"Sir, do you really promise to go to the Northeast to build this building for the Japanese?" Yan Wudao, who looked confused, looked at the sand table that had been built, and asked Zhao Zhi in a low voice. Zhao Zhi's operational staff officers are not good at going into battle, but their intelligence analysis and formulation of action plans are excellent, especially the ability to build a sand table is highly respected by Zhao Zhi, and the sand table in front of him is built by several combat staff officers with the photos and materials brought by Molotov.

"Not yet, but I think we shouldn't lose this opportunity, and if the action is successful, it will definitely be a leap forward for our Thunder in the future." Staring at the freshly built sand table without blinking, Zhao Zhi pondered the plan of action in his mind. Going deep into the northeast to toss in the defense area of the Kwantung Army, which has been over a million Kwantung Army, is not a simple sortie mission, Zhao Zhi's current understanding of the northeast comes from the information provided by the military commanders and the Soviets, once the action is negligent, the people who carry out the mission may be wiped out.

Compared with the Germans, Zhao Zhi looked down on the Soviets more, and he was even more disdainful of Stalin's purge of the party. The Soviet Union is one of the world's top superpowers, and the leader in charge of such a large country should never use killing his own people as a means of consolidating power, not to mention that many of the people purged by Stalin are just innocent implicated people, and how can Zhao Zhi believe that he can attack his own people.

At this time, the Soviets threw out this so-called bacteriological laboratory of the Japanese, which was nothing more than a plan to kill two birds with one stone. When Thunder assassinated Hitler, the Soviets saw the potential and strength of Thunder, and once Thunder attacked the 731 defense, the Soviets would not be able to pass the news to the Kwantung Army, so as to provoke the Kwantung Army's anger against the Thunder. Thunder and the Kwantung Army fought, from which the Nationalist Government is not the only one that benefited, Stalin, who was anxious to draw troops, was able to concentrate on dealing with the German army, if Thunder's action failed, according to Zhao Zhi's short personality, he would definitely not give up, maybe Zhao Zhi's heart was in a hurry, and he would also draw troops to the north and fight the Kwantung Army, and this was exactly the situation that Stalin wanted to see. Molotov had a good calculation, but Zhao Zhi didn't want the Soviets to have a good time, the 731 defense station would definitely fight, and Zhao Zhi planned to personally lead the team to carry out the attack. He now has another thing to think about, that is, how to drag the Soviets into this conspiracy as well, preferably to let the Kwantung Army and the Soviet Army fight dog-eat-dog.

"Contact Dazhi immediately, mobilize all Chinese and White Russian mercenaries to come to Chongqing, and pick a good skill, preferably a veteran who has fought with the Japanese army more than ten times." Having made up their minds, Zhao Zhi's intelligence staff and telecommunications room began to get busy. Yu Dazhi has been in charge of Thunder's training camp in Mandalay, and after Joey's armored division successfully moved south in Vietnam, all the Thunder mercenaries were recalled by Yu Dazhi to Mandalay for rest, except for the nearly 1,000 mercenaries left in Shandong by Zhao Zhi, almost all of Thunder's mercenaries are currently in Myanmar.

"Tell Dazhi to use the transport plane to send the selected mercenaries here, and contact our arsenal in Kunming to send the latest equipment and weapons to remove, I will use them in a hurry." Thunder's arsenal in Kunming was the most heavily defended outside of Zhao Zhi's headquarters, with more than 4,000 Jewish ordnance technicians and more than 10,000 arsenal workers producing weapons and ammunition for Thunder. As the U.S. fleet regained control of the Pacific, new equipment custom-made from the Florida weapons lab arrived in Burma, but Zhao Zhidu had been storing them in the basement of the Kunming Arsenal, and now it was time to use them.

"Sir, the cost of our equipment is not small, if there is any mistake in this, our losses will be great, and if they are picked up by the Japanese, will they be able to make the same weapons and equipment as us?" All combat operations cannot be foolproof and immortal, Zhao Zhi took the idea to go to the northeast to destroy the 731 defense station, that is to go deep behind the enemy thousands of miles away from the lone army, the loss of weapons and equipment is inevitable, Yan Wudao does not want the Japanese to use imitation weapons to deal with the thunderous troops in the future.

Yan Wudao's worries, Zhao Zhi also thought about it, but after all the measurements, Zhao Zhi believed that the value of the 731 Defense Station was far greater than those so-called new equipment. Zhao Zhi has decades of more insight and knowledge than this era, and only with enough resources and conditions can Zhao Zhi come up with more and better weapons and equipment to distribute to Thunder. Turning around and glancing at Yan Wudao and a few of them, Zhao Zhi scolded with a smile, "I said that you are also a high-ranking officer of Thunder, so you can't be a little promising, put your horizons wider, and stare at a little bit of small profits all day long, I don't know if you are uncomfortable." ”

Yan Wudao was trained by Zhao Zhi, but his heart was a little relaxed, Thunder from scratch in just three years, from the initial dozen people to the current hundreds of thousands, and also has the envy of the national army and the Japanese army so far weapons and equipment and combat effectiveness. What they are discussing now is just a new weapon equipped with 100 people, and it is true that they should not be careful, and Zhao Zhi, who is the boss, is not in a hurry, they are in a hurry to lead troops to fight.

"If I contact the people of the military commander, I need them to provide more detailed information about the northeast, so that our intelligence staff can form a team to analyze the intelligence, especially the place mentioned by the Soviets." Before the mercenaries arrived in Chongqing, there was still a lot of preparation work waiting for Zhao Zhi to do, but in between, he still needed to meet Molotov once, and it was best to settle the matter of the tank engine before the action.

After two days of waiting, Molotov became an ant on a hot pot, and Chiang Kai-shek suddenly took a special plane to Shanxi, and the bigwigs in the military and political department were obviously arranged by Chiang Kai-shek, and they were lukewarm to Molotov, who came to visit, and their words were full of hints, suggesting that Molotov went to Geyue Mountain to find Zhao Zhi to talk about the matter. But Molotov went to Geyue Mountain twice, but was stopped by the military police of the state government guarding at the foot of the mountain, saying that Zhao Zhi was studying new tactics in the training camp on the mountain, and was closing the door to thank guests, even if Chairman Chiang Kai-shek came, Zhao Zhi might not come down the mountain.

The "damned Chinese" annoyed Molotov paced back and forth in the room, Stalin's telegram had already arrived, and the attitude of the Soviet top was very clear, as long as the National Government or Thunder agreed to send troops to the northeast, everything was negotiable, and besides, Zhao Zhi only wanted tank engines and not assembled tanks. The Soviet Union had more tank engines in its arsenal, not to mention 2,000 units, even twice as much, and Stalin was willing to give it.

"Mr. Molotov, how are you doing these days?" Zhao Zhi, who suddenly came to the door, was a little knowingly asked, and the angry Molotov secretly held back the fire, thunder is now the lifeline of the Soviet Union, and Molotov can't and doesn't dare to provoke Zhao Zhi at this time. After shaking hands with Molotov, Zhao Zhi sat down on the sofa first, "Mr. Molotov, I don't know how you and your Soviet high-level shirts are doing?" You have to know that my time is precious, and if I don't get a clear answer by lunch today, I think I'll take a special flight back to Myanmar. ”

Zhao Zhi's visit made Molotov see a glimmer of hope, and he was going to bargain with Zhao Zhi, but Zhao Zhi's current words were really forcing the palace, forcing him to reply immediately, which made Molotov's already angry face darker and darker. "2,000 tank engines, 10,000 Bobosha submachine guns, 10 million rounds of ammunition, and 2 supporting bullet production lines, this is my bottom line, and if this number is missing, we don't need to talk about it." The list was slowly pushed in front of Molotov by Zhao Zhi, and then Zhao Zhi began to smoke a cigar leisurely Molotov and others replied.

"No, no, you are a lion's mouth, you know that we are now at war with the Germans, our own troops are short of weapons and equipment, 1,000 tank engines are enough, we can't get 10,000 Bobosha submachine guns, but the bullet production line can give you one, Bobosha can give you up to 2,000." Molotov seemed to be really frightened by Zhao Zhishi's big mouth, and shook his head vigorously.

Zhao Zhi was at Molotov's meeting, and seeing that Molotov was calling him poor, the smile on Zhao Zhi's face slowly faded, and the coldness in his words became a little more, "Mr. Molotov, this list is not asking you to help us thunder, but also as a cost to hire us to send troops to the Northeast." Hundreds of thousands of troops of your Soviet army can't help the Kwantung Army, do you think I will let my troops carry bolt-action rifles to fight a war of attrition with the Kwantung Army? I'll just wait here and give you two hours, and after two hours I still don't get a reply, so I don't need to mention your suggestion again, and I don't think the Nationalist Government will allow you to send troops to the northeast. ”

Zhao Zhi's words are not arrogant, the strongest combat effectiveness of all the anti-Japanese armed forces in China is Thunder, if Thunder ignores Molotov, Chiang Kai-shek will never pull the youth army that has just experienced actual combat to the northeast to be cannon fodder, not to mention the 74th Army, known as the Tiger Ben, that is Chiang Kai-shek's treasure. Molotov was very embarrassed by Zhao Zhi's toughness, but for the sake of the Soviet Union, he could only pretend to contact the Soviet top level immediately, and then agree to all the demands made by Zhao Zhi.

"Mr. Molotov, I have ordered the mercenary forces of Thunder to assemble in Chongqing, and in the three days from now, I would like to hear the news of the arrival of the first supplies in Kunming, otherwise the agreement between us will be null and void. On the other hand, the faster you can deliver supplies, the greater the volume, and the sooner and faster we will send out troops," Zhao Zhi had already eaten Molotov to death, and when he left, Hia did not forget to add fuel to the fire, and made Molotov so angry that he had not touched the water and rice all day, and only shouted and had a headache.