After the Russian invasion of the Far East, Finance Minister Wang Zhengting went to Europe as a special envoy to Beijing to seek help.

Helden Lee specially received Wang Zhengting and his entourage at the Hofburg Imperial Palace. To be honest, he didn't expect Soviet Russia to attack first, and this world has long been messed up by him, far away from the history of another time and space. However, the development of history always has its own laws to follow, and the present world situation is only due to the decline of Britain and then evolved into a German-American struggle for hegemony, with the Americans standing in the foreground prematurely, while the European continent, which is controlled by the German-Austrian alliance, wants to dominate the world and tries its best to exclude the Americans from world affairs.

Because of China's quasi-alliance with the German-Austrian alliance, the Americans turned to Japan in order to maintain the balance of power in Asia, much like the pattern of the Cold War. The only thing that surprised Li Haidon was that the United States actually gave up its anti-G stance, and even began to vigorously support Soviet Russia in order to contain Germany and Austria.

It seems that for the sake of their own interests, any ideological dispute will become nonsense.

Geographically speaking, China's strength is indeed extremely unfavorable to Russia and Japan, if China rises, Soviet Russia will never want to get the Far East again, and with the continuous enhancement of China's national strength, Japan's living space will inevitably be suppressed, unless the Japanese give up the current get, give up the ambition to dominate the mainland, it is possible to get along with ****.

Therefore, the Japanese are more anxious to interrupt the process of China's rise.

However, Soviet Russia rushed to the front first, and it was in the place where Helmeton made a mistake in his judgment, and it seems that the way of the "dictatorship" state really cannot be justified by common sense.

As the Japanese were also involved, in order to cope with the war, the Beiyang government planned to expand the army to 3.5 million, but the annual domestic production of rifles was only 600,000, and these equipment needed the support of Germany and Austria. Hundreds of thousands of light weapons are not too much of a problem, but the assistance of heavy equipment such as aircraft, tanks, automobiles, artillery, and especially related factory equipment related to the military industry requires billions or even tens of billions of crowns.

He still needs to pull the Germans into the water.

The war in the Far East was actually the result of a collision between European and American forces, and if China was lost, Germany and Austria could only withdraw from the Far East, and the sphere of influence would be compressed into European North Africa. In the long run, it will inevitably lose in the competition to the alliance of maritime nations of the United States and Britain.

This is the last thing Deao wants to see.

The problem is Germany, the German emperor did not have as much influence on national policy as the Austro-Hungarian emperor, but the Chancellor of the Exchequer Augsburg, the president of the Reichsbank Group, Schacht, the Ruhr mining group, Emile of the Ruhr mining group. Koudolph, steel magnate Fritz Thyssen and Albert. Voegler and other conglomerates have supported aid to China, and in the past decade, these German industrial giants have had huge interests in China. Arms magnate Krupp von Bolen-Halbach was even more active in lobbying the Reichstag to pass a bill on aid to China.

On the part of the army, Field Marshal Ludendorff and Commander-in-Chief of the Navy Raeder expressed an active attitude of intervention, but War Chancellor Blomburg was reluctant to get involved in the affairs of the Far East.

Under the lobbying of Heldon, the German side agreed to provide China with an interest-free loan of 600 million marks, and agreed that the Chinese government would issue government bonds in Germany not exceeding 2 billion marks. Austria-Hungary decided to provide Beijing with an interest-free loan of 1 billion kroner for the purchase of armaments in Austria-Hungary, and at the same time, the Vienna banking consortium undertook the business of issuing 5 billion kroner of war bonds for the Chinese government in Europe, and the bank consortium contributed 600 million kroner to subscribe for the first batch of bonds.

Due to the huge investment in China, the German-Austrian consortium itself has close economic ties and huge business interests, and the German-Austrian government quickly reached a series of aid agreements with the Chinese side under the impetus of these consortiums.

Of course, most of the aid to China is done in the form of machinery, chemicals, and military products.

Although this move aroused strong protests from the Japanese side, the German-Austrian side claimed that it was only a part of normal trade with China and ignored Japan's protests at all. Naturally, the German and Austro-Hungarian sides, who were coaxing with cattle, did not think that the Japanese had the audacity to challenge their authority.

At the same time, at the request of the Chinese side, the Austro-Hungarian side greatly increased the size of the military advisory group to China, bringing the number of military personnel in China to more than 30,000. In order to enhance its influence in China, Germany has also sent more than 20,000 military advisers to help China quickly rearmament.

Planes fly over southern China, a land that looks unusually calm in the August weather, but the flames of war may soon burn here.

The 39th Fighter Regiment flew to Guilin Airport along the Hunan and Vietnam railway lines, and down you can see rows of green military vehicles slowly wriggling forward along the narrow railway line through the green rice fields that were divided into pieces, and the planes flew over mountains, rivers, and forests.

The German-made BF109 is a high-speed interceptor with good performance, the only drawback is that the range is too short, and after replacing a larger fuel tank with a special request from Guangxi, its range has only reached 900 kilometers, which is half that of the Austro-Hungarian F-5 "Saker". However, its climb rate during combat is better than that of the Austro-Hungarian fighter, and if it is used for defense, its performance is better than that of the F-5 fighter, but its weakness is reflected in the long-range transfer, the 39th Fighter Regiment needs to transfer in Guilin to fly to Nanchang, while the 40th Fighter Regiment equipped with Austro-Hungarian F-5 fighters can fly directly to Nanchang Airport.

The 39th Air Regiment refueled at Guilin Airport, where Kukocz met Kahn, a German military adviser, and learned that the shape of Shanghai was already critical.

The Japanese launched a full-scale offensive in the northeast, and in Jinzhou, the Kwantung Army broke through the Daling River defense line and, with the support of the navy, landed in the area around Huludao. The Northeast Frontier Army could only retreat to Chaoyang, Chifeng, and Shanhaiguan. But in Qiqihar, the Northeast Frontier Army smashed the Japanese offensive and won the battle to defend the river bridge. The Japanese army could only adjust its forces and temporarily stopped military operations on the Heilongjiang front. However, north of the Heilongjiang River, since the main forces of the Far Eastern Army were concentrated on the line of the Yenisei River, the Japanese army went up the river and basically encountered little resistance, and had already occupied the Mohe River.

In Shanghai, only Chen Leshan's 4th Army Division was stationed in Songhu, and Jiang Zuobin, chief of the General Staff, ordered the 6th and 19th Divisions of the Jiangsu Army to rush to Shanghai, but Qi Xieyuan, the military superintendent of Jiangsu, was worried that his strength would be damaged, so he deliberately delayed the operation.

The Japanese army attacking Shanghai was very arrogant, and launched the first attack on Wusong with only 8,000 marines. On the afternoon of 13 August, the vanguard of the Japanese army and the Fourth Division first fought at Wusongkou, followed by fierce fighting in the urban area of Shanghai around the Japanese concession area of Hongkou.

The scale of the battle expanded rapidly, both China and Japan began to carry out large-scale troop reinforcements to Shanghai, the Japanese warships anchored outside the mouth of the Yangtze River began to shell the Wusong Fort, Chen Guangyuan ordered the Zhejiang Protector Sun Chuanfang to send the 10th Army Division to reinforce Shanghai. R1152