Tune the Pacific

Chapter 877 I don't like to have a capricious red neighbor!

In the sound of squeaking brakes, high-pressure steam diffused from the bottom of the front of the car.

Golchak, dressed in casual clothes and just walked out of the carriage under the leadership of the staff, was attracted by the busy scene in the railway station.

He once came to the Far East before noon. At that time, it was still on the edge of civilization in the eyes of Europe. He was deeply impressed by the scene of braids on the street, but now, except for occasionally seeing some gowns and gowns from the crowd, it is basically gone.

In just over 20 years, how did Li Mo do it?

With a trace of longing, Golchak boarded the car that came to greet him. As the car entered Yanjing City, time and space seemed to freeze. Traditional Chinese-style buildings and wide new roads were interesting. Perhaps because of the National Day holiday, most of the shops on both sides were crowded with bustling crowds.

It makes him regret that due to the delay in the journey, he did not catch up with the victory parade the day before. It is said that Xinhua dispatched hundreds of fighters and tanks, and more than 10,000 fully armed soldiers participated in the parade.

The strength of Yanjing is what he is willing to see, because after more than two years of integration and consumption, Lenin's Soviet Red Army has initially gained the upper hand. The royal army he led has lost on all fronts, so he continues to have a strong backup.

However, will Li Mo help himself? What can you get and what do you need to pay for?

In the midst of uneasiness, the pick-up car soon arrived at the Xinhua Ministry of National Defense Building. Korchak was not surprised that the other party had received him with military etiquette, but was a little surprised by the scale and appearance of the building, and he did not understand why it was designed like this.

"Welcome, Admiral."

"Mr. Chief of Staff, nice to meet you." Chen Ping's unexpected welcome made Golchak a little flattered, but his uneasy heart was a little calm. At least from this point, it can be seen that Xinhua really does not want to see Lenin grow up.

Is it just that you still have chips now?

"General, this is our telegraph station. You can contact any regimental force here. Here it is." Along the way, the accompanying officers continued to introduce the facilities in the Ministry of Defense to Kolchak, which opened people's eyes, but made his heart more anxious. Judging from the things displayed in front of him, if he could really get the help of Xinhua, he might soon recover the decline.

"General, I heard that your situation is not very good at present, right?" Seeing the anxiety in the corners of Gorchak's eyes, Chen Ping didn't know what he was thinking and asked, "Is it true that your army has failed?"

"No, no." Golchak shook his hand repeatedly and stopped in front of a wide map: "At present, our army has gained a firm foothold in Yekaterinaburg and has opened up the Caspian Sea channel. General Denikin's troops are advancing westward in the Volga River and the Caucasus, forming an iron plier with us, and our supporters in the country began to increase, and many people began to oppose Lenin and the Soviets, forcing him to move to Moscow three months ago.

"Real way." Chen Ping smiled secretly. Obviously, Deng Nikin's contact with you was cut off by the Red Army led by Fu Longzhi. Instead, it was said that it had formed an iron pliers. It seemed that the handsome former Russian admiral was not thin-skinned.

Seeing Chen Ping looking at himself, Korchak also felt that his cheeks were a little hot. He just said that he just wanted not to let the other party see that he was defeated, so that he could get better assistance, but he forgot that it was not someone else standing in front of him, but the world's strongest army. He is also the most direct leader of this army. How can such a figure not know the situation in Russia?

Chen Ping did not expose Golchak. In fact, according to the continuous incoming information, this person is really good. He is not only erudite and talented, but also a general who really loves the country. The sentence "I don't serve this or that form of political axe, but for the motherland that I regard as above everything else." It has become the motto of real soldiers.

"General, to be clear, I am very willing to help you defeat Lenin, because we are different from them, and no one likes to be centralized." Just as Gorky's eyes began to brighten, Chen Ping turned around and lamented, "But I believe you also know that our country is currently in the process of disarmament. After several years of war, the country has been devastated. We need enough time to restore the economy and make people's lives better, so I think the parliament and the Prime Minister's office can't You can agree that we can go abroad to fight.

"But." Golchak squirmed his lips a few times, but he didn't know where to start, because most of what the other party said was true.

The huge disarmament plan promulgated by Xinhua not long ago even shocked Europe, because no one expected that Li Mo would do so hard. The total size of the army is 2.7 million, including the 200,000 National Guards similar to the reserve. The actual front-line combat troops are only 2.5 million, and then the basic logistics personnel are removed, that is to say, only about 2 million troops can be put into combat immediately.

For a huge country whose population has exceeded 500 million, the constitutionally demarcated territory (excluding Australia) has exceeded 21 million square kilometers, and the sea area is even more incalculable, everyone will think that the military strength is insufficient.

But Gorchak is very clear that in fact, there are not many areas where Xinhua needs heavy troops to be stationed. From the east of Xi'an to the Bering Sea, this area, which includes the Guanzhong Plain, Central and Eastern Siberia, Mongolia and the Yellow River Basin, and occupies one-third of the mainland area, has actually become a hinterland, one of which one of them Half of it is still no man's land, so there is no need for any army at all.

Although Australia is vast, as long as it can keep its navy strong, it will not be a big problem. What's more, the remaining British descendants there are less than 20,000, but tens of thousands of people arrive there from Xinhua every month.

After the surrender and weakening of the United States, the real danger is the complex ethnic South China Sea and the Indian Ocean, but there is no force that can shake Xinhua's rule in this region. The most dangerous India is caught in a civil war, so the second and third fleets of Xinhua based in the region, plus nearly 300,000 The army is stationed, and there are no waves.

As for funding, it is a ridiculous excuse.

The whole world knows that Xinhua has made crazy money in this war. Not to mention that all kinds of machinery and equipment moved back from the United States have been sold at a sky-high price in their country. The gold reserves of the United States and even Russia have been swallowed up by them, plus unimaginable post-war compensation, not to mention the recent sales of drugs. It's a huge profit to make a lot of money.

The most important thing is that Xinhua does not lack weapons and equipment that can be used directly. The retirement of a large number of soldiers also means that a large number of weapons are empty. In addition, if they are captured from the Allied countries, it is possible to make up 5 million rifles immediately!

So this is just Chen Ping's excuse, but the problem is that I really can't show any chips to attract the other party at present.

Seeing that Kor Chak was speechless, Chen Ping was even more confident and said, "General, with all due respect, the biggest problem of your army at present is not the combat effectiveness, nor the supply of supplies, nor the supporters, but the lack of a real leader!"

"Leader?" Golchak wondered from the bottom of his heart, didn't the Chief of General Staff hear that he had been elected as Russia's top executive? He hurriedly asked, "Mr. Chief of Staff, what do you mean?"

"It's very simple." Chen Ping waved and took a prepared document from the officer behind him, but he did not immediately hand it to Korchak, but suddenly asked, "Who is your army fighting for!"

"Fight for the country, fight to protect the property of the Russian people from infringement, for."

"But where is your country?!"

"Of course." Korchak was about to say that Russia was my country, but when he saw Chen Ping's smile on the corners of his mouth, he suddenly widened his eyes, and then he suddenly stepped back and shouted in horror, "What do you mean?"

"You need a real leader and a country!" Chen Ping handed the document to Golchak and said with a smile, "These are all yours, but only if you are a reading country!" -

In the beautiful Ryukyu Harbor, the bust brought by the war has gradually dissipated, and the sea once again shows its beautiful face.

Not long ago, the bay, which was crowded with all kinds of warships and cargo ships, became empty, and most of the roaring shipyards next to it also stopped work and entered the adjustment and rest period. The workers maintained a pair of machinery that had been fully loaded for several years. Because the military orders were basically gone, the civil orders were also due to a large number of military. Ship sales and hundreds of finished Xinhua ships entered the market and were temporarily full. In addition, all countries in the world were also in the post-war adjustment and recovery period. Last year, several major shipyards only received small orders from some South American countries, announcing that the shipbuilding industry had temporarily entered winter.

The dock is full of ships waiting to be dismantled or sent by the navy to clean up and maintain. Only the two docks on the far left are still flashing with electric flowers, and the jingling sound is endless.

The huge hull almost completely covers the platform, but if others see it, they will be surprised, because these two big guys who look like battleships have been disemboweled. Judging from the busy workers next to them, it should be some kind of major modification.

Li Mo, wearing a helmet, walked on the platform and looked at the two American New Mexico-class battleships that were being modified and captured from the Battle of Bermuda and the Chesapic Bay more than a year ago. He didn't know what he thought of, and his eyes burst into light from time to time.

"Hehe, you are really willing to convert an icebreaker with a battleship." Li Enfu smiled and climbed up the gangway with Li Mo, came to the flattened deck, and looked at the wide ship with a burst of laughter.

"What is there to be reluctant to do? It's a costless business. Besides, don't you think it's a pity that such a good warship has dismantled and sold scrap iron?

"It's a pity, but the battleship has been changed to an icebreaker, okay?"

"The battleship is naturally thick-skinned, strong in structure, huge in size, and high utilization in internal space. As long as the excess weight is removed, it can become a polar scientific investigation ship integrating warehouse, residence, scientific research and ice-breaking." Li Mo patted a few small stools next to the workers for temporary rest, motioned Li Enfu to sit down and continued, "But now only we can change it. After all, other countries do not have our power technology, and cannot produce the powerful power needed to break the ice."

"Even if the excess armor is removed and the weight is reduced, I'm afraid it won't be less than 25,000 tons. Such a large-level polar investigation ship, hehe, I guess it will make a storm again."

Li Mo also rubbed his hands and said with a smile, "Isn't it a lack of funds? I asked McKinson and others to estimate that the price of building a 10,000-ton ice-breaking scientific research and investigation ship is basically equivalent to building a Honolulu-class light cruiser. According to the needs of our three, it is equivalent to building four brand-new light cruisers. Now we just need to take The ready-made shells have been modified, and the price of all modifications is less than half of that of the new ship.

Besides, if we don't go to the scientific examination, sooner or later someone will go. It's better to seize the commanding heights first before everyone's attention to where, so that everyone can take the initiative when they sit down and talk in the future.

"Your Majesty, you are right. There is no problem in the far south. We have obtained most of the southern islands. In addition, with Mastania, a base near Australia, we should be able to break through. It is also just the right time to guide the domestic vision of science, the unknown world and the outside world, so that we can have more knowledge. The man took this road. Li Enfu said, "But it is not easy to walk in the north. The Bering Strait is impassable all year round, so we have to take a detour from the Atlantic Ocean, and our construction of our base in the far north is very slow. It is impossible to support such a large scientific research ship in a few years.

More importantly, Russia's current civil war is in full play, and the domestic situation is very complicated. It is impossible for us to get any help from them, so I'm afraid your dream will have to wait for a few years.

"I'm not afraid to wait, I'm afraid I won't do it." Li Mo read it gently, then turned his head and asked, "Golchak has arrived in Yanjing?"

"Arring, Chen Ping had a showdown with him two days ago and took him to see the Russian prince."

"It's a character."

Li Mo did not intersect with Korchak, and later generations only knew this person because he had seen a movie. The event led by him caused more than a million people to freeze to death on the journey. In the end, only more than 10,000 people arrived in the Far East, which can be called the most tragic retreat across the whole Siberia in human history. It is indeed I earned a lot of tears.

In addition to these, Korchak himself is a natural polar explorer, captain and naval commander. At this moment, Li Mo is thinking that he may be the best choice to command the future Xinhua polar expedition and scientific research ship.

Similarly, such a talented person is also very controversial. Even in the Soviet era, there was continuous news of reincaring him. The Wikipedia of later generations ended with this sentence: "politically innocent victims and idealistic patriots".

What impressed Li Mo most was the despair and helplessness that he stretched out to smoke before he was secretly executed by "Cika" and his last words.

"Why is there no trial!"

"Why is there no trial?" Li Mo gently said this sentence and erased the dust of history. This sentence may be the most shocking words. Only those who return to this era know that when all rights belong to the Soviets, it is not only the country, but also the law and morality that are trampled on!

You must not be next to such a country!

"Go and help him! I don't like having a capricious red neighbor!"

(to be continued)