The most common thunderstorm on the coast of midsummer swept the entire island of Taiwan, and the commander of the battle cruiser Kancheng stood on the bridge of the battlecruiser Kong, facing the heavy dark clouds on the southern coast of Taiwan Island more than 20 nautical miles to the northwest, and the faint thunder of lightning like a tree branch also reached here, like the roar of artillery fire in the middle of the voyage, which made the captain of the battlecruiser King Kong can't help but think of the special mission he undertook this time -- a mission that clearly violated military law. If it weren't for the edict of His Majesty the Emperor Regent himself, this military operation would simply be a rebellion!

Without any order from the Military Command Department and the Combined Fleet, a battle cruiser and a destroyer were used to attack the heavy cruiser of the leader of another country! Such a lawless thing was unimaginable for Guan Gancheng Dazuo, but now, a box with chrysanthemum stripes containing the emperor's edict was placed in the officer's room, and the edict clearly stated that he was going to Guan Gancheng Dazuo and all the officers and men of the Kongo battle cruiser Shimakaze destroyer to kill Chang Ruiqing, the most ferocious enemy of the empire, the chairman of the Military Commission of the Republic of China, for the sake of the national fortune of the Japanese Empire!

According to His Royal Highness Taihirohito, the regent of the edict, this mission is personal to the Emperor, not to the Cabinet and the Navy, and if the officers and men of the Navy on the Kongo and Shimakaze are loyal to the Emperor, then please go on the mission, and if they are loyal to the Cabinet...... Uh, if this one doesn't save zài! How could the officers and men of the Japanese Navy be loyal to the Cabinet? Isn't this a conspiracy?

As for the authenticity of this edict, which is simply betting on the national operation of the Japanese Empire, there is no doubt about it, and the naval officers, including the captain of the Kongo, Seki Gansei Daisa, and the first mate Yoshida Zengo Nakasa, all recognize their future monarch, Emperor Hirohito, and the edict handed down by the regent himself can be fake? Besides, the content of the edict is not completely nonsense for the elites sent by the navy young heroes such as Guan Gancheng and Yoshida Zengo......

Therefore, last night, when the King Kong was about to approach the port of Keelung in Taiwan, Guan Gancheng began to act on orders, and sent a report to the commander of the formation, Rear Admiral Huan Tai Shimauchi, that "the ship's mechanical failure has dropped to 6 knots, and the request to return to the home port for repair" was requested

According to the plan, they will arrive in the South China Sea about 50 nautical miles northeast of Singapore in three days, where they will wait for the less than 0,000-ton heavy cruiser Haitian ridden by Chang Ruiqing, chairman of the China ** Committee, who has successfully returned from a successful visit to Europe, and then use the eight 56mm main guns of the King Kong to bombard the Chinese heavy cruiser to pieces, and at the same time completely interrupt the pace of China's rise! In the words of Emperor Hirohito, "...... This is a battle of national fortunes, and the next hundred years of the imperial kingdom depend on this blow of the King Kong! ”

How could a thin-skinned treaty ship withstand the hard blows of the battlecruiser King Kong, Guan Gancheng's mind was the scene of the sinking of the Haitian: the stern of the heavy cruiser was raised high, and it was plunging headlong into the bottomless sea, and the dictator of China and the national fortunes of the country were finished!

Sometimes, victory is so simple, the key is whether the leader dares to make such a determination!

At this moment, a rush of footsteps came, and as soon as Guan Gancheng turned around, he saw the "Qin Mission" sent by Emperor Hirohito on the King Kongo, Kenji Dohihara, holding a telegram and hurrying over

"Guan Dazuo, China's Haitian has entered the Indian Ocean, but intelligence officers have also found a French cruise ship traveling with Haitian, and now we don't know which ship Chang Ruiqing is on."

"What? French cruises! This...... How can this be done?"

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The Haitian is sailing on the hot Indian Ocean at the moment, the sun near the equator can only be described as scorching, there is calm in the Indian Ocean, there is no sea breeze at all, the warship seems to be sailing on a huge blue curtain, next to the largest ship of the Chinese Navy, there is also a cruise ship flying the French flag with hundreds of French and German officers on board, they are all members of the Franco-German joint military advisory group, As for the equipment of the 0 artillery regiments promised by France and Germany, it was transported to China by six French transport ships after the formal signing of the "Four-Power Mutual Defense Treaty".

Because the visit was an unexpected success, Chang Ruiqing finally relaxed and began to enjoy the trip, although his favorite Sun Xiaomei was not around, but the two sisters of the Zhao family were also very good at pleasing him, so most of the day, Chang Ruiqing put aside his official duties, and walked with the two sisters, or walked on the deck of the warship, enjoying the magnificent sea view of the Indian Ocean; Or I don't know what to do in the cabin that belongs to Chang Ruiqing's private space......

Lu Yixuan, deputy chief of the general staff, and several staff officers of the navy, army, and air force, while constantly studying the next step of military cooperation with France and Germany, also kept in touch with Nanjing through the radio station on the Guò Haitian in order to obtain timely information on the first phase of mobilization and the movements of Japan and the Soviet Union

The two armies of the Wehrmacht Army have gone from less than 60 percent full strength to 10 percent full strength in less than three weeks, and nearly 500,000 reserve officers and men have been conscripted into the army and have undergone a few weeks of intensive training, and they will be able to shoulder combat tasks in the same way as the original soldiers on active duty

Moreover, in recent years, the "large-scale" construction of China's heavy industry and military industry has now come to bear fruit, and at present, the weapons and equipment of the Wehrmacht Army, especially the artillery equipment, are almost close to the standards of the European Army, and each infantry division is equipped with an artillery regiment, equipped with two battalions, a total of 24 French 97 05mm light field howitzers, and a battalion of 2 Japanese 75mm mountain guns! The direct team of each infantry corps is equipped with a heavy artillery regiment, equipped with two battalions of French 97-type 55mm heavy field howitzers, and one battalion of 97-type 55mm field cannons, each battalion is also equipped with 2 guns, in addition to the artillery units at the division level, artillery has begun to appear in the infantry regiments under the infantry divisions deployed in Northeast Mongolia! These infantry regiments are equipped with an artillery company with 4 75mm mountain guns and a mortar company equipped with 6 20mm heavy mortars, and most of these artillery pieces are imitation products of the two major domestic ordnance industrial groups, from the barrel steel to all the materials needed to manufacture artillery shells, have been localized!

Obviously, the current Chinese army is taking the road of artilleryism, mechanization or something is completely out of the actual situation of China's industry at present, as for the weapons and equipment of ordinary infantry, compared with a few years ago, it has not changed much, but the MP-submachine gun was introduced from Germany as the core of the squad firepower, thus forming a four-piece set of rifle submachine guns, water-cooled machine guns and grenades, but the training level of ordinary infantry has been significantly improved, and the skills of shooting, stabbing bomb throwing and digging trenches are said to be on par with the Japanese infantry! In fact, their training code is based on the Japanese infantry drill code, of course, the Japanese are most proud of the spirit of bushido, which is the result of decades of brainwashing and education after the Meiji Restoration, in addition to the officer elements of the Chinese Army

The quality is also a short board, the Japanese Lu Shi Lu University has also been running for decades, and there are also supporting junior military academies for long-term officer education, and the current officer education of the Chinese Army is a central military academy, an army university, and several schools specializing in training technical officers, which have not been open for a long time, and at the beginning they were all short-term courses, and it was not until after the victory of the Northern Expedition that they began to run a three-year long-term class, and the first batch of long-term class students just graduated last year, but the number is too small. At present, the mainstream of the officers of the National Defense Forces is still the Baoding Shengjia Whampoa Short-term Training School, plus some local martial arts halls, and there are also some college students and reserve officers, and the number is not large, and it is not so much to make up for the shortage of young officers in the National Defense Forces, but rather to establish a system -- in order to prepare for the future World War II, if the National Defense Forces really want to expand to tens of millions, there are no hundreds of thousands of officers who will absolutely not be able to command, and relying on the graduates of the Central Military Academy, which has only 2,000 people a year, will not be enough at all, it must be supplemented by a large number of "amateur officers".

In short, the current Chinese National Defense Force is an armed force that has been quite effective and is slowly growing, if the history of this time and space can really give them another 0 to 5 years, they will inevitably become a decisive force in World War II!

It's just that people on this Haitian would never have thought that a crisis that would almost interrupt the pace of China's rise is looming

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"Brother Kaiyin, what are you thinking about......

Tang Jiu was wearing a gray suit that had been washed white, and he didn't know when he walked into Zhang Guotao's office, Zhang Guotao still had a sad face, slumped on the chair behind the desk, smoking one cigarette after another

I haven't made up my mind to rebel yet, in fact, Zhang Guotao, this comrade is a little indecisive, Mao Bo has this Mao Bo in history, otherwise when the Red Army's 1st and 4th Front Armies met, it would have been a piece of cake to make up his mind immediately, and to clean up the 10,000-odd First Front Army with his 80,000 troops? In that case, the great leader of the future should be Chairman Zhang

And in this time and space, although Zhang Guotao got out in the Soviet Union by chance, there was still no change in the problem of softness in his hands when it came to the end, knowing that things were not good, but he still didn't want to rebel, and I don't know if he was studying at Peking University?

Seeing Tang Jiu, he subconsciously looked out of the office door and saw that there was no one, and he didn't know if the cadres of the Political Security Bureau were sneaking out to go out to play? He raised his hand and pointed to the door, meaning to ask Tang Jiu to bring the door with him

When Tang Jiu closed the door and pulled a chair and sat down opposite him, Zhang Guotao sighed bitterly: "Brother Jiu, I don't think things are so bad, right?" ”

Tang Jiu smiled coldly, and there was a hint of mockery in his eyes: "Brother Kaiyin, you know better than me how bad things are, I won't say much, I'll just ask you, have you talked to Dzerzhinsky, Stalin, Blyucher, and a few of them have talked to you at this time?" Does GC International Headquarters have any important instructions for our Far East Bureau? ”

Zhang Guotao's eyebrows tightened, and what Tang Jiu said was all abnormal! It's been a few days, and there should be a lot of work to be done regardless of success or failure, right? And all these tasks should involve him, the secretary of the Far Eastern Bureau, and now he doesn't know anything and throws it aside, what does this mean?

Tang Jiu continued: "Also, what department is our GC International Far East Bureau? It is the department that leads the proletarian revolution in Japan, Korea, and China! Now there is not even a radio station! What does it mean to send a telegram to the Far Eastern Bureau of the Communist Party next door? ”

Zhang Guotao took a sharp puff of cigarette, gritted his teeth and spit out a sentence: "It shows that they don't believe us."

Tang Jiu sneered: "What are the consequences of not believing it?" ”

Zhang Guotao didn't speak, and the only bit of blood on his face was gone, in other parts of the world, just one doubt cannot be convicted! And in the USSR, it was enough to have suspicions, and sometimes there was no need to even have suspicions, just because of an indicator of arrest to get people inside, and not to say whatever they wanted?

There was silence in the room, and I don't know how long it took to hear Zhang Guotao mutter: "Then why don't you arrest people in Moscow?" ”

"They need a syndicate!" The muscles on Tang Jiu's face suddenly twitched, revealing a hideous expression: "They want a counter-revolutionary group in the Far East, so that we can help the Chinese gang a dozen, maybe there are also Dzerzhinsky and Blyukher!" Don't you understand this kind of thing? You've done it yourself in the Cheka, and you've concocted such a counter-revolutionary group, right? ”

This is a bit unpleasant, but Zhang Guotao actually nodded, and said with a wry smile: "Retribution, this is retribution."

Hearing the word retribution, Tang Jiu raised his eyebrows and laughed dryly, "What retribution?" This is all feudal superstition, we are GCD people, we are atheists, we don't believe in this set, and we are not afraid of karma, we can let go of our hands and feet to fight for a bright future, am I right? ”

Zhang Guotao was silent, Tang Jiu said quickly and urgently: "We do everything we can, Lenin and Trotsky are naturally better than us, and we don't have any illusions about them at all."

Zhang Guotao was already dead-faced, and whispered to himself: "I know this, I can't have illusions about them, but is it possible to succeed in such a thing as rebellion?" ”

"What does it mean to be successful?" Tang Jiu sneered: "If you want to overthrow Lenin, of course it is impossible for Trotsky, even if you want to divide the Far East and dominate one side, it is still possible, but it is still possible to mess up the situation and give our brothers a way out!" He took a deep breath and looked at Zhang Guotao fixedly, "Brother Kaiyin, you really don't want to live anymore?" ”

"But...... Is anyone willing to do anything with us? Zhang Guotao glanced at Tang Jiu, "Brother Jiu, did you talk to them?" ”

Tang Jiu snorted coldly, gritted his teeth and said, "No, can you talk about this matter?" If the people from the Political and Security Bureau find out, it will be all over, but I have a few brothers in life and death, all of whom came out of the original Red Brigade, and now they are in the ranks outside Chita City, as long as I speak, they will definitely be able to follow along, and you have prestige in the ranks, everyone knows that you are Lenin's cronies and the big leaders of the GC International, if you can announce Lenin's instructions against agricultural collectivization in front of the brothers, these two regiments will definitely be able to pull out! ”

Zhang Guotao was silent for a while, he knew that Tang Jiu was likely to be from Nanjing, and most of the so-called brothers of life and death were also spies from Nanjing! The Japanese had already laid a deadlock for Chang Ruiqing, Tang Jiu must have been anxious to pass on this information, but he was suffering from the fact that the communication channel was temporarily interrupted because the Soviet side strengthened its adherence to the Chinese institutions in the Soviet Union, and now he is encouraging himself to rebel, I am afraid that he is trying to stir up the situation so as to find an opportunity to control a radio station to report to the Nanjing side, right?

"Comrade Zhang Kaiyin, hurry up and make up your mind! If you hesitate any longer, it will be too late! Tang Jiu's low shout pulled Zhang Guotao out of his thoughts, he looked up at Tang Jiu, and only saw a murderous aura on his face! I really don't know who it's against? The point that encouraged the Japanese emperor to send warships to assassinate Chang seems to have come out of his own, right? This is really going to be a way to heaven and a way to the ground! But if he wants to sit still like this, he is extremely unwilling, and he really has to fight desperately!

Thinking of this, he slowly stood up, the panicked expression on his face had been replaced by an indescribable heroic nirvana, it was really faster than turning a book, he opened the drawer, took out a Browning pistol from it, put it in his pocket, and said to Tang Jiu: "Comrade Tang Jiu, let's go!" You must have thought about who to meet and what to say, right? Let's talk more about it on the way."