Berlin, Germany.

In December 1936, when the curtain came down on the Olympic Games, some hidden episodes began to come to an end.

Berlin, a secret hotel.

China's delegation to Germany is nominally composed of an Olympic delegation and a 10,000-ton ocean-going transport ship Qinghai Lake, but in fact there is also a secret delegation. The Olympic delegation lived in the Olympic Village, while the sailors of the Qinghai Lake stayed on the warships and occasionally made a tour of the harbor, while the officers of the Qinghai Lake were organized to visit the German shipyards.

The members of the secret delegation stayed in a secret hotel in Berlin, and were arranged to visit various important German military industries and even some military camps in the name of a Chinese commercial expedition.

In this way, Hitler hoped to show the Chinese from afar another side of the Third Reich that the Chinese were not familiar with: the powerful industrial and military potential.

Over the course of several months, the Olympics were being held with great fanfare, and on the other hand, Germans were taking Chinese delegations to visit factories, barracks, military academies, and so on all over Germany. During this period, senior German Nazi officials representing Hitler repeatedly tactfully told the two responsible persons of the Chinese delegation -- Gu Weijun, political representative and director of the European Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Huo Weiguo, military representative and commander of China's Northeast Garrison Command, that the two countries should look to the future and conduct comprehensive negotiations on deeper Sino-German cooperation based on common interests.

It was not until December, when the delegation returned to Berlin, that Hitler finally couldn't hold back.

On October 25, Germany and Italy successfully concluded an alliance treaty aimed at coordinating foreign policy, which meant the formal establishment of the Berlin-Rome axis. In negotiations with the Italians, the scholar Mussolini expressed a keen interest in Hitler's Nazi Party, and he believed that "it is necessary for Germany and Italy to work towards the establishment of a strong pan-Third Reich", and after a series of implicit military and technical terms, the two sides signed an alliance very happily.

In the European direction, Hitler can relax for the time being, but there has been no major movement on the Asian issue.

In his heart, the strategy in the Asian direction is equally important, because it is related to whether the Soviet forces in the Asian part can be effectively contained, whether the British and French forces in Asia can be contained, and whether the American forces in the Pacific can find an ally to contain at least what seems reliable when a major war inevitably breaks out in the future.

At this time, China and China were at least 'more reliable' in terms of numbers, but their territory was small, and in Hitler's view, their strategic potential for war was far less than that of China. They had a vast territory and a direct border with the Soviet Union, and the two countries had many irreconcilable problems such as territorial disputes. Although Hitler admired Yue's own military mentality, he was extremely skeptical that Yueben, who had just suffered a great loss at the hands of the Chinese and still had hundreds of thousands of prisoners serving hard labor in China, would be able to serve as an ally of the Axis powers.

According to the forecasts of the imperial economic department, if war breaks out in two or three years, Chinese's gross domestic product and various important industrial indicators, including iron and steel, power generation, and mineral resources, are likely to have completely reached the level of Britain, catching up with the United States, the Soviet Union, and Germany.Chinese

All over the world, whether it was Germany or the United States, or even the Red Soviet Union, their advanced products began to emerge everywhere.

Especially for Americans, everything from high-end cars and various new drugs to military uniforms, razors, toothbrushes, cigarettes, chocolate, and cola supplies are all provided by Chinese, or Chinese brands. There is intelligence to prove that even the cannons and military cars used by American GIs have begun to appear Chinese products, of course, China also imports many cheap resources from the Americans, such as oil, rubber, coal and iron ore, gasoline, kerosene, and even cheap enough machinery and ships that they have no time to produce. As long as there are enough cheap resources, they are happy to buy them, and they are very large.

Looking at Germany, refrigerators produced by Chinese, high-end luxury Chinese cars, washing machines, and televisions have also begun to enter German homes. A wider range of high-end clothing, new food products, and chain stores from China began to appear in Germany.

Economists in Berlin told him that China would be the only new economic hegemon that could emerge in the next decade, simply because it was already innovating faster than other countries.

At a Nazi barracks in Berlin, Huo Weiguo, Gu Weijun and several other senior members of the Chinese delegation finally met Hitler.

"Welcome friends from China, Germany will always be your reliable ally in the West. I hope that my ministers and generals will be able to conclude with you something like the Berlin-Roman axis, which will be a truly perfect triangular axis agreement across the two continents of Europe and Asia. Once the agreement is reached, the future Axis Alliance will leverage the entire planet. ”

In Huo Weiguo's view, Hitler's first impression of him was that he was silent, but once he said something, he would talk endlessly, full of strong rendering and appeal. And this German Führer is extremely easy to put his thinking above others.

His almost desperate, undisguised desire for an alliance between China and Germany is a bit ridiculous and at the same time a sign of his formidable ambitions.

Hitler's appearance was only a brief episode, and he did not participate in the real negotiations, and he would only appear again when the negotiations reached a real intention.

As soon as the negotiations began, the Germans clearly raised the issue of Hitler's Axis Agreement, and the German side hoped to sign a long-term 'diplomatic agreement' with the Chinese side, so as to give full play to the tremendous strength of the three axes if the situation required it.

The German delegates clearly stated that China was facing a crisis on the military front, that the Red Soviet Union in the north would squeeze the living space of the new China, and that the British, French, and even Americans at sea would threaten the thriving maritime trade of the new China. The representative of the German Ministry of Germany quoted the Age of Discovery to illustrate that the rise of any great power, in addition to the necessary land war, will face extremely severe maritime hegemony.

However, Gu Weijun and Huo Weiguo have been carrying out the strategy of evasion, and it was not until they got the latest and clearest instructions in China that they began a real showdown with the Germans.

"Your Excellency Chief of General Staff Baker, General Goering, I'm sorry that I have to convey to you the latest decision from Chairman Zhang Shusheng, the supreme leader of the country."

Finally, at the last Sino-German negotiation where they basically figured out each other's cards, Huo Weiguo conveyed Zhang Shusheng's final decision to the German military-political negotiation team.

“…… The Baath Party and the Supreme Council of Power unanimously agreed that the Chinese government must maintain good relations with the German government, and that new relations with special treatment unique to China and Germany should be maintained and developed in the military, political, diplomatic, scientific, technological, and commercial fields.

As we are located in the East, our military and scientific and technological power is not strong enough, and the present time is not particularly suitable for a clear declaration of membership in any of the agreed alliances, but more suitable for providing the necessary support for the Berlin-Rome alliance in a transcendent political position of a third party. to ensure that the Axis can receive sufficient external support in the event of further changes in the situation.

Just as our friend, Your Excellency Hitler, the head of state, said, we can foresee the natural differences between China and the Soviet Union, and from a military and political point of view, such differences will inevitably widen at a certain point of time...... As a good friend, in a secret situation, China can provide the German side with some weapons technology that can effectively suppress the opponent at the necessary time, and in return, we want to get the German side about ...... Of course, we can understand that the mighty German Empire needs a military ally in Asia, and after a long and careful consideration, we believe that this will be a good choice for you......"

This was the final decision of the Chinese side that stunned the Germans, in which the Germans found that the Chinese were sincere in signing a minimum friendship agreement with the German side, but it was not an "Axis agreement", at least not for now.

The Chinese are inclined to Germany, but they do not want to be targeted prematurely.

In this decision, which resembles a diplomatic secret letter, the Chinese expressed their wariness of the Soviet Union and said that in due course, a larger conflict with the Soviets would help Germany's Asian strategy.

Further, China recommended himself.

In this 'straightforward decision', China euphemistically stated that it could release the POWs conditionally, but made a number of demanding, which could be described as harsh.

That evening, Hitler was presented with this latest collated report on the progress of the negotiations.

"Führer! In this secret letter, the Chinese put forward a very detailed plan for future relations between China and Germany. In the plan, the Chinese expressed their natural hatred of the Soviets, hinting at a future large-scale Sino-Soviet conflict over territorial and existential issues. From this point of view, the Chinese head of state is very inclined to us.

Their senior negotiator, Huo Weiguo, was the commander of the Northeast Garrison of the Chinese People's Army, responsible for leading two large army groups against the Soviet Union in the Far East and Yu himself. Judging from the fact that they sent him to Germany, the Chinese also attach great importance to the relations between China and the Soviet Union. ”

Ludwig Beck, the current chief of the German General Staff, briefly reported to Hitler on the important issues of the negotiations, "The Chinese assured us that China could sign a 'Sino-Vietnamese non-aggression pact' with the Chinese as the initiative, and on the premise of ensuring the stability of Sino-German relations, they put forward the following specific demands or suggestions.

China's political axe released 647351 non-key war criminals who are currently in detention or serving hard labor, and demanded that the 1.29 million workers of North Korea be given twice the number of North Korean laborers in exchange for the "Korean Labor Mutual Assistance Agreement" in exchange for various construction delays that may be caused by the return of the workers. China's political axe has pledged not to torture and kill North Korean workers and to treat them particularly excessively 'abnormally'.

He said that he must not adopt any hostile attitude towards China, and that the garrison within 100 kilometers of the North Korean side of the Sino-Korean border must be reduced to the size of a regiment. Any movement of the DPRK military must be reported to China two days in advance.

In the possible future period of Germany's armed policy, it should be strictly bound in the form of an alliance. It is suggested that on the premise of strict military supervision, Germany needs to deeply participate in the operational command of the Japanese and supervise the operational and staff systems of the Japanese operation. While helping the country to restore and strengthen its military strength, it will also ensure the stability of Sino-Vietnamese relations. In times of necessary war, any large-scale military action in Asia needs to be notified to the Chinese side in advance, otherwise, the Chinese side will regard it as a collective betrayal of China by the Axis Alliance, and will take any form to counterattack the Axis Alliance.

The Chinese side suggested that Germany's armament of the country should be carried out in a special form, rather than in a special form. With Germany as the intermediate guarantor, China is responsible for producing the necessary weapons and equipment for the capital on the premise of guaranteeing payment. This will ensure the sustainable combat power of the capital in wartime and eliminate the huge logistical problems of war caused by a naval blockade.

……”

After listening to Beck's report, Hitler frowned, he never imagined that the Chinese would have such a unique thinking, "He really made me feel extremely interested, choose a suitable time, maybe invite him to visit Germany." ”

"Führer, perhaps you are going to be disappointed, this Chinese head of state has never accepted any invitation to visit a foreign country since the founding of the People's Republic of China!" Baker laughed.

"Well, that's interesting, Chief of General Staff Baker, I'm interested in hearing your analysis of these conditions put forward by the Chinese."

With a wave of his hand, Hitler, as usual, would always allow others to express his opinions, although these opinions were often not accepted, before stating his decision directly.

Beck saluted, then walked to the map, picked up his baton, and said to Hitler, "Führer, the geographical and historical relationship between China and the Soviet Union determines that they must be hostile. Any future cooperation between China and Germany in Asia will be premised on avoiding hostility between China and Germany. The Chinese's proposal, although harsh, is justified because they are trying to shift this Sino-Russian contradiction, at least in the early stage of the war, to the Sino-Russian contradiction and the Russian-Russian contradiction.

First, they promised to return the prisoners of war, but they only proposed that they organize an exchange of Korean laborers. Once this agreement was reached, it avoided paying reparations to hundreds of thousands of prisoners of war. At the time of the armistice, the issue of war reparations, which was tied to the issue of prisoners of war, was avoided, and the prisoners of war could be repatriated with dignity and without any cost. Of course, in order to avoid excessive hatred from North Korea, the cunning Chinese simply demanded that Yu himself provide "young and middle-aged workers of any nationality sufficient to use," and shifted most of the future problems to Yu himself.

Since China has just ended the Sino-Japanese War, its hatred of Yue himself is inevitable, just as our hostility to the French is that the Chinese do not want to see any potential threat to Yue himself, even if they are absolutely sure that they will defeat him.

The Chinese are quite right, a re-rise of the Yuben, under the premise of strengthening control, after rearmament, the entire Far East of the Soviets will fall into the shadow of the sun flag. At this time, as long as it is properly controlled, with the armed forces of the Chinese, after cutting off the transportation line of Yue himself, he will easily deal with the landing of Yue himself. You know, they have a stronger industry, a bigger population, a bigger army, and the best location.

The Chinese believe that if they want to ensure that they can deal with the Soviets in the Far East alone, they will inevitably need a large number of tanks, planes, and artillery, and that these weapons will probably not have enough technology, factories, materials, and military funds to produce, and that if the Chinese agree to provide paid arms production, they will completely eliminate the logistical problems that Yuben may encounter after the war begins. Germany's military aid programs, as well as the political axe itself, are free to buy these weapons from China.

China is completely uneasy about the book, so they suggest that we take deeper military and staff operational control over the book. It's good for the empire as well. First, we can ensure that there are no problems with our own strategic direction, and second, we can help command the stupid people in the war. Finally, we can put China, a potential future ally, at ease.

In general, I think the mentality of the Chinese is similar to that of the United States. They are trying to buy more time to develop their economies, after all, they have just established a unified government in the whole country, and they need time to grow and catch up with other countries. However, their military and political claims were biased in favor of Germany, and we did not have to worry about any betrayal from them, at least in the face of the Soviet Union, a powerful common enemy. Of course, the premise is that he does not provoke them, so as to completely push China to other countries. ”

Hitler nodded and said to himself, "The Chinese want to stay out of the early stage of the war, develop a stronger economy, prepare a stronger military force, Beck, I don't believe they will be stupidly afraid of war." Every country wants to take advantage of a small advantage, especially when a big war is coming, just like the Yankees.

The price to pay for a more powerful empire is too great, but the benefits that can be seen are just as great.

However, the Chinese are right, we must control ourselves more than Italy. Only in this way can we stabilize China, a potential ally, and the empire can ensure that the Asian chariot of the Third Reich is tied to the axis of the Third Reich.

The best thing to do is to refuse technical support and leave the production of the vast military supplies supported by the empire to the Chinese. "As long as I can provide enough soldiers and the Chinese can produce enough weapons, the Far East of the Soviets will be bloody." And our plans will go even better.

Red Soviet Russia would be the natural enemy of the empire, and it would certainly have a great impact on Europe in the future, and the revival of Germany would inevitably be blocked by them. Having eliminated the French, our opponents will surely be them.

The proposal of the Chinese, very good. ”

At this time, it was already the beginning of 1937, Hitler's mind had long been occupied by the strong rise of Germany, and a super-large-scale war had already been conceived in his mind. For various reasons, he even urgently urged the German tank to speed up preparations for the expansion of the army.

With his strategic vision, it is easy to see that once the well-prepared and powerful German [***] team defeats the French, it will be harassed by the British as in the First World War, and the real enemy will still be the Soviet Russians.

At this time, the Far Eastern help provided by China and Yuben was extremely important, and even in the long run, Hitler even believed that once the Chinese and Yue himself maintained a 'peaceful' common development relationship on the basis of the Soviet invasion and occupation, the significance of Zhongyu would be greater than that of Italy.

And if he concentrates his forces on dealing with the Soviet Far East, he will make up for his own military, scientific, technological, economic, and resource deficiencies.

…… In April 1937, a German delegation arrived in Yamaben for a comprehensive investigation and visit, while a secret German Nazi delegation negotiated with Yamato.

"Your Majesty, now is the time to make a wise decision."

Several of the contemporary military and political dignitaries of the company, and even two or three military and political veterans, gathered in the Kikunoya Pavilion to meet the emperor and plead with Hirohito to make a decision on the future direction of the company.

"Your Majesty Hirohito, the Empire has faced countless choices, and today, it has come time for another choice to be made." Xiyuan Temple Gongwang is extremely prestigious in the country, and his body has miraculously recovered a lot in the past two years, and he has begun to be active in the political arena after the defeat, if he is not too old, he is likely to have jumped out of the background. "If you choose to treat the Chinese as enemies, reject the demands of the Germans, and adopt a military defense or even offensive posture against China, you will lose the only chance for the empire to rise after defeat." Only the help of the Germans will allow us to get enough support, to be able to rearm enough troops, to be able to get German loans to improve the economy. ”

"Lord Xiyuanji, in this way, we will lose our ability to attack China for a very long time." A military representative, Asaburo Kobayashi, who had just been promoted, endured his temper and whispered.

"Do you think that today's Yueben is still an opponent of the Chinese? Their hundreds of thousands of troops in the northeast can reach the easternmost coast of North Korea in just a week. As soon as the words of the military staff officer Kobayashi Asaburo fell, they immediately attracted the angry rebuke of Kanaya Fanzo, another high-ranking military official, who was the chief of the general staff of the military department. The military power of the Chinese is far more powerful than they seem, think about it, their countless military factories, those advanced aircraft flying all over the sky, the huge aircraft carriers in those shipyards, what does the empire take to fight with them? Why should the Empire fight with them pointlessly? China is not Soviet Russia, even if you are allowed to land in China with an army, can you hold those territories? ”

Kanaya Fanzo said what most of the military dignitaries were in their hearts, and after the defeat, many military dignitaries were very unwilling, but after several years of in-depth exploration of China, they found that the southwest of the Chinese already had industries far beyond Yuben, and as a result of reflecting on the war, Yuben was no longer China's opponent for a long time.

The failures again and again, the new weapons of the Chinese [***] team that appeared on the battlefield one by one, and the [***] people who were not afraid of death like the soldiers of the country.

Kanaya Fan said earnestly, "I am not afraid of the Chinese, but this kind of Sino-Chinese dispute is destined to fail to produce results." The previous Sino-Chinese wars were because they were at their weakest time, and the empire was able to launch the Sino-Chinese wars with a small scale. But now, they are a unified developing industrial power, and it would be unwise for the Empire to cross the sea to fight them.

The current situation is that we can not be enemies of the Chinese, but the Germans need us and the Chinese to come together and use the strength of both sides to contain Soviet Russia with unprecedented force. Therefore, this time the Germans gave us the opportunity to rise, and we must choose to continue to fight the Chinese strategically, or cooperate with them moderately, and turn the enemy into a common Soviet Russian. ”

"However, we are also taking stock of the war, we are also working on new weapons, and we are also trying to develop stronger air and naval aviation."

Saionji Gongwang shook his head, "Foolish people, their eyes are always blinded by a heart of revenge, and only great people, such as His Majesty the Emperor, can see the true benefits of the rise of the Empire.

Kobayashi-kun, do you think that with the strong industrial strength of the Chinese today, the empire can still produce more planes than them? Build an aircraft carrier stronger than them? The Imperial finances, which are struggling to recover, will be able to come up with more military spending than they have? An empire with a much smaller population than them can raise more troops than them? The empire that they brought back from the mainland, and now there are hundreds of thousands of soldiers serving in the war in China, can defeat them in terms of the will to fight?

You stupid soldiers, you don't understand anything. There is only one thing that the empire needs to do, we can treat it as if the war does not exist, and we hope that the Chinese can treat it as if it does not exist, so as to seize any opportunity to let the empire gain more territory and more resources, so that the empire can ride on the chariot of the Germans like the Italians, and go to the bodies of the Soviet Russians to cut flesh and drink blood together.

As everyone knows, isn't it enough that the Germans said that as long as we have no problems, the Chinese will also fulfill all their promises?

If you are not brave enough, I would rather serve myself, take up my weapons, and fight the Russians like the heroes of the Russo-Russian War, and take back the entire Soviet Far East as I did when I took back the Northeast from them.

What's there? According to the information given to us by the Germans (which China secretly handed over to Germany), it is full of resources that can drive the whole world crazy, and our scholars who have taken the opportunity to visit the Far East have preliminarily confirmed that several places are indeed full of resources, as the Germans claim.

Your Majesty the Emperor, let the empire move forward, as long as we no longer provoke the Chinese and pay enough to compensate them, they will no longer regard us as the main adversary, they will not take the initiative to attack the already powerful Yueben in the future, as long as we truly reflect on the war and compensate them. They need cheap workers who are near free, so we can give them millions of North Korean laborers, and even more prisoners of war in the future. They need markets, and we can open up all the markets in this territory to them. They need raw materials, and we can sell them whatever they need in our country.

Cooperation, real cooperation, cooperation between two powerful countries.

Their opponent was the Soviet Union, and the empire could have divided most of the Soviet Union with them!!

And if we shrink back and choose confrontation, then we will bear the revenge from them, and the war can be said to be over, or it can be said that it is only a standstill. Maybe we can defeat them in the future, but in front of the whole of China, we will also suffer the same results as the last war.

If we resist China, we will not have Germany as an ally, let alone receive deep military and economic support from them because of their strong position against Soviet Russia.

And by keeping peace with Chinese, we can snatch ten or even twenty territories the size of a capital from the Soviets with all our might, resources and land that the empire will not be able to use up for hundreds of years......"

"Enough!!"

Hirohito's flushed face made him look much more frightening than usual, and a sudden burst of shouts interrupted the chatter of the Saionji Gongwang, and then left the stunned officials waving their sleeves and leaving.

A moment later, a palace official came to convey that His Majesty the Emperor had decided to make the final decision after three days, and that there was no need to discuss the matter further. His Majesty the Emperor even reprimanded the military ministry for its 'urgent need for in-depth reflection'.

Three days later, the Emperor secretly summoned military and political officials in the palace, announced a fateful decision, agreed to the demands of the Germans, and officially began negotiations on the Berlin-Tokyo Axis Agreement.

On July 7, 1937, at the personal suggestion of Zhang Shusheng, the German political axe chose this day as the son of the day to sign the agreement with the company.

Hirohito's youngest brother, Prince Yoshihito Chichibu, and his entourage, Seigo Nakano, the leader of the secret fascist organization of Samoto, arrived in Berlin directly after visiting London. The two countries, which had already made various secret agreements, were extremely intimate at this time, and the reception was of a particularly high standard, and Germany even held a small military parade to welcome the young prince. Hitler personally received him, and then German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop, with the participation of Mussolini of Italy, announced the formal signing of an agreement on July 7, 1937, and the three countries reached a 'Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis Diplomatic Agreement'.

After the news came, Western countries unanimously condemned the actions of the three countries and expressed their resolute opposition to this fascist alliance, and the countries led by Britain and France said that they would take countermeasures according to the situation. The German political axe, on the other hand, reiterated that this was only a political mutual assistance agreement formed under the old order, and that the three countries would adopt a policy of advancing and retreating together in diplomacy, rather than a military alliance, and that Hitler hoped that all countries would take economic development and peaceful coexistence as diplomatic principles. In the manifesto, in order to express his willingness to develop the country's trade, Hitler publicly called China, the newly rising eastern economy, hoping to invite Chinese head of state Zhang Shusheng to visit Germany to discuss further Sino-German economic and trade cooperation.

At the same time, in order to counter Hitler, China was drawn in, Britain and France, and even the Americans also issued invitations. The new British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain wants to increase trade relations with China, saying that he has no intention of creating trade barriers to block the peaceful rise of the eastern country, and strongly promoting the League of Nations to put China back into the core members of the League. President Roosevelt, who took office in the new year of the United States, even declared that as a model of peaceful economic development, the United States of America welcomes Chinese to join the ranks of world economic powers and hopes to further expand trade with China.

However, Zhang Shusheng smiled after receiving the report that Germany and Italy had formally signed the Axis Agreement on July 7.

"After more than 20 years of hard work, I have succeeded in changing part of history, and the 77 Incident will never happen again. What I want to continue to work on is to make China rise perfectly in this coming great war, and to destroy any enemies in its path. ”

As for the book, it is by no means a tiger for trouble, he can't bear to let the Chinese soldiers fight against the Soviet Russian Red Army in the early war in the future, even if it is only to pay one million casualties and eliminate 10 million Soviet Red Army, he is not willing. In the future war in the Far East, the great people of Yuben will use their own practical actions to open up a meat-grinder battlefield in the Far East with the Soviets that is far more powerful than the later Nomenkan Campaign, and with a more concentrated force.

China is not afraid of the Soviet Union, but the Soviet Union will be crazy to arm 10 million, or even 20 million troops, China's strength can not be wasted in the early stage of the strong bump, once the early stage of the war affected the blowout development of the economy, once the early stage of the Sino-Russian war made China suffer heavy losses, then then a stronger enemy, a more difficult battle, what to fight?

As for himself, on the side of the couch, he can be covered with a slap when he turns over, and China will not let this crazy beast country cause even the slightest harm to his own homeland in the future.

Once there is, it will be said that Ben will face the disaster of destroying the country and extinction.

After all, Zhang Shusheng is no longer a simple iron-blooded and angry youth, but needs to consider the long-term development of a nation, and he does have many trump cards in his hands that can surpass the Americans in the future, whether it is weapons or technology.

However, such a modest rise to the trend, or even worse, may even rise after defeat, will waste a lot of precious time. What Zhang Shusheng needs to do is to seize the opportunity to let China rise in a safe and rapid way, and at the same time, it can train the entire Chinese civilization race, let them experience war, experience iron and blood, and experience the great joy of success, so as to lay a firm foundation for the future to reach a higher peak.

Whether it is the crisis of the coming world war or the potential huge benefits after the war, Zhang Shusheng will be forced to make a decision to do everything possible to reduce the casualties of the Chinese squadron and expand the benefits that China has gained through the war as much as possible.

"The pace of China's rise will be trampled on the corpses of many defeated countries, and rivers of blood will flow, but it will be the blood of the enemy." ――

(To be continued)