Lin Xiuxuan, Cheng Dayang and the political commissar were relatively speechless. The three of them had been sitting in the conference room for twenty minutes. Everyone is asking a question in their hearts, why the three traversers just refused to give up.

They arrived in this era with crazy and sinister plans, and they suffered huge setbacks many times, but they still persevered, and the most fatal crises were not given by 419, but by the Japanese military headquarters that they regarded as their relatives. But they just insisted on it with such a dead face, still trying to turn the situation around.

"In any case, we didn't have time to make plans to go to the Northeast. The Daqing Oilfield has gone too far inland, the drone can't get there, it's too difficult to land from Huludao or Dalian, and the customs have been operated by the Japanese for many years, and the household registration management is tight. Cheng Dayang was the first to hold his breath and express his opinion, and from his words, it could be heard that he had at least envisioned a plan to enter the Northeast, or assassinate the traverser, or destroy the equipment.

"In fact, it has not changed much, as long as the enemy's established plan for war has not changed, even if oil is discovered, they will not be able to extract it on a large scale." The commissar said.

"No, no, political commissar, it's not a question of how much oil is lost," Cheng Dayang shook his head desperately, "Rather, we must prepare for the worst." It is still possible for the enemy to stop military adventures because of the discovery of oil. ”

"I don't think that's very likely."

"But not big doesn't mean nothing."

While they were discussing, Lin Xiuxuan remained silent, fiddling with his pen.

"Lao Lin, what do you think."

"I think there is some truth in what Lao Cheng said, it's too late to go to the Northeast, this can be ruled out."

"That'...... Do you have to give some advice? ”

"I'm wondering, what the hell have we been doing these past few months?"

The captain and the commissar looked at each other, unable to figure out what he wanted to say for the time being.

"At the moment, I don't see the initiative in their hands, but it's clear that it's no longer in our hands. These days, we have been tinkering with the troubles caused by these three bastards, and the context of their actions is very clear, and when salvaging Kasuga Maru, we first looked for geographical information, and then went to Tohoku, the purpose of which was to use oil to stop the war. And the current upper echelons of Japan, at least Yamamoto is on their side; For the time being, we are still in the shadows, which is a huge advantage, but ...... Our countermeasures are always slow. ”

Zheng Qiang nodded sincerely. Lin was talking about the side of him that he felt powerless, and 419 could only follow the enemy's movements.

"So I think we should take a more radical approach if necessary." Lin said.

"More radical?"

"Yes. As far as I know, the period of deep well drilling is about three weeks to a month, from the last time we observed the appearance of enemy salvage ships, to now, exactly one month. That is, if the enemy's information is correct, and there are such technical means, then oil will be pumped out before December. Then their agents in politics will use this as the latest change to start a new round of discussions, whether to go to war, not too late, but not too soon, maybe early next month. ”

"Well, that's a reasonable guess."

"Judging from the movement of the enemy's fleet here, they are ready to attack and will be dispatched soon, and the time to leave Single-crown Bay, according to historical records, will be in the second half of this month, which should be earlier than the time discussed by the cabinet."

"I don't quite understand what you mean." The captain said.

"You see, there's a window of time, a critical date for us to remedy." As he spoke, he wrote down several dates on a piece of paper, December 7, December 2, and November 26.

"The last two dates are important nodes, the day of the departure of the mobile force on November 26 for Hawaii, after this time, the fleet is in a state of complete silent radio command, but it is not a finished boat, whether to go to war or not, still waiting for the determination of the Japanese government; And December 2, the day when it is known, when the Japanese government finally decided to go to war, would send a brief telegram to the Combined Fleet to start the war. Long wave and short wave, respectively. Inform the aircraft carrier formations in the north and the submarine forces lurking south of Oahu. ”

"What if you know that?"

"If these three time-travelers try to interfere with history, December 2 is their deadline."

"If they succeed and the base camp doesn't send a war message to the fleet, the fleet should stay near Hawaii for a few more days, and quietly return home after missing the date, but I don't see what we can do?"

Cheng Dayang thought quickly and kept up with Lin Xiuxuan, he foresaw a terrible possibility, and he couldn't see any chance of 419 turning.

"Some of what you say is true, but there is one thing you have forgotten, and we know the secret language used in this telegram," he paused for a moment, as if pondering what to say.

"If history is reversed, it is up to us to send a war telegram to the mobile forces to 'climb a new mountain', using their bands."

There was silence in the conference room, and Lin's idea frightened the commissar and the captain, and in a way, it was tantamount to 419 starting a war.

"No, no, absolutely not." The commissar shook his head, "First of all, it is technical, long-wave communications will be intercepted by the enemy, and they will immediately know about our existence." Then the fleet is recalled. ”

"Give up the long wave; Using the drone's pointing antenna, you can send a secret order to the fleet. ”

"And what about the moral one?"

"What morality do we talk to devils? This is what would have happened. ”

"Slow and slow, the enemy will still be aware when they return home," said the ocean changer, "and they will know that there are people hiding in the shadows, directing their fleets to war, in a code language that only they know internally." We will still be exposed, which will be very detrimental to our next move. ”

"There are loopholes, but this is our last chance, and in that case, 419's concealment is secondary."

"I don't care about any morality, but is there a safer plan to instruct the Japanese to do it without exposing us?"

After all, Cheng Dayang eats submarine food, and always regards stealth as the key.

"There are solutions, maybe...... Maybe we could send a team to land near the Funabashi communication post, send a message with their equipment, and then blame the Young Zhuang faction to make the whole thing look like a one-off operation, but there are a lot of details that I still need to consider. ”

"In any case, if you want to think about it, I will fully support you."

November 7, Moscow time, October Festival. 8 a.m.

It was still dark, and snowflakes were falling, and there was a faint sound of artillery in the distance, it was not the German siege operation, but the Soviet anti-aircraft artillery positions, one counterattack after another, the German planes taking off from the west of Bryansk were trying to break through the defensive line, but the front-line airfield, which was turned into a swamp by the autumn rain, did not allow them to gather too many bombers at once, so they could only try their luck in batches, starting in the morning, after struggling for 2 hours, they still could not break through to the sky over Red Square.

Heavy artillery, trucks, and some tanks were parked on the edge of the parade ground, and there was a phalanx of soldiers carrying anti-tank guns, if in tsarist times, majestic spear cavalry. The soldiers looked highly motivated, and just waited for an order to go out of the city to kill the enemy.

The troops participating in the review were the Dzerzhinsky division of the Internal Affairs Forces, as well as other reserve divisions, and another cavalry unit from the Far East, which looked well-dressed and the horses were fat and strong, but unfortunately only one regiment, most of the Far Eastern troops, had not yet been transferred to the capital.

Stalin, dressed in a thick military uniform, stood on the high wall in front of Lenin's tomb, with Marshal Timoshenko, who had lost power, to his right, and Zhukov, the commander of the Western Front, on his left.

Twenty minutes earlier, Stalin had been asking about the possibility of an enemy attack; He received strong assurances from Zhukov that at least for the last week the enemy was powerless to attack. They had to mend dirt roads and wait to replenish their winter clothes; Replace the engines of the exhausted tanks of the motorcycle hour, consolidate the unreliable line of defense in the Mozhaisk direction; In a word. Von Burck was not able to complete the encirclement on three sides, and the counter-charge of the Red Army exhausted him. But the next two weeks will be critical. The regrouped 3rd and 4th armies would be pressed from the north, and to the south would be Guderian's 2nd Panzer Group, which was expected to be replenished with about 200 tanks, some of which were newer with long-barreled 75mm guns, and about 90 artillery batteries of the Germans, which were being organized and deployed. This is information received by the General Staff. Moscow has mobilized all the manpower it can mobilize, women and even children are digging trenches day and night, old people are assembling weapons in factories, and Moscow has no reserves. The only strategic reserve in the Soviets, which could still be mobilized, was far to the east, with nothing to do.

Whenever Zhukov mentioned this, Stalin did not give a clear response. He needed accurate information to confirm that the Japanese would not attack from the north, and although it seemed clear that the Japanese would go south to show the Americans, the commander had begun to have absolute confidence in his own judgment after the surprise attack in June, and the huge losses he had just experienced in his spy network in Japan.

Stalin took a step forward and stole a glance at Sato, the Japanese ambassador to the Soviet Union, 20 meters away, before he was ready to begin his speech; The Japanese sent an ambassador to the parade instead of just sending a military attaché, despite the fact that Allied Germany was attacking not far from Moscow and that the Soviet spies were caught in a major diplomatic conflict. Stalin really wanted to find out if these Japanese were planning some conspiracy behind such an abnormal appearance.

"The Red Army, its commanders and fighters and political functionaries, workers, collective farm laborers; Brothers and sisters who are temporarily under the iron heel of the enemy, and partisans of men and women who are still fighting resolutely behind enemy lines......"

Stalin began to deliver the most important speech of his life slowly but calmly, which would be the most brilliant and underogable day of his life with mixed reputations; He and his government needed such an opportunity to show to the countries of the world that might be able to help, to the people of the Soviet Union who were still resisting, that they would not back down, but it was not enough to be courageous, and he needed more reserves to mend Moscow's defenses.

“…… You are dealing with a group of unconscionable, bestial bandits who shamelessly propose the extermination of the Russian nation, the national ...... of Lepkhanov and Lenin, Belinsky and Chernyshevsky, Pushkin and Tolstoy, Tchaikovsky, Chekov, Suvorov and Tuzov"

The first good sign of the year is that the enemy's air force will not be able to continue its operations in such bad weather; And the harsh winter will quietly stand behind the Soviet giant, as in 1812.

“…… Since the enemy wants to get the war of annihilation, I promise that they will get the war of annihilation. ”