Trotsky understood what Maynz meant after hearing what he said, and he was relieved.
This time, the Soviets bought a lot of weapons from the German army, including 200 cannons, 1200 heavy machine guns, 20,000 rifles, 100,000 shells, and 5 million bullets.
This batch of supplies should be able to support them for a period of time. During this period of time, the White Army's attacks were very fierce, and the Soviets on the front line suffered heavy casualties. If they could not replenish their weapons and equipment in time, the situation would be very dangerous.
"The current trade route will directly pass through the area controlled by the enemy. In this case, our arms trade may be cut off by the enemy at any time. I wonder if you can arrange for it to be transported by sea?”
Just as Mayinz was thinking about whether he should remind the bearman that their trade route was unsafe, the bearman took the initiative to suggest it.
"If you want to ship it by sea, where do you plan to ship it to?”
The hairy bears had many sea routes. The Baltics, the Barents Sea, and the Black Sea were their main sea routes.
For the hairy bear, the Black Sea and the Baltics were the most important, especially the Black Sea. It directly reached the hinterland of the hairy bear. Moreover, the Black Sea was an ice-free port. Even in winter, it would not stop sailing because of ice.
The situation in the Baltics was slightly worse. The harbor would be closed due to ice in winter, so many of the trade routes of hairy bears were on the Black Sea.
However, it was summer now. After the ice in the Arctic Ocean melted, the sea route that could not be used in winter could be used for a short period of time. Therefore, ships could also reach the hairy bear from the Arctic Ocean. However, this route was the farthest and most dangerous. Compared to the other two routes, it had no advantage. If it was possible, no one would choose this route.
For Mao Xiong, the current situation was very bad. During the First World War, they were enemies with the Turkish Empire. Both sides fought many times in the Black Sea. In order to prevent the navy of Sun Never Sets from entering the Black Sea, the Chicken people placed a large number of mines at the mouth of the Black Sea. These mines caused many warships of Sun Never Sets to be struck by mines, and the Russian army suffered a lot of losses.
Although the world war had ended, the Chicken people still maintained hostility towards the hairy bear. The hatred between the two sides had lasted for several centuries. Even if the western countries did not seal the hairy bear, the Chicken people would never open the door for the hairy bear.
Therefore, it was very difficult to transport supplies from the Black Sea to the hairy bears unless they could deal with the Chicken people.
It wasn't easy to transport it from the Baltics. The navy of the Sun Never Sets Empire had already completely controlled the Baltics. It was almost impossible to enter the territory of Furious Bear from the Baltics.
"If it's possible, we'd like to ship it to Murmansk!”
Murmansk was a port near the Arctic Ocean in the north of Mao Xiong. According to Trotsky, the German army would take the Arctic Ocean route.
"This route isn't safe either. If we go here, we'll be intercepted by the people of Sun Never Sets. I'm afraid our ships won't be able to get out of the North Sea!”
If there was a region in the world that had the largest number of British warships, it would definitely be the North Sea. After all, this was the most important sea area for the Sun Never Sets.
"Then, what does your country mean?"
Trotsky was in a difficult position. He couldn't do this or that. De Yizhi didn't have a direct border with Mao Xiong. How could they continue the arms trade?
"I don't think we need to limit our vision to Europe. We can set our sights further, such as here!”
Colonel Maynz smiled and pointed to the east on the map.
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Mao Xiong was not happy to let an enemy officer who had fought with his own country inspect the few well-preserved heavy factories in the country.
However, no one dared to disobey Comrade Lelin's orders!
In fact, it wasn't just the bearman who was unhappy. Colonel Maynz was also unhappy.
So be it, why did he have such a large group of people follow him?
These fully armed soldiers with loaded guns following him was already enough to make people feel like they were being overwhelmed. In the end, there was even a commander of an army group who had just come down from the front line by his side!
"General Tuchachevsky, I heard that you just came down from the Ural frontline?”
Colonel Maynz asked casually. In fact, he knew all about this period of history. In March 1919, the former commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, Gorchak, led 150,000 troops through the Ural Mountains and marched towards Mosco, intending to overthrow the rule of the red bear and restore the Russian Empire.
The scale of this military operation was huge, and not only was Gorchak acting alone, he also contacted the White Army generals such as Dunikin to act together.
This military operation was of great significance to Mao Xiong, because a year ago, Dunikin had led his troops to attack Mosco. At that time, Mosco was almost defeated by the White Army. If it were not for the desperate struggle of the Soviets, the Red Regime might have ceased to exist.
A year later, the White Army attacked again. The scale was even larger than the last time, and it was a multi-pronged attack. Many people in the Western countries were optimistic that this time, the Red Regime would be crushed.
After all, the manpower and resources they had invested this time were obviously greater than the first time. In their opinion, since they had fought so well the first time and almost killed the red bear, this time would naturally be better than the last time.
In the end, the allies did not expect that Tuchachevsky would appear on the Soviets 'side. This person, under the circumstances of inferior strength, inferior equipment, and lack of supplies, defeated and annihilated the most elite officer corps of Gorchak!
This battle was unexpected. No one had expected this to happen, and this result had also stunned Gorchak. His 150,000 men were defeated by Tukhachevsky and Frunze's army from the north and south. Although the battle at the front line had not ended, the defeat of Gorchak was already set. He should be on his way to the Far East!
Colonel Mayinz wasn't afraid of such a ruthless character, but he was a little worried.
He began to understand why the bearded man had to use a counter-plot to get rid of Tukhachevsky. If he was not eliminated, he would definitely become the biggest hidden danger of the Third Reich!
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