Episode 103 The Soviet Secret Mission

The officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty carried their guns and slowly walked on the charred land, their feet creaking loudly.

As far as the eye could see, it was all charred black, and there was no other color. Occasionally, a few sporadic flames froze, dancing on piles of black things, like ghost fires. The piles and stalls on the ground were all pitch black and smoking. Some are emitting green smoke, while others are emitting black smoke. There is a layer floating between the whole heaven and earth that says that smoke is not smoke and dust is not dust, black and gray. Even the sun in the sky is covered with a black veil, and it is cloudy.

Beside you are rumbling tanks and half-tracks, and in the sky are planes whizzing by. The familiar victorious advance of the War of Unification seems to have repeated itself. But the difference is that the officers and soldiers looked around as they walked, and their faces revealed an indescribable expression: relieved of hatred, unbearable, disgusting......

Everyone walked very slowly, watching as they went. On the one hand, there is still a war ahead, and there is no need to go too fast, just to clean up the battlefield; On the other hand, when everyone gets off their feet, they are consciously or unconsciously very careful, and they always try their best to identify what they are stepping on.

"Squeaky ......"

Someone stepped on a black thing, and the mass was brittle and shattered. …… Several people next to him saw that it was a charred black skeleton, and half of the back of the head had been glued to a piece of "discus". That half of the "discus" should be a molten steel helmet.

The soldier who stepped on the skull suddenly jumped to the side, a disgusting expression on his face. The soldiers around him looked at him rather gloatingly, but no one joked. After all, everyone knows that it's not funny. The soldier felt like throwing up, and stood there for a few seconds. But after all, he didn't spit it out, touched his chest, and continued with a pale face.

The smell of the battlefield was rather unpleasant, mixed with the smell of gasoline, burnt rubber, the strange smell of burning leather and textiles, and the obvious smell of melted human grease...... Quite disgusting. From time to time, they passed by a foxhole or bomb crater, and also passed through two makeshift trenches. But both in the pit and in the ditch were charred and blackened, and the situation was the same as that of the peaceful land. And almost every pit has one or two black "coke" clumps in it, vaguely recognizable as people.

During the bombing, the Japanese troops hid in foxholes as usual. But this time it's an incendiary bomb, and it's this density. It's useless to hide in a pit. The temperature in the pit is probably a little cooler, and most of the metal fittings have not yet melted. Looking inside the pit, the Ming soldiers could roughly distinguish the steel helmet, the bayonet, the steel part of the gun, and the officer's long command knife - all that was left was the blade. As for aluminum kettles, lunch boxes, etc., they are still burned because the melting point is too low.

It used to be farmland, but now it is completely invisible, desolate and miserable, with no grass and pits, like the surface of the moon. The difference is that on the moon it is gray, while here it is black. There would be a tree or two in the distance, but all that was left was the charred half-trunk, still smoking.

Although it was disgusting to march on charred corpses, the Ming officers and soldiers still preferred to be so. At least there are a lot fewer casualties on my side. Step on the corpse of the enemy, lie down with your own corpse and the corpse of the enemy, and everyone will choose the former. If it's disgusting, it's disgusting.

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After a round of incendiary bombardment by the Ming army in the morning, the Japanese side reacted. Now, air battles have begun in the sky. The Japanese airfields in Korea and the temporary airfields built in Jilin and Heilongjiang in the north all sent planes to meet the battle. And the Ming army did not suffer losses in air battles on the battlefield against Japan. Whether it's air combat at sea or on land.

The fighters of the Ming army were more advanced, the pilots were more experienced, the number of aircraft was larger, and the production capacity of the aircraft was stronger. Large-scale air battles were welcomed by the Ming army. Based on the experience of the unification war, the Ming army knew that as long as the initial air superiority was in its own hands and could attract the enemy in a large-scale air battle and annihilate a large number of the enemy's air forces, it would be easy to maintain air superiority all the time.

At present, the air strategy of the Ming army is to be cautious in avoiding large-scale air battles on the western battlefield against the Soviet Union. And on the eastern battlefield against Japan, it actively sought large-scale air battles. Let the veterans take them on the battlefield of the Eastern Front, train a group of novices to become veterans, and then send them to the Western Front, and slowly regain air superiority on the Western Front.

In the Mukden battlefield, the Ming army is now using incendiary bombs on a large scale, and it is very comfortable to use them, but the Ming army has fallen from above, and another string in his head has been tightened: in the future, he must have the consciousness of bearing the risk of bombing by the Japanese army's incendiary bombs.

Although there are relatively few incendiary weapons in the Japanese army now, and even flamethrowers are not popular, this kind of thing is not complicated, there is not much technical content, and it is easy to produce it in large quantities. If the Japanese army really saw the beauty of the incendiary bombs, then it would be difficult to guarantee that this tragic situation would not fall on the Ming army in the future. -- The High Command has issued special orders to the Army and Navy Aviation Departments to firmly grasp air superiority in the future and prevent incendiary bombs from falling on their brothers.

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On the afternoon of the 14th, the plane of the secret mission in Moscow landed in Beijing. Then he transferred to a transport plane of the Ming army in Beijing and landed in Nanjing in the evening.

Since the two countries are at war, and this is a secret mission, it cannot be publicized, and the Ming side has to hold a shelf, so I don't want to be too enthusiastic about the truce. So I didn't do the normal one, and I didn't do anything about the welcome dinner. Directly a few cars were connected to Wuwang Villa outside the city, and a small building was arranged to live in, surrounded by a circle of agents, which was equivalent to house arrest - and then worked and served for dinner.

The next morning, secret negotiations began.

It is said that it is a negotiation, but in fact it is very informal. Not even a standard conference table. It's just a few people sitting on the sofa, drinking tea and talking. The few people sent by the Soviet Union are not very famous, and none of them know about Xiaoqiang. The main participants on the Ming side were the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dongchang, and the People's Guard. Each family sent a few people, plus an interpreter, a total of a dozen people.

First of all, the secret envoy of the Soviet side expressed his intentions. also said a high-sounding remark, nothing more than to emphasize that the Soviet Union was a peace-loving country, and it had no intention of getting involved in the Ili Kingdom, just to help the people of the Ili Kingdom achieve freedom**...... And so on and so forth.

Although this is nonsense, the Ming side also knows that this is what the Soviets must say. They have to maintain a positive image of themselves at all times. Even if you can't defend it, at least say it and make your position clear.