69novels Chapter 399
Chapter 399
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: 2.592s Scan: 0.048sA black jeep stopped outside the presidential palace.
After verifying the identity information of the passengers in the car, several SS soldiers let them go and let them enter the presidential palace.
The passenger in the jeep was a young Asian face, or more accurately, an East Asian face.
This person was none other than Zhang Shaoshuai, who had just graduated from the Berlin Military Academy.
In June, Zhang Shaoshuai had just graduated from the military academy and was preparing to return to China, but his father’s order came from home, asking him not to rush back to China for the time being, but to stay here in Hans, and to find a way to meet with President Mainz.
Zhang Zuolin informed him of the situation in the northeast in a telegram. The Jiaoben people began to secretly send troops from their homeland to the Liaodong region. At the end of the Russo-Japanese War, the Guandong Province area of the Liaodong Peninsula was taken away by Jiaoben, and it became their concession.
The area of Guandong Province is not small, with a full 3,300 square kilometers.
After occupying this place, Jiaoben began to form a special army, which is the famous Guandong Army in later generations!
The original strength of the Guandong Army was not large.
There were only three divisions with about 100,000 people.
However, at the end of last year, Jiaoben quietly sent troops to the Guandong Province area.
By July 1926, the Japanese army in Guandong Province had increased to 5 divisions, including the 1st Division, the 8th Division, the 9th Division, the 10th Division, and the 1st Division.
These five divisions are all the most elite Type A divisions of the Japanese army. They are not only fully equipped with troops, but also well-equipped, with a large number of the latest advanced weapons of Jiaoben!
Jiaoben’s Type A division is similar to a full-staff division of Hans, with a strength of about 28,000 people, including 15,000-20,000 combatants. The rest are non-combatants such as division headquarters, brigade headquarters and logistics troops.
How strong the combat effectiveness of the Type A division is has long been proven in history, and the foot basin has placed five divisions here in Guandong Province at once. What exactly do they want to do? I’m afraid everyone knows Sima Zhao’s heart!
Zhang Zuolin is not a fool. He certainly saw that the foot basin people were thinking about their Northeast region, so he also began to prepare.
On the one hand, Zhang Zuolin was ready to ask Hans for help, and on the other hand, he was secretly dispatching troops back from the front battlefield to strengthen the defense of the Northeast.
For Zhang Zuolin, although it is important to compete with the direct warlords for the world, it is more important to keep his own nest. The three provinces in the east are the foundation for him to settle down, and the land outside the pass is the icing on the cake!
Without these embellishments, his loss will not be great. As long as his foundation is still there, he will be able to enter the pass sooner or later!
But if there is no foundation, then his 400,000 to 500,000 people will become rootless duckweed, which can be blown down by a gust of wind!
Young Marshal Zhang came here to ask Hans for help!
Of course, Zhang Shaoshuai was not clear about the attitude of the Hans people, so he was a little nervous, not knowing whether Hans would lend them a helping hand!
Zhang Shaoshuai had a special status. Although he was not the diplomatic ambassador of the Celestial Empire to Hans, he was the son of Zhang Zuolin and would be his successor in the future. So when Mainz learned that he wanted to see him, he did not refuse him.
“Hello, President Mainz, I am Zhang Shaoshuai, the son of Zhang Zuolin.……”
Zhang Shaoshuai looked a little restrained. After coming to Mainz’s office, he was a little restless and even stuttered when introducing himself.
This made Mainz very curious. He didn’t remember it like this.
A few years ago, when Mainz visited China, he had met Zhang Shaoshuai. At that time, this guy gave Mainz the impression that he was smart, had his own little thoughts, and had the spirit of a newborn calf not afraid of a tiger. After not seeing him for a few years, this guy actually changed his temper and became cautious. This made Mainz a little curious. What happened to him?
In fact, before the crisis in Northeast China, Zhang Shaoshuai’s personality had gradually changed.
It turned out that when he was in China, he was a dandy boy. There were people protecting him at home and people praising him around him. Naturally, he was fearless and didn’t care about anything.
After he went to study in Hans, all his privileges disappeared without a trace. Hans was not the Celestial Empire. In the Celestial Empire, he had the status of a rich and powerful son. With this status, he could do whatever he wanted. But in Hans, he was nothing. If he dared to be like the Celestial Empire, the Hans people would teach him a hard lesson!
As a result, in such an environment, Zhang Shaoshuai was forced to change many of his bad habits and became more independent and cautious.
Moreover, after broadening his horizons in Europe, he looked back at his former self and felt that he was extremely naive.
“I remember you!”
Mainz said with a smile. As soon as Zhang Shaoshuai opened his mouth, the atmosphere in the whole room was not right. He didn’t like this serious atmosphere, especially in such an occasion.
“”Ah? You, you still remember me?”
Hearing President Mainz’s words, Zhang Shaoshuai was extremely surprised!
He remembered Mainz because Mainz was Hans’ president. If it weren’t for this identity, he would have forgotten this matter completely!
But Mainz could remember him, which really shocked him!
President Mainz is a man of such status. He is busy with all kinds of affairs and has met countless people, most of whom are politicians and celebrities from various countries.
Among these people, he, Zhang Shaoshuai, can only be regarded as an unknown person and cannot be compared with those people at all.
Moreover, more than five years have passed since they met, and President Mainz can still remember what happened back then. This memory is really surprising!
“Of course, I still remember that you were calling me a brother at that time!”
Mainz said with a smile, but Zhang Shaoshuai on the opposite side stopped laughing immediately after hearing this.
He was scared and broke out in a cold sweat. He quickly stood up and explained:”I, I was young and ignorant at that time, and I didn’t know the severity of my words. I hope that you, the President, will be magnanimous and not vent your anger on my father because of this matter!”
Originally, Young Marshal Zhang didn’t remember this incident, but when Mainz mentioned it, he immediately remembered it.
He seemed to have really said such words back then, trying to use the brotherly attitude to let his father surpass Mainz in seniority, so that they could take the initiative in the arms negotiations!
At that time, Young Marshal Zhang might have thought that there was nothing wrong with doing so, but he never expected that Mainz, who was only the Minister of Defense at the time, would become Hans’s president. Now, the things he did at the beginning would leave a root of disaster for himself and Zhang Zuolin!
If President Mainz is a petty person, he will definitely take advantage of the issue this time, and he will not be able to expect his idea of seeking Hans’ help to come true!
At this moment, Hans’s assistance to the Celestial Empire is extremely important. Without Hans’s assistance, Zhang Zuolin would not be able to withstand the attack of the foot basin people. That’s why Young Marshal Zhang seemed so nervous when he heard Mainz’s words.
“Well, these are all small matters. I will not be angry with your father for this. Tell me, you are not here to chat with me or ask me something, right? My time is precious. If there is anything, it is better to speak quickly!”
Mainz looked at his watch. He was going to give Marshal Zhang fifteen minutes. If the other party couldn’t say anything that satisfied him within fifteen minutes, then he would be sorry!
The value of the Celestial Empire to Hans was not important. It was originally a pawn to contain the Russian bear, but the Russian bear directly abandoned the 1.5 million square kilometers of land that it had occupied from the Celestial Empire and shifted all its strategic focus to Europe, which greatly reduced the importance of the Celestial Empire!
Moreover, the minerals, oil and other resources that Mainz originally wanted to obtain from the Celestial Empire now have the Russian bear as a supplier, so there is no need to go to the Celestial Empire to buy them.
In this case, the only significance of the Celestial Empire to Hans is probably to contain the Foot Basin People! However
, the relationship between the Foot Basin People and Hans is neither good nor bad. The geographical location of the two countries determines that there is no fundamental conflict of interest between them, so the hostility between the two countries is relatively small!