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The early years of 1940 were a dazzling time for the world's political landscape and wars. From the Philippines to Finland, blood and rain and artillery rumbled, India chaos Chamberlain stepped down, Churchill came to power strongly, and the remnants of the Soviet army went south. When the news that the new generation of generals Zhukov had been tormenting in the Finnish isthmus for two months and finally brought the first victory to the anxious Moscow, many people began to think about it again, especially when Churchill, who had always hoped for Anglo-Soviet cooperation, used means to expel the 22nd Detachment of the Chinese Navy and was ready to bargain over the Indian issue.

Many people don't like this fat man who just came to power and forgot how he shouted anti-Soviet back then, but turned around and sent a special envoy to Moscow, but even the most critical person has to admit that he does have extraordinary vision. Although many of the plans were too far ahead for the military to do, his tough and quick thinking as a politician brought cheer and strength to England in the gloom. Even Whitehall admitted that it was best to drain Germany on the endless snow and ice of the Eastern Front. Of course, he did not forget another emerging country in the East, and the second thing he did after taking office was to appoint Ambassador to China Xu Gesen as plenipotentiary to win over China, and also wrote a letter to Yang Qiu saying that a personal friendship at the prime minister's level should be established.

"This dead fat man, who has a good dream, wants to kill two birds with one stone."

In an open-air café on the streets of Cairo, three young men sit around sipping tea. One of them had a clear eyebrow, holding a newspaper in his hand, and with a shrill voice, he commented that Churchill on the front page was useless, especially the phrase "killing two birds with one stone" was really intriguing. "What are you laughing at? What about my black tea. "The handsome man is Jin Bihui, head of the European Department of the National Strategic Intelligence Agency, who is dressed as a man.

Jin Bihui threw the newspaper on the head of his snickering partner, picked up the black tea before taking a sip, and even spitted: "Bah, what does it taste like?" ”

"Team leader, Egyptians like to add sugar to tea. You'll just order it. The partner on the left holds a cup of tea and his eyes linger on an Arab man across the street with a newspaper in hand.

Jin Bihui, who had tasted Egyptian black tea, no longer dared to touch the cup, put his hands in his trouser pockets and leisurely looked at the pedestrians and passengers coming and going, turned his head to see more than a dozen trucks full of cotton, and asked, "Is it our cotton convoy?" ”

After Gu Yu put forward the idea of taking advantage of the backlog of cotton in Egypt and the opportunity to use the economy to intervene in the serious losses, Yang Qiu immediately asked Liao Zhongkai to visit Egypt. After many negotiations, it finally reached a three-year cotton purchase agreement with Egyptian Prime Minister Ali Mahir with a total value of 12 million yuan. The deal made Maher, who has always been ambitious and has been working to make Egypt truly independent, very happy in the face of the ever-changing outcome of the Saudi-Ahvaz campaign. It also made him see the possibility of using China to gradually balance the situation of British dominance. Moreover, Liao Zhongkai was also very skillful, and even persuaded Maher to purchase 40 export-oriented Type 31 tanks, 30 Hound wheeled armored vehicles and other weapons and equipment worth 1.8 million yuan. The Sino-Egyptian Cotton Agreement also caused quite a stir in Europe and the Middle East, and the British government was initially nervous until Yang Qiu made it clear that he would not enter North Africa, and only stopped after purchasing cotton and supplying tight military supplies. However, the British still stepped up surveillance of Chinese businessmen and the activities of Chinese in Egypt. It's a pity. These things did not cause much repercussions at home, mainly because the eyes of the domestic people were focused on the words Soviet Union, Central Asia, war and mobilization, so this cotton agreement for the future development of Africa did not cause much turmoil.

"Team leader, someone is here."

After two domestically produced Shanghai cars turned into the street with the cotton convoy, the partner with the newspaper in his hand immediately reminded Jin Bihui and pushed the partner who was monitoring the street. The other hand quietly clenched the pistol under the cover of the newspaper. The bridge car stopped not far from the dining table, and several big men in suits walked out with Luo Hu in their arms. At the sight of them, the Arab man reading the newspaper opposite immediately straightened his waist.

This subtle action did not hide from Jin Bihui, but she ignored it. It wasn't until Luo Hu sat down that he leaned forward slightly, took out a pen and paper from his pocket and wrote a sentence. In fact, Luo Hu and the hunter have cooperated with the intelligence department many times, so they have known Jin Bihui, who is known as the intelligence witch, for a long time, but he still seriously picked up the pen and paper and put it on the code. Only then did he stuff the paper ball into his pocket and said with a smile: "Miss Jin." Is tea good in Egypt? ”

"I'm still drinking, I'm tired of it. I really don't know what the Egyptians think, they have to put sugar in everything they eat, and they mix chocolate in their dishes, and they don't feed pigs. Listening to Jin Bihui's depreciation of Egyptian food as useless, Luo Hu was even happier: "Team Leader Jin is a famous gourmet, I think you can simply come here to open a restaurant, so that these Arabs can have a good taste of Chinese food." ”

"Won't I be poor with you, did I bring something?" Jin Bihui covered his mouth, but his eyes fell on the public bag carried by the big man next to him. Seeing this, Luo Hu put the bag on the table: "These are the three copies you wanted, and I will bring the rest back first." ”

Of course, Jin Bihui knew what was in the three copies, but he didn't know if he was disgusted with the "dirty" things in them, so he didn't reach out to take the bag, but pushed it to his partner before asking, "Is it the best part?" Don't give me the useless ones. ”

Wonderful? Luo Hu was really speechless for her to use this word. The gun is against the head, the blood is splashed, and the corpse is full of pits, can it be called wonderful? Stretching his waist, he said noncommittally: "I don't know if it's exciting, but it's definitely unforgettable." ”

"That's good." After Jin Bihui finished speaking, his gaze quickly swept over the Arab man on the other side of the street, and a cold light flashed in his eyes and glanced at Luo Hu: "Lend your hand and help me get rid of this British." I have been with my aunt and grandmother for seven or eight days, and I am not too tired to panic. She was still smiling and cute just now, but in a blink of an eye, she was murderous, and the speed of changing her face made Luo Hu understand why she had such a nickname. The trivial matter of helping the intelligence officer flick his tail was not difficult for the hunter, so he readily agreed: "The eldest lady has orders, how dare the little one refuse." By the way, do you want to dump it? ”

Luo Hu made a throat-slitting motion.

"Don't, we're going to fly straight to London later, you want to kill me." Jin Bihui smiled, and after letting the two partners prepare to leave, he suddenly smiled again: "By the way, don't go to Djibouti, the 22nd fleet has been driven away by the French, and there is no way to escort you back." Yang Tiancheng's kid also had a fight with the French because of this incident. I heard that he was thrown out of the country. Hmph, it's useless to fight since you were a child, but it's still when you grow up! Go to Suez, there is a car to take you back to Riyadh, Commander White has already arranged the plane. Remember, the copies should be taken separately, and the weather in the north has been bad recently, but there are no fewer planes. ”

Luo Hu flattened his mouth. Yang Tiancheng is the second son of the president, and because of Chen Haohui's relationship, Jin Bihui has been in Yang Qiu's house since he was a child. So several of Yang Qiu's children call him eldest sister. But she's good, when the eldest sister doesn't go to comfort her, she also laughs at her younger brother for losing the fight. As for the last sentence, it made him cry and laugh: "I said Miss Jin, we have been in the ice and snow for several months, you can't expect something good?" ”

"Okay? Yes. Congratulations, Captain Luo, you've caught up with a good opportunity. ”

"Good chances? What a good opportunity? Luo Hu was just about to chase after him and ask clearly. But Jin Bihui had already gotten up, and after putting on his sunglasses, he and his two partners got into the car that sent Luo Hulai. Seeing this, the British intelligence agent on the other side of the street immediately wanted to chase after him, but before he could take a few steps, he was blocked by two hunters in front and back, and before he could draw his gun, he was directly stunned by a fierce whip leg.

"Good chance?" Looking at the sedan that was billowing away with smoke and dust, Luo Hu didn't care about the stunned British intelligence officer, and secretly wondered what Jin Bihui's words meant.

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"Stand upright!"

Inside the Central Asian Theater Command, Almaty. After a harsh winter, the loud sound of standing up sounded again. Yue Peng led Song Ziqing, Air Force Commander He Ning, Army Commander Qin Zhangshu, and others into the meeting, including Bai Chongxi, who had just flown back from Ahvaz, Sun Chuanfang, Chu Nan, Long Yun, and dozens of other senior officers of the group army collectively stood up. "You're in good spirits! Jiansheng (Bai Chongxi characters). Xinyuan (Sun Chuanfang), one of you two is in Persia and the other is in Afghanistan, how can you learn from Long Yun and them empty-handed? Didn't you bring me a gift or something? ”

"I'd like to bring you two gifts. But I have nothing but a donkey and a mule, and I want to lead it to the plane. The pilot didn't let it take it with him. ”

"Haha."

There was a lot of laughter in the conference room, and after Yue Peng took the people of the General Staff to shake hands with each officer, he asked the guards to close the door: "Okay, no kidding." You should have guessed it, right? I don't dwell too much. Five days ago, the situation in Europe changed. With the surrender of Finland imminent, Stalin had already begun to transfer 500,000 elite troops from the Moscow Military District to us, replenishing them with at least 600,000 new recruits. According to intelligence, since the armistice in December, he has reassembled 4,500 tanks, of which at least 1,700 are T-34s, which pose a greater threat to Type 31 tanks, and have been supplemented with many aircraft and heavy artillery, which have reconstituted a threat to Central Asia! In addition, considerable restructuring has been made within the enemy army, with a large number of previously purged mid-level officers returning to command posts. As you can see from the Battle of Finland, our opponents are good at learning and have begun to make amends for their previous mistakes. So the president has already ordered us to launch a spring-summer offensive as soon as possible, completely sweep away all enemy forces in Tashkent and the remaining areas east of the Caspian Sea in Central Asia, take the Omsk fortress and cut off the Siberian defense line! Open up the passage from Central Asia to Persia and further stabilize the Central Asian defense line! ”

After Yue Peng finished speaking, Qin Zhangshu immediately asked the staff officers to distribute the thick public bags with the words top secret printed on them according to the division of the group army, and then walked to the big map and picked up the whip: "The objectives, preliminary combat plans, and battle sequence of each group army are all in the bag, and I will briefly talk about the main objectives here." The first goal of the Turkmen and Uzbek armies attacking first was to take Dushanbe, encircle Tashkent, and eat the Apanashchenko troops entrenched here. The South Kazakh Army Group will cooperate with you in attacking Karakalpakstan and cutting off the railway line in Urgench! At the same time, the Siberian Army Group will launch an auxiliary offensive against Krasnoyarsk and Barnaul to contain the enemy Siberian Front. The second step began in April, with the Persian Gulf Army attacking Tabriz and cutting off the enemy Persian Front from the Caucasus. In June, after the flood season, the battlefield will be shifted to the Omsk and Pavlovsk lines, where the East Kazakh Army will be in charge, and the South Kazakh Army, depending on the situation, will turn around along the Karabaul ridge between the Aral Sea and the Caspian Sea and go north to take Atyrau, if not, the U-turn Uzbek and Turkmen armies will take over, and you will go north from the northern end of the Aral Sea to break through with the East Sax army.

According to the calculations of the General Staff, the battle will take about 6 months in total! Therefore, I would like to remind you here that this offensive is the most intense, the longest time span, and the most complicated general campaign since the establishment of our army! And it should be noted that as the front deepens to the west, the gathering areas of Slavic and other European ethnic groups will gradually increase, the traditional will be closer to the Soviet Union, and the forces of local guerrillas will definitely be involved, so in addition to dealing with the regular army, you also need to arrange for the Central Asian Independent Army to strengthen the clearance. In particular, this operation is large in depth, the front is long, and the logistics line is very fragile and dangerous, so we must pay attention to and be vigilant against the attacks and harassment of these guerrillas!

Finally, the president asked me to convey a few words: The contradictions between you, the contradictions between the various armies, the desire to promote and make a fortune, etc., must all be put away this year! This war is about the fortunes of the country! The future of the country is at stake! Therefore, he will never be soft on anyone who is slack, infighting, afraid of war, collaborating with the enemy, etc., no matter who it is! He also demanded that the soldiers below be told clearly and accurately that a big country like the Soviet Union could not be defeated by one or two battles! Stalin had already called for a national mobilization to implement a policy of fortifying the wilderness, the armed forces and the partisans. He predicted that by the summer the total strength of the enemy forces on the opposite side would most likely exceed another 5 million! So be sure to forget all the previous achievements and be prepared for a hard life! ”