In the Kremlin, a dark and very wide office was hung on the wall with a map of the Su-Po border. Stalin sat behind a painted desk and placed a pile of documents on a green tablecloth in front of him. An ashtray on the right hand of the great Bolshevik leader was filled with cigarette butts, indicating that he had worked here for a long time. He held a report in his left hand, which was sent by Ye Ruofu, the People's Commissar of the Internal Affairs, and the content was related to Tukhachevsky's "reactionary military route" and "reactionary royal line".

When Stalin's secretary invited Hesman and his adjutant, Lieutenant Colonel Hans Spidal, and Soviet Deputy People's Committee on Defense Tukhachevsky, he stood up, shook hands with them, and then silently made a gesture to ask them to sit down on the chair, looking at Hesman with inquiring eyes.

"Ludwig, let's talk about the aftermath. It's not easy to start a war, but it's even less easy to end the war."

Stalin has no objection to how to defeat Poland +3. As long as he can defeat it, he can do whatever he wants, even if "Black Plan" is fake, it doesn't matter.

But Stalin had an idea of ​​how to distribute the fruits of victory after defeating Poland.

"Comrade Stalin, I think the Treaty of Brest, which does not cede land and does not pay compensation, is the basis for maintaining friendship between the Soviet Union and Germany."

Hessman means to divide future borders according to the provisions of the Treaty of Brest. According to this treaty, Russia lost several provinces along the Baltic Sea coast and the Russian Polish Kingdom.

In addition, the so-called "Western Ukraine" is actually not the land of Tsarist Russia, and it has never been. Western Ukraine was Eastern Galicia of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and it belonged to Poland before Russia and Oppo divided up. Therefore, in the Treaty of Brest, it did not belong to the Soviet Union.

However, the Soviet Union has always described Western Ukraine as part of the right-bank Ukraine, calling it "lost land".

Stalin put the "small report" in his hand into the drawer. Tukhachevsky's mistake was serious and unforgivable. However, it is not the time to take him down. At least this month will not work. Negotiations with Hessman still require his professional knowledge.

"I noticed that you still want to retain the Polish nation-state," Stalin said carefully. "Is it necessary?"

Stalin means that Poland can be completely divided! In this way, Western Ukraine can be taken down. Western Ukraine is a Poland industrial and mining area with good coal mines and iron ore. Coal is a resource that the Soviet Union lacks relatively.

In addition, the geographical location of Western Ukraine is also very important. It was the gateway for the Soviet Union to westwardly into Central Europe, leading to Slovakia and Hungary.

“But Europe has about 25 million Polish people,” Hessman said. “It’s too much for us.”

Now the Polish Federation has a population of more than 50 million, including about 25 million Polish people, about 4 million Jews, and about 17 million Ukrainians. The Lithuanian people have more than 2 million, and the other ethnic groups have more than 1 million people. Most of the Polish people in the Polish Federation live in the western part of the Polish Federation. If you want to divide them up, these people will be trouble for Germany.

"Comrade Stalin, I also agree with the retention of Poland, which will help us reconcile with Britain and France after the war."

At this time, Tukhachevsky suddenly interjected and helped Hesman speak! Stalin tightened his brows. He knew what Polish nation-state could exist as a buffer state.

Although the Soviet Union and Germany were already neighboring countries after Germany merged with Baltic. However, the border between the two countries was not very long, and the eastern section of the border between the two countries also had Lake Pskov and a large area of ​​forest, which was not conducive to the passage of the army. Only the junction between Baltic and Lithuania and Belarus was more dangerous. However, the distance was not long, and a solid line of defense could be built to surround Belarus.

But if the Soviet Union and Germany completely divided Poland, the two countries would have a very long common border, especially in the southern border area of ​​Ukraine and Poland. The area was very flat, there was no danger, and it was very conducive to attack. Moreover, the people there... were absolutely not facing the Soviet Union. Because the people there had never been a Russian for a day. After the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the short-lived Western Ukraine People's Republic completed land reforms. The land was divided equally (land belonging to the Austrian aristocracy), and there was no class contradiction to exploit.

As for reconciliation with Britain and France, Stalin didn't take it much seriously. The Soviet Union and Germany had far surpassed Britain and France, so it was Britain and France that needed to seek peace, not the Soviet Union.

"If Poland becomes a buffer state," Stalin thought, "so how do we manage this country? Should we divide our respective jurisdictions?"

Tukhachevsky sighed softly when he heard this. Stalin was too greedy. Dividing Poland into two and under the jurisdiction of the Soviet Union and Germany would also lose its buffering effect, and the Soviet-level jurisdiction of the Polish region will sooner or later be incorporated into the Soviet Union.

"How about taking the Bouge River as the boundary?" Hessman said slowly.

He wanted to get Lviv (Lenberg), which originally belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which was a very rich area. It not only had a large fertile black soil belt, but also had abundant coal and iron resources. It was the heavy industry center of the Polish Federation.

"But we also want to get Lviv!" said Stalin.

"It belongs to the Austro-Hungarian Empire!" Hessman shook his head, "According to the Treaty of Brest, we should have the final say!"

Stalin's face turned gloomy and looked at Hessman coldly, "You have now had more than one million tons of steel (produced in 1936, including Austria and the Czech Republic). If you control Lenberg, you will soon be able to increase the steel output to 30 million tons, because there are good coal and iron ore there!

Last year, we only had 12 million tons of steel and only 116 million tons of coal, which puts our two countries in a state of excessive unevenness.”

Although the Soviet Union claimed to be the third in the industrial world, it was only claimed to surpass Britain in terms of heavy industry scale, which was a big difference compared to Germany. If we compare technology, the gap between the two countries would be even greater. This is also one of the reasons why the Soviet Union was beaten by Germany in the early Soviet-German War. The Soviet Union's industrial strength was no match for Germany before the war. Including European countries such as France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, the gap between the Soviet Union was even greater.

In addition, the Soviet heavy industry also had a shortage of coal shortage!

Although the Soviet Union was vast and had no shortage of resources. However, in the densely populated and convenient western regions, there was not much coal (mainly concentrated in Donesque in Eastern Ukraine), while Lviv, which currently belongs to Poland, has abundant coal resources.

"Whoever takes it first will be controlled," Hessman thought for a while and said. "Ukraine, Western Belarus on the right bank belongs to the Soviet Union, Lithuania, Danze and Danze corridors belong to Germany. The remaining territory of Poland will belong to the independent Republic of Poland, which will be jointly protected by the Soviet Union and Germany... As for the jurisdiction of both sides, in principle, first-hand, how about it?"

This seemed to be a relatively favorable solution for the Soviet Union! Because the Soviet Red Army could go down to the southwest of Lublin (northwest of Lviv) from their large stronghold on the Western Front, which could cut the Polish Federation into two sections, and also block the German route to Lviv from eastward.

Moreover, this march route is very flat and there are railway lines to be used. Apart from the Bug River and the Brest Fortress, there is no danger to stop the Red Army from advancing.

Stalin took out his pipe, opened a tin cigarette box, stuffed it with a tin, then wiped it with a fire, took a few puffs, then nodded slowly: "First take first, it sounds good...just that." He thought for a while and asked again. "So when are you going to start a war?"

"September 1939," said Hessman. "We need to prepare for another two years."

"Do you have to prepare for that long?" Stalin spitted out the cigarette, "If I remember correctly, you have been preparing for more than ten years."

"Yes, but it's not enough." Hessman shook his head, "first that there is not enough reserves of oil and non-ferrous metals. We now have only 16 million tons of oil, and hope it can reach 20 million tons in two years... This is the amount needed to maintain the two-year war."

Germany now has the same synthetic fuel production capacity as oil reserves. It is kept confidential, and even the Soviets did not know the situation of the former. So Hessmann deceived Stalin and said that Germany needs 10 million tons of oil a year.

"In addition, our weapons exposed many shortcomings in the Spanish war." Hessman smiled bitterly, "Our tanks cannot beat your T-26. It is estimated that they cannot beat Polish 7TP tanks. We need to wait for No. 3 and No. 4 to be put into production. Our aircraft... The B-109 is not ideal, and the Fokker D.31 is not as useful as expected. It needs to be improved or developed for a new aircraft, so it will take another two years to prepare."

The B-109b model sent to Spain now is the first air-optimized fighter with a large number of equipment for the troops after World War I. Naturally, it will not be in place in one step. There are many problems on the Spanish battlefield and it will take time to improve.

The problem with the Fokker company's d.31 is an air-cooled aircraft developed on the basis of the Fokker D.21. It uses a lot of new technologies and is equipped with a high-power air-cooled engine. It should be a very excellent fighter. However, its performance on the Spanish battlefield is not satisfactory, mainly because this fighter was positioned as a "multi-purpose aircraft" by Fokker company, and Fokker also wants to install the turbocharger on its fuselage in the future, so the aircraft is too large and too heavy.

The advantages of the high-horsepower engine are wasted by its own weight. In addition to the large load capacity, good dive performance, and relatively fast speed (not particularly fast), it does not have much advantage (but it is still enough to crush the Yi-15 and Yi-16 series).

Therefore, in late April this year, Hessman gave his brother-in-law Anthony Folk orders to immediately start designing an air-optimal fighter equipped with an air-cooled engine, which must be completed before the end of May 1939.

It is required to act as a carrier-based aircraft; it has excellent aerial combat performance; its practical altitude is 3,000 meters to 5,000 meters in hollow space; its flight time is more than 6 hours with a maximum range of more than 3,000 kilometers; its maximum speed (4,200 meters altitude) exceeds 550 kilometers.

Moreover, Hessman also suggested that Fokker Company could carry out technical cooperation with Mitsubishi, Japan, which has experience in manufacturing carrier aircraft, and can jointly develop... (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!