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"Comrade Chairman, this has just been sent back from Paris. The British delegation has arrived in Berlin. At noon today, Chamberlain delivered a speech in the German Parliament, claiming that the British Empire should be with Germany, and China has other responsible major powers to lead the world. This other responsible major power should refer to the United States. It seems that he also wants to include the United States in the anti-Soviet alliance. This is the latest war report submitted by the Japanese delegation in Moscow. The Japanese Red Army's military operations in the Southeast Asian region were very smooth. The British army has handed over the defense of the Malay Peninsula to China. The main force of the British army in Southeast Asia has been transferred to Ceylon, and the main force of the Far East Fleet has been transferred to Australia. Now only the Dutch East Indian army is still fighting stubbornly, but they are not opponents of the Japanese Red Army at all. It is estimated that the Japanese Red Army will be able to liberate most of the Dutch East Indies before the end of March."

The Kremlin in Moscow was still brightly lit. After learning that China, Britain and Germany had reached an agreement to divide the world, the atmosphere here became increasingly tense. Although the Red Army achieved a series of brilliant victories in 1933, liberated hundreds of millions of oppressed people, and planted the red flags throughout most of the Eurasian continent. However, on the most critical battlefields of Sino-Soviet and Soviet-Germany, the Soviet Red Army suffered consecutive setbacks. If it weren't for the contradictions between imperialist countries that restrained the power of Sino-Germany, the Red Army would have long lost its strategic initiative.

After meeting with Daraday in Constantinople, Trotsky inspected the Balkan Front and the Middle East Front to cheer for their subordinates. He returned to Moscow at the end of January and just returned to the International Proletarian Command of the Kremlin. Tukhachevsky came towards him and sent several documents to the revolutionary prophets. While leading the way to the conference room, he introduced the situation in a fast speed: "This is the news about the Italian GCD. Yesterday morning, the leader of the Spanish Spear Party, Derevilla, arrived in Rome secretly. The Italian Air Force Commander General Balbo personally went to the airport to greet him. Then the two held three-hour secret talks at the Venice Palace, the headquarters of the Italian fascist party, with unknown content.

This is a telegram from the Indian Front. Two days ago, the British Governor Thomas, met with Nehru, the chairman of the Indian Congress Party in Mumbai and proposed to jointly fight with the Indian National Army, promising that as long as the National Army agrees, the British side will provide equipment for 30 divisions. In addition, Thomas also told Nehru that China will soon send 10 expeditionary forces to India. Hope the National Army can cooperate.

Comrade Ubolevich sent a telegram from Baghdad that recently cult organizations in Iraq, Neizhi, Hanzhi and other places began to move again. The anti-espionage departments of the Middle East Army successively cracked several cult strongholds, and discovered through seized documents and interrogation of the cult leader. Caliph Hussein is inciting a new round of counter-revolutionary riots to cooperate with the British counterattack. By the way, GC International Headquarters also called just now, and Comrade Bai Luode, the General Secretary of the United States, proposed to visit Moscow as soon as possible."

Tukhachevsky flipped his mouth and introduced all the major events that had happened in the past week. After entering the combat command center, a group of Red Army officers stopped their work and saluted Trotsky. After the revolutionary prophet waved to everyone to continue working, he walked to the large map plate with Tukhachevsky, Skrynsky, Wenshlicht and Shaposhnikov who had been waiting here for a long time. Looking at the various small flags and military symbols covered with the map, Trotsky asked: "How is the Poland? The Germans did not have any abnormal movements, right?"

Shaposhnikov stood up and said, "In order to confuse the enemy, the Polish Front and Polish GCD have ordered martial law to be implemented throughout Poland. I believe that Germany has not discovered that we are evacuating Poland. However, Germany has recently implemented martial law in the region east of Berlin and Czechoslovakia, which is located in Germany. Our intelligence network has been severely damaged, and it is now difficult to detect the abnormal mobilization of the German army in time.

In addition, with the deepening of the evacuation and relocation work, many Polish cadres and masses have already noticed that some Poles are unwilling to leave their hometowns and follow the factory to Ukraine, while others are unwilling to stay and persist in the struggle. Now the hearts of Polish people are fluent. Although Bo G tried his best to appease, the results have been minimal. Comrade Rashevich is worried that the Polish Red Army will be affected sooner or later. He hopes to draw a group of fluent Polish-speaking political cadres from the Soviet Red Army and dispatch them to the Polish Red Army in the name of Polish political workers to strengthen political and ideological work."

"There are not many such cadres. If they are all sacrificed in Poland, it will be very unfavorable to the future counterattack." Wenshlicht, director of the Political Department of the Red Army, immediately objected. He was also the leader of the Trotsky Jewish Gang, but he was not a Russian Jew but a Polish Jew. He was also the boss of the "Polish Gang" in the Soviet GCD. Most of the political cadres who could speak Polish were members of the Polish Gang. If they were all sacrificed in Poland, he would be naked.

"This is not a big problem. Although we want to give up Poland temporarily, we will not give up Polish comrades, nor will we treat the Polish Red Army as artillery fire. The General Staff has formulated a complete plan to ensure that most Polish Red Army safely transfer to Ukraine and Belarus when Germany attacks." Tukhachevsky waved his hand and said, looking at the large "red area" on the map and said: "What is most worrying now is that the fall of Poland will cause some negative emotions in other countries liberated by the Soviet Red Army and the Soviet Union. Do you want to... block the news, anyway, the fall of Poland will definitely be temporary."

"I agree with Tukhachevsky's opinion."

Before Trotsky could speak, Skrynsky, who was standing next to him, made a speech first: "Now the world revolution has affected a wide range of areas, and there are many countries and nations that have been liberated by us. Everyone's morale is very high, so we should find a way to maintain it."

When Trotsky heard this, he felt a little embarrassed: "This may be a certain difficulty. Now the imperialism of China, Britain and Germany has been temporarily united, so the temporary low point of the revolution is inevitable... Poland is probably not the first area to be abandoned. We can't hide all setbacks, right?" He smiled bitterly: "None of them, China, Britain and Germany have concealed the heavy damage that capitalism has suffered in India, the Middle East, the Balkans, the Northern Europe, the South China Sea and other regions, and their citizens seem to have no mental breakdown. Can we not compare to capitalism on this issue? The Soviet people who have been educated by our party for many years are not as strong as the people of those imperialist countries?"

This statement is very inappropriate. It seems that there are signs of confusing world revolution and imperialist wars, but from Trotsky's mouth, no one dares to point it out.

Trotsky did not realize his fault. Instead, he continued to say solemnly: "Comrades, in the past year and over the past year, our world revolution has achieved great results. The red flag has almost penetrated half of the world, and more than 400 million oppressed people have gained new life. This is an amazing achievement. However... imperialism has not completely collapsed and is facing the fate of destruction. The final struggle and counterattack of imperialism will soon begin! And our revolutionary progressive forces, because the continuous attacks in 1932 and 1933 have exhausted energy, now we must temporarily turn to defense. In the next year to one and a half years, we must consume the enemy's vitality in defense and accumulate new offensive momentum. Before the final victory of the world revolution, we may have to go through several rounds of such offensive and defensive transformations to finally penetrate the red flag!

...Although the final victory must belong to us, the road to victory must be difficult and tortuous. Comrades. I hope you can do your best to fight and use your wisdom and strength to bring happiness to the working people all over the world!"

The revolutionary prophet glanced at Wenshlicht: "Comrade Director of the Political Department, please write down my speech just now and convey it to all the Red Army soldiers! I believe that after they know the difficulties faced by the world revolution, they will be able to exert their full potential to win!"

Trotsky showed a tired expression and smiled at several senior Red Army officials: "I only slept less than 10 hours in the past week, and now I want to have a good sleep. The road to revolution is still long. If I always don't have a good rest, I'm afraid I won't be able to support the day when the red flag is planted all over the world." As he said that, he strode away from the combat command center.

Looking at the tired back of the leader, a bit of ominousness appeared in the hearts of Vatedius, Tukhachevsky and others. The Soviet Union and the Soviet Red Army seemed to be like the prophet himself. The continuous combat and offensive had exhausted their strength, and what they needed most now was rest. However, the power of imperialist China and imperialist Germany has been growing over the past year and has now reached its peak! Their counterattack is about to begin soon, and the initiative of war is about to be easily defended.

The attack on Nordic and the meeting with French Prime Minister Daraday were Trotsky's last two efforts to seize the initiative in the war.

Unfortunately, the Soviet army's attack in Northern Europe had an unexpected reverse effect, which not only did not scare Sweden, but also promoted the precise unity between Britain, Germany and China. The indecisive Frenchmen did not realize the upcoming danger and gave up the opportunity to defeat the historical enemy in vain. So now the only way out before the Soviet Union is to defend, but the battlefield to defend is too large and wide. From the Arctic Circle to the Indian Ocean, from the Polish-German border to the Far East, there are eight major battlefields distributed on the land that spans tens of thousands of miles. Even if the Red Army's books are as many as 20 million (including the Red Army or People's Army of the Soviet Union, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Finland, India, Persia and other countries), it seems a bit stretched after being scattered to eight battlefields.

Moreover, war does not only require people, but also requires the consumption of massive supplies and weapons and ammunition. According to the information mastered by the Soviet Union, a German armored division consumes more than 180 tons of materials per day, a German armored grenade division consumes 120 tons of materials per day, and a German infantry division also consumes at least 80 tons of materials. The Soviet army consumes slightly less than the German army, but maintains a Red Army Infantry Division/Cavalent Division in a normal day of combat

The required materials will not be less than 50 tons in any case. Now there are more than 800 infantry divisions/cavalry divisions under the Soviet Red Army. If they are all in wartime, they will consume at least 40,000 tons of materials every day. If the consumption of logistics transportation is taken into account, it may not be able to stop 80,000 tons... If such a war of attrition is maintained for one year, it will consume more than 28 million tons of materials, which will be a great test for the Soviet industrial and agricultural production!

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"Yu Xun, Youlin, what do you think? How much can the German Max Hoffman plan be calculated?"

Chang Ruiqing returned to Nanjing on February 5, 1934. As soon as he returned to his official residence, he didn't have time to rest and invited Chief of Staff Zhao Zhen and Commander-in-Chief of the Army Wu Shi to study the Max Hoffman plan he brought back from Germany.

"I think it's too risky," Fatty Zhao took a morning to roughly read the copy of Max Hoffmann's plan. "I didn't expect that the Germans would not learn from the lessons of the last World War and want to start a war on two fronts... This is really crazy. Although the German army is strong, the French army is not a vegetarian. France defeated Germany in the last World War. This time, even if it cannot win, it can delay the war for several years, so that Germany will temporarily be unable to launch a large-scale attack on the Soviet Union."

There was no Maginot line of defense in this time and space, but the French still joined forces with Belgium and the Netherlands to build a line of defense against the "Soviets". The Ardennes Forest area in southern Belgium seems to have weaknesses. However, the French armored troops are very powerful, with as many as 15 armored divisions. In addition to the French version of the hunter tank destroyer, the French also have several very good tanks, such as the 20-ton Somoan S35 tank and the B1bis heavy tank. Although the monthly tank production is only half that of Germany, most of Germany's power is restrained by the Soviet Union, while France can concentrate its efforts against Germany. As for Italy, the German's little accomplice, they can really ignore it directly, so Zhao Zhen didn't believe that Germany can defeat France quickly.

"So is it possible to achieve miraculous results through the Arden Forest sneak attack?" Chang Ruiqing asked again without hesitation.

"The effect of sneak attacks is hard to say," Wu Shi shook his head and said, "In the end, we have to decide the outcome through the main force's decisive battle, right? But I think the advantages of the Germans are still very obvious. Their armored forces have all passed the test of war and have an advantage over the new French recruits. Moreover, the strength of the Luftwaffe is too strong, with tens of thousands of combat aircraft, as well as excellent fighter jets and bombers such as bf109, bf110, ju87, ju88, he111, Folk D.21 and Folk D.25 (Fock Company's new product). In contrast, the French Air Force's strength is a bit weak, with only about 2,000 combat aircraft, and there are no outstanding dive bombers, and its tactical strike capabilities to the ground are limited. Judging from the experience of several major battles last year, air force has become increasingly effective on the battlefield, and sometimes even decisive, so I am optimistic about Germany!

And we can only be optimistic about Germany, otherwise what else can we do? Now Hitler is determined to fight France. By then, France and the Soviet Union will be allies, and we and France will be their natural enemies! If the battle between France and Germany is really endless, the Soviet Union will likely push the main force to the East to deal with us!

So I suggest that we will do our best to attack the Soviet Far East, Baikal and Central Asia, and it doesn’t matter if we attract the main force of the Soviet Red Army. We have logistical advantages in Baikal and Far East, and we are invincible. If we have trouble in Central Asia, we will give up foreign countries and retreat to the northern and southern borders. As long as we take over Baikal and Far East, we will still make a profit."

"Yu Xun's analysis makes sense. We only have one choice, which is to support Germany!" Chang Ruiqing yawned and said with a smile: "I have been busy studying Hoffman's plan these days, but I haven't even had a good sleep. Now I really can't stand it. Yu Xun, Youlin, you bring the copy of Hoffman's plan back to the General Staff to study it carefully. If the combat plan in 1934 should be adjusted, it may be adjusted. Maybe if it is fought this year, the overall situation of the world war will be decided!" (To be continued...)
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