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In the Kremlin, the center of the world, it is now a scene of low pressure. All the staff members carefully clamped their tails to serve the people, and if they relaxed a little, they could see a certain leader of the Soviet GCD with a gloomy face coming out of nowhere, and then hurriedly disappearing into a labyrinthine corridor - it was to meet Lenin or Trotsky to discuss important matters! These functionaries also vaguely knew that the great mentor and the ** prophet had made another awkward quarrel over the anti-** riot in the Far East, and the mentor thought that the anti-** riot was caused by the mistake of the party's economic line! The prophet insisted that it was a conspiracy of revisionism and imperialism, and that the Chinese gang, as the backbone of the anti-** riot, were despicable Chinese spies!

But who is not a human spirit who can mess around in the Kremlin? Where can the thoughts of the teachers and prophets hide from them? The anti-** insurrection in the Far East was not a big deal at all, and it was not easy to knock them out with the strength of the Red Army. What's more, now that China and Japan are fighting again, neither of them has much spare power to meddle in the little mess of the Far Eastern Republic. So the key question now is not to quell the turmoil, but to who bears the responsibility for the turmoil. If you follow the teacher's wishes and characterize it as the consequence of the mistake of the economic route, then the prophet who proposed the current economic route will be a little troublesome, although it will not fall, but it will not be able to run away if you throw a car out to protect him. On the contrary, it is indispensable to adjust the tension of the class struggle, and the prophet who grasps the general direction of the class struggle can take the opportunity to continue to eradicate the henchmen on the teacher's side. But this kind of thing can only be kept in the heart, no one dares to say such a thing on the surface, and any topic related to the causes of the insurrection in the Far East is now very sensitive, and it is better not to say it until the direction is clear.

But on June 0, the fourth day after the anti-violence in the Far East, news in favor of the prophet finally came from abroad. According to information from GC International from the United Kingdom, the British authorities have urgently allocated 5 million pounds to aid the rebels in the Far East! And the pro-Soviet figures in China's GCD also confirmed that Tang Jiu, one of the leaders of the Far East rebellion, was indeed a big revisionist spy! Moreover, the Chinese Defense Forces also urgently transferred a large number of supplies to Manchuria, and Baikalsk would hand them over to the rebels after the capture of the Far East rebels. And the German GCD sent the most critical report, the Kolchak gang in exile in Germany is preparing to send people to the Far East to fight the rebels together! Iron-blooded Republic of China 405

In the face of such overwhelming evidence, Lenin's figures all came to the Kremlin in a hurry today with black faces and expressions. But the generals on Trotsky's side did not have much joy for the victors, because they were not far away from real victory.

Trotsky was in a room full of maps with a straight face, and on the wall in front of him hung a huge military map of the Japanese Far East and Northeast China. On the map, the Sino-Japanese border area is densely marked with symbols of troops and fortifications, as well as the numbers of dozens of division-level troops. Although it may not be accurate, it can also roughly reflect the basic situation of the Chinese and Japanese armies in the Far East-Manchuria battlefield. Standing beside him were Trotsky's principal military aides, including Skryansky, Vatsettis, Tukhachevsky, and others, as well as an elderly Oriental man in a black tuxedo, who was none other than the Japanese ambassador to the Soviet Union, Katayama. Today, he was instructed by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to come to the Kremlin to discuss with Trotsky the matter of the Soviet-Japanese attack on China. However, Trotsky's face is probably still a little twisty and twisty.

**The prophet exhaled heavily, took his eyes off the map, and said: "I really didn't expect that Zhang Guotao would actually set off such a wave in the Far East!" If it weren't for him, our plan would have worked, what a pity...... I should have known that I should have taken his ...... in Moscow What a momentary soft-heartedness! ”

Speaking of which, his face was a little difficult, in fact, letting Zhang Guotao stand by in Chita was not to eliminate him immediately. Because Natalia Lesinskaya in Nanjing has privately tried Mao Zd, the chairman of the Central G, several times, but no progress has been made - the other party has been pretending to be confused, and perhaps there is no idea of replacing the norm by hugging Trotsky's thigh...... The risk of this matter is not the slightest bit, and if you don't do it well, your family will be ruined. At present, Chairman Mao Da can be regarded as a young and ambitious person, and he has begun to enjoy the fruits of victory early, and it is normal not to want to take this risk. Therefore, Zhang Guotao, the alternate great leader of China, still has to be kept for the time being, who knows that this little man actually rebelled in the Far East, I really don't know what medicine he took wrong!

Katayama's Russian language skills have improved rapidly lately, and he is now able to converse directly with Trotsky. His face was also bad, and he asked in a deep voice: "How much time will it take for the Soviet Union to quell the civil strife in the Far East?" After quelling the civil strife, could the Soviet Union immediately go to war with China? I need to get real assurances, preferably in writing. ”

Trotsky's Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army, Tukhachevsky, pondered: "At present, the chairman of the Far Eastern Military Council, Blyukher, and the chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Far East, Ren Fuchen, have successfully broken through to Shilok, a temporary command post has been established there, and a counteroffensive is being arranged. According to his report, the rebels in Chita City are quite strong, and may have gathered tens of thousands of troops, and it may be difficult for the local troops in the Far East to extinguish them, and ...... Tukhachevsky stopped talking and raised his eyes.

Trotsky said: "Comrade Katayama can be trusted. The Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army frowned and said: "Half of the current troops in the Far East are the old troops of Zhang Guotao, Tang Jiu and Huang Baopei, who 'defected' to China, and now all of them are unstable. There was also a considerable proportion of Buryat Mongols and Koreans in the remaining troops, and the current morale of the army was also unstable. I am afraid that more reliable troops will need to be mobilized to the Far East. ”

"Well, I see, this task will be handed over to the General Staff of the Red Army." Trotsky said. "Comrade Tukhachevsky, can you tell me now how much time it will take to quell the civil strife in the Far East?" Don't skip words.

"At least one month, at most three months." Tukhachevsky thought for a moment and added: "It is still necessary to mobilize 00,000 reinforcements. Moreover, after the end of the counterinsurgency operation, it will take a month to cleanse the Far Eastern Republic of the unstable factors. "The so-called unstable factor, of course, is all the Soviet citizens in the Far Eastern republics, and indeed in the entire Soviet Union, who have an Eastern face!

Trotsky said again: "Three months! In three months at most, the USSR will fight against China together with Japan! Is this okay? ”

Katayama twisted his eyebrows and thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "It's been too long, three months is too long." At present, Britain, France, and the United States are trying to mediate, and Tanaka Yoshiichi, who is in power in Japan, is not very enthusiastic about the war and does not want to occupy Manchuria. If the tide of war turns against Japan during these three months, the Tanaka government is likely to choose to compromise. ”

"Comrade Katayama, do you understand the current battle plan of the Japanese side?" Don't skip words. People's Commissar of Defense Vatsettis interjected at this time and asked.

"Know." Katayama said. "The military department is currently preparing to launch the 'Tiger Head - Xin'an Land Battle.'" He took the baton from Trotsky, pointed to the Tiger Head Fortress and the New Antu Fortress on the map, and said: "Right in this area, the goal is to capture the Chinese Tiger Head Fortress." ”

"It's kind of stupid." Vasetetis unceremoniously assessed the Japanese army's battle plan. He said: "In the historical fortress attack and defense battles, the probability of defeat of the attacking side is probably more than 90, and the remaining 0 are also attacking isolated fortresses that are surrounded with overwhelming force superiority. And the Chinese's tiger head fortress is definitely not within the range of this 0, if it is to attack head-on, the Japanese Far Eastern Army will shed blood in front of this fortress. By the way, what was the purpose of the Japanese military headquarters in seizing the Tiger Head Fortress? ”

"In order to cover the safety of the Far Eastern railway line, it is said that the cannons in this fortress can lightly damage the railway."

"From the current situation, the Japanese cabinet is full of people

Zhou is not much of an idea. Skryansky, who was in charge of intelligence, reminded. Such a strategy determined that the scale of the Sino-Japanese war would not be too large, the duration would not be too long, and the blow to Chinese revisionism and Japanese imperialism would be very limited. Unless there is some way to induce the Japanese army to act more aggressively in the Far East-Manchurian theater. ”

"Is there such a way? Comrade Katayama. Trotsky smiled and dived into the mountains.

"It's not like there's no way." Katayama seemed to have already made a fortune in his chest, and he said with a smile: "There is no one in the Japanese army who does not want Manchuria, and the reason why they have turned to the South Seas in the past two years is because they are worried about the Sino-Soviet alliance." If the Soviet Union could sign a secret pact with Japan to fight against China, promising to fight by the end of the month at the latest, and at the same time support Japan's dominance over Manchuria. It is believed that Emperor Hirohito and his supporters in the army will be able to push the Far Eastern Army to take more active action. ”

"Well, I can." Trotsky pondered for a moment, smiled and said to Katayama: "Comrade Katayama, any kind of secret treaty can be signed, and there is no problem at all. "Iron-blooded Republic of China 405

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Ishihara gently knocked on the door of the office of Nagata Tetsuyama Daisa, head of the Operations Division of the Far Eastern Army Headquarters, but there was no sound coming from inside for a while, and Ishihara thought that his immediate boss must be worried about the plan of the "Tiger Head - Shin'an Soil Battle" again.

Nagata Tetsuyama's tired voice sounded from inside the door: "Please come in." Ishihara pushed open the door and walked in with a big grin. In the hierarchical Japanese Army, there are really few guys like him who don't respect their superiors very much. However, Nagata Tetsuyama didn't care much about these red tapes, and he still admired this staff officer with a good head. When he saw Ishihara coming in, he smiled and said, "Ishihara-kun, is there any bad news?" Is Shin'an Soil Castle still being bombed? "Don't skip words.

Beginning on the night of 7 June, the Chinese and Japanese armies engaged in several days of artillery battles on the Hutou-Xin'an land line. Well, to say that the artillery battle is really to whitewash the "2nd Division of the Invincible Imperial Army", in fact, the 6 cannons of the Japanese 2nd Artillery Wing deployed in Shin-Azuchi Castle were half dumb within two hours of the start of the artillery battle, and the rest did not dare to fire anyway. So now the squadron is using artillery to bombard the positions of the second division regiment unscrupulously, and there are observation balloons of Chinese artillery in the sky helping to correct the bullet point, so the accuracy of the Chinese's shelling is extremely high, and after three days of shelling, the casualties of the second division have exceeded 000 people!

"Ah, it must still be bombed, thousands of people are guarding under the enemy's guns, and there are no decent anti-artillery fortifications, and they don't dare to retreat, it's pitiful to imagine, this guy Itagaki is really hard." Speaking of Seishiro Itagaki, Ishihara looked sympathetic, found a chair and sat down, then reached out and felt in the pocket of his military jacket for a long time, and finally found a crumpled telegraph newspaper and spread it out in front of Nagata. "This is a telegram from the palace, saying that the Soviet Union has promised to enter the war within two months, and it also supports us to seize Manchuria...... Well, it's obviously a trap, but the one in the palace believes it, it's really embarrassing! ”

Nagata put down the pen and paper in his hand and looked up at Ishihara. This guy always has no shape, and he doesn't look like a soldier when he sits there, but he has a good head. And the one in the palace went up like that, but his brain was too stupid, and now he was deceived by the Soviets.

He picked up the copy of the telegram and glanced at it, which contained some vague instructions in addition to the briefing...... Probably because they want to reap the benefits, but they are unwilling to take responsibility, right? Many of the naval officers on the King Kong were distressed by this instruction, and when they heard that they were all convicted of great rebellion, they were crying and returning to receive their deaths on the King Kong! I don't know if my fate will be the same as these people?

He sighed and returned the telegram copy to Ishihara. "Ishihara-kun, has the commander sent this telegram?" Don't skip words.

"After that, he said that he wanted our combat division to formulate a plan that could capture the Tiger Head Fortress and break the main force of the Zhina Army on the first line of the Ussuri River."

"Old fox!" Nagata muttered. "Can there be such a plan? The Communist Party is a division, and the firepower can't match the other party, what kind of flowers can you play? ”

"Oh, there's a division, the 18th, 19th, and 20th divisions are preparing to board in Wonsan, and they will all arrive in a week at the latest."

"Four divisions guarding North Korea?" Nagata Tetsuyama was stunned. "Why is the military department here nonsense? Is it the meaning of the palace? ”

"Not really." Ishihara shook his head. "The three divisions have already arrived at Wonsan, and the order to transfer should have been given for two days. What kind of big action is our military department also planning...... It is estimated that it is necessary to coordinate with the sea and land to fight Shanghai. ”

"How do you know?"

"Guess what." Ishihara said with a smile. "If the North Korean army transfers a division, then the North Korean side will definitely not make any big moves. The Far Eastern Army is estimated to be a feint here, and it should be the five divisions and the navy that really play a decisive role. ”

Nagata Tetsuyama nodded in agreement and looked at Ishihara with admiration. "Your analysis is quite correct, the military headquarters should be preparing for a battle in Shanghai, otherwise they should have transferred five divisions from the country to the Far East, instead of risking the transfer of troops from the North Korean army." He stood up and walked over to the large map hanging on the wall of his office and took a closer look. After a while, I heard him say to himself: "If the battle in Shanghai can be successful, then Manchuria is not impossible to do......

Ishihara's eyebrows raised slightly, and he leaned over to Nagata's side, also showing an expression of interest. "What do you mean?"

"In fact, there are big loopholes in the deployment of the Chinese army." Yongtian Tieshan stretched out his finger and tapped lightly on the three places on the map, including Suifenhe, Hutou, and Fuyuan. "Their defense was based on the Suifen River Fortress, the Tiger Head Fortress and the Fuyuan Fortress at the confluence of the Amur River, Heilongjiang River and Ussuri River. Among them, the focus of the entire defense line is between the Hutou Fortress and the Suifenhe Fortress, and the defense line between the Hutou Fortress and the Fuyuan Fortress is very weak. ”

"They're just an army of more than 400,000 troops." Ishihara grinned. "Manchuria is so big, and it is impossible for more than 400,000 people to defend it everywhere, so they can only choose key areas to defend. The area between the Ussuri River, Heilongjiang River, and Songhua River is quite inhospitable and does not have much defensive value, so this loophole is not fatal. ”

"Not necessarily." Nagata Tetsuyama sneered and drew an arc on the map with his finger. "Ishihara-kun, your march route: Heilongjiang - Tongjiang - Fujin - Jiamusi - Qitai River. How, is it possible to achieve it? ”

Ishihara also felt that his eyes lit up, clapped his hands and smiled: "What a big encirclement, as long as you take the Qitai River, the Chinese army around the Tiger Head Fortress will be surrounded by the imperial army...... There can be at least 00,000 people in the encirclement, right? A lot of words," he said, frowning slightly, and stretched out his hand to touch the fortress. said: "The key is this Fuyuan fortress, if the Fuyuan fortress is not laid, Heilongjiang will not be navigable, and the logistics support of hundreds of thousands of imperial troops will be very problematic...... There is basically no road west of the Tongjiang River. ”

"No, we don't fight Fuyuan Fortress!" A sneer slid across Nagata Tetsuyama's face. "We took the Trans-Siberian Railway, forcibly crossed the Heilongjiang River from the Tongjiang area, and took that person by surprise!" Iron-blooded Republic of China 405

Ishihara was taken aback, and said in a lost voice: "Go to the territory of the Soviet Union? They—can they say yes? ”

Nagata Tetsuyama smiled and said, "I can promise to show that they are friends of the Great Japanese Empire!" Not agreeing to show that they have ill intentions, so that His Royal Highness will be able to recognize the true face of the Soviet Union! As he spoke, he patted Ishihara on the shoulder. Ishihara-kun, make a plan according to this idea, and then submit it to the palace, so that the palace can sneak into Guò Katayama to negotiate with the Soviet Union. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to subscribe, reward, your support is my biggest motivation. )