afterglow

Chapter 306 Chapter [-] Draining from the bottom of the pan

"...the reconnaissance plane unit of the Seventh Bomber Detachment of the Air Force stationed in Fuyuan Prefecture has dispatched to search, and will send a small plane to pick it up after finding it, but if it is captured by the Russian army before then, it can only try to exchange. "

The Hall of Zhaoren was brightly lit, as bright as daylight. Zhou Changfeng took a report and read it quickly, and then put it on the imperial case.

Relatively speaking, this is a trivial matter, and it is impossible to ask the emperor to make a decision, so the specific instructions are already being implemented, and now I just inform Zhu Lingjing.

"If you can return safely, you can consider making a fuss about him. The success of this surprise attack... is very popular."

Zhou Changfeng nodded, "Indeed, this kind of thing is something common people like to hear."

"Happy to hear and happy to see" can actually be regarded as a derivative of "happy to hear and enjoy the Tao". The latter comes from Wang Shouren's article "Pu Cheng likes to hear and enjoys the Tao, and he cares about his virtues to inherit it", which is not abrupt.

"How is the army situation?" Zhu Lingjing asked, staring at the map.

Zhou Changfeng picked up the two-foot-long wooden baton, and clicked on the large-scale map hanging, "Because the air force was not present to cover, the 47th Division suffered a round of air raids, but the damage was not great. Everything was planned as usual. The basic strategic operation of frontal containment and two regiments flanking left and right."

"Can they guarantee victory?"

"Theoretically, it's entirely possible. Now that the enemy's air forces have suffered serious losses, it will take time to deploy reinforcements, so at least the enemy will be exposed to our air force for the whole day tomorrow. However, the governor's office judges that the enemy troops who cross the border will take advantage We retreated at night, so we are considering whether to make an organized cross-border attack."

Hearing this, Zhu Lingjing nodded thoughtfully and said: "It's all about chasing and intercepting, it's not rude to come and go, and it doesn't matter if you lack the results of annihilating the enemy."

Zhou Changfeng looked sideways at an attendant who was waiting for orders, and said, "Tell the governor's office to allow unlimited cross-border attacks."

In colloquial language, for the convenience of speaking, the four-character "Da Du Du Fu" is generally referred to as "Du Fu"; and "Military Department" actually refers to both the Da Du Du Fu and the Ministry of War, and is used to refer to the Ming military in general.

It must be explained that although the Ministry of War is an imperial government and belongs to the civilian government system, a considerable number of officials in the Ministry of War are hawks, and some even have the rank of military officer.

Zhu Lingjing walked slowly to the large map, "These Russians' greed for land is really incomprehensible, 'Siberia' is such a vast, bitter, cold and desolate land, and they have to hold on to it. In fact, they can support the vassals to manage it on their behalf." .”

"Your Majesty, they are trying to explore eastward for the sake of furs. It's too late to make money." Zhou Changfeng thought for a while, and then said: "At that time, mink furs were very valuable, and they were an important source of financial income for Russia."

In the 11th century, mink fur was a real currency in Europe. At that time, the Cossack expeditions captured all kinds of fur from the East and added a huge amount of funds to Tsarist Russia, which gradually increased to [-]% of the total fiscal revenue. many.

In this way, the huge profits brought by the exploration of the Far East greatly stimulated the Russians, so they gradually completed the conquest of Siberia. According to.

"I'm not talking about the past, I'm talking about the present."

"Uh... then it can only be said that I still have some thoughts, and those who eat it don't want to spit it out."

"So in the future, we must try to end his remnants." Zhu Lingjing stretched out her index finger and gestured on the map, "According to my father and the North Korean Central Committee, after Nanyang is stabilized, it is time to consider sending troops to Russia. The Yenisei River to Kanchar ( Kamchatka) to establish one or two small puppet states that cut off the two sides."

Sister, this is not to say that it can't be done, but the prerequisite is that the whole Nanyang must be dealt with.

God knows whether the British and the Americans are willing to make peace talks and recognize the ownership of Southeast Asia. If they insist on fighting, the magnificent Pacific War will last at least three to five years...

Zhou Changfeng hesitated to speak, and finally just nodded and said: "In the long run, it really should be like this."

Considering the difference in national power and the capacity constraints of the Siberia Railway, if Ming Dynasty went north wholeheartedly, Tsarist Russia would have no chance of keeping Siberia.

And as the Sakha, Chukotka, and Kamchatka regions were spun off and supported as vassal states, the local gold mines, lead mines, and coal mines would naturally be in their hands.

Zhu Lingjing changed the subject and asked, "How many battle results will the Ministry of War plan to announce?"

"Twenty bombers were destroyed, five were damaged; eight destroyers were destroyed, three were damaged; one of our own was injured, two were abandoned after running out of fuel, and no one was injured."

Life or death is uncertain after skydiving, so naturally it cannot be counted as life or death.

"it is good."

Exaggerating the results of great achievements to the outside world to encourage people is a common practice of all countries in the world. Of course, small exaggerations are good, and big exaggerations are harmful to the country.

After all, the battle report can deceive people, but the battle line will not.

The statistics of the number of annihilated enemies is quite interesting. It is well known that in ancient times, the number of beheadings was used as a rigid standard.

But in actual combat, the situation is complicated, there is no time to cut off the heads one by one, and the enemy will desperately snatch back the corpses of his comrades, so many times when hundreds of enemies are wiped out, there are only dozens of heads.

And this also increases the preciousness of the head, and it is even more valuable when defending Shuntian-"Be brave and be the first, get a thief or behead a level, and the military and civilian officials will be promoted to a small banner and a soldier."

But in modern times, this traditional way of recording merits was quickly submerged in the long river of history, and the statistics of the number of enemies wiped out became more and more interesting.

For example, after an infantry detachment captured the enemy's position, five corpses were found, but one of the soldiers' corpses could not be confirmed who killed it. Zhang San pointed and said that he killed it, and Li Si said that it was him who killed it. .

In this case, in order to take care of morale and avoid internal strife, the officer leading the team will often directly record 2 battle results, so he reports to his unit to annihilate 6 enemy troops.

But if the controversial corpse was an officer rather than a soldier, then it would not be so casual, but recorded as Zhang San and Li Si's cooperation to kill.

Another example is a mortar unit that detects that an enemy column is moving and opens fire to wipe out most of it.However, because the distance was too far to go to the scene to count, it was impossible to determine the number of enemies wiped out when reporting.

Mortar Squad: "At 6:20 a.m., the Ministry of Defense found a small group of enemy activities on Height 132, and immediately launched effective fire to wipe out most of them."

Command: "What is the total number of enemy troops? How many were killed or injured?"

Mortar Squad: "The distance is too far to count, but there were about [-] people by visual inspection, and I saw three light machine guns and one small barrel."

Headquarters: "Then we can only judge the results of the battle according to the usual practice. Three light machine guns and a small cannon barrel? More than 30 people? The small cannon barrel should be a 50mm ultra-light mortar, so this is estimated to be an infantry platoon. Then Take a look at the schedule, let’s say you killed 27 people.”

Check the enemy's establishment table, there are 39 infantry platoons in total, and most of them were wiped out, then it is 39×0.7≈26, so the reported number of wiped out is 27.

"By the way, swords are on the verge of breaking out in the west." Zhu Lingjing stretched out her hand and opened the drawer, and took out a reported report, "The new news from two hours ago was sent back by the Norwegian Legation."

Zhou Changfeng, who was somewhat puzzled, took a step forward, leaning over and getting closer to Yu An.

He quickly glanced at the report, first with a dignified expression, and then said helplessly: "The British are too eager and aggressive, which clearly shows that they are going to push them to a dead end."

Zhu Lingjing, with a calm expression, let out a "huh" and said calmly: "I just threatened Sweden a few days ago, and I am doing it again today. This strategy of strangulation is too urgent."

Today, the British government sent a note to the Norwegian government, demanding that Norway immediately ban any German ships from entering Norwegian waters.

And on the fourth day of October a few days ago, in the Faroe Islands north of the British Isles, a British Royal Navy fleet intercepted five Swedish ships-two freighters and three destroyers purchased from Italy. The relationship became tense in an instant.

The British side has been putting pressure on Sweden before, hoping that they will reduce their sales of iron ore to Germany, but the Swedes are also doing their best to mediate and try not to offend any party.

Obviously the British were very dissatisfied with this, so they took this "little reminder" to the Swedes.

Norway and Sweden, two unlucky small Nordic countries, with Britain on one side and Germany on the other, are not something they can afford. in cunning evasion.

Both ways?No, you must stand in line!

Germany's huge annual steel output of 2000 million tons is second only to the United States, which is extremely enviable. However, due to the lack of local mineral resources, it imports a large amount of iron ore every year-more than 1000 million tons from Sweden alone.

In addition to diplomatic pressure, the UK has also prepared stronger means. The cabinet is already considering sending the air force and navy to lay mines in the Norwegian waters, thereby cutting off Germany's iron ore import route from Sweden.

They are even considering forming an expeditionary force with France to land directly in Narvik, Norway, so that they can move eastward to occupy the large iron mines in northern Sweden.

"Your Majesty, is this news accurate?" Zhou Changfeng remembered that the Norwegian battle in history was like this, but he didn't expect things to develop like this.

"Basically, I'm sure that the informant who the Governor's Office said sent this message has been hiding for many years, and after that he has to return to China as soon as possible." Zhu Lingjing said.

Zhou Changfeng stared at the Scandinavian Peninsula on the world map, and sighed: "To be honest, sometimes I have to sigh for the abundance of martial arts of the British. They really dare to fight."

"The British usually do it when they say they are going. There are only a handful of countries in the world that have not been knocked down by them. Well, in this way, the situation is generally clear."

The British probably felt that there was no need to procrastinate any longer, and they tended to strike preemptively, so they pressed on every step of the way, and even planned to draw their salaries from the bottom of the pot. Now unless the Germans are shrinking their heads, they will definitely not be able to sit still.

The next day, October 10th, at 22:[-] am.

At 54°9' north latitude and 108°2' east longitude, the mountains on the northwest side of Beihai Lake are covered with sparse pine forests, and a figure is struggling to trek towards the southeast on the rugged hills.

As an Air Force Second Lieutenant of the No.11 Destroyer Detachment, Zhao Xuwu has always thought that he is just an ordinary member - the entrance examination is a C grade, and the grades in the flight school are mostly C grades (passing). Only a few subjects got second grades, and after officially serving in the military, there was also no outstanding performance.

This time it can be considered that one day he will finally be different from ordinary people-why is it abnormal?Unlucky!

Different from the normal clothes, the [-]-style summer flight suit he is wearing is actually a leather jacket, which is to keep warm from the cold; while the winter flight suit is thicker, a thick jacket with fleece.

After skydiving last night, he landed on the northwest side of Beihai Lake. In front of him was a part of the Chersky Mountains, and he could only reach the lake after climbing over mountains and mountains.

Naturally, it was impossible to go around. In that case, he would have to travel at least a hundred kilometers to the southwest.

Because the surrounding terrain was rough and there was no space for his own aircraft to take off and land, Zhao Xuwu decided to climb over the mountains with an altitude of nearly a thousand meters in front of him, and then try to get a small boat after passing, and then drive straight to the other side of the lake.

Obviously, he didn't want to sit and wait to die... or to say, to sit and wait to be captured. On the one hand, it would be disgraceful, and on the other hand, it would be difficult to keep his life safe.

Because of the high latitude, the daytime temperature here in October was only about 8°C, and it was as low as -5°C last night. Zhao Xuwu regretted it very much last night——I knew that I didn’t want to wear a summer flight suit for convenience. .

Fortunately, he built a bonfire and wrapped himself tightly with the silk parachute, so he didn't suffer from the cold.

In order to contain more calories while occupying the smallest space, the emergency food in the survival supply kit of the Ming army pilots is basically a piece of honey butterscotch and chocolate.

For the same 100 grams, toffee has about [-] calories, chocolate has about [-] calories, and white rice has only [-] calories.

But the result is that I don't feel full. Although I feel energetic after eating, my stomach is still empty.

He didn't eat dinner yesterday because he was on a mission, and he still didn't eat something to fill his stomach after a night. Now he feels his stomach hurts from hunger.

He really wanted to eat all the toffee and chocolate in one go to fill his stomach, but reason stopped the idea.

When he was resting beside a pine forest, his superior eyesight keenly captured the small abnormalities in the distance.

Zhao Xuwu picked up the binoculars and looked carefully, and couldn't help but beam with joy—it looked like a horse, with a slender head.

Oh!It's a deer, so it's God's blessing, right?

A few Siberian red deer became his prey, and Zhao Xuwu, driven by hunger, immediately drew his pistol, and then slowly groped towards it.

In order not to startle the snake, after getting closer, he lay down on the grass, and then slowly crawled over there...

Meanwhile, a few kilometers away.

More than a dozen Russian cavalry are advancing in a sparse formation, searching carefully.

After the Ust-Ilimsk No. [-] Field Airport was attacked by air yesterday, the ground personnel reported that a Ming army plane was injured. After searching this area this morning, two planes found the crashed Ming army plane.

What do you need to say?The pilot certainly couldn't get very far.

Just at this moment, a weak gunshot came from a distance, followed by a second and a third.

The cavalry were alert for a moment, and then smiled at each other.

"Sir, it should be over there."

"set off!"

　In the next chapter, I want to write, delete, and delete directly. I really want to write directly about Deshe, but... I don’t dare, so I can only use Chris’s perspective.

　　
　
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