In front of the premises of the Japanese GCD delegation in Moscow were parked several clumsy black cars, which were Soviet domestic cars, of poor quality and very rare. Since the beginning of full-scale war preparations in the Soviet Union, the already few cars in Moscow's wide boulevards and squares have become rare to the point of rarity. Muscovites walking the streets looked at these cars with curiosity and envy, and in the Soviet Union, cars were not something that anyone was entitled to own, and it was not just a matter of money. In the Soviet Union, cars and houses could not be bought with money, and of course there was nothing in the USSR that could be bought with money alone, but cars and good houses were even rarer, not only for enjoyment, but also as a symbol of noble status.

However, curious Moscow citizens only dared to look at it from a distance, and the driver and security personnel in blue hats stood next to the car. The blue hat was the emblem of the staff of the NKVD and the State Security Bureau, and ordinary Soviet citizens were not willing to linger in front of them for even a second. But when Yasuo Yasuda, dressed in a tweed uniform reserved for high-ranking officers of the Red Army, and several other high-ranking officers with oriental faces came out and crowded into the car, passers-by still cast respectful glances. Because they all know that these people were all high-ranking officers of the Great Japanese Red Army, the vanguard of the liberation of all mankind, who had just defeated the invading armies and fleets of China and Britain in Korea and the Pacific, and won two crucial victories of the world revolution!

"Miss Yoshiko, is the situation really that bad?" Yasuo Yasuda sat in the back seat and rolled down the glass window. I asked Yoshiko Kawashima, who had just come by plane from Japan. When Yoshiko Kawashima was 12 years old, she married Zhao Zhending, the current chief of staff of the Chinese Army, but before Yoshiko Kawashima grew up, the marriage was lost because of changes in Sino-Japanese relations.

Afterwards. Yoshiko Kawashima, who was abandoned by her fiancé, followed his cheap daddy Nanichi Kawashima to do spy business, and after the victory of the Japanese Revolution, the father and daughter were recruited by the Japanese NKVD. It can be regarded as a reform and a member of the revolution...... Now Yoshiko Kawashima is already a glorious Japanese GCD! At the same time, he is also one of Comrade Yasuo's many confidants. Her current public identity is that she is the female secretary of Comrade Yasuo Yasuda, the general representative of the Japanese Army in Moscow and the general representative of the Japanese Red Army to the International Proletarian Command.

"That's what happened, the external propaganda is just a swollen face and a fat man," Director Kawashima frowned. sighed softly: "Now there is no one in the country who really knows the inside story without panicking, and Okinawa, Jeju Island, Huatai Island and Kyushu Island have all begun to be armed...... The North Koreans also went on the defensive and sent reinforcements to Truk Atoll and Saipan. ”

"How's the military spirit? Especially the old officer didn't have any bad intentions, right? That's the key! ”

"Muto Nobuyoshi is in secret contact with Kita Ikki and Saionji Kobo. That Nagata Kiyoshinsai is the bridge between the two sides. However, it seems that this matter is not completely hidden from Takeda Heng...... There is a rumor that "Yoshiko Kawashima suddenly turned her eyes, glanced at the Russian driver who was concentrating on driving, and then said to Yasuo Yasuda in Chinese: "It is rumored that Takeda Heng has already made a condition. The son of Asaka Palace can be allowed to return to the country as emperor. However, the queen can only be the daughter of Takeda Heng, and Takeda Heng himself must be the prime minister. Yasuo, maybe it won't be long before the Great Japanese Empire is coming back! ”

Yasuda was silent for a while, shook his head and said: "Takeda is not sincere, now that the army and navy have suffered setbacks, and defeatism within the Red Army has risen, he has to say something against his will to calm people's hearts." Yoshiko. You are not allowed to go outside and talk nonsense, you know? ”

"Got it. My mouth is tight! Yoshiko Kawashima smiled, leaned her little head on Yasuda's shoulder, and said softly: "Yasuo, I think Japan is also a place of right and wrong...... I don't know when, Chinese called, so let's not go back......"

Yasuda smiled bitterly, reached out and stroked Yoshiko Kawashima's hair, and said with a smile: "Okay, you will stay in the Soviet Union in the future, and I will find a way to transfer you to work at GC International, so that you don't have to go back." ”

The car went around the street outside the Kremlin and stopped at the main entrance next to Lenin's tomb.

"Get out of the car, go and offer flowers to Lenin's tomb first, Fangzi, do you want to bring flowers?" Yasuda pointed to the red building outside the car window where several Red Army soldiers stood guard.

"Bring," Yoshiko Kawashima said with a smile as she lifted her large handbag in calfskin, "I also prepared some paper money, incense and candles, and we will kowtow to Grandpa Lenin later, so that he can bless us with peace in the future." ”

"Paper money, incense candles......" Yasuo Yasuda crawled with black lines on his forehead, and then looked at Yoshiko Kawashima, but she was holding back the corners of her mouth and snickering. Strict sù point! Yasuda said in a deep voice: "We are sweeping the grave of Comrade Lenin!" Feel a little sad, you know? ”

After listening to this conversation between the two men, the security officer sitting in the passenger seat turned around, narrowed a pair of vigilant eyes and glanced at Yoshiko Kawashima, and then smiled politely and said to Yasuda in Russian, Comrade Trotsky wants to meet Comrade Yasuda immediately, so please sit in the car and do not get out, and after the guards have finished checking, they will go directly to the Kremlin in the car.

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"Comrade Yasuda, sit down."

Trotsky received Yasuda in his office, and Yoshiko Kawashima was not qualified to see the great leader of the world revolution, so she waited outside the door. As soon as Yasuda entered, before he could salute Trotsky, he beckoned him to sit down in a high-backed armchair in front of his desk.

"I'll tell you something," Trotsky didn't wait for Yasuda to sit down, but took a copy of the paper from the drawer and laid it on his desk. "This is the report of the Australian GCD, a huge Chinese naval fleet including three heavy aircraft carriers, which arrived in Rabaul on the island of New Britain this morning, and arrived with the fleet with a division of Chinese marines!"

"New Britain? Rabaul? Yasuda shook his head, indicating that he did not know the specific wèizhì of these two places. Trotsky took out another map of the Pacific Ocean and spread it out on his desk. It has been circled in red pencil on a narrow island near the island of British New Guinea. And in the western Pacific Ocean to the north of the island, there are two other dots that are also circled by red pencils.

"This is the island of New Britain, which is now a British colony." Trotsky pointed to the narrow island and said: "At least 15,000 Chinese marines have arrived there. The General Staff of the Red Army estimated that their next target would be Truk Atoll or Saipan! ”

Trotsky's finger clicked on the two dots circled in red pencil and said: "This situation is very important, and you must be prepared to deal with it!" ”

Yasuda stared intently at Saipan and Truk Atoll on the map. Of course, he knew these two places, which were the important strongholds of the Japanese Red Navy in the Pacific Ocean, and they were the bases of Japan's southward movement! But...... These two strongholds are very far from the Chinese mainland, why should the Chinese attack there?

"Obviously. The Chinese wanted to force the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy to attack. Trotsky analyzed: "They want another decisive battle with the Japanese Combined Fleet in the South-West Pacific!" It is expected that the British Navy will also send a fleet to the war, and the British GCD sent intelligence that the British aircraft carrier Glory and six battleships have left Scapa Bay for Singapore. Australia and New Zealand have also begun to mobilize. There was also information that the British government was lobbying the Netherlands to enter the war, and that the Dutch East Indies Fleet might also take part in the campaign in the South-West Pacific. ”

Trotsky then took out a report on the losses of the British Far East Fleet and handed it to Yasuda. "The report is also absolutely reliable. The battlecruiser USS Hood was not sunk and has now entered the 50,000-ton dry dock at the Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai for repairs. In addition, the damage to the battleships Rodney and Nelson was not severe, and they could be re-entered in battle in a month at most. It is estimated that from the end of August to the beginning of September, the Sino-British joint fleet will dispatch eight battleships, six battle cruisers and five aircraft carriers to attack Truk or Saipan. ”

After saying this, Trotsky looked at Yasuo Yasuda with a solemn face and asked in a deep voice: "Comrade Yasuda, I want you to tell me the truth. How will Japan react when it receives such news? ”

Yasuda was slightly stunned when he heard this, shook his head and said, "Dispatch fourteen capital ships and five aircraft carriers." It's so powerful! It is simply impossible to repair the three ships of the Combined Fleet, Akagi, Kaga, and Tosa by the end of August. Naval aviation is certainly not an opponent of the Chinese because of the problem of carrier-based aircraft. But if Saipan and Truk Atoll are occupied by the Chinese, the road to the south will be basically blocked. Comrade Trotsky, I really don't know what the choice will be at home, but I guess it is more likely that the combined fleet will take the risk of going to war......"

"No, I'm not asking that." Trotsky interrupted him: "I am asking, will the capitulationists in Japan thus rise and gain the upper hand?" Let's be honest! ”

Yasuda was stunned for a moment, his face was like ashes, beads of sweat the size of beans welled up on his forehead, he was silent for a long time, and finally nodded and said: "If the road to the south is blocked, or if the Combined Fleet loses miserably in the operation in the Southwest Pacific, it is very likely that there will be changes in the country." ”

"Then what can be done to keep Japan fighting?" Trotsky asked.

"Hope, let Japan see the hope of victory!"

"So what is the hope of victory?" Trotsky looked at Yasuda with blazing eyes.

"I don't know, I don't know......" Yasuda shook his head repeatedly.

Trotsky looked at Yasuda and said word by word: "The Soviet Red Army is preparing to launch an attack on Manchuria, Mongolia and the three northwestern frontiers of China at the beginning of next year. ”

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"Hit Truk Atoll...... Jiansheng, Kecheng, Kaiyin, Houfu, what do you think? ”

Chang Ruiqing stood on the edge of an oversized chart in the combat command center of the Ministry of National Defense, frowning and just looking at the Truk Atoll with the Japanese flag on it.

The plan for the attack on Truk Atoll was proposed by the new British-Australian Fleet Commander, Vice Admiral Cunningham, just after Chang Ruiqing proposed to the British ambassador to China, Lam Pusheng, that the Chinese fleet be stationed in Port Moresby. Moreover, the British did not promise to use Port Moresby as a temporary base for the Chinese fleet, but temporarily leased the port of Rabaul, north of Port Moresby, only a few hundred nautical miles from the Truk Atoll, Japan's outpost in the southwest Pacific.

"The battle of Truk Atoll has a big chance of winning!" "There is intelligence that the Japanese have been operating in Truk Atoll for ten years. A large number of military installations were built, and it was intended to be used as a large base for their southward journey. If we go to attack Truk, there is a great deal of certainty that we can lure out the Japanese aircraft carriers. ”

"How many motherships do the Japanese have now?" Chang Ruiqing looked at Zhang Guotao.

"There are six Canglong-class. One Fengxiang-class, a total of seven aircraft carriers. ”

"5 to 7, are you sure?" Chang Ruiqing asked Bai Siwen.

Bai Siwen smiled: "There is no problem in fighting Truk, and there is no problem in using 5 aircraft carriers to fight 7 aircraft carriers of the Japanese, the question is what to do with the people of the South Seas?" ”

Chang Ruiqing nodded and sneered: "Fight Truk and lead the Japanese fleet out for a decisive battle." Having eliminated their aircraft carriers, the Japanese were trapped on several islands, and their European colonies were left to rest easy. Cunningham's abacus beads are shrewd! ”

Bai Chongxi frowned, and his eyes did not look at the sea chart, but at a world map on the wall: "Yaoru, the key to this world war is not in the Pacific Ocean. And in Eurasia! Now the Soviet Union has declared war on us, with Britain and Germany. The next step will definitely be the outbreak of a big war on the Eurasian continent, and that's the key! And I think this war will not be fought in a short period of time, the Soviet Union is a large country with rich resources and a large population, and its territory is extremely vast, and the war potential is beyond our imagination, and this world war will last for ten years! Therefore, we must be prepared for a long-term battle. ”

Chang Ruiqing nodded again and again: "Brother Jiansheng is so reasonable, the top priority now is not to fight Truk, but to do our best to transport the equipment we ordered from Europe and the United States." ”

His gaze turned to Chen Shaokuan. The commander-in-chief of the Chinese Navy also holds the post of commander of the Navy's Escort Transport Command. He met Chang Ruiqing's gaze and said loudly: "Prime Minister." The equipment we purchased from Europe has now been shipped to the East Coast of the United States, and the original plan was to let American ships help with the transportation. However, now that the war has started, what the Americans want to defend the "Neutrality Act", we must take care of ourselves...... It is estimated that there are dozens of ships of cargo, and now we have forty-eight ships on the East Coast of the United States that can bring back most of this equipment. The plan of the Naval Transportation Command is to have them cross the Panama Canal, then sail directly to Australia via the South Pacific route, and then escort them back home by our fleet. ”

"Are routes to the South Pacific safe?" Chang Ruiqing asked with a frown. The total value of this batch of equipment is more than a billion dollars. Or take advantage of the economic crisis to buy discounted products, which may not be available for three billion dollars in normal times. If this batch of machines arrives safely in China, China's heavy industry will be able to reach a significant level in a few years, and it will basically be able to surpass or catch up with the Soviet Union in the output of various heavy industry products! So there's no room for error.

"It is impossible to guarantee absolute safety," Chen Shaokuan thought for a while, "It is difficult for Japanese submarines to reach the South Pacific, but they can dispatch heavy cruisers to break the relationship." If safety was to be ensured as much as possible, it was necessary to use battlecruisers to escort the ship. ”

"How many battlecruisers do you need to use?" Chang Ruiqing asked.

"Two are enough, and another thirty Zuoyou destroyers are used, not necessarily the Nanhui class, but the 1924 type light destroyers of the British W-class can be used."

Chang Ruiqing didn't seem to want to fight this Truk Battle, he frowned and said: "In other words, we can't use this reason to delay the launch of the Truk Battle?" ”

Chen Shaokuan shook his head, but Bai Chongxi smiled coldly, took the question and said: "Now the British are begging us, we don't want to fight, can they still force us to do it?" ”

"You can't say that," Chang Ruiqing crossed his arms and thought for a while, and said: "The world war has just begun, and it is not certain who will die the deer, but they are working together and serving Trotsky as the co-master, so we must also show some unity and cooperation on our side, at least on the face." ”

"Or should we use the reason for strengthening solidarity and cooperation among our allies?" The corners of Bai Chongxi's lips hooked, and he said with a smile: "Aren't we negotiating with Yingde in this regard now?" We might as well propose to convene a conference attended by the leaders of Britain, Germany, and China to discuss such issues as joint operations among the three countries, the establishment of a high command of the Allied forces, and the division of theaters. Of course, the issue of Sino-British joint war against Japan should also be implemented after reaching a consensus at this summit meeting. In this way, we can openly and honestly defeat Truk for a period of time, so that the Japanese devils can recover their muscles and have the strength to continue to beat the Anglo-French-Dutch colonial system. ”

Listening to Bai Chongxi's method, Chang Ruiqing nodded: "This reason is grandiose enough, and the British ambassador Lan Pusheng and the German ambassador Todman have already tried to convene a leaders' summit. I think we can also come up with ...... at this summit."

"Sir," Chang Ruiqing hadn't finished speaking when a Ministry of Defense staff officer interrupted him in a loud voice.

"What's the matter?" Looking at the nervous countenance of this colonel's staff officer, Chang Ruiqing knew that Trotsky was definitely going to make some big move again.

"Kuwait's news, the Soviet-Persian coalition has begun shelling the positions of the British troops on the south bank of the Arabian River!"