Chapter 320: The Battle Begins(1/3)
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"Today is June 6th?"
Zhang Shusheng raised his head and looked at an exquisite landscape calendar on the table. He remembered He Ning's unique smile when he left home in the morning. He suddenly came to his senses. Today is Tantai's birthday.
After leaving the main office, he came to the office of Lu Yunyan, the former director of the General Office of the Central Committee and now the director of the headquarters office.
"Yunyan, why didn't you tell me this morning that today is Tantai's birthday."[
Seeing Zhang Shusheng coming, Lu Yunyan first locked the door, then leaned over and kissed him on the mouth, then walked behind him and massaged him gently, "You've been so busy lately that you barely have time to eat.
Well, Tantai called back yesterday and asked about you. As soon as her baby mother told you, she said not to tell you that it was her birthday today.
But the girl called specifically to ask how to make beef leg rice dumplings. She probably wants to learn more and make them for us to eat when the Dragon Boat Festival comes."
While enjoying Lu Yunyan's gentle kneading, Zhang Shusheng said to himself: "I've been a little busy lately, and this girl didn't even tell me her birthday."
Of course I have been very busy recently, with the border conflict between China and North Korea on one side.
Although the military operation has ended and two divisions of the National Defense Force have been stationed in Sinuiju, the subsequent impact has not been completely eliminated. How to maximize the benefits of this border conflict and develop it in China's favor is a systematic and complex
problem.
Although he didn't need to detail everything, Sinuiju was related to the second or third confrontation between China and Japan on the Korean issue in the future, so he couldn't help but not pay attention to it. He had to personally check on many important plans before he could rest assured.
As for the international impact of this incident, it has met Zhang Shusheng's expectations.
In this border incident, which was essentially a conflict between China and Japan, the Axis Powers organization was once again awakened by the influence of China and Japan. As one of the three most important countries in the Axis Powers organization, the meaning of China and Japan,
For Germany, even if it is thousands of miles away, its strategic position is second only to its own.
In order to make up for the rift caused by this incident, Hitler paid unprecedented attention to it and sent his confidant Göring to secretly visit China and Japan, trying to resolve the Sino-Japanese crisis from a German perspective and consolidate the relationship between the Axis powers.
On the other side, there is the joint maritime military operation of the three countries.
In addition to Goering's visit to China, the most important action currently being taken by the Axis Powers is the 'Indian Counterattack'. How to maximize the combined use of the naval power of the three countries to deal a severe blow to the United States and Britain is a common interest of the three parties.
In these aspects, although the General Staff and the Naval Staff have completed the Chinese plan, and the tripartite joint operations command has completed the plan part of the three-party cooperation, Zhang Shusheng still has to think about the Chinese plan in the most detail.
To take the simplest example, the content of the plan regarding the distribution of interests in the Pacific is not something that ordinary staff officers can have a strategic perspective on. There are too many other areas that require people's attention.
Although, even if Zhang Shusheng was not present, these things would still have results, but he just couldn't rest assured. It had become his habit to be so busy during the planning and preparation stage before a war.
"How about asking my sister to go to Shanghai to visit her and celebrate her birthday?"
Leaning over and giving her husband a small peck on the face, Lu Yunyan asked Zhang Shusheng's face.
Zhang Shusheng closed his eyes and said, "No, after I met Golin in the afternoon, we took a helicopter to Shanghai together, this girl."
Normally, he rarely travels by helicopter even if there is an emergency, but today, he felt the need to do so. Not because of anything else, but because Tantai was abandoned by his family since he was a child. Every year on his birthday and during holidays, he would
When she was in her lowest mood, Zhang Shusheng naturally wanted to celebrate the holiday for him.
In a blink of an eye, it was time for Ge Lin to meet Zhang Shusheng.[
This was a high-level interview. Zhang Shusheng, accompanied by many military and political officials from the Wehrmacht, met in the Hall of Nations with Goering and Ribbentrop, who had secretly visited China. The former was Hitler's absolute confidant, and the latter
He visited China many times to protect Goering.
The first moment he met Göring, Zhang Shusheng couldn't help but smile in his heart. This German air marshal, who was famous for his short-sightedness and fat head and big ears in history, was Hitler's top confidant. Perhaps it was because the Axis Powers war was far away.
The reason why it was much smoother than in history was that he was actually fatter than Zhang Shusheng imagined.
Before the interview, the security department showed Zhang Shusheng a photo of Goering inspecting somewhere in Germany three months ago, but he did not expect that the real person looked fatter.
Zhang Shusheng scanned the conference seats in the Hall of All Nations without leaving a trace, and thought to himself, if I hadn't specially arranged an extra-large seat for you, I'm afraid you wouldn't have been able to find a place to sit today.
"Ah! My most admired Eastern Head of State, Mr. Shusheng Shusheng, please accept my most sincere respect. Your wisdom and wisdom have also spread throughout Europe. My dearest Head of State, Mr. Hitler, asked me to convey my most sincere respect to you on his behalf.
Greetings from brotherly countries.”
Originally, according to diplomatic convention, participants from both sides could enter the venue at the same time, but after all, Göring's status was not as good as Zhang Shusheng's, and it was a German who wanted something from China. As soon as Göring discussed it with the relevant Chinese personnel, they treated him as a guest and waited for the host.
, waiting for Zhang Shusheng and other Chinese leaders.
While holding Goering's fat, leg-like hands, Zhang Shusheng couldn't help but secretly thought that under his wretched and disgusting appearance, he was hiding ambition, conspiracy, and insidiousness far beyond ordinary people.
"Great Eastern Head of State, I'm glad to see you again. You are still as impressive as you were a few years ago." Compared to Goering, Ribbentrop seemed wiser and more generous. After bowing, he shook hands with Zhang Shusheng.
A hand is considered a salute.
Then, many Chinese military and political officials, including Army Commander Wu Tiejun and Air Force Commander General Fan Siran, met with the German personnel one by one. On the German side, except for Goering, a wretched fat man, and Ribbentrop, an old "traitor"
In addition to the cunning foreign minister, a marshal and several generals also came from the military. The lineup was huge, but at least there was no defect in etiquette.
When he learned that the middle-aged man opposite him with slightly silver hair and a different aura was the Chinese Air Force General, Göring's facial expression twitched with a smile, even though he was as conceited as he was.
, and had to secretly think, at least these military and political leaders in China
They are all talented people, even in Western aesthetics, they are considered handsome men. In comparison, only a few generals from the German Communist Party have similar temperaments. Look at myself and Ribbentrop, especially
For the first time, Göring came up with the idea of controlling his diet.
"We are both commanders of the Air Force. Could it be that just because he is a general and I am a marshal, his temperament is so different? Maybe it is because I am a marshal and he is only a general. However, does China have marshals..."
Everyone sat down smoothly, except Goering. Perhaps because the seat was not custom-made, it was a little inappropriate. When he sat down, he subconsciously twisted his fat butt. As a result, he suddenly realized that he had lost his composure and immediately put it on his face.
A naive fake smile.
Zhang Shusheng cursed secretly, this is really an obscene fat man who knows how to enjoy himself, but this has nothing to do with China.
However, what surprised Zhang Shusheng the most was that this damn fat man could actually speak Chinese, but unlike Ribbentrop, his spoken language was a bit lame. Perhaps Hitler specifically wanted to enhance the relationship between China and Germany. The German who visited China this time
Most of the delegation members spoke Chinese very well.
Zhang Shusheng secretly thought that Hitler was indeed showing his kindness.
This interview was extremely unsatisfactory. Goering, a fat man, used oblique remarks to flatter Sino-German relations, and eventually even went so far as to advocate that the Axis alliance would definitely rule the entire earth.
"Great Marshal of the East, you should understand that today you are fully on par with the Third Reich in terms of national economic strength, industrial strength, army, navy, air force, etc. Hitler's head of state even called you the Third Reich in private many times.
The heads of the four empires, he believes that the future world should only be under the rule of a great head of state like you who is comparable to him.
...You see, the land in the East is so vast, including Siberia, which is full of resources, Southeast Asia, the Pacific, Australia and other countries, and...
You may not know that the Führer has revised his blueprint for the Third Reich many times.
Sorry, because we underestimated your country's strength at the beginning, our initial goal was just to force the Soviets to sign an agreement and cede to us some areas of interest to us, just like they did in Poland.
The subsequent development of the war exceeded our expectations due to the brave fighting of the Third Imperial Army.
For the first time, the head of state brought up the idea of occupying the entire European territory of the Soviet Union, basically unifying Europe in form, and establishing a European Nazi Legion to the headquarters meeting...[
…With China’s full participation in the war, it not only contained a large number of American and British forces in Southeast Asia, helped the *** complete their Southeast Asia strategy, and then went north to attack the Soviet Union, completely kicking off the great Axis organization’s domination of the world…
So, this time..."
Goering paused for a moment and said "Time Travel Novel": "The great Hitler, the head of state, drew the most daring idea. In three to five years, we will win the entire Soviet war, and we will use our great allies to
and the third ally, the Communist Party, to carve up the entire Soviet Union. In the head of state's conception, the Third Reich would occupy the Soviet Union's territories in Europe and the Arctic Ocean. You will get Central Asia and Siberia, and the Soviets will get the barren Panorama.
Far East region.
We will force the British to withdraw from India. If you or the Japanese are interested, you will all get a new colony in India, or at least have considerable rights in military, economic and other aspects.
In the Pacific direction, your country will mainly obtain the interests in the South Pacific direction, the Japanese will obtain the interests in the North Pacific direction, and we will obtain the interests of hegemony in the Atlantic.
You may understand that the Americans cannot be defeated in a day, but once World War II achieves basic decisive results, we will form a world encirclement of the Americans. After weakening them, we will completely turn them into the world's No. 1 nation. A third-rate country.”
Hearing Goering's eloquence, Zhang Shusheng couldn't help but reveal his impression of Hitler in the picture. In his impression, this short man also liked to make long speeches and pass on to others things that seemed shocking to others. The people around him were most famous for their incitement and speech. Apart from Goebbels, the Propaganda Minister of the Third Reich, this guy in front of him was definitely the third person in Germany.
Seeing his slight pause, Zhang Shusheng glanced at Zhou Guolai, Prime Minister of the Government Council. The latter immediately met and said with a smile: "Mr. Goering, I wonder how your head of state, Mr. Hitler, divides the first-rate countries and the second-rate countries?"
Goering waved his hand and said, "I am happy to answer your question. In the head of state's conception, Germany will be the bipolar hegemon of the world in the future and the first-class country in the world. ***, Italy, and the Middle East Alliance will be the second-class country in the world." Countries. Third-rate countries are weak countries like the United States."
"It's a great idea." Zhou Guolai nodded noncommittally and said, "Let's travel through the novel."
Zhang Shusheng secretly thought in his heart, bipolar overlord? Just kidding, if we really want to keep the bipolar overlord, when crazy Germany slowly develops, maybe there will be a new Cold War.
However, from Göring's words, Zhang Shusheng also realized that Hitler's desire for this war had reached the point where he needed to see the final results quickly. Perhaps it was because of Germany's domestic problems, or perhaps because he was afraid that the war would go too deep. In the end, the Axis powers and the Allies led by the United States were in a lose-lose situation. In short, Hitler's idea was to maximize existing interests and then form a global encirclement of the United States.
If it is true as he plans, China can indeed take advantage of it, but that is obviously not what Zhang Shusheng wants.
By then, will tens of millions of Chinese troops armed to the teeth, armed to the teeth, just get these fruits of war and then disarm and return to their fields? Will the whole people sing and dance every day?
Perhaps aware of some embarrassment, Ribbentrop said, "The status of your country in the heart of the great head of state is far higher than that of the Communists. In the head of state's post-war ideas, China will gain far more benefits." More than *** people.
Moreover, due to its geographical location, today, when China is getting stronger and will continue to get stronger, the influence of the Japanese on your country has been reduced to a minimum.
At this time, if we can put aside some past conflicts and look to the future, we (the Axis powers) will gain more in the future.
We look back at the First World War. At that time, the Allied Powers also occupied the side of victory. However, due to some disharmonious and unstable elements, the Italians eventually betrayed the Entente Organization, which ultimately led to the war to an irreversible outcome..."
As soon as Ribbentrop's words came out, everyone understood that what the Germans meant was: Compared with the post-war interests, the less important Communists are no longer worthy of being regarded as China's opponents. And China should not be regarded as an opponent because of some The past hatred has expanded the contradiction between China and Japan, even reaching the level of stability of the crisis axis countries.
Ribbentrop even hinted that if the conflict between China and Japan gets worse, it will be difficult to guarantee that the Japanese will always stay in the Axis powers with peace of mind.
Hearing this, Zhang Shusheng couldn't help but smile and said: "Mr. Ribbentrop, thank you for your advice. We will seriously consider the future development of Sino-Japanese relations and the future development of relations between the Axis powers."
This is one of the few words Zhang Shusheng said, not because what Ribbentrop said was so important, nor because he reminded himself.
The most important thing is that Zhang Shusheng found that at least this time, the Germans' ideas were close to his own.
To be continued...