"Please let me keep flying," Rudolph begged, "I'll toast you, thank you, professor, you don't drink it yourself, you don't have to drink it, I remember your liver is not good......"

"It used to be bad, to be exact, the captain ......"

When Rudolph heard the "squad leader", he couldn't help but look around, and he immediately felt that Dank had understood - he was afraid, not bad, he was afraid of him as a politician, fear was his natural state of mind, and Rudolph understood that he was acting correctly. And the slightest carelessness in words and actions can ruin any cause.

"Do you notice how timid I am here?" Rudolph laughed self-deprecatingly, "I'm afraid of even my own shadow." ”

"Everybody can do that," Dank replied.

"When Colonel Rudel came to us—you know how brave this man was—he went to the window every ten minutes to see if it was safe. This will pass, and it took me a month. ”

"When did you get here?"

"End of March...... With the approval of the High Command, I took with me the most valuable archival documents. I took with me some information about missiles, drawings of new bombers, and a series of ideas for the design of the sighting system...... Everything is ready there. ”

"In the intervening months," Rudolph smiled slightly, "you have cured your liver disease?" ”

"You see, that's it. It seems that all of us used to live in a state of nervousness – all illnesses were caused by nervous restlessness...... And here I have a group of reliable colleagues, and we live in harmony and harmony......"

"Cheers to you, Professor, to the memory of our friendship in your heart, thank you."

Rudolph sipped his wine slowly and with relish, and he asked with interest, "Where is Rudel?" ”

"He is the main military adviser of our company. He retained his rank of colonel. He frequented there, completely publicly...... He got it all, a soldier ......"

In 1944, Captain Rudel was wounded while Russia was helping the Russian army attack on the [***] team. He was machine-gunned by Chinese fighters, shot in both legs and underwent surgery. After two surgeries, a special prosthetic limb was ordered in Switzerland and then sent to Askong for recuperation. There he learned to walk again, returned to his flying group, and after his first flight, the incident was reported to Strassel. The German Prime Minister personally awarded the Knight of the Order of Rudel's Oak Leaves, the colonel's epaulettes and the National Socialist Gold Insignia. The Imperial Propaganda Department was entrusted with drafting materials about Rudel's wounded completion of 20 combat flights, the shooting down of 7 Chinese planes and the destruction of 7 military vehicles. He was no longer allowed to fly. He toured in formation, marching to the people, calling for a devastating blow to the Chinese brutal invasion of Russia and the Americans, and he was later "loaned" to Ribbentrop. Colonel Rudel traveled around the various "client states" - Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Serbia, northern Italy. Rudolph twice read Rudel's reports on contacts with Swiss and Romanian pilots. Before Antonescu seized power, Bucharest had seemingly reliable ties with American and German aircraft manufacturers. During the war, the Swiss regarded him both as an American businessman and as a German engineer. On a business trip to Bern, he changed the Imperial Air Force uniform for ordinary people's clothing. Rudolf did not like Rudel's report: fabricated falsehoods, plagiarized material from Swiss magazines - there was no press censorship in Switzerland, he could publish whatever he wanted, the neutral country was really good, there was nothing to say, although the report was empty (the colonel always wanted to create a dangerous phenomenon that he discovered in the course of his mission. Rudolph, however, was convinced of this man: fate was far from the fact that all soldiers, especially those so favored by emperors and prime ministers, could cooperate with the secret services - the honor of the officers became an obstacle: the aristocratic style of the soldiers, the factionalism of the soldiers, etc......., "Yes," Rudolph agreed, and he looked at Professor Dank pouring him vodka, "You are absolutely right, he is a soldier, and in his lifetime he has received a monument ......"

After eating, Rudolph set out again. It may have been that he had drunk too much, and as soon as he got on the plane, he fell into a coma.

He didn't know how long the coma lasted.

Sleep, he said to himself, you are out, tomorrow you will appear on the border, so you should rest well. Everything is over, you will go back to the motherland, at this moment you can only recuperate, tomorrow will be a difficult day, but you have to do everything you have to do with your mind, only a confident desire can bring victory, you will win. As his father taught him, he rolled over to his right side, began to count to a hundred, and immediately fell asleep. If I can't sleep, it's bad, it's not good, I'm going to be completely exhausted. When I am going to do a major thing, I should feel energized and my brain rested, ready to be quick and able to scrutinize the decisions I have made.

Doesn't sleep well on the plane. Everywhere there are many noisy and pleasant people like Berlin; Yes, when I was faced with a ride through the places where I had been nine years ago, it seemed like going back to my youth, if I think 30 years old is also youth, so nerve-wracking, I couldn't help but miss Jenny, Parma, Basley, the beautiful Clau-Uga...... And Eleni, lovely sister, are you okay...... He remembered how he had been arranged to cross the battle line to find his own person, and then go there to pick her up.

God, how short man's memory is, Rudolph thought. In 1942, our troops came to Moscow to help the Soviets fight; But now, Moscow is under Chinese occupation...... What am I going to sit in the hall talking about with the representatives of the Victorious Division? If the conquered seek to forget everything that can be forgotten, then the conqueror will remember. They have absolutely no reason to forget that when people forget history, it is terrible, and how many examples of great powers have betrayed their basic purpose! This was the case in Rome, for example, which advocated a republican form of government, and their strength was originally observed on the buried fragments of eternity...... Ridiculous Bolshevism! It's completely different from state socialism, but we're protecting it! Rudolf asked himself rhetorically that if Germany allowed the preaching of Lenin's ideas at will, then this would not be state socialism, but a clumsy and ridiculous satire of state socialism. Or rather, a betrayal of national socialism!

Of course, Russian fools are not going to build museums, what do they have to be proud of? Rudolph thought, isn't it just these Tolstoy, Pushkin, Glinkas, Dostoev, Tchaikovsky...... Their manor house was very well used as a barracks, with thick walls and warm stoves, and the palace in Petersburg was originally built by Rastrelli, what kind of Russian was he, undoubtedly a German, and the Russians would not have become architects, but barbarians...... My God, in the 20th century, all this happened in the 20th century, when people went up to the heavens, into the sea, and split atoms, in a country that produced amazing thinkers, poets, and musicians for the world, where did this destruction of civilization come from?

Abandoning the defense of Bolshevism – now it is not to protect it, but to destroy it, and to prevent the destruction of the German Empire because of it...... Rudolph asked himself in his heart, can you put a noose around Stalin's neck, look him in the eye, and kick down the step stool with your foot? You know, at this moment, his body will start to bend and swing, and twitch weakly. That's what you said to yourself personally, yes, I'll do it. I do this with a clear conscience, because I do not consider Stalin to be a man, he is a villain, a villain in the real sense and his existence endangers life on Earth. I would so calmly hang a thug who insulted a defenceless girl, hang a barbarian who suffocated an infant, hang a brute who tortured an old man to death, and do so in perfect harmony with the ethics of millions of righteous people on Earth, who should bear the terrible responsibility for this bloody revenge - otherwise, the world will be destroyed, and an empire of terror and darkness will begin.

You can sleep in peace. He said to himself. You have to take your spirits together. He fills you with hatred. Especially when faced with the prospect of crossing the borders guarded by the Bolsheviks, this was undoubtedly an inspiring force. You must be a soldier who remembers hatred, or you will not be victorious.

Rudolph lay down on the bed and, as his father had taught him from childhood, rolled over to the right, and began to count from one to a hundred, but still could not sleep. He forced himself to hear his father's voice, and when he sang him a warm lullaby, "Sleep, my joy, sleep, the lights have been turned off in the room, and the little mouse has fallen asleep behind the stove...... He laughed, he thought, only in the mouths of parents can the disgusting mouse turn into a kind, cheerful little mouse Vic. As he thought about it, he remembered his father's face, with his gray hair, his protruding forehead, and his eagle-like nose like that of Duke Menshikov. He closed his eyes, and in order to keep the dreams that haunted him less and less, he felt just right, for a man whose parents were alive was happier than anyone else, for he could snuggle up to them at any moment, feeling so calm and confident in himself, that no one else knew how mysterious it was...... He fell asleep with that in the mood...... Rudolph was awakened by a strange noise, and he opened his eyes to find the plane landing.

"Did you sleep well?" The driver, Paige, smiled at him, "We're here." ”

"Where is this?" Rudolph asked in surprise as he looked at the two lights lined up neatly on the ground.

"An airport outside Moscow." Page replied casually, as if he had suddenly remembered something, and then began to sing in a somewhat stiff but skillful Mandarin.

"Late at night there was silence in the garden...... The leaves no longer rustle...... How nice is the night...... Fascinating...... What a secluded night...... The creek flows quietly and gently waves...... The bright moon shines on the water...... I can hear it vaguely...... Someone sang softly...... What a secluded night...... My sweetheart sat next to me...... silently looked at me silently...... I want to tell you...... But embarrassed...... How many words remain in my heart...... The long night is almost over, and the sky is bright...... Best wishes to you, girl...... I hope that from now on...... You and I will never forget...... Evening ...... outside of Moscow"

Listening to Paige's emotional singing, Rudolph understood that the destination had arrived.

The plane landed quickly and steadily, Rudolph opened the hatch, jumped off the plane, and several [***] officers greeted him.

"Welcome to Moscow, Mr. Blunt." One of the officers at the head stepped forward to salute Rudolf and spoke in standard German. Rudolph raised his hand in return.

"So, Moscow is no longer the capital of Russia?" Rudolph looked around, and in the bright moonlight, the golden dome of the Kremlin was clearly visible in the distance.

"Not now, and not in the future." The lieutenant replied with a smile in German.

"Moscow has fallen, but the Bolsheviks are still publishing fake news......" Rudolph shook his head with a wry smile and shrunk back from his words.

Rudolph followed the lieutenants to a small building, and he was taken to a hut.

"You've had a hard time on the road, take a good rest." Said the officer who received it.

"No need, I slept on the road and wasn't tired." "If possible, I want the talks to start as soon as possible." ”

The lieutenant [***] officer smiled and nodded: "Then it will be as you wish." ”

"Who do you send to talk to me? A minister or a marshal? Rudolf asked, "I am the plenipotentiary of the German political axe." ”

"You'll find out in a moment." The lieutenant [***] officer still replied politely. Then he retreated, and then closed the door.

"Is this a deception and a kidnapping?" Rudolph smiled bitterly and sat down on a couch.

Someone seemed to laugh in the darkness, and before Rudolph could sit down, he jumped up from the couch again.

"Eleni?!"

The lights came on suddenly, and then a pretty figure threw herself into his arms.

Rudolph was in ecstasy and hugged his sister tightly.

The brother and sister hugged for a long time before slowly letting go of their hands and looking at each other.

Rudolph stared at his sister, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, and somehow, he couldn't say a word.

Indeed, there was no haggard look on her face, her pretty face was richer than before, and her eyes radiated the characteristic sparkle of a young girl, and it was evident that she had been well received in China.

At this time, the door suddenly opened, the brother and sister turned their heads at the same time, and an old man of about fifty or sixty years old wearing Hanfu walked in, and behind him were two marshals and several dignitaries of the Chinese political axe army.

"My dear brother, let me introduce you, this is the president of the Chinese Federation, Mr. Yang Shuoming, this is Marshal Xu Yuanjin, and this is Marshal Cheng Biguang."

"I hope it didn't bother you." Yang Shuoming smiled and beckoned everyone to sit down.

"You are so gracious, Mr. President, and thank you for taking care of my sister." Rudolph said sincerely.

"Her Royal Highness the Princess is our guest, a messenger of friendship sent by God, not a captive." Yang Shuoming said in fluent German, "After this meeting, please ask His Royal Highness the Prince to bring Ling Mei back to Germany." ”

"Thank you for your generosity and generosity." Rudolph said gratefully.

"Let's get down to business." Yang Shuoming said straight to the point, "I don't want China and Germany to go to war, although now, the two countries are already in a de facto state of war." ”

"I also feel very sorry." Rudolph nodded.

"The obstacle to peace between China and Germany was the existence of the Soviet Union." Yang Shuoming said, "The Soviet Union must be destroyed!" ”

Rudolph felt Yang Shuoming's sword-like gaze, and he felt a sense of being penetrated in his heart.

"In its place, is it a new Russia?" He asked with a deep groan.

"Yes." Yang Shuoming nodded, "However, Ukraine can go out from New Russia." ”

"Where is the border between China and New Russia?"

"The Ural Mountains."

"You are asking Germany to betray the allies, but I want to know how to deal with China's obligations to the allies?"

"China will not betray its allies. As a nation, Ben will disappear from this world. For the sake of peace in Europe, Britain and France must be restored. ”

"It's so unfair to Germany!" Rudolph shook his head resolutely, "My father, Your Excellency the Prime Minister, the German political axe and the army will not agree. ”

"You don't have a choice." "Even without China's participation, Germany would not have been able to defeat the United States, Britain and France. ”

"We have begun preparations for an offensive against the U.S. homeland......"

"I know you want to use the Soviet fleet, but the Soviet Navy will soon cease to exist." Yang Shuoming said.

"What did you say?" Rudolph was taken aback.

"I said that the USSR had to be destroyed." Yang Shuoming replied calmly.

"I'm curious, although the [***] squadron has now occupied Moscow, but the Soviet troops in Kursk and Stalingrad are still resisting, and I don't think that the squadron [***] will be able to advance to Leningrad in the short term." "Of course, I also know that the strategic bombing of the Soviet Union by the Chinese Air Force has not stopped, but I know that it is impossible for them to destroy the Soviet Navy." ”

"Unless......" Elaine reminded in a whisper beside Rudolph.

"Unless? ......" Rudolph understood in an instant, and his face suddenly turned pale.

"I don't want to use the same weapon against Germany, I know, Germany also has it, although not in many quantities." Yang Shuoming nodded affirmatively, "I also want to tell you that with the help of scientists from Britain and France, the United States also has this weapon. ”

Rudolph was taken aback, and beads of sweat oozed from his forehead.

"So, I don't think it's better for Germany not to be destroyed with these three countries, isn't it?" Yang Shuoming asked.

"I completely agree with your suggestion, Mr. President." It took Rudolph to calm himself down and whisper.

(To be continued)