Night flight can only rely on the radio compass loaded by the lead aircraft as a guide, this product used for nearly ten years is becoming more and more mature, the wing flew north for three hours and forty-five minutes, the pilot saw the two hovering navigation planes above Xuzhou Airport. Before the morning light appeared, he saw a green signal light from the ground signalman, and Major General Qin Guoyong shook his wings and began to prepare for landing--he wanted to try the taste of landing at night.

As the joystick was pressed down, he flew lower and lower, unable to see in the dark, fortunately, the layout of airports across the country is the same, on both sides of the landing runway, there is a conspicuous and the same size of the white house, which is for the pilot to adjust the direction when landing, and the ground and high ground, can only be judged by the 'T' shaped sign light on the runway. In the roar of the motor, looking at the 'T' lamp coming on, just when Qin Guoyong felt that it would take a while to hit the ground, the fuselage shook violently, and the tires were already on the ground, he immediately relaxed the throttle, turned off the engine, and the plane continued to taxi forward for a long time before stopping.

The ground crew hurriedly lifted the tail of Qin Guoyong's plane and dragged it to the side of the runway like a mule, so as to make way for the subsequent landing plane. In the dark night, the planes landed one after another, and when the first squadron all landed, the darkness suddenly faded, and the morning light began to dim in the east. Then these glimmers, the landing was even faster, and after more than half an hour, several runways were lined with planes on both sides.

In order to keep the pilots from getting too tired, the dive bomber wing rested for one or two days at each airfield, sometimes for longer because of the weather. However, they still arrived at Jilin Nong'an Airport ahead of schedule within the time specified by the General Staff Headquarters. On the way to the Shenyang Headquarters for a meeting, Qin Guoyong, who was looking at the map, seemed to understand the intention of the General Staff Staff: it was estimated that it was to annihilate the Russian army on the south bank of the Songhua River. However, when he was in the Northeast Theater Command, the battle plan introduced by Major General Huang Fujin, chief of staff, was not like this.

"The snow has melted. Liaoxi and Liaonan are densely supplemented by water networks, and Jilin is not good there, and the armored force assault is to choose a flat place, so there is no way to choose and choose, so I have to choose here......" Huang Fujin whip focused on Jilin's Fuyu, looked at the generals present and then said: "If the Russian army wants to threaten us, it is bound to go south to attack the line of Kuanchengzi Liaoyang, and the starting point is Harbin, from here along the Dongqing Railway to the south is the best route." Buyeo is on the Dongqing Railway. It is a necessary place for the Russian army to go south.

As far as our army is concerned, Harbin to Changchun is more than 200 kilometers, and is divided into three sections by the Lalin River and the Songhua River, which flow from east to west. There are only two places that meet this condition, one is the plain from the south bank of the Lalin River to the north bank of the Songhua River. Set up a defensive line here, and after most of the Russian army crossed the river and set up a position to attack, it will break through in one fell swoop, and then annihilate it south of the Lalin River after interspersing and dividing; The other place is the south bank of the Songhua River. This is the best location for our army, but unfortunately, the south of the Songhua River is densely populated. It is not suitable for armored divisions to break through, so this place can only be abandoned.

South of the Lalin River. To the north of the Songhua River, there is no transverse river. At that time, the six divisions that intercepted the southward movement of the Russian army first opened their positions in the east-west direction in Buyeo to intercept the forward troops of the Russian army, and after most of the Russian army passed the Guò Lalin River, our army retreated to the north bank of the Songhua River to completely introduce the Russian army into the battlefield. When the general offensive is launched, the railway bridge over the Lalin River will be blown up to close the retreat of the Russian army, and the gunboat troops will also go west from the upper reaches of the Lalin River to the vicinity of the railway bridge to prevent the Russian army from crossing the river, while the armored troops will break through the Russian defense line from the front and side of the battlefield, and the cavalry infantry will immediately follow up to divide the Russian army, attack, occupy, and eliminate the rear command, logistics, and baggage center of the Russian army, and completely paralyze the entire Russian army.

All in all, our army wants to use the Lalin River to carry out a war of annihilation here, and there is no need to think that our troops participating in the war are less than the Russian army, because once the battle line is broken through and the rear of the Russian army is occupied by our army one after another, any Russian commander will think that our army has more troops than them, and the air supremacy of the entire battlefield is completely in the hands of our army. The river is blocked, and even if the Russian army that has lost its supplies can escape, it can only go to the east and west, but it has lost its supplies and ammunition, and the people's hearts are extremely broken, and they can't run far. ”

Major General Huang Fujin finished introducing the entire battle plan in one go, and looked at the concentrated and shocked generals who seemed to be extremely satisfied. In fact, he was also deeply shocked when he got the plan of the General Staff, the 1st Army is the treasure of the Revival Army, and the 1st Armored Division is the treasure of the 1st Army, this division does not have many people, but the daily expenses are three times that of ordinary divisions. For the sake of secrecy, the armored division is nested in the mountains, and the training is only a company of 21 trains, although it can be thought that it is extremely threatening to concentrate the combat vehicles to break through in depth, but the more than 250 vehicles of an armored division only attack a few kilometers of the enemy's defense line, and after breaking through, they basically do not make a roundabout attack, but go deep behind the enemy for dozens of kilometers to destroy the enemy's depth, and anyone will have a lot of worries.

Large-scale armored assault, especially the penetration and division of more than 200 combat vehicles of an armored division into the enemy's deep assault, this is a tactic that has not been played even by Major General Wang Shiqian, commander of the armored division, from the north bank of the Songhua River to the south bank of the Lalin River. What if the Russian army continues to attack? All kinds of problems plagued every officer involved in this operation, but this plan was strongly promoted by Mr. Blitzkrieg, and the blitzkrieg was also his originality, and the generals under the prestige carried out the plan with a try-and-see attitude.

After Major General Huang Fujin, chief of staff, introduced the entire plan, Theater Commander Qi Qingyuan began to speak: "Each of us knows how to fight the blitzkrieg, but it can be clearly summarized, and it is another matter to really do it. But! Gentlemen, you must remember that when the two armies are facing each other, the assault is actually a white-knuckle battle, as long as there is oil in the tank, then don't take care of your rear, go forward! Forward! Keep going! To remember. As in white-knuckle combat, as long as our bayonets pierce the heart of the enemy. cut their nerves, then no matter how many troops he has, he can only wait to encircle and annihilate. ”

The more tense the wartime. The more excited Qi Qingyuan became, he was very easy to deal with when Japan was blocked on the mountainous side, but this time when the Russian army came north, he was not worried, but happy. Fighting with blazing heat, fighting with nine deaths, this is his dream, but he doesn't want to, this day is really coming.

A short operational meeting ended. After the commanders of each unit signed, the battle plan began to be issued, and Qin Guoyong was thinking about when to take an airship to see the battlefield, when a short officer suddenly saluted him, "Is it Comrade Qin Guoyong?" ”

Looking at the other party's smile, and then looking at the word '1' on his brochure, Qin Guoyong felt as if he was the commander of the armored division, and without waiting for him to speak, the other party introduced himself: "I am Wang Shiqian of the 1st armored division." Comrade Qin calls me Mingyu. ”

The dive bomber wing is the aerial artillery of the armored division, and it is not surprising that Wang Shiqian took the initiative to greet Qin Guoyong, and he also smiled: "Then please Comrade Mingyu call me Zizhuang......"

As soon as Qin Guoyong's words arrived, Wang Shiqian said: "Comrade Zizhuang." You're new to Tohoku, right? Let's go, I heard that you are coming, and I have already asked people to prepare a luncheon for the comrades of the Air Force to wash the dust. After that, I couldn't help but say. Directly pulled Qin Guoyong into the car and drove to the reserved restaurant. Qin Guoyong thought that he couldn't chill the enthusiasm of the comrades of the armored division. But this enthusiasm is too much, a meal down. Several of the men on his side were carried sideways back to the residence.

In addition to the northward transfer of the bomber wing, the North China Theater also dispatched a reserve army out of the customs to strengthen the strength of the Northeast Theater, and the railway around Qinhuangdao was also repaired, and the trains continued to transport ammunition to the northeast day and night, and in the direction of Mongolia, a bomber squadron and two platoons of combat vehicles were also transported to Mongolia by airship, and there will also be a small blitzkrieg to completely defeat the invading Russian army. All of them were ready, but the Russian army was only assembled in the attached area of the Dongqing Railway in Harbin, and did not go south, but there were more and more troops there, and the troops of the entire Far Eastern Military District were mobilized.

As soon as the Russian army moved, the Japanese army, which had gone through the first Gaizhou offensive and was fruitless, was also ready to move, and no matter how confused people were, they knew that Russia and Japan must have reached some secret agreement, otherwise they would not have cooperated so tacitly. When the north-south attack in the Northeast Theater gradually became a trend, the British urged the two Guangxi to stand on their own feet in the south, but Yang Rui, who had signed a secret treaty with the United States, was not in the rare Hong Kong outlet to the sea, and the plan for the independence of the two provinces was canceled, and those who were seduced in vain to seek independence were all invited to the Security Bureau for tea one night.

Seeing that there was no hope of independence between the two Guangzhous, the British pushed Song Jiaoren again, but at the time of the national war, Song Jiaoren saw the importance of right and wrong very clearly, and he was always indifferent to the support of the British. Song Jiaoren can't do it, they will find Zhao Bingjun, the governor of Zhili, but this is no play, not to mention the righteousness of the country, the Beiyang Army is now all on the Northeast Front, and North China is all the Revival Army, as long as Zhao Bingjun dares to agree, the Zhili Governor's Mansion will be bulldozed by Lei Yizhen the next day. From the south to be turned around to no avail, the British no longer tossed, directly carried Sun Wen out, the major newspapers in the concession are giving him a correct name, Huang Xing's case is also confirmed by the patrol police of the Ministry of Industry Bureau, it was done by the Security Bureau, for a time the concession public opinion was in an uproar, and even Huang Xing's son Huang Yiou began to be confused who killed his father.

To this day, except for foreigners holding him, Sun Wen has gradually lost his influence in China and among overseas Chinese, but he is still a pawn of the great powers, as long as there is a need, he will be pulled out, dressed up with oily hair and powder, and used to disgust the current government.

The British's methods are only covertly subverted, if a government that has no control over the grassroots at the time of the national war, this means will definitely be turbulent in the court, but the revival will control every village, every street, and at the same time, because of the price limit and purchase restriction policy, the war did not cause prices to soar, plus this is an anti-aggression war, under the anger of the whole people, this set of British tricks is completely ineffective.

For the current China, a hard knife is more terrible than a soft knife, and if the Russian army's offensive is not defeated, then the Northeast war situation will be tragic. When the Russian army assembled in Harbin, the Russian minister Krupinsky, who had been shaking like a duck in water, sent a note to the Chinese government in accordance with the intention of Petersburg: From now on, the discrimination against Russian businessmen doing business in Mongolia will be stopped, and the persecution of Mongolian friends in Russia will be prohibited...... The Chinese army must withdraw from Mongolia in its entirety and give Mongolia full autonomy......

The Russians directed and acted by themselves, and their words contradicted themselves, and Xie Zhangtai replied after accepting his note that such a big event could not be determined until Yang Rui returned, and Krupinsky also knew that Yang Rui was not in the country at this time. After learning that Yang Rui was about to return to China, he gave Xie Jietai a one-week deadline to give a formal reply.

Yang Rui came back on the seventh day of the fourth month. At this time, there were fifty-six days before the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and eighty-four days before the outbreak of the First World War. Whether Ferdinand's assassination would necessarily cause World War I is not known to him. But Ferdinand's assassination was a foregone conclusion, and the Serbs had been well prepared for the assassination since he announced his trip to Bosnia last year. Once this person died, Austria-Hungary would definitely take revenge on Serbia, and as for what the situation would be after that, he could not think for a while.

In the smoky study, as soon as Yang Rui finished saying that Ferdinand's assassination must have happened, Xie Jintai raised his hand to interrupt him, and then thought sideways for a long time. Only when Yang Rui's cigarette burned out, he took a deep breath and said with a solemn expression: "Actually, nine out of ten percent of this thing will cause a war in Europe?" Let's not get involved! ”

"You mean, let's not shoot Ferdinand?" Yang Rui smiled: "Don't worry, the Serbs didn't want to kill Ferdinand once or twice, they have prepared several times." We shoot and kill people, and the effect is not as good as the current effect of them being caught after killing, so you should tell us your judgment. ”

I heard Yang Rui say this. Xie Jintai nodded and said, "In the current situation, Ferdinand is killed, which will inevitably lead to a major war in Europe. First, the Russians want to take advantage of our fierce war with Japan, which may be a good thing for Russia. But definitely bad for his ally, France. The Russian army is transferred eastward, and Germany must be strong against France, as was the case in the first Moroccan crisis. At that time, the main forces of the Russian army were all in the east, as long as Germany wanted to. It was possible to start a war against France, but in the end the Germans wanted to save face. Instead of negotiating with France separately for benefits, he held an international conference, at which no one supported him except Austria-Hungary for him, and in the end nothing was gained. ”

But how can the second Moroccan crisis be explained? At that time, the main force of Russia was also on the Western Front, right? Watching Xie Jintai analyze the situation in France, Germany and Russia, Yang Rui couldn't help but ask about the second Moroccan crisis.

"You can't look at Morocco alone, before the second Moroccan crisis, there was another Bosnian crisis." Xie Zhangtai said: "According to the information of the Intelligence Bureau, in the Bosnian crisis, France ignored the Franco-Russian alliance and declared that it was 'an issue that does not involve Russia's important interests, and French public opinion could not understand that this issue would lead to a war in which both French and Russian armies participated', that is, France abandoned its allies in this matter, leaving Russia alone in the face of Germany and Austria at a disadvantage." By the time of the second Moroccan crisis, the Russians had returned the favor with their own human ways, saying: 'This is a question that does not involve France's vital interests, and Russian public opinion cannot understand that this question will lead to a war in which both French and Russian armies participate,' and ignored it, making France half angry. According to the intelligence at that time, the British army was already in combat readiness, and if the Germans attacked France, their expeditionary force would cross the English Channel and appear in northern France as soon as possible.

Russia has always supported Serbia, and Archduke Ferdinand is the crown prince of Austria-Hungary, and if he is assassinated by the Serbs, Austria-Hungary will definitely declare war on Serbia, and Russia will most likely declare war on Austria-Hungary; Austria-Hungary and Russia declared war on each other, and while the main forces of the Russian army were moving eastward, Germany would also wait for the opportunity to declare war on France and Russia; As for Britain, it will immediately mediate the war in East Asia and let us cease war with Japan and Russia, so that the Russian army can withdraw to Europe to fight the German army. Speaking of which, the timing of Germany's declaration of war depends on us, if we continue to fight with Russia, they will wait for us to weaken the Russian army to a certain extent before we start, and if we cease war with Russia, in order not to give the Russian army a chance to breathe, they will immediately declare war on Russia and France. ”

Although he was not a diplomat, as a foreign minister, he was still clear about the situation in Europe, and he said after Ferdinand's assassination: "France is trying to prevent Russia from going to war with us, but the tsar is obviously being deceived and wants to take the opportunity to weaken us and take Mongolia." The French would have been glad to see a crisis in Europe so that Russian forces in the Far East could be redeployed to Europe, and for them it would be better for them to die at war with the Russians than to die at war with the Germans. ”

"Won't they say anything like the Bosnian crisis or the Moroccan crisis again? Say that this is not your important interest, and the armies of the two countries do not need to go to war for this? Xie Jintai said that the head was the Tao, and Yang Rui began to question from the perspective of the opposite side.

"No way!" Xie Jintai said: "The last time Russia was in Bosnia, it was humiliated by Germany and Austria. No Russian will make any more concessions on the Balkans, and not only the Tsar and his officials. but the determination of the entire Russian leadership; And after two Moroccan crises, France also knows that it is not close to Russia. If the Russian army is not prevented from fighting in East Asia, then even if Britain is on his side, it may not be able to stop Germany. ”

"What about Germany, if Ferdinand is killed and the two sides settle it properly, then Germany is likely to deal with it like ......" Yang Rui affirmed Xie Zhangtai's judgment of France and Russia in his heart, and began to question Germany again, but obviously, Germany was ready. And Austria-Hungary lost the crown prince, as soon as the old emperor died, Austria-Hungary fell apart, and now the main force of the Russian army has been transferred eastward, and the Kiel Canal has been expanded, there is really no more suitable time for war.

Yang Rui didn't say anything halfway through the question, Xie Jintai knew that he already understood that there was no need to ask this question. He suddenly thought that Yang Rui said that Europe would definitely fight many years ago, and looked at him deeply and said, "Actually, do you know everything." Anything to be expected? ”

"I'm not an immortal, even if I'm an immortal, the world is unpredictable." Yang Rui laughed. Then he diverted the subject: "Then let's just think that Ferdinand's assassination by the Serbs will lead to a major war in Europe." The key is what do we do to get the most out of it? ”

"The European war, now that the United States fully supports it, we must take this opportunity to recapture North Korea and Taiwan. At the same time, do business with Europe and make more money. As for where exactly it stands, it will be seen. Xie Jintai said with great ease.

"And now. How did the Russians reply? Yang Rui asked again.

"I can't drag it out." Xie Jintai was excited and thought of the current situation, and began to think deeply. "There are two ways, one is to agree to the independence of Mongolia according to Russia's demands, and the other is to fight a war, and then ask the French to mediate."

"Do you think that if we agree to the demands of the Russians, they will let us go?" Yang Rui felt funny.

"Of course they won't let us go, but by the time they want to do it, it's too late for them to break out in Europe." Xie Zhangtai said. "You're not saying that once the blitzkrieg starts, it will affect the course of the war in Europe. If we don't carry out a blitzkrieg, can we drag the Russian army to the European side of the incident? ”

"Even the impact can't be taken care of." Yang Rui shook his head. "If you don't fight the Russian army as soon as the war starts, they will only get more and more. What if the situation in Europe is not as we deduce? The combined number of Russian and Japanese armies exceeds one million, and the northeast cannot be defended no matter how it is defended. ”

"The Japanese army...... So what about Taiwan? Xie Jintai asked. Once the aircraft is exposed, the suddenness of the war against Japan is very likely to be lost, so he is very worried that the war against Russia will affect the war in Europe, and he is also afraid that it will affect the war against Japan.

"The 35 divisions of the Japanese army have already gone ashore, and there are only two regular divisions left in the country, and the six reserve divisions and regiments that have not come over are all newcomers, and they have no combat effectiveness at all. It is not difficult for the armored division to quickly move south to defeat the Japanese troops on the front line of Gaizhou after defeating the Russian army, while the Japanese troops on the Andong side must be exhausted after a long period of inconclusive attack. Yang Rui said.

"Where did we get the assault troops?" Xie Jintai is clear about the situation in the Northeast. "The Japanese army has been attacking for a long time without success, and our army has suffered heavy casualties from time to time, so how can we still have the strength to intersperse in a roundabout way."

"Hehe, Chong'an, when I come back......" Yang Rui looked at him and smiled, and said: "You shouldn't have gone to the barracks outside the city to investigate, if you go to look, you will find that the rifles of those soldiers are all 11mm black powder rifles." Seeing that he still didn't understand, Yang Rui had no choice but to say again: "Originally, more than half of the troops outside the capital had already left the customs, but now many of the military camps outside the city are empty, and some soldiers are also pretending to be migrant workers from all over the city. ”

"Ahh Xie Zhangtai's face changed greatly, and he hurriedly said, "Day... What if the Japanese land? ”

"What else can I do? Fight to the death! Yang Rui's eyes turned cold, and he dared to conclude that the Japanese would definitely come. (To be continued......)