Respectfully

Chapter 145

The Spring Festival in the sixth year of the Republic of China seemed more lively than ever.

On New Year's Eve, the sound of firecrackers in Guanbei City rang out.

Boss Wang, who opened the firecracker factory, has long been grinning from ear to ear. From a small workshop with only five or six workers, it has developed into the largest firecracker and fireworks factory in the six northern provinces in just a few months.At the beginning, the funds for the construction of the factory were obtained from mortgage loans from the official banks of the six northern provinces, and the cost was recovered in less than half a year. The old father who almost kicked him out of the house because he mortgaged his ancestral home, now also meets People said that his son was promising and the factory was running well, but he didn't look like he was chasing after Boss Wang and dancing with his cane.

In the Marshal's mansion, Li Jinyan ignited a big red kicker, which exploded twice, making people's ears buzzing, but it was extremely enjoyable.It seemed that all the depression and depression in the past year disappeared in the two explosions.

The fireworks in the middle of the courtyard made a booming sound, and colorful flower clusters bloomed in the air one after another. Lou Xiao and Li Jinyan stood side by side. The soldiers in uniform and the young men in long gowns seemed contradictory, but they seemed to be born to stand beside each other.

"Young commander, next year will be better, right?" Li Jinyan turned his head to the side, smiling with unconscious expectation.

"Yes." Young Marshal Lou stroked Li Jinyan's cheek with one hand, and slowly raised the corners of his lips, "I promise."

That smile was too sudden, Li Jinyan didn't come back to his senses until a firework exploded.

This is foul.

Li Sanshao pinched his ears quite uncomfortably, as if his ears had a fever...

President Lou Da and Mrs. Lou stayed in the capital, and there were only Young Marshal Lou and Li Jinyan at the New Year's Eve dinner table in the Marshal's mansion.

A large table of dishes is made according to the tastes of Young Marshal Lou and Li Jinyan, plus white and fat dumplings filled with three delicacies, a round belly, rich soup when bitten down, so delicious that people want to swallow their tongues go down.But it's delicious, but it's really big, and Li Jinyan burped after eating it in one plate, and had to end the battle early.Young Marshal Lou continued to take one bite at a time, without any intention of stopping his chopsticks.

When Marshal Lou was finally full, Li Jinyan's jaw dropped to the ground and he couldn't pick it up.

He knew that Young Marshal Lou could eat...a full five plates!This is still straight and flat, ordinary people should have been able to walk long ago, right?

After the New Year's Eve dinner, I returned to my room and began to watch the New Year.

The earth dragon was burning in the room, and it was warm. Li Jinyan was leaning against the bed, with a blanket on his lap, holding a German book in his hand, flipping through the pages.Second Sister Xu's talent for language deeply hit him, and with the example of Marshal Lou by his side, Li Sanshao learned from the painful experience and decided to learn foreign languages ​​with Second Sister Xu.

He is half-baked at English, and he doesn't have much interest in Russian or French. Spanish was taken as an elective in college, but he basically gave it back to the teacher after work.After much deliberation, Li Jinyan finally chose German.

After learning German, the next time Young Marshal Lou talks to Qiao Leshan, Ding Zhao, and the others, he won't lose his eyesight.

Li Sanshao is very motivated to study, and he has worked hard with his husband. In addition, there are many people around him who can speak German, so simple conversations are no longer a problem, but there is no way to improve reading and writing in a short period of time.

Li Jinyan sighed, closed the book, got up and walked to the table. Young Marshal Lou was doing a war game alone. A map of Europe was spread on the table. The map was not perfect, but several important cities and border fortresses were doing it. marked in detail.

After watching for a while, Li Jinyan could see that Marshal Lou was deducing the German-French war, from a military-level unit to a platoon. Even if Li Jinyan was only half-baked in strategy and military, he couldn't help but be attracted by the layout on the map.

"Young Marshal, do you think Germany can defeat France?"

"It's hard." His slender fingers slid across East Prussia, stopped at the border between Germany and Russia, and then returned to the preset German-French battlefields, Alsace and Lorraine.

His point of view is very clear. Once the war starts, Germany will face a two-front battle, and the probability of defeat is much higher than the possibility of victory.Unless Germany can end its war with France or Russia in the shortest possible time and concentrate its forces on another front, defeat will be doomed.

"The tradition of the Prussian army is to concentrate its forces and take the initiative to attack." Lou Xiao turned his head sideways and looked at Li Jinyan, who was resting on the table with one hand and looking down at the map. "Attacking and doing everything possible to win is the highest spirit of the German army."

Li Jinyan suddenly felt his throat a little dry.

The blitzkrieg of the German Third Reich should also have originated from this, right?This indomitable fighting spirit allowed the German army to sweep across Europe, but it was crushed in the two world wars.If we say that the defeat of World War I was due to the fact that Moltke changed Earl Schlieffen's battle plan without authorization, coupled with the German army's greedy advances, exposing the flanks, resulting in mobile warfare turning into trench warfare.A large part of Germany's defeat in the Soviet Union during World War II should have been dragged down by Soviet Russia's human sea tactics and vast territory.The most obvious sign is that the German soldiers fought less and less, while the Soviet army fought more and more. Often when a regiment was lost, a division would be rearmed immediately.Coupled with the harsh weather and poor logistical supplies, Stalingrad has become a nightmare for all German soldiers.

However, during World War I, Germany did not have the opportunity to invade Tsarist Russia. The war continued until 1917, when the February Revolution and the October Revolution broke out one after another, and the Tsar fell.The bourgeois provisional government, which advocated continuing to participate in the war, was replaced by the Bolsheviks, and Russia completely withdrew from the First World War.

Marshal Lou's war game is based entirely on his knowledge of Europe in this era and his inherent knowledge of military theory. He cannot predict what will happen in Russia in the future.Therefore, in his deduction process, Germany failed a full year earlier than in real history.

However, in any case, the defeat of Germany is in the interests of China, at least the 8000 million marks borrowed will not be repaid in real money.

"Young commander, if there is a war in Europe and there is another civil strife in Tsarist Russia, do you think we can take advantage of this opportunity?"

"for example?"

"Russian Concession, Mongolia, and Siberia." Li Jinyan's thoughts have been in his mind for a long time, but he has never had the opportunity to say them all. "If the Russian regime changes, we can immediately take back the concession and take the opportunity to enter Mongolia. As for In Siberia, we have to think of a way, but once Russia becomes chaotic, it will definitely not be stable in a short time."

If necessary, you can also make a fuss about the Tsar's family. In the early days of the establishment of the Soviet Russian regime, the domestic situation was not very stable. People in the regime, they once gathered a considerable force. At that time, Western countries such as Britain and France were almost on the side of the White Army.

The White Army tried to rescue the Tsar, but the Tsar's family disappeared first.If the White Army succeeds in rescuing one of the Tsar's children, will the Russian Civil War last longer?

Didn't Marshal Lou say that there are Chinese nails in the East Palace?

"Young Marshal, let's make a bet." Li Jinyan put his hands on the table, approached Lou Xiao, and said with a smile, "I bet the Tsar will fall before the end of the war."

"Oh."

"..." What kind of reaction is this?

"I see."

"……"that's it?

Li Sanshao was grinding his teeth angrily, but Young Master Lou slowly picked up a chess piece and landed it on the map.It's just that the pawn did not fall in France, but on the border between East Prussia and Russia.