On the car leaving the airport, Sissi said to Lin Youde: "If it was fourteen months ago, when I listened to your speech just now after experiencing the decision-making process of the incident like this, I would definitely feel that you are disgusting and disgusting, and my impression of you must have been reduced to a negative score." ”

Lin Youde smiled and asked, "What about now?" ”

Sissi sighed and was silent for a long time before replying, "I was told that the goddess embodies the characteristics of both a man and a woman, and that she is able to show her strength and bravery in the world like a man, and she also has the physical beauty of a woman and other qualities. I think she's right, so I'm ...... as a goddess Anyway, as soon as I have the thought of 'this is too sanctimonious' in my head now, 11 million voices will rush out of every part of my head to remind me of your merits. ”

Sissi sighed again.

"Fourteen months ago, I probably wouldn't have believed that I would want to give you a baby."

Lin Youde looked at Sissi's side face, and the satisfaction in his heart was no less than that of having just conquered a country - no, it was stronger than that.

Sissi probably sensed something from Lin Youde's gaze, and the blush on her face increased a little, she turned her head and looked out the car window.

"Speaking of which, it's been fourteen months." Lin Youde also looked out of the car window and said in an emotional tone, "When I think about it, I always feel that I got you done it all at once, but it turned out to be such a 'long-term war of resistance'." ”

"Well, if you count from the first meeting at the time of the annexation of Austria-Hungary, it will be even longer. Sure enough, life is full of accidents everywhere. Through the reflection on the car window, Lin Youde saw Sissi smiling, it seemed that this long time in Sissi's memories was a very happy time, and knowing this made Lin Youde extremely relieved in his heart.

Lin Youde turned his attention from the girl to the scenery outside the window.

To be honest, Lin Youde always thought that Turkey should be a country full of yellow sand.

This is not because Turkey has a "soil" in its name, but because when he mentions Istanbul, he will habitually think of that Saladin, and he doesn't know why, even if he later studied history and learned that Saladin's mother was a Kurdish because of the connection between Saladin and the Ottoman Empire, Lin Youde would still think of Saladin when he mentioned Turkey.

This is probably because Saladin's empire and the Ottoman Empire founded by Suleiman the Magnificent were both historically powerful Islamic states.

Influenced by this unreasonable association, Lin Youde thought of Istanbul and thought that words such as yellow sand and mosques would come to mind, and by the way, he had the impression that Turkey should be covered with yellow sand.

When I watched the TV news as a child when the Turkish army crossed the border and attacked the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) forces in Iraq, the image of the yellow sand in the sky intensified, and until the time of the crossing, Lin Youde felt that Turkey should be full of sand.

So when planning the battle plan, he once wanted to paint the tank in desert camouflage, but he was laughed at by his wives. Now the green fields that are constantly passing outside the window have completely shattered Lin Youde's impression of "soil".

If you think about it, how can a country with an average annual precipitation of more than 800 mm be a desert country?

Lin Youde was looking out the window, and Qian Qian suddenly said, "Do you remember that you are going to use desert camouflage again?" ”

Lin Youde instantly felt a little hot, he hurriedly turned his face to the other side, but it was too late, Sissi covered her mouth and laughed, and reached out to pat him on the shoulder while laughing: "You actually blush, hahaha, I must sue Miss Sù Chihiro when I turn around." Come, Isella, Nia, look, your dad is blushing. ”

Lin Youde shook his head, and at this moment he heard the excited voice of Oh-chan sitting on the roof of the car.

He turned his head and saw a column of chariots at the crossroads ahead, one after another of the steel beasts crossing the puddles at the crossroads, heading northwest.

Lin Youde said to the driver: "Stop." ”

After the car stopped, Lin Youde got out of the car, stood next to the car and looked at the chariot that was constantly driving not far away, the infantry sitting on the chariot looked at this side curiously, and many people immediately recognized Lin Youde, so they excitedly poked the waist or back of their companions who looked in other directions.

Soon, the infantry began to wave steel helmets and cheer at Lin Youde.

Lin Youde smiled, raised his right hand and waved it to the soldiers, and the shape was already full of national leaders.

Oh-chan, who was sitting on the roof of the car, also raised his hands and shouted "Oh Oh", responding to the cheers of the soldiers, which was a bit weird to be honest.

Lin Youde stopped here, and the cars carrying a bunch of senior officers behind him had to stop, and Lundstead and other generals came behind Lin Youde and accompanied Lin Youde to review the armored unit that was moving towards the front line.

After all the chariots were cleared, Lin Youde turned to face Lundstead.

"Are these tanks driving to the front line on their own power?"

"Yes, there is no railway from here to Saraj, that's all." Lundstead seems to have been unhappy with the lack of railroads, and since the time of Moltke the Elder, German generals have relied heavily on railroads to mobilize and supply their troops.

"Won't the loss of the chariot on the road be too great?" Lin Youde asked worriedly, he didn't lie down when he tested this new weapon, although he repeatedly urged the engineers to improve the reliability of the equipment, but Lin Youde didn't know what the specific improvement would be.

"Indeed," Lundstedder nodded, "although the new weapon has amazing breakthrough power, it also exposes many shortcomings. At present, the emergency repair unit is the busiest unit in the entire international column, busy all day long towing and repairing the broken down combat vehicle. This new weapon is clearly more suitable for being transported to the front by other means and then put into combat with its own power. But now we have no other way. If we use horse-drawn artillery to go to the front line, the efficiency is too low to quickly replenish our defensive line, and the conventional artillery is too fragile in the face of the battle queen, because it is inconvenient to transfer, and it is basically a consumable that will be abandoned after a few shots - so most of the artillery of our army is shoddy because there is no need to pursue high performance, but it is more important to be cheap and good for mass production, and the tank is ......"

Lundstead snapped his words, clearly wondering whether he should continue.

Lin Youde shook his head at the old general: "But it's okay to say it." ”

"At least eight of the tanks survived that ambush."

In other words, if it is artillery, it will not survive at all.

Lin Youde couldn't help but start thinking about whether he could get a better exchange ratio by playing and running through the preset position when defending the city.

While he was thinking, Lundstedt continued along his own lines: "But please rest assured, Mr. Lin, there is a ...... between the unloading yard in Erelisi and Saraj Well, the failure rate of the tanks along the dirt roads, which can barely be called roads, is much smaller than when the road is being advanced, and our engineering units are reinforcing these roads, resurfacing the roads with logs cut on the spot in some areas of the road, and the failure rate of the tanks will definitely be further reduced as the works progress......"

"Well, that's good." Lin Youde actually didn't listen carefully, but he nodded when he heard a "failure rate will definitely be further reduced", "Now let's go to the headquarters quickly." ”

Saying that, Lin Youde looked up at the sky, obviously there were no clouds, but the rain kept dripping, it was really strange.

**

On November 22, 1935, the same day that Lin Youde arrived at the front, in the Winter Palace in Petrograd, Iron Ji was presiding over a cabinet meeting.

Tsar Nicholas III, of course, was still absent, and this already commonplace scenario is no longer contested by anyone.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer was constantly wiping the sweat from his forehead under the forced gaze of Iron Hime.

"Your Excellency, I, we have done our best, we have already issued some war bonds in order to annex the Japanese-occupied Northeast China, and these bonds have not been repaid, and we have issued new bonds for the attack on Istanbul...... Now, if we expand the issuance of bonds, we will finally have an improvement in the domestic economy......"

"There's no problem with the economy because I'm not trying to pull money out of the market right now, I just want the guys to take out the money they save up and count for the night. Like you! You're such a fat-headed, big-eared person, I think you must have a lot of money hidden at home, and those gold and silver items should be able to turn into a lot of money. If I take that away, then your factory can continue to operate unaffected, right? ”

The Chancellor of the Exchequer wiped his sweat again.

"This ...... If there is no deposit in hand, the sense of security of residents will be reduced, and the desire to spend will also be reduced......"

"It's not that the treasury bonds are snatched and not repaid, there is no difference between buying bonds and deposits, and there is still income from bonds." Without waiting for the Chancellor of the Exchequer to respond, he continued, "Or do you want me to do another 'economic reform' like I did in 1931?" This time, I will not be soft-hearted, I will pinch you capitalists to death, concentrate your factories in the hands of the state, and concentrate your land in the hands of the state. ”

In fact, Iron Ji has already snatched the property of the guy who was purged in the previous ********, and managed it centrally, and it seems that the effect is not bad so far. In addition, she used the state treasury to invest in a series of factories that now support the Russian economy to some extent.

Most Russian capitalists are worried that Iron Ji will one day promote these policies, which seem to be good at the moment, so they support Iron Ji's external expansion not simply because of the benefits gained after the expansion, but because they are trying to curry favor with Iron Ji.

But Iron Ji is not a deposit that will be satisfied with a little flattery, and now the Minister of Finance, who is a big nobleman turned into a big capitalist, is estimated to be repentant.

"You must be thinking that you should have done everything you could to stop me from attacking Istanbul, right?" Iron Ji's words made the Chancellor's face turn green, "Hmph, you are really a guy who eats inside and out, it seems that ......"

"I am loyal to Russia!" The Chancellor of the Exchequer hurriedly expressed his heartfelt feelings, but judging by the expression of Iron Ji, there was no doubt that it was too late.

At this moment, Natalia, who had been sitting on the right hand side of Iron Hime, coughed.

After focusing on herself, the eldest sister who was most trusted by Iron Ji slowly picked up her pipe, and said while filling it with tobacco leaves: "If you suddenly make an economic move now, I'm afraid the situation will get out of control." The immediate priority is to put an end to the war in Turkey as soon as possible. Whether it is a quick capture of Istanbul or a decisive withdrawal, it is time to make a decision. ”

Iron Ji looked at Natalia, and the frenzied expression on her face relaxed.

"You're right, I can feel that Lin Youde must have wanted to use the Turkish war to consume us, so his army did not continue to attack, and if I had changed, I would have pulled the British and flanked our troops west of Istanbul. Although we are not reconciled in that way, we can only admit defeat and lose so many equipment and troops in vain, unless we fully mobilize and start a full-scale war like the last war, otherwise there is no hope of victory in this war. He must have conceded the victory he had won, and he must have intended us to spend it in Turkey. ”

Iron Ji clasped her hands to her chest and sneered: "So we must get out as much as possible, the sooner the better." Natalia, do you have any plans? ”

"Yes, of course." Natalia lit her pipe, took a puff, and said leisurely, "The reason why we are being restrained every step of the way is because we are not fighting according to the experience of the last war. So we have to break that. ”

"Oh, how to break?"

"It's very simple, we unexpectedly concentrate the numerically superior Shenji, and then fight quickly, break their defenses in Saraj, withdraw the troops, and take the opportunity to get out. We can keep the territory we have occupied, and it is estimated that the Germans will not take the initiative to attack in that situation, and the concentrated gods will be able to quickly return to the areas they have been defending. ”

"Well, why don't we concentrate on taking Istanbul in one go?"

"The key to this strategy," Natalia said leisurely as she exhaled a smoke ring, "is to avoid contact with the enemy Shinji as much as possible." The battle between the god and the god is only possible when there is more than twice the power ratio, and it is possible to achieve a 'quick kill', and I have more than twice the power balance in the northeast, and the Japanese god queen who stayed behind is not strong in the first place, and the one we dispatched can almost be regarded as the top god queen. In this way, one of us must also rest for a long time.

"Therefore, we cannot attack Istanbul, which is guarded by the Turkish gods, because even if we take out twice as many gods and successfully occupy Istanbul, we will have to watch out for actions taken against us by the United States and Britain or even the United States, Britain and Germany for a long time, and if we only consider the Far East, in that case the United States and the Ming Empire will unite to retake the Northeast and the Korean Peninsula, and we will not be able to resist at all.

"To occupy Istanbul, we can only use conventional forces and war queens to consume the mental power of the other side of the gods, as well as the craftsmen who provide support for the gods, and even directly destroy their facilities for repairing the armor used by the gods. The correct tactic is to advance the long-range heavy artillery to a position that can blow up the opponent's magic guide workshop when the god queen is holding back the opponent's god queen. At this point in time, this is very difficult to do. ”

"Okay, okay, I see." Iron Ji nodded, "Then we don't want to think about Istanbul for the time being, first rescue our people, and then put our heads in order to clean up the country, and when we are ready, we will start a war like the Russian-Turkish war to take Istanbul back." ”

Saying that, Iron Ji glanced at the ministers present with the eyes of an eagle looking at a hare, and then a hideous smile appeared on his face: "Although we are going to retreat, we are still unwilling." That's it, I'll go into battle myself, Natalia, and let's destroy those pesky Germans and their tin toys! ”

"Well," Natalia puffed another smoke ring, "I don't object to that, it doesn't hurt to refresh your muscles." ”

(Although this chapter is a little late, but the number of words is too much)