Chapter 154: At All Costs

The name of the blood city of Qazvin is definitely not for nothing, it is dyed red with blood!

The Soviets launched an offensive at all costs, but it still failed, and more than 8,000 people were killed, which is an incomparably terrible number!

"Although we have no statistics on the Iranians, and the battle reports on the front line are all watery, we can know that the Iranian casualties will definitely not be less than ours, and their casualties will definitely be more than 20,000." Budyonny's beard shook a little, and he said angrily: "However, the Iranians are still moving people into Qazvin, and they are consuming it with us, and we can't afford it." ”

"Are all those Iranians crazy? Why are they fighting this war of attrition in Qazvin and us? It's horrible! ”

Disgruntled voices came out one after another, and the people present seemed to have nothing but cursing.

Stalin's face was cold, he didn't say a word, just looked at the map in distraction.

I thought that Iran would be easy to conquer, but who knows, I bit the stone again!

The war in Finland has not yet made much progress, and in Iran, is it still possible that the Soviets will be bogged down in a quagmire? What is gained now, apart from embarrassing the Soviets?

"We have to mobilize more troops to wipe out the Iraqi army entrenched in Tabriz." Khrushchev said: "We can mobilize more troops, say 50,000 people, or 100,000 people, and we must conquer Iran!" ”

Mobilize more troops? Can this tactic of adding fuel to the oil be useful? During this time, Iran was enough to reorganize ten infantry divisions!

The plan was to destroy Iran quickly, but now it is in the midst of a terrible ongoing war, for which the Soviet Union was unprepared and which was not the focus of the Soviet Union.

"We can't increase investment in Iran, which will seriously affect our plans for heavy thunderstorms." Zhukov spoke.

The plan of the thunderstorm is to invade Eastern Europe, eat the meat from Germany's mouth, and even destroy Germany, such a battle plan undoubtedly requires crazy people to do, and at the same time, it also needs more troops.

Zhukov was the main formulator of the plan, and he knew how many troops the Soviets would need to realize it, so at this time, it was absolutely impossible to increase the number of troops in Iran.

The main battlefield of the thunderstorm plan is in Europe, definitely not West Asia and the Middle East!

Hearing this, Stalin's mind immediately sobered up, indeed, he almost fell into a misunderstanding, for the current Soviets, the most important thing is the thunderstorm plan, if this plan succeeds, Germany will perish, Iran, Iraq, these countries, don't they all have to obey the Soviets?

"Iran is mountainous, which is not conducive to the operation of mechanized troops at all, and it is inappropriate for ordinary infantry divisions to fight for their lives and consume their precious soldiers in Qazvin." Zhukov continued.

The Soviets had already lost a great deal of them, they had been eliminated in an organized manner, and there were several units that had to be abolished, and now it was time for the Soviets to take over.

"However, if we do not continue to mobilize troops now, then the army in Qazvin is at risk of being eaten by the combined attack of the Iraqi and Iranian forces." Khrushchev said: "If we do not continue to throw in the army, then we will watch our Soviets lose troops." ”

Khrushchev, although he had no experience in the military, was able to see the risks implied, would the Soviets ignore the troops in the encirclement?

"It seems that we have to end this war." Finally, Stalin spoke.

After Stalin finished speaking, Khrushchev did not dare to speak anymore, but he could not disobey Stalin.

"But, of course, if we retreat like this, of course." Stalin continued: "Molotov, we want to make the most serious protest to Germany, they are not just in Finland, they continue to make trouble for us, and now, the Germans have actually stretched their hands to Iran, the Germans, do they want a war with our Soviets? Tell the Germans, put their hand back, otherwise, we Soviets will cut off that hand with our swords, and we can do whatever it takes! ”

Stalin's words are very powerful, and at all costs, they can be extended to a war with Germany!

Almost a few hours later, Molotov went to Berlin with a diplomatic team.

As the foreign affairs commissar of the Soviets, Molotov's task this time was very arduous, and if he did not do it, it was possible for the two countries to go to war on this, and Molotov knew very well in his heart that it would be unfavorable to the Soviets now.

Germany has been fighting wars for all these years, and they have all won, they are at their most glorious moments, but what about the Soviets? Except for the fact that he made a fortune in Poland, the rest of the time, it didn't go well.

Molotov had no bottom in his heart.

In particular, when he stepped off the plane, only the people from the Soviet embassy and the diplomats of the German government came to greet him, and they were so busy that no one came to greet him!

Getting into the car, Ribbentrop's face was equally gloomy.

"A few days ago, we had a protest to the German government about the German army in Iran." The Soviet ambassador reported to Ribbentrop: "However, our protest did not receive any official response, and we later heard that Ribbentrop took the protest book and wiped his shoes, which were still in the trash. ”

Molotov's mood suddenly became even heavier, he looked outside, in the past few years, Germany has not engaged in large-scale construction, Berlin is still the same as before, outside the windows of every house, there are swastika flags, such a country, it is simply the people are united, such a country, is invincible!

What should your attitude be? Molotov knew that if he brought Stalin's tone over, there would be no doubt, and the two countries would definitely turn into a state of confrontation in an instant.

That Soviet aircraft carrier has not been repaired yet! Germany owes the Soviets a lot! Now that Germany and the Soviets have turned into hostilities, it has little effect on Germany, but it has many disadvantages for the Soviet Union.

It's really hard to be a diplomat!

How straight a diplomat's spine is, it all depends on the country behind him!

The car stopped, and the German Foreign Office arrived.

Molotov entered the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with mixed feelings, thinking that he was going to hit a nail, but the situation was not too bad, and the German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop actually accepted his visit.

"Mr. Molotov, if you are here to protest to us, then please come back." Ribbentrop got straight to the point: "You should know that Persia shares Aryan blood with us, and we will not watch our compatriots innocently invaded. ”