Time flies by in the tense and hectic preparations for war at home and abroad. Eastern Europe has entered the autumn scene, and from the southern part of Bōlan all the way north to the Sea of Bōlo, you can see patches of farmland, pastures, and peaceful villages. If there were no troops marching along the road, and trains full of military supplies, it would have been almost a peaceful and beautiful era. The map of Eastern Europe is now very different from this time last year, the three sovereign states of the Bō Sea no longer exist, they have become the states of Lithuania and Latvia of the German Empire, and the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union!

And on the lands of the state of Latvia, which was annexed by Germany, this time almost became a barracks for the "multinational forces". In addition to the German ** team with the swastika flag and a bit of Germany's unique ability and arrogance, there are also White Russian officers and soldiers who are waving the Russian three-sè flag and always looking at this land with an excited and sad eye; There is a Royal Italian Army with a three-sè flag with a white cross coat of arms on a red background in the middle, these handsome Italian guys look so elite now, and they should perform well on the battlefield, right? In addition, there are also teams of Chinese defense force convoys flying blue sky and white sun flags running back and forth on foreign land. Whenever they drove through the fields of Latvia, they always attracted everyone's curious eyes, and no one thought that this army from an ancient country in the far east was actually the most well-equipped of all the ** teams in Latvia!

The 18th Army of the Chinese National Defense Forces has actually completely realized motorization, and more than 3,000 vehicles of various kinds have pressed the wheels on the wheels of this 50,000-strong army. And the 8th Panzer Division of the Chinese Wehrmacht Army, with 380 tanks, also has more and better tanks than all German Panzer Divisions...... It seems that Germany's preparations for war were somewhat hasty compared to China's.

Admiral Wei Lihuang, who had just finished attending a meeting in Wolfsburg in East Prussia, sat in a four-wheel-drive car and returned to his Latvian station. Looking out at the vast fields on both sides of the road. There was no expression on his face, and it was only when he saw the Chinese expeditionary force convoy moving on the road that a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. China, it seems, is the one that really arms itself to the fullest. Du Yuming, the chief of staff sitting next to him, seemed to be preoccupied, always frowning and thinking about his own thoughts. Not long ago, the chief of staff of the Great Du went to Bōlan to visit the Bō army defense line at the invitation of the Bō Lan Army, and after returning from Bō Lan, he looked sullen.

The people of Bōlan seem to have a habit of saying one thing and doing another, not only to others. Even in the preparation for war, which is related to the fate of his country, he does not pay much attention to it.

The defensive line on the east bank of the Bouag River was poorly built, not enough anti-tank trenches were dug, there were not enough anti-artillery bunkers, and the trench defense zone was very rudimentary from the experience of the war in the Far East. In addition, the equipment and training of the Bōlan army were far from sufficient to cope with a war, and the tanks were second-hand goods that had been eliminated by China and Germany, and were scattered among the various infantry corps, forming only a small number of armored cavalry brigades; Airplanes are even more antique; The infantry had almost zero anti-tank weapons and was not trained in this area; The only thing that is commendable is that the artillery is okay, and the cavalry that has long since passed is very good.

However, these Bōlan people do not know where to get their self-confidence and wariness of their allies, Germany and Russia, but they are speechless. They are not ready for it now, but they don't want others to help them. Nor does he admit that he is not ready for everything. Moreover, he was arrogant and concentrated his forces on the east bank of the Bouag River, putting on a posture of preparing to defend the enemy from the borders of the country...... However, in Du Yuming's view, as long as the Soviet Red Army stationed behind the Stalin Line played half of their level in the Far East War, the Bōlan army east of the Bouag River was probably facing annihilation.

"What's wrong? Why did you get depressed when you came back from Bōlan? Isn't it because those bōlan people are sloppy in their preparations? Wei Lihuang seemed to see Du Yuming's thoughts. He smiled faintly and said, "Guangting, I have good news for you!" The base camp has agreed to add a bomber aviation regiment to the 8th Aviation Division, and it is also a bombing regiment equipped with the latest A-4A Thunderhawk dive bombers. With these 125 Thunder Eagles, our expeditionary force will have a few more cents. Speaking of which, Wei Lihuang took out a report from his briefcase and threw it to Du Yuming. This is the Germans' "Barbarossa Plan", and our 8th Panzer Division will be assigned to von Brown. Army Group Center of General Bock. Directly under the command of Admiral Guderian's armored group, it is estimated that the first to attack the Soviet Union, right? The Eighteenth Army will form the St. Petersburg Army Group together with five White Russian troops, two German infantry corps, and one Italian infantry corps, and the commander of the army group is Lieutenant General Falkenhausen, who is also an old acquaintance of ours, and I will be the deputy commander-in-chief of this army, and you are the chief of staff. Army Group St. Petersburg was assigned to Army Group North, which was assigned to General Rundstedt, and was specifically responsible for the siege of Leningrad. ”

"Is the time set for the attack?"

"Tentatively set for April 1938. As you can see, the Germans were not as well prepared for war as we are, after all, they have not been free from the Treaty of Versailles for a long time. ”

Du Yuming took the pages of "The Barbarossa Plan" and looked through them carefully, and when he saw it, his eyebrows gradually tightened. "Army Group North and Army Group Center have ...... But what about Army Group South? Why didn't you see it? It can't be that there is no such army group, right? However, the combined strength of Army Group North and Army Group Center is only more than 2.4 million, of which the German army is only 2 million, and they should still have the strength to organize a strong army group......"

"Bōlan!" Listening to Du Yuming's words, Wei Lihuang smiled bitterly, and then said: "I think Army Group South definitely exists, but they should be deployed in East Prussia and the Odetavarta area. The task of this army group, I guess, was to cooperate with Army Group Center to encircle the main forces of the Soviet Red Army that had broken through to Bōlan...... If they hadn't quit bōlan in the spring of 1938. ”

"Chief Wei, you mean that the Soviet Red Army will wait to be surrounded by us in Bōlan?" Listening to Wei Lihuang's words, Du Yuming seemed a little confused.

"Who knows?" Wei Lihuang shrugged his shoulders and said with a smile: "The Germans won't tell us all their secrets. I'm just guessing. Perhaps they wanted to make a sudden attack at the end of 1937. Copied the back path of the Soviets in one fell swoop, right? ”

"Haha! It would be a surprise to do that! Du Yuming closed the report and laughed: "Now it depends on whether the Soviets give Hitler this opportunity or not." ”

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Mid-September 1937. As the time for the invasion of Bōlan approached, the air in the Great Plains of Eastern Europe began to smell of gunpowder. Everyone knows that the first shots of the Second World War are about to be fired!

At this time, the situation in Northeast China became more and more tense, and on September 1, the headquarters of the National Defense Forces issued an order for full martial law in Northeast China, and this region officially entered a wartime state. On September 15, some infantry corps had been deployed on the south bank of the Heilongjiang River. The armored group composed of the First Panzer Army, the First Cavalry Army, and the Fifth Infantry Army has also moved into the concentrated area in the steppe south of Manchuria and is on standby. But most people still don't think that this is a real preparation for China's attack on the Soviet Union. They believed that this was still just a containment operation aimed at attracting a part of the main forces of the Soviet Red Army in order to relieve the pressure on Bōlan.

On 25 September, the headquarters of the Armored Cluster, the Western Cluster, the Heilongjiang Cluster, and the Amur River Cluster under the jurisdiction of the Northeast Front began to operate. The headquarters of the armored cluster is located in the Xinbarhu Banner on the southwestern shore of Hulun Lake. The Western Cluster Command is located in the Hailar Battalion. The headquarters of the Heilongjiang cluster is located in the Sun-Wu camp on the south bank of the Heilongjiang River. The headquarters of the Amur River Cluster is located in Boli, a major town in the Far East, which has been recaptured by Chinese and Russian troops. The commanders of the three clusters are: Lieutenant General Huang Guyu, commander of the armored group, General Xia Wei, commander of the western cluster, General Xue Yue, commander of the Heilongjiang cluster, and General Wang Zhongyi, commander of the Amur River cluster.

And Marshal Luo Yaoguo, chief of the General Staff of the Chinese National Defense Forces, also personally rushed to the former Fengjun Marshal's Mansion in Shenyang at this time. There, he will preside over a high-level military meeting of the Wehrmacht, the Sino-G-China border guards, the Belarusian army and the Japanese military. to coordinate the positions and tasks of these four fronts in the war against the Soviet Union. A long conference table was arranged in the Tiger Hall of the Marshal Fengjun's Mansion, and when you looked at the past, one by one the stars were shining. The electric sand table and the huge one-fifty-thousandth map are all placed where they should be. The entire conference hall was silent. Only the orderly soldiers shuttled back and forth for the slight sound of coffee for these generals.

At this meeting, Luo Yaoguo seemed to be in more trouble than he imagined. Although the General Staff has absolute authority in the command and combat system of the Chinese National Defense Forces, and Luo Yaoguo actually controls the entire Nationalist Government, he can make a quick decision on almost any major decision. The following will also be carried out to the letter. There has never been such a large-scale coordination meeting, and there has never been a use of rhetoric, or even real money, to coax "subordinates" to carry out orders! But now, Zhong G and the Japanese will definitely not obey orders so obediently.

On the Russian side, Marshal Denikin, commander-in-chief of the army, and on the Japanese side, General Admiral Nagata Tetsuyama, director of the Army, and Admiral Eisuke Yamamoto, director of the Navy, were dispatched. As soon as these leaders arrived in Shenyang. was settled in the spacious and luxurious Marshal's Mansion. And Zhou Elai and Zhang Xueliang's room happened to be door-to-door with the room of Lieutenant General Hou Jingru, chief of staff of the Northern Front.

On the day of their arrival, the two revolutionary leaders sent down a top-secret document, and they had only one copy for each of them, and they had to sign to receive it, and they had to return it to the confidential department of the Wehrmacht headquarters immediately after the meeting. The next day, we will meet to pick it up again. This war plan against the Soviet Union, called the "Red Sè Plan," was unexpectedly thicker than a tome. The troop formation and deployment are detailed to each battalion, and the preparation plan for firepower is even more detailed to the minute, and the bombing plan is also accurate to each aircraft. The complex and thorough multi-arms coordinated battle plan, the coordination of the infantry and the infantry tank, and the formation of troops, made these two revolutionaries in China and G really feel that it was an eye-opener. It also made them deeply feel the huge gap between their border guards and the Kuomintang defense forces, and they also really understood how the war was fought in the industrial era. The strategies and tactics of the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, which were previously conceived, now seem to be very outdated.

At this moment, what the two of them are very concerned about is the exact time when the attack will be launched; There are also 200,000 border guards in China and G and 80,000 volunteers who are still on the side of the Soviet Union. In which region the battle was carried out. And what is the task that may be given to them, should such a task be accepted, or should it cost to accept it?

In the information, they found that the time of the offensive had been determined to be between April 8 and April 20, 1938. And their border guards will be attached to the sequence of the Northern Front, serving as the vanguard of the invasion of the Soviet Union! In addition, the Volunteer Army, which was actually controlled by the Central G, had to act as an internal corner, and after the offensive began, give way to the defensive line on the eastern section of the Amur River, allowing five White Russian infantry corps and five Japanese divisions to pass smoothly. And then these Japanese and White Russian troops, in cooperation with the Amur River detachment of the Japanese Navy, will launch a surprise attack on the flank of the Soviet Red Army!

For such a task arrangement, Zhou Elai, the leader of the Central G, is still a little embarrassed. You know, although he has already blown the wind with the senior officers of the border guards, hinting that the Soviet Union may face an unprecedented defeat in the near future, he does not dare to tell them that China and G plan to follow the Wehrmacht to attack the Soviet Union...... For the comrades below, not preventing the Wehrmacht from attacking the USSR through Méng Gu, and not participating in the battle to defend the USSR is already an acceptable bottom line for them! There will even be many comrades who will personally throw themselves into this war to defend the Soviet Union! If they were to command their troops to act as the vanguard of the invasion of the Soviet Union, it was really unimaginable to them! At that time, the party's faith may be shattered, and without the power of faith, the combat effectiveness of the China G army will be greatly reduced!

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"Your Excellency! In April 1938, it may have been difficult for the Imperial Japanese Army to complete the campaign preparations stipulated in the "Red Sè Plan"! The economic situation in Japan is not good. The war in the Far East depleted a large amount of material reserves of the Imperial Army...... And the situation in North Korea is not stable at the moment. As a result, the Reich could no longer provide additional divisions for the campaign on the eastern Amur River unless it could receive sufficient material assistance from China. Moreover, the Amur River has long been blocked by the mines of the Soviet Red Army, and the actions of the Amur flotilla of the Imperial Army will be very dangerous. In addition, the Japanese army aviation was not able to fill the vacancy left by the German Condor Corps. Our Type 97 fighter compared to the Soviet I-16 fighter. And there are no obvious advantages......"

It was Nagata Tetsuyama, head of the Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters, who spoke under Luo Yaoguo's solemn gaze, frowning and talking, and his tone was helpless, as if he was pouring bitter water there, rather than taking the opportunity to threaten him.

“…… If the Chinese side wants our aviation and navy to afford combat duty in the eastern section of the Amur River. Some help is needed! For example, we were provided with a batch of the latest aircraft engines, so that we could improve the Xìng capabilities of the Type 97 so that it could take on the air defense mission of the eastern section of the Amur River. In addition, the army also needs material assistance from China that can provide 200,000 tons of special steel, 100,000 tons of aluminum and 50,000 tons of copper. Only in this way will the Japanese Army be able to dispatch more troops for operations in the Far East. ”

Luo Yaoguo's face was full of helpless expressions, as if the Chinese side really needed those few Japanese divisions and the Japanese army aviation, which only had a few hundred aircraft! In his tone. He no longer has the majesty of the East Asian hegemon, but said gently: "Nagata-kun, what you are asking for...... It's just too high! We couldn't have come up with that much before April 1938. Speaking of this, he gritted his teeth and looked like a flesh pain. Nagata-kun, before April 38, we can extrude up to 50,000 tons of special steel, 50,000 tons of aluminum and 20,000 tons of copper...... No more, there really won't be any, and the transfer of this batch of supplies will not begin until March 38. ”

"This ...... This ......" Nagata Tieshan's face sank, and he hesitated for a long time before nodding heavily and saying, "Okay then!" I asked the country to compress the supply of people's livelihood again, and I could squeeze out a little more stuff no matter what. But...... The Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) ...... Your country must give an explanation! If you can't allow the Imperial Army to advance and clear them, you must cooperate with us to destroy them! ”

Luo Yaoguo frowned and turned his gaze to Zhou Elai. "Brother E, the Workers' Party of Korea has a special relationship with you, right? Can you persuade them to leave the Changbai Mountains in Jilin Province? That way we don't have to be distracted by the Soviets before the big war with them. ”

Zhou Elai shook his head slightly, and just wanted to say that Zhong G and the Workers' Party of Korea were just brother parties, not father-son parties, and there was no way to order them to leave Changbai Mountain, when he heard a sound, and the door of the conference room was suddenly slammed open. Everyone turned their heads to see that it was Natalie who had slammed into the door. Lesinskaya. This bō Lan beauty son. I saw her fighting there with a red face, holding a stack of papers in her hand, pointing at Luo Yaoguo with an anxious face and saying loudly: "Fuwen!" Be...... It's Siam! A military coup d'état in Siam! The rebels burned a large number of Chinese shops in the center of Bangkok, causing hundreds of overseas Chinese to be killed and injured! The President asks you to rush back to Wuhan immediately to discuss the matter of sending troops to protect overseas Chinese! ”

"What!" Luo Yaoguo jumped up suddenly, and knocked down his chair with a bang. He gasped, and his face turned blue. He took the telegram from Natalie's hand and looked at it twice, and sighed heavily: "How could it be at this time!" Is...... What a nuisance......"!