In a private room in the Donglaishun branch of Baotou Old Town, it was steaming at this time. In the middle, a copper hot pot is bubbling with the aroma of the people, and the table is full of all kinds of snacks, mutton, beef, vegetables, and of course, good wine. In this bitter cold place in the north of the country, although it is already the beginning of June, the weather is still cool in the morning and evening, eat an authentic old Beijing shabu-shabu, and then have some good wine, but the most fashionable enjoyment in Baotou City at the moment! There were seven or eight people sitting around the table, and everyone was having a lively discussion. Almost no one moved their chopsticks, and they seemed to be immersed in the topic they were discussing. Most of these people are generals of the Northeast Army and the National Army who served in the headquarters of the border guards, and there are also some democrats who have come from the southern national control area. Although they are not powerful figures, their opinions and voices have considerable influence on the decision-making of China G. Among this group of people, the loudest voice was naturally Deng Yanda, the leader of the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee who came from Shanghai to "visit," and during this time, as a leading figure in China's anti-war movement, he seemed to have a very prosperous life. People have also been a little blessed. He was speaking there with a wine glass.

"The time for the Kuomintang to start the war seems to have been set! All their heavy industry plans called for commissioning before January 1938, and the end of spring 1938 was supposed to be the time for war against the Soviet Union. In this way, the huge offensive forces of more than 8 million men in China, Germany, and Bolan could move forward in five to six months, although not to destroy the Soviet Union in one fell swoop. However, it can also push the front hundreds of kilometers deep into the heart of the Soviet Union. However, after that, the climate turned colder, and the squadron from the warm zone may have to switch to the defense and wait for the next spring. And although the Germans and Bolans on the Western Front were Chinese harder than us, it was difficult for them to fight in the harsh winters of Russia...... It was estimated that the war would turn protracted after October 1938. It is likely that like the First World War in history, tens of millions of troops on both sides will be slowly consumed in countless trenches, and in the end, no one can help anyone. ”

His words immediately received many voices of approval. In this box, there was a sudden wave of enthusiasm. These border guard generals all looked slightly drunk, and one of the tall middle-aged soldiers shook his head and agreed with Deng Yanda's words. This person is none other than the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Border Guards. General of the National Defense Forces Reserve, Jiang Dengxuan. He is now the No. 2 person in the first department of the Northeast Army, Zhang Xueliang's number one confidant, and in addition to an honorable member of the Chinese GCD. Now that Zhang Xueliang is outside, the generals of the Northeast Army in Baotou are naturally headed by him.

Seeing him moat at the mouth of his neatly trimmed mustache, he muttered: "General Zesheng is right, unless the Triple Alliance can defeat the Soviet Union before winter comes, the war will definitely be deadlocked." Moreover, according to the letter written to me by General Han Qing, the Soviet Red Army was building a defensive line along the Heilongjiang River, known as the Oriental March, and laying millions of mines. And there will also be more than a million Soviet Red Army stationed there! It is definitely easy to defend and difficult to attack, and when the time comes, I'm afraid that their Wehrmacht will fill it with a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood! ”

He slowed his tone, and said something serious: "Honestly. We're old people who came back to the Qing Dynasty. I really don't understand what young people think nowadays? In my opinion, our current China is really good, and those Kuomintang are already doing a very good job...... The current situation in the former Qing Dynasty was unimaginable. In this way, there is no suspense about cultivating national strength, and for 20 years, it is no suspense to be in the ranks of the world's first-class powers! Why go to a world war with the Soviet Union? If you lose, isn't it a waste of all your efforts? Choose a life, you and Luo Fushuai are both from the Cantonese army, can you persuade him, don't take this risk. Isn't it good for everyone's wives to have a peaceful birthday? ”

Listening to Jiang Dengxuan's request, Deng Yanda smiled a little bitterly, no matter how he sounded this, it didn't look like a GCD member said, this old general's party xing was really a little bad. He had to laugh lightly, change the subject, and said, "That line of defense is a new situation. The French are also building a Maginot Line, costing six billion francs. The total length is 700 kilometers...... It was said that with this line of defense, the Germans could no longer threaten the security of France. Chaogong, see if you can ask the young marshal to provide some more information about this Eastern Maginot Line, and don't want anything secret, just some general information. I took it to the South as anti-war propaganda material. I believe that as long as those in the South understand the terrible price to be paid for starting a war against the Soviet Union, the anti-war forces will surely grow. In the end, the war will be stopped. ”

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Outside the Dibaike Garden in Shanghai, only a small policeman in a black uniform paced back and forth in the morning sun, and a few curious tourists on the sidewalk opposite looked inside the garden. Recalling the first time Empress Anastasia arrived here two years ago, the entire street was heavily guarded by secret police, and Luo Yaoguo, who was sitting in a black bulletproof car, couldn't help but smile and give a thumbs up to the little Chinese policeman who guarded the Romanov empress. At this time, the big iron gate of the garden had been opened, and a middle-aged man in a black dress walked over, glanced at Luo Yaoguo in the car, and quickly stepped aside to make a solemn gesture and invited the car in.

In a large room, furnished with elaborate antique furniture and precious paintings, Empress Anastasia waited there in a court dress that was half a xiong. Seeing Luo Yaoguo walk in, he pulled up the hem of his skirt, bowed elegantly, and stretched out his jade hand wearing silk hollow gloves, making Luo Yaoguo wrinkled.

"Marshal, why didn't you see Natalie today? Isn't she inseparable from you? The empress looked behind Luo Yaoguo, and made sure that she didn't see the woman's shadow, so she smiled with satisfaction. However, Luo Yaoguo's subsequent answer did make her a little depressed.

"She's pregnant. It's been almost five months and I hope it's a son this time. ”

"Congratulations, Marshal, can you make me the godmother of this child? You know, I love children, but I can't have them now. Anastasia said, trying to control her eyes so that the tears inside would not flow out. According to herself, she once had a child. Her father was a well-wisher who rescued her, but then the child and her father died...... Maybe it was the blows that came one after another that made this woman full of hatred for the USSR and the Bolsheviks?

"Okay, I've thanked you for Natalie."

The empress had regained her composure, nodded with a smile, walked to an ancient desk, picked up a piece of paper and glanced at it, and then handed it to Luo Yaoguo. "This is a letter from Prime Minister Kerensky to me. It's written in German, so you should be able to read it. He wanted to know when the war would break out, whether China would be able to provide enough artillery to arm ten armies, and help us train an air force. ”

After handing the letter to Luo Yaoguo, Anastasia took out a half-drunk bottle of Heinkel champagne and two goblets from the wine cabinet against the wall, and poured a glass for herself and Luo Yaoguo.

"War will break out at the earliest at the end of April 1938, and no later than the end of June 1938." Luo Yaoguo took the German champagne from the empress. Took a small sip. He added: "The best time for the general mobilization of the Russian army is in October 1937. The artillery of ten corps, that is, fifteen divisional artillery regiments and ten corps-level artillery regiments are also needed. We can provide all of this, and we can also help with training in the Air Force, according to the standard of an aviation division. As for the cost...... If all the Russian troops were attached to the Eastern Front and fought under the command of the Chinese Defense Forces, our country would be able to bear the entire cost of twenty-five artillery regiments and one aviation division. ”

"There is no problem, when the time comes, the entire Russian army will be under your command, because I only trust you."

"Then I can also assure Your Majesty that I will not live up to Your Majesty's trust. You won't use your army as cannon fodder. "In fact, there are not many places for cannon fodder in Luo Yaoguo's plan to exterminate the Soviet Union, and encircling the main force of the Red Army, and then persuading them to surrender after Germany and Bolan take Moscow and Petersburg is the core of the whole plan. The cost of a thousand cannons of the twenty-five artillery regiments was not as expensive as imagined, and those were just old goods that had been eliminated by the Wehrmacht, half of which were still 75 mm Min XIII type. As for an aviation division and training more than 200 pilots, it is a lot of money, but it is still very cost-effective to get 500,000 White Russian troops with not weak combat effectiveness.

"That's great." Anastasia, of course, raised her glass happily and smiled, "Honey." Cheers to our common cause! ”

Luo Yaoguo also raised his glass, took a shallow drink, and said with a smile: "Why did I look at the Prime Minister's letter and let you seduce me, can you start now?" ”

"you." Anastasia snorted and threw her eyes. sneered: "What's the hurry, there's still business." With that, she walked behind her desk. opened the drawer, took out a thick document bag and threw it to Luo Yaoguo: "Stalin built a defense line on the Amur River, known as the Eastern Maginot River, you should know, these are the materials of the defense line, we sacrificed several people to get it, although it is not complete, but it is better than nothing." ”

Luo Yaoguo took the file bag and didn't open it, just shook his head slightly, and sighed: "Hehe, it's the Oriental Maginot Nou!" Looks like we're going to find another way into the Soviet Union......"

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Moscow, Kremlin.

A huge tweed curtain on one side of the conference room was slowly opened, and a huge map of the Soviet Union appeared in front of Stalin and a group of senior officers of the Soviet Red Army. Seeing this top-secret military map, densely marked with various symbols and unit numbers, even these high-ranking generals of the Soviet Red Army who had been in battle for a long time couldn't help but let out a wave of surprise and inhalation. Three huge lines of defense have been drawn in striking red pencils on the Soviet Far East, Central Asia and the western frontiers! Seeing that these three lines of defense had not yet been fully built and only existed on the map, the Red Army generals here already knew that the Soviet Motherland was facing an existential crisis! The rumored joint offensive of the fascist armies of China, Germany, Japan and Japan that is about to be launched in the army is indeed true! And there has always been an emphasis on offense. The fact that the Soviet Red Army, which advocated moving the battlefield to the territory of other countries, had already assumed a defensive posture in the face of these four powerful enemies, which can only show that the enemy's strength far exceeded that of the Soviet Union!

Stalin naturally knew the psychology of the generals of the army, and at this time he had to behave more calmly, he turned his head to look at the map, and then turned back to the officers and smiled slightly: "Comrades, the enemy is indeed very strong, but the Soviet Red Army is invincible, we will definitely be able to defeat them!" And now the question before us is...... Who are we going to defeat first? It was the Bo-German coalition army to the west. Or the Chinese to the east? ”

His few words set the tone for today's meeting. The generals of the Red Army understood what he meant, the Soviet Union was about to face the dilemma of fighting on two fronts, and even the powerful Soviet Red Army was unable to maintain a strong force on both the eastern and western fronts, so it could only concentrate its forces to defeat the enemy from one side first. However, in this future war, neither Germany and Bolan in the west, nor China in the east, will be so easy to deal with. Germany's industrial power now far exceeds that of the Soviet Union, with a combined population of more than 100 million. The number of troops that can be mobilized is at least six million or more! And China is an industrialized country with a population of 600 million, and the number of troops that can be used is almost unlimited!

"Comrade Stalin, both the Germans and the Chinese and the Japanese in the east are on a par with the Soviet Union. Therefore, we do not have the strength to resist one and defeat the enemy from the other. "Speaking was the commander of the Far Eastern Front, Tukhachevsky, who was summoned from Chita to Moscow for this meeting.

He paused here and lowered his tone a little: "Now we maintain a huge force of nearly 700,000 men in the Far East, but we are still not capable of defeating the combined forces of China, Japan and Belarus with less than 600,000 men. From this we can see that our enemy has combat effectiveness that is not weaker than that of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. And once into a full-scale war. They will cause a great crisis to the Far East with their huge numerical superiority, new weapons, and new ways of fighting. If we try to hold the Far East, we will have to commit two million to two and a half million troops, as well as unimaginable logistical pressure! If we want to concentrate our forces to defeat Germany and Bolan in the west first, my proposal is to abandon the Far East for the time being, shrink our forces to Western Siberia, and completely destroy the eastern section of the Trans-Siberian Railway, blocking the squadron with bad traffic and long distances...... After the victory in the war on the Western Front, we will counterattack Eastern Siberia. ”

"Comrade Tukhachevsky, I just heard you say that two hundred to two and a half million people are needed to hold the Far East?" Stalin played with a carved pipe in his hand to hide his nervousness. He said: "I remember that I had instructed the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army's Engineer Bureau to build a defensive line in the Far East as strong as the Maginot Line, and with it, could you not defend the three million troops of the Chinese with a million troops?" I think they'll be drowned in their own blood! ”

Tukhachevsky walked to the front of the map, pointed to the "Amur Line" above and said: "Comrade Stalin, this line of defense under construction is 2,000 kilometers long!" The Maginot Line, which the French are building, is only 700 kilometers. We didn't have that much material and labor to bring the entire line up to the level of defense of the Maginot Line, so we had to make up for the lack of fortifications with troops. Besides......" he shifted his finger to the eastern Méng area and changed his tone to a worried tone: "Our line of defense consists only of the border between the Soviet Union and the Chinese Nationalist territory. And there is almost no fortification on the territory connected to the Chinese GCD! I fear that the Chinese Nationalist army may be able to use its huge mechanized corps to go around the back of the Amur River defense line by passing through the ancient steppe of the eastern Méng...... According to intelligence, China had two large auto-tractor manufacturing complexes and six tractor factories for the production of tanks, after January 1938. Their annual production of tanks and armored vehicles will be up to 8,000 units! ”

"So what?" Stalin interrupted Tukhachevsky with some impatience: "The USSR would have had enough anti-tank guns, anti-tank guns and anti-tank mines. When the time comes, all sorts of anti-tank weapons will fill the entire Amur defense line! ”

"They can organize a huge armored corps to carry out a breakthrough in great depth!" Tukhachevsky argued: "I fear that they will make a breakthrough in the ancient area of Eastern Méng controlled by the Central G, which is not capable of holding back the huge mechanized corps of several armored divisions." The Chinese Kuomintang army could easily drive them out and go around to the flanks of our defenses, and in order to hold them back, the Far Eastern Front would need to keep an equally powerful mechanized corps in Chita! Probably, hundreds of thousands of infantry and thousands of tanks, armored vehicles, and at least a thousand fighters will be needed...... If we can keep such forces on the Western Front, we should be able to defeat Germany and Bolan faster, and then turn back to the decisive battle with the Chinese! ”

Hearing this, Stalin shook his head: "No, no. It is our duty to defend every inch of the USSR. The Far East and Eastern Siberia have six million square kilometers of territory, and we cannot give up there! Not to mention that there is also a Russian empress in Vladivostok! ”！。