Chapter 614 Yin is cloudy

Zhukov was a born soldier, and the value of a soldier can only be reflected on the battlefield, although Stalin promoted him to deputy chief of the General Staff, but for Zhukov this is not what he wants, he would rather be sent down to be a commander of a front army or even a commander of an army group is better than being here all day long in front of a pile of data and a bunch of boring trivia.

But knowing Stalin's character, he did not dare to say much, but silently accepted the result. For Stalin, although Zhukov, the most famous general in the Red Army of Soviet Russia, is the most advantageous trump card in his hands, Stalin did not want him to always lead troops in the front-line troops, and Stalin still understood the truth that the servant is strong and the master is weak. Throughout the ages, all outstanding superiors have mastered the art of checks and balances, and the same is true of Stalin, although he admired Zhukov in his heart, but after rational analysis, he still suppressed this appreciation, and instead sent Lieutenant General Vasilevsky to the Far East to preside over the military affairs of Siberia.

Although Zhukov was a little disappointed in his heart, he quickly suppressed this unhappiness in his heart, "Dear Comrade Stalin, although the Chinese side has accumulated some troops on the border, I think these threats are far less great than the threat to Germany, which is entrenched in the western region and is eyeing us. You must know that the Germans have deployed more than three million troops there, and this number is constantly increasing. I hope that you will give a notice so that the military districts in the west are fully prepared so that they will not be caught off guard by that time. ”

After listening to Zhukov's words, Stalin thought about it, turned his head and asked the foreign minister, who was sitting on the left, and said: "Comrade Motolov, is there any movement in Germany to the west?" ”

Motolov said: "Comrade Stalin, there is no movement in the west for the time being, but yesterday the German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop sent me a telegram, in which Ribbentrop claimed that they had recently transferred troops to the territory of Blanc in preparation for an attack on Britain, and now they were only coming to the east to rest. This situation will continue until around July. Germany will also send reinforcements to northern Norway via Finland, and some German troops will enter Romania to send military representatives to help Romania train troops, not against our country, and I hope we can understand. ”

"Hmm!" Stalin nodded noncommittally and turned to the Minister of Industry on his right, "Comrade Jimilav, is our trade with the Germans still going on normally?" ”

"Yes, Comrade Stalin." Jimilav used to lift his glasses on the bridge of his nose with his hand, "So far, the Germans are still abiding by the contract with us, yesterday a German industrial train drove on time to the south of Blan, handed over to our people, and now that train has turned to the Ukrainian factory." ”

Stalin nodded with satisfaction: "Comrades, the available situation shows that the Germans, despite the deployment of heavy troops in Bran and in the western part of our country, are still trying to avoid conflict with our country. From this it can be concluded that although the Germans are our great enemy, there is very little chance that the Germans will go to war with us for at least a year. Comrade Zhukov, as a soldier, it is right to always be vigilant, but we must learn to judge and find the essence of things through the phenomena. In addition, I hope that the Belarusian Military District will lower the registration of performances for this year's autumn exercises by one notch, so that there will be no misunderstanding on the part of the German side, and this is my opinion. ”

Stalin's words were the final conclusion, and Zhukov silently lowered his head after hearing this, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Okay, let's put aside the problem of the Germans and the Chinese for the time being, and now let's talk about people." As he spoke, Stalin took out his corn pipe, slowly stuffed it with tobacco and struck a match and slowly lit it, but his eyes couldn't help but look at the expressions of the people around him, and sure enough, there was a hint of mhu in everyone's eyes.

In the end, it was Huaxialevsky who broke the silence and asked, "People? Does man have anything to do with us now? They are too far away from us, and some time ago they were beaten by the Chinese and breathless, and even Sakhalin Island was lost, if it weren't for the fact that their naval strength was not much, they would have been beaten into the mainland by the Chinese people long ago. ”

Although there was nothing obvious in Huaxia Levsky's words, the people around him could hear his disdain for people.

"No, no, Comrade Vasilevsky, you are wrong, people have come to us this time to ask for cooperation with us. Therefore, it seems that the person who led the team to Moscow this time was Foreign Minister Yoyo Matsuoka, and it seems that they are still very sincere. ”

"Sincerity?" Everyone here pouted, if there was sincerity, it would have been impossible to deploy heavy troops on the border to contend with Soviet Russia when they were in the three eastern provinces. Oh, now that I know I'm scared, why did I go earlier?

"People are asking for a new non-aggression agreement with us, and they want to buy scrap steel from us to meet their growing demand, and of course, we all know the purpose of buying scrap steel. Some time ago, the market in the United States had closed its doors to people, so they turned their attention to us again. Stalin continued to speak in his calm tone.

This time everyone is silent, as the saying goes, the enemy of the enemy is a friend, and the Chinese people are willing to see evil, and the Soviet Russians also want to see China and Japan fight to the death, although everyone does not like this two-faced country, but in comparison they hope to consume the strength of China.

Motolov nodded: "Although I don't like people very much, I still hope that they can contain the Chinese navy in the Far East, so I tend to sell scrap steel to people." ”

"I agree!"

"I agree!"

Seeing that everyone expressed their positions, Stalin nodded slightly, "Okay, then today's meeting will be held here first, and Comrade Motolov will handle the matter of dealing with people, in order to show his support for them, Comrade Motolov, you can tell Foreign Minister Matsuoka Yoyo, I will meet him in a few days." ”

"Okay, Comrade Stalin."

Embassy of Moscow in Soviet Russia

Foreign Minister Yoyo Matsuoka, who had come all the way to Moscow, was secretly talking with Nao Matsui, the ambassador to Soviet Russia, in a dark room.

"Matsui-kun, what's the atmosphere like in Moscow right now?"

"Matsuoka-kun, everything is normal in Moscow now, and their troops are only moving normally. There was no major movement on their Western Front either, and in short, everything was no different from before. ”

"They didn't do anything to guard against the Germans on the Blanch?" Matsuoka Yoyo didn't understand why the Russians were so relieved of Germany, "Don't they feel a little danger to the fierce Germans standing at the door?" ”

"Nope!" Nao Matsui shook his head in affirmation.

"Oh, a bunch of guys with no sense of crisis." Matsuoka shook his head in disunderstanding.

"Matsui-kun, the preparations for the Empire's southward expansion plan have been basically completed, and now all we have to do is wait for the opportunity and try to improve him. The Americans have closed the door to our market, and now the only one who can help us is Soviet Russia, so we must not let go of this opportunity. Matsuoka Yoyo said in an affirmative tone: "The millions of troops deployed by the Germans in the south of Blanc will not be used against the British, their purpose must be Soviet Russia, if Germany and Soviet Russia start a war, it means that our last steel import channel will also be cut off, so we have to take advantage of this short time to buy as much scrap steel as possible, and your embassy must also fully cooperate with me, understand?" ”

"Hello!"

Nao Matsui stood up and replied solemnly!

While the world was desperately trying to buy scrap steel, the Germans were desperately trying to hide their offensive direction. Although Germany has abandoned the "Sea Lion Project", they still claim to the outside world that the "Sea Lion Project" is still in full swing.

Since March, the Germans have been taking many measures to distract people's attention. First of all, they created a false impression, printed and distributed a large number of British maps, equipped the troops with a large number of English interpreters, assembled a large number of sea-crossing and landing vehicles along the English Channel and the Calais Strait, deployed many false rockets on the coast, and sent troops to conduct frequent landing combat exercises, creating the false impression that the troops were going to attack Britain on a large scale.

At sea, the Germans' submarine forces pounced like madmen on the convoys of convoys coming and going with the British, and these ferocious sea wolves showed everyone the fact that the British dilapidated convoy was a herd of sheep to be slaughtered in front of the German undersea assassins. For a time, all the ships in the Atlantic to and from Britain were in agony.

The Germans not only deceived the Russians, but also stabbed the British. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered the entire Far East Fleet to be redeployed to participate in the convoy in April, and made emergency loans from the United States to purchase dozens of destroyers and cruisers.

And at this time, another shocking news came out of Germany, which attracted the attention of everyone in the world.

"What! The Chinese actually sold the Dingyuan-class battleships to the Germans! In the office at 10 Downing Street, Churchill's face was as ugly as that of a middle-aged man who happened to be caught by his wife when he was cheating.

"The Germans had already unveiled those two super-battleships yesterday in Hamburg, Germany, and Hitler officially named them "Frederick the Great" and "Odding"! ”

Admiral McKenna, who was standing in front of Churchill, answered Churchill's question in the affirmative. ro@。