Gerhardt did not look for another opportunity to visit Federica or Yan Zhengqing, but instead took Franz around the various academies and factories in the imperial capital. The name is beautiful: investigation.

"Franz, we need to understand how deeply China is involved with the United States. This determines the leverage we can trade with them. "Gerhardt is not stupid, he knows that the United States and China cooperate a lot.

It even involves a series of military, chemical, and smelting ...... If the price offered by Germany is not enough, China will never give up this kind of cooperation.

"If we want to convince China, we need to know the Americans' bargaining chips. Only by understanding the other party's cards can we play our own cards well. After Gerhardt walked out of the Imperial Capital School of Political Science and Law, he said to Franz beside him: "I didn't see a few American professors in this academy just now. ”

"On the contrary, we are studying chemistry, mechanical engineering, science, and aeronautics at Imperial Capital University...... and so on, and I saw a lot of American professors teaching courses. Gerhardt paused and said, "Franz, do you know what that means?!" ”

Franz was stunned for a moment, and at first he simply thought it was just a wandering. He didn't think about it deeply, on the contrary, he felt that the exotic atmosphere of those colleges attracted him even more.

"This shows that although the Chinese side is cooperating with the United States, it is still wary of the United States." Seeing that Franz couldn't answer, Gerhardt said with a wry smile: "The Imperial Capital School of Political Science and Law, formerly known as the Three Eastern Provinces School of Political Science and Law. It is a specialized academy that specializes in training and training officials within the coalition government. ”

Lecturers at this academy include the current Prime Minister of the coalition government, Yan Zhengqing, Chairman Lin Sen, as well as Wu Hao, who is in charge of foreign affairs, and Chang Yinhuai, Minister of Transport...... And so on and so forth, these current senior cabinet officials of the coalition government. ”

Franz took a deep breath, he now understood why Gerhardt was doing this. They seem to be visiting, but in fact they are observing how deeply the United States and China are involved in various aspects.

And as far as they know so far, the Americans are not insignificant in their support for China in all aspects. In the factory, they can reach hundreds of American skilled workers and engineers to help work.

And in the academy. They can also see many Western faces working as lecturers in chemistry and mechanical engineering. But only in the government academy, which is dedicated to training Chinese officials, they don't see a single Western face.

This shows that the coalition government is still very wary of external forces entering its own ruling circle. In other words, they do not want other forces to interfere in their own national management circles.

"I think it's understandable that they're doing that, after all, they're just coming out of the warlord melee. I don't want to fall into such a circle again......" Gerhardt said to Franz in the car: "In fact, everyone knows in their hearts that behind those warlords at that time stood the power of the nations. ”

"To prevent this from happening again, we have to address it at the source. There are no foreign professors in the School of Political Science and Law, in order to prevent this situation from happening......"

A few days after Gerhard and Franz arrived in the imperial capital, a large passenger plane slowly landed at Mukden Airport. Subsequently, Prime Minister Yan Zhengqing and others of the coalition government smiled and put the guests on the plane next. Take a special train with them to the imperial capital.

"We are honored to thank Prime Minister Gan for being able to greet us in person." Hull spoke first on the train, and he and Yan Zhengqing had met.

However, at that time, Yan Zhengqing was not the prime minister of the coalition government, but the general leader of the three provincial governments in the east. Churchill looked at Yan Zhengqing curiously, he was the first time he had met the prime minister of the coalition government.

On a plane to the USSR. Hull had already explained to Churchill the structure of the coalition government, the principals and the decision-makers. Especially the focus is on Yan Zhengqing.

According to intelligence and observations by US personnel in China, the most dominant force in the coalition government is undoubtedly Yan Zhengqing. Whether it is the commander-in-chief of the Defence Forces or the chairman of the coalition government, most military and political opinions will question the prime minister.

There is no doubt about the talent of this prime minister, who laid the foundation for the stability of the current coalition government during the three eastern provinces. After the merger of the coalition government, in order to avoid the negligence of government and military affairs caused by the competition between various factions, the prime minister worked hard to persuade all parties to expand and introduce the government structure of the original three eastern provinces at the same time.

His efforts have finally borne fruit, although there have been some minor frictions and disagreements in the connection between government affairs and the arrangement of former government administrators since the establishment of the coalition government. But in the end, everyone's opinions will be agreed on by him.

All this has never affected the structure and operation of the entire coalition government. I have to say that Prime Minister Yan Zhengqing has extremely high political skills and incomparably firm political conviction.

"Hahaha...... Secretary Hull was gracious. Prime Minister Churchill, this is the first time we have met. Welcome to China. Yan Zhengqing is still that gentle and elegant appearance. Said to the two with a smile.

And Stalin on the side chuckled and said to Yan Zhengqing: "Premier Yan, we are all old friends, so I won't introduce you." ”

"We are old friends, but I don't understand that the Soviet Union is at war right now. The situation does not seem to be good, why did Chairman Stalin leave Moscow and come to China?! ”

Yan Zhengqing asked knowingly. In fact, he wanted to see what Stalin's response was.

"There's no way...... The Germans were too cunning, and they used the pretext of negotiations to suddenly start a war against us, resulting in heavy losses on our front. In order to keep the war going. The Supreme Council asked me to see if I could get some assistance......"

Stalin's joke was not credible, but everyone surprisingly did not refute it. Everyone talked and laughed with each other, Yan Zhengqing had the experience of studying in Britain, the United States and Russia, whether it was London accent English or casual American English or Russian, he could speak.

The scene was not cold, but gradually warmed up. From time to time, Yan Zhengqing acted as Stalin's ground English translator, after all, although Stalin could speak some English, he was not very familiar with certain words.

In this regard, Yan Zhengqing has to help translate.

Churchill also began to use his diplomatic means, constantly knocking on the Wehrmacht's current intentions. Of course, he would not have said that he wanted to know what the coalition government thought about the German coming to negotiate.

In this respect, Churchill was infinitely more clever than the Iron Lady who came after. During and before World War II, Churchill and almost all the leaders of the Allies were at odds.

Neither the United States nor the USSR. At the time, his opinion was greatly respected. Stalin and Roosevelt hosted him several times in private, and at the same time asked him for his views on the war situation.

But the Iron Lady after Churchill didn't have that kind of wrist. Blindly tough, she can achieve some strong gains when she encounters a small South American country like Argentina.

But when he met a certain "steelmaking company" in the Great Hall of the People, the English Iron Lady could only kneel in front of the Great Hall of the People.

The Iron Lady was very resentful at the time, and even wanted to do some small tricks against a certain place behind her back. It's a pity that the words of the steelmaking company are simple: if there is a mess, we will take it back early.

In a word, let this iron lady die down. The biggest difference between this Iron Lady and Churchill is that she never thinks about whether the other person is strong or weak.

It's just blindly insisting on being tough. It seems that she thinks that toughness will solve all disputes, so that she can get a satisfactory result. But when this kind of toughness met the steelmaking company, the Iron Lady realized that her toughness was actually so powerless.

Perhaps she has selectively forgotten that this "steelmaking company" had been displaced in the early years and survived countless battles and tragic battles.

The country run by this "steelmaking company" is not a small country like Argentina.

"Chirp...... Rumble! Rumble!! "At this time, the war in the Soviet Union was still going on, although the Japanese army was temporarily forced to renovate due to heavy losses.......

But Germany, which had achieved a huge advantage, was after a huge advantage in victory. Constant assaults on Soviet positions. Ground-air coordination and step-tank coordination are not only what the Chinese National Defense Forces will do. Germany can do the same.

Although the Soviet army had tried to coordinate between infantry and air on the battlefield of the civil war, after all, the means of warfare at that time were not mature. And after Germany has experienced a series of exercises in the European theater, this means of coordinated combat has become extremely mature.

With strong air superiority and the support of ground tank forces, the Germans easily tore apart the Soviet positions. The fortifications and bunkers crumbled in front of the powerful heavy rocket-booster bombs.

Marshal Tukhachevsky's face turned blue, and he looked at the blue arrows on the map pointing directly at Moscow and said nothing. He had already shot six generals who had withdrawn from the front, but this could not prevent the Soviet army from retreating.

The German army had a huge combat superiority in mechanized corps. It's not something that can be stopped with some courage alone.

"Comrade Tukhachevsky, there is a telegram from Moscow asking us to hold our positions here. The Germans were not allowed to cross over, and at the same time they launched a fierce counterattack to destroy the invading enemy. Otherwise Leningrad will be ......"

"Don't I know what's going on?! But now what are we going to do to stop the Germans ?! Tukhachevsky roared angrily: "I have already shot six generals. But now the Germans are still expanding the front. What do you think should be done?! ”

The chief of staff closed the telegram and stood in the war room without saying a word. The situation of the Soviet army is extremely bad now, it has only been ten days since the start of the war, and the German army has advanced almost 200 kilometers.

The Soviets lost 500 trains of ammunition and 800 artillery pieces of various types. More than 600 warplanes and more than 300 tanks. At the same time, more than 300,000 Soviet troops became prisoners of the Germans.

"Marshal! Something big is wrong. The army of the Germans is approaching the dam of the Dnieper hydroelectric power station! Now they are only ten kilometers from there, and the dam garrison urgently called us to ask what to do ?! ”

Tukhachevsky and his chief of staff's faces changed suddenly, and they rushed directly to the map and looked at it carefully.

"In charge of the offensive were the German 14th Mechanized Corps and the Tank Army under the command of General von Kleist, who wanted to seize the dam and cross the river! At the same time, the dam's hydropower system is used to complete the power generation ......"

"The dam is now garrisoned only by the 157th NKVD Regiment. But the strength of just one regiment is obviously not enough......" the words of the chief of staff made Tukhachevsky's face even more ugly.

"Order the troops, prepare explosives. If it comes to the last minute, then blow up the dam! It cannot be left to the Germans to use, and the Germans must not be allowed to march through there. ”

Suddenly, a Soviet general rushed in from outside and roared: "Damn it! I absolutely disagree! Don't try to blow this dam up!! ”

The general who rushed in was General Tyulenev, commander of the Southern Front of the Soviet Army. And with him came in with the commissar of the army group, General Zaporozhyets.

"This is a major hydroelectric power project built by the people of the whole country with great effort, sweat and even their lives, and this is the pride of our Soviets. You can't just ruin it......"

Tukhachevsky glanced at the two men coldly and said, "Are we going to watch the Germans occupy this place and use it to attack our homeland?!" ”

"The Dnieper Hydropower Dam is not only a passage that allows troops to quickly pass through the banks of the Dnieper River, but also has an installed capacity of 3 billion kilowatts per hour per year, making it the largest hydropower station in the world."

"When it fell into the hands of the Germans, you know what that means......"

Tyulenev and Zaporozhets clenched their fists and said nothing, knowing how hard the dam had to be built. Those workers who participated in the construction of hydropower stations even mixed their own feet in the cement in order to better set the cement in winter.

This dam embodies the hope of the Soviets after the civil war merger. But now, it has to be destroyed. This is difficult for anyone to accept......

"Comrade Tyulenev, Comrade Zaporozhyets, we were only temporarily forced to leave it. But we will come back eventually, and we will fix it when the time comes......" Maybe the words of the two generals, Tukhachevsky did not feel good in his heart.

He was not willing to blow up the dam unless he had to.

"And we didn't do a full blasting of the dam, the approach bridge, the two dams, the sluice and the approach bridge of the sluice were sufficient. We will create a gap of about 35 meters or so to ensure that the Germans will not be able to attack us with the dam, and we will not be able to use the dam to generate electricity for the time being......"

ps: I was dragged out by an old friend yesterday to pour alcohol...... He worked in the field and never came back. So there was no update to, sorry! I'm sorry!