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Of course, Comrade Stalin did not know that the Soviet Union was "in the process" of developing an atomic bomb!All he can think about now is the war in the Far East. In any case, he must eliminate the Tsarist Russian regime in Vladivostok before China, Germany, Poland and other imperialist countries complete their war preparations!And at any cost!

And the scientists in the Soviet Union don't have any intentions to do any research at all right now. Their most important job now is to convince those internal affairs personnel wearing blue hats that they are against Queen Anastasia!Thanks to Wang Zhongyi, a barbaric warlord, the Soviet Union is no longer suing... Both Trotsky and his son are dead, so what is there to sue?However, the work enthusiasm of the internal affairs staff is very high, and they quickly found a new focus of work - white guards!That is to say, Russians who can have a little relationship with the nobles, the White Army, the capitalists, the Mensheviks, and the Socialist Revolutionaries, and the Russian scientific community and universities are of course the hardest hit!

In a long, high-ceilinged, dimly lit room in the Kremlin, with a row of maps hanging on the wall, Stalin sat at the end of a painted conference table, a pile of papers on a green cloth in front of him.The ashtray in the hands of the tyrant is full of ashes, indicating that the Soviet investor has been working here for a long time.He was wearing a rough khaki uniform, baggy and baggy, and he looked tired.Sitting next to him was his secretary Pavlov, a thin, pale, dark-haired young man with an expression of cautious resignation.There was no one else in the big room.When the uniformed protocol officer invited in a Japanese man in a tuxedo, Stalin stood up, shook hands with them, silently and elegantly asked them to sit down in their chairs, and looked at the Japanese inquiringly. The emperor's secret envoy Matsuoka Yosuke.

Matsuoka handed him a letter and a heavy lead box wrapped in flannelette, and said in Russian: "Mr. Chairman, this is a letter from His Majesty the Emperor of my country, and there is also a very special 'gift'—— A small piece of uranium dioxide was extracted from uranium ore in the Kolyma Mountains in the Soviet Union." Stalin carefully opened the emperor's envelope with a paper knife.He took out the pale gold letter paper and handed it to Pavlov. Pavlov looked at it and told Stalin the general idea of ​​the letter in Russian.Just some ordinary greetings, and nonsense like wanting to deepen friendship with the Soviet Union, there is no content.

Stalin was a little disappointed, and went to open the lead box again.Matsuoka hurriedly said: "Wait a minute, Mr. Chairman, uranium is highly radioactive and is very harmful to the human body. You'd better not touch that thing, and give it to Soviet scientists to study."

Stalin turned the heavy lead pot in his hand and said: "Mr. Matsuoka, you just said that the uranium in it was mined from the territory of the Soviet Union? What use is this thing for you? And the secret between our two countries What does the negotiation have to do with it? Could it be that your country wants to continue to occupy that... uranium mine?"

Matsuoka Yosuke took out a list and a newly published "Pravda" from his leather bag, and handed them to Stalin, saying: "Mr. Chairman, to be honest, we in Japan don't know what uranium is used for." , but we know that the Chinese are obsessed with researching this kind of thing during this period, and have spent tens of millions of dollars customizing various machinery and equipment in Germany and the United States. There seems to be another one in western China A large secret factory related to this is being built. The Chinese military is interested in this thing, and we are sure they are working on some kind of secret weapon! And this newspaper I bought on the way here has a Jewish female scientist A research institute led by Lise Meitner discovered three isotopes of uranium! This Jewish female scientist and some other Jewish scientists from Germany are now working for the Chinese! Their research projects are probably also related to uranium. We believe that this information must be brought to the attention of both of us..."

Unexpectedly, before he could finish his sentence, Stalin let out a short, piercing laugh, and then quickly spoke in Russian to Matsuoka Yosuke: "What do you want to say? The Chinese are researching an unknown secret weapon Just them!? And even if it is, what does it matter to us? I don’t understand why you came to Moscow? Want to jointly develop secret weapons with the USSR? If you withdraw your troops from USSR territory, then we will start Joint research and development, even if the Soviet Union has to bear all the research funds, it doesn't matter! But now... our two countries are still at war, do you think it is appropriate to discuss such an issue?"

Chapter 0683 The Open Secret ([-]) Stalin's Collaboration

Matsuoka Yosuke shook his head and said: "Mr. Chairman, I think you should remember that the Soviet Union made a request for peace talks with the Empire of Japan, right? It is the Soviet Union that is in danger now, and the secret weapon that the Chinese are researching is also to be used. Against the Soviet Red Army!"

Stalin handed the lead jar to Pavlov for safekeeping, then slowly took out a carved pipe from his pocket, filled it with shredded tobacco, lit it with a thick match, and exhaled a mouthful of fragrant blue smoke.After a moment of silence like contemplation, he turned to Yosuke Matsuoka with a reserved and ruthless gaze: "I have recently received a lot of reports about the construction of China's heavy industry. In 1932 they produced 360 million tons of steel! This year it is estimated that More than 400 million tons, and it will be able to catch up with the Soviet Union by 1936 at the latest...How many tons of steel do you Japan have? 200 million tons! Just 200 million tons! And there is no large-scale expansion plan, that is to say By 1936 China will have three times as much steel as Japan, and by 38 it will be four times as much as Japan! And China's population will be almost seven times that of Japan... If the Far East does not have the power of the Soviet Union, what will you do with it? What about maintaining a balance with China? Even if you got the entire Far East from the Soviet Union, the Chinese can take it away with their absolute superiority! In the end you will get nothing! Even North Korea may lose, and now North Korea seems to be Is there an armed force backed by the Chinese operating? I don’t quite understand what you think in Japan. Under such an extremely dangerous situation, our two countries should join forces quickly.”

Matsuoka Yosuke nodded: "In fact, I came here for this matter." He took out another document from his purse and put it in front of Stalin: "The empire wants North Sakhalin Island (Beiku Page Island), land south of the Amur River and east of the Ussuri River.”

Stalin pushed away the material Matsuoka Yosuke put in front of him with the back of his hand: "Okay, I agree! Then can we sign the Soviet-Japanese Covenant immediately?"

Matsuoka Yosuke looked at Stalin with some surprise eyes. He never thought that the other party would be so forthright and agree to cede 20 square kilometers of fertile territory!As for the question of signing the "Soviet-Japanese Covenant" raised by the other party, he was also unexpected.In fact, the Japanese government did not seriously consider the issue of peace talks with Stalin. It was only because the Soviet Union sent a secret envoy that they sent Matsuoka to Moscow with the mentality of giving it a try.And what Japan wants is nothing more than a "secret truce" with the Soviet army on the front line of Ussuriysk, and the request for land south of the Amur River is nothing more than a sky-high asking price.As for the piece of uranium oxide, Nagata Tieshan entrusted him to take it to Moscow and hand it over to Stalin to test whether he could work with the Soviet Union to study the issue of using uranium to make weapons... During this period of time, China's large investment has already made Nagata Tieshan and Some high-ranking Japanese army felt that things were strange.

After a moment of silence, Matsuoka Yosuke said: "Mr. Chairman, can I understand your words as if Japan forms an alliance with the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union will cede the south of the Amur River and Northern Huatai Island to Japan?"

Stalin nodded and said with a smile: "Your understanding is correct, I think this condition is not too much, right? If Japan is not interested in this condition, the Soviet Union can still consider a compromise with China, although we can give more for this. Interests!"

Yosuke Matsuoka frowned, as if thinking hard: "If that's the case... then the Japanese Empire can only express regret, because the bottom line that Japan can accept is to maintain neutrality between China and the Soviet Union."

Hearing the words "maintain neutrality", Stalin thought for a while, and finally nodded heavily: "Okay! Mr. Special Envoy, the Soviet Union can accept this condition, but what method are you going to use to force the Chinese troops there to leave there? What? If the Soviet Red Army is now withdrawing to the north bank of the Amur River, Mr. Special Envoy, who do you think will control that territory? The Chinese or you Japanese? You are not so naive as to think that a treaty with the Soviet Union will allow The 10,000+ Chinese troops and the 20 Belarusian troops are obediently withdrawing from the Far East, right?"

"This is a problem of the Great Japanese Empire, and you don't need to worry about it, Mr. Chairman." Matsuoka Yosuke suppressed the excitement in his heart, and replied lightly: "I don't think the Chinese want to go to war against the Soviet Union and Japan at the same time, right?"

Stalin picked up his pipe, smoked silently for a while, and said: "Exchange nearly 20 square kilometers of land for Japan's neutrality, and you can't guarantee the withdrawal of the Chinese and White Russian troops from there... The Soviet Union is not on such a condition." Unacceptable, but we also have to make an additional condition, you must first eliminate Queen Anastasia! The Soviet Union exchanged 20 square kilometers of land for a woman's life. I don't think Japan will refuse this condition again, right? "

Yosuke Matsuoka hesitated for a while: "It is not difficult for Japan to eliminate Anastasia, but the British will not agree to it. Mr. Chairman, we cannot offend Britain now."

There was a dark and excited look in Stalin's eyes: "Well, you should understand that there are many ways to kill a person, and it is not necessary to let the whole world know who did it. Pushing it on others, I think you Japanese should understand this kind of thing, right?" After speaking, he began to smoke silently again.

Yosuke Matsuoka said seriously: "Mr. Chairman, I understand what you mean. I will convey your request to the Prime Minister. I believe there will be a satisfactory answer in the end. But the research on uranium..."

Stalin shrugged his shoulders and said with a smile: "I will let the scientists of the Academy of Sciences come to discuss this issue with you. Maybe we can also establish several secret laboratories to study together. In addition, please convey my respect to the emperor of your country. Greetings, I hope our two countries can end this damn war as soon as possible."

As soon as Matsuoka Yosuke left, Chicherin, the People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union, and Molotov, Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, hurried in.

"Comrade Stalin! I just got the news that Germany has announced to rearm and send troops to the Rhineland Demilitarized Zone!" Chicherin waved the yellow telegram in his hand, with a dignified look on his face.

"What about France and Belgium? Have they mobilized?" Stalin frowned, a bad premonition welling up in his heart.

"No response." Molotov was still calm. He shook his head: "The French didn't even fart! Let alone Belgium, they also acquiesced in Hitler's actions."

"That's for him to attack the Soviet Union! Germany is the biggest threat to the Soviet Union." Stalin quickly came to a conclusion.He knew very well in his heart that only Germany in this world could truly threaten the survival of the Soviet Union!Compared with the powerful Germany, China and Poland are basically backward agricultural countries, and Poland is too small, and China is too far away from the core territory of the Soviet Union. At most, they will grab some territory in the eastern part of the Soviet Union.

"Comrade Stalin." Chicherin took out a silk handkerchief and wiped the cold sweat from his brow: "We must try to prevent China, Germany, and Poland from going to war against the Soviet Union at the same time! Then we will be attacked by the enemy, and we will fight on two fronts." The diplomat His voice was a little trembling, and he cleared his throat: "We should try to break up this alliance, and we must not let them unite!"

"Dismantle their alliance?" Stalin thought for a while: "I know this too, but what should we do? Give them back the land they took from China from Tsarist Russia..." Then he shook his head: "No! No, the Chinese will still take advantage of it.”

"Poland!" Molotov sneered and took a step forward: "Only by trying to dismantle the Polish-German alliance, we can give Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia to Poland! I can go to Warsaw and persuade Piłsudski to accept this plan .”

"Give these three countries to Poland...Will Poland be too powerful?" Stalin hesitated a little.

Molotov smiled: "A strong Poland will allow the Soviet Union and Germany to establish a deep friendship, so that the Soviet Union can concentrate on dealing with the threat of China and Japan."

Stalin sneered and said: "It is not to deal with China and Japan, but to unite with Japan to deal with China! A country like Poland cannot fight Germany for too long. At most ten years, Poland will be annexed by Germany, maybe we can also Take back the three Baltic countries, West Belarus and West Ukraine...but before that, we must solve the threat of Chinese imperialism! Otherwise, the Soviet Union will still suffer from the enemy."

"Deal with Chinese imperialism? But they are very powerful, we..." Chicherin hesitated.

Stalin looked up at Molotov: "Has the CCP delegation arrived in Moscow? Have you talked to them?"

"Zhou Enlai of the CCP has brought a delegation to Moscow, but we haven't met him yet according to your instructions."

"This is very good," said Stalin, "leave them alone for a few days, and they will know their worth. You can go to see them now, and discuss with them the issue of the Soviet Union's support for the Chinese revolution. Tell them that the Communist International I appreciate the act of sending volunteers to help the Soviet Union, and the Communist International will increase its assistance to the CCP after the war in the Far East is over. As long as China can fall into civil war, everything will be fine..."

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While Yosuke Matsuoka continued his secret diplomacy in Moscow, the Russian army's offensive in Amursk had been going on for three full days, but it still hadn't broken through the Red Army's position, but the front-line defenders were already at the end of their battles.Unlike the battlefield dominated by heavy firearms on the front line of Ussuriysk, due to the inconvenient transportation in Amursk, both sides can only transport light artillery to the front line, and there is not much ammunition, so the battle is mainly carried out by infantry. There are also German planes flying from Nikolaevsk and the support of Japanese gunboats. However, due to the lack of coordination and cooperation of ground forces, the results achieved are not too great. The entire battle still relies on artillery bombardment and infantry The charge proceeded slowly.

On the south bank of the Amur River, on a high ground east of the city of Amursk, the front-line command post of the Russian Army's Amur Front is located here.General Denikin, the commander-in-chief of the Russian army, had been commanding remotely from the headquarters in Vladivostok.Every day he is only busy with meeting the Belarusian nobles who came from Europe and the United States, or discussing the battle situation on the map with the military advisers sent by Britain and France.After the general offensive was launched, it was only under the strict order of Empress Anastasia that she came to the front line to command.In the binoculars, watching the not-so-tragedy offensive and defensive battle going on here.

"General Rakovsky, how long will it take us to take Amursk? Her Majesty ordered us to end the battle here as soon as possible." Putting down the binoculars in his hand, Denikin was obviously a little impatient. He also didn't trust the generals that Ji's subordinates took refuge in.

Rakovsky was watching the battle on the opposite side with red eyes, and in the middle he loudly issued orders to the phone and the orderly to strengthen the attack and consolidate the breakthrough.Driven groups of former Trotskyist Red Army officers and soldiers to fight to the death with Stalin's Red Army, and finally they both turned into piles of corpses. This army was almost built by him. The establishment was wiped out during the attack!

The same bowed his head to answer Commander-in-Chief Denikin's question: "Because the Red Army used floating mines on the Amur River, which affected the logistics line, our army was short of supplies, ammunition, and heavy firearms. Attack the enemy's field fortifications. So it will take some time... Please tell Your Majesty the commander-in-chief, and ask her to wait patiently for the good news from the front line. According to reliable information, the Red Army on the opposite side has only 10 people, which is not as strong as ours, and there is no air force Advantages and surface ships, so failure is inevitable. The key now is to contain the main force of the Red Army on the front line of Ussuriysk and prevent them from splitting up reinforcements. In addition, what is needed is patience, and slowly consume the strength of the opponent until they finally collapse. "

Denikin blinked and looked at this subordinate who was already a little out of shape, and sighed leisurely: "I'm afraid there is no hope in Ussuriysk. The Chinese and Japanese are not working hard now, but The Russian fighters coming from all over the world still need to be trained, at least they won’t be able to use them until this autumn! This battle to restore the country depends on our efforts and God’s blessing!”

After hearing Denikin's words, Rakovsky could only smile wryly and shook his head. He, an atheist, now has to rely on the blessing of God to fight the war!But without relying on God, how could a behemoth like the Soviet Union be shaken by its own side, the hundreds of thousands of Russian troops?Is it really going to rely on China and Japan, two malicious allies?

"Commander-in-Chief, as long as Ussuriysk's reinforcements are not available, we can continue to fight Amursk, but what happens after it is defeated? Moscow's reinforcements will arrive sooner or later, and the Chinese Communist Party's troops...they It will also come, and we still have no way to hold Amursk by then. Therefore, I suggest that the troops should be withdrawn to Nikolayevsk, and then dig trenches there to cover North Sakhalin. Think about it next spring Find a way to attack!" In Rakovsky's words, there was no hope for the future, and it was a bit of a day-to-day meaning.

Denikin smiled silently and nodded slightly: "General, we still have time. We can defeat the Red Army on the opposite side first, and then consider withdrawing to Nikolayevsk for the winter."

Rakovsky shook his head, and wanted to say something more, when the roar outside started again.A puff of smoke rose from the northwest, where the Russians had several powerful batteries.The mountain artillery was fired as densely as the machine gun, and the shells fell on the Red Army positions one after another. Soldiers were constantly hit by shrapnel and died in the trenches.The artillery fire of the Red Army's counterattack also started almost at the same time. These 76.2mm and 122mm artillery shells created a wall of fire between the positions of the two armies, knocking down the Russian officers and soldiers rushing under the artillery fire one by one.At this moment, dozens of belated German planes roared over the battlefield, and a string of bombs were dropped behind the Red Army's positions. At every place that seemed to be an artillery position, the Red Army's artillery fire suddenly became sparse. Quite a lot.There were bursts of "Ula" sounds, and another full-line assault by the Russian army began!

At this moment, on the other side of the battlefield, in the headquarters of the Soviet Red Army's Far East Red Banner Special Army in the city of Amursk, more than a dozen officers were discussing in low voices around the map.You can tell from their uniforms and appearances that most of these people are senior officers of the Chinese People's Volunteers.Among these officers are Zhang Xueliang, Political Commissar of the Volunteer Army, Peng Dehuai, Commander of the Volunteer Army, and Liu Bocheng, Chief of Staff of the Volunteer Army.They arrived with the first advance team to enter the Soviet Union, and are now inspecting the battlefield on the Amur River front.

On the map table lay a huge map of the Amur Valley.It has been densely covered with markings.Several thick attacking arrows representing the White Army are carefully depicted on the map.All the arrows point to the same place - the important town on the Amur River, Amursk!In this time and space, Komsomolsk-on-Amur did not appear, so in the middle reaches of the Amur River, Amursk is the most important city and stronghold.If the Belarusian army can capture Amursk before winter comes, then the Red Army can only return to Khabarovsk for the winter.The task of reinforcing Amursk is now handed over to the volunteers.

Hearing the rumble of cannons outside, Peng Dehuai snorted, and poked Nikolaevsk on the map with his thick fingers: "It sounds like the firepower of the White Russian army is far inferior to that of the Chinese emperors and Japanese soldiers in Shuangchengzi." God, it seems that it is restricted by the logistics line. Temple Street (Nikolayevsk) is hundreds of kilometers away from here by water, and there are no roads and railways. Now the Soviet Red Army has released floating mines on the Amur River. Their logistics line It's not very smooth anymore. It seems that we won't have a big problem in our first match abroad."

Chapter 0684 The Open Secret ([-]) Swinging Poland

Located in the center of Vladivostok, the Pacific Hotel is a three-storey building with a brown-red building body, Chinese architectural style, Dangui green tiles, painted buildings with cornices, and stacked bucket arches.The oriental classical charm is everywhere, and this hotel is also the only newly built large building in Vladivostok in the past two years.

The hotel is the property of the Pacific Trading Company controlled by the Military Intelligence Service of the Wehrmacht, and of course it is a secret stronghold of the Military Intelligence Service in Vladivostok.Apart from wealthy merchants who travel to and from Vladivostok for trade, those staying here are representatives of envoys from various countries, dignitaries in the city of Vladivostok, and senior generals of the National Defense Forces who come to Vladivostok for official business. Ordinary Vladivostok citizens will not patronize here.

On the first floor of the hotel, the Xianlemen Ballroom with a sprung floor of [-] square meters is a place frequented by high-ranking people in Vladivostok, wealthy businessmen, nobles and high-ranking officials of the Romanov dynasty. It is said that even Empress Anastasia once After some disguise, I came here to show off my dance moves.

And on this night, when the offensive and defensive battle of Amursk was at its most intense, Empress Anastasia I of Russia publicly held a grand banquet here to entertain Luo Yaoguo, Chief of the General Staff of the Chinese National Defense Force who was visiting again. marshal.After the banquet, Luo Yaoguo and the Russian empress, surrounded by all the guests, walked into the ballroom next to the restaurant to participate in a palace ball prepared for him by Her Majesty the empress.

Accompanied by the wonderful waltz music, couples of male and female guests danced lightly on the dance floor.

Luo Yaoguo and Empress Anastasia were sitting in a teahouse in the corner of the ballroom, under the guard of a few extremely capable officers in the uniform of the National Defense Forces, tasting Heinkel champagne from Germany.