686 Volunteer Army 2 Condor Legion begging for subscriptions Asking for tickets
It's the time to stretch out your hand and see your five fingers, but the small building of the headquarters of the Nanyang Fleet...
The lights were still on in the room.
Luo Yaoguozheng, Chief of the General Staff of the National Defense Forces, and Hermann, Minister of the Interior and Minister of Aviation of Germany,
It was here that Goering held a secret meeting. Two cups of *coffee, brewed by Natalie herself, were brought in, and the aroma wafted leisurely in the small conference room.
Goering took the *coffee handed over by Natalie, took a sip, and said with a smile: "You Chinese men are really happy, you can have several beautiful wives at the same time...... Not in Germany, where every man can only have one wife at the same time. β
Luo Yaoguo smiled faintly: "This is not good news for most men in China, because the ratio of men and women in this country is still relatively balanced, so behind a man who has several wives, there are several men who will be singles for the rest of their lives!" Therefore, our country is preparing for the enactment of a monogamous Marriage Law. β
Goering looked at Natalie's departing back and smiled, "It seems that this is a good law, he can ensure that most men can marry wives...... It is a pity that this relatively fair system cannot be applied to the appropriation of resources by the state and the nation...... The world allows some nations and countries to have a lot of land and resources, even if they don't need it at all, while others can only squeeze into a small plot of land and endure poverty and want for generations! There is no truth at all. Luo Yaoguo put down the small coffee cup in his hand and looked at Goering quietly: "Aren't we trying to correct the injustice of history to the two great nations of China and Germany?" And the situation is generally favorable. The Soviet Union was now inevitably mired in secession and civil war, with the Soviet state under Stalin and the Russian Empire under Empress Anastasia. They are about to lose the most precious time before the war, so they can only watch us make all the preparations, and then ......" He waved his right hand and made a slashing gesture: "By the way, will the German Empire send volunteers to the Far East?" Goering nodded at the head full of fat: "This is one of the topics that I have come to China to discuss with His Excellency the Field Marshal, this war in the Far East is obviously also a good opportunity for military training, President Hindenburg, at the suggestion of Hitler's Chancellor, has ordered the formation of a volunteer army called the Condor Legion, whose members will be from the German Wehrmacht, including the air force, armored forces, communications, transport, navy and instructors. This legion has now been secretly formed, with a total strength of about 5,000
The main number of people was the personnel of the Luftwaffe, which had not yet been fully disclosed, including three bomber groups, three fighter groups, a reconnaissance aircraft group, four heavy anti-aircraft artillery batteries, two light and anti-aircraft artillery batteries, a communications company, and ground crews. Moreover, all kinds of new aircraft jointly developed by Germany and China will be sent to the Far East to withstand the test of actual combat. However, since Germany was so far away from the Soviet Far East, we needed logistical and transportation help from China. His words were very frank and direct. Luo Yaoguo was looking at his neatly trimmed mustache, and he looked a little divine. It seems that this Vulture Legion really existed in history, and it was used to intervene in the Spanish Civil War! Now it was actually used to intervene in the Soviet Civil War, and the time was three years earlier.
For this change in history, Luo Yaoguo welcomed it very much, and he smiled and said: "There is no problem with this, our two countries are allies!" Moreover, the civil war in the Far East of the USSR was also extremely beneficial for us. If you Germany want us to help us, just make a list and give it to us. He looked at Goering: "My friend...... In fact, with the strength of China, Germany, Bolan, and Japan, there should not be much problem in destroying the Soviet Union. So my concern for this future war is not the resistance of the USSR, but the attitude of Britain and France! Judging from the current situation, the purpose of Britain and France is indeed to restore the Russian Empire, and it is estimated that they still need a strong Russia to contain China and Germany, and this Russian Empire does not exist in our plan!
Therefore, Britain and France will never sit idly by and watch us carve up the Soviet Union! I fear that Britain and France may provide security guarantees to the Russian Empire. Therefore, the day of the demise of the Soviet Union is the time for us to break with Britain and France, and even when Britain, France, Japan, and other countries find out that we have the possibility of a quick victory over the Soviet Union, they will step up their vigilance against us, China and Germany, and the worst possibility is that they will compromise with the Soviet Union against us! This is the biggest risk we face in this future war, in which case both of our countries may fall into the dilemma of fighting on two fronts! And in order to avoid this situation, we must strive for a quick victory in the battle of the Soviet Union! And before the prelude to the battle of the Soviet Union begins, it is best to hide our strength appropriately, so that Britain, France and Japan will underestimate our real strength. β
Goering immediately understood the deep meaning of Luo Yaoguo's words. The current "Far East War" is not only a "strategy for exhausting the Soviet Union" and a "training ground" for China and Germany, but also a window for Britain, France, Japan, and other countries to observe the military strength of China and Germany. If it were to happen to these countries, it would have been impossible for the Soviet Red Army to fight with the Wehrmacht of China and Germany...... It is very likely that they will change their minds and seek some balance of power and balance in Eurasia, right? So in this 'Far Eastern war...... The volunteers of China and Germany must be more low-key. The strength that should be hidden still has to be hidden!
He thought for a moment, and finally smiled and nodded: "Your Excellency, Marshal, I already understand exactly what you mean, and I completely agree with you, there is no need for us to be too strong in front of those future enemies, so as not to frighten these cowards!" Luo Yaoguo rubbed his hands and smiled as if he was very happy: "We were able to reach an agreement in a short period of time, it is really because China and Germany have common interests, Mr. Goering, in order to win the next world war, our two countries should still carry out more cooperation, especially in war preparation, operational command, and the development of secret weapons." By the way, there are a few very secret projects in our country that have just begun to be studied, and I hope that Germany can participate, if you are not going to participate for the time being, and I also hope that Germany's advanced science and technology can be put to the service of these projects. Hearing this, a hint of surprise flashed on Goering's fat face, but he soon seemed to understand something, and smiled: "Well, there is no problem, this is exactly the cooperation that should exist between allies." He paused, and then said, "But can Your Excellency Marshal tell me what secret projects are being carried out in your country now?" Luo Yaoguo took a sip of the *coffee on the table, and said lightly: "It's just some special alloys, a few from your Germany...... Jewish scientists are working on a substance called sodium, and want to make several alloys with sodium added to it, but we are still very weak in cutting-edge technology and equipment, and we hope to get help from German scientific institutions and industrial enterprises. β
Returning to Wuhan from Vladivostok shocked Lin Yurong, just as he had just done in 1926.
The same when arriving at the secret camp in the Chahar Mountains. This time, it was not the atmosphere of war that surprised him, but peace and prosperity. After experiencing the war and destruction scenes of the Northeast and the Soviet Far East, he suddenly came to this bustling and somewhat excessive metropolis, and Lin Yurong almost felt like a world away.
He sat in the restaurant on the top floor of the newly built Pacific Hotel in Hankou, tasting the most authentic hometown dishes, while constantly looking out the window at the night scene of Wuhan and the four gorgeously dressed family members sitting beside him, just like those peasant children who had just come to Hankou from the countryside to join relatives and friends.
His father Lin Yueqing, brother Lin Qingfo and sister Lin Baozhu, as well as his wife Wang Jingyi, were looking at him with a grin. Although Lin Yurong and the four of them hadn't seen each other for six or seven years, they sat down with him, talked about family routines, and chatted as if they saw each other every day.
He looked at them with interest, and they looked at him too, because everyone had changed so much. Lin Yueqing, who used to work as a clerk in Hankou and as a bookkeeper, is now the chairman of Lin Jingjing Cloth Factory. Lin Yurong's eldest brother, Lin Qingfo, has a flexible mind and is good at management, and is the general manager of Lin Jingjing Cloth Factory. But the biggest change is Lin Yurong's second sister Lin Baozhu, a woman who has been widowed and still has two children, now looks like a baroness in Vladivostok, wearing gorgeous clothes and precious jewelry! In fact, she is the largest shareholder of Lin Jingjing Cloth Factory, and more than half of the capital for opening this cloth factory is the inheritance of her deceased husband, and the rest is the settling-in allowance issued to Lin Yurong by the Military Intelligence Bureau, and now this part of the shares is recorded in the name of Lin Yurong's wife Wang Jingyi...... This once rustic and not loved by Lin Yurong is now dressed up as a bright and moving bewitching fu person, with a sleeveless cheongsam of burgundy sΓ¨ velvet, with a shawl of tricky skin, holding a folding fan carved with ivory huΔ, and her posture is graceful, just like the beauty in the picture of a lady!
In the conversation with them, Lin Yurong knew that although his cloth factory only produced some low-grade products, the business in recent years has been very large, and the products are selling very well in the Huguang area. Therefore, the Lin family has changed from a well-off family in the countryside to the most common outbreak household in China at present! He is also one of the richest businessmen in Huanggang City, Hubei. Lin Baozhu and Wang Jingyi, the two women, are naturally rising now, and Lin Baozhu, who has made a fortune, is now a celebrity in Huanggang City, and this bewitching Fu man in his thirties actually has a suitor! And a Jewish doctor who fled from Germany. As for Wang Jingyi......... Lin Yurong should be careful!
Due to loneliness and boredom, this little rich woman is now an active member of the circle of celebrities in Wuhan, and every other day she holds a party in the mansion on the edge of the East Lake.
However, what surprised Lin Yurong the most was that his family didn't know that China was actually at war with the Soviet Union! They asked a lot of very naΓ―ve questions about the Far Eastern War in which Lin Yurong was participating. They seemed to think that Lin Yurong was just a military adviser to the Russian empress, and they didn't know that their country had invested 200,000 troops in the Far East battlefield! And they have been fighting with the Soviet Red Army for a year and many months! Although the newspapers and magazines were full of "hairy" reports about the Bolsheviks, the Chinese people still knew so little about the war that was going on right on their doorstep, and even Wang Jingyi, who had been hanging out with Wehrmacht officers or their families all day, knew nothing about the fact that China had already entered the war! And after hearing about this war from Lin Yurong's mouth, the topic they were concerned about was whether they could sell Lin Jingjing's cloth to Vladivostok, or who was more beautiful compared to Empress Anastasia and Natalia Lesinskaya?
"If, as you said, China is already at war with the Soviet Union, can we win it?" Lin Qingfo said. He only knew that an army that had betrayed the Central G had been recruited by Trotsky to fight in the Soviet Civil War, but he did not know that this army had now been reorganized by the Wehrmacht.
"In terms of the military strength of the two countries, the two sides should be on par, and even the Soviet Union is stronger: fortunately, we are not alone, and Germany, Bolan, Japan, Britain, France and other countries are all with us. However, there are also shortcomings on our side, the Soviet Union has now gone all out into the war, and at the beginning of this year it also announced a general mobilization of the whole people, while we are still under a peaceful system......" At this time, a shika came over and asked Lin Yurong to listen to the phone. A nice, sweet and greasy female voice came from the microphone: "Is it Lieutenant General Lin Yurong?" Welcome to Wuhan. I'm Colonel Natalie Lesinskaya. We met in Qiqihar and Vladivostok. β
"Yes, Colonel, we met not long ago at a drinking party in Vladivostok." Lin Yurong tried his best to suppress the consternation in his voice. He had no idea that he was under the surveillance of military intelligence while he was having dinner with his family.
There was a silver bell-like laugh on the phone: "I remember that all the generals at the drinking party that day were trying to get me drunk with vodka, and you don't drink spirits except you, right?" Then tomorrow's lunch with the assistant marshal will be served with a little champagne, no problem, right? β
"No problem. What time is tomorrow? Where is it? β
"Tomorrow morning, there will be a car to pick you up at your home in East Lake, and the appointment will be in Beilu. Tomorrow is Sunday, by the way, Chiang Kai-shek will also attend the luncheon that will pick you up. It looks like tomorrow's appointment is important. β
"It's important, I know. Do I have anything in store for this? β
"I don't know. Please wear a lieutenant general's dress. Well, I'll pick you up at half-past nine. "Yes, Colonel."
He returned to the table and drank some more beer. Continue to talk to your family about the anecdotes in China or Vladivostok. However, in his heart, he began to think about how to impress Luo Yaoguo and Chiang Kai-shek tomorrow. His mission in Wuhan was to persuade the top brass of the Wehrmacht to support a plan for a summer offensive that he and the Japanese and Russian commanders in Vladivostok had worked on. He knew that the real intention of the Wehrmacht top brass was not to help the Romanov dynasty seize the entire Far East, but to turn it into a bleeding wound for the Soviet Union. But he really wanted to have a good fight with the Soviet Red Army!
The door opened. Natalie smiled and said, "Yurong, come in." Luo Yaoguo, who was wearing a green cloth gown, waved at him from behind his desk: "Yurong!" Welcome to Wuhan! His tone was very kind, and he also had a kind smile on his face: "Put the document bag on the table, Yurong, please take a seat." I heard that it was a large-scale offensive plan, right? At this time, Natalie walked in with two cups of fragrant *coffee and set the *coffee in place, but did not leave, but stood behind Luo Yaoguo.
"Yes, Auxiliary Commander, this is an offensive plan, and we have been haggling with the Japanese and the Russians for weeks to come up with such a thing."
"By the way, there will be Germans in the future, and Natalie will give him the plan sent by the Germans about the Condor Legion."
Natalie walked to a large cabinet in the office, and from a large pile of folders that looked exactly the same, she took out a folder without any marks and placed it in front of Lin Yurong, and then opened it. This is a document printed out in German, and under each line of German, there is also a Chinese translation written in a pen, which is very beautiful, and it should be written by Natalie.
Lin Yurong picked up the folder and looked at it carefully, until he finished reading every word, then closed the folder, and thought for a while: "If the Germans can really send the Condor Legion to the Far East before June, they may be able to catch up with the summer offensive." I think with them, our chances of winning will increase a lot. β
"Win? Ha, ha, ha! Luo Yaoguo raised his head with a smile: "Natalie, the chief of staff of our Far Eastern Front doesn't seem to understand the strategic significance of this Far Eastern War, you can talk to him."
Natalie nodded with a smile and said, "General Yurong, our strategy in the Far East is to train the team, contain the enemy, consume the enemy, and paralyze the enemy, and the enemies here include the Soviet Union, Japan, Britain, France, and the Russian Empire!" "The student understands what the assistant marshal means" Lin Yurong frowned, and the guess in his heart was indeed confirmed, the Far East War was obviously another trap set by Luo Yaoguo for the Soviet Union, Japan, Britain and other countries!γ