"Have you heard? The newspapers have already poked out, GCD's "New Youth", the Kuomintang's "Minbao", as well as Shanghai's "Declaration", and Tianjin's "Ta Kung Pao" all said very well, saying that the chairman of the committee has signed a secret treaty with France, Germany, and Italy, and is ready to join forces to attack the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union has also signed a secret agreement with Japan, and is ready to join hands to fight with us! I don't know if World War II is about to begin! ”

"Japan and the USSR joined forces? No way? They occupied the Far Eastern Regions of the Soviet Union, and they wanted to seize the Republic of Simberia two years ago, but they made Lao Maozi very beaten, and they forgot the lesson? ”

"Maybe, but we're preparing for war, for sure, I have relatives who are officials at the Beijing Security Command and know some inside information...... You don't know yet, the Military Council has issued a mobilization order to conscript hundreds of thousands of reservists, and now the conscription and mobilization department of the Security Command is sending out a conscription notice! By the way, what about Brother Zhong Lin, I remember that he participated in a short-term training course for reserve officers? Did he come to class today? ”

"Zhang Zhonglin? I really didn't see it, this kid never skipped class, and he really let them recruit him! ”

"So it's really going to be a war, and it's only been a few years of peace......"

"Fight it, with France and Germany joining forces with us, Lao Maozi is not one, maybe he can conquer the whole of Siberia, I heard that the resources there can be abundant!"

"Then we still have a book? Maybe one day, like Zhang Zhonglin, he will be sent to the battlefield with a conscription notice......"

"What? Are you kid scared to death? Or is it not a member of the Left Youth League"

"Are you afraid of death? Sue you, Lao Tzu is going to sign up for the Reserve Officer Training Class today! Do you dare to go together? ”

"If you go, let's go together, whoever doesn't go is not a good man!"

At the end of the discussion, these students of the history department of Peking University rushed to the registration point for the training of reserve officers set up in the school by the National Defense Force Education Directorate -- at present, China has established a relatively complete national mobilization system, but these "proud sons of heaven" who are admitted to universities are not included in the conscription and mobilization, unless they voluntarily sign up for the short-term training course for reserve officers, and after the training course is over, they will pass the examination and become a reserve officer, just like the classmate Zhang Zhonglin in the mouth of these young students

In fact, the grapevine is sometimes quite accurate, on April 6, 92, Chang Ruiqing, who was thousands of miles away, received a telegram from the "Four King Kongs" jointly photographed, and he ordered the implementation of a mobilization on the grounds that the Soviet Union had recently made abnormal moves, as well as the "Four-Power Mutual Defense Treaty" that had just been signed, which had in fact abrogated the "Sino-Japanese-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact", and Chang Ruiqing after a few hours of consideration, They immediately approved their request, and from April 7, the conscription and mobilization offices under the jurisdiction of the local security headquarters began to mail conscription notices outside, and Zhang Zhonglin of the History Department of Peking University, well, that very handsome and reactionary classmate Zhang Lingfu, has now put on a straight Wehrmacht army uniform, hung up the rank of second lieutenant, and sat on the truck to the Nanyuan Barracks in Beijing

Of course, the news of China's military mobilization cannot be concealed, this country is not the Soviet Union after all, and I don't know how many foreigners are engaged in various activities in various parts of China every day, and of course there are also intelligence gathering activities, so the governments and military of the Eastern and Western powers also got such a shocking news at the first time, including of course, the regent Crown Prince Hirohito, who had just arrived in Shioura, the capital of Japan's Far Eastern Prefecture, after completing his visit to the Soviet Union, arrived at the same time as this news. There is also Hirohito's teacher, Togo Heihachiro, president of the Tonomiya Imperial Academy, who was asked by Japanese Prime Minister Tanaka Yoshiichi to inquire about the results of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's visit to the Soviet Union, or to put it more bluntly, to ask Hirohito whether in addition to the "Japan-Soviet Joint Declaration", did he hide from the government what secret treaties the Soviet Union had signed! This is a matter that is very contrary to the national system, and if there is, it is better to immediately declare it to the Soviet side that it is invalid, and the cabinet will treat it as if nothing has happened, and as for the "Japan-Soviet Joint Declaration", the cabinet pinched its nose and recognized it in order to take into account the dignity of His Royal Highness the crown prince

The answer Togo got was, of course, that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince resolutely denied Hirohito's attitude, which was a bit faint, that he was the future emperor, and that current Japan was not the period of the shogunate without a monarch and a father, and Tanaka, the prime minister, did not dare to take a look at the future emperor, but Togo Heihachiro was so anxious that he jumped to his feet, because the previous release of the "Japan-Soviet Joint Declaration" had aroused the vigilance of Britain, which had an alliance with Japan, and the British ambassador to Japan urgently met with Tanaka Yoshiichi, Tell the Japanese prime minister in person: The British Empire will not want Japan to sign any treaty with the Soviet Union of an allied nature, let alone Japan and the Soviet Union to fight jointly against China! If such a situation occurs, Britain will not hesitate to abolish the Anglo-Japanese alliance, and the British ambassador also reminded Japan that the five 30,000-ton battle cruisers currently under construction at Japanese shipyards belong to the Chinese government! If China and Japan go to war, then these five battle cruisers under construction should be dismantled on the slipway, instead of being appropriated by the Japanese Navy, which is the capital of Japan's national policy of going south

"Dongxiang Qing, is that ship King Kong-class?" After Togo Heihachiro chattered, Hirohito just smiled noncommittally, and raised his hand to the huge warship moored in the military harbor outside the window and asked with a smile

Togo Heihachiro was stunned for a moment, and then nodded and replied: "Yes, it is the King Kong battle cruiser, and the old minister came to Yanpu on this ship, and His Royal Highness will also take this ship back to the mainland."

"Who is the captain of the Kongo?"

"It's Guan Gancheng Dazuo, who graduated from the 27th phase of the Navy, a very good naval elite"

"Is such a battlecruiser on a mission to usher in?" Hirohito's face seemed to sink, "It's enough to have a passenger ship for such a mission, there is no need for warships at all, and there are indeed more capital ships to come to the navy."

"Of course not," Heihachiro Togo thought for a moment and said, "The King Kong will go to Taiwan with the Hiei on a mission after sending His Highness to Japan."

An imperceptible smile flashed on Hirohito's face, and in a blink of an eye, he looked pale again: "What are you going to do in Taiwan?" ”

"It was brought up by the Taiwan military, and the situation in Taiwan has been somewhat unstable recently-some people still fantasize about separating Taiwan from the territory of the empire, so the Taiwan military wants the navy to send battle cruisers to Keelung, Kaohsiung, and other ports to show those Taiwanese with bad intentions the majesty of the Imperial Japanese Navy!"

"Well, that's pretty much it" Hirohito nodded with satisfaction, and said to Togo with a smile: "Togo-qing, I want to host a banquet in the Governor's Palace to entertain the main officers of the battlecruiser Kongo before leaving Shioura, do you think it's okay?" ”

……

At this time, in a building with the flag of GC International in the center of Chita, the capital of the Far Eastern Republic of the Soviet Union, there were two people who had just secretly arrived from Moscow drinking, these two people were once one of the leading figures here in the Far East, but now their power is declining little by little, which is a very bad sign in the political life of the Soviet Union, they are the head of the Chinese gang of the Communist Party of China, Zhang Guotao, the secretary of the GC International Far East Bureau, and his deputy Tang Jiu, the office of the International Far East Bureau has been moved from Moscow to Chita. Ostensibly to be closer to China, Japan, and Korea, which are in charge of the Far East Bureau, they are actually moving away from the centers of power, which are now not feudal officials, but are being thrown away in frontier cities far from the centers of power, and their wives and children are left in Moscow...... According to the usual practice, the next step, as long as there is a slight mistake, it is probably time to arrest, right?

"Old Tang, I can't do it" Zhang Guotao, who was already three points drunk, took a sip of vodka, and the expression of helplessness and pain on his face was "When I go in, my wife and children, you have to take a picture for me......"

Tang Jiu, who was sitting opposite him, drank no less than him, but he was obviously sober, he looked in the direction of the office door, the door was open and there was a long empty corridor outside--During this time, the Far Eastern Republic was engaged in an agricultural collectivization movement, Stalin himself was in charge of Chita, and most of the cadres in various organs were transferred to form countless working groups to go to the countryside-Tang Jiu shook his head with a wry smile, and said to Zhang Guotao: "Secretary Zhang, Don't say this discouragement, Lenin and Trotsky still want to liberate China, they still need us."

"You don't need me...... you don't need me" Zhang Guotao shook his head, his eyes were sore, and two tears rolled down, "They support Mao D!" It's not me, so I'm done, really finished...... I really dug my own grave this time, how did I come up with this method...... How could Trotsky support Mao? Is it because I'm Lenin's man? Speaking of the three words Mao D, Zhang Guotao was almost gritting his teeth, that was his father-killing enemy! Now Trotsky is going so far as to praise him as the future leader of China, and he is going to send himself to China after Chang Ruiqing is killed by the Japanese! I don't know if it's the whole thing or just one head, but it doesn't make a difference if I think about it, but listening to Zhang Guotao's tone, this strategy to get rid of Chang Ruiqing seems to be his idea, and now he really lifted a stone to hit his feet

"That'...... Then you can stay in the Soviet Union! A sneer appeared at the corner of Tang Jiu's mouth, and he said insincerely, "It's a big deal not to go to China, you are a close confidant of Lenin, and you always have a place in the Soviet Union."

Zhang Guotao sighed, poured himself another glass of vodka, and said in a slightly desolate voice: "My relationship with Lenin can be compared to Bukharin? He's all gone! His little thing is nothing compared to me, and it wasn't his intention to see Kolchak, and that peaceful evolution plan is simply a matter of chasing after the wind."

"So what's wrong with you?"

"Mao D and I have a grudge against my father!"

"Alas, this is Mao D, it's wrong, you are the bitter master"

"So what?" Zhang Guotao smiled bitterly: "This kind of thing doesn't talk about right and wrong at all, it's just about whether it has any use value...... As soon as Chang Ruiqing died, China was a situation of contention between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and the only person who could lead the Central G to fight against them was me, and Mao D and I had a grudge against my father, so Trotsky must get rid of me if he wants to support Mao D! ”

"Comrade Trotsky...... Not necessarily, right? How much credit you have made to the Soviet GCD, you were defending Lenin at the time of the October Revolution, where was Mao Biao at that time, and it was also your credit for encouraging the Japanese to assassinate Chang Ruiqing with a battleship, how could Trotsky forget? Besides, Trotsky believed in Mao so much? Keeping you is also a check on Mao D! ”

Zhang Guotao waved his hand, "That's not what I said, there are many people who can contain Mao D, and I am just one of them, but I am the only one who has a common enmity with Mao D!" If you don't kill me, can Mao D follow the USSR with peace of mind? And if we do this kind of thing, we must plan for the worst! The representative of GC International in China may have already agreed with Mao D, and the NKVD Department of the Far Eastern Republic has also received an order to arrest me, and I will be arrested when the news of Chang Ruiqing's death comes."

"What if Chang Ruiqing escapes?" Tang Jiu whispered tentatively: "If he is still here, won't there be nothing to do?" ”

"I still have to die, if Chang Ruiqing is not killed by the Japanese warship, China and Japan will inevitably fight, and then the Soviet Union will definitely participate, and I, the leader of the Chinese gang, can I still keep? It's not the year of '99 anymore, and we don't have any military power! ”

"So, let's die?"

Zhang Guotao smiled bitterly: "Chang Ruiqing died, that is, I died alone!" If Chang Ruiqing doesn't die, all the people in our entire China Gang will die! Now that Huang Zhisheng has a good vision, he left this place of right and wrong early."

Tang Jiu turned his head to the empty corridor at this time, and then lowered his voice to the point where it was almost difficult to hear, "Secretary Zhang, are you willing to let your family die?" ”

Without waiting for Zhang Guotao to answer, he continued: "I know that your wife and children are hostages in Moscow, and my wife and children are the same...... But can we give up our lives to thin our wives and children? This is not the rule of the Soviet GCD, but they believe that the families of the aristocratic capitalists, landlords, rich peasants, and generals of the White Army who were exterminated have not all gone to the labor camps? ”

"No, no......" Zhang Guotao muttered

"What won't it," Tang Jiu smiled coldly, "You just said that if we are engaged in politics, we must plan for the worst, why don't you remember it for a while?" Things have come to this point, our wives should only be treated as if they had never begged, and children should be treated as if they had never been born! ”

"Yes, yes, yes...... It's just that if you haven't married or given birth, you can rest assured that you can walk like this" Zhang Guotao tilted his neck again, and a glass of vodka went down his stomach

Tang Jiu looked at Zhang Guotao coldly, "Brother Kaiyin, are you really willing to kill yourself?" ”

Zhang Guotao was stunned for a moment, his mind was in chaos, and he muttered for a while: "What can you do if you are unwilling?" Do you want to run away? But where can you escape? The border is guarded by border guards under the command of the NKVD State Security Bureau, and those old troops who are not ours are all transferred from the west."

"Hmph, isn't it just some independent battalion, and they haven't fought with real swords and guns, what's there to be afraid of!"

"Old ...... Old Tang, what do you mean......" Hearing Tang Jiu's words, Zhang Guotao suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, and his wine also woke up, his eyes were fixed on the old comrade-in-arms in front of him, as if he wanted to wear the other party

"It's better to do the opposite!" Tang Jiu's expression was cold, and there was even more of a grim expression on his already fierce face, "Since the signing of the non-aggression pact between the three countries, the Far East is not the focus of the Soviet Union's defense, and now the entire Far East, including the border guards, is only a Red Army of forty or fifty thousand people, and more than 10,000 of them are the blood and blood of our Eastern Legion, although it is divided into ten regiments and scattered in several divisions, but after all, it is our people!" And two regiments of soldiers were stationed near Chita...... All veterans of the Civil War in Soviet Russia and the War in the Far East! ”

With a bang, Zhang Guotao stood up suddenly, and brought his chair to the ground, his eyes widened, but Tang Jiu's face was already so blue that he talked eloquently: "Brother Kaiyin, you already know the current situation, what is placed in front of our Chinese gang is a dead end, and what is placed in front of the tens of thousands of brothers who follow us to fight the world is not a dead end?" Those who divided the land here in the Far East two years ago have now become rich peasants, and the family is ruined and the people are still on the team and in the locality, and they are just surviving, and when the last bit of military power in their hands is deprived of it, the big guys should meet in Huangquan, right? ”

Zhang Guotao slapped the table heavily and pointed at Tang Jiu, "Tang Jiu, are you crazy?" Have you forgotten that you are a GCD person! With your words, the GCD people will arrest you and shoot you in no time! ”

Tang Jiu's expression did not move, and he said coldly: "Then bother Secretary Zhang to go to the General Administration of Political Security to expose me, I don't know if I can let you live a few more days."

The two looked at each other fiercely, and later, Zhang Guotao looked away and sighed: "It won't be successful, but there are less than 000 people in the two regiments, and there are so many political workers, and the team is still separated from guns and bullets...... There is no chance, there is no chance at all! ”

"I'll find out if I have a chance to try! Now that they are engaged in forced collectivization in the Far East, the following has long been boiling with popular resentment, and even with the local troops in the Far East, whether it is the Chinese Mongols, the Koreans or their Russians, they are all shaken in the hearts of the army, and Blyukhel and Stalin have already sent out most of the troops in Chita City in order to suppress the resistance of the peasants. ”