"The Gothenburgers demanded that we stop the offensive, saying that their defense minister would come and negotiate with us personally." The chief of staff, Major General Gesskaya, threw the letter sent by the other party on the folding marching table and said contemptuously: "We will not be fooled by such an obvious delaying strategy, let's continue the attack." ”

"No, stop the attack, we'll wait for this Minister of Defense to come." Lieutenant General Zhukov decisively gave the order.

Major General Ghiskaya stopped: "This is too risky, our advantage is to fight fast with speed." If we stop attacking, we can easily get caught up in the encirclement of the enemy forces around us, and then we will be in danger. ”

Zhukov shook his head and said: "The more obvious the trap, the less likely it is to be a trap, not to mention that with the mobility of our armored forces, the Gothenburg army will not be able to trap us at all, so we ordered to immediately stop the offensive, and the troops contracted to defend and stand by in place." ”

Seeing that the Cossack army had really stopped attacking, General Larry's heart was much more stable, in fact, he was also scared to death, but for the sake of future power and wealth, he decided to fight again.

With only two guards, General Larry drove to the front with the adjutant. Having been disarmed by the Cossack corps at the front, the Cossack corps sent a company of troops and escorted them to the temporary station of the command.

"Hello, I'm Admiral Larry, Minister of Defense of the Grand Duchy of Gothenburg." Seeing that Zhukov had the highest military rank, he immediately walked up to the other party, saluted first, and introduced himself. Larry, as a general, gave the first salute to a lieutenant general of an enemy country like Zhukov, and already showed a rather friendly attitude.

Lieutenant General Zhukov returned the salute, and then affectionately shook General Larry's hand and said: "I have heard the name for a long time, I don't know what advice General Larry has for this time." ”

General Larry got straight to the point: "I'm a soldier, and I don't have so many clichés, so I'll just say it." At the beginning, I strongly advocated for the Grand Duchy of Gothenburg to join the NATO alliance, while another powerful general in the country, General Kutma, the Minister of War, strongly advocated joining the Axis powers, and the domestic civilian system advocated joining the Allies. In the end, our Grand Duke listened to Kutma's advice, which led to the current situation. ”

Seeing that Zhukov was listening carefully, he cleared his throat and continued: "I have always believed that the NATO alliance under the leadership of the Chinese Empire will be the final victor, so for the sake of the future of the country and the nation, I have been secretly preparing for it. Admiral Kutma and his cronies have been transferred to the front by me under various pretexts, and today as a result of your attack, the forces of the Archduke Savelli's cronies have also left, so I hope to be able to get your help, and when this is done, I will announce the country's entry into NATO's Allied Operations. ”

Lieutenant General Zhukov was also very shocked to hear the news, and after exchanging an intriguing look with Major General Gesskaya, he asked: "I wonder what you want us to help?" What guarantees do you have for taking power? ”

General Larry said: "Now all the troops in the Grand Duchy of Gothenburg are under my control, as long as the Grand Duke of Savelli is dead, I can control the state power, and then I can order the cronies planted on the front line to help you destroy the army of Kutma." ”

Lieutenant General Zhukov fell into deep thought, such a decision is too important, if this is a trap, his Third Army is very likely to be completely annihilated, and the Cossack defenders near Vyborg will also suffer heavy losses, if what General Larry said is true, then this opportunity will be an important turning point on the entire Western Continental Front, at least on the northern route, the encirclement of Fort Paladins will be completely broken, and the Saar army will also fall into a lonely situation.

Carefully considering the gains and losses, Zhukov found that for the first time he could not make up his mind to decide on one thing. Seeing that Zhukov was silent for a long time, Larry knew what the other party was worried about, and in order to win the trust of the other party, he gritted his teeth and said: "From now on, I will stay in your barracks until the Kutma army on the front line is wiped out." ”

Zhukov raised his head sharply, and General Larry's determination surprised him, and he found that the other party was definitely not a simple person, and he asked: "According to you, the country is already your cronies' troops, why don't you eliminate Grand Duke Savelli yourself, but need us to take action?" ”

General Larry said: "After all, the Grand Duke of Savelli is the supreme commander of this country, and if I command the army to attack him, it will be defeated, and it will have a great negative impact on my future control of this country, so I must not do this." ”

Lieutenant General Zhukov nodded and said, "Okay, we have a deal." As soon as you provide information, I will immediately send troops to encircle and suppress Archduke Savelli, and I will contact the front line to encircle and suppress Admiral Kutma with your men, and you can not leave until all this dust settles. ”

General Larry nodded, "Just decide, I hope you will provide me with a radio, and I will immediately start giving orders." ”

"Hurry up, hurry up." Grand Duke Savelli sat in the car and urged anxiously, although the car had reached a speed of sixty miles, he still felt very slow, but the cars sold outside the Chinese Empire were all weakened versions, and it was very good to be able to reach sixty miles. A convoy of five cars and twenty trucks was speeding down the road, targeting the port of Turku in the west, where an army was stationed to protect him.

The convoy was speeding down the winding road with its headlights on, and sixty miles was already extremely fast on such a rugged road with low visibility at night. And the long convoy is like a long dragon, which is quite obvious in the air.

A Kunpeng 3 bomber flew over the road, and they used infrared night vision radar to carefully scan everything on the road, which was the air support that Zhukov sent to the Paladinburg after the absolute attack on Grand Duke Savelli. Hearing that the strategic environment in the north could be greatly improved, Kolchak immediately decided to send the Kunpeng 3 bomber, which had been hidden in the snow, to carry out this mission.

Twelve Kunpeng 3 bombers searched the highway in a formation of three. "Found it, fifteen kilometers ahead." The navigator, who had been staring at the infrared night vision radar, loudly reported that with the other party's car lights turned on widely, coupled with the infrared night vision radar, they could easily find the target.

"Let's follow." The pilot turned on the afterburner and rushed forward, behind him were two other bombers.

"What sound?" Grand Duke Savelli looked at the noisy night sky in astonishment, but in the dark night sky, he could see nothing.

A bomb broke away from the bomb bay of the Kunpeng 3 bomber that hit the ground and fell to the ground, and an explosion sounded, and a flame immediately exploded on the road in front of the convoy, and a raging fire quickly ignited in front of the entire road.

The car in front of it immediately braked sharply and stopped in front of the fire, and the entire road was completely burned, and the car could not pass through it at all. With the help of infrared night vision radar, the three Kunpeng 3 bombers accurately found the location of the convoy, and they knew that the target was among the five cars at the beginning, and the other two bombers immediately dispersed, one of which relied on the help of the radio seeker to throw the guided incendiary bomb at the last car.

Three bombers threw a series of incendiary bombs around the five cars, and the raging fire quickly surrounded the five cars, and before the people in the cars could escape, they were all trapped in the fire, so frightened that the guards on the trucks behind them looked at each other and didn't know what to do.

"Hurry up and save me, you come and save me." Surrounded by fire, Grand Duke Savelli waved his hands and shouted desperately to the guards, and at this time his hair was curled up and his skin was burned red from the heat.

Without giving the guards a chance to react, the three bombers quickly dropped all the incendiary bombs, burning the five cars and everyone else on board. When had the guards in the trucks behind seen such a purgatory-like scene, they screamed loudly and scattered, even the trucks and the wealth on them were discarded.

Nine other bombers also arrived, using their incendiary bombs to hunt down the fleeing guards, who killed most of them despite causing a raging fire in the vicinity, but fortunately there was a newly opened ice field nearby, so that there was no unstoppable wildfire.

Two hours later, the sound of motors was heard on the road, and a large convoy of cars quickly arrived at the scene, and when they noticed that there were trucks blocking the road, the convoy quickly slowed down and stopped on the side of the road. A group of soldiers in Cossack uniforms jumped out of the truck and surrounded the truck in front.

By this time, the fire ignited by the incendiary bomb had long been extinguished, and there was a scorching stench on the ground. A large number of Cossack soldiers quickly dispersed, taking the entire scene under control, and in one of the trucks behind, Lieutenant General Zhukov walked down with Colonel-General Larry. Covering their noses with handkerchiefs, they slowly walked into the burning site.

At this time, the five cars surrounded by the fire had been burned to the frame, and the last car directly hit by the incendiary bomb had even collapsed to the ground, becoming a pile of unrecognizable rubble.

"How do we tell if Archduke Savelli is dead?" Zhukov endured the scorching smell that rushed to his head, barely held back his vomiting, and asked Admiral Larry.

General Larry shook his head and said, "Your army's weapons are really powerful, and I am not sure of such a complete destruction." However, looking at the few remaining car frames, it is indeed the car that Savelli rode in at the time of the fair, and this time I am afraid that the entire royal family has been burned in it. ”