"These damned, greedy Slavs are inferior! Don't they know that now they can only work with us?! Who gave them the audacity to make such a request?! "Hitler scolded in his office!

At this time, he was extremely angry, and the demands of the Soviet side brought by Ribbentrop made him feel humiliated from the heart. Those mines and oil fields are now Germany's last means of guarantee.

Hitler also counted on these fields and minerals to support his war. And the USSR is now vying to take them back?! This is simply unacceptable.

"My Führer! I also know that these Slavic conditions are unacceptable. But what we need to see is that these minerals and oil fields are now in their White Spoon Domination Zone. It would be extremely troublesome for us if they forcibly take it back and turn to the side of Europe and the United States......"

Ribbentrop said helplessly to Hitler: "If it had been in the past, Trotsky would not have had such confidence. But now that the Soviet Union has merged with more than two million active troops and a large number of tanks and warplanes, they already have the confidence to make such demands with us......"

Hitler's face was blue, his lips trembled, and he couldn't say a word. This really hit Hitler's soft underbelly. Now Germany must not go to war with the Soviet Union.

The main forces of the Wehrmacht were now all concentrated in the vicinity of the Maginot Line, in order to prevent the Anglo-French attack on Germany. If there was a war on both sides at this time, Germany would have only one dead end.

"Damn it! Sooner or later I'll have to pack up these Slavs! Sooner or later, I'm going to get rid of these untrustworthy rats! Hitler roared under his breath.

Ribbentrop sighed helplessly, this is already the case, and Germany has no room for maneuver. Britain and France were eyeing Germany on the Maginot Line, and the Soviet Union could not be offended now.

If the Soviet Union was forced to fall to Britain and France, it would be Germany itself that suffered. Of course, as long as it is not too forced, then the Soviet Union will not consider turning to Britain and France.

Britain and France's defense of the Soviet Union has penetrated into their bones, and in their view, even if there is any problem in Europe, it will be dealt with internally. But the threat of the red sè Hong cháo is the biggest threat.

This directly threatens their fundamental interests in the white spoon, with the technology that they can push for the merger of the Soviet Union but will never let go of their own technology to strengthen the Soviet Union.

In fact, the Soviet Union was never seen as part of Europe within Europe. Slavic entry has never been considered one of the European species. At least, that's how the Gallic and the Orange Saxony see it.

Ribbentrop did not ask Hitler again for his opinion, and Hitler's words already stated his opinion. If you ask it any further, you can't say that Hitler will go straight away.

On August 17, 1938, secret negotiations between the Soviet Union and Germany began again.

After some verbal bickering, a secret agreement was made. The first was Germany's agreement that the Soviet Union would take back the mines and fields that Trotsky had signed. But only if Germany is allowed to mine for another two years.

Second, the Deutsche Gold Discount Bank, or Deggin for short, would lend the Soviet Union up to one billion Reichsmarks. The Soviet Union would use the loan to buy a large amount of machinery, chemical equipment and grain from Germany.

The agreement was secretly signed in Berlin under the name of the German-Soviet Trade and Loan Agreement. Article 1 clearly stipulates: "Construction of factories, dispatch of machines, machine tools and equipment for the construction of the petrochemical industry, equipment for the electronic industry, ships, vehicles, transport equipment, weights and measures instruments, laboratory equipment, ......"

In other words, Germany will provide a large number of machinery to the Soviet Union, and at the same time, it will also send its own technical personnel to the Soviet Union to help build factories and teach machinery use.

The business delegation from Moscow was satisfied, and Germany, although gritting its teeth, had to admit that this solved great worries for Germany.

At the same time, the purchasing power generated by those loans will feed the factories in Germany. Large quantities of raw materials will continue to be sent to Germany to support their White Spoon War.

On August 24, 1938, Moscow and Berlin simultaneously announced the signing of this agreement. The world was shocked!

Among them, the most surprising were Britain and France. They brokered the merger of the Soviet Union, but they did not expect that the Soviet Union would fall to Germany again so quickly.

However, it should be thought that Britain and France would not have provided such a similar loan to the Soviet Union. It was not even possible to export those jīng secret machine tools to the USSR.

Chamberlain had no choice but to accuse Berlin of betraying European interests. In France, on the other hand, there is no conclusive decision.

Europe is in turmoil, but the war in China continues.

The troops of the North China Front in Baoding finally withdrew to the headquarters of the Front Army now entrenched in Dezhou after running all the way. The troops of the two sides were united, and the subsequent supplementary forces in the North China Front defending in Texas were again close to 200,000.

The Central China Front, on the other hand, gave up continuing its attack on Nanking and remained encircled. At the same time, he waved his troops to attack Henan, trying to take advantage of the fact that the national defense forces did not enter the Henan area, and the gap between the withdrawal of the zhōngyāng army and occupied Henan and Shanxi.

This is very bad for Yan Xishan. Compared with Li Zongren of the Gui family, Yan Xishan has a wait-and-see mentality. As long as the Rì army did not come to Shanxi, he thought that he still had the ability to negotiate.

But now that the rì army is about to kill Shanxi, Yan Laoxi is in a hurry! On the one hand, he immediately sent a report to Lin Sen on the ** side, asking the National Defense Army to go to Henan for defense.

On the other hand, he sent his own cronies to deal with the rì army.

To be sure, Yan Xishan had mixed thoughts about whether or not to go to war with the Rì army. On the one hand, he really wants to start a war with the Rì army, and the first battle will play the prestige of Shanxi, won't this make him famous?!

But Yan Xishan is an old bird in the rivers and lakes, and he can't figure out the number of roads of the National Defense Force, nor can he figure out the number of roads of the United Zhèngfǔ. There is a joint zhèngfǔ in what into the have, there is a former chairman of the state government. There is also Song Guomu.

There are red sè deputies, and a bunch of non-partisan jungs. There are returnees like Yan Zhengqing, and there are also Beiyang veterans like Long Yun and Yang Zengxin, who were born as warlords.

The number is not allowed to unite the veins of zhèngfǔ, and Yan Xishan plans to wait and see by himself. Yes, even if the Gui family was electrified to support Yan Xishan, he still did not move.

And the Wehrmacht did not have time to pay attention to him. Sensei said that it was Yan Laoxi, and even the Wehrmacht, which was connected to the Gui system, didn't care if they were electrified or not. After the power was turned on, the National Defense Force had to send Jīng Rui to Guangxi to help train the troops.

They also have to replenish weapons or something, and they have to take into account the combat effectiveness of their white spoons. At the same time, there are more intakes, and there will always be the influence of factions and the division of mountains. This is troublesome, and it is not as direct as the soldiers trained by the Wehrmacht itself.

The Wehrmacht now has factional hills of its own. Each army corps and group army is its own hill. The faction went from the veteran of Ertou Mountain to the generals of the old Fourth Battalion and the New First Army. and then to the generals who joined after the establishment of the Wehrmacht, although they did not say it explicitly, it was obvious from everyone's usual interactions that they belonged to each other.

Even Tu Menghu can't do anything about this. On the surface, everyone calls him the commander-in-chief, but the people who come down from Ertou Mountain will call him "less in charge" in private. When the old fourth battalion meets privately, they will also call him "old battalion commander".

In the first army era, he would call him "old army commander". Although Tu Menghu is not yet thirty years old, he has already been called "old" by countless people.

"Yo~ Yan Laoxi is nervous?! rì Ben has not yet arrived in Henan, this guts is too small, right?! Tu Menghu looked at the telegram sent by Yan Xishan and smiled dumbly.

"This Yan Laoxi has always been extremely cautious. The Lord who does not see the rabbit and does not scatter the eagle. Su Zongzhen smiled understandingly: "He has suffered losses from Jiang Zhongzheng several times, and now he feels dangerous when he looks at everything." I guess that's why he didn't give us power before. I am afraid that we will take away his military power. ”

Yan Xishan was really worried. Yang Zengxin and Long Yun were both far away in the frontier, and Yan Laoxi, who thought he was in the "Central Plains Region", was naturally reluctant to mix with them.

Well, he wasn't familiar with either of them. Being unfamiliar meant that it was impossible for him to know what happened to Long Yun and Yang Zengxin. All Yan Xishan saw was that these two entries had been cut off.

Maybe it's even controlled by the Wehrmacht! Yan Xishan didn't want to end up like this.

The mountains and rivers on the Gui side are far away, and it is not worrying to enter the house across the rì war zone. And Zhang Xueliang in Xi'an was friendly with that tiger in his early years, so it is naturally safe.

I don't have such skills and relationships, if I follow the Wehrmacht, who dares to guarantee that I will not be annexed?! Yan Xishan even built narrow gauges on the railway, and he wished that no one would enter Shanxi to be the emperor of the soil by himself.

How can you tolerate what you might be ****?! Therefore, it is reasonable that he ignores the electricity in various places.

"What is the current situation of Yan Laoxi's troops?!" Putting down the telegram, Tu Menghu shrugged his shoulders and asked Su Zongzhe.

"Yan Xishan's current army consists of three group armies, all of which were formed after the national government announced the anti-rì. It is the sixth, seventh, and eighteenth group armies. The total number of troops is about 300,000 ......"

Tu Menghu was stunned when he heard this, the name of the 18th Group Army in history was given to Chi Sè. Tu Menghu didn't expect that Chi Sè was now cooperating with him, and the number of the Eighteenth Army still fell into the hands of Yan Laoxi.

But think about it. Yan Laoxi ran away after the defeat in the Central Plains War. In order to curb the power of the Central Plains, Jiang Zhongzheng retrieved him again. And at the same time gave him several numbers to reorganize the army.

Lao Yan also has his own lineage, and he pulled up the team in three or two clicks. In 1931, the Jin army was rearranged according to the number of the zhōngyāng army, forming the strength of the 32nd Army, the 33rd Army, the 34th Army, the 35th Army and the Road Protection Army.