Chapter 1268 - Soaring Price
On the morning of May 14, 1910, General Moltke, chief of the General Staff of the General Staff in Berlin, stood calmly in front of the sand table, and after the Schlieffen plan had taken full control of the railway network in Belgium and Luxembourg, Germany's powerful military aircraft had already sent everything that would decide the war to the front line - troops, supplies and ammunition, as well as the most secret means of attack.
The entire country's railway network was fully operational, and the Berlin Railway Center sent military columns to the south at a rate of one train every 10 minutes, and the General Staff ordered that at least 80 divisions and supplies must be committed to the assault on Paris by May 28...... And to get information from the intelligence services, Joseph? Marshal Chauffeur had mobilized at least 70 divisions of combined French and British forces.
The problem was that in the last two days, the German troops had attacked on both flanks in five directions, and with the exception of the French resistance at St. Quentin, the other armies had quickly broken through the weak resistance...... Where will the French build their line of defense for a decisive battle? And at this time, the Minister of War von? Admiral Hindenburg pushed the door in with his guard officer.
"There is news from Paris, at least 5 British army divisions have appeared in Versailles, and from the side of His Majesty the Emperor, the news has come that France has built fortifications on the line of the Marne, we must speed up, the French defense network, it will be a big trouble at that time!" The German Minister of War was Wilhelm II's most trusted general, and what he brought with him was clearly a message from Wilhelm II.
Admiral Moltke was the commander-in-chief of the German military offensive, and the Minister of War von ? Admiral Hindenburg was actually tasked with the important task of preparing fuel for the entire German military aircraft, and more importantly. Admiral Hindenburg was directly responsible for embodying Wilhelm II and Prime Minister Hohenlohe's guidance for the war. This. Immediately, the General Staff gave an operational order to quickly assemble the forces of the eight divisions on the left flank to besiege Saint-Quentin, and the forces of the remaining three directions continued to advance towards Paris.
Beijing, exactly 10 days after the outbreak of the all-out war in Europe, Qin Kai rushed back from the real room in the north with the officials of the Science and Technology Development Committee, and the European meat grinder had been activated, which meant that China had finally waited for this opportunity to reorganize the world's assets again, and he naturally understood the significance of this world war better than anyone else.
However, what really made Qin Kai rush to Beijing. In fact, it was not the outbreak of the European war, this was actually a sure thing a few months ago, and Qin Kai never made any plans to enter the war in the early stage, a fragmented Europe, far more than a group of foreign powers with teeth and claws, is beneficial to China, and the national position of the cabinet planning and completely subverting the European view of war was actually put forward by Qin Kai earlier.
China had to determine its position of military non-involvement at the beginning of the war, and of course, foreign trade protection. It is regarded as an important condition for non-involvement, given China's strong military power today. Only then can there be a basis for such tough conditions...... Zhou Ruidong obviously did a good job in promoting this national policy, and Britain, Germany, Austria-Hungary, France, and even the United States had to acquiesce to China's attitude in the end.
Pushing China into the camp of the adversary is in any case an unacceptable outcome for all parties, and since either side has huge interests in the Far East, it is obviously far better for China to be willing to maintain stability in the Far East than to turn the Far East into a battlefield!
The day earlier, Zhou Ruidong had already announced that he would hold large-scale naval exercises in the South China Sea in response to possible war and turmoil in the Far East, so as to show China's attitude to other countries that any side that violates China's rules will be retaliated by China's powerful military force.
When he returned to the official residence, he had just dealt with some business in the party affairs of the Baath Party, Zhou Ruidong, Xu Shoushan, and Ouyang Qing came over together, and Qin Kai happily exchanged the next national strategy with them, and at the same time shared the information brought back by the Northern Real Room.
The real room in the north is still a top-secret project under the leadership of Qin Kai, even if Zhou Ruidong and Xu Shoushan only know, but they don't know the specific information of the real room at all, Xu Shoushan was excited when he heard it, but he was obviously more concerned about the militarized use of technology, and couldn't help but interject: "Chairman, how unlikely is it that the results of the Tesla team will be transformed into militarized use, it sounds like it is too outrageous!" ”
"Yushan, I'm looking forward to the outcome, but God knows when we'll see the product, and we still have plenty of time to prepare, but if the situation develops to the point where we have to respond, the future of the whole country is on your shoulders...... Gungtang is alone in Nanhua, so I didn't complain to you! Qin Kai changed the topic with a smile while holding the teacup, technical matters will never be in a hurry!
Outrageous...... This is of course the effect! Qin Kai also smiled slightly, the future of black technology, from the point of view of anyone in this era, is undoubtedly unreliable, but in fact, Tesla is only leading the research in the direction of technology, and the research and development of weapons is done by the professional R&D team deployed by the Science and Technology Development Committee...... The progress is impressive, but it is clearly not up to the level of weapons application.
The most direct proof is undoubtedly the rapid development of electron tube technology, under the conditions of the real yàn chamber, the frequency of the high-power three-pole vacuum tube has reached 50 megahertz, which is now the beginning of the tube technology in various countries, it is definitely enough to despise the height, and the more direct result is that the results of the research on electromagnetic wave reflection technology have been included in the real yàn room test project.
Qin Kai can think of the most direct results, one is that the volume of radio equipment will obviously benefit from the improvement of electron tube technology, the original huge electromagnetic wave generation device, will be able to greatly reduce the volume, and the second application makes him even more excited, once the emergence of high-precision radar, it will mean the cross-generation upgrade of naval fire control...... However, this seems to be very difficult, and the requirements for the pulse device for the electron tube, and the detection technology have been developed from scratch. It's like a huge threshold.
"Gungtang...... In addition to a telegram a day asking for news of the new battleship. The rest of the time is spent on training. He only has 8 new ships on hand, and it is indeed a bit troublesome to defend the entire Pacific Ocean, but the 4th and 7th Marine Divisions have landed in Panama, plus the 21st and 23rd Divisions of the Army transferred from South China, Central America is completely under our control, so they haven't come to toss me recently! Xu Shoushan smiled. However, he didn't forget to turn his head sideways and muttered to Zhou Ruidong, "Prime Minister, you still have to urge Tang Shaoyi for the military appropriation of armament reserves!" ”
Zhou Ruidong was naturally too lazy to bargain with Xu Shoushan for the allocation of more than 10 million new weapons, so he immediately nodded in agreement, and then took out two official documents and handed them to Qin Kai, "Chairman, the people from the Kazakh Youth Army have been here for 3 days and have reached an aid agreement with us, a loan of 4 million national yuan, 5,000 light weapons, and 800,000 rounds of ammunition. In addition, we recruited 3,000 volunteers from the Kazakhs captured in Siberia to join their restoration program. ”
Ouyang Qing, who had been silent on the side, interjected at this time: "Chairman." The youth army has already gained a firm foothold in the area from Bisk to Habakan, and among the leaders of the youth army who came this time, except for Colonel Bilev, who is a local recruited professional soldier, Shabaab Hassanmov and Nazarbayev are both ethnic Kazakhs who have lived in Ili for a long time, and were originally recruited and trained by the intelligence department. ”
Speaking of this, Ouyang Qing took out a small notebook, opened it, and then continued: "The current strength of the Youth Army is no less than 7,000 people, but most of them are farmers and herdsmen, and the passage through the Guò Halisan Mountains can get support from our borders, and it is difficult for the two divisions of the Russian Siberian Army to control the local situation, so I think this investment will bring a very good return!" ”
Ouyang Qing has been doing intelligence work for so many years, but he must do everything himself, the instigation of the Kazakhs, almost single-handedly promoted by the Intelligence Department, and the results are indeed not small, St. Petersburg is now overwhelmed by Germany's entry into the war, and it is really difficult to free up his hands to control the small problems of the Eastern colonies...... That's the best chance.
"Ruidong, I will give them continuous assistance, as for the return, this is a bit troublesome, the part of Central Asia, the transportation is too inconvenient, people give me the mining area, it is difficult to generate profits, this will be handed over to Ouyang to deal with, if the Kazakh nation can be established, the influence of the Russians in Central Asia will be greatly reduced, which is enough to contain the European war!" Qin Kai patted the table and said with a smile, both sides take what they need, which will provide more security for China's long border.
"Chairman, look at it!" Ouyang Qing handed over another telegram at this time: "In February this year, we found the Russian Ulyanov you mentioned in Prague, they are holding the 6th All-Russian Congress, and tomorrow they will take our passenger ship to go ashore from Tianjin, or Ouyang will organize negotiations with them, and the accompanying intelligence officer has already sent him the basic plan he drafted, I think the asking price is too high!" ”
Ulyanov...... This name immediately made Qin Kai immediately interested, as a traverser, he naturally knew the great energy of this person, since 1905, the Bolshevik movement in Russia was on the rise, however, the Russians obviously still had final illusions about the Tsar, plus the powerful war machine qì also defended the rule of the Tsar, however, the key to pry this European power is now in front of him......
"This man is very important, to solve the problems of Russia, it cannot be completely by military means, to give him the greatest support, the only demand, the overthrow of the Tsar, Russia must withdraw their sphere of influence from the Eastern continent!" Qin Kai set the tone with a smile, fighting with the Russians was actually very troublesome, although the Siberian campaign compressed the Russian defense line to the west of the North Sea, but far away from the domestic industrial area, the local supply pressure was actually not small.
Hearing Qin Kai's reply, it still surprised the three people present, this is definitely a soldier who surrenders to the enemy without a fight...... Sending some money and weapons to get the Russians out of Siberia is definitely a brain-opening idea......
"Chairman, we have this condition...... It seems like...... It's a bit high! Ouyang Qing was also a little surprised this time, if the line was simply drawn according to the map, the condition that Ulyanov agreed to was almost to retreat the border between the two countries to the west by 2,000 kilometers...... Retreated Homeland ...... Almost the same Australia.
Fork...... Qin Kai glared at this guy, isn't this a sky-high offer, if you don't offer a price at this time, can you wait for others to succeed and then talk about the conditions!
"No matter how many kilometers of retreat, the East, it should be up to us in China...... As for the West, we actually have no interest in participating, and it doesn't matter how many people they die in the war or how much they suffer...... Go and talk to him, the Russian prisoners and captured firearms in the Outer Northeast are priceless to them! (To be continued......)