With the stabilization of the Indian front, the Wehrmacht turns their attention to the Urals and to Siberia, threatening Nerovitch Stalin and the rest of the Soviet holdouts. Rommel's forces move through the Pamirs in the direction of Tashkent to hit the Soviets from the south while other German units attack the Soviet lines west of the Urals. Otaka asks Deputy Prime Minister Saigo Takamori to assume his duties while he joins Maebara in traveling by train to Hairar in Manchukuo then to Lake Baikal. After an overflight of a secret intelligence station somewhere in the steppes, Maebara meets Communist icon Leon Trokki and discusses something important with him.