The signing of the peace agreement between Germany and Russia was a relief not only for the Germans and their allies, but also for many Russians, including civilians who had been uprooted and separated from their loved ones, businessmen who could not continue to operate because of the war, and soldiers who had been beaten to the point of helplessness.

By the time of the German-Russian armistice, the port of Vladivostok in the Far East was almost in ruins, more than 80 percent of the facilities in the dock area had been destroyed, and only a few cruisers with a little better luck were able to go out of the port to fight.

Fortunately, the Empress died, and the war was soon over, and the fierce German attacks launched during the two negotiations made the military junta led by Sokolov no longer doubt Germany's terrible ability to continue the war, so it promised to give Germany a large area around Sakhalin and Vladivostok, and the former Russian army general Valadimi Petro, who controlled the Far East, had the same clause in his agreement with the German government.

While the German-Russian peace talks were still underway, the main force of the German Pacific Fleet led by Admiral Spee had already arrived outside the port of Vladivostok, including the heavy aircraft carrier "Georg" that had recently sailed from the Mediterranean, the battleship "Caesar Barbarossa" and the heavy cruiser "Königsberg" escorting this aircraft carrier, and after the signing of an agreement between the German government and Valadimi Petro's Provisional Military Government in the Far East, 1,500 marines were sent to land on the northern shore of the Gulf of Ussuri east of Vladivostok. A paratrooper battalion also parachuted in the city of Vladivostok after departing from the Qingdao base with 32 transport planes, and the two German units quickly entered Vladivostok by land and air; although the port of Vladivostok was still blocked by a large number of mines, the German black, white, and red tricolor flag had already been raised in the city of Vladivostok and the port area, and the German soldiers who entered the city of Vladivostok quickly repaired the Russian airfield there, and the transport planes immediately transported soldiers and equipment from the Qingdao base in a steady stream. At the same time, a detachment carrying more than 1,200 marines landed on Sakhalin Island, and German ships and transport ships also took the initiative to assist in the evacuation of Russian troops on the island. By the time of the signing of the Orenburg Treaty on August 12. Vladivostok and Sakhalin were de facto completely occupied by the Germans.

The weather in Berlin in August has shown signs of cooling, the average daily temperature has dropped to about 20 degrees, the temperature difference of 10 degrees obviously makes Togo Shide and his entourage who have just come from Tokyo a little uncomfortable, but the cool weather did not give them any good mood, Togo and his entourage originally hoped to meet the Kaiser directly as the emperor's special envoy but were rejected by the German side, and even German Prime Minister Gustavnosk did not come out to meet them, and the German Foreign Minister Artur, Zimmermann, who received them, also looked absent-minded.

"Okay, okay, guys. Since you have come with the respect of His Majesty the Emperor, I will convey it to His Majesty the Kaiser as soon as possible, but His Majesty will not be able to meet you until at least next month, because he is on vacation! ”

It can be seen that the 64-year-old foreign minister has also entered a quasi-leave state, although he is wearing a rigid dress, but his expression is flying, which makes it easy to think that the German government can't wait to enjoy the relaxation and leisure time after the victory in the war. However, Togo Maud was preoccupied, and the German government did not pay much attention to it.

The more he felt uneasy. Because he has an extremely important task on his shoulders.

"Your Excellency, I'm very sorry. We are here for important diplomatic consultations, very, very important! Togo looked at Zimmerman expectantly. After Stresemann resigned as Foreign Secretary in 1925 due to illness, he has held the post until now.

Zimmerman and Togo looked at each other for several seconds, "Can't you wait until next month?" ”

Shigeru Togo told him with certainty: "The situation is urgent! ”

"Then I will report this matter to His Majesty the Kaiser as soon as possible, and if His Majesty approves it, diplomatic negotiations can begin!" But......" Zimmerman reminded, "I cannot guarantee that His Majesty, who is on leave, will deal with my report immediately!" ”

"But......" Dongxiang Shide wanted to say something, but the other party was already very impatient to stand up, so he had to get up and bow loudly, "Please! ”

Zimmerman nodded, but when he reappeared in front of Togo. That was seven days later. During this anxious wait, Togo Shigede communicated with Tokyo almost every day, but unfortunately, these messages were invariably intercepted by German intelligence.

Nominally on vacation, Chentian actually went to Königsberg, but the trip was not for pure nostalgia or sightseeing, as a brand-new "Breguet-Igor monorotor tail rotor aircraft" was preparing to make a flight demonstration to the supreme rulers and high-ranking generals of the empire at the Gigi Aviation proving ground.

Because he had seen the design drawings of this new aircraft beforehand, when he saw the prototype, Chen Tian was not as surprised or even incredible as the other generals - its fuselage was welded from steel pipes and covered with a thin layer of skin. The main components are the rotor of the top three blades, the tail of the two blades at the tail, a petrol engine, gears, belts and, in an open, very simple cockpit.

At first glance, not many people would think that this ugly thing could fly. After the VIPs were seated, a thin pilot sat in the cockpit with the assistance of two technicians and started the small engine, only to see the blades of the top rotor began to rotate and gradually increased the rotation speed, the wind caused by the rotation of the blades quickly raised a gust of dust, after the engine started for more than ten seconds, the aircraft slowly left the ground under the gaze of everyone, and hovered in the air at a height of more than ten meters for about two minutes, after that, The pilot let the aircraft fly slowly forward for more than 20 meters through a very simple joystick, and then hovered and turned in the air, and then flew back to the place where it had just taken off.

When the aircraft landed on the ground again, there was a round of applause from the viewing platform.

At this time, the French aircraft designer Charles . Breget came to Chentian with awe, he bowed first, and then said:

"Your Majesty, this is the single-rotor tail rotor aircraft that I developed with Dr. Igor, and what you have just seen is its ordinary flight performance, which we have conducted more than 100 tests before. The aircraft can fly for up to two hours at an altitude of 500 meters and fly at a maximum speed of 75 kilometers per hour, which means that it can fly up to 150 kilometers away. ”

"Oh!" Chen Tian nodded, this primitive helicopter was far from being comparable to later generations in terms of appearance and performance, but it was a huge step forward to make it in 1928. However, the current Breguet had built a helicopter that could fly off the ground as early as 1907, only to be abandoned due to poor stability and maneuverability, after which Breguet switched to fixed-wing aircraft development. When Germany defeated France in 1914, he and a group of French aircraft experts were captured by the Germans and sent to Gigi Aviation as a special designer.

"Your Majesty, uh...... Dr. Igor is not in good health today, so he can't come and tell you about the capabilities of this flying machine in person, so please don't mind! Breguet appears to be pleading for his peers, who, as everyone knows, have protested by strikes and hunger strikes by many Russian experts such as Igor since the German invasion of Russia, even though the vast majority of them have been persuaded by their counterparts to reopen. But Igor was reluctant to come to the test site to meet the Kaiser this time.

"I see!" Chen Tian waved his hand. "Dr. Igor's mood is understandable, but he should think about the difference in treatment between us and the Russian government, think about his family! Anyway. On behalf of Germany, I would like to thank him for working with you to develop such a flying machine with great practical potential! ”

"Your Majesty is serious!" Breguet replied humbly that it was evident that the 14 years he had spent in Germany had long since made him forget all the resentments and hostilities of the past, and that it was precisely because of his active and cooperative attitude that he and his family had been treated well in Germany, and had been allowed to return to France twice in recent years to visit his family. In the case of Breguet and the French, British, and American experts working in Germany, Dr. Igor's sentiment did not last long, and of course some of these experts were determined to no longer serve Germany, but after all, they were only in the minority.

Look back at the original helicopter at the test site. Chen Tian suddenly remembered the scene of the helicopter gunship using rockets to attack the ground, although the one in front of him was still a little far from that level, but the technology of rockets had developed to the point where it was close to practicality. At the beginning of World War II, the Soviet Union installed RS-82 82mm rockets on the I-16 fighter jets, and taught the Japanese a good lesson at Nomenkan, and the British also developed and manufactured a large number of "rocket projectiles" in 1940-1941, as well as the original American fighter jet with triple Bazooka launch tubes.

After inspecting the test flight of the "Breguet-Igor single-rotor tail rotor aircraft," Chen Tian personally ordered the purchase of 50 prototypes. They will be transported to the Far East for use as reconnaissance and school firing aircraft for the army and navy.

Soon after, German spies lurking in the Japanese military headquarters sent information that the Japanese navy was secretly assembling capital ships in the Sea of Japan and actively courting the provisional military administration of Admiral Valadimi Petro, in short, trying every means to prevent Germany from obtaining Vladivostok and Sakhalin.

Tatsuten was not at all surprised by the Japanese intentions, as unconditional peaceful coexistence was impossible when there were only two powers left in the world. Therefore, he ordered Zimmerman to continue to spend time with Togo Maud, while at the same time ordering the Far East Task Force, which was sailing in the Pacific Ocean, to speed up. The fleet consisting of the battleships "Caesar William II", "Albert", "Bavaria", the battle cruisers "Prince Frederick" and "Wissenburg", the heavy aircraft carrier "Alsace", the medium aircraft carriers "Zeppelin" and "Alexander", and numerous escort ships were led by the German naval marshal von Fernandes. Speer personally commanded, originally went to the Far East to attack the Russian army's Vladivostok fortress with Spee's fleet, although Germany and Russia armistice and soon signed a peace agreement, but this fleet did not turn around and return to the German mainland, but according to the original route through the Atlantic, Pacific to the Far East Jiaozhou Bay, at this time the fleet is sailing in the vast central Pacific waters.

On the same day, another secret telegram reached Admiral Spee, who was leading the main force of the German Pacific Fleet outside Vladivostok Harbor, and his minesweepers were working with the Russian ships in the harbor to clear the mines outside the harbor - although the minelaying ships were in principle required to mark the location of the mines laid one by one in order to completely clean them up by the end of the war, but those drifting mines would move with the tide and currents, so even the most optimistic estimates would take 10 days to clear a safe passage. I am afraid that the removal of all the mines will not be completed until the end of the year.

With the arrival of this telegram, whose contents were strictly confidential, the originally calm and harmonious atmosphere outside Vladivostok Harbor was shattered. Spee immediately ordered the fleet to be put on first-class alert, all ships were set on fire and anchored and put on cruise, two "aviation warships" -- "Gneisenau" and "Leipzig" -- were sent to the perimeter of the fleet to be on guard, the heavy cruiser "Scharnhorst" led the destroyer to escort the heavy aircraft carrier "Georg", which had just arrived not long ago, and the battle cruisers "Thessaloniki" and "Seydlitz" patrolled the nearby waters one after the other.

The envoy Togo Shigede was trapped in the trap of the Germans delaying time, but the Japanese military department, especially the top navy officials, were obviously not so easy to fool, and their spies had already obtained the relevant provisions of the German-Chinese secret treaty from the Chinese government, although Germany's secret assistance to China did not make the Japanese government and military department make up their minds to immediately start a war with Germany, but they were obviously very vigilant about Germany's action to occupy Vladivostok and Sakhalin. At the same time as sending envoys to Berlin, they repatriated some of the capital ships from Oceania and Southeast Asia, plus warships guarding the mainland and operating along the coast of China, so that Japan's maritime power in the Far East always maintained absolute superiority over the German Pacific Fleet - the four strongest battleships, the "Kii", "Owari", "Kaga", and "Tosa", were all stationed at the Sasebo military port, and they were stationed here at any time to threaten the sea passage between Jiaozhou Bay and Vladivostok, as well as the Amagi-class battle cruisers" Kaohsiung" and "Atago" and the aircraft carriers "Xianghe" and "Zuihe".