In the civil strife in the Soviet Union, Snow Country keenly seized this opportunity, and under the joint conspiration of Cabinet Affairs Minister Oda Ichiro and Minister of Foreign Cabinet Military Aircraft Yoshino Kenkei, the 400,000 troops in northern Jiangsu were divided into four routes, one was still stationed in northern Jiangsu, and the other three routes were gradually advanced to the inland land of Xia along the Jingu line, the Jiaodong line and the Hangnan line.

Snow Country's move was aimed at increasing the pressure on Xia Mansion and testing Xia Batian's bottom line, so it used slowly pushing and kneading war wood to force Xia Kingdom's peripheral troops back to the interior step by step, so as to reduce its space for survival and activities.

Under Xia Batian's order that he was not allowed to resist, all the troops had to retreat again and again, and lost a large amount of land without firing a shot.

Although the Snow Country has not yet launched a full-scale war against Xia, the dark clouds of war have completely shrouded the Xia Kingdom.

At this time, there were two voices in the Xia Mansion: one was war, which was represented by Xia Houjun, the commander-in-chief of the Xia army; The other is to sue for peace, to end the war with peace, represented by Defense Minister Hu Yimin and some of Xia Batian's aides. There are also some people who are ambiguous and do not express their opinions, their ideas are very simple, whether it is war or peace, it all depends on Xia Batian's attitude in the end. Whichever side Xia Batian supports, they choose which side to support, this kind of person is indeed a typical wallgrass.

But whether it is a person who advocates fighting to raise war, or stopping war with peace, he does not dare to mention cooperating with the Spark Alliance, this is a taboo in Xia Batian after all, and no one dares to touch it easily.

Consul's Palace.

Xia Houjun and Hu Yimin were arguing, their faces were red, Yang Rushan kept persuading on the side, and Xia Batian seemed to be thinking about something, and the quarrel didn't affect him.

I only heard Xia Houjun say angrily: "You are all a group of bears and soft eggs!" Everyone else hit the door, and they still have to swallow their anger and grovel? And self-righteous want to stop the war with peace! How and? Is it a peace of land cession? The faces of your ancestors have been disgraced by you. ”

Hu Yimin's head was shaved brightly, he was a fat man with a big belly, and his head was full of sweat when he was excited.

I saw him wipe his sweat with a silk handkerchief, and said emotionally: "Commander Xia's determination to protect his family and encircle the country is admired by Hu, but have you thought about it: as far as the current national conditions of our country are concerned, there are bandits inside and outside, and if we make enemies from the outside, I am afraid that it will make it difficult for Xia Mansion to move forward under internal and external troubles." The Snow Country is powerful, so my opinion is to make peace with it for the time being, exchange time for space, and strive to completely eliminate the Spark Alliance in the shortest possible time, and then use the power of the country to expel foreign enemies. ”

Xia Houjun sneered and said, "Completely eliminate the Spark Alliance? Minister Hu has a big breath! Are you making excuses for your cowardice? It's not that you don't know, we have fought a civil war with them for more than ten years, and the people of the alliance have killed a lot, but the more they kill, the more they kill, do you think they can be eliminated in a short time? Don't be delusional. ”

"That's Commander Xia's business."

Hu Yimin said coldly. Because he was afraid of Xia Houjun's identity, his wording was a little tactful, but the other party always used words to squeeze, and he also felt a little angry in his heart.

"You ......"

"Okay, don't fight." Xia Batian said impatiently.

He looked at Xia Houjun and said, "Although Yimin's words are not good, they also make sense. After fighting with the alliance for so many years, in vain, our Xia Mansion claims to have 8 million troops, but there is nothing to do about the hundreds of thousands of bandits, and I still watch them sit big. In this regard, you, as commander-in-chief, have an unshirkable responsibility. ”

"Commander, I ......" Xia Houjun wanted to argue, but was interrupted by Xia Batian waving his hand:

"Needless to say. Your second mother went to Europe to see if she could get help there. War or peace with Snow Country, and make a decision when she returns. ”

"Then let the Snow Country slaughter our people and trample on our land?" Xia Houjun's tone was a little unwilling.

"Three months!" Xia Batian's eyes suddenly grinned: "If I give you three months, I don't have the luxury of destroying the Spark Alliance completely, but can you make them suffer a lot, at least they don't have the ability to fight against Xia Mansion again?" ”

"Three months?" Xia Houjun smiled bitterly and shook his head, Second Uncle Xindao, if you insist on doing this, I am afraid that you will completely lose the support of the people.

"But will the Snow Country give us time?"

"I believe that your Erniang will be able to win assistance from Europe, and if Europe comes out to put pressure on the snow country, the snow country will definitely be afraid and dare not act recklessly."

"Besides," Xia Batian's eyes showed a hint of coldness: "The Snow Country people are slowly advancing along the Yuanhai Sea from northern Jiangsu, do you really think I don't know their intentions?" Their purpose in doing this is nothing more than twofold: one is to test the depth of the water by throwing stones, to see if someone in my Xia has the courage to start a war with him, and how far they can fight if they start a war; As for the second, and the main reason, that is, Snow Country is not ready for a full-scale war at present. ”

"That day shouldn't be far off, though." Xia Batian sighed.

"So," his eyes looked directly at Xia Houjun, "We must use this limited time to eliminate the bandits as much as possible to relieve our worries." ”

"When the time comes, free your hands," he sneered, "I will let the Snow Barbarians know how naïve and stupid their intentions are to infect my Xia Kingdom." ”

"Commander, then you can't completely sit idly by and ignore the Snow Country's step-by-step pressing, otherwise I'm afraid it will be difficult to block the Xia Country's mouth." Yang Rushan said worriedly.

Xia Batian nodded in a deep groan, and said, "What should be done so as not to be true." In this way, first of all, the purging of the Spark Alliance cannot be relaxed for a moment; Secondly, you can have a small fight with Snow Country, but you can't be more serious, so as to avoid causing a bigger conflict and getting out of control. ”

"Waiting for the army," his eyes turned cold, "immediately convene an emergency combat meeting of officers above the division level to draw up a plan for the elimination of the Ji'an Alliance Headquarters, the Lingxi First Detachment, the Longdong Second Detachment, and the Sichuan Central Third Detachment."

"In order to avoid leaking secrets again," Xia Batian's tone was terrifying: "Let Dai Lianzhong and Zheng Yimin personally be responsible for the security of this meeting, and all participants are not allowed to leave the venue without permission, and they are not allowed to call outside, and those who violate the order will be beheaded." ”

"Execute it now!"

……

With Xia Batian's order, a storm against the Spark Alliance was like a tsunami in the Yuan Sea, and a monstrous wave swept away.

Ji'an, can we defuse this crisis unprecedented since the founding of the Alliance?

Nantang is located on the mainland of the summer mainland, and the climate has become mild in February.

But today, there is an endless stream of military vehicles in the city, especially all the roads outside the Commander's Mansion are blocked by soldiers with loaded guns and ammunition, which makes the air in Nantang City suddenly fierce like winter.

People are panicking and wondering: Is there going to be a war? Snow Country is coming?

Some people with good family conditions have even begun to pack up and are ready to slip away at any time.

Zhao Jiangong also saw this sudden tense situation, as an old underground member of the alliance, he keenly felt that something big would happen. But unfortunately, he and the vast majority of people thought the same thing, thinking that Xia Fu was going to take action to deal with the approaching Snow Country, and did not report the situation to Ji'an in time, so that Ji'an only learned the news later, and almost fell into a predicament from which he could not recover.

In the conference room of the Commander's Palace, dozens of officers of all sizes were sitting in a precarious position, and the atmosphere was so solemn that it was depressing.

"Step, step ......"

The sound of hurried footsteps was like a dense drum beating in everyone's hearts.

The footsteps stopped, and Xia Batian and Yang Rushan appeared at the door of the conference room.

"Huh."

Everyone stood up at the same time and said in unison, "Good commander." ”

Xia Batian waved his hand to signal everyone to sit down, and he looked around with stern eyes: "Next, Secretary Yang will announce the discipline of the combat meeting." ”

Yang Rushan stood up, his cold gaze seemed to pierce the thick lens:

"During the meeting, those who leave without permission shall be beheaded; Those who communicate to the outside world without permission shall be beheaded; Those who violate the order and do not comply with it shall be beheaded; Passive preparers, chop; Those who are ineffective in fighting will be beheaded. ”

After Yang Rushan finished reading a few words of "chop", he felt a little thirsty and his tongue dried up.

Xia Batian nodded and said, "Did everyone understand?"

"Understood!"