Kong Xiangxi felt that everything was finished, and he also taught Li Kongrong a lesson, but Li Kongrong felt that there were a thousand words stuffed in his chest, although he knew that telling Kong Xiangxi might not be fruitful, but he still wanted to continue. However, at this time, the German who was on the same plane began to speak, and under Qi Yan's translation, Kong Xiangxi put him aside. And when the Germans were in charge and Li Kongrong wanted to stir up the topic again, the plane had already begun to reduce its altitude and prepare for landing.

Kong Xiangxi went directly to the hotel to rest, and at 9 o'clock in the evening to the train station, the group set off from Berlin and headed for Berchtesgaden near the Alps. The train is a sleeping car, and after getting on the train, Li Kongrong can't find Kong Xiangxi, and he finally meets Zhou Yingcong, who is naturally qualified to go to the Eagle's Nest to see Hitler as Chen Shaokuan's adjutant.

In the middle of the night, the train clanged, and when Li Kongrong was standing by the door smoking, Zhou Yingcong came over. "There's a good thing to tell you." He said. "The minister has already nodded and let you stay, but you can ask Mr. Yongzhi to help the navy buy a few more submarines. The minister said that at least seven should be bought, so that you can be given a captain. ”

Li Kongrong is worried that Chang Kaishen insists on fighting in Shanghai and Japan, and the reason why he had so much nonsense with Kong Xiangxi before is that he wants Kong Xiangxi to tell Chang Kaishen a sentence: You can fight anywhere, but Shanghai can't fight.

However, based on the history he knew, Chang Kaishen had long set the strategy of fighting in Shanghai, and he even shamelessly said: "The reason why I want to fight is because my teachers when I was studying in Japan are now in great responsibility, and the Japanese sometimes have a deeper study of China's strategic war history than the Chinese." Now we are fighting with the Japanese, not afraid to fight from the south or from the north, the most worried is that the Japanese from the Lugou Bridge into Shanxi and then through Hanzhong into Sichuan, this is the strategic ...... of Kublai Khan's destruction of the Southern Song Dynasty, now the only way is to fight in Shanghai, guide him along the Jiangxi River, then he will be defeated. [note 9]'

This man, who has been praised by some people in later generations, has such a superficial understanding of modern warfare. He completely ignored the fact that modern warfare was limited to logistics and that the army could only move along the railway line, and that if Japan fought from the north, it could only go south along the Jinpu Road and the Pinghan Road, and it would be impossible for it to 'enter Sichuan through Hanzhong.'

History clearly tells the world that China's military geography has always created a dynasty of confrontation between the north and the south. The reason why there are only the northern and southern dynasties and never the eastern and western dynasties is because there are mountains and rivers in the north and south. One of them is the Great Wall Yanshan, where you can retreat to the Yellow River if you can't hold it, and the Yellow River freezes in winter, so you can also guard the Jianghuai Qinling Mountains. If it is lost here, then it can only guard the Yangtze River, but the Yangtze River must be guarded, and the Huai River will be lost, and the Yangtze River will be difficult to protect.

Assuming that the Japanese could really ignore the logistics and rely on mules and horses and the 11th route to occupy Hanzhong and Sichuan, and at the same time occupy Xuzhou, it would not be without opportunities. As long as you can hold Xiangfan and control Gwangju Shouchun (that is, the upper reaches of the Huai River), there is also the possibility of surviving. It took decades for the Mongols to destroy the Southern Song Dynasty on the basis of the Jin people, because Sichuan was difficult to occupy and Xiangfan was difficult to attack.

However, Chang Qian's strategy was to abandon the dangerous place, directly lead the Japanese army to Shanghai, let them 'go up the Jiangxi River', and say that 'he will be defeated at that time', this kind of behavior was condemned by the PLC Military Academy of later generations as 'self-destruction of the lungs and self-destruction of resources'; even more brain-dead for the so-called League of Nations mediation in the dead Shanghai hard fight, one division after another was thrown into the artillery fire, and more than 20 divisions were bombed out in two months, and the perfect stage of 'you have a cannon shell, I have the farce of Tianlinggai', and the final retreat is even more chaotic because of repeated orders, and the whole army is chaotic, and it will collapse directly under the city of Nanjing.

For the modern army, the transportation value of a Yangtze River is more than 50 railways, and the so-called 'going up along the river' and 'tracing the river to attack' are nothing more than talking about ancient wooden boats. In the era when steam turbines appeared, there were still 'westward' and 'upper-attack'. Along the Yangtze River, with the transportation capacity of the Yangtze River, the Japanese army could easily evade the reality of China's inconvenient transportation, and smoothly drop troops and war materials through the Yangtze River to any part of the water connection.

In hindsight, the predecessors may not be good, but don't the pigs in the government know the difference between Yangtze River shipping and railway transportation? Don't you know that the Battle of Songhu, in which the Japanese navy had complete superiority, could be outflanked by the Japanese army on both sides, repeating the historical fact of 128 hours and 7 Yakou? It's really not as good as a pig!!

Thinking faster and faster, breathing more and more urgently, emotions became more and more angry, and finally Li Kongrong's head hit the iron door hard, and he sighed with his eyes closed: "Shuchun, many times I can't cry even if I want to!" ”

Li Kongrong, who should be happy, actually looked decadent and said that he wanted to cry, Zhou Yingcong couldn't figure out why he was like this, so he only said: "Didn't your wish come true?" All you have to do is ask Mr. Yongzhi to order two more submarines to be the captain. ”

"What's the use of being a captain?" Li Kongrong was discouraged at this time, clenching his fists and just wanting to smash Chang Kaishen's head.

"As the captain, you are the master of a boat!" Zhou Yingcong saw that he was still leaning against the iron door with his eyes closed, and immediately smiled. "There are so many people in the navy, and there are a few who can be ship owners. I won't lie to you this time, if you really behave well, the deputy commander of the submarine fleet will definitely have your share. He said in a quieter voice, "...... The key is to befriend Mr. Yongzhi. ”

"Huh...... Ha ha...... Hahahaha......" After Zhou Yingcong finished speaking, Li Kongrong laughed so much that tears came out, he hit the car door with his fist, and sighed helplessly: "The merchant girl doesn't know the hatred of the country, and she still sings the backyard flowers across the river." "Then I'll go back to my bunk.

At eight o'clock the next morning, the train arrived at Minxing Station, where everyone had breakfast in the luxurious royal waiting room, and then departed by car for the town of Berchtesgaden. The mountains and rivers here are clean, like a paradise, and the town is also neat and clean, with dark brown eaves and snow-white walls, which makes Li Kongrong think of the Wuyuan countryside in later generations. For lunch, I ate salmon from Königslake, which was delicious, which had to make me sigh that the Germans were not so axial, but at least the arrangement was quite proper.

Being in the midst of the beautiful lakes and landscapes, and eating delicious food, although Li Kongrong was in a better mood, he still wanted to find an opportunity to talk to Kong Xiangxi, and after lunch, he rested - the departure time for meeting Hitler was set at three o'clock, and Kong Xiangxi, who was also intoxicated by the beautiful scenery, sat in the shade of the trees by the lake and smoked a cigar in the breeze.

"Mr. Yongzhi......" He glanced at Zhang Pingqun, and then looked at Kong Xiangxi.

"Oh, Hansheng. Have a seat. Kong Xiangxi was in a good mood, and when he saw that Li Kongrong was coming, he asked him to sit.

"Mr. Yongzhi, there are still some unfinished words yesterday...... Li Kongrong glanced at Zhang Pingqun when he said, Zhang Pingqun immediately got up, said goodbye to Kong Xiangxi and walked away.

"Hmm. You say. Kong Xiangxi didn't know what Li Kongrong was going to say, he just thought that he really had something left unfinished.

"Yes." Li Kongrong sat down. Although he wanted to say a lot of things, he didn't know how to say anything as soon as he sat down.

"What, didn't you think about it?" Kong Xiangxi smiled, and the cigar was caught between his fat fingers. Li Kongrong suddenly felt that he looked very much like Churchill, but it was impossible to be as aggressive as Churchill.

"No," Li Kongrong shook his head. "Because it's too important, I don't know how to open it, and I'm even more worried that it's useless to say it!"

"Say it." Although Kong Xiangxi felt that he was different from the previous two times, he still didn't know what he was going to say.

"Once a war breaks out between China and Japan, we must not fight it in Shanghai." All the reasons and foreshadowing that he had thought of were forgotten by Li Kongrong, and what he said as soon as he opened his mouth was the conclusion.

"Oh." Kong Xiangxi didn't care, he said: "Military and political affairs, the chairman will plan, you ......." ”

"Mr. Yongzhi, judging from the defense fortifications built between Beijing and Shanghai, the central government is indeed determined to start a war in Shanghai. In the event of war, Shanghai, which is sandwiched between the Yangtze River and Hangzhou Bay, is a dead land, with its dense rivers and easy transportation, which will only allow the Japanese navy and army to make full use of their strengths, and I will show my shortcomings. ”

Li Kongrong was full of excitement, even if Kong Xiangxi didn't care about him, he still insisted: "Once Shanghai is defeated, Nanjing will be lost in three months, Nanjing will be lost, and Wuhan will not be protected within a year." At that time, most of the country's land had fallen, the country would not be a country, and we had lost the land of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the coastal ports were occupied by the Japanese army, and foreign trade was cut off, and the war would be difficult to continue. ”

The last two sentences finally made Kong Xiangxi a little moved, he put down his cigar and said: "Didn't you say yesterday that if the Japanese ruler sent Siberia can't get it, he will only peep into the South Seas?" Why are you ...... now?"

"Mr. Yongzhi, I also said that the middle and lower-level officers of the Japanese army often went down to the top, and assassinated cabinet dignitaries several times, and the upper-level officials have been killed, and they will only push the boat down the river and clean up the mess. Once the heavy forces of the two countries are assembled in Shanghai, and our army is defeated again, then if we take Shanghai, we must attack Nanjing, and if we do not compromise on occupying the Nanjing national capital, then the Japanese army will go up the river and then down Wuhan. What they wanted was for China to become a vassal state of Japan, and if this was not achieved, the war would continue forever.

It is not that Japan should not be warned, but that Japan should not be brought into the heart, let alone allowed to use the Yangtze River as the offensive axis. If it was only fought from Beiping to the south, even if the war could not be limited to North China, the Japanese army would have to pay a great price to take Nanjing along the railway. ”

"What if the Japanese army took the initiative to attack Shanghai? In 918, they were fighting in Shanghai. "Kong Xiangxi is not familiar with military affairs, but Li Kongrong can still understand what he said, which is a choice in the strategic direction.

"918 was caused by Japan in order to divert international attention, not that the Japanese army really wanted to occupy Shanghai. The interests of various countries involved in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions are wanted, and they want to blackmail all countries with this. Li Kongrong said his understanding of 128, "If China and Japan go to war again, even if Japan will start a war in Shanghai when it cannot attack North China for a long time, we must find a way to attract its attention and troops to the Pinghan and Jinpu lines, and try to delay the loss of Nanjing as much as possible." A decisive battle should not be fought against Shanghai, a small place where the left and right could be landed on the left and right, but should be gradually retreated and resisted in turn. Even if Mr. Yongzhi does not consider the military, he should also consider the finances, once Jiangsu and Zhejiang fail, the fiscal and taxation will not be sustainable. ”

"Okay, I got it." Perhaps it was the finance that moved Kong Xiangxi, and he finally nodded. "When I return to China, I will give the chairman a detailed discussion of your strategy, but you have to write it down in the report, and you have to be detailed."

"Yes, the lowly duty must be detailed!" Li Kongrong let out a big sigh of relief, and he didn't understand the style of the government's 're-discussion'. At this time, he had become a brainless person, and said: "In addition, there are two things about finances to report to Mr. Yongzhi." ”

"Oh. Okay, you say. Kong Xiangxi smiled, he felt that Li Kongrong was going to know everything.

"I learned by chance that three hundred years ago, in August 1622, a Spanish treasure ship named Mrs. Atoca sank in the waters off Cuba, carrying nearly ten tons of gold, more than thirty tons of silver, and hundreds of kilograms of precious stones. It's just that the location of the wreck has not yet been clarified, and if it is investigated, it will definitely be able to help the party-state. Li Kongrong died very well, but fortunately, he really couldn't recall the specific location of the wreck, although he had repeatedly watched the documentary of the excavation of the wreck.

"Really?!" Kong Xiangxi stood up suddenly, and then sat down slowly—nearly ten tons of gold, more than thirty tons of silver, and hundreds of kilograms of gems, which is tens of millions of dollars.

"There is indeed this shipwreck, and I am sure of it. But now there is no specific location of the sinking in the historical documents. If found, the government must be asked to intervene with the Cuban government and then pay for the salvage. Li Kongrong hid his forgetfulness, he didn't know how he couldn't remember. It's a shame that he can't think of it now, otherwise there would be no aircraft carrier task force galloping across the ocean in the future.

"Good. Good. Kong Xiangxi threw down his cigar, his eyes lit up, and the more he looked at Li Kongrong, the more satisfied he became-after a few days of contact, he could feel this young man's sincerity to the party-state.

"The second thing I want to say is a new medicine." Li Kongrong, who thought that Kong Xiangxi could persuade Chang Kaishen to change the history of the Anti-Japanese War, was kicked in the brain by a donkey and continued to die, he said: "In 1928, the British scientist Fleming discovered an antibiotic during the experiment, but he had no way to extract this antibiotic, this drug has great potential, especially when Europe is about to go to war, and its price is equivalent to gold. There is also a new anti-malarial drug that, if extracted, could replace quinine. ”

"Okay." This time, Kong Xiangxi was not as excited as he was just now, he said: "If you need anything, just open a list, as long as the amount is not large, I can approve it first." ”

"The shipwreck will continue to explore historical materials in libraries and private collectors in various countries, and the first thing about new drugs is to find reliable research talents. In addition to finding people, you also need some money," Li Kongrong glanced at Kong Xiangxi, worried that he would not pay: "Actually, it doesn't cost much, it's just to buy some laboratory equipment, and the salary of R&D personnel, which doesn't cost much." ”

"Okay, okay." Kong Xiangxi picked up the naturally extinguished cigar again and lit it, he said, "You should write a report on these two things." I'll leave Germany tomorrow evening, and I'm too late, but you can write a draft and give it to me, and I'll give you a sum of money before I go. As for the official report...... Secretary-General Weng will return from Europe after he goes to the Soviet Union, and you can hand over the report to him and ask him to bring it to me. ”

Kong Xiangxi thought about his itinerary, and finally said uneasily: "You will give me the report on the Sino-Japanese issue tomorrow, and I will go to the chairman of the committee to discuss it after I return to China." Remember that the report of the shipwreck must be kept confidential and must not be leaked, and if this matter is successful, the central government will reward it! ”