St. Petersburg in February is still cold and windy, frozen for thousands of miles, and spring is still far away, let alone summer.

In one of the study rooms of the Winter Palace, the fire was blazing, and the hostess sat on an extremely expensive mink sofa reading the court edition of "The Biography of Kutuzov", and the snow was falling outside the window, and the sound of artillery from the far south could not be heard at all.

There was a knock on the door, and the attendant announced the name of the person who had come up.

"Let him in!" The hostess placed a delicate bookmark on the page she was reading, and then gently placed the book in her hand.

"Your Majesty!"

In this warm room, the remaining snowflakes on the head of the visitor quickly melted, and the remaining white was the traces left by the years on the once heroic young man - the youngest general from the Russian civilian background, the youngest commander of the Guards and the youngest army commander, Sokolov created one record after another belonging to the Russian army, but the years are merciless, and now he is nearly fifty years old, although he can be regarded as young and strong, but he is also the first born of Huafa!

"How's it going?" The hostess not only rules this room, but also rules over the huge Russia, but now her empire seems to be in a little trouble, and the even larger empire in the southwest has been unable to stop showing its fangs again and again, the Rhine exercises, the Polish exercises, the Baltic Sea, land, sea and air joint exercises, these big moves have made the people in the Russian border area angry.

"The Germans refused to release the torpedo boat, and said that the crew had confessed to having been instigated by their superiors to attack the German fleet! As it stands, the situation is very unfavorable for us, and I asked people to check the identities of the crew who caused the accident, they are all Belarusians, and their families disappeared a few months ago! The comer's calm expression was very much in line with his brand-new field marshal's uniform, and also in line with his status as the commander of the 2,000,000 Russian standing army, and from a civilian officer to such a degree, the hardships of which he only knew, and the grace of the Lord's knowledge was even more remembered in the "heart."

"No more guessing. That must have been deliberately done by the Germans! Ever since the Kaiser said that to me at the dinner of the German Navy Centennial, I knew that it would not be long before he would be able to do something to us! ”

The Empress seemed to be ready to face all this calmly, and although her opponents were more powerful than ever, she still remembered Alexander I's defeat of the equally invincible Napoleon, and remembered the magnificent epic directed by the famous Russian general Kutuzov.

"That ......" Marshal Sokolov was a little surprised, as a confidant of the Empress, he had never heard the Empress talk about such an important matter before, if he had known earlier. Perhaps Russia will be much more prepared for war now.

"It's not about the content anymore, it's Germany's determination to fight this war!" The Empress continued her composure, "but I think his real purpose is not revenge and punishment, but the coveted resources of the vast land of Russia!" Aren't the Baku oil fields, the Volga-Ural oil fields, the iron ore mines of South Ukraine, the East Siberian copper mines, all these things that the Germans want? ”

"Your Majesty......" Sokolov bowed his head in some disappointment, if this battle really had to be fought like this, all Russia lacked was time. In another 20 years, or even as long as 10 years, Russia will be able to recover and develop sufficiently, and then its military strength will be truly strong with the support of the national strength. Although the Russian ** team has changed a lot compared with 10 years ago. However, there was still a lack of armoured forces, heavy artillery, excellent combat aircraft, and a fleet large enough to rival the German navy.

"The revolutionary party in the south is on the verge of moving again, isn't it?" The Empress changed the subject.

"Yes, since last autumn and winter two riots in the Caucasus. According to the intelligence provided by our insiders, they are ready to operate again in March! Please rest assured, Your Majesty, I will not give them any chance this time! ”

Speaking of this, Sokolov's eyes were shining, and in the two actions to suppress the insurrection in October and December last year, his elite cavalry units killed more than 10,000 revolutionaries, and the army aviation units also gained a certain amount of experience through participating in these operations; with the "goodwill" support of Japan, the Russian army now has more than 500 reconnaissance planes, fighters, and bombers, and has become the second in Europe and the third in the world in terms of scale. Second only to Germany and Japan.

"The Germans only want to see a Russia that is divided and without threat, and it doesn't matter who rules Russia at all, and even the Red Revolutionaries that the nations fear!. Wilhelm is crazy, crazy!" The Empress's normally calm mood finally fluctuated a little in the face of indignation.

Sokolov put his right palm to his heart, half-bowed and said:

"Your Majesty, we don't have to worry about dealing with the revolutionaries, as soon as war breaks out, we will cross the Caucasus Mountains and wipe out their old nest in Turkey! It's just that the biggest problem at present is the unfathomable German ** team. In every previous war, they would come up with new weapons to win the war, such as the British aircraft carriers, the armored forces of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the heavy bombers and mine-laying submarines of the United States, and I don't know what terrible things they will come up with this time! ”

"I'll let Akinfeiv gather as much information as he can on this!" After the empress said this, she had to be embarrassed to face the fact that the Russian intelligence service had repeatedly lost high-level spies in recent years, and these spies were either captured or bought by the Germans, especially Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky, who had high hopes, was a classic "meat bun beating a dog", not only failed to obtain valuable information from the Germans, but contributed a lot to the development of Germany's Dornier II and Dornier III strategic bombers.

Sokolov straightened up, he knew very well that the Russian intelligence services were simply not capable of confronting the German intelligence services, and more often than not, the Russian ** team could only learn about the opponent's new weapons from the battlefield, which was indeed a sad reality.

Before Sokolov left, the empress picked up the copy of "Kutuzov's Biography" next to her again, and gave it to her confidant general along with the bookmark inside, "My dear marshal, I hope you can become the second Kutuzov of Russia!" ”

Sokolov took the book, performed court etiquette again, and left.

Germany, upper Elbe, Sudetenland.

More than 30 kilometres from Dresden, the capital of Saxony, and more than 40 kilometres from Prague, the capital of Bohemia, lies a flat valley that, until 1920, was a haven of calm and tranquility. Since 1920, when the War Office bought a large tract of land in the vicinity, it has been a specialized technical research center. The base, almost isolated from the outside world, was soon established, a large stream of research equipment and raw materials were transported through the Elbe River, chic houses rose from the ground, painted in yellow-green paint and looked at one with their surroundings, and a small pier was built near the river in the valley, which was connected by a gravel road on the other side of the site.

A small aviation dock for airships was also erected. By 1928, there were as many as 1,000 scientific researchers stationed here, but in the eyes of outsiders, it only had a mysterious code name of RC.

The end of the Elbe ice period in February, in the previous month of the ice period, the RC base had to rely on mountain roads and air transport, fortunately as early as the German-American war, many military airships have been withdrawn from the battle sequence to become part of the German air transport, usually a medium airship can transport 1 ton of supplies to this remote place, large airships can transport 394 tons at a time.

this day. The airship marked with gold ornamentation is not the place where it is delivered, and it is not a daily necessities. It is a group of people with extremely special identities, and the entire base has been on first-level alert since two days ago, and guard posts have been deployed on various nearby hills. Absolute safety in this area.

It was none other than the fourth monarch of the German Empire, Gianlugi and Wilhelm III, who came down from the multimillion-mark-de-helium airship, accompanied by War Minister Ollie, Kahn, the First Quartermaster of the War Office, Max Hoffmann, the War Department's chief artillery specialists, Dr. Maxbauer and Dr. Beck, and more than 20 entourages.

In fact, when there are still four months before the start of the Barbarossa plan, if the German team can improve its combat capability from the technical level, it will be very beneficial for future wars.

This work 1 6k exclusive text version debuted,May not be reproduced without consent,Excerpts,More of the latest and fastest chapters,! Just a week ago, the German War Office finalized a big deal for 1 million semi-automatic rifles. Although Browning, a master gunsmith, had died in 1926, the Browning designers completed Browning's last creation, the M1927 7.92mm semi-automatic rifle, by the end of 1927. After extensive testing and refinement, Gigi Munitions bought the patent for this semi-automatic rifle for 6 million Euromarks in accordance with the previous agreement with Browning, and began mass production under the name of Gigi M1928. This rifle adopts the principle of air-conduction automatic and bolt rotation locking, with a total length of 1.2 meters, a total weight of 46 kg, a bullet capacity of 10 rounds, and the use of a detachable short magazine, because it is an automatic loading, the firing speed is qualitatively higher than the Mauser 1898, Mosin-Nagant, and Meiji 38-style rifles that use rear-pull bolt machine rifles. However, combat effectiveness, reliability, and other performance have yet to be tested in actual combat.

Before going to the RC base ground weapon test site to watch the weapon demonstration, Chen Tian met with the technical experts here, don't look at these people are still unknown in Germany at this time, but in Chen Tian's eyes, they are a group of very powerful people. First of all, the technical leader of the project, Herman. Aubert is the best rocket theorist and technologist in Germany at present, his classic book "Rockets to Interstellar Space" was published in 1923, and is considered one of the founders of German rocket theory; Aubert's deputy, 32-year-old Walter Robert Dornberg, is also the best rocket expert in Germany at the moment, responsible for research on rocket propellants at RC bases; and Helmut Walter, a rookie in German rocket engine and rocket take-off propulsion technology; In addition to these local German experts, the German side also took advantage of the war to recruit the best rocket talents from Russia and the United States, among which the German experts were most excited by the arrival of the Russian Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and the American Robert, Goddard, both of whom were well-known figures in the rocket theory circles at the beginning of the 20 th century.

In 1903, Tsiolkovsky published his famous paper "The Study of Cosmos" with jet tools, which, together with his works published in 1911 and 1914, demonstrated the feasibility of jet tools for interstellar navigation, and derived the famous Tsiolkovsky formula, which laid the theoretical foundation for rockets and liquid rocket engines. This man is not only a famous scientist, but also a well-known science fiction writer, whose 1896 book "Beyond Earth" depicts 20 scientists and craftsmen of different nationalities flying out of the atmosphere in 2017 in a rocket ship of their own construction and into orbit around the Earth, in an interesting state of weightlessness. They built large greenhouses and grew enough vegetables and fruits to eat. They put on spacesuits and come out of the spacecraft and float through space. The spacecraft then flew to the moon, and two of them landed on the surface of the moon in a four-wheeled vehicle, surveyed it, and then ignited a rocket and left to rendezvous with the mother ship waiting in orbit around the moon. Inspired by these pioneers, people on Earth have also moved to outer space in large numbers, living in greenhouse dwellings orbiting the Earth. The 20 explorers continued to fly near Mars, landing on an unnamed asteroid on the way. It's a long journey. Many years have passed. Eventually, they managed to return to Earth and re-inhabit the Citadel of Science, built in the Himalayas.

In contrast to the imaginative 71-year-old Tsiolkovsky, the 45-year-old Robert Goddard was a theorist and practitioner, whose 1919 book "The Method of Reaching Extreme Heights" expounded the basic mathematical principles of rocket motion, which was regarded as a classic by German rocket experts. Goddard began working on liquid rockets in 1920. In 1926, he developed the world's first liquid rocket and flew into the JB.

However, this time Chentian did not meet Robert, Goddard himself, this American expert was very poor when he was in his home country, and was hired to come to Germany in 1920 with a high salary, and was originally in charge of the individual bazooka project (this person developed the individual bazooka in 1918 in history, but unfortunately such a promising weapon was put into the cold because of the end of the First World War, and Bazooka was not developed by another American captain until 20 years later), and achieved a lot of research results, It is a pity that after the outbreak of the German-American war and the defeat of the United States, this staunch patriot expressed his protest by refusing to participate in any weapons research, and now only occasionally discusses something purely theoretical with experts. - Tsiolkovsky, in contrast, was more cooperative, but once the German-Russian war broke out, presumably this stubborn old man would also join the ranks of the Americans, but fortunately, the research work at the base has always been led by German experts such as Obert and Dornberg.

After getting a general understanding of the situation from the experts, Chen Tian and his entourage came to the "artillery range" of the RC base, don't think that the rocket experts get together to study rockets, as long as they are involved in most rocket-related projects, such as Herman. Aubert was in charge of the real rocket, Dornberg was also responsible for rocket research and served as the technical director of the "rocket smoke launcher", and Goddard's research on the individual rocket launcher project had been succeeded by Helmutwalter and others.

From afar, Chen Tian saw the "peculiar artillery" composed of root steel pipes, which is the latest product of the German RC research base - 10-tube 150mm "smoke screen launcher".