When the news of the successful implementation of the beheading operation came from Russia, Chen Tian did not have any expression of joy on his face. Although this was an order signed by him personally, when things became reality, the feeling in his heart was still complicated.

"What did they see with their own eyes?"

"Your Majesty, according to the telegram sent by our people, that man will surely die!"

The answer to this question is the German intelligence chief Shiffert, who has been promoted to lieutenant general. The reason why this beheading operation was successful has a lot to do with the German intelligence network deployed in Russia.

"Oh, people can't escape death after all!" Chen Tian sighed inexplicably.

"Your Majesty, the news spreads very quickly. I guess all the important Russian generals have learned about this situation now! Next..." Shiffer respectfully made a request.

Chen Tian raised his head. At this time, he was no longer the emotional boy. His personal feelings were immediately put aside. The situation at this time could be said to have been planned for a long time, so he only thought for a moment, "In this way, our war with Russia will end soon! Let your people contact the Russian Marshal Sokolov and tell him that I am willing to make him the new Tsar, on the condition that the land we have occupied belongs to our Germany, plus Sea Cucumber and Sakhalin Island! As for whether the remaining land is monopolized by him or sharing it with the revolutionary party, it depends on his own ability!"

"As for your order! Your Majesty!" Shiffer bowed slightly.

Chen Tian nodded, "There are also Mikhar Vulov, Varadimi Petrov and others. I believe that these Russian generals with heavy troops will be interested in separating the side, so let us who are lurking around them convey our meaning!"

"Yes!" Shiffort bowed again.

"By the way, His Majesty William II's death should be almost full of clues!" Chen Tian said meaningfully.

"Yes, your majesty!" Shivert, "The people will soon remember this matter, and the clues will continue to the Far East!"

"Very good!" Chen Tian's left and right fingers crossed his fingers, "As long as the sea cucumber and Sakhalin Island are obtained, it will only take four months to prepare for the war in Xindi! General. You understand what I mean!"

"Yes, your majesty!" Shiffert answered unambiguously.

"Then you go busy! I want to rest for a while!" After explaining these things, Chen Tian looked a little tired. After a while, he sat on the sofa and fell asleep. He had a long dream, dreaming of his former hometown, dreaming of his former relatives and friends, dreaming of many...

Orenburg, Russia.

As the Russian army retreated step by step, the front-line command headquarters also retreated from Kiev to Smolensk and Moscow. It is currently temporarily retreating to Orenburg, located at the junction of the Samara River and the Ural River. From here, not far south is Kazakhstan, which is currently under the rule of the Tsarist Russian government, and it is also the "hard-hit area" for the active Russian revolutionary armed forces. Nearly two months have passed, Russia has mobilized more than 2 million reserves, but the Russian army is still unable to withstand the German attack on the front battlefield. The main reasons are, first, the harassment of the Russian revolutionary armed forces in the rear, and the fierce bombing of the German air and rapid advancement of the ground. Therefore, it was only a week after arriving in Orenburg. The generals and staff of the Russian General Command were preparing to continue to retreat eastward.

On July 21, news of the Queen's train accident came here at the first time, and its speed was no less than that of German special operations personnel who sent secret intelligence telegrams back to Berlin. As the location of the Russian Army's temporary command center, a large number of senior generals, including Russian commander Sokolov, gathered here on the same day. Although most of the generals in the Russian army are confidants of the Queen's territory, Marshal Sokolov did not dare to neglect at all. He hurriedly summoned generals at the level of major general or above.

In a conference room filled with a faint smell of wood, thirty-two Russian generals, mostly under fifty, sat with extremely serious expressions, and the atmosphere was a bit suffocating.

"Everyone tell me your opinion!" Sokolov took the lead in breaking the deadlock. He knew that everyone here had different ideas about such news. How will the situation in Russia develop? Although these generals with heavy troops cannot have absolute control, their decisions will largely influence the development of the situation.

"No matter what happens next, I think we should first block the news with all our might. In particular, we should not let the people and the Germans know!" The speaker was a middle-aged general with a very clean beard. His name was Mikharvulov. He was from a military family and had the qualifications of commanding the troops. He was no less than Sokolov, but he was far inferior to the former in terms of favored by the Queen.

"Block down news? Joke! That was originally done by the Russian Revolutionary Party and the Germans, how could they not know?" The one with a somewhat unkind attitude was another Russian Army General Alexander Berlisov. He was only 45 years old this year and was close friends with Sokolov. With this, he occupied the first quartermaster of the General Staff of the Army. He was not satisfied with his ability to command the battlefield.

"General Belisov is right, that must have been created by the Revolutionary Party and the Germans! It's so despicable!" The indignant person was Lieutenant General Alik Sezemokov, the commander of the newly formed 14th Army of the Russian army. Although his army had 15 divisions, 12 were reserve divisions that had been formed less than a month, and the personnel and equipment had not reached full capacity. There were three divisions of infantry divisions that were crippled by the German army and retreated from the front line to rest. These troops were gathered in Orsk, not far from Orenburg.

"Until there is enough evidence, this is just our speculation! Don't forget that the remnants of Fedrov and others are always thinking about avenging their masters!" General Villov refuted that Fedrov was a veteran of the former Tsarist Russian government, but he repeatedly interfered in the new Queen's policy due to his noble status. He was killed in the snowy night incident in 1919, but his party members are still active in recent years. Not only Fedrov, but Diana I, who insisted on governing the country with iron-blooded skills, cleaned up no less than a hundred former political and military officials. The most direct consequence of this policy is the hatred of the relatives and remnants of the victims. If the Queen and his confidants had not firmly grasped the Guards, they would have been assassinated by those opponents.

"General Villov, although your analysis makes sense, the enemy is currently in the face of the great enemy, and only those who assassinate the head of state will be those rebels who collude with foreign enemies! In any case, we must capture the explosives and announce the death of the queen. Let the military and civilians turn their anger into force to fight against Germany's aggression and revolutionary sabotage activities!"

After Sokolov finished saying these words, General Fuilov just curled his lips and did not express any comments, because the situation was very obvious, and more than half of the people here were Sokolov's supporters.

"The top priority is that I am afraid it is better to choose a suitable heir to ascend the throne as soon as possible to stabilize the overall situation!" Bolisov suggested.

Since Diana I and former Tsar Agreni had no children, the position of crown prince was originally served by Agreni's 16-year-old nephew Nikola Segov. Nikola's father served in Agreni's army and died gloriously while fighting the Russian Revolutionary Army. His mother also passed away soon after, and Nikola was appointed as the heir to the throne.

The generals surrendered to the queen's iron-blooded rule and wise skills, and were mediocre in their intelligence and always called Sokolov the uncle. Unfortunately, the little crown prince and the queen stayed in the same carriage when the explosion occurred, so naturally they could not escape this disaster. After the queen and the crown prince died together, a huge power hollow appeared in the supreme ruling class of Russia.

"This question..." Sokolov looked very embarrassed. Nicholas II and his family died in the Baltic Sea as early as 1914. Most of the royal members who accompanied him also suffered misfortune. Agreni was not originally a relative of the royal family, and after Diana I ascended the throne, he was even excluded from the power level. Therefore, there were no royal members who could take on great responsibilities at this time.

At this time, Zemokov stood up and said loudly: "I elect Marshal Sokolov! The Marshal is not only an unattainable meritorious service and pillar of the country, but also the "uncle" of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. It is most appropriate to take on this great task!"

There was a voice of approval immediately below. Only the generals including Villov looked serious.

"But next time, there is no royal blood relationship, and no permission from the late emperor..." Sokolov once again expressed his reluctance, but his face was filled with joy.

A lieutenant general who was obviously Sokolov's heart stood up 1 "Everyone, there is no more suitable candidate at this time! We must immediately elect the Marshal as the new emperor of the empire, and he will lead us to continue fighting against the Germans!"

There is another sound of praise below.

At this time, General Villov suddenly interrupted: "Since His Majesty is dead, the Germans' attack on Russia will not be true. We should ask the Germans to immediately cease to retreat, and then discuss the throne more safely!"

Zemokov, who was still standing, immediately refuted: "Armation and retreating? Ha! The general is probably confused! The Germans betrayed the promise of their allies and launched an attack, which indirectly killed our Queen. Even if the Germans were willing to withdraw their troops, we must not give up!"

Villov raised his head, "What is the general meant to continue fighting with the Germans?"

Zemokov clenched his fists, but he was reluctant to speak his stubborn words. Even the Russians with strong self-esteem had to admit at this time that the German army was too strong.

"It is impossible to compromise with the Germans!" Sokolov said in a voice that was octave higher than before, then looked around and signaled to Villov to sit down first. Then he said in a relatively low tone, "But we can use a temporary ceasefire to paralyze the Germans, and wait until our vitality recovers and completely eliminate the revived revolutionary party, and then fight the Germans to the death!"

"Okay! OK!" The generals applauded.

Villov and several others curled their lips again, with a disdainful expression.

Sokolov's words were passionate at this time, but when the Germans took the initiative to hand over the olive branch and promise, how many people could not be moved in the face of the huge temptation of power? After a secret talk with the German emperor's envoy, Sokolov did not immediately agree to the conditions offered by the Germans, but only asked the German army to stop the attack first and then hold more formal talks. During this period, he would strive to make the Russian navy loyal to him.

Under such circumstances, the German Supreme Command issued a temporary ceasefire order on July 24, and the front lines moved to defense on the spot, and seized time to rest and replenish logistics supplies. The bombing of the Luftwaffe in recent days was also stopped due to non-weather reasons for the first time.

Two days later, the German Emperor's plenipotentiary representative flew from Berlin to Moscow, and Sokolov also sent his confidants to Moscow. After preliminary formal contact, the German Emperor's plenipotentiary representative went to Orenburg to hold talks with Sokolov himself. Although both sides intend to truce, there are huge differences in the conditions for the truce. Sokolov proposed to form a non-imperial dictatorial government, and Germany must not interfere in this. Russia can cede part of the land in Belarus, Ukraine and the Caucasus region, rather than all the land currently occupied by the armies of Germany, Turkey and other countries. Sakhalin Island can be rented, but the sea cucumber power must be controlled by Russia.

The tug-of-war negotiations lasted until early August. Sokolov, who was a soldier, always insisted on his own conditions. At the same time, the negotiations between the German government and several other senior Russian generals made breakthroughs.

For the Russian supreme commander of the Far East, General Varadimpetro, Germany promised to support him in separating the land east of the Stanov Mountains and providing military and economic assistance to ensure that these lands are not threatened by the Japanese army, at the cost of Sakhal and the Marine Cucumbersport. For Mikhar Villov, the former commander of the Russian Central Army Group, Germany offered the condition that he would replace Sokolov as the commander of the Russian army, and supported Diana I's distant relative in Austria to become the new emperor of Tsarist Russia. After the event was completed, he would guarantee his status and wealth in Russia.

On August 5, the German representatives who went to Orenburg suddenly announced that the negotiations had failed. In the early morning of the next day, the German army launched a full-scale attack again. Although the Russian army also used this armistice period to redeploy, the German army on the front line was obviously more valuable supplements - the rest of soldiers, vehicle maintenance, fuel and ammunition, and a large number of support troops. More than 2.4 million soldiers from the three armies launched a tide of offensive with the cooperation of 4 armored troops, 12 independent armored divisions, and 17 air force gangs. How could the Russian army with the tide resist?

While the army launched a fierce attack, the main force of the German navy also launched a large-scale maritime offensive east of the Gulf of Finland. After clearing most of the mines, the German fleet, with the support of the air force, attacked the last fortress and military port of the Russian Baltic fleet, Kronstadt, located on the island of Kotlin at the eastern end of the Gulf of Finland. Most of the Russian fleet, together with the flagship "Nicholas I", was sunk, and the rest surrendered to the German army. At this point, only the three major fleets of Tsarist Russia were left with the Pacific Fleet, which was in danger of sea cucumbers.
Chapter completed!