I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

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"Kill!" Han Bingchen yelled angrily, and rushed to the Japanese heavy artillery position first. Behind him, all the officers and soldiers who participated in the battle were all mentally and almost madly launching an attack like breaking the boat.

The officers and soldiers in the front carried rifles, submachine guns, and machine guns and charged against the firepower of the Japanese army at the risk of life and death. The officers and soldiers behind threw grenades desperately over the heads of the officers and soldiers in front. The officers and soldiers in the front were shot and fell down. .

Without shelter, the crowd continued to fall one by one, but rushed to the Japanese heavy artillery position without slowing down.

"As long as we can blow up the heavy artillery of the Japanese army, even if we all sacrifice our lives for the country, it will be worth it!" This is what Han Bingchen told the officers and soldiers before the war.

After the battle broke out, Han Bingchen took the lead, and soon he was shot several times. His blood gushed like a fountain, and he fell down slowly. The moment before he died, he was pleased to see that the Japanese army's heavy artillery position was blooming with clusters. Thunderbolt.

The Nanjing Army officers and soldiers who rushed to the Japanese heavy artillery positions frantically threw grenades at the shells near the Japanese heavy artillery, not caring that they would also be killed together.

Amidst the earth-shattering lightning and thunder, the Japanese heavy artillery was blown up into the sky one after another, and was shattered into flying steel fragments. The Japanese artillery, infantry and Nanjing Army officers and soldiers were all bloody and bloody in the big explosion. .

Major General Tatsuo Ide, commander of the 5th Field Heavy Artillery Brigade of the Japanese Army, watched this scene dumbfounded. The last thing he saw was a soldier of the Nanjing Army who had lost his right arm, and was holding a fuse in his left hand. The smoking explosive package, the whole person is like a shell that has been fired, rushing towards him at a gallop. After being shot several times in the body, the soldier of the Nanjing Army, who had exhausted his life, fell headlong on a shell box with difficulty.

Major General Ide seemed to see that this Nanjing Army soldier was smiling when he died.

Immediately afterwards, Major General Ide, who was stunned in place, was blown to pieces by a huge explosion.

Including Han Bingchen himself, a total of nearly 2000 officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army died in this storm, but more than 100 Japanese soldiers were killed and more than [-] large-caliber heavy artillery pieces were blown up, basically destroying the battlefield in Chengde. Japanese heavy artillery force.

A total of five national army planes flew into the night sky of Chengde, one was a transport plane and four were fighter jets.

Originally, flying at night was very difficult and dangerous, but due to "special reasons", these five planes had to fly, and they had no difficulty flying over Chengde City, because the entire Chengde City is a "city that never sleeps". There are flames of war like a sea of ​​magma everywhere, which are extremely eye-catching in the night.

In the transport plane, Liu Qihu, head of the Lujin Special Zone of the Maritime Statistics Bureau, stared calmly at a slender, handsome, and good-looking army general who was sitting opposite him.

The first-level general looked at the Chengde battlefield with discolored mountains and rivers below, "The fight... was really fierce!" He muttered to himself, "I have never seen it before, I have never seen it before. !"

"It's easy to lose anything, but hard to get it back!" Liu Qihu said in a neutral tone, "Especially the land.

It's easy to lose it, but getting it back...that would be a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood! He squinted at each other, "Isn't it?"Deputy Commander Zhang!"

Zhang Xueliang, who was sitting opposite, suddenly looked extremely embarrassed.

"District Chief!" Pilot Hui reported, "We have reached the top of Chengde City!"

"Thank you!" Liu Qihu replied, and then looked at Zhang Xueliang, "Deputy Commander Zhang, you have learned to fly a plane before, and you have even piloted a plane by yourself, so you must not be afraid of heights. Parachute diving is for you , it shouldn't be too difficult!"

Zhang Xueliang nodded: "I am able to return to the battlefield this time and participate in the battle to recover the country, especially the Northeast. I am already ready to die for the country, so why not be afraid of skydiving!"

Liu Qihu smiled: "Then please!" He took a parachute bag to Zhang Xueliang, took a signal light, and handed them to Zhang Xueliang, "After parachuting, turn on the switch of the signal light, and the signal light will emit a very bright green light , very bright, don't look with your eyes, you shine on the city below.

We have already contacted General Chen Mingren, he will send someone to pick you up when he sees you!"

Zhang Xueliang took a deep breath: "I understand!"

By means of airdrop and parachute, Zhang Xueliang returned to the Northeast after a lapse of seven and a half years.

In an underground secret room of the military hospital in Jinan, Jiang Weiguo looked at the report sent by the Maritime Bureau, and then looked at Xiao Yao beside him: "Military teacher, we let Zhang Xueliang go back like this. Did something like 'Let the tiger go back to the mountain'?"

"Tiger?" Xiao Yao sneered contemptuously, "He also counts? A sick cat is almost the same!"

There was a knock on the door, and the face of Shu Guosheng, the deputy director of the Bureau of Maritime Statistics, appeared outside the door.

"Secretary!" Shu Guosheng handed Jiang Weiguo a top-secret document, "The Germans just sent it, and they have achieved new diplomatic achievements in Tokyo.

The Japanese are willing to hold a second 'tripartite meeting' with us and the Germans, and the Japanese have proposed new terms of cooperation!"

Section 400 New Conditions

150 kilometers north of Fangchuan Village, Jingxin Town, Yanbian County, Jilin Province, Puppet Manchukuo, a peak at the junction of China (Puppet Manchukuo), Soviet Union (Russia) and South Korea (North Korea), Zhanggu Peak with an altitude of [-] meters.

In the territory of the Soviet Union several kilometers northeast of Zhanggufeng, a regiment of the Far Eastern Front of the Soviet Red Army is stationed.

In the regiment headquarters, the colonel was sitting on a chair behind the office, with a glass of vodka in his left hand, tapping lightly on the table with his right hand, and his eyes were fixed on a huge and heavy leather suitcase on the desk. And a guest sitting across from him.

The guest was wearing a top hat, looking elegant, and under the top hat was a face of an oriental yellow race.

"Comrade Colonel..." the guest said casually, "Have you thought about it yet?"

Without saying a word, the colonel took a sip of vodka lightly, his eyes fixed on the suitcase, and his mind was overwhelmed.

The guest smiled slightly, opened the suitcase, and inside were stacks of dollars neatly stacked.

"50 dollars!" The guest stared at the colonel, "enough to spend your whole life.

How much is your salary plus allowance for one month in the Soviet Red Army?Can you earn so much in ten lifetimes? "

The muscles on the colonel's face were shaking violently, his eyes were also flashing with extremely complicated eyes, and his breathing became short of breath.

"What do you want me to do?" the colonel asked in a low voice.

The guest laughed: "Comrade Colonel, why bother to ask? We have contacted you before. Since you have a bad memory, I will repeat it here. We hope that you and your troops can deliberately find faults or incidents in the Zhanggufeng area. 'Misunderstanding', thus provoking a local armed conflict between the Soviet Union and Japan.

You Soviets and Japanese have long been at war with each other in the area of ​​Zhanggufeng, and your guns will go off at any time, all you have to do is light a small flame quietly among the dry wood everywhere!"

"This is not a joke!" The colonel gritted his teeth and sullenly, almost frightened, "This is a big deal!"

"Of course!" The guest nodded, "Otherwise we will pay half a million dollars? You can make a lot of money by doing big things, right?"

"Let me think again, please..." The colonel's voice became softer. He couldn't resist the devilish allure of the huge sum of money in front of him, but the possibility and serious consequences of the incident made him feel deeply in his heart. feel scared.

"You've been thinking about it for more than two months!" The guest looked displeased and said in a cold tone, "We don't have that much time for you to think about it.

In this case, we have to..." He paused, and said calmly, "Raise the price!" He picked up the second huge and heavy suitcase beside him, put it in front of the colonel, opened it, and there was still a yard in it. Neat stacks of dollars.

The muscles on the colonel's face trembled with his body, and the vodka in the glass in his left hand almost spilled.

"It's still 50 dollars!" The customer squinted, "Add up, a total of 100 million dollars!"

The colonel stared intently at the banknotes in the two suitcases in front of him with his eyes reddened by alcohol, breathing more and more heavily.

"One million US dollars!" The guest's tone was very soft, but there was a sense of arrogance, "If you accept it, the money is yours, if you don't accept it, we have to hire someone else.

If you don't do it, there must be someone else willing to do it.

Moreover, your life will also be in danger!"

"What do you mean?" The colonel looked at the guest in astonishment, and then he became furious, "Are you threatening me?"

The guest laughed: "Although the 'Great Purge' campaign launched by your leader Stalin is almost over now, the aftermath is not over yet! The political atmosphere in your Soviet Union is still as cold as your weather.

In the Soviet Union, everything was difficult, except for two things that were not difficult, one was going to jail and the other was losing your head.

Do you think, if we spend a huge sum of money to bribe a colleague or even your superior who has a bad relationship with you, and then hand over the recording of our conversation to your political review department, how long can you live? ’ He looked at the colonel with razor-sharp eyes.

The colonel's face turned purple immediately, he clenched his fist with his right hand, and tightly squeezed the wine glass with his left hand.

"Think about it!" The guest smiled and walked out of the office.

In the office, the colonel was sitting there like a sculpture. After a long while, he reached out and touched the huge sum of money on the table that he couldn't help but feel. This solid feeling made him make up his mind.

"Go to hell!" The colonel looked at the portrait of Stalin on the wall, raised his glass viciously and drank it down.

This major counterattack by the Chinese army is called the "North China Counterattack" or "Four Provinces (Hebei, Sui, and Chare) Battles". Because the war broke out from the end of 1938 to the beginning of 1939, it was winter, so it was also called "Winter Counterattack". "Winter Offensive" or "Winter Offensive" (historically, the national army also fought a "Winter Offensive" counterattack from the end of 1939 to the beginning of 1940, and the two "Winter Offensives" seemed to be a coincidence). Including more than ten battles including the Battle of Fengzhen, the Battle of Liangcheng, the Battle of Zhangyuan, the Battle of Southern Hebei, and the Battle of Chengde.

The counterattack is essentially a "political war". The Chinese army fought this battle to regain lost ground and attack the Japanese army, but it was more for political reasons, because during the war, China and Japan fought at the same time. talk.

The senior officials of the national government knew that the national army did not have the ability to launch a strategic counterattack or a decisive battle against the Japanese army at this time. Man gives in at the negotiating table.

China and Japan are "fighting", Germany is "stretching", and Germany is "stretching sideways".

On the one hand, Germany continued to give great aid to China, and continued to sell weapons and equipment to China in large quantities during the war. Qingdao Port was full of traffic every day. There was an endless stream of German merchant ships flying the swastika flag, and the ships were full of guns, ammunition, aircraft, tanks, and artillery. , continuously transfusing blood to the Nanjing Army, the Japanese authorities have nothing to do about it, because the relationship between Germany and Japan is delicate at this time. On the Chinese side, Japan dare not attack German merchant ships anymore. In addition, Germany also hinted at the Japanese side, "If the Japanese army attacks German merchant ships, the German Navy will sell fifty submarines to the Chinese Navy." Enough of the suffering of the Chinese navy submarines, in the face of Germany's threat of almost intimidation, it is even more afraid to act rashly; He promised to compensate Japan, and guaranteed that Japan would gain far more benefits than Japan gained from China at this time after the formal conclusion of the "Germany, China and Japan Triple Alliance".

The situation on the battlefield was not good, and the Germans "carroted and sticked", which made the Japanese high-level officials have to give in again.

During the three-party talks on Jeju Island, the Japanese side was initially willing to "give up only Suiyuan Province", and then relaxed a bit, willing to "give up only Hebei Province". Now, under the mediation and good offices of Germany, Japan's new condition is: it can Let go of Hebei Province, Beiping City, and Tianjin City, or let go of Hebei Province, Suiyuan Province, and Chahar Province.

From giving up one province to giving up one province, two cities or three provinces, Germany's painstaking efforts and capital were not in vain, and the hard work of the Chinese soldiers on the battlefield also played a great role in promoting it. The Japanese did give in again.

After the news reached Wuhan, Chiang Kai-shek could be said to be overjoyed. He was overjoyed to be able to bring back the second city of Hebei, Pingjin, or the three provinces of Hebei, Sui, and Chacha. Because the two provinces of Suicha and Chacha are both "bitter and cold places in northern Saibei", their political value and economic value are not as good as those of Pingjin. It is relatively rich, but the level of development is very low at this time. In later generations, Inner Mongolia's rare earth reserves rank first in the world, and its coal reserves rank first in China. The coal production is slightly higher than that of Shanxi, but the quality is not as good as Shanxi.

In addition, during World War II, oil, steel, and rubber were more important than coal. Coal is an important resource, but it cannot be said to be the most important resource.

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Chiang Kai-shek's bottom line is to "restore to before the July [-]th Incident." Although Chiang Kai-shek never planned to give up the four northeastern provinces or even Taiwan, he knew that China was currently unable to recover the four northeastern provinces and Taiwan, so he planned to "restore to the July [-]th incident first." Let’s talk about it before it happens.”

After the July [-]th Incident, China lost three provinces and three cities. After taking back the two cities of Hebei and Pingjin, then China lost only two provinces and one city (Suiyuan, Chahar, Shanghai) after the July [-]th Incident. , the distance from Chiang Kai-shek's bottom line was greatly approached, and Chiang Kai-shek was naturally overjoyed.

Chiang Kai-shek was very happy and felt "very satisfied", while Jiang Weiguo was very unhappy and felt "very dissatisfied". Because the Nanjing Army won consecutive battles, his new conditions were:

First, Japan returns part of China’s territory to China, either to Liaoning and Hebei provinces, or to Hebei, Suiyuan, Chahar, Shanghai, Beiping, and Tianjin (i.e., completely restored to the July [-]th Incident Before);——In order for China to quickly become strong, Jiang Weiguo must obtain Liaoning Province, because Liaoning Province is extremely rich in resources, especially the most important iron ore.

Among the four major industrial resources, oil and rubber are very scarce in China, and there is basically no coal in the Japanese-occupied areas. Shanxi is enough for coal, and Jiang Weiguo also has coal mines in Liupanshui, Guizhou, and Suicha Er, which also has rich coal resources. The province is "give up" to the Japanese again, and they can bear it and take it easy, but Liaoning Province ranks first in the country for iron ore. It must be taken back. Only by taking back Liaoning can China have a steel industry.

Iron ore reserves in Liaoning Province account for more than 28% of the country, and the quality is very high-quality.

Liaoning Province, China loses, Japan gains, China's national power greatly decreases, Japan's national power greatly increases; At the same time, it is necessary to suppress Japan's strong progress. After all, China and Japan are destined to go to war again in the future.

Note: Among the iron ore resources in various provinces in China, Liaoning is the first, accounting for more than 28%, Sichuan is second, accounting for more than 13% (because of the Panzhihua iron mine), Hebei is the third, accounting for 12% (Hebei is also very rich in iron ore resources, Jiang Weiguo is eager to get both Liaoning and Hebei), Inner Mongolia is fourth, accounting for 10.5%, Shanxi is fifth, accounting for 6.4%, and Shandong is sixth, accounting for 4.7%;

Second, there must be a place in Japan where the Chinese army can carry out a symbolic garrison (a regiment), so that China and Japan can be equal in terms of political status, international status, and the internal status of the German-Chinese-Japanese Triple Alliance camp.

If Japan stationed troops in China, but China could not station troops in Japan, then the status of China and Japan is completely unequal, and China is still a country that was invaded by Japan and a large area of ​​land was occupied by Japanese troops. Great injustice, insult, trample;

Third, if Japan disagrees with the second point, it’s okay. Japan just needs to withdraw its troops from China including the four northeastern provinces and Taiwan. China will not station troops in Japan, and Japan will not station troops in China. The status of the two countries will also return to equality. .

After Chiang Kai-shek read the telegram sent to him by Jiang Weiguo, he was very surprised and a little uneasy: "Is it too much to ask for such a condition? If it exceeds the bottom line of the Japanese, won't it force the Japanese to abandon negotiations and start a war wholeheartedly? water!"

Jiang Weiguo replied: "Father, don't worry, as long as we win the battle, we will have the upper hand at the negotiating table.

Besides, those are our things, why should we be polite to the Japanese? "

Although Chiang Kai-shek felt that Jiang Weiguo was "excessively greedy" and was worried that Jiang Weiguo's "being reasonable and not forgiving" would backfire and irritate the Japanese, but Jiang Weiguo had created too many miracles, so after deliberation and hesitation, he still chose Believe in Jiang Weiguo, let Jiang Weiguo let go.

No need to imagine, seeing Jiang Weiguo's new conditions (replied in the name of Chiang Kai-shek, after all, Jiang Weiguo is "rescuing"), the Japanese high-level leaders were once again extremely frightened and angry, and felt that China was "arrogant, brazen, greedy, and insatiable" ".

The German side had to do its best to mediate and mediate between China and Japan. While trying to get the Chinese side to cut prices, it was also trying to get the Japanese side to make concessions. The Japanese side has spent a lot of money.