Gerhardt did not look for another opportunity to visit Federica or Yan Zhengqing. On the contrary, he took Franz to visit various academies in the imperial capital and factories. He called it "inspection."

"Franz, we need to understand how deeply China is involved with the United States. This determines the bargaining chips we trade with them." Gerhardt is not a fool, he knows that the United States and China have a lot of cooperation.

It even involves a series of military, chemical, smelting, etc. If the price offered by Germany is not enough, China will never give up on such cooperation.

"If we want to convince China, we need to know the American bargaining chips. Only by understanding the other party's cards can we play our cards well." After leaving the Imperial Capital Academy of Political Science and Law, Gerhard said to Franz beside him: "

I didn’t see any American professors in this college just now.”

"On the contrary, we met many American professors teaching courses in the Departments of Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, Science, Aviation, etc. at the Imperial Capital University." Gerhardt paused and said: "Franz

, do you know what this means?!"

Franz was stunned for a moment. He began to think that this was just a wandering trip. He did not think deeply. On the contrary, he felt that the exotic styles in the academy were even more attractive to him.

"This shows that although China is cooperating with the United States, it is still vigilant against the United States." Seeing that Franz could not answer, Gerhardt smiled bitterly: "The Imperial Capital Political and Law School, formerly the Political and Law School of the Three East Provinces. It is a special training

, a specialized college that trains internal government officials.”

"The lecturers at this college include current Prime Minister Yan Zhengqing, Chairman Lin Sen, Wu Hao, in charge of diplomacy, Transport Minister Chang Yinhuai, etc., and other current senior officials of the coalition government cabinet."

Franz took a deep breath. He now understood the reason why Gerhardt did this. They seemed to be visiting, but in fact they were observing how deeply the United States and China were involved in all aspects.

Judging from what they have learned so far, Americans have strong support for China in all aspects. In the factory, they can reach hundreds of American technical workers and engineers are helping with their work.

And in the academy, they can also see many Western faces serving as lecturers in chemistry, mechanical engineering, etc. But only in the government college dedicated to training Chinese officials, they cannot see anything

A western perspective.

This shows that the coalition government is still very vigilant about external forces entering their own circle of dominance. In other words, they are unwilling to have other forces interfere in their own country management circle.

"I think it's understandable that they do this. After all, they have just escaped from the warlord melee. They definitely don't want to fall into such a vicious circle again..." Gerhardt said to Franz in the car: "Actually everyone

I knew in my heart that the warlords at that time were all standing behind the forces of the nations.”

"To avoid this situation from happening again now, we have to solve it from the source. There is no foreign professor in the School of Political Science and Law to prevent this situation from happening..."

A few days after Gerhart and Franz arrived in the imperial capital, a large passenger plane slowly landed at Fengtian Airport. Then, the Prime Minister of the United Government, Yan Zhengqing and others smiled and took the guests on the plane together.

Special train to the imperial capital.

"Thank you Premier Yan for coming to greet us in person, and we are honored for this." Hull spoke first on the train, and he and Yan Zhengqing had met.

However, at that time, Yan Zhengqing was not the prime minister of the coalition government, but the headmaster of the three eastern provinces. Churchill looked at Yan Zhengqing curiously. It was the first time he met the prime minister of the coalition government.

On the plane to the Soviet Union, Hull had already told Churchill about the structure of the coalition government, the head and the decision-makers, especially the focus of Yan Zhengqing.

According to intelligence and personnel in China and the United States, Yan Zhengqing is undoubtedly the one who has the greatest dominance in the coalition government. Whether it is the commander-in-chief of the National Defense Forces or the chairman of the coalition government, most military and political opinions will question the prime minister.

The talent of this prime minister is beyond doubt. During the three eastern provinces, the Prime Minister laid the current stable structure of the coalition government. After the merger of the coalition government, in order to avoid the competition between various factions, it led to negligence in government and military affairs.

The Prime Minister worked hard to convince all parties to expand and introduce the government structure of the former three eastern provinces.

His efforts have finally achieved results. Although there have been some minor frictions and differences in government affairs connection and the arrangements of former government administrators since the establishment of the United Government, everyone's opinions will eventually reach an agreement under his matchmaking.

However, all this has never affected the structure and operation of the entire coalition government. It has to be said that this Prime Minister Yan Zhengqing has extremely high political skills and extremely firm political beliefs.

"Hahaha... Secretary Hull is polite. Prime Minister Churchill, this is our first meeting. Welcome to China." Yan Zhengqing still looked gentle and said to the two with a smile.

Stalin next to him chuckled and said to Yan Zhengqing: "Prime Minister Yan, we are all old friends, so I won't introduce you."

"We are indeed old friends, but I don't understand that the Soviet Union is in war now. The situation seems not good. Why does Chairman Stalin leave Moscow and come to China?!"

Yan Zhengqing asked knowingly. In fact, he wanted to see what Stalin's response was.

"There is no way... The Germans are too cunning. They suddenly started a war against us on the grounds of negotiations, causing heavy losses to our frontlines. In order to keep the war on, the Supreme Committee asked me to see if I could get some assistance...

…”

Stalin's laughter was not credible, but everyone surprisingly did not refute it. Everyone was talking and laughing. Yan Zhengqing had experience studying in Britain, the United States and Russia, whether it was London-style English or casual American English or

He can speak even in Russian.

The scene was not cold, but gradually became warm. Yan Zhengqing acted as Stalin's ground English translator from time to time. After all, although Stalin could speak some English, he was not very familiar with certain words.

Yan Zhengqing needs to help translate this.

Churchill also began to use his diplomatic means, constantly striking the current intentions of the National Defense Forces in his words. Of course, he would not clearly say that he wanted to know the coalition government's idea of ​​Germany coming to negotiate.

In this regard, Churchill was countless times more skilled than the later Iron Lady. Churchill was close to almost all the leaders of the Allied Powers during and before World War II.

Both the United States and the Soviet Union respected his opinions very much at that time. Stalin and Roosevelt even invited him several times in private and asked him about his views on the situation.

But the iron lady who came after Churchill had no such tricks. She was so tough that she could gain some strong gains when she encountered a small South American country like Argentina.

But when he met a "steel making company" that had ups and downs in the Great Hall of the People, the English iron lady could only kneel down before the Great Hall of the People.

The Iron Lady was very angry at the time and even wanted to do some tricks to a certain place behind her back. Unfortunately, the steelmaking company's words were very simple: if it was in chaos, we would take them back in advance.

In one sentence, the iron lady was letting the iron lady go to a standstill. The biggest difference between this iron lady and Churchill was that she never considered whether the other person was strong or weak.

Just sticking to your toughness. It seems that you think that toughness can resolve all disputes and let her get the result that you are satisfied with. But when this toughness encounters a steelmaking company, the Iron Lady realizes that her toughness is actually that way.

The powerlessness.

Perhaps she chose to forget that this "steelmaking company" had been wandering and surviving countless battles and fierce battles in her early years.

The country under which this "steelmaking company" manages is not a small country like Argentina.

"Jiuchi...boom!boom!boom..." At this time, the Soviet war continued, although the Japanese army was temporarily forced to renovate due to heavy losses.

However, after gaining huge advantages, Germany continued to launch strong attacks on the Soviet positions. Ground-air and air coordination and stationary and tank coordination were not only done by the Chinese National Defense Forces, but also by Germany.

Although the Soviet army had tried the cooperation between the stairs and air in the battlefield of civil war, the combat methods at that time were not mature. After Germany experienced a series of training on European battlefields, this coordinated combat method was already extremely mature.

With the support of powerful air superiority and ground tank troops, the German army easily tore up the Soviet position. Those fortifications and bunkers collapsed in front of the powerful mace-type heavy rocket-boosted bombs.

Marshal Tukhachevsky looked as if the blue arrows on the map pointed directly at Moscow without saying a word. He had shot six generals who had retreated from the front line, but this could not stop the Soviet army.

A retreat situation.

The German army's huge combat advantage of mechanized corps cannot be stopped by just some courage.

"Comrade Tukhachevsky, the Moscow call asked us to hold our position here. We must not let the German army cross over, and we must launch a fierce counterattack at the same time to eliminate the invading enemy. Otherwise, Leningrad will be...

"Don't I know the current situation?! But what do we use to stop the Germans now?!" Tukhachevsky roared angrily: "I have shot six generals. But the Germans are still there now.

Continuously expanding the front line. What do you think should you do?!"

The chief of staff closed the telegram and stood in the war room without saying a word. The Soviet army's current situation is extremely bad. The war has only been going on for ten days, and the German army has advanced nearly two hundred kilometers.

The Soviet Union lost 500 trains of arms, 800 various artillery pieces, more than 600 fighter jets and more than 300 tanks. At the same time, more than 300,000 Soviet troops became prisoners of the Germans.

"Marson! Something big happened. The German army is approaching the Dnieper Hydropower Station dam! Now they are only ten kilometers away from there. The dam garrison calls us urgently to ask what to do?!"

Tukhachevsky and his chief of staff changed suddenly, and they rushed to the map and looked carefully.

"The 14th Mechanized Force of the German Army and the Tank Army commanded by General Von Kleist. They want to seize the dam and cross the river! At the same time, they use the dam's hydropower system to complete power generation..."

"The only one who guards the dam is now the 157th Regiment of the People's Committee of the United Nations Internal Affairs. But just one regiment's strength is obviously not enough..." The Chief of Staff's words made Tukhachevsky's face look even more ugly.

"Order the troops to prepare explosives. If it reaches the last moment, then blow up the dam! You cannot leave it for the Germans to use, and you must never let the Germans march through it."

Suddenly, a Soviet general rushed in from outside and roared loudly: "Damn it! I absolutely disagree! Don't want to blow up this dam!!"

The general who rushed in was General Chulenev, the commander of the Southern Front of the Soviet Army. And the political commissar of the Army, General Zaporoz, was also the commander of the army.

"This is a major hydropower project built by the people of the whole country that has spent a lot of energy, sweat and even life. This is the pride of our Soviets. You can't just destroy it..."

Tukhachevsky glanced at the two of them coldly and said, "Do we want to watch the Germans occupy this place and use it to attack our motherland?"

"The Dnieper Hydropower Station Dam is not just a channel that allows troops to quickly pass through both sides of the Dnieper River. Its installed capacity reaches an average annual power generation of 3 billion kilowatts per hour, which is currently the largest hydropower station in the world."

"When it falls into the hands of the Germans, you know what it means..."

Qiulenev and Zaporozez clenched their fists and said nothing. They knew how difficult the dam was to be built at that time. The workers who participated in the construction of hydropower stations were better for cement in winter.

Fix or even stir in cement with your own feet.

This dam condenses the hope of the Soviet Union after the merger of civil war. But now, it must be destroyed. This is something that no one can accept...

"Comrade Chulenev, Comrade Zaporoz, we are only temporarily forced to leave it. But we will come back after all, and we will repair it..." Perhaps the words of the two generals, Tuhache

Vsky felt bad.

If it were not forbidden, he would not be willing to blow up the dam.

"And we are not fully blasting the dam. The guide bridge, the two dam bodies, the sluice gate and the guide bridge of the sluice gate are enough. We will create a gap of about 35 meters to ensure that the Germans have no choice.

Lishui Dam launched an attack on us and was unable to use the dam to generate electricity for the time being…”
Chapter completed!