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The beginning of 1938 was dark and gloomy for the world. As the war in Afghanistan continued, the Soviet-German secret contacts took place, Germany's annexation of Austria, and the arrival of the Chinese foreign minister in Tehran, the U.S. Congress passed the second Carl Vinson Act, announcing an increase in annual naval appropriations to one billion dollars, the construction of three South Dakota-class battleships, and a twenty percent increase in the total size of the navy.

One bombshell news after another has made the dark war on the Eurasian continent in full swing. From England and Hokkaido, even the United States, which is geographically well-located, began to quietly prepare. Many people understand that a full-scale hot war is only a matter of time. On the tense eve before the birth of this new international order, every country and figure with the intention of competing for the world took the stage one after another, wooing, bribing, forming alliances, exchanging, and so on.

When Gu Weijun waited for Reza Khan's decision in Tehran, and when Ribbentrop walked into the mysterious Kremlin as a German envoy, a freighter flying the Brazilian flag quietly arrived at the port of Odessa with 2,000 tons of cocoa. "Nagata-kun, it's been a long time, are your eyes better?" As soon as Tetsuyama Nagata, who was wearing thick glasses and disguised as a passenger, got off the ship, Japanese Ambassador to the Soviet Union Hotta, warmly shook hands and asked about the current situation.

"Thank you Hotta-kun for your concern, you have worked hard here, is there anything new during this time?" Nagata Tieshan has been set aside by the Japanese military department, but he is not giving up, because he proposed the plan to go south, so even if he is far away in East Timor, he is still unwilling to give up. Fortunately, as Yamamoto rose to the top of the fifty-sixth, as his biggest supporter, Yamamoto provided him with a lot of information to analyze, when he learned that the Soviet-German had a secret meeting in Berlin. After Gu Weijun visited Saudi Arabia and Iran, he immediately realized that the opportunity had come, so he immediately returned to China on a naval plane and asked to come to the Soviet Union to find out the inside story of the Soviet Union.

The movements of the USSR were too important for Japan! Especially at the beginning of the Afghan war, the reality of the overall backwardness of the Soviet army made Moscow, which once snubbed Japan, realize the value of Japan, so recently it began to export raw materials to Japan, and the Soviet ambassador to Japan also began to ask Japan to fulfill its obligations as soon as possible to flank China. Hideki Tojo and others were very moved by this suggestion, but Nagata Tetsuyama was particularly opposed to making immediate moves. So he rushed back to Tokyo and volunteered to serve as a special envoy to the Soviet Union to find out what was going on. Probably because he had too much influence in the country and threatened his political status, Konoe Fumiro and Hideki Tojo were eager to send him away and promised him to be a special envoy.

Hotta, a diplomat of the Nagata faction and the most active member of the Japanese-German coalition, welcomed Nagata Tetsuyama into a car and drove towards the train station. Speaking of the recent situation in Europe, there was a little frowning: "Nagata-kun, the opportunity of the empire is about to come!" I have already ascertained that Hitler was ready to attack Czechoslovakia after the annexation of Austria. ”

After the division of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, there were calls for autonomy in the Czech Sudetenland because of the large number of Germanic peoples. With the bloodless annexation of Austria by the German army, the Nazis in the Sudetenland colluded with Germany, and Hitler also exploited this sentiment. The build-up of troops to the Czech border began. Since the Czechs had signed protection agreements with France and the Soviet Union, Hotta believed that as long as the German army attacked the Czechs, it would inevitably trigger a three-way war between the Soviet Union, France and Germany, and Britain would inevitably be dragged in Europe. There is one less obstacle for Japan to move south.

After drifting at sea for more than half a month, he suddenly learned that there was a crisis in the Sudetenland, and Nagata Tieshan couldn't help but be a little excited. However, Japan is no longer the Japan of the past, and the balance of national strength between China and Japan has gradually become unbalanced. Japan has become more cautious from top to bottom, and he in particular has been cautious at every step. Even after the outbreak of the civil war in Afghanistan and the cries of "the time is ripe for the south", he still wrote to the emperor in person to ask for a postponement. Although the current Sudetenland crisis will drag Britain in Europe, the Soviet-German war is something he does not want to see. "Hotta-kun, do you think the Soviet Union and Germany will form an alliance?" After thinking about it a few times, he asked the question anyway.

Will Soviet-German come together?

This is probably what the intelligence ministries of various countries want to know the most! If the Soviet Union and Germany join forces, Britain and France will be completely dragged in Europe, and Japan can quickly go south to control the South Seas, and then attack India and the Soviet Union to join the Indian Ocean, forming a huge encirclement of China, relying on a strong navy to cut off China's contact with the outside world, and then use the wealth of the South Seas to rapidly expand armaments, and turn around to cooperate with the Soviet Union and China to fight to the death!

This is the path that Nagata Tetsuyama designed for Japan, as an ironcore, Hotta naturally knows about this plan, but he is not very optimistic about Su De: "Nagata-kun, I'm afraid this matter is not too optimistic." The Soviet envoy Motolov had not been able to reach any agreement after his arrival in Berlin, and Hitler had personally assured the British envoy that he would not compromise with GCISM, and even the United States sent a special envoy to Moscow, so the situation was not optimistic. ”

"That's bad, Yang Qiu will definitely not stand on the opposite side of the UK, and the situation in the south is not good."

Hotta's words made Nagata Tieshan's heart sink suddenly. Through these years of research, he is very clear about Yang Qiu's character. If Britain and France had encouraged Germany to attack the Soviet Union first, then Yang Qiu would definitely not be stupid enough to fight with Germany, but would be very willing to see Europe be defeated, and the Soviet Union would definitely be willing to compromise with Beijing at that time. As long as there is no pressure from the northwest, millions of fully armed national defense forces can easily be thrown into the Korean and Nanyang battlefields, and unless they turn to the United States, Japan will be defeated in this war!

Could it be that after ten years of hard work and exhaustion of national strength and armaments, he wants to be a lackey of the United States without firing a shot?

"Don't worry too much about Nagata-kun, tomorrow night we can arrive in Moscow to find out what the Soviets think. Whatever one may say, it is now Moscow that needs us. Seeing that Nagata Tetsuyama's face was abnormally flushed, and the tip of his nose was still oozing sweat because of his thoughts, he was afraid that he would worry about excessive damage to his body, so he hurriedly comforted him.

"Thank you, Hotta-kun." After Nagata Tetsuyama thanked him, he slowly closed his eyes

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"Mr. Motolov, I have come to express my sincerest goodwill to Mr. Stalin and the Soviet people on behalf of Germany, in accordance with the will of the German Führer. You should be clear that since the end of the last war, the contradictions and misunderstandings between our two countries have been resolved. Since 1921, our two countries have cooperated in thousands of projects, and exchanges between the two armies have been even more frequent. This shows that there is no crisis or contradiction between us, and that the current tension is a deliberate conspiracy created by Britain and France! The Führer has always been of considerable concern about the ongoing war in Afghanistan, and he is very worried that the "Yellow Peril" will spread to Europe, and in order to maintain the glory of our Europe, he is willing to sell you and your people military equipment, including the cruiser Lützov, BF109 fighters and HE111 bombers, to help your country defeat the invasion from the east.

In addition, in order to express our sincerity, the Führer has given me carte blanche to do so. Clear areas of control can be demarcated to avoid conflicts. The idea is to give Finland and the three Baltic states to the administration of Mr. Stalin, and the common management of the troubles that lie among us, Poland! Meantime. We will recognize Iran, Afghanistan, India and the Far East as your sphere of interest and will be willing to work with you to manage the Bosphorus and Dardanelles. When Nagata Tetsuyama anxiously rushed to Moscow, Ribbentrop was also talking in a suit in the spacious confidential conference room of the Kremlin. In his discursive depiction, it was as if the Soviet Union and Germany were destined to be natural partners and friends.

The negotiations had been going on for more than ten days, and Hitler, who was waiting in Berlin, was already a little impatient, because he had already decided to attack the Sudetenland and the Czechs. If the Soviet Union sent troops to protect the Czechs because of the lack of an agreement, Germany would face the disadvantage of fighting on two fronts. But he did not unconditionally woo the Soviet Union, and after careful consideration, he still eliminated key tactical weapons such as the JU87 dive bomber.

But even so, the list of weapons and the sphere of influence thrown out by Ribbentrop made the Soviet delegation and officers particularly covetous. If it weren't for Stalin's delay in speaking, Voroshilov, who was sitting next to him, would definitely nod his head without hesitation. Germany's promise this time was something that the Soviet Union did not expect before, especially the three Baltic states, Iran and Turkey, which was simply a naked seduction! But the recent build-up of German forces to the Sudetenland. But the negotiations were stalled, because there was a protection agreement between the Soviet Union and the Czech Republic. This new situation made Motolov also cautious: "Mr. Ribbentrop. I don't know what the reasons for the recent mobilization of troops in your country to the Czech borders? We in the USSR and the Czech Republic have a protection agreement. ”

In the face of the fierce Motolov, the cunning Ribbentrop picked up the teacup unhurriedly. He knew that Hitler was in a hurry in Berlin, but his face did not show urgency, because he knew that now Stalin was in a more urgent hurry than himself! Deliberately took out the news he had just received and handed it to Motorov and the negotiator Voroshilov: "Mr. Motolov, Mr. Marshal, the Czech Republic is just a small trouble, the 3 million Germans of the Sudetenland are being treated unfairly, and we foreigners are just to prevent persecution!" But before I talk about the Czech Republic, I have one thing to give you both. ”

Stuff? What is it? In Motolov's astonishment, Ribbentrop had already taken out a telegram, put it on the table and pushed it in front of him: "This is what our technicians in Iran have just heard, and I believe you will be interested." ”

Everyone here knows that Germany has deeply infiltrated Iran in recent years, even surpassing the Soviet Union, and Beria has not been in power for a long time, and the intelligence system has been seriously damaged by the previous purge, so Motorov really doesn't know what happened to Iran. When he opened the telegram and saw the news on it, he finally couldn't help but change his complexion.

China meddled in Iran?!

Voroshilov gasped even more in public. These subtle movements made Ribbentrop secretly happy, and he also despised this straw bale marshal of the Soviet army and couldn't hold his breath. To tell the truth, even if the Soviet Union and China go to war in an all-out manner, no matter how bad the Eastern Front is, it will be able to take advantage of the weather and distance to delay for two or three years, which is enough time for Moscow to collect more troops and manufacture more weapons and equipment. But Iran is different! If China intervenes in Iran and eventually allied its troops, it will be tantamount to plunging its blade into the heart of Baku, the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus at once!

You know, Baku is known as the Soviet oil storehouse, where 70% of the country's oil refining capacity is located. With the loss of Baku, the West Siberian oil fields alone simply cannot support a war of attrition with China, so even such an old and spicy politician as Motolov is solemn: "Mr. Ribbentrop, is this news true?" ”

"Of course!"

Ribbentrop curled the corners of his mouth slightly, he liked the feeling of mastering the initiative. He smiled: "We in Germany never sell false information, you can confirm this news." And we have already received definite information that the British government has acquiesced in the deal! ”