733 Stalin attacks the twelve, rejoice for a few more days!

October 1, 1937, the day after the Soviet invasion of Poland. On this very day, the German Empire, the Republic of China, the Kingdom of Italy, the British Empire, the Japanese Empire and the French Republic, which had concluded treaties of alliance with the Republic of Poland, declared war on the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics at the same time! At the same time, the League of Nations, meeting in Paris, unanimously adopted a resolution condemning sanctions against the Soviet Union. The United States also announced that it would freeze all Soviet assets in the United States and prohibit the export of any military materiel to the Soviet Union. Of course, this was completely meaningless, because the Soviet Union did not have a penny of assets in the United States, and the Soviet route to the United States had long been firmly blocked by the British Navy, the German Navy, the Chinese Navy, the Italian Navy, and the Japanese Navy.

Although almost all the military powers of the world sided with Poland, most of them declared war on the Soviet Union! However, this situation does not seem to be helping the ongoing war in the slightest. When October 2 came, the morning sun shone brightly on the advancing columns of the Soviet Red Army, like long worms, consisting of an almost endless stream of tanks, armored vehicles, cavalry, and motorized infantry, crawling slowly along the vast plains of eastern Poland.

From time to time, clumsy I-15 and I-16 fighters with red pentagram stars passed over their heads. These planes, powered by 750 horsepower engines and made of wood, can only be described as a miracle in the use of weapons. The sky of Poland is now filled with such not-so-good Soviet planes! It was these planes that took cover for the TB-3, a heavy bomber with four engines but not actually able to carry many bombs, and on 30 September, taking advantage of the faint light of the sky, took the risk of taking off, crossed the border, and began bombing the airfield of Poland, destroying hundreds of planes on the ground. And the remaining "Bo" Lan's own planes or second-hand goods from foreign countries are not the opponents of the I-15 and I-16, and they are defeated after a short "exchange"! The Chinese 7th Air Division was also assigned to Latvia at the request of the German side, preparing to be used in the attack on Leningrad, so it was unable to provide air support to "Poland".

The Soviet Red Army, which had air superiority, now seemed to be realizing its pre-war deployment. Her destruction is only a matter of time! At present, two rapid armies composed of tank corps, motorized infantry corps, and cavalry corps are "inserting" into the defense line of the "Polish" army on the east bank of the Bouag River, one in the south and the other in the north, like two sharp knives cutting through the "milk" oil, and are "advancing" 70 to 80 kilometers a day to attack the depth of the "Polish" army...... In a few days, the 750,000 Polish-Ran troops on the east bank of the Bouag River will be divided, surrounded, and routed! Then the Soviet Red Army would have crossed the Bouag River and "advanced" to Warsaw, the Republic of Poland, which is now hanging by a thread!

And the only one who could save the country was the head of the German Empire, Adolf. Mr. Hitler! He was now in a map room, watching the progress of the Soviet-Polish war, the sun had already come out, but the light in the room was still gray and cold. The Führer did not like the sun, so his Eastern Campaign Headquarters was built facing north. A railroad through the forests of East Prussia led not far from the garrison of Army Group South, which was to be used to "save" Poland, to what he called the "wolf's den". The headquarters consisted of a number of cement warehouses and wooden huts, surrounded by barbed wire, watchtowers and minefields.

Standing beside him was his main adviser in military operations, Alfred Brown. Colonel Jodl, and the head of the Polish delegation to Germany, Jarosław. Colonel Leshinsky. This Colonel Leshinsky was Natalie's older brother and a blond, blue-eyed, handsome "Polish" man. His uniform was immaculately cut, he always had an elegant smile on his face, and he always spoke German with a nice Berlin accent in front of Hitler, as opposed to Hitler's rough, rustic Bavarian accent...... Hitler always looked at this Colonel of Poland with a very sorry look, because in the eyes of the Führer he looked too much like a Germanic! In fact, he had more Germanic blood in his veins than Slavic blood, but he refused to be a noble Aryan, and had to love the hopelessly "Bo" land. After Poland was beaten by the Soviet Union, the colonel of the Polish army remained immersed in Hitler's "wolf's den," trying to persuade the Führer to send troops to rescue the two troubled "Poland" and Lan armies.

"Colonel Yodel, do you think that the Belarusian and Ukrainian armies of 'Poland' can still be saved?" Probably wanted to pretend, or to look at Luo Yaoguo's face to perfunctory the "Bo" Lan people. The Führer stood in front of a huge map of Poland, crossed his arms, pondered for a moment, and then sighed and asked Colonel Yodel beside him.

The short, thin Yodel and the Führer were also meditating with the Führer, but it was the Führer's mind that he was pondering. Hearing the Führer's question, he hurriedly raised his head and "revealed" a sad face. Shaking his head, he sighed: "My Führer, the current situation is unexpectedly bad, and the two 'Polish' army groups on the east bank of the Bouag River are definitely hopeless!" In particular, the Belorussian Army Group, whose northern and southern flanks had been broken through by two Soviet tank corps...... And its frontal side was subjected to the fierce offensive of at least a million Soviet Red Army! If it wants to retreat to the west bank of the Bouag, the only thing that awaits it is a rapid collapse. But the Ukrainian Front to its south may be able to withdraw. If this army group can retreat to the west of the Bouag River, then the 'Po'lans' will have the opportunity to build a defensive line on the Bouag River. In this way, the Polishes may be able to hold out until we are ready for war. ”

A fine layer of sweat broke out on Leshinsky's forehead, but his face remained calm. He said: "My Führer, when will your Germany be ready for war?" ”

Hitler tilted his head in thought, then turned to look at yodel again. Jodel took a catalogue of production from a nearby desk, looked at it, and said, "My Führer, we have not yet fully transitioned to wartime, and all the factories are still operating according to the peacetime production plan, if they are to be fully brought under the wartime system...... At least until mid-1938, when we will be fully prepared for war. Until then, the Wehrmacht could only do the defensive ......"

Before Yodel could finish his sentence, he was interrupted by a somewhat angry Leshinsky. "That's good! Mid-1938. Unfortunately, it's October 1937. If only Stalin had waited until the middle of 1938! But we can't count on this. Leshinsky took a deep breath and looked at Hitler with an almost pleading gaze. My Führer, the situation is now very obvious, Stalin has made a desperate bet and concentrated all his forces on the attack on "Poland"! The Soviet reserves were weak, and only a few corps were defending Germany in the trenches of northeastern Belarus and Estonia. It only takes a few hundred thousand people to launch an offensive - and it may play a decisive role in the outcome of the war! Maybe they can storm Moscow or take Leningrad at once......"

Hitler shook his head, took another form from Jodl, and handed it to Leshinsky. "According to our intelligence, at the moment the Soviet Red Army has a huge army of at least 7 million people, in addition to which they have called up 5 million reservists, and the sum of the two is 12 million! Well, I know that's a pretty surprising number, but it's just the way it is! The USSR is an industrialized country, she has a population of 180 million, so it is entirely possible to mobilize 12 million troops! And we now have only 3.5 million troops, plus the Chinese and White Russian troops that have reached Germany, and the Italian army is less than 4 million...... Not at all an opponent of the 12 million army! To defeat the USSR, we would have to mobilize our troops to 5 million, and then we would have to transport 1 million from China to Europe, plus the Chinese Expeditionary Force, the White Russian army and the Italian army already in Germany, and we would have 6.5 million troops! At the same time, China will launch another attack in the eastern part of the Soviet Union, destroying 2 million Soviet troops there, and you will "Poland" Lan contain another 2 million people...... Then we can use 6.5 million people against 8 million! I'm confident that I can win. If you are still not satisfied, please ask Ling Mei to talk to Marshal Luo Yaoguo of China, and ask him to send troops to Europe as soon as possible, if there are 1.5 million Chinese expeditionary forces to reach Europe, we may be able to launch an attack in advance! After saying this, Hitler did not say goodbye to Leshinsky, and strode out through a simple wooden "door" without any decoration.

Yodel stepped forward and shook Leshinsky's hand, and said with a wry smile: "Colonel, you know our Führer, he did not command even a platoon of troops to participate in the war...... Therefore, when the time comes, it is inevitable that they will become very cautious, afraid of losing the war...... Maybe you should really ask Natalie. The "woman" of Lesinskaya went to Marshal Luo Yaoguo, who was the truly great soldier and knew when to go into battle. ”

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In this way, Hitler kicked the ball that sent troops to rescue "Bo" Lan to Luo Yaoguo, who was thousands of miles away, but at this time, Luo Yaoguo seemed to have encountered a lot of trouble! That trouble was a coup d'état that took place on September 24, 1937 in Bangkok, the capital of Siam.

The coup was a failed coup d'état, carried out by royalists who supported the former king Rama VII Pachari Bo. The aim was to overthrow the pro-Japanese military government of Phraya Phra Phong as prime minister. And unlike the Siamese overseas Chinese who did not participate in politics much in the past, behind this coup d'état is the support of the Nanyang Youth League, a Chinese political organization that has recently emerged in Nanyang!

According to the evidence released by the Phraya Phaephon authorities after the fact, the coup was directed and acted by the Nanyang Youth League, and the royalists were nothing more than their puppets...... The royalists and the arrested "rioters" all confessed that they were instructed by Gu Jianzhong, director of the Siam branch of the Nanyang Youth League! And behind this Gu Jianzhong and the Nanyang Youth League is Chiang Kai-shek, the head of the Overseas Department of the Chinese Kuomintang! This seemingly irrefutable fact irritated the Siamese authorities, who recalled the ambassador to China the day after the military was crushed and demanded that the Chinese government "hand over" the mastermind behind the Siam coup. Otherwise, the Chinese side will be responsible for all the consequences! Uh, this very bullish looking sentence is of course, and Phi Ye Pafeng didn't plan to really make a big deal out of it, just shouting and trying to be happy. But he was dizzy for a moment and forgot that the current China is already very unreasonable and imperialist......

And after the failed coup d'état, there was also a very unfortunate tragic event...... After the defeat, the gangsters hired to stage the coup d'état fled to Chinatown, the capital of Siam, Bangkok, where they fought a fierce battle with the Siamese army, resulting in the looting and burning of many overseas Chinese shops! In addition, several honest overseas Chinese businessmen were killed! This made the wealthy Nanyang Chinese, the financiers behind the Kuomintang Cantonese bigwigs, resentful. They were very angry, which naturally made the Kuomintang Cantonese bigwigs they supported furious! One of them is Luo Yaoguo's uncle, President Luo Yiqun.

But just when the Nationalist Government convened an emergency meeting to think of a way to teach Siam, which did not know that imperialism was very difficult to provoke, news suddenly came that the Soviet-Polish war had broken out!

According to the report of Wu Tuohao, head of the Chinese military delegation in Poland, the 750,000 Polishland troops assembled on the east bank of the Bouvag River were suddenly attacked by at least 2.5 million Soviet Red Army! Moreover, the Soviet Red Army also used a tactic similar to "blitzkrieg" in this offensive, in which the Soviets concentrated at least 1,500 tanks in one assault direction and rushed fiercely into the rear of the "Polish" army in a hole torn by infantry and artillery, which suddenly plunged a 400,000-strong "Polish" Lan cluster into "chaos" and "chaos"! And if the other 350,000-strong "Wave" army group does not retreat quickly, I am afraid that it will not escape the same fate in the end! Even if the Polishans were able to withdraw this group peacefully across the Bouag River and establish a truly strong defense on the west bank of the river, they would probably not be able to withstand the next wave of similar attacks by the Soviet Red Army! If Poland is to be saved, China must quickly launch an offensive in the northeast while also sending troops to Europe. Otherwise, the war against the USSR would have been defeated!

Luo Yaoguo put down the documents in his hand, smiled bitterly and shook his head, this Wu Tuohao is very good at being an official. This guy knows that he spoils Natalie, and he also knows that Natalie cares about "Bo" Lan in her heart, and he also knows that the report to himself will definitely go before Natalie's hands. However, he happened to push the other two battleships of the Navy to Europe in the name of escort. As for the ground forces, they can bluff first and come up with a plan to send troops. Siam...... It's better to issue an ultimatum to scare and strain relations between China and Siam a little more. This would also make Stalin more comfortable with the Eastern Front......

At that moment, Natalie knocked softly on the office door. "Come in!" Luo Yaoguo straightened his military uniform and sat up straight. Natalie pushed the "door" in, and the beauty had some faint tears on her face, but there was still a "fascinated" smile on the corner of her mouth, and she looked like she was smiling, which made Chief of General Staff Luo feel a little heartbroken when she saw it.

"What's the matter?" Luo Yaoguo's voice was soft, and Natalie's eyes were also full of concern.

Natalie smiled lightly and said in a low voice: "Fuwen, the Secretariat of the Presidential Palace didn't call, the president came to visit, and now he is sitting in the living room......" Luo Yaoguo was stunned, "Why didn't you inform me earlier?" The president is coming, why do I have to greet him outside the 'door', Natalie, how are you ...... now" He hurriedly stood up and wanted to go out to greet him, when he heard Luo Yiqun's laughter at the entrance of the 'door': "Fuwen, you are wrong to be your daughter-in-law, I just came from the light car, and no one was alarmed." Besides, before I became president, it was much easier for my uncle and nephew to meet than it is now. How do you "make" it not like a family now? As he spoke, he saw Luo Yiqun's figure appear at the entrance of the "door", although the laughter was very hearty, but the tightly locked eyebrows revealed that the president was preoccupied.

Luo Yaoguo hurriedly greeted and saluted, turned his head and instructed Natalie: "Go and prepare good green tea and snacks!" Luo Yiqun hurriedly shook his hand, "Don't bother, and I also have something to say to Natalie, Natalie, you can sit down too, today here is all your own family." So saying, he found a chair and sat down.

Luo Yaoguo's eyes flashed, he smiled faintly, and said to Natalie: "Bring the 'door' with you, let the guards watch the corridor, and don't let people come in and disturb you." He turned his head to Luo Yiqun and said, "Uncle, what's the matter?" ”

"What else could be done? And not for this war? Luo Yiqun smiled bitterly: "I thought that so many countries would deal with the Soviet Union together, and it would be a sure victory after all, right?" Who knew how quickly things could get there! Before we were fully ready, the Soviet Union attacked Poland first...... It's only been a few days! Poland showed signs of collapse, and Hitler was desperate to save himself and kicked the ball at us! But here we are caught up in the Siamese incident...... As you know, the relationship between our Kuomintang and overseas Chinese in Nanyang is extraordinary, and in the past we did not have the strength to protect them, which made them suffer a lot! But now the situation is different, and we are a great power anyway. The army is known as the second in the world, the navy is also the first in Asia, and the air force is called the first in the world! The mother country has such strength, and then let its diaspora be bullied outside...... It's always unreasonable, right? And now that Chiang Kai-shek is shouting and killing in the Philippines, and there are many of his supporters in the army in the political fu, I am afraid that a large number of people will be disappointed in us if we don't show a little more positive. ”

"yes, I see." Luo Yaoguo nodded and said with a smile: "We will send an ultimatum to Siam!" Demand that his king and prime minister step down and restore the original what Rama VII was. If they don't agree, we'll go to war! ”

"What!" Luo Yiqun was also taken aback when he heard this, stared at Luo Yaoguo with his eyes, and muttered after a while: "What about 'Bo' Lan?" Europe also wants us to send troops, and the British ambassadors, French ambassadors, and German ambassadors have all urged ......"

"Troops! Prepare to send 1.5 million people! The corners of Luo Yaoguo's mouth hooked, and he smiled faintly: "We are ready to send troops to Siam...... The one in the Kremlin is overjoyed, right? Just let him be happy for a few more days! ”

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