While Lin Han and Li Huamei were preparing to create greater "trouble" for Japan, the Red Army in the south was also making all-out preparations for the upcoming spring offensive.

After the end of the Red Army's autumn offensive in 1934, the biggest gain of the Jiangxi Red Army was the acquisition of the arsenal, the iron factory, and the local ship repair equipment in Hanyang. After the capture of this place, the military-industrial production system of the Red Army took a significant step forward. At the end of that year, the focus of the Red Army's operations was directly shifted to this area of Hubei Province.

From the end of 1934 to May of the following year, convoys of freighters and tugboats traveled back and forth between the mouth of the Yangtze River and Hanyang Hankou. A large number of machines and equipment shipped from Germany were constantly unloaded in Hankou, Hanyang. With the help of German engineers and mechanics, a supporting air separation and air suppression oxygen plant was built near the Hanyang Iron Works, and the existing blast furnace equipment was upgraded, and the first molten steel was smelted at the end of April 1935. The renovated and expanded Hanyang Arsenal is now able to supply shells for howitzers on the front line - of course, the problem of self-production of shell primer and mine mercury has not been completely solved, and the production equipment is being installed and commissioned, and raw materials need to be imported from the Soviet Union and Germany for the time being.

Based on the ship repair facilities left by the British in Hankow, plus a batch of equipment imported from the United States through Shanghai, the Red Army built a small shipyard in Hankow.

The shallow water gunboat Yongsui, which was wounded and captured in the Battle of Jiujiang, was repaired and reformed here. Due to the lack of shells on the ship, the Red Army replaced the original six-inch guns with Soviet-made 107-mm cannons, and added several imitation Japanese-made 75-mm Type 92 light infantry guns on the ship. After buying the gun from a Japanese arms dealer last year. Hannah ordered the military to start copying it and provided it to the Red Army for trial, and even the artillery shells could be used with Japanese-style artillery shells.

The most important refit work carried out by the Hankou shipyard was from Li Huamei's body, the 600-ton shallow water gunboat "Ruijin".

Li Huamei, like Katyusha, built her own spirit ship in Germany when filming "The Legend of Arthur" in Germany. But Katyusha builds expensive private yachts, powered by state-of-the-art turbocharged diesel. However, Li Hua built the hull of a 600-ton shallow water gunship, and considering China's national conditions, it used a coal-fired steam engine power unit. The hull is working overtime. It took less than twenty days to build. It was then dismantled in Germany and transported to Japan by guò cargo ship, where it was then combined by Japanese shipyards to complete the subsequent hull construction. (This is because shallow gunboats built for rivers are not suitable for transoceanic navigation,)

During the economic crisis. Life at the Japanese shipyard was not easy either. The ship was assembled in Japan under the name of a German ship. Pay a lot of money. The shipyard did not investigate its origins, and the Japanese worked overtime overnight under the temptation of triple wages. It took only a month to assemble the hull and install the ship's structure, and then sail into China, into the Yangtze River and finally to Hankou.

As for the armor plates and shipboard weapons for the hull, they arrived in Hankow three months earlier. At the end of March 1935, the workers of the Hankow shipyard were instructed by German technicians to retrofit the artillery and armor for the project.

This shallow water gunboat of Li Huamei's spirit was named Ruijin. The main guns are two German-made 45 x 128 mm naval guns, front and rear layout, and a 105 mm 40x diameter cannon howitzer is also installed in a raised knapsack position in the bow position. In addition, two twin 40-mm Bofors guns were equipped, and space was reserved for the installation of six 40-mm single-mount Bofors guns. The reason why so many anti-aircraft guns were prepared was to prepare for the imminent outbreak of the Sino-Japanese war.

For the sake of his "daughter", Lin Han spent a lot of money on the construction of this shallow water gunboat. The 40-mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun had just been equipped with the German Navy and Army, and as soon as it was equipped with the army, it received rave reviews and was very popular, and the existing production has always been in short supply. Lin Han still forcibly detained dozens of doors for export to China, and then installed most of them on the newly formed river fleet of the Red Army at his request. The two 128-mm naval guns installed are equipped with a newly developed semi-automatic loader, which can easily reach a rate of fire of more than 20 rounds per minute.

The Ruijin was refitted in Hanyang on April 10, 1935, and officially launched into use, with a maximum speed of 18 knots, it became the most powerful river gunboat of the Red Army on the Yangtze River. Some of the sailors of the ship are students trained by Lin Han in Germany, and there are also sailors trained by German officers in the sailors school built in the Soviet zone in the past two years. For the time being, the members of the core maintenance department, such as the chief engineer, are technicians from the KPD.

On May 1, 1935, at the anchorage of Jiangyin Fort, Chen Shaokuan, Minister of the Navy of the Nanjing National Military Government, stood on the cruiser Ninghai and looked depressedly at the long line of ships spitting black smoke not far away. This huge fleet consisted of six groups, thirty motorized tugboats. The supplies shipped on the ship were aircraft and equipment imported from the United States and Germany, as well as a large amount of aviation fuel. The lead ship for them was the newly acquired Ruijin Yangtze River gunboat by the Red Army, and the escort was the captured shallow water gunboat Suiyuan, now renamed Jiujiang.

It is no longer a secret that the Red Army in the south transported supplies on a large scale through the Yangtze River channel, but a "legal" act. One of the terms of the armistice agreement signed in November 1934 was that the Red Army fleet had the right of free passage of the Yangtze River waterway and the right to trade with imported goods independently. Within five months of that, the Red Army in the South was completely and openly entering the Yangtze River waterways and all kinds of urgently needed supplies. The Red Army's own transport fleet was insufficient, and sometimes even British and American cargo ships were hired to help with transportation.

These fleets from the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River, usually from Jiujiang, are loaded with all kinds of ores, rare earths, pig bristles, soybeans and other materials, transported to the port of Shanghai, and then pulled away by German cargo ships, and returned with materials imported from Germany and the United States. The Americans exported mainly high-quality aviation fuel, lubricants and chemicals to the Red Army. The Red Army in the south, with the help of the Soviets and Germans, together with the capture of the previous "uprising", had now created an air force no less in size than the Nationalist government in Nanjing. Efforts are now under way to build up strategic reserves of fuel oil.

The upper echelons of the Nanjing Nationalist Government, no matter how stupid people are, know that the Red Army is now hoarding supplies and equipment, but it is just preparing for the next round of all-out offensives, but Chen Shao, relying on the strongest inland river warship of the Nanjing Nationalist Government, does not dare to fire a single shot at this huge Red Army fleet, and does not even dare to make a provocative move.

Three months ago, Shanghai Customs seized a cargo ship loaded with aircraft and petroleum products exported by the United States to the Soviet Union. As a result, the day after the incident, representatives of the Southern Red Army in Nanjing came to protest. Ask for release. After that, the Red Army in Hubei, southern Zhejiang, and Anhui made a large-scale mobilization and made a posture that it would attack at any time.

At this time, the courage of the Nanjing Nationalist Government had already been shattered by the Red Army in last year's war, and how could it have the courage to continue to touch the tiger's whiskers of the Red Army. The final disposition of the event. The artillery party swallowed its anger. Customs releases the vessel. The goods arrived at Jiujiang and ended.

After that, the Yangtze River channel was completely open to the Red Army in the middle and upper reaches, and the import and export of materials was completely unhindered.

"If it weren't for those two shots. If the Standing Chairman is still there"

Chen Shaokuan patted the body of the 140-mm twin-mounted naval gun beside him vigorously, and he was depressed and just wanted to cry.

Chen Shaokuan's cruiser Ninghai weighed 2,400 tons, six 140-mm guns (two twins, two single 140-mm guns), two 127-mm anti-aircraft guns, six 76-mm anti-aircraft guns, and five triple 25-mm anti-aircraft guns. Chen Shaokuan believed that as long as Nanjing allowed it, his warship alone could shoot two or three salvos into the Yangtze River.

However, Chen Shaokuan just didn't have the courage, and the Nanjing Nationalist Government had already forcibly ordered the Yangtze River Fleet not to "start a war without being strong", and that tone full of fear always reminded him from time to time of the late Qing Dynasty's Cixi Lafayette and Li Hongzhang's Zhongtang master's "protecting ships and avoiding war". The Nanjing Nationalist Government said that they needed time to train and retool. But now the whole of Jiangnan, fools know that with the habits of the "red bandits" in the first two years, they will definitely ignite the war again after the autumn harvest in September. Now that they are allowed to obtain supplies through the Yangtze River waterway, a new round of "autumn offensive" after September will come, and the fate of the Nanjing Nationalist Government will only be even more miserable.

But now that we are going to war, we can't do it. After last year's defeat, the Nationalist government in Nanjing had less than 300,000 troops at its disposal – and that included patchwork militias and miscellaneous armies. If you squeeze out the empty salary in the middle, you will laugh if you can have more than 250,000 yuan. How can such an army resist the army of hundreds of thousands of tigers and wolves of the Red Bandits?

Chen Shaokuan now misses Chang Kaishen Chairman infinitely. The chairman of the Standing Committee who likes to "open up the territory on the map and make the country strong in the diary", although he is strict about the external bone and lack of calcium, he has always been ruthless internally, and he has a strong strength to fight against the south wall and not look back, and he will not compromise or give in.

"If the Standing Chairman is still alive, how can I endure this humiliation!"

Looking at the Red Army's Yangtze River fleet in the distance, Navy Minister Chen Shaokuan couldn't help but cherish the memory of Chang Principal who had passed away for nearly four years.

"We were cheated by the Germans!"

At present, no one in the Nanjing Nationalist Government, from top to bottom, no longer thinks that "Hitler is a good friend of the Chinese people," and the German advisers in the military academy have been driven out and replaced by military advisers provided by Britain, the United States, and Japan. The volume of trade between the Nationalist government in Nanking and Germany was rapidly falling to freezing point. The present German government is no longer secretive about doing business with the Red Army, but is openly doing business.

As for the arms business with the "Red Bandits", Hitler (Hannah) no longer confessed to it as before, but shamelessly admitted it in semi-public, and in turn bit back.

In an interview with Louise, a female reporter for the New York Times, who was "a woman and a woman", when talking about this, Hitler defended himself helplessly:

"You've caught all the mice, what do you want cats for? If the Red Red Bandit did not sell weapons, how could the Nanjing Nationalist Government buy more German rifles? Who would have thought that the people of the Nanjing Nationalist Government would be so incompetent? I sold them more than four times as many rifles as I sold to the Red Bandits! Who would have thought that they were pigs from top to bottom, wrong, it should be that they are pigs and insult all the pigs in the world."

News came from the spies of the artillery party lurking in Jiujiang and Hankow, after January 1935. The Red Army in Hankow received a large number of planes of unknown origin, all of which had only "two wings". Although the Red Army claimed that the I16 fighters were aided by the Soviet Union, Chen Shaokuan, many artillery party officials, and even "foreign friends," strongly suspected that the planes were German.

Historically, by 1935, the mainstream view of public opinion in various countries was that the German Führer Hitler was an extremely anti-communist militant.

But in this plane, because Hitler was killed and replaced by Hannah early, the way of behaving is even more different.

However, there has been a dramatic change in the perception of him.

"It was a man who shouted and shouted loudly. In fact, the Jewish profiteers who only have money in their eyes! While shouting anti-Communist and anti-Semitic slogans, he frantically engaged in unconscionable arms business with the Chinese Bolsheviks. ”

"The mustache claimed to be a pure Aryan, but by the color of his hair, where did he look like an Aryan? He's a Jew at all! ”

There are even good deeds. Began to secretly go to check the eighteenth generation of Hitler's ancestors. See if he really has Jewish ancestry. Fortunately, Hannah was prepared. This line has been cut beforehand.

Of course, the German military was very much in favor of Hitler's approach, with the help of the artillery party. They sold a large amount of outdated old equipment from the army at a high price, and were able to travel lightly and replace it with new weapons. And the massive orders brought by the subsequent change of clothes made the domestic Junker arms dealers smile from ear to ear. On the issue of aiding the Bolsheviks in China, the German Junckers, who had eaten the Red Army and the White Army and made a lot of money, were all on Hitler's side.

As if foreseen, all of them are copies of 1932. After the defeat of the Nationalist government in Nanking in September 1934, on October 1, the "friendly" Germans sent more Mauser 98K rifles to Guò cargo ships "in time for rain". This time, the number of rifles in this batch was as high as 150,000. Germany emptied almost every warehouse in the country, turned out all the World War I rifles that could be found at home and sent them to China.

But now, no one in the Nationalist government in Nanking thought that Germany under Hitler's leadership was really "friendly to China." According to Mrs. Song, the surviving of President Chang, "that German dwarf is a profiteer duplicitous who is even more treacherous than the Jews." Now the whole world knows that if it were not for the fact that this "biggest anti-communist element in Germany" had been secretly engaged in arms business with the Red Bandits, how could the situation in the South have become so rotten?

Although they hated the Germans to the bitter end, the Nanjing Nationalist Government headed by Song Ziwen still had to pinch its nose and was forced to take out the last copper plate in its pocket and buy the 150,000 rifles sent by the Germans at a high price. It's not that they can't order from Britain, the United States, and Japan, but the threat of the Red Army is already on the tip of their noses, and they urgently replace the equipment of other countries, not to mention the chaos that will cause logistics, and the soldiers on the front line will not have time to get acquainted with it. What's more, if these rifles were not bought, the fool would know that Hitler (now Hannah's daughter), who only had money in his eyes, would definitely order the ship to turn around and sail to Fujian without any restraint, and sell the 150,000 rifles to the Red Bandits, and the situation would only be worse.

"We've been pitted by that magic stick!"

The people who were hated by Chen Shaokuan and countless artillery party officials, in addition to Hitler, also included Lin Han, the leader of the Xuanwu Sect. When Lin Han returned to China in 1933, from Chairman Song to local officials, they all offered him to please him like a grandfather, and even did not hesitate to use beauty tricks. However, Lin Han hugged the beauty with his left hand, but dug several pits with his right hand, pitting the cannon party up and down miserably.

During the autumn offensive of 1934, the air force that rebelled on the battlefield was not only the air force of Hanyang, but also the air force of the artillery party in Jiujiang also "defected" in large numbers. Most of the pilots who rebelled had a background of studying in France, and the Nanjing Nationalist Government investigated afterwards, but could not find out their experience of studying at the French aviation school, and the so-called proof of studying at the French aviation school was later proved to be all forged by the French side. They even found out from other places that when these students went abroad to study, they were all fully funded by Lin Han, an overseas Chinese.

At this moment, Lin Han's "red background" can no longer be covered. Thinking that most of the air force that he had made out by selling his liver and kidneys and carrying foreign debts had made wedding clothes for the red bandits, Chairman Song and his sister who was in charge of managing the air force, Mrs. Song, the surviving person of Chang Kaishen, were so depressed that they almost vomited blood.

That's it. What made Song even more angry was the failure of the "patriotic bonds" issued by the Nanjing Nationalist Government overseas, because some people were desperately spreading "rumors" and "black materials" in the Chinese circle. At every press conference for the overseas issuance of "patriotic bonds", there were people who took the various "anti-Qing bonds" issued by Sun Dacang and the Cannon Party in the late Qing Dynasty and the various bonds issued overseas during the Beiyang era to slap them in the face, demanding that they be redeemed.

Naturally, the $50 million "overseas patriotic bond" issuance plan could no longer be carried out.

And who would be the one who could do such a thing?

The officials of the Nanjing Nationalist Government, who had been transferred again, stared left and right with red eyes, and naturally put the account on the head of the biggest suspect, Lin Han.

After the Nanjing Nationalist Government, which had been miserably pitted by Lin Han, came to its senses and decided that Lin Han was the biggest red element of "bandits aiding the Communist Party". New World Publishing House in Shanghai. It was forced to close in January 1935. Its headquarters moved to Hong Kong.

Regarding this situation, Lin Han had been prepared for a long time, and the key people had evacuated in advance three months ago, except for the loss of a little money, there was no loss of personnel. The only trouble is. The last thirty volumes of the fourth volume of the Legend of the Son of Heaven are about to be completed, and the Tang Emperor Li Shimin's chapter. had to pass guò smuggling and smuggling way. Smuggled from Hong Kong into Shanghai for distribution.

The Nanjing Nationalist Government planted agents in Hong Kong to retaliate in Hong Kong and attack the publishing house. As a result, just as he was planning to do it, he was inexplicably attacked at night. was directly slaughtered all over the door: the top person in charge was missing, and the low-level soldiers were killed cleanly in the old nest.

The 30-odd people in the Hong Kong office, except for the head who did not see anyone alive or dead, died completely overnight -- the people who did this were Ding Ying and Xiao Bailang, the agents trained by Lin Han, who took the action in Hong Kong as the subject of these people's "graduation examinations" and handed them over to these students who had received special training in Germany to do it, so that the Nanjing Nationalist Government no longer dared to stir up trouble in Hong Kong.

The "Legend of the Son of Heaven" series has many fans, although it has been banned, but even the current boss of the Central Military Command of the Nanjing National Government (the Blue Coat Society has been renamed the Military Commander at this time) is chasing after it, although the New World Publishing House has been banned, the people in charge below have turned a blind eye to the continued circulation of these two comics in the market after receiving bribes - in fact, the main reason can be clearly explained in one sentence: people's hearts are scattered, and the team is not easy to bring. In the military unification and central unification, people with a bit of brains were not optimistic about the future of the Nanjing Nationalist Government, and they began to do things half-heartedly.

After all, Song Ziwen is not Chang Kaishen, and his control over the Central Military Command is far from being comparable to him. Moreover, it is now 1935, and the two spy organizations of the Central Military Command have only been born for a short time, and they are still very tender, and they are not the two powerful departments that fought against the red underground party in 1946 after years of development.

The first volume of the "Legend of the Son of Heaven" series released by Lin Han and the chapter of King Wu of Zhou and "Chinese Heroes" have been completed. The "Legend of the Son of Heaven" series was a great success in the market, and Lin Han originally did not want to publish the Qin Huang and Liu Bang chapters, but at the request of countless readers, for the sake of money, they were also forced to release them.

Fortunately, he, a traverser, knew the reason why these two series were scolded by readers in the market in later generations, and when it was published, Lin Han ordered people to find a large number of loyal fans and readers to discuss the plot, and changed the plot of Qin Huang's Dead Servant Street in which Qin Shi Huang won the government from beginning to end all the way to the end, and it became Qin Shi Huang's "Long Aotian" plot from beginning to end, and the market evaluation was not bad.

As for the plot of Han Gaozu Liu Bang, Lin Han didn't bother to think about it, so he directly copied the old plot outline and threw it to Wang Yue, and they released it after a little modification. This era is not the era of the flood of martial arts novels in later generations, the reader's taste is not so picky, and the market response is considered successful.

Lin Han, who came from later generations and knew that readers were working hard to "wait for books", published comics very quickly, and he did not hesitate to spend more money to hire a large number of painters, and almost put comic publications on the market at a rate of one to two copies a week. In just two and a half years, the "Legend of the Son of Heaven Series" was released to the fourth volume. The money he made was not much, but the power of faith that he had brushed for Lin Han was very much.

The so-called meritorious service, speech, and virtue are for the three immortals. Except for the "morality" aspect, Lin Han felt that he had done both other things. Masterpieces are immortal, and no matter how the future times change, Lin Hantong's means of publishing novels and his eighty consecutive victories have already left a strong mark on himself in this era. (To be continued......)