may have noticed the change in Zhang Xinghan's face, the Soviet male reporter's face became a little pale after listening to Alice's translation, and he quickly explained: "I am just an ordinary reporter, and I have no right to answer your question on behalf of my country's political axe." ”

After listening to Alice's translation, Zhang Xinghan nodded, regained his smile and said, "Since you have no right to answer on behalf of your country, please don't ask questions about politics, national sovereignty, etc." ”

American reporter Erin raised her hand for the second time, and after getting Zhang Xinghan's consent, she stood up and asked in English: "General, can you tell me what plans or strategic goals you and your army have next?" ”

Zhang Xinghan smiled after hearing this, and said: "Originally, this involves military secrets, and I can't disclose them to you, but there is one thing, I can tell you seriously and responsibly that the next strategic goal of me and my subordinates is to recover all the lost territory in the northeast of our country and eliminate all the enemies who forcibly occupy our territory." ”

Zhang Xinghan's words immediately aroused the discussion of the reporters present, and the Soviet male reporter listened to it like pins and needles, could he also start a war against Russia and the Soviet Union?

At the end of the day, reporters from all over the world, including the male Soviet reporter, sent back to China what they had covered.

Moscow, Kremlin.

Lovelian in a suit. Pavlovich. Beria hurried towards the office of the Soviet power center.

There were many heavily armed and tall Soviet guards along the way, but these guards did not stop him, which shows that his identity is different from ordinary people.

Beria was the head of the Soviet secret police, similar to Dai Li, but he had much more authority than Dai Li.

Walking quickly to the SDL's office, Beria gently slammed the door and reported, "Dear SDL leader, I have something important to report. ”

After a long while, a small but indescribable majestic voice came from the office: "Come in." ”

Beria pushed the door open and walked in, only to see SDL sitting in a recliner with his back to him, facing the wall, on which a huge map of the world hung from it.

"Dear Leader, our intelligence workers have just returned a message from Northeast China that cannot be ignored." Beria bowed his head respectfully.

"What's the matter?" SDL still didn't turn around, and asked in a lukewarm tone, as if the world map was very appealing to him.

"A new Chinese general has risen in Northeast China, and he led his army to grow and grow in half a year, and defeated the army of Yuben, which had already captured the entire northeast, and now occupies the entire North Manchurian region." Beria was only halfway through his words.

The SDL interrupted him, "Beria, I hope you don't let you down, and if you come to me just for the sake of writing something insignificant and irrelevant to the interests of our great Soviet Union, then I will be disappointed." ”

Beria was suddenly frightened into a cold sweat, and hurriedly bowed his head and said: "Respected leader, please listen to what I have said, the newly rising warlords of the Northeast have expelled our employees from the Eastern Railway, and their commander also openly questioned our reporters in a media interview, saying that Vladivostok is their Chinese territory, and asking why we did not fulfill Lenin's declaration on China. ”

Beria didn't dare to say any more at this point, he was waiting for SDL's reaction.

Sure enough, SDL finally turned around, looked at Beria with a somewhat gloomy face, and said, "What is the name of this newly rising warlord?" ”

"Zhang Xinghan." Beria hurriedly replied.

"Zhang Xinghan? What is the relationship between him and Zhang Xueliang? SDL asked, confused.

"Returning to the leader, he has nothing to do with Zhang Xueliang, the two just have the same surname, this person has developed into a new type of warlord with an army of more than 100,000 troops in just over half a year, and this person seems to be very hostile to our great Soviet Russia." Beria Road.

"Order the authorities in the Far East, if Zhang Xinghan is not honest, we don't mind teaching him a lesson, just like teaching Zhang Xueliang a lesson, anyone who dares to move the Eastern Railway is the enemy of our entire Soviet Russia, and we will completely destroy them." SDL said in a cold tone.

"Yes!" Receiving SDL's clear attitude, Beria immediately bowed his head and turned away respectfully.

The orders of the SDL were quickly transmitted to the Soviet authorities in the Far East, who, as soon as they received the order, began to secretly prepare for the war in the event of any possible outbreak of war conflicts.

………………………… More than a month has passed in the blink of an eye, and the recruitment of the new army in the northeast and the formation of local police forces have been basically completed.

The five military airports in Qiqihar, Harbin, Jiamusi, Changchun and Jilin have also been repaired.

The Dongliao River Railway Bridge is also being urgently repaired, and everything is proceeding in an orderly manner.

After nearly two months of recruitment, Zhang Xinghan's Northeast New Army has recruited more than 120,000 qualified recruits.

With the addition of more than 40,000 puppet troops and more than 10,000 puppet troops who surrendered, the total strength of the Northeast New Army has exceeded 200,000.

Zhang Xinghan expanded the nearly 230,000 troops into 10 motorized infantry divisions, and the personnel were specifically based on the motorized infantry divisions of the original New Army, but the tank regiment, air defense regiment, and artillery battalion directly under the new army were also expanded into artillery regiments.

On average, each division had about 13,000 to 15,000 men.

In addition to the 10 motorized infantry divisions, Zhang Xinghan expanded three armored divisions and four heavy artillery brigades on the original basis.

Each armored division has three regiments, not at the brigade level, but two tank regiments, 200 No. 4 tanks, an air defense regiment, and 100 armed armored vehicles, equipped with a large number of anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns.

The heavy artillery brigade has four heavy artillery battalions, which can also be called a reinforced heavy artillery regiment, all equipped with 150mm caliber heavy guns, an air defense regiment, and units directly under the brigade headquarters.

Each armored division is about 15,000 people, and each heavy artillery brigade is about four to five thousand people.

It is a motorized infantry division with the numbers of the 1st to 10th divisions of the Northeast New Army, which were self-appointed by Zhang Xinghan and Jiang Baili at that time, and it is impossible for the national political axe to give them so many official names.

But it doesn't matter, with territory, with financial revenue, with foundation, everything can be self-sufficient, and the same is true for the number of the army.

The division commanders of the ten motorized infantry divisions were Huang Xiansheng, Zhao Zhenfan, Wang Yizhe, Liu Jianguo, Liu Guodong, Wang Yicai, Wang Tiehan, Zhang Shixian, Gao Chu, and Du Ting.

The three armored divisions were combined into an armored group army, with Zhang Xinghan concurrently serving as the commander of the group army and Li Zhenyuan as deputy commander.

However, Li Zhenyuan was responsible for regular training and command, and when encountering major battles or major events, Zhang Xinghan's handwritten telegram or handwritten instructions were required.

After the reorganization of the troops was completed, Zhang Xinghan deployed as follows: the 1st Division of Reading Li was stationed in Jilin City, and the armored group army was stationed in the area of Jilin and Changchun.

The 2nd Reading Division was stationed in Siping and Changchun, and the 3rd Reading Division was stationed in Tongliao.

The 4th Reading Division was stationed in Harbin, the 5th Reading Division was stationed in Qiqihar, the 6th Reading Division was stationed in Jiamusi, and the 7th Reading Division was stationed in Heihe.

The 8th Division was ordered to march towards Manchuria, the 9th Division was stationed in Songyuan, and the 10th Division was stationed in Yichun.

Four heavy artillery brigades, one deployed in Harbin and the other three in Jilin, Changchun and Tongliao.

In addition to the army, the flying regiment was also stationed in Jilin, Harbin, and Jiamusi from Tongliao Airport.

From the deployment of troops, it is not difficult to see that at this time, the strategic focus of Zhang Xinghan and Jiang Baili was still on South Manchuria.

After the expansion was completed, the above-mentioned units quickly moved to their designated defense areas.

However, when Liu Guodong's Fifth Reading Division was advancing towards Qiqihar, an accident occurred.

Wu Chengfeng, then the commander and deputy commander of the 1st Regiment of the 5th Division of Reading Force, led the 1st Regiment of his headquarters to Qiqihar along the Eastern Railway, when he clashed with a group of people from the Soviet Russian Federation of Industry and Commerce.

The reason for the incident is that while Zhang Xinghan was expanding the army on a large scale, he also made Zang Shiyi begin to carry out drastic reforms and streamlining of government affairs.

At the same time, he secretly instructed Zang Shiyi and the police gendarmerie formed by Huang Xiansheng to begin a phased and gradual recovery of the China Eastern Railway.

Naturally, this move of the new military axe caused serious protests on the part of the Eastern Railway Administration of the Soviet Union, especially when they learned that the Supreme Leader had granted the authorities in the Far East to prepare for war.

Even more unscrupulous, the industrial and commercial joint team that gathered them openly besieged the political axe gate of Qiqihar, because the regular army had all gone to Changchun for reorganization, and had not yet returned.

There were only a few police officers left in Qiqihar to maintain law and order, and the two sides were in a standoff.

Wu Chengfeng arrived with his group, and when he saw that Lao Maozi dared to besiege his own political axe office, Wu Chengfeng was immediately furious, and immediately led a group to expel him.

The people of the Soviet Federation of Industry and Commerce were unwilling to retreat, and there was a fight between the two sides, and in the chaos, Wu Chengfeng's head was smashed by his own people or the Soviets with bricks.

Holding his bleeding head, Wu Chengfeng was furious, picked up a general-purpose machine gun and fired at those old Maozi, who was no different from the rebels and was fighting with his subordinates.

The regiment commander and the deputy division commander all opened fire, and the officers and soldiers of the regiment, which had long been on fire, immediately opened fire one after another.

In the end, this conflict turned into a bloody massacre, and of course it was the troublesome old Maozi who was slaughtered.

After killing the red eye, Wu Chengfeng did not stop doing anything, ordered his subordinates to close the Russian embassy in Qiqihar, and with the cooperation of the police, arrested all the Soviet and Russian railway employees in Qiqihar.

When Shen Xingye's agents learned of this information and urgently reported it to Zhang Xinghan, the situation had already happened to the point of no return.

(To be continued)