When the news of the successful implementation of the beheading operation came from Russia, there was no joy on Chentian's face. Even though it was an order he had personally signed, when it came to fruition, his feelings were still complicated.

"What they saw with their own eyes?"

"Your Majesty, according to the telegram sent back by our people, that man will surely die!"

The answer to this question was the German intelligence chief Schiffert, who had been promoted to lieutenant general, and the reason why the decapitation operation was successful this time had a lot to do with the German intelligence network deployed in Russia.

"Oh, people can't escape death after all!" Chen Tian sighed a little inexplicably.

"Your Majesty, the news spreads quickly, and it is estimated that the important generals of Russia have already learned of this situation! Next...... "Hiffert respectfully asked.

Chen Tian raised his head, at this time he was no longer the emotional teenager, those personal feelings were immediately put aside, the situation at this time can be said to have been planned for a long time, so he only thought for a while, "In this way, our war with Russia will end soon!" Let your men go and get in touch with Marshal Sokolov and tell him that I am willing to make him the new Tsar on the condition that the lands we have occupied go to us Germany, plus Vladivostok and Sakhalin! As for whether he will monopolize the rest of the land or share it with the revolutionary party, it will depend on his own ability! ”

"Yes! Your Majesty! Shiffert bowed slightly.

Chentian nodded, "And Mikhar. Vylov, Valadimi. Petrov and his ilk, believe that these heavily armed Russian generals will be interested in separating one side, so let the people lurking around them convey our meaning! ”

"Yes!" Hiffert was again in debt.

"By the way, the death of His Majesty Wilhelm II should be about to be eyebrow-raising!" Chen Tian said meaningfully.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" "The people will soon remember this, and the thread will always go to the Far East!" ”

"Good!" Chen Tian's left and right hands and ten fingers were crossed together, "As long as Vladivostok and Sakhalin are in hand, it will only take four months to prepare for the Xindi War!" Checkmate. You know what I mean! ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Hiffert replied unequivocally.

"Then you can get busy! I want to take a break! After explaining all this, Chen Tian did seem a little tired, and after a while he sat on the sofa and fell asleep, and had a long dream, dreaming of his former hometown, dreaming of his former relatives and friends, and dreaming of many, many ......

Russia. Orenburg.

As the Russian army retreated, the front headquarters also retreated from Kiev all the way to Smolensk and Moscow, and now temporarily retreated to Orenburg, which is located at the junction of the Samara River and the Ural River. It has been nearly two months since the start of the war, and Russia has mobilized more than 2 million reservists, but the Russian army is still unable to resist the German attack on the frontal battlefield. Therefore. It's only been a week since I arrived in Orenburg. The generals and staff officers of the General Headquarters of the Russian army were again preparing to continue their retreat to the east.

On July 21, the news of the unexpected encounter of the Empress train reached here as soon as the German special operations personnel sent the intelligence back to Berlin. It served as the seat of the Provisional Command of the Russian Army. A large number of high-ranking generals, including the commander-in-chief of the Russian army, Sokolov, gathered here that day. Although most of the generals in the Russian army are cronies of the emperor, Marshal Sokolov did not dare to slack off at all, and he hurriedly summoned the generals above the rank of major general.

In a conference room filled with the faint smell of wood, thirty-two Russian generals, most of whom were under the age of fifty, sat with serious expressions on their faces, and the atmosphere was a little suffocating.

"Let's all share our opinions!" Sokolov was the first to break the deadlock, knowing that everyone in the room had different thoughts about such news. How the situation in Russia will develop, although these heavily armed generals cannot be said to have absolute control, their decisions will largely affect the development of the situation.

"Anyway, I think we should go all out and block the news first. Especially not to let the population and the Germans know! "The man who spoke was a middle-aged general with a very clean beard, his name was Mikhalfuilov, the rank of general of the Russian Army, he was born into a family of soldiers, and in terms of the qualifications to command the troops, he was no less than Sokolov, but he was far inferior to the former in terms of the favor of the empress.

"Blocking messages? Joke! That was originally done by the Russian Revolutionaries and the Germans, how could they not know? "The attitude was a little unkind, and it was another Russian army general, Alexander Murphy. Borisov. He is only 45 years old this year, and he is close friends with Sokolov, and with this point, he occupies the first quartermaster of the Army General Staff, and he does not dare to compliment him as for his battlefield command ability.

"General Borisov is right, it must have been made by the revolutionaries and the Germans! It's so despicable! Although his army group has 15 divisions, 12 of them are reserve divisions that have been formed for less than a month, and the personnel and equipment have not reached full strength, and 3 divisions are infantry divisions that have been disabled by the Germans and retreated from the front line to rest, and these troops are all assembled in Orsk, not far from Orenburg.

"Until there is enough evidence, this is just our speculation! Don't forget, the remnants of Federov and his ilk are constantly thinking about revenge for their masters! General Freilov retorted that Fedrov was a veteran of the former Tsarist government, but he had repeatedly interfered with the Empress's new policy because of his aristocratic status, and was killed in the Snowy Night Incident of 1919, but his henchmen were still active in recent years. Not only Federov, but Diana I, who insisted on ruling the country with iron and blood, purged no less than 100 former political and military dignitaries one after another, and the most direct consequence of this policy was the hatred of the relatives of the victims of the beatings and the remnants of the party, if it were not for the empress and her own cronies who firmly controlled the guard, I am afraid that they would have been assassinated by those who opposed it.

"General Fuilov, although your analysis is very reasonable, but at the moment of the great enemy, the assassins of the head of state will only be those traitors who collude with foreign enemies! Either way, we must catch the bomber and announce the Empress's death. Let the army and the people turn their anger into strength to resist German aggression and sabotage by the revolutionaries! ”

After Sokolov said these words, General Foilov just pouted and did not say anything more, because it was very obvious that more than half of the people here were supporters of Sokolov.

"The top priority, I'm afraid it's better to elect a suitable heir to the throne as soon as possible to stabilize the overall situation!" Borisov proposed.

Since Diana I and the former Tsar Agrini had no children, the crown prince was originally held by Aglini's 16-year-old nephew, Nicholas Agrini. Sergoff. Nikolai Jr.'s father served in the Agripleni Army and died honorably in battle against the Russian Revolutionary Army. His mother died soon after, and Nikolai the Younger was appointed heir to the throne.

The generals submitted to the Empress's iron rule and wisdom, and were equally respectful to the Crown Prince, who was mediocre in intelligence and always called Sokolov his uncle, but unfortunately the little Crown Prince stayed in the same carriage as the Empress at the time of the explosion, so he naturally did not escape this catastrophe. After the death of the empress and the crown prince, there was a huge power hollow in the top of the Russian hierarchy.

"This question ......" Sokolov looked very embarrassed, Nicholas II's family died in the Baltic Sea as early as 1914, and most of the royal family members who accompanied him also suffered misfortunes, Aglini's line was not originally a royal family, and was excluded from power after Diana I ascended the throne. Therefore, at this time, there are no more members of the royal family who can take on great responsibilities.

Then. Zemokov stood up and said loudly: "I elect Marshal Sokolov!" The marshal is not only an unparalleled meritorious service and a pillar of the country, but also the 'uncle' of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and it is most suitable to take on this great task! ”

There was an immediate chorus of approval. Only Voilov and several other generals had grim faces.

"But there is no royal blood in the next one, and there is no permission ......from His Majesty the Emperor," Sokolov said again in words, but his face was secretly filled with joy.

A lieutenant general who was apparently Sokolov's henchman stood up1 "Guys, there is no more suitable candidate at this time!" We must immediately elect the Marshal as the new Emperor of the Reich, and he will lead us in the war against the Germans! ”

There was another round of applause below.

At this time, General Fuilov suddenly interjected: "Your Majesty has been killed, and the Germans have attacked Russia in fact, and we should ask the German army to immediately cease fighting and retreat, and then it is safer to discuss the matter of the throne!" ”

Zemokov, who was still standing, immediately refuted: "Armistice retreat? Ha! I'm afraid the general is dizzy! The Germans reneged on their covenant with their allies and attacked, indirectly killing our Empress. Even if the Germans are willing to withdraw their troops, we must not stop there! ”

Voilov raised his head, "What does the general mean, is it to continue to fight with the Germans?" ”

Zemokov clenched his fists, but he didn't say his stubborn words for a long time, even the Russians with strong self-esteem had to admit at this time that the German ** team was too strong.

"Compromise with the Germans is impossible!" Sokolov said in a voice an octave higher than the previous one, then looked around at the crowd and motioned for Voilov to sit down first. Then he said in a more subdued tone, "But we can paralyze the Germans with a temporary truce, and when we have recovered our vitality and completely eradicated the resurgent revolutionary party, we will fight to the death with the Germans!" ”

"Good! Good! The generals applauded.

Voilov and a few others pouted again, with disdainful expressions.

At this time, Sokolov's words were impassioned, but when the Germans took the initiative to hand over olive branches and promises, how many people could not be moved in the face of the great temptation of power? After a night of secret talks with the Kaiser's envoys, Sokolov did not immediately agree to the terms offered by the Germans, but only asked the Germans to stop the offensive first, and then to hold more formal talks, during which he would try to make the Russian navy also loyal to him.

Under such circumstances, on 24 July, the German High Command issued an order for a temporary ceasefire on all fronts, and all the front-line units switched to the defense on the spot and seized the time to rest and replenish logistical supplies, and for the first time in the past few days, the Luftwaffe bombardment ceased due to non-weather reasons.

Two days later, the Kaiser's plenipotentiary flew from Berlin to Moscow, and Sokolov sent his cronies to Moscow, and after initial official contacts, the Kaiser's plenipotentiary went to Orenburg for talks with Sokolov himself. Although both sides intended an armistice, there were huge differences in the terms of the armistice, Sokolov proposed to form a non-imperial dictatorship by himself, for which Germany must not interfere, Russia could cede Belarus, Ukraine and part of the Caucasus, instead of all the lands currently occupied by the Germans and Turks, Sakhalin Island could be leased, but Vladivostok must be controlled by Russia.

The tug-of-war negotiations continued until early August, with Sokolov, a soldier, sticking to his terms, while at the same time there was a breakthrough in negotiations between the German government and several other senior Russian generals.

To the Supreme Commander of the Russian Army in the Far East, General Valadimi Petro, Germany promised to support him in the seizure of the lands east of the Stanov Mountains and to provide military and economic assistance to ensure that these lands were not threatened by the Japanese army, at the cost of Sakhalin Island and the military port of Vladivostok; For the former commander of Army Group Center of the Russian army, Mikhar . Vyilov, Germany's offer was that he replace Sokolov as commander-in-chief of the Russian army, and supported one of Diana I's distant relatives in Austria to ascend the throne as the new emperor of Tsarist Russia, which would guarantee his status and wealth in Russia.

On August 5, the German representatives to Orenburg suddenly announced the failure of the negotiations, and in the early morning of the next day, the German army relaunched a full-scale offensive, although the Russian army also took advantage of this armistice period to redeploy, but the German army on the front line obviously received more valuable replenishment - the rest of the soldiers, the maintenance of vehicles, fuel and ammunition, and a large number of backup troops, more than 2.4 million soldiers of the 3 army groups launched a tidal offensive with the cooperation of 4 armored corps plus 12 independent armored divisions and 17 air wings, how could the Russian army resist the rumors?

At the same time as the army launched a fierce attack, the main force of the German navy also launched a large-scale naval offensive east of the Gulf of Finland, after clearing most of the mines, the German fleet, with the support of the air force, attacked the last fortress and military port of the Russian Baltic Fleet - Kronstadt on Kotlin Island at the eastern end of the Gulf of Finland, most of the Russian fleet and the flagship "Nicholas I" were sunk, and the rest all surrendered to the Germans, and the three major fleets of Tsarist Russia were left with only the Pacific Fleet, which was still breathing in Vladivostok.

At the instigation of Germany, all parts of Russia, especially Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, which were forced to be incorporated into the Russian territory during the Tsarist era, announced the establishment of revolutionary regimes and secessed from Tsarist rule, and the Russian Far East also announced the establishment of military regimes. Under these circumstances, the Russian army, led by Sokolov, had to sit back at the negotiating table and accept a series of demands made by Germany in full. Subsequently, Sokolov announced the establishment of a non-imperial, temporarily military-controlled democratic government in Orenburg, and he himself became the interim president, and signed the "Orenburg Treaty" with Germany on behalf of Russia, the German-Russian war ended, but what awaited Russia was a confrontation between the revolutionary government centered in St. Petersburg and the democratic government centered on Orenburg, and a long period of division and civil war came.