blue sè naval uniforms, of which the white sè uniforms were the naval officers of the Chinese countries, and the German naval officers were wearing the deep basket sè uniforms. They had just returned to the Zhanjiang military port after a three-day "viewing exercise."

Suddenly, the "fat Goering", who was not very fat, stopped and looked up at the aircraft carrier Zhongshan docked on the edge of the dock. The 20,000-ton aircraft carrier is now the flagship of the Nanyang Fleet. In the past few days, Goering took the battleship Zhenyuan to watch the entire process of the "Jiawu-1" military exercise.

The military exercise was divided into two phases, the first stage was a confrontation between aircraft carrier detachments and battleship detachments, and the second stage was a confrontation between aircraft carriers.

The results of the exercises, naturally, are yet another proof of the value of aircraft carriers in future naval battles!

In the first phase of the exercise, four aircraft carriers fought against four battleships (played by four Bolan Legion-class armored ships), and in the end, the battleship detachment encountered five rounds of air attacks without MO reaching the side of the aircraft carrier detachment!

In the second phase of the exercise, four aircraft carriers performed there, and the four "battleships" were completely reduced to bodyguards around the aircraft carriers...... It doesn't seem to have much value!

And it's also very vulnerable.

Although theoretically, the mighty battleship Zhenyuan could withstand all current firepower from the air, but what's the point? With the rapid progress of aviation technology, it is believed that there will soon be engines with more horsepower, such as BM, which is now being jointly developed by the Sino-German Aircraft Company and BMW, and looks calmly at the dozen F3Bs lined up on the deck of the Zhongshan aircraft carrier

Fighter, I don't know what is in my heart? Maybe they are still thinking about how to prevent the German Navy from having aviation? However, I am afraid that it is very difficult to do it in this time and space, because those German naval generals have long participated in the formation of China's naval aviation through Sino-German military cooperation, and also participated in the Sino-Japanese naval battle in the South China Sea, and have first-hand information. Therefore, the German Navy is now in charge of the "aircraft carrier faction", and Hitler himself has probably carefully studied every detail of the South China Sea War, and with his wisdom, he should have realized that aircraft carriers or aircraft are the key to conquering the sea! Of course, the harsh climate in the North Atlantic and the North Sea will still limit the combat effectiveness of aircraft carriers and aircraft, and there may be a place for battleships? But the German Navy is unstoppable in its own aircraft, and in fact they already have... Even aircraft carriers to be designed specifically for the harsh weather conditions of the North Sea and the North Atlantic have already begun, and as for the battleships of the "Zhenyuan" class, the German Navy did not show much interest. On the one hand, in order to avoid premature assassination of Britain, and on the other hand, in order to spend limited funds on the development and manufacture of aircraft, aircraft carriers and submarines, the German Navy has advised Hitler to give up the right to buy two "Zhenyuan" class battleships.