Chapter 151 China is attacking

"See, have you seen, the Chinese are attacking-" Stalin's excited speech at the People's Military Commission moved himself and encouraged the entire Soviet Union.

It was completely different from the translation of "On Protracted War" in the Kremlin in May last year. At this time, he was completely different. China's strategic position is becoming more and more important. From delaying the Japanese offensive pace to now, the Japanese army has been completely dragged into the quagmire of the Chinese battlefield. Stalin's attention to the Far East battlefield has shifted from the Kanto Army to the Chinese team. Only then did he realize that Japan really cannot destroy China.

The German army's attack in Poland was smooth, and 700,000 Polish troops were preparing to fight to the death with the Germans, when the Soviet Red Army's muzzle was aimed at them.

The interests of the Soviet Union were in Europe, and Asia was nothing more than the collection of its resources.

However, the greedy Japanese have never let Stalin down. The Far Eastern Front Army has been expanding repeatedly, from more than 200,000 four years ago to 400,000 today, and nearly 500,000 troops. This is definitely not what the Soviet Union hopes to see.

As long as Zeng Yiyang was given equipment from two divisions, even if it was twice as many weapons, the Soviets felt that the deal was too cost-effective.

A Soviet infantry division had a total of 16,000 to 18,000 people, including two infantry brigades, an artillery regiment, and various auxiliary arms. These weapons could already form an army for the Chinese battlefield.

The German army's sneak attack on Poland not only tightened the nerves of Britain and France, but also tightened the nerves of the Soviet Union's war, even if Germany and the Soviet Union signed a contract.

But as long as diplomats who have a little understanding of international affairs know that contracts are not even as good as toilet paper in the toilet in the eyes of politicians. In a short period of time, there is no contract, and no fight can be fought.

The advancement of Britain and France made Hitler no choice. He could only point his muzzle at Britain and France's allies in Europe, and first break their alliance on the European continent. For Stalin of the Soviet Union, Central Asia's interests, especially Britain's interests in West Asia, were what they valued the most.

The estuary and the deep-water port are all the dreams of Stalin.

Why was the Soviet Union just a land country? It was not that it could not form a powerful navy without excellent deep-water ports. It could only save the steel for building warships and build cannons.

How big a caliber can the largest cannon on land? The 280mm train cannon is already a limit. However, in the Navy, the 280mm caliber cannon is just the smallest caliber main gun in battleships.

A land country cannot dominate the world. Only countries that occupy the ocean can dominate the world. However, who is at the forefront of the world does not want to dominate the world. Britain has 40 million square kilometers of colonies and Commonwealth countries. France has more than 9 million square kilometers of colonies in Africa, and its colonies in South America and Asia can provide France with all the raw materials needed by industry and dumping places for more than 100 million people. These are the Soviet Union and Germany are very jealous of it.

To put it simply, even in World War II, the Germans would not be the first to be the first, the Soviets would not be able to help themselves.

Americans are the most 'kind'. They don't want colonies, as long as the goods sold in the colonies of other countries are all American.

This is also the United States has been using domestic steel to support Japan's operations.

Without the unlimited transmission of steel and oil by the United States, the Japanese might not be able to support the war of aggression against China.

But on September 10, 1939, the American political circle was extremely disappointed with Japan.

They hope to see the most appropriate opportunity, but Japan has not appeared. In their speech at the White House, Roosevelt mentioned for the first time: "China is the United States' biggest partner in Asia." It has made the United States' bias move slowly towards China from Japan.

The speech of the US president has convinced both the Japanese military and political circles that their most reliable allies have abandoned them (before the Soviet-German contract, Japan's most reliable allies were Germany).

A nation with a strong inferiority complex has to face such an embarrassing thing as surrendering to the Soviet army while losing.

A series of events directly led to chaos in the Japanese military and political circles.

The Central China Expedition Army, Lieutenant General Okamura Yasuji ordered the 10th Army to launch the Changsha Campaign, so that the Japanese mainland, which had no soldiers to send, could only form two special divisions first and fool them. However, even the weapons were still trained in soldiers in the arsenal, which became the biggest problem for these two new divisions.

In Chongqing, Huangshan official residence, Chiang Kai-shek closed his eyes and listened leisurely to the radio.

After experiencing a scorching heat in Chongqing, the sultry weather was slightly relieved. The air was filled with water vapor floating from the Yangtze River, and it still seemed very dull.

"Committee!" Chen Cheng stood behind the rocking chair and shouted softly.

"Well——" Chiang Kai-shek dragged a long voice, as if time had flowed back, as if he had retreated from the presidential throne and recuperated in his hometown, it seemed extremely relaxed.

As early as August, Chiang Kai-shek rejected the mediation of Hitler's envoy and rejected the conditions proposed by Germany unilaterally.

Even Chiang Kai-shek did not receive the German envoy, Ge Ning.

This is also rare in the history of the Republic of China. Generally speaking, the special envoys of Western powers were guests of the National Government. China, which lacked basic industries, requires a large amount of industrial imports, whether it is a civil war or a war of resistance.

Germany has had close military and economic exchanges since the Weimar Republic in the 1920s until the 1937th Incident and before the July 7th Incident.

The first-class military advisory group exchanged resources for weapons. In addition to the rigorousness of the Germans in implementing the treaty, it left a good influence among Chiang Kai-shek and many generals. But at one time, no one has been able to stop this war since the German-Japanese alliance, especially after the Japanese army's full invasion of China.

Germans can't do it, Chinese people can't do it, and even Japanese people can't stop.

Before the July 7 Incident, if Chiang Kai-shek heard that the Japanese only had the three northeastern provinces and no other places would be. Chiang Kai-shek would undoubtedly be so happy that he would have a snot bubble, which was definitely the best news for him. But after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, sitting in the position of the leader of the Anti-Japanese War, as long as he was ceded to any place, even a barren small county town, he would be criticized by thousands of people and be called a traitor, and the leader standing on the edge of the cliff could not afford to be injured.

Huangshan is located in Nan'an District, with an altitude of 580 meters and an area of ​​about 1 square kilometer. Huangshan is located between the strange peaks and valleys, surrounded by pines and cypresses, and the scenery is excellent. The construction of the official residence has always chosen the simple style that Chiang Kai-shek likes and the Western hobbies of Miss Song's second family.

These did not delay under Langfang on the second floor. Listening to the rustling pine waves, the distance was like the river water in the nine heavens under the Milky Way.

In fact, Chiang Kai-shek wanted to get angry, but he became more angry. He found that the generals were immune to it. If they hadn't got angry at that military meeting, the generals would not be used to it.

This made Chiang Kai-shek very distressed. You shouldn’t get angry if you want to be determined! You can’t even explain it, so get angry! To whom?

To Zeng Yiyang?

Everyone is in the northeast, in the backyard of the Kwantung Army, and the chaos is overturning. Besides, he must be useful if he gets angry! The defensive situation in Hunan is very difficult, and Guangxi is not stable.

Xu Tingyao's 38th Army, plus the local troops in Guangxi, had nearly 200,000 troops. If so many people could not stop the attack of the two Japanese divisions, Chiang Kai-shek would have no choice. It was impossible. Every time the Japanese army launched a battle attack, he had to do his best, as if he had been constipated for a week and went to the toilet at one time. It was so difficult!

Chen Cheng stood aside for about ten minutes, but Chiang Kai-shek just didn't look up and looked at him more.

"Commissioner, this is an excellent opportunity." Chen Cheng finally couldn't help it. He was really good at comparing patience with Chiang Kai-shek.

"Chance!"

Chiang Kai-shek pursed his lips disdainfully. There was no chance in the past two years of the War of Resistance Against Japan. But the problem is, it wasn’t that time that messed up the matter? Chiang Kai-shek didn’t want to go into it. Speaking of it, it was a huge grievance and couldn’t cry.

"Is it Qinzhai, Yinguo, or Zhidao who encouraged you to come? No, they are not right with you, the instructor, Xue Yue?" Chiang Kai-shek said softly, as if he was very reluctant to break this quiet afternoon.

Chen Cheng felt sweat on his head and thought to himself: Why is the old man so sarcastic today? But he was asking questions? He didn't dare to hide it and said truthfully: "No, it's all my own idea."

"Are you sure that the 18th Army will face the 10th Army of the Japanese Army?" Chiang Kai-shek said with a blank expression.

Chen Cheng Khan, these are definitely two concepts. Who doesn’t know that the 10th Army of the Japanese army has 5 elite divisions, which are organized by the group army. There are only a few people in the 18th Army. They rushed up and didn’t know how to write the word “death”.

"If you don't want to hit it, what's the use of just thinking?"

Chiang Kai-shek expressed the mystery in his words. Indeed, many of the generals from Huangpu have taken the position of division commanders, army commanders, and even commanders of the group army. But even these soldiers who were willing to subsidize soldiers with a small amount of pitiful allowances more than ten years ago became a bunch of worms in just over ten years. Even if there is no sign of corruption, the behavior of expanding their own strength, factions, and gangs are everywhere.

At the beginning, Chiang Kai-shek had the intention to do it, but now he is unable to change it.

Only then did Chen Cheng understand why the old man returned to the Huangpu period and began to cultivate his character. It was entirely caused by a group of good students below.

Before leaving, Chen Cheng received a high evaluation.

"Ci Xiu, you are a talented person, and I will not treat you badly."

Chiang Kai-shek kept saying this sentence, whether it was the miscellaneous generals he wanted to deal with or the direct generals of the Central Army. Over time, a sentence that originally inspired his subordinates became a polite word.

Since the Battle of Wuhan, the Japanese army has not launched a large-scale battle for nearly a year, which shows that the battle between China and Japan has reached a strategic stalemate. As early as 36 years ago, Chiang Baili mentioned in his national defense advice to Chiang Kai-shek.

Next, China needs to wait for major changes in the international situation.

The Central Army could not defeat the Japanese with the weapons of the Soviets alone. Waiting for a suitable opportunity, a strong ally would help him. As for defeating the Japanese, Chiang Kai-shek never had such a dream.

Except for a commendation order from the Supreme Command, everyone fell silent.

The one who reacted the most strongly was the Kanto Army Command.

After receiving the telegram of Qiqihar's loss, he did not want to leave. General Kenyoshi Ueda, Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Isogaki, Deputy Chief of Staff Major General Yano Toshiro, Chief of Operations Division, Colonel Masao Terada, and other important Kanto Army personnel took a train to Pyongyang, then took a plane to the local area to apologize to the emperor.

The Kwantung Army command organization was completely paralyzed, and in fact, Kenyoshi Ueda and others could not command it in Changchun.

How many troops are needed to attack Qiqihar and occupy the surrounding areas at the same time? There are not many 10,000 people, and there are not many 30,000 people.

The negotiations between the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Soviet Union also had substantial results, mainly because the soldiers of the 6th Army of the Kanto Army were disarmed, and the soldiers who put down their weapons were watched by the Soviet army and became a group of lambs.

Four divisions, and four divisions laid down their weapons.

That's not all. The main 8th Division swept the First Route Army of the Anti-Japanese United Army in South Manchuria, and the Mongolian Corps was frequently attacked again. The troops were insufficient. The Kwantung Army dispatched a division to support.

Shouichi Tetsuuchi of North China also wanted to exploit one or two divisions from the Kwantung Army.

The fortress in South Manchuria is still under construction and requires a large number of troops to be stationed. Opposite is Vladivostok (Vladivostok), the center of the Russian Far East political and military. After all, only the newly formed infantry brigades can be mobilized, but are these all new recruits trapped in the field?

No, let alone the elite troops of the 40th Army?

The most embarrassing thing about Umezu Mijiro could only be sworn in as commander of the Kanto Army without a handover ceremony.

Just as he took the oath, Zeng Yiyang brought him a big gift.

At dawn on the 11th, six bomb-hanging Zero fighters took off from Qiqihar Airport and arrived over Changchun 40 minutes later. The fighters quickly lowered from a height of 6,000 meters to a low altitude of 1,500 meters.

Outside the city, six aircraft threw all auxiliary fuel tanks on the field at the same time.

Before boarding the plane, the flight captain had already selected two places from several suspected areas on the captured Japanese army map as a gap plan. Among them, the area confirmed as location No. 1 is a building complex, and Zeng Yiyang suspected to be the Japanese Kwantung Army Command.

Being regarded as the object of focus.

The detachment leader Cheng Hongfei and the deputy detachment leader Li Yunhao made a gesture to each other in the air. The two organized formations in the air according to the predetermined plan and prepared for dive bombing.

To be honest, the more than 30 pilots and technicians under Zeng Yiyang were originally learning to fight with Soviet trainers. They were not used to the first time they drove the Zero fighter. Fortunately, there were no enemies in the air, but Cheng Hongfei, who was hovering at a low altitude, saw a Japanese officer on the street waving his hat at him and his plane.

Cheng Hongfei really wanted to take the machine gun button, but it was difficult for the plane in the flying to hit a target like a person. In addition, Cheng Hongfei's posture skills were not enough to throw the bomb in front of him. He smiled and said to himself: "Your luck."

The target had already appeared, Cheng Hongfei was flying the plane, staring at the target ahead with a serious look.
Chapter completed!