Trotsky strode into the war room of the Vladivostok Command and as soon as he entered, the war room, which had all the curtains closed, was brightly lit. The red velvet floor was also pulled apart. Wang Zhongyi took off his military hat with a calm face, sat in front of the map, glanced around at the senior officers of China, the Soviet Union, and Japan in the room, and said in a deep voice: "Start reporting!" ”

Wang Zhongyi's face was also unprecedentedly dignified, standing in front of the map wall, his brows furrowed, he picked up a baton and pointed to the military deployment of the Trotskyist Red Army marked in red on the map, and said eloquently: The defense plan for the fortress in the Far East has been prepared for more than four months.

As of the beginning of this month, Vladivostok had stored enough food for all its residents and soldiers for more than a year, and the gold and foreign exchange of the Soviet State Bank and the Foreign Trade Bank in the major cities of the Far East and Eastern Siberia had also been concentrated in Vladivostok. All fortifications on the mainland-facing side of the fort have been completely repaired, and eight 240mm heavy cannons have been put in place. ”

"The Far Eastern Primorsky District Committee of the Communist Party (Trotsky) and the Vladivostok City Committee have also fully mobilized the citizens of Vladivostok, and about 200,000 men and women (including former prisoners of labor camps) have received basic military training and formed 500 workers' battalions, all equipped with rifles and machine guns, ready to be used in the defense of the fortress. …，

"On the part of the regular army, the Far Eastern Front is currently in charge of the defense of the fortress by the 1st and 6th Army Corps of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Trotskyists), and the commander of the Front Army is Comrade Lin Yurong. The four corps and eight divisions under the jurisdiction of these two corps are completely fully staffed, and the ammunition and ammunition reserves are sufficient. Moreover, a number of Red Army cadres selected from among the liberated political prisoners had been replenished, and the level of training and combat readiness of the troops had reached a considerable level. Once the defense of the fortress breaks out, I believe that it will definitely deal a heavy blow to Stalin's bandits! "And the Amur front, consisting of the second, third, fourth, and seventh army corps, formed the Amur Front, and the commander of the front army was Comrade Lin Yurong. Their task was to resist along the Amur River, to delay the offensive of the Stalinist bandits, and to deplete the strength of the Stalinist bandits.

The Amur Front had already crushed the offensive of the Stalinist bandits several times in previous battles, dealing a heavy blow to the enemy. However, since the Amur River has now entered the freezing period, and the main force of Stalin's bandit army has arrived one after another, it is estimated that the Amur River defense line has been difficult to defend for a long time, and it is inevitable to retreat to the Vladivosk line to fight. However, I believe that with the combined strength of the two fronts, we will be able to achieve a complete victory in the defense of the Vladivosk fortress! ”

"The general plan of the Military Council of the Revolution was to use the Amur Front to resist the enemy step by step to penetrate deep into the Vladivostok fortress, then rely on the strong defense of the fortress to consume a large number of enemy troops, and finally rely on the strong strength of nearly 400,000 men of the 36th division of the two fronts to launch a counterattack, and strive to completely defeat the Far Eastern Front of Stalin's bandits! Then, taking advantage of the victory, liberate the entire Far East and East Siberia, and advance the front to the west of Chita. It was estimated that the defeat in the Far East would put Stalin's rule in great jeopardy, and this would create favorable conditions for Comrade Trotsky to win the support of the overwhelming majority of the comrades of the Communist Party. ”

"According to a comprehensive analysis of intelligence and the situation at the front, the Far Eastern Front of Stalin's bandit army has concentrated more than 300,000 troops and has completed all preparations before the launch of a large-scale offensive campaign. It is expected that the enemy's offensive operation should be as early as mid-January. According to the calculations of the General Staff of the Red Army, the offensive should be carried out with a large ......... possibility of a large-scale frontal assault.

"And the coast of East Siberia in the Far East is still completely in our hands, and since the main ports of the Far East are completely under our control, the Stalinist bandits' Boluo Sea Fleet has canceled its plan to send warships eastward. Therefore, in future wars, sea supremacy will remain in our hands......"

The report was carried out in a tense and serious atmosphere. Wang Zhongyi and Lin Yurong came up with a carefully prepared battle plan this time, which obviously had a great chance of winning.

After all, Trotsky was also the commander-in-chief who led the Red Army to victory in the Soviet and Russian civil wars, not a layman like Stalin. He sat there, listening to Wang Zhongyi's report, nodding frequently, obviously having approved of the plan.

"But why can't we gather the 400,000 troops of the six legions and destroy the 300,000 troops commanded by Budyonny in one fell swoop before more troops from the Stalin trough are sent to Yuanji?"

Terauchi Shouichi, the military adviser to the Japanese, raised a different opinion at this time.

Wang Zhongyi put down the baton in his hand and looked at the dignified Lieutenant General of the Japanese Army with a smile: "General Terauchi, we are now fighting, not gambling!" Our Workers' and Peasants' Red Army was relatively young, and its training equipment and officer quality were inferior to Stalin's...... Our 400,000 troops simply did not have the strength to defeat Stalin's 300,000 men in an offensive or even in a defensive battle when there was no danger to defend! If, according to your assumption, we use 400,000 men to attack 300,000 people whose actual combat strength is stronger than ours, it will not be a success at all. If the war is not long, Stalin will drive a steady stream of troops through the Trans-Siberian Railway, and then we will lose the war! ”

At the same time, in the Kremlin in Moscow, Stalin angrily slapped the table in front of him, the other head of the Military Council of the Soviet Revolution, Sivoroshilov, who was standing in front of him: "What the hell are you doing with those guys from the Far Eastern Front!" Why is it always said that the offensive is not ready! Don't you know that the longer the time drags on, the more Trotsky's preparations will become? And he will also gain more international support by selling out the interests of the Soviet Motherland! Are you really going to have him come here to replace me? Bastard! Tell Budyonny to either attack immediately or report to the Political Security Bureau yourself! ”

Just when Voroshilov was trembling and at a loss, the voice of Stalin's secretary sounded outside the door: "Comrade Stalin, Comrade Molotov asked to see him, saying that there was an important report from China. Molotov was then summoned to him by the Kremlin's master.

Molotov glanced at Voroshilov, who was wiping cold sweat on the side, and sighed slightly in his heart, there is really no good life with Stalin, the boss, but these sworn friends who have long been labeled Stalin have no choice now.

"Comrade Berzin sent a telegram saying that China and G had reached an agreement on peaceful reunification with the Nationalist 'Government' and had obtained a four-year military and political period and a sixteen-year training period, with a total buffer period of 20 years, after which the army would be handed over to the jurisdiction of the Nationalist 'Government'. In addition, they will receive an annual allowance of 8 million fiat currency from the national "government" from next year, and the national "government" will also be responsible for building a railway line from Peking to Kulen for them to promote the economic development of Ménggu. But...... China and G must adjust its relationship with GC International and can no longer exist as a branch of GC International. After Molotov said the last few words, he raised his head and waited anxiously for Stalin's final verdict.

"Is that all? There are no secret agreements that further betray the interests of the USSR? Stalin was slightly surprised that the conditions of the Kuomintang seemed to be very favorable, almost all of them were gains, and the payment had to wait until twenty years later. With the current situation in which China and G are located, such a peaceful reunification is almost like pie falling from the sky!

Molotov took out a telegram and handed it to Stalin with both hands: "This is the information we have obtained from the eyeliner we have planted inside the Central G, and it is almost exactly the same as Comrade Berzin's report. It seems that there is no secret agreement for further betrayal of the Soviet Union, but they demand that the Central G secede from the GC

International leadership, that's ......"

Stalin's god sè gradually calmed down.

During this period of time, the relationship between G and GC International was a bit stiff, and the consultants of GC International were publicly accused of not understanding the national conditions of China and blindly commanding, which caused the difficult situation faced by China and G! Now they want to break away from the control of GC International, and if the precedent of "independence" is opened, I am afraid that the authority of GC International will be greatly shaken. However, Stalin did not care much about this, for him the USSR was the most important thing, as long as the existence of the USSR was beneficial to the security situation of the USSR, then they wanted to get rid of the GC

The requirements of international leadership can also be met...... Moreover, the Soviet Union can continue to support them in their fight against the Kuomintang authorities in China! Because the geographical location of China and G is indeed too important for the Soviet Union, they control Méng, as long as Méng Gu is in the hands of China G, and China and G have to rely on the support of the Soviet Union, then the Trans-Siberian Railway and West Siberia will be relatively safe.

The USSR would have been able to concentrate on the Far East and Eastern Siberia.

Moreover, Stalin also thought of a possibility, that is, the direction of China's next aggression and expansion was not the Soviet Union, or Western Siberia and Central Asia of the Soviet Union. And only the million square kilometers of lost territory in the Far East, and perhaps the lost territories in Central Asia, such as the Ili River Valley...... Maybe they just wanted to get back the land ceded to Tsarist Russia by the Manchu "government"? It's not that you want to destroy the USSR! Because if the Nationalist "government" really wants to unite with imperialism to destroy the Soviet Union, then they should not be soft on China, let alone let a strategically important territory like Méng Gu remain in the hands of China! Unless China G is an accomplice in the invasion of the Soviet Union by the Nationalist "government", but with the degree of Soviet infiltration into China and G, China G should not be able to hide it from the Soviet intelligence services if it really wants to defect.

If the possibility of the participation of the Central G in the anti-Soviet war is excluded, then the real expansion target of the Kuomintang is likely to be the south!

"GC International may agree to treat China G as a special member, and it may not be a branch of the International, nor will it accept international assistance and guidance." Stalin immediately decided: "Comrade Molotov, please inform the Central and G sides of this decision, and at the same time tell them that the Soviet Union will continue to support their revolutionary cause, and that the Soviet Union can secretly provide them with assistance." With that, he waved his hand and ordered Molotov to leave. Then he turned his stern gaze to Voroshilov: "Transfer all the forces of the Siberian Front to Budyonny, and order him to end the war in the Far East and Eastern Siberia within this year!" ”

The Bund, Shanghai. British Consulate-General.

Outside the window, many students and Shanghai citizens were marching in the public concession in the bitter cold wind. Although the crowds of these marchers kept shouting "Britain! Get out! There were all sorts of placards insulting the British Empire and His Majesty the King, and there were even some unruly and angry crowds throwing stones at the rifle-wielding San Guards...... However, the officers and soldiers of the Anglo-Indian colonial troops, who have been vicious in the past few decades, are as well-behaved as sheep at this time, and basically they can't fight back or scold back! In fact, the Lee Enfield rifles in the hands of those soldiers had neither bullets nor bayonets, and they were nothing short of a scare thing!

Sir Rampson stood on the balcony of the British Consulate General in Shanghai, braving the biting cold wind, looking coldly at the protesting crowds and the two "Karl Marx" class battleships being outfitted on the Huangpu River not far away............... These two battleships only have a displacement of 40,000 tons! Nine 380-mm guns were probably able to penetrate the armor of the Hood, taking into account the number of four.

Lan Pusheng sighed softly, those Chinese people are indeed qualified to return to the Shanghai Public Concession, and even the sovereignty of Hong Kong! The British Empire should not have been too obsessed with this.

In fact, he came to Shanghai from the embassy in Wuhan this time to negotiate the return of the Shanghai Public Concession to China. Although the instruction he received from Whitehall was to "do everything possible to preserve the public concession". However, after all, Lan Pusheng is not one of those fools who are far away in Europe, burying their heads in the sand, pretending to think that the British Empire is still the world hegemon, and that China is just a sick man of East Asia with pigtails and smoking opium.

He's in this country, and he's seen the old empire reborn! The knight, who is well versed in the history of China, is not surprised by what is happening in China now, where the same thing has been repeated over and over again for the past two millennia. The collapse of a decaying dynasty, then the chaos that lasts for a while, is replaced by a new and powerful dynasty that will soon become the preeminent state in East Asia. Historically, her civilization has also been much richer than Europe's! And now...... This new and powerful dynasty must be the national 'government'. China has been unified by them, and even the armies of the GC ists who have always insisted on building an ideal society are now subjugated under the banner of the national government. Moreover, in foreign wars, the army led by this "emerging dynasty" was also invincible, including the Soviet Union and Japan, which had already been defeated by them. In particular, "they mobilized 3 million troops and one of the largest navies in Asia, but they were still defeated, and now they have become a watchdog of the British Empire."

Moreover, Lan Pusheng also found that the current national "government" is different from those powerful dynasties in the history of China, and this national "government" has a strong impulse to expand. Maybe China has too many people and too little arable land? Therefore, they want to use the Prussian-sounding rhetoric of "the sword of China to seize the land for the plough of China" is now pervading the major newspapers of China...... Considering the "Five-Year Heavy Industry Development Plan" and the "Overall War Plan" that they are now underway, it is clear that China is now making material and spiritual preparations for the next round of war of aggression and expansion! There are only two directions for China's expansion, one is to invade the Soviet Union to the north, and the other is to sweep Southeast Asia in the south.

However, it is still difficult to determine what direction China will ultimately choose to carry out their aggressive expansion. Although judging from the current situation of China's support for the Soviet Union's civil war, it seems that the possibility of invading the Soviet Union north is relatively large. However, the just-concluded "Kuomintang-Communist negotiations" made him feel a little suspicious, and the Kuomintang did not seem to have any intention of controlling Méng Gu in its hands, and there was no sign of eliminating the Chinese G. If the Kuomintang's plan for expansion was the Soviet Union, Méng Gu and Zhong G seemed to be two that would definitely be resolved...... How can they fight a protracted war with the USSR without settling the Chinese g? If they didn't get Méng, how could the Kuomintang army cut off the Trans-Siberian Railway, which was of great significance to the Soviet Union? Could it be that the real goal of China is not the north, but Southeast Asia, which is warm and humid and suitable for the development of planting industry?

Since Ambassador Lan Pusheng is not sure about the next direction of China's expansion, his current focus is to find out whether the Chinese people want to go north or south. Therefore, today, he invited Marshal Luo Yaoguo, vice chairman of the Kuomintang Kuomintang, vice chairman of the Military Commission, and chief of the General Staff, who was inspecting the Republic Aircraft Factory in Shanghai, to have afternoon tea at the Consulate General to test the tone of this young Marshal of China.

At this time, Luo Yaoguo was visiting his own Republic Aircraft Company with two Belarusian engineers, "Yin Versky and Katveli". Luo Yaoguo's Republic Aircraft Company, with a total investment of about 10 million legal currency, is still under intense construction, and it is estimated that it will be completed and put into production within the year. All of the machinery and equipment at the aircraft plant were procured from the United States, and since it was built during the Great Depression, the investment cost was relatively low. With an investment of almost $3 million, it has several large assembly halls and an R&D center that includes a medium-sized wind tunnel. and this factory under construction is displayed in front of Luo Yaoguo, and there is also a gang,

A prototype that has just been assembled at Republic Aircraft's R&D center, a monoplane with retractable landing gear and a sealed cockpit.