The Fourth Outstanding Person of Huangpu Military Academy

The currency currently in circulation in Guangdong is the same as that in the rest of the country, physical silver dollars.

However, in recent years, the price of silver has been sluggish, and it can even be said that the overall trend is downward, and the exchange rate of silver dollars against gold and the British pound has been falling.

A falling exchange rate is good for exports... No way. This isn't paper money, where you can control the circulation and change the exchange rate. This is physical precious metal. If the price of silver falls, you're the one who loses.

Mao Runmin felt that the previously planned timetable for the introduction of banknotes was too slow and needed to be accelerated, otherwise the losses would continue.

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After writing a reply and handing it to Wang Ruofei, Chen Tianheng asked, "Both the Air Force Academy and the Furunzhi Military Academy will start classes in about a month. What are the current arrangements at Furunzhi?"

"No rush, no rush," Wang Ruofei said, "It's only been a few days since you had the operation.

Chen Tianheng: "Hey, you may not believe it, but I can get out of bed and walk within three days.

This is absolutely true. Chen Tianheng himself feels that the speed of his body's recovery is too amazing.

"Director Wang, the Frunze Military Academy's Advanced Command Class, which is the class I was assigned to, is just a refresher course for division commanders to corps commanders."

Wang Ruofei: “It seems so.

Chen Tianheng: "The Frunze Military Academy has a Senior Staff Institute. The staff there... are considered graduate students, along with some officers from the Soviet General Staff. They delve into more complex topics at Frunze. Could you please mention to the Soviet comrades that I hope to contact this Senior Staff Institute so that we can exchange and learn from each other... Well, you're wrong. Tell them that they shouldn't say that, and that we should humbly learn from them."

Wang Ruofei: "I will tell this to the Soviet comrades. But is the success rate high? Sorry, I don't know much about this Advanced Staff Research Institute you just mentioned.

Chen Tianheng: "It's not easy to convince them. But you can take one thing with you. Feng Dafei, help me open that bag. There's a travel guide inside. Yes, tear off the second page of the map of the Soviet Union."

Chen Tianheng was half lying on the bed, drawing on the 16-page map of the Soviet Union with red and blue pens.

The first stroke was a long blue arrow, drawn from Poland to Moscow. Then three arrows, from Estonia, the sea off Leningrad, and Finland, pointed towards Leningrad and the heart of the Soviet Union.

Romania, a blue arrow pointing to Ukraine

A blue arrow appeared out of nowhere in the center of the Black Sea, pointing to the Crimean Peninsula.

An arrow appeared out of thin air from the Indian Ocean, entered the Persian Gulf, and arrived in Iran. Then two arrows were drawn in Iran, one pointing to the Caucasus Peninsula and the other pointing to Turkmenistan.

At the northernmost end, Chen Tianheng drew another arrow, which appeared out of thin air from the sea and pointed to Murmansk.

Wang Ruofei: "Wow, is this a map of the Soviet Union being invaded?

"The Second Intervention War.

Chen Tianheng continued to draw arrows while explaining.

The Soviet Civil War and the concurrent interventionist wars were of immense scale, consuming resources and financial resources comparable to the European wars in which Tsarist Russia participated. They also resulted in enormous casualties, leaving an indelible impression on the Soviet military and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

"After the end of the Civil War and the establishment of the Soviet Union, how to respond to a 'Second Intervention War' has always been their most important large-scale war preparatory research topic in the daily research and simulations of the Soviet Army and the Soviet General Staff."

"Or to put it more bluntly, this was the lingering nightmare of the Soviet General Staff."

"Predicting the enemy's strength is a principle the General Staff must adhere to when studying war. Therefore, many of the conditions in the Second Intervention War were extremely harsh, but from a certain perspective, they were also completely reasonable.

"The attackers were still the major capitalist countries, but compared to 1919, there was one more: Germany, which had recovered from the war.

"These countries are no longer sending small-scale troops to harass and shallowly occupy the Soviet border areas. Instead, they should consider the worst-case scenario, sending a large number of main forces deep into Soviet territory with the goal of occupying Moscow.

The attacking countries were not in a state where they had just finished the European war and were in a state of financial tightness and exhausted military. Instead, they had a long time to accumulate strength and accumulate military equipment and ammunition.

Chen Tianheng finished painting the European and Central Asian parts, and then painted three Wenyun in China, namely Xinjiang, Outer Mongolia and Northeast China.

Then, an arrow was drawn from the Sea of ​​Japan pointing directly to Vladivostok.

Wang Ruofei: "China's question marks... Yeah, I get it, I understand. There are three question marks here. If they become three arrows, then the situation in the Soviet Union will be even worse.

"What if these three question marks, instead of turning into three arrows, turned into a defensive line?"

Chen Tianheng threw down his blue pen and used a red pen to draw the defender's defense line or defense point. However, he did not draw the red defense line in China as previously mentioned, and the three question marks remained.

After finishing the drawing, I wrote a sentence in Russian on this tourist map:

I hope we can work together to study and solve this problem. Chen.

Wang Ruofei: "Take this and tell their people?

Chen Tianheng: “Yes.

A week later, a visitor came to the hospital

"Hello, Comrade Shaposhnikov.

Chen Tianheng greeted him while half lying on the bed.

Boris Mikhailovich Shaposhnikov is currently the commander of the Moscow Military District and a professor at the Frunze Military Academy.

If history had not been unexpected, he would have been the next president of the Frunze Military Academy and Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Army. He served as Chief of the General Staff for the third time during the Great Patriotic War. His health collapsed after one year in office, and he died of overwork in 1945.

"Comrade Chen, this tourist map of yours is meaningless.

Shaposhnikov took out the map, held it between two fingers and shook it:

"The research being conducted by the Soviet General Staff and the Frunze Military Academy is far more complex than this. Military affairs are a science, and staff work is a complex science, not a work of art."

Chen Tianheng: "Indeed, these are just a few random lines drawn. However, my work in China is similar. We also face this problem. Of course, we are not facing this tourist map, but a similar military crisis in China. Comrade Shaposhnikov, when considering the military crisis in our country, I certainly need to use science."

Shaposhnikov: "Comrade Chen, do you wish to join the Institute of Advanced General Staff and help us plan the Second Anti-Intervention War?"

Chen Tianheng shook his head: "I hope that I can learn how to deduce similar military crises in China at the Frunze Military Academy and put the combat plan into practice when the crisis becomes a reality.

"Oh, that's not for me to decide. According to the order, it seems that you should study in the advanced command class of the Frunze Military Academy.

Chen Tianheng: "Then I will apply to be your assistant and intern at the Advanced Staff Research Institute.

Shaposhnikov: "G41

Chen Tianheng just had a harmless smile on his face. After all, he was born in the 00s and Shaposhnikov was born in the 80s, so there was nothing to be embarrassed about.

Shaposhnikov: "I heard that you served as an army commander during the Chinese Civil War.

Chen Tianheng: "Yes. However, in the last anti-encirclement and suppression campaign, I served as the temporary commander of a force in one direction, including two armies and two brigades.

"Temporary command." Shaposhnikov asked: "If I'm not mistaken, they are all infantry corps and infantry brigades, right?"

Chen Tianheng: "Of course. The terrain in southern China is not suitable for large-scale use of cavalry."

"I don't think there are any heavy artillery with a caliber of more than 100 mm. Neither side of the war has any.

"We didn't do that during this anti-encirclement and suppression campaign, but we did engage in battles during the Northern Expedition against enemy forces equipped with 150mm heavy artillery and tanks," Chen Tianheng said. "And our infantry corps won."

Chen Tianheng was stubborn, and Shaposhnikov had nothing to say. He paced around the ward for a while, then stopped at the window.

"I'll just draw a few lines for you about China's global military crisis. Perhaps you Chinese soldiers think that the wars of 1900 and 1860 are an expanded version of this global military crisis. A Chinese comrade mentioned this in an article published in Pravda recently. But I don't think so. Your global military crisis is Japan sending troops from Korea and quickly occupying Manchuria.

Chen Tianheng narrowed his eyes. Lao Sha has quite a good eye.

"Comrade Shaposhnikov, this is exactly the kind of military crisis we're considering. In reality, Japan doesn't need to send troops from Korea, or even all of its troops from Korea. Japan already has troops stationed in Northeast China, Beijing, and Tianjin, and the number of those stationed is considerable."

"I told you I was just drawing a few random lines," Shaposhnikov said, "just like you drew a few random lines for us.

Chen Tianheng: "But we have to consider more things, just like you considered the second intervention war. The security issues of Northeast China and Pingjin, the direction of the Japanese ground forces' advance, the Japanese navy's attack on the southeast coast and amphibious warfare, and so on.

Shaposhnikov: “As far as I know, China’s southeastern coast is the inherent scope of Anglo-American law.

Chen Tianheng: "What if Japan intends to have a complete showdown with Britain, the United States, France and the Netherlands?

"It's us that Japan wants to confront. They tried it in 1919, and they'll do it again. Are you saying that Japan will simultaneously think about military expansion in Northeast Asia and attack the British, American, and French colonies in China and Southeast Asia?"

Chen Tianheng: "Why not?

"This..." Shaposhnikov thought for a moment, "You're right! This is a possibility that must be considered."

Chen Tianheng: "If my estimate is correct, you are also considering that Poland is planning to invade the Soviet Union and Germany at the same time."

"Ha, ha, ha..." Shaposhnikov said, "If this were to happen in reality, we'd be taking it too easy. The most severe version of the future isn't like this."

Chen Tianheng: "So, Shaposhnikov, intern, deal?"

Chapter 4: Moscow Social Terrorists

“Hello, students.

Senior combat instructor Pokrovsky spoke. Squad leader Mikhail Kirponos shouted:

"Stand up! Attention! Salute!"

Chen Tianheng stood up and saluted Pokrovsky.

There were no other classmates around Chen Tianheng.

Yes, there were two of us in the class during the first period of the combat science class.

The Frunze Military Academy's Advanced Command Class wasn't a junior military academy, with classes of 1 to 12 people. It was a refresher course for brigade and division commanders. The Soviet Army only had about a hundred field divisions and brigades, and not all of them needed training at Frunze (during this period, the Soviet Army was undergoing periodic downsizing during peacetime, and some brigade commanders remained in their positions for as long as 10 years). Even if they did need to attend Frunze, they had to arrange their schedules based on troop rotations, so they could find time between January and December.

Mikhail Kirponos is currently Chen Tianheng's only classmate

Before the Great Patriotic War, this old man was promoted to General and served as the commander of the Southwestern Front. After the Kiev Encirclement, his troops were surrounded by German troops. During the breakout, Kirponos personally blew up a tank and was killed on September 20, 1941.

Two days later, during the second period of the battle study, there was a new student in the class: Alexander Lokdinov, who had hurriedly arrived in Frunze the day before.

This old man was also a general when the Great Patriotic War broke out. He was shot by Stalin on October 28, 1941.

It turns out that both of these classmates died young.

…….Exploring the basic principles of a combined campaign is a simple but not worry-free task.

"Simplicity refers to its basic goals and principles: flexible maneuvering to eliminate the enemy and preserve oneself. It's also not worry-free, as its organization and planning require a great deal of meticulous work. The planning, organization, coordination, and implementation of a campaign require the collaboration of multiple people and even multiple departments."

"In joint campaign studies, we mentioned the possible roles of the navy and air force in battles. This is also true in advanced campaign studies. However, we will learn about this in the next class.

"The course is over. Do you have any questions before get out of class ends?"

Pokrovsky looked around the spacious classroom, his eyes fixed on the three students sitting in front of him.

There are only three students in a class. It is very uncomfortable that we can neither slack off nor whisper to each other.

Chen Tianheng stood up and said: "Comrade Instructor Pokrovsky, I am a student from China and I have just arrived in Moscow.

Pokrovsky: "Oh, so you are a Chinese comrade. I was wondering if your face is different from those from Siberia and Buryatia."

Chen Tianheng: "Comrade instructor, when I arrived here, I noticed that there were many restaurants on the street just after I turned left from the main gate of the academy. So I wanted to ask you which restaurant has the most authentic steak?

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Chen Tianheng: "Come, for the Soviets!

Ding Ding

Lokdinov: "For the revolutionary cause of our Chinese comrades!

"Ding"

Instructor Pokrovsky: "Sympathy to Comrade Blucher, who is working in China!"

Ding Ding

When four people drink, they always find a reason to clink their glasses three times in a row.

"General Galen's greatest hardship wasn't Chiang Kai-shek's betrayal," Chen Tianheng said. "It's hard to imagine, but after only three months working in Guangzhou, he developed eczema on his left shoulder and neck—red, peeling patches of skin. He applied sulfur ointment, and to maintain his image, General Galen wore a scarf around his neck. Remember, this was in 31 degrees Celsius."

Kirponos: "Thirty-one degrees! Didn't you just say February every year?"

"Indeed, every February in Guangzhou, we often see temperatures reaching 30 degrees Celsius. Not only is it hot, but the humidity is also close to 100 percent. When air flows from the sun to the shade, the slight drop in temperature causes water vapor to precipitate as water. This is what the Chinese call 'return of the south wind.'"

Pokrovsky: "This is unbelievable. Fortunately, I did not go to the Whampoa Military Academy to teach.

Lokdinov: "But I prefer the air to be a little more humid. My hometown is an arid steppe where only grass can be grown.

Chen Tianheng: "Alexander, where are you from?

Loktinov: “Kursk, a little-known place near Ukraine, have you heard of it?

"Coincidentally, I've heard of it.

Loktinov: "Oh my goodness, you're really good at geography. My father still lives on the Sherenvik ranch and even rides a horse, and my uncle is the head of a nearby farm.

Chen Tianheng: "You just said that your home is a vast grassland, with no hills within a 10-kilometer radius?"

Lokzinov: "It's not just 10 kilometers. I don't think there are any mountains within 40 kilometers."

Chen Tianheng: "Alexander, I want to go to your hometown one summer to see the grasslands."

"No problem! Leave it to me!"

The atmosphere at the dinner table was filled with joy. Chen Tianheng also pointed out that in some parts of China, the winter sun was warmer than in Crimea, and not as humid and hot as in Guangzhou. Instructor Pokrovsky became interested and said he would go and see it when he had time.

So after the Advanced Campaign Studies exam, Pokrovsky directly gave Chen Tianheng a score of 5.