Hearing the news that the Soviet Red Army had begun to attack Romania, Chang Ruiqing was not surprised, nor did he immediately leave for the German temporary embassy in Alexandria, but motioned for Bai Chongxi to sit down and speak, and instructed his secretary Gao Xiaowen to prepare two cups of coffee, and then said: "This is all expected, Trotsky's strategy is to choose the weak link of the capitalist camp, the Middle East is the weak link, India is the weak link, and the Balkans are also the weak link." ”

"Yaoru, if the Soviet Union is allowed to control the Middle East, India, and the Balkans, we will be in big trouble." Bai Chongxi said: "The Soviet Union's trick of exporting revolution is unknown to others, but you and I don't know?" Romanian GCD, Hungarian GCD and Indian GCD are all ready-made, oh, and now what an Iraqi GCD suddenly popped up! As soon as the Soviet Red Army entered the country, these GCDs immediately became the leading party, and then the ruling party. In less than two years, the people and material resources of the Middle East, India and the Balkans will be at Trotsky's disposal! At that time, I am afraid that the number of the Red Army will not be more than 10 million, but 20 million, 30 million! ”

Chang Ruiqing silently listened to Bai Chongxi's words, nodded slightly, and said, "Jiansheng, I understand what you said." That's why I was able to support Hussein of the Hashemite family as caliph and lead the Mslings of the Middle East and India in the struggle against Trotsky. So saying, he stood up, walked to the window, pushed it open, pointed to a splendid mosque built not far away, and said: "Trotsky's system is very inflammatory to the people at the bottom of the economically underdeveloped areas, judging by the jīngyàn of the Northwest Bureau of the Central G. The only thing that can be mentally opposed to it is the Y Slanism. ”

Bai Chongxi stood up and looked at the spire of the Great Mosque. After being silent for a long time, he said in a low voice: "Yaoru, I myself am a Huimin, of course I know that the Y Slan Sect has a certain strength. But it would have been difficult to rely on this force against Trotsky, otherwise the Ottoman Empire would not have collapsed and the Mughal dynasty in India would not have perished......"

Chang Ruiqing waved his hand and made a gesture at Bai Chongxi. Let him sit down. "I don't have that high expectations for MSLing. I just want to plunge India and the Middle East into a protracted mess and prevent Trotsky from using the power of nearly 40,000 people here against us. Brother Jiansheng must have heard of the defense of the caliphate in India after the end of the last world war, right? This shows that the title of caliph still has considerable appeal to Indian Muslims. ”

"Of course I know the appeal of the caliphate, but once the caliphate of the Hashemite dynasty is allowed to establish its prestige in this world war. I'm afraid ...... in the future."

The following words, Bai Chongxi, who is a m sling, really has no way to say it. However, Chang Ruiqing knew very well that this generalissimo Bai was a Han man who drank wine and ate pork (Bai Chongxi never thought that there was a Hui nation), and his position on thinking about the problem was not based on the interests of the world of M Silin. Rather, it proceeds from China's interests. So I don't want the world to have such a co-existence.

Chang Ruiqing looked at his right-hand man for a while, and finally smiled slightly: "If you want to harvest, you must be willing to pay...... It is our gain to use Msling against Trotsky, and a co-Caliph of Msling is our contribution. ”

In fact, he only said half of what he said, where was Trotsky's Red Army so easy to deal with? The Middle East, India, and Central Asia have to pay a heavy price for this caliphate!

Chang Ruiqing thought for a while and said: "Over the years, we have supported the Allah Party in making trouble in the Central Asian region of the Soviet Union, and we have already caused Trotsky some minor troubles...... He doesn't want to see a Harry lead the entire M's world against him, right? Therefore, as soon as the news of Hussein's caliph of the Hashemite family spreads, Trotsky will definitely send troops to attack Mecca, so we will also begin preparations for the Battle of Mecca. ”

Bai Chongxi was silent for a while, probably thinking about how to arrange the battle of Mecca. Finally, he nodded heavily, "Well, we might as well put forward the idea of the Battle of Mecca at a meeting at the German Consulate later." This battle could attract the Soviets. Reducing the pressure on the British in Transjordan and India, they should support it, right? ”

Chang Ruiqing nodded, stood up and smiled at Bai Chongxi: "Then let's try it, but I'm afraid the Battle of Mecca alone is not enough, now the Soviets are doing it in the Balkans, and the battlefield in Eastern Europe is tight." Estimate...... The Germans would ask us to launch an offensive on the Eastern Front in order to relieve them of the pressure. Brother Jiansheng, what do you think? ”

The two of them walked outside while talking, and Chen Xinrui had already arranged the car and parked it in the courtyard of the Chinese consulate in Alexandria. After getting into the car, Chang Ruiqing and Bai Chongxi continued to discuss the possibility of launching a limited offensive on the Eastern Front.

The Sino-Soviet battlefield on the eastern front is very vast, stretching from the mouth of the Amur River to the west to the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains and Lake Balkhash, stretching for more than 8,000 kilometers! Neither China nor the Soviet Union had enough troops to heavily defend the entire border. In fact, neither side has built any defensive line along the border, but has adopted the method of focused defense and mobile defense. The squadron's deployment focused on the eastern section of the Sino-Soviet border, and heavy troops were deployed in eastern Mongolia, Manchuria and the Far Eastern Republic. At the western end of the border, in northern and outer Xinjiang, there are few regular troops deployed and rely mainly on militias armed with light weapons and equipment for defense. The reason for this layout is also inseparable from logistical support; the transportation in Manchuria, the Far East, and eastern Mongolia is relatively convenient, Manchuria and the Far Eastern Republic have a dense railway network, and Eastern Mongolia also has the Kuzhang Railway to support logistics.

However, the transportation between the Sanjiang region and the interior is not very convenient, although the Lanjiang railway has been built to Yining, but there is still a considerable distance from Almaty and Lake Balkhash, and it can only be transported by road, and it is difficult to maintain a large army to fight. Therefore, the general concept of the Sino-Soviet War by the Chinese National Defense Forces has always been to "advance in the east and retreat in the west", that is, once the war starts, it will launch an offensive on the eastern front to seize the eastern Siberian region of the Soviet Union, and choose to retreat on the western front. If necessary, most of the outer and northern regions can be abandoned and the southern Xinjiang can be retreated.

"Yaoru, I estimate that the Soviet Union has a similar strategy as we have." Bai Chongxi said: "For them, East Siberia is very difficult to defend...... If we deploy a powerful armored cluster in Mongolia, we will only need to strike more than 300 kilometers to the north to cut off the Trans-Siberian Railway. The entire Soviet army in East Siberia was in a desperate situation, so the USSR either chose to launch an offensive on the Eastern Front and unite with Japan to attack Manchuria. Or simply choose to abandon Eastern Siberia and at the same time launch an attack on our northwestern three frontiers. Although the militia in the three northwestern regions claims to be 2 million. However, the actual number will not exceed 1.8 million, plus more than 300,000 regular troops, I am afraid that I still have to choose to temporarily abandon the ...... of outer and northern Xinjiang."

"Increase the regular army in Sanjiang to 500,000!" Chang Ruiqing suddenly interrupted Bai Chongxi and said, "There are more than 10 million immigrants from other frontiers. The relocation and resettlement of tens of millions of people will put great financial pressure on us, and the pressure on the northwest transportation will also be great, so the outer frontier must be held as much as possible. ”

"But......" Bai Chongxi frowned. Finally, no objections were spoken. Chang Ruiqing is not a simple military general. Rather, it is a political family, so you can't just think about the military and ignore the political government. The loss of territory in two provinces and the displacement of tens of millions of people will be a huge blow to the morale of the people.

"Okay, then we'll be based on holding the outer frontier and the northern frontier." Bai Chongxi thought for a moment and said with a smile: "Fortunately, this Kuwait battle has completely exposed the weakness of the Soviet T28 tank, the whole thing is thin skin and stuffing, and the firepower is poor, and our pursuers can beat five of them!" Now Dihua has an armored corps stationed. The Northwest militia is heavily equipped with an iron fist, and it should still be possible to hold it. ”

Chang Ruiqing nodded. After thinking for a while, he said: "But this battle in the northwest is not easy to fight after all, Jiansheng, I'm worried that Xucang can't fight this kind of hard battle......

Xucang is Xia Wei's name, this Xia Wei is the first batch of Baoding generals to follow Chang Ruiqing, and now he has hung up the rank of army general, which is one step away from being marshal. However, this Xia Da General has always been a little brave and not enough to plan, if he is asked to command an armored army to fight Irkutsk, Chang Ruiqing is absolutely assured. However, if he wants to use inferior forces to defend the three northwestern frontiers, I am afraid that he will choose the wrong person. And in the current Chinese National Defense Forces, there is probably only one person who can replace Xia Wei to take charge of the northwest, and that is Bai Chongxi himself!

Of course, Bai Chongxi understood what Chang Ruiqing meant, he thought for a while, nodded and said, "Yaoru, the commander-in-chief of the Northwest Front Army is still coming with me, but how does Xia Xucang arrange it?" He is also a tiger general. ”

"Let him go to the Northern Front to command the armored group." Chang Ruiqing thought for a while.

"He commands the Panzers? But Xu Cang has never learned armor. ”

"It doesn't matter, just let Wen Zhao be his chief of staff." Chang Ruiqing smiled and said: "Wen Zhao is a bit soft, he is not the material to be the main general, it is just right to be a chief of staff." ”

When the two were talking, the car had already driven into the German consulate, and in the courtyard of the consulate, several Rolls cars with rice flags had been parked. Royce brand limousine, it seems that British Prime Minister MacDonald has already arrived one step earlier.

"Welcome, Premier Chang, Chief of the General Staff of Bai." As soon as he entered, Hitler and MacDonald greeted him.

Looking at the two of them holding hands, you know that the current Anglo-German relationship is still good, at least on the surface. In fact, before leaving China, Chang Ruiqing seemed to have asked Jiang Baili, who had served as ambassador to Germany for a long time and had a good personal relationship with Hitler, about Anglo-German relations.

Chiang told him: "Among the Nazis in Berlin there was a view that if Germany wanted to expand eastward and gain living space, it must form an alliance with Britain; If, on the other hand, Germany wanted to acquire large colonies abroad, it would have to come into conflict with Great Britain, and Germany would have to reconcile with the Soviet Union and form an alliance! And the latter, because of Trotsky's world revolutionary policy and the Soviet Union's long-term control of East Prussia was impossible. Therefore, the direction of development of Germany can only be the East...... At least no other direction can be considered until the destruction of the USSR! ”

Germany can only go east, and what about China? The main direction can only be to the west and north, right? However, the interests of the South Seas should still be fought for as much as possible, for example, Brunei's oil fields must find a way to get their hands on them. Thinking of this, Chang Ruiqing stepped forward with a smile on his face. He shook hands with Hitler and MacDonald, and as soon as the guests were seated, he asked, "What is the situation in Romania now?" ”

"It's not going to be good." MacDonald told Chang Ruiqing in a heavy tone: "It was said by telegram from General Antonescu (Chief of the General Staff of Romania). They were attacked by surprise from the USSR, the Soviet Red Army threw at least 1 million troops and 2000 tanks, and possibly 1000 aircraft, the Bucharest and Ploiesti oil fields were hit by air strikes, most of the planes of the Romanian Air Force were blown up at the airfields, in short, the situation was terrible! ”

Hitler, with a look of righteous indignation, said loudly in German: "The despicable Russians not only attacked the Ploiesti oil fields. It was also announced that there would be unrestricted submarine warfare, and that a single merchant ship would be forbidden to enter the ports of Germany and England! Trotsky's vain attempt to destroy the will of the German people to resist with the blockade will not succeed! ”

Chang Ruiqing's adjutant, Chen Xinrui, learned German at the National Defense University. Now he acts as an interpreter, paraphrasing Hitler's words as they are. Chang Ruiqing frowned slightly and asked, "Chancellor Hitler, how long can Germany's oil reserves be supported now?" Does Germany have access to oil and other much-needed resources from ports in France or Italy? ”

"We have 15 million tons of oil reserves!" Hitler replied: "And the German Navy had many destroyers." We've been informed for a long time. Knowing that the Soviets built a large number of submarines, we built a large number of light destroyers, hundreds of them. So the oil supply is not a problem for the time being, but we cannot sit idly by and watch Romania fall. Germany has already decided to send troops to Romania and Hungary! ”

When Hitler said this, Chang Ruiqing noticed a trace of worry slipping across MacDonald's face. Without waiting for Chen Xinrui to translate Hitler's words into Chinese, MacDonald frowned and said: "Britain has also decided to send troops to Romania, but the total strength of the Soviet Union and Poland on the Western Front may be as high as 6 million!" In contrast, the forces that Britain and Germany can devote appear to be very insufficient. So we hope that China will launch an offensive on the Eastern Front to relieve the pressure on the Western Front. ”

When he said this. MacDonald's face looked very anxious, Chang Ruiqing also frowned, and discussed a few words with Bai Chongxi beside him in a low voice.

"It's okay to launch an offensive on the Eastern Front, but ......" Chang Ruiqing paused, with an embarrassed expression on his face. However, the battlefield between China and the Soviet Union is very vast, with a distance of nearly 8,000 kilometers from east to west, and it takes a lot of fuel to move troops on such a vast battlefield, and our navy is also consuming oil, but after the loss of Kuwait's Great Burgan oil field, our oil supply is very tight, and Japan's submarines are too active, and our navy does not have enough strength to protect the trans-Pacific shipping routes. ”

MacDonald understood that Chang Ruiqing wanted to use the excuse of sending troops on the Eastern Front to claim Brunei, which was rich in oil resources. In the previous meeting, the Chinese prime minister had already made demands on British Burma and British Malaya, but he had rejected them, and now he has stepped back and wanted Brunei.

"Oil is not a problem, the empire's oil fields in Brunei and the Dutch oil fields in Sumatra can provide oil to China." MacDonald dodged the question of transferring the colonies, but assured Chang Ruiqing: "Our Far East Fleet can guarantee the safe delivery of oil from Brunei and Sumatra to China, no less than 2 million tons per year." ”

Chang Ruiqing frowned and thought for a while, sighed slightly, and said with a wry smile: "In this case, we can also launch an offensive on the Eastern Front, no later than September this year." But...... The offensive on the Eastern Front cannot be large-scale, because the harsh winter in Siberia is approaching, and our troops will be transferred to rest in late October, and military operations will not resume until after May next year. Therefore, the combat operation that really wants to disperse the Soviet forces can only be launched in the Middle East and India, and now that the Soviet Red Army has invaded India, the shape of the Middle East is also very serious, I wonder if the British side has a way to deal with it? ”

MacDonald and Jacob, the chief of the British Imperial General Staff beside him, looked at each other, and Jacob said: "We are ready to set up the defensive line in Transjordania and the Indus River, and now we have 300,000 troops in the Middle East and 350,000 troops in India, all well trained and well equipped. Of course, we also need the assistance of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, which we hope will be able to go to Transjordan and fight alongside us. ”

"No, no, no." Chang Ruiqing shook his head again and again, "The Indus River defense line will definitely not be able to hold, and the operation in Transjordan will also not be able to contain much of the main force of the Soviet Red Army." Speaking of this, he looked at MacDonald and said in a resolute tone: "Your Excellency Prime Minister, in order to defeat the behemoth of the Soviet Union, it is necessary for us to unite the forces of Mslin, there are tens of millions of Mslins in the Middle East and North Africa, nearly 100 million Mslins in India, and tens of millions of Mslings in the Soviet Union, if they are willing to stand on our side, the shape of the entire war will be greatly reversed, even if the Soviet Union temporarily occupies India and the Middle East, we can also Tongguo support Mslin there to launch a guerrilla war, Drag a large number of Soviet living forces! ”