69novels Chapter 689
Chapter 689
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Three days later, when Kuznetsov and others followed military attachés and journalists from other countries to the British Empire by plane, General Seckt also took a group of German officers to the Celestial Empire by plane from Turkey and the Russian Bear!
Hans’s relationship with the Russian Bear is not particularly bad now, so the exchange and transit of personnel are not a big problem, but weapons and equipment, mechanical equipment and the like cannot be easily passed through here. The Russian Bear is unlikely to approve it, and it is very likely to make a move on the way.
But it is definitely not possible not to provide support to the Celestial Empire, so Mainz plans to make a deal with the Russian Bear, selling several warships of the British Empire to the Russian Bear in exchange for the right to use the domestic railway transportation line of the Russian Bear!
At present, all the coastal areas of the Celestial Empire have been blocked. It is basically impossible to transport supplies from the sea. Moreover, the ships departing from Hans will be intercepted and attacked by the British on the way. The German army is very weak in the Asian Ocean area, and there are almost no warships operating here, but ships going to the Far East must pass through here, and they will be intercepted when passing through here!
As for entering the Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic Ocean through the Panama Canal, it is actually not possible, because the foot basin will also intercept any ship going to the Celestial Empire on the high seas!
So there are only two ways to reach the Celestial Empire. One is to borrow a road from the Russian Bear and go to the Celestial Empire by land. The other is to fly directly from Turkey to the border areas of the Celestial Empire. This air route must pass through the airspace of Persia. Persia obviously cannot stop and dare not stop the German army. So if the Russian Bear cuts off the land transportation line in the future, then the German army can try to use the air transportation line!
However, the transport capacity of air transport routes is much worse than that of land railway transportation, so taking advantage of the opportunity agreed by the bear this time, Mainz intends to support the Celestial Empire with the weapons and production equipment seized from the Benelux, Poland, Fairyland and even Gaul.
The task he gave to Seckt was to help the Celestial Empire establish a safe industrial base in the Xichuan area as the Celestial Empire’s own weapons production base to support the Celestial Empire’s war against Japan!
The Xichuan area is the hinterland of the Celestial Empire. It is surrounded by mountains, and only the middle area is a plain. It is very difficult for the enemy to fight here, so it is relatively safe. If the factory is built here, there is no need to worry about being invaded by the enemy in a short time!
Originally, the southwestern region of the Celestial Empire was also very safe. It is located on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, with a high altitude and a large number of tropical rainforests, so it is not suitable for the army to march. However, considering that the Sun Never Sets people may invade the Celestial Empire from the south, and the southwest region is a frontier area, once the war breaks out, the safety here is difficult to guarantee.
In addition, most of the southwest region is mountainous and forested, and the plain area is very small. It is not suitable for industrial development, but it is suitable for tourism. However, in this era, the people of the Celestial Empire have problems with food and clothing, so how can they have the energy to travel? Tourism is a privilege in peacetime and after economic development!
Seckt was thinking all the way: What is the real situation of the Celestial Empire?
As a country that has been pressed to the ground for hundreds of years since the Opium War, the Celestial Empire is a backward, poor and ignorant country in the eyes of Europeans. When it comes to the Celestial Empire, most Europeans don’t have any special impressions. Even if they do, most of them are not very good impressions, such as the Yellow Peril Theory created by William II.
Seckt is a soldier, and he has traveled to many countries and is well-informed, so he doesn’t have such a big prejudice in his heart.
Before he set off, Himmler gave him a lot of information about the domestic situation in the Celestial Empire. He kept reading these materials on the way to the flight. Although he had a little understanding of the country he was about to go to with these materials, it was definitely not enough!
The Celestial Empire has a very large area and a very large population. It is a place with a vast territory, a large population, and a peculiar culture, which is completely different from the European world.
For such a place, Seckt’s heart is full of curiosity!
His curiosity did not last long, and the plane soon landed in the southern Xinjiang of the Celestial Empire.
He was received by Sheng Shicai, a warlord in southern Xinjiang. This man has been operating in southern Xinjiang for a long time and is a local snake in southern Xinjiang.
Sheng Shicai’s original position was to be close to the bear, but after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he immediately responded to the call of the National Government, changed his flag, and joined the Anti-Japanese War!
Although the land in southern Xinjiang is barren and the population is sparse, Sheng Shicai is very attentive to the governance here. Under his management, the economy and materials in southern Xinjiang are abundant, and industrial development is orderly. It looks prosperous, which makes Seckt full of goodwill for this local warlord!
This person has some ability to achieve such results in such a place!
Sheng Shicai entertained Seckt for one night.
He originally planned to keep him for a few more days and try to get close to him to win Hans’ favor.
As a result, Seckt couldn’t wait any longer.
He couldn’t wait to rush to Jinling City, the capital of the Celestial Empire, to visit the ongoing Battle of Shanghai between the Celestial Empire and the Japanese army!
The Battle of Shanghai was the largest battle between the Celestial Empire and the Foot Basin after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War.
The total number of troops dispatched by both sides exceeded two million, most of which were the Celestial Empire’s troops.
Their total strength was close to 1.
2 million.
The Foot Basin’s army had 800,000 troops after all, which was much more than in history!
Because the war started ten years earlier, the weapons of the Japanese army were much behind compared to history, while the weapons of the Celestial Empire’s army had always been like this, without much change.
So when comparing the weapons and equipment of both sides, although the Japanese army still had an advantage, the advantage was not as great as it would be ten years later.
In addition, the Japanese army launched the war hastily because of the young and vigorous faction’s independence.
Their main divisions were fighting with the Northwest Army and the Northeast Army in the Northeast.
The troops participating in the Battle of Shanghai in the south were all new divisions hastily formed in 1927.
The training level of these divisions was insufficient, and the weapons and equipment were not complete, because the foot basin base camp was eager to occupy the fertile land in Jiangsu and Zhejiang of the Celestial Empire.
So they couldn’t wait for the army in the north to slowly advance from north to south, and they launched a landing war in the Songhu area impatiently, intending to occupy the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas in one breath.
In their view, the main fiscal revenue of the Celestial Empire came from the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions. If they occupied this place and cut off the source of tax revenue of the Celestial Empire, the Celestial Empire would be able to impoverish itself. Once their financial system collapsed, the Celestial Empire would not be able to continue to persist, and they could easily defeat the Celestial Empire!