When Chang Ruiqing stepped off the plane, the airport seemed deserted, only the Chinese Ambassador to Germany Huang Yin, the head of the Chinese delegation to Germany Shangguan Yunxiang, and the Chinese Consul General in Warsaw Natalie. Lesinskaya and Sun Yuexun, who flew from the United States to Berlin two days earlier, and German Vice Chancellor von Murphy. Bapen was greeted at the airport with several German officials whom Chang Ruiqing did not know. The relationship between China and Germany has been very close since 1924, and Chang Ruiqing has visited Germany many times, and each time he has received a very high courtesy, but this is the first time he has encountered such a scene.

Faced with such a deserted scene, Chang Ruiqing was slightly stunned, and Leshinskaya came over and whispered to him that it was currently the time of the state funeral in Germany, and it was not suitable to hold a grand welcome ceremony. When US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain arrived in Berlin yesterday, the same was true for the reception of the German side. Huang Yin then told Chang Ruiqing that the German Gestapo had received a secret report that Trotsky had instructed the German GCD to assassinate the heads of China, Germany, and Britain in Berlin. This is also one reason why the German side is keeping a low profile.

"Does the German GCD still have activities in Germany?" Chang Ruiqing was a little surprised, although Germany is not a fascist country now, but after all, the Nazi Party is in power, how can the German GCD have the strength to assassinate the country's leader in Berlin?

Lesinskaya smiled bitterly, and she leaned into Chang Ruiqing's ear and whispered to him. When Hitler was inspecting East Prussia, he was assassinated by the German GCD and almost died! The German Gestapo urgently dispatched to conduct a large search in East Prussia, and cracked several German strongholds, and found from the seized Wen Jiàn that the German G accepted the instructions of the GC International and prepared to organize the assassination of the leaders of the three countries in Berlin, and also found that the German GCD had internal Jiān in the German Wehrmacht, and wanted to incite the second Berlin uprising after the successful assassination! So the whole of Berlin is now under martial law.

It was certain that the Germans would not be willing to lose, and it was logical that Trotsky wanted to disrupt the German interior through them. But launching the Second Berlin Uprising was a bit ridiculous. And it's a little intriguing that such a ridiculous thing happened during the Hindenburg funeral! Now Hindenburg just died. The president of the German Empire was only represented by Hitler...... It seems that there is a power struggle within the Germans!

Greet Chang Ruiqing's Feng. Baben also seemed to be preoccupied, and just had a few words of conversation with Chang Ruiqing, and then invited Chang Ruiqing and the others into a car prepared by the German zhèngfǔ and drove towards the Kaiserhof Hotel. For security reasons, the foreign leaders who visited Berlin this time were arranged to stay in the most luxurious hotel in Berlin. However, this arrangement also facilitated Chang Ruiqing's meeting with Roosevelt, Chamberlain and others. Especially the lame president of the United States, this is the first time Chang Ruiqing has seen this great figure who led the United States to seize world hegemony in history.

"Prime Minister. President Hindenburg's state funeral will take place in five days," Huang Ying, sitting in the passenger seat, turned his head and said to Chang Ruiqing: "Before the funeral, there will be a four-day summit of the Five Kingdoms, which will be attended by Hitler, Roosevelt, Chamberlain, and Mussolini." The first meeting will be held tomorrow morning. The main discussion was on the joint operations of the five powers, including the possibility of the United States joining the "Anti-Soviet Pact." The afternoon session discussed India. On the second day, the post-war international situation was discussed, the spheres of influence of the five major powers were divided, and the formation of an international organization was discussed to safeguard world peace in the future. On the third day, the plenary discussed the course of operations in the main battlefield of China and the Soviet Union. The fourth day discusses the battle against the Rì and the Pacific Theater. ”

Chang Ruiqing frowned slightly after listening, judging from the arrangement of the meeting, the United States seems to have made up its mind to join the Chinese, British, German, and Italian camps, and the other four countries seem to attach great importance to the United States as a new friend. Also spend the whole day talking about fighting against rì! But what is there to discuss about the rì battle? It's nothing more than a flank between China and the United States......

As Chang Ruiqing's car drove through the wide, neat streets of Berlin, Trotsky was already sitting in the back garden of the Palace of the Republic in Delhi, the capital of India. In contrast to Berlin, where the climate is cool, India at the end of August is still in the midst of a scorching heat, the weather is unusually hot, and the revolutionary prophet, accustomed to the cold climate of the north, sits in a wicker chair without jīng, wearing only a sweat vest and a pair of old trousers, holding a lit cigar in his left hand, and waving a pu fan vigorously in his right hand. At this time, Lu Yi walked through the porch.

Lu Yi is wearing a blue-gray coarse cloth military uniform today - a standard military uniform of the Indian Red Army. There is no rank on the uniform, unlike the "rank system without rank" implemented by the Soviet Red Army (the rank is stored in zài, but the name has been changed), the current Indian Red Army really has no rank. From the ordinary soldiers to the chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Indian GCD, all the commanders and fighters of the Indian Red Army wore the same coarse cloth uniforms to show that there was a real equality between officers and soldiers.

"Comrade Trotsky, the weather in India is very hot. How did you get a good night's rest? "Lu Yi is fluent in Russian, he is well-educated, speaks several Chinese and has lived abroad for a long time. By the way. Just look at his shallower skin and tall nose bridge to know that he was once an Indian Brahmin! The reason why I say that it was once, it is because after participating in the revolution, his lowly Brahmin caste naturally became the most noble caste of "revolutionary cadres".

"It's okay, thank you very much for your concern." Trotsky smiled slightly, put down the fan in his hand, and reached out to shake it with Lu Yi.

Lu Yi sat down beside Trotsky, then took out a telegram from his military pocket and handed it to Trotsky: "This is transferred by the GC International, and the leaders of the five imperialist countries of China, the United States, Britain, Germany, and Italy have gathered in Berlin, nominally to attend the funeral of Hindenburg. ”

"But in reality they are discussing the fate of saving capitalism from defeat," Trotsky said, taking the telegram and reading it, with a slightly surprised expression: "They were going to discuss the question of India on the first day, Comrade Ruy, and it seemed that they were very frightened of the liberation of India. ”

"That's normal, now the Indian people have defeated Chinese and British imperialism and stood up!" "350 million Indians and 150 million Soviets, 60 million Rì himself, 20 million Persians, 30 million Arabs, 20 million Turks and more than 30 million working people of the South Sea Islands stand together. Now that 660 million working people in the world have been liberated, the red flag has been planted in most of Eurasia, and Chinese imperialism, which has the largest population and the largest local area among the imperialist countries, is already surrounded by the three proletarian countries of India and the Soviet Union! If we can concentrate our efforts on the liberation of China and the people of Xīzàng, Burma, Siam, Indochina, Malaya, Korea, Mongolia and other countries oppressed by Chinese imperialism. Then the majority of the working people of the world will be on our side! ”

"Imperialism has indeed suffered a crushing defeat in India," Trotsky patiently explained, rather than striking at Reckless's positivity: "But imperialism, especially Chinese imperialism, is still very strong. According to the latest information we have received, Chang Ruiqing is mobilizing Jīng Rui troops from Siberia and Central Asia to prepare for a counterattack on India. At present, the pressure on us on the Eastern Front has been greatly reduced. I am deeply grateful for the fact that this is all due to the people of India. However, India will also be under great pressure in the coming period, and the safer choice is to take a defensive position against China, relying on the dangerous terrain in the northwest and northeast of India to organize defenses, and deplete their strength to the greatest extent. At the same time, more active action is taken in the direction where the imperialist forces are weaker. ”

"Where imperialist power is weak? Where is it? ”

For the time being, Lu Yi did not insist on his point of view, although he was confident in the world revolution. But it is not unaware that the Soviet Red Army rarely won in the contest with the Chinese Wehrmacht. However, he did not believe that China was really stronger than the Soviet Union, but blamed the Soviet Union's predicament on the dispersion of forces by fighting on multiple fronts, and China had always concentrated its forces against the Soviet Union. Therefore, the solution he gave to solve the dilemma of the Soviet Union was to attack China by the three countries of China and the Soviet Union, forcing China to also fall into the dilemma of a multi-front war. But Trotsky seems to have a better way, so it would be better to listen to it first.

Trotsky first confessed to Ruy the severe difficulties that the Soviet Red Army was currently encountering. He told Sù Ruy that the Soviets had suffered a crushing defeat in the Nizhne-Udinsk counterattack not long earlier. Having lost almost 700,000 troops, and about the same number of Red Army, they abandoned all their heavy weapons and baggage and fled back to Krasnoyarsk. After this battle, the strategic main force of the Soviet army on the Eastern Front has completely lost its combat effectiveness! Moreover, at present, Germany is gathering large forces and preparing for a large-scale invasion of the Soviet Union in 1935, so the Soviet army must concentrate on coping with all its strength, and it is impossible to send troops to the Eastern Front at all, so the strategy of the three countries to flank China is actually not possible.

Speaking of which. Trotsky took a few puffs of his cigarette and then said solemnly: "Comrade Lu Yi, although after the victory of the Indian revolution, the balance between revolutionary and counter-revolutionary forces in the whole world has changed radically. But in general, the enemy's forces are still stronger than ours, and they still have the strength to launch a final counterattack. According to intelligence, the leaders of the five imperialist countries, China, the United States, Britain, Germany, and Italy, are meeting in Berlin to prepare for a general counterattack against the world revolution! And then not only the USSR. All regions and countries belonging to the revolutionary camp, including India, the Middle East, will be attacked by imperialism in a frenzied manner!

Of course, there will still be a division of labor among imperialism. According to our estimates, Germany and Italy would devote their main forces to attacking the Soviet Union; China will attack both the Soviet Union and India, but they will use more than 50% of their forces in Central Asia and Siberia, and they will use 20% of their forces to defend against the Soviet Union, and in the end less than 30% of their strength will be used to attack the Soviet Union; Of course, the main power of the United States will use it against Rìben, and this country is much stronger than Rìben. Therefore, the idea that Comrade Rìmoto is reluctant to go to war with China and the United States at the same time is understandable; As for the Middle East and India, the main direction of British attack will be the Middle East and India, Comrade Lu Yi, are you willing to take on the responsibility of fighting against the British Empire while resisting the Chinese attack? ”

Lu Yi hummed lightly. He did not immediately agree, but lit a cigarette and smoked it, and he had an unforgettable hatred for the British Empire, like all Indian revolutionaries. This country began to invade India in 1624 and plundered countless wealth from India for more than 300 years, so to speak, the glory and wealth of the British Empire was built on the exploitation of India! And now, in the face of the Indian people who have already stood up, British imperialism is still scheming and trying in vain to use the power of China and Musling to turn India back into their colony! And now the British Empire still occupies Mumbai, the most prosperous city in India, and Ceylon, the treasure island of India. If the Indian GCD wants to liberate the whole country, it will inevitably have another life-and-death struggle with the British.

But Lu Yi was hesitant to bear the responsibility of fighting Britain, for he had already heard from Trotsky's previous words that Britain's main direction of attack was the Middle East and India, the latter of which was fine, and that the Indian GCD would make the British invaders pay a price that they would never forget. But fighting in the Middle East is not so simple. Although the Red Army of India was large in number, it was all light infantry, and basically there were no armored units and air force. In the previous Indian Revolutionary War, the few defeats suffered by the Indian Red Army were all due to the armored troops of the Chinese Expeditionary Force. Fortunately, India's terrain and climate are not conducive to the advantages of China's armored forces, so it did not cause a global setback. But the terrain of the Middle East is dominated by deserts, and there they are. A mechanized army should be able to exert its maximum power!

"Comrade Trotsky, our army is dominated by light infantry and is more suitable for fighting in the jungle or in the mountains." "If our warriors are to fight in the desert, we will need to provide them with equipment that cannot be produced by the current Indian industry," said Lu Yi. Moreover, our Motherland has not yet been completely liberated. Mumbai, Ceylon and the lands east of the Jamuna are under imperialist occupation! ”

Seeing Lu Yi making demands in circles, Trotsky smiled slightly: "Although the Soviet Union has no way to provide a large number of tanks and armored vehicles to India, we can give you enough anti-tank weapons, such as 45mm anti-tank guns, anti-tank guns, 1932 anti-tank grenades, anti-tank rifles, anti-tank mines and anti-tank grenades, and so on." In addition, the Soviet Red Air Force would also remain in the Middle East to fight alongside the Indian comrades. As for India's operation to recover the island of Ceylon, I think we can consult with Comrade Rì Ben and ask them to send their navy to help in the war. ”

Lu Yi looked up at Trotsky solemnly: "Comrade Trotsky. Are you serious? Can you really get the Rì Ben Navy to help us recover the island of Ceylon? ”

Trotsky did not answer Lu Yi directly, but quietly changed the subject: "Comrade Lu Yi, there is something I would like to discuss with you, Comrade Takeda Heng has submitted his resignation to the International Proletarian Command and recommended you to be the Deputy Commander of the International Proletariat. I consulted with Skryansky and other comrades and decided that you were the most suitable person for this post. In addition, I also intend to propose to GC International the establishment of the Asian Bureau, and you will also be the secretary of the Asian Bureau. What do you think? ”

"Make me the deputy commander and secretary of the Asia Bureau?" Lu Yi was stunned, and a look of surprise flashed on his face. The position of deputy commander of the international proletariat is a bit empty, but the secretary of the GC International Asia Bureau is a real "big official"! This position belongs to oneself, which is equivalent to placing the Indian GCD in the position of the first GCD in Asia! Theoretically, the GCD is just a branch of the GC International Asia Bureau! As for Persia, Iraq, Kuwait, Najd, Syria (occupied by the Soviet Union after the surrender of France), Jordan and Palestine in the Middle East, the GCD and the People's Party must also recognize themselves as their bosses.

Trotsky leaned forward slightly, looked at Lu Yi and asked: "Comrade Lu Yi, although the burden of the Asian revolution is somewhat heavy. But I believe in your ability, and I believe in the ability of the Indian GCD, and even more in the ability of the 350 million Indian people who are standing up! ”

"In that case, then I won't shirk." Lu Yi saw that the other party was sincere and wanted to be the big brother of GCISM in Asia. Naturally, he gladly accepted the order. However, he then thought that Takeda Heng of Rìmoto might not obey his orders and send a fleet to the Indian Ocean. Then he frowned again and asked: "Comrade Trotsky, you have not answered my previous question, can you really get the Rì Ben Navy to help us recover Ceylon?" ”

Trotsky smiled slightly, took a puff of his cigarette, squinted his eyes and said slowly: "I think that Comrade Takeda Heng is very willing to help the Indian GCD, but the Rì Ben Navy now has a more important task to complete, and they are planning an attack on the US mainland!" When this is over, his fleet will move west to seize control of the Indian Ocean. Because controlling the Indian Ocean would allow them to get help directly from the Soviet Union, it would be very beneficial for them. ”

Lu Yi pondered Trotsky's words carefully, and felt that there was some truth, so he took a deep breath, nodded, and said: "Comrade Trotsky, our Indian Red Army can undertake the work of defending the Red Sè regime in the Middle East, and we will send 200 divisions there to form the Middle East Front of the Indian Red Army before the end of the year, but these divisions can only be equipped with light weapons, and all heavy weapons must be provided by the Soviet Union, including the officers and soldiers who use these heavy weapons." In addition, I recommend Comrade Blyukhel to be the commander of the Middle East Front of the Indian Red Army, and Comrade Gao Shi of the Indian GCD to be the political commissar. In addition, in order to reflect the unity of the three major GC countries of the Soviet Union, Rì and India, I hope that the GCD can send at least 100,000 expeditionary forces and a fleet to the Middle East. (To be continued......)