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Although it is January in the Central Plains, Mumbai is located in south-central India, close to the sea, and even though it is the coldest month of the year, the daytime temperature is maintained at around 20 degrees.

In order to ensure the safety of the royal family members who settled in, when the British and Indian colonial governments built the castle, they artificially piled up a hill sixty or seventy meters high, the castle was condescending, easy to defend and difficult to attack, majestic and magnificent, and the side effect was that the castle faced east, you could see the sparkling sea.

An Yi stood under a huge Indian rosewood tree, facing the direction of the sea, silently thinking about his thoughts.

Sixteen years have passed before I know it.

In the past 16 years, he has ambitions, enthusiasm, and the urge to dedicate himself to his ideals, but everything has disappeared in the face of the cruel reality.

Looking at the choppy waves on the sea in the distance, An Yi's thoughts were like a tide, and he couldn't help but think of the scene when he saw Nalan drifting snow for the first time.

At that time, after the victory of the Second Northern Expedition, the four new warlords of Chiang, Feng, Li, and Yan gathered in Beiping, and they were appointed to give lectures in various colleges and universities in Beiping on behalf of President Chiang, the revolutionary army, and the central government.

At the first meeting with the young students, five universities, including Peking University, Tsinghua University, Peking Normal University, Tianjin Beiyang University, and Peking Union Medical College, drew lots to determine the order of speeches.

Nalan Piaoxue, who was seventeen years old at the time, had only served as the chairman of the Beijing Normal Student Union for less than three months, and she was drawn to the first place. A pair of flower-like beauties, full of youth and vitality, left a very deep impression on themselves.

It was an era full of blood and passion, revolutionary slogans were overwhelming, and various ideas for saving the country and the people were quietly passed on among universities.

According to the intelligence department's subsequent repeated investigations, and even found several parties for verification, it can basically be determined that Tong Qianping and Nalan Piaoxue had been influenced by left-wing ideology at that time and were in the stage of joining the party to investigate, and the independent division and themselves who held high the banner of anti-imperialism and anti-feudalism were the main targets they were responsible for wooing.

It's a pity that when he was giving a speech at Union Medical College, he was assassinated by *** spies, and Nalan Piaoxue's efforts fell short.

I can't remember how many times I met, but in short, I recovered from my injuries, and when I saw Nalan drifting snow again, it was already after the 128 incident in Shanghai. At that time, he led his troops on the front line of Songhu to fight against the Japanese army. Before that, I knew the whereabouts of Nalan Piaoxue from some people intermittently, although I occasionally missed this beautiful girl, but they didn't have a deep relationship with each other and didn't pay much attention to each other.

On that day, Dai Li came to him and said that among the people arrested by the military commander, there was a girl named Nalan Piaoxue, who had close contacts with the left-wing cultural alliance organized by Gao Yuhan, a former instructor of the Whampoa Military Academy, and others, and was suspected of being the mastermind behind spontaneous organizations such as the anti-Japanese vanguard and the hoe gang in Shanghai universities. Dai Li knew that she had a relationship with her, so he sold his face and sent her to Yiyuan to be punished by himself.

Nalan Piaoxue is a very attractive and beautiful girl, for such a weak Manchu girl, it will be a mysterious underground party, An Yi is not too surprised, in fact, at that time, he already knew that Wang Chengjun, Xu Fengqi and others were all underground party members, and he had helped them out of danger many times. However, on the occasion of the first Battle of Songhu, it was impossible to put a time bomb by his side with his own troops, so he sent someone to bring Nalan Piaoxue to the former enemy headquarters and let her leave Shanghai temporarily, whether it was to Nanjing or back to North China.

An Yi vaguely remembered what he said to her: he respected her choice and admired her spirit, but he did not approve of her approach. You and I each have our own ideals, and the distance has become farther and farther away.

At that time, Nalan Piaoxue returned him a word, which stirred An Yi's heart, and also made a trace of inexplicable ambiguity between the two:

"I am grateful to you, Qianping is also grateful to you, many of our brothers and sisters are grateful to you, but you, why do you always wear such an insincere smile, stretching the distance between each other's hearts farther and farther? Why...... Why don't you ask me what other way you can choose other than to stay and go back, and why don't you want to say a few more words to me? Is it really that unattractive that I am? ”

I have to say that An Yi was tempted at that time, after all, Nalan Piaoxue also belongs to the kind of stunning beauty who chooses one out of ten thousand, as long as it is a normal man, it is impossible not to have ripples in his heart when he hears such words.

However, the situation at that time, the Japanese army could violate the armistice agreement at any time and launch a new offensive, which did not allow him to consider the personal affairs of his children, and at that time he had already fallen into the four-cornered love of Ou Chuer, Feng Jieyun, Ye Qing and Gong Qian, and he didn't dare to provoke a new relationship, so he could only watch Nalan Piaoxue leave in tears.

Listening to the post-mortem report, Nalan Piaoxue cried sadly for a long time in the car, which made him scramble and almost suffered from the bombing of the devil fighter. An Yi was close to each other, but he was soon tied up by the war, and this relationship remained in his heart.

The next time I saw Nalan drifting snow, it was already during the Anti-Japanese War on the Great Wall.

At that time, a terrifying wave of rebellion was set off in the Soviet districts, and many people were implicated.

At that time, Nalan Piaoxue accompanied Wang Chengjun to Zhang Xueliang's mansion to meet himself as a special commissioner of the Military Commission and inquire about the movements of the war against Japan. When he heard that Tong Qianping, who he had worked so hard to rescue, was suspected of betrayal and betrayal and was persecuted to death by his own people, he could no longer control his anger, and he drove the two away mercilessly.

Later, Nalan Piaoxue met with her alone and recounted what happened to Tong Qianping, and at the same time she said that because of her relationship with herself, she had been stopped from all work, and An Yi could no longer suppress the anger and fear in her heart. To this day, he still clearly remembers how the originally beautiful girl suffered when rescuing Tong Qianping:

In the straw-covered single special cell, there was a strong smell of blood and musty, Tong Qianping's petite body, curled up in the corner, when she heard the voice, she slowly turned her deformed face covered by her long scabbed hair, and tried to open her swollen eyes to look at herself.

At that time, I could barely recognize this ragged, damp woman, with a puffy face and body, as the lovely girl with bright eyes and bright teeth and a silver bell-like laugh in my memory. Her lips could not be closed due to a bruise and hematoma on her cheeks, so that she could not even speak clearly.

is such a girl in her teens and twenties, who still insists on not revealing information under such torture, but after being safe, she is more ruthlessly destroyed and attacked by her own people, and finally dies in humiliation, what can be more shocking than this? An Yi asked himself, if he went through such a hardship, and still couldn't get the understanding of the organization in the end, he would definitely do extreme things with his character, which is estimated to be even more miserable than Tong Qianping's fate.

Because she was worried that Nalan Piaoxue would sooner or later embark on the same path as Tong Qianping, she decisively suggested that she give up everything and go to the United States to study. Later, he personally sent her on the ship in Tianjin Port, and finally left all the shackles.

In a blink of an eye, more than six years have passed, and I have long lost my previous enthusiasm and impulse, and when I calm down, I will also think about what kind of ending I would have if I had chosen the same as Tong Qianping and Huang Han? Every time I think about it, a heartfelt horror will fill my heart, making people panic and uneasy.

Today, as the leader of the party who controls the future and orders of hundreds of millions of people, An Yi has a deeper understanding of such a large-scale political movement as the "suppression of rebellion".

It is undeniable that the political movement is extremely beneficial to the rectification of cadres and the elimination of irresolute elements and corrupt and degenerate elements, and it can unite and strengthen the ranks, unite ideas, and make the entire organization think in one place and exert all its strength in one place. But personally, it's too cruel!

However, if we do not set off a large-scale political storm, extensively criticize and self-criticize, and let ordinary people supervise the government and the army, then there will be a sense of arrogance and bureaucratic style among officials and generals, and there will be corruption and slackness in work and life, political degeneration and decadence, and violations of law and discipline.

For the Chinese people who are deeply influenced by the Confucian "official-oriented" culture, it is necessary to carry out some campaigns, at least until the legal system is not perfect, it is very necessary, otherwise it will be like the current national government, which will be in the twilight, all kinds of political scandals will emerge one after another, and the trading of power for money, power and sex, corruption and bribery will become commonplace, and hidden dangers will be numerous.

If you want to break away from the fate of *** Zong, you can only become a rule-maker. The current An Yi is doing this aspect, in fact, he is now more like a dictator with the party, government and military monopolizing. Of course, knowing the consequences and harms of the expansion of the anti-rebellion, the rectification campaign that has been launched in South China at present is mainly to punish those who have done the wrong, to cure the sick and save others, and it is absolutely not allowed to extort confessions by torture against one's own people, still less to allow unjust, false and wrongly decided cases to occur, otherwise the relevant responsible persons will be severely dealt with.

Just as An Yi was deep in thought, Nalan Drifting Snow quietly appeared behind a cluster of yellow cicada flowers more than sixty meters away from the Indian rosewood tree.

Absentmindedly listening to Zhou Chong'an's report in the large conference hall, and after being notified by the staff, Nalan Piaoxue took leave from the staff on duty at the meeting, followed the head of the guard, Li Tao, and came to the gate of the garden. Li Tao didn't enter, and smiled and asked Nalan Piaoxue to see An Yi by herself.

Walking through the path between the flowers, seeing An Yi's back from a distance, Nalan Piaoxue's heart beat faster, and his breathing became rapid.

An Yi, who was sharp-eared, heard the sound of footsteps, turned around, looked at Nalan Piaoxue, and asked with a smile on his face, "Nalan, have you been doing well in the past few years?" ”

Nalan Piaoxue didn't answer, stood two or three meters in front of An Yi, tears rolled down his eyes, and looked at An Yi straight for a long time before he suddenly threw himself into his arms, and hugged his strong waist with his slender hands, as if he wanted to take his whole person into his chest.

Feeling the temptation on the delicate body, An Yi's body stiffened, and then slowly relaxed, raised his hand and gently patted Nalan Piaoxue's twitching back, sniffed the faint girl's body fragrance on the tip of his nose, and comforted:

"Okay, it's good to be back....... Have you gone home to see your aunt and uncle? ”

"Hmm!"

Nalan Piaoxue replied inaudibly, Zhenshou nodded on An Yi's chest, An Yi, who was a little agitated, was about to soothe it, when he suddenly saw the sky in the distance, the dark clouds rolled in, the sea breeze began to become rapid, and the leaves above his head made a "swish" sound.

An Yi was slightly surprised, finding that the wind was getting stronger and stronger, and thought about it and leaned close to Nalan Piaoxue's ear: "Nalan, this time you are back, I will not allow you to leave my side......"

Suddenly found that this sentence was easy to misunderstand, An Yi changed his words again: "I mean, your job does not allow you to leave rashly...... I believe that Chong'an has explained to you in detail the responsibilities you have to shoulder, in a word, the department you are responsible for represents me, and has the right to investigate any department such as military and civilian, and conduct the final arbitration on the deployment of military and civilian materials......"

As we talked, the wind grew louder and louder, the trees made a "whirring" sound, and the distant waves had evolved from gentle sheep to violent beasts, and the waves crashed against the breakwater, making a violent sound.

An Yi's expression froze, knowing that he couldn't delay any longer, so he hurriedly straightened Nalan Piaoxue's shoulders and said solemnly:

"Nalan, something is wrong with this weather, it seems to be a precursor to a tropical storm...... The aircraft carrier formation of our Indian Ocean Fleet is going on a mission today, but looking at the weather, a storm is coming soon, and I have to ask in person to rest assured......" Facing Nalan Piaoxue's slightly resentful eyes, An Yi thought about it and proposed: "Or, you go to the telecommunications room with me?" At the end, let's go to the concert hall and sit for a while, enjoy the music, and drink coffee, okay? ”

Nalan Piaoxue heard An Yi's gentle tone for the first time, and looked at him with some surprise, seeing his honest and natural eyes, his heart was like a deer, and he shouted in his heart: "He accepted me, I accepted me......"

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The southern French city of Tours.

After meeting with the Spanish dictator Franco in Madrid for two days, and agreeing on the Spanish military participation in the Axis Initiative, Hitler left Spain with some regret and returned to Germany by special train.

At this meeting, Franco once again insisted that he would not participate in the war for the time being, but he could form three divisions in the name of the "Volunteer Army" and fight with the German *** team. In the case of the Strait of Gibraltar, in principle, it should be after the German army cut off the Suez Canal and completely expelled the British forces from the Mediterranean.

Now the German army needs to deploy a large number of troops on the Western Front to prevent the Soviet Army from turning its face, and it also needs to deploy troops on the Eastern Front to land on the British Isles at any time to threaten it, forcing the British Army to pay more attention to the defense of the homeland. In addition, on the Greek-Turkish border in the Balkans, a powerful wave of strike forces was deployed, threatening Turkey with war and coercing it to surrender. Finally, in North Africa, Rommel was hampered by logistical pressures and needed support.

As a result, Hitler was unable to force Franco to make more concessions and had to go home.

At the railway station in Tours, Hitler met with the head of the Vichy government of France, Führer Pétain, and his chancellor, Laval.

In order to drag France into the German chariot completely, Hitler did not show the arrogance of a conqueror to the French, but received Petain with a warm reception and treated Laval like an ally.

After accompanying the French guests through the imposing guard of honour, the talks took place in Hitler's box on the train, and the meeting lasted two hours around how to integrate the whole of French industry into Germany's war potential and how Petain's government could support Germany in the war.

Later, Petain, Laval, and Hitler reviewed the guard of honor, and when Hitler said goodbye, Hitler held Pétain's hand for a long time, and a friendly smile appeared on Laval's face.

After parting, Hitler returned to the carriage, saying that the French had completely surrendered, that he would unconditionally support Germany, and that he would form fifteen infantry divisions under the guidance of the German officers to fight with Germany. Hitler's military adjutant Schmund and naval adjutant Erwin, as well as the chief of operations of the High Command, Alfred Brown. Jodel congratulated Hitler, saying that his exploits were greater than those of Napoleon in history.

When Hitler was complacent, he received a telegram from Berlin -- the South Chinese army sent troops to the Persian Khuzestan region and Iraq, and the Japanese defense line had been broken through.

"Bastard!"

Hitler waved his trademark fist and roared angrily:

"In Africa and Greece, Mussolini needs us to wipe his ass, and now the *** people also want the emperor *** team to find a way to survive for his army stranded in the Middle East, where do we have so many troops always ready for these mud that can't support the wall? And that sinister guy in Nanhua, who has been hiding behind the scenes to make profits, quietly occupied Afghanistan, southern Persia and the rich West Indies, and obtained a lot of living space for its development!

"Originally, we were counting on the Japanese army to completely annihilate the Allied forces in the Middle East and achieve the final victory in the Syrian war, when the Turkish government will be shaken and completely fall to us! Now that the army of South China is on the side, the situation has become complicated again! What to do next, is it really going to declare war on Turkey? ”

Most people were silent, and Jodel thought for a moment and said, "Marshal Keitel's opinion is correct, the Turks are by no means allies that the empire can rely on, even if they are barely drawn into our camp, once the battle is lost, they may defect faster than France and Italy!" Instead of falling into passivity at that time, it is better to follow the advice of *** allies and solve the problem once and for all!

"At present, we have gathered nearly eighty divisions on the Turkish border, about two million troops, and at the first order of the Führer, we can cross the strait and attack the Turkish mainland! No matter how strong the Turkish army is, can it be twice as strong as the Yugoslav and Greek armies? With three times the enemy's strength, there is no reason why we cannot defeat the resistance of the Turks! Führer, let's just attack Turkey as a rehearsal for our attack on the Soviet Union, and in any case, taking Turkey will be of great benefit to Germany! ”

Hitler sat back in his seat, closed his eyes and thought for a while, and then ordered: "Send a telegram to Berlin at once, and ask Reinhard what he thinks of this?" Tell them to move faster, and I'm going to get an answer as soon as possible! ”

Half an hour later, Hitler received a personal reply from Heydrich.

Heydrich said in a telegram: The Turkish peninsula is connected to Eurasia and is the best passage for the transportation of goods from the East and the West, and the occupation of Turkey, that is, the control of the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus Strait, which connect the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, will completely cut off the foreign aid channel. At the same time, the empire will also receive resources from the East by land, and will no longer be afraid of the sea *** of the Americans and the British.

Moreover, the railway connecting Eurasia is located in Turkey, and the mobilization of troops is extremely convenient, so if you want to bypass the Soviet flank, break through the Georgian border in the northeast of Turkey, and then occupy the Baku oil fields. Therefore, whether it was for the needs of the allies or to consolidate the Empire's dominance on the European continent, the capture of Turkey was a must.

"Let me think about this again......"

Faced with the rugged and steep mountains of Turkey, the fierce folk customs, and the possible support of the Soviet Union, Hitler finally could not make up his mind, and after a long groan, he got up and went to the map of North Africa hanging on the wall of the carriage, hoping that Rommel could solve this problem for him.

As long as Rommel broke through the British Egyptian defense line and marched into the Middle East, the Turkish government, which was suffering from the enemy, could only choose to join the Axis powers, so as to achieve the goal of surrendering the army without a fight.

However, Hitler did not know that Rommel was now in great trouble.

From the coast near Tubrug, stretching to the south, was a defensive line with a large number of mines, and when the logistics difficulties of the German-Italian army were unsustainable, the British army quickly replenished two Anglo-Indian divisions and one Greek division, so that the defensive strength of Tubrug reached five divisions, and the British waist suddenly hardened.

At the southeastern end of this line of defense, there was a deep minelaying strip that stretched all the way to Selum.

This is the core of the British defense line on the Libyan plateau, which has already formed a fortified area, and after the German-Italian army advanced to the border area between Libya and Egypt, the British army was covered with mines along the coastal road, and poor Libyans and Egyptians had to live in the shadow of mines all day.

The German-Italian forces occupied thirty kilometers west of Tubrug on the coast and desert to the south, most of which was the dry Gobi Desert, except for some quicksand near Tubrug.

The German-Italian forces had sufficient ammunition, and because they occupied the islands of Malta and Crete in the Mediterranean, they ensured the safety of the sea route from mainland Italy to North Africa, and there were no problems with the food and ammunition supplies arriving from Benghazi, Port Brega, Puerto Ras and Tripoli.

There is no water source in the area west of Tubrug, and fresh water has to be brought from Benghazi over the Green Mountains, supplying more than 100,000 troops, even if hundreds of trucks are constantly transporting, which is a drop in the bucket in North Africa, where water is desperately scarce.

Tubrug was originally the focus of the British army's defense, and it was undoubtedly self-defeating to go there to find water, so he had to go to the Jegbu Oasis in the south to find water. If possible, Rommel prepared to launch an offensive from the south, bypassing the British flank, advancing the Nile from the Siwa Oasis, and completely disrupting the British deployment.

Under these circumstances, Rommel organized a large team to find water and personally led the team to the south.

Along the way, there was not a single dwelling in sight in the desert of Kokand, and even the poor sand willows, pines and poplars were scarce, and the thorny shrubs were red. Naked struggling, dying under the scorching sun.

Rommel's water-seeking troops trekked through the desert with great difficulty, through the flickering and jumping heatwaves.

The noon sun made the dry air almost ignited, the temperature instantly rose to more than 40 degrees, starting from 6 o'clock in the morning, to 12 o'clock at noon walked a distance of 50 kilometers, everyone was hungry and thirsty, chapped lips, and smoking in their throats, but they did not dare to drink water, because the car water tank was steaming, and people could temporarily endure it, but the machine would not endure it for a moment, there was no water to cool down, and when the temperature was high, whether it was a car, an armored car or a tank, it would lie down by itself.

Just when Rommel found through the telescope that there was still a piece of yellow sand in front of him, the Arab guide who had come from the local area to lead the way stretched out his nose, sniffed in the air a few times, quickly asked Rommel for the telescope, looked to the west, his face changed greatly, and he shouted in horror "The sandstorm is coming", and then the water-seeking troops became a mess and began to look for a place to evade.

But when it comes to this time, where is the time?

At the beginning of the storm, it was just a small whirlwind, swirling between the sand and gravel bushes, and in an instant it turned into a 100-kilometre-per-hour rush, stirring up millions of tons of hot, fine red sand and rolling across the desert, the trucks were blown in zigzags by the wind, and the driver stared ahead, but found that the sight was sometimes shining, sometimes black-red-black-red. So Rommel had to order all the lights to be turned on, and to use tanks and armored vehicles to string the trucks together as much as possible.

It didn't take long for hundreds of trucks to sink almost their axles into the sand, and tanks and half-tracked armored vehicles had to be dragged out one by one in the dark ahead, and the rest of the time, the sailors were left to the arrangement of the storm. Soon, the desert trail disappeared before their eyes.

The most pitiful were the motorcycle troops, dozens of which were almost all buried in the wind and sand, and the riders and soldiers on them buried their heads and their necks filled with fine sand.

At this time, a gust of wind struck, a motorcycle that was too far away from the team, the towing iron rope suddenly broke, the motorcycle actually flew into the air, the firelight illuminated the sky, the riders and soldiers on the car were in a hurry, I don't know how to touch the grenade they carried, and the motorcycle flying in the air exploded into a spark.

"No more! We must set up camp as soon as possible, or we will be wiped out! ”

When Rommel saw the power of nature, he had to give in and urgently ordered to dig a pit to save himself. Afterwards, thousands of German soldiers, like crazy, dug holes in the sand and covered their vehicles with tarpaulins.

The sandstorm lasted all night, and the cold air at night could make the temperature drop to more than 10 degrees below zero in an hour, and in the raging wind, there were screams from time to time, and poisonous snakes and scorpions took this opportunity to make trouble, crawling into the arms, necks, and crotches of soldiers.

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