I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

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Moscow, Kremlin.

In a certain conference hall, representatives of the two countries were having diplomatic talks. One was led by Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov, and the other was led by Chinese Ambassador to the Soviet Union Jiang Tingfu.

Talking while fighting is a common method between big powers, China and Japan are like this, and China and the Soviet Union are also like this.

The Far East war involving China, Japan and the Soviet Union, Japan neither wanted nor could it last for a long time, the same was true for the Soviet Union, and so was China, so after the war, the three countries still maintained diplomatic channels with each other.

The military is the continuation of politics, and everything is for profit. If you can get enough benefits if you don't fight, you won't fight.

At the conference table, Molotov had a bad face, while Jiang Tingfu looked haughty. The victory or defeat of the two armies on the battlefield is a barometer of the faces of the diplomats of the two countries.

After some dry procedural opening remarks, Molotov said with difficulty: "According to Comrade Stalin's instructions, in order to restore peace between the Soviet Union and China and stop this wrong war, the Soviet Union is willing to make the biggest concession.

The Soviet Union recognizes Outer Mongolia, Xinjiang and... and the Tangnu Wulianghai area as Chinese territory!"

Jiang Tingfu nodded calmly.

Molotov looked at Jiang Tingfu and did not continue speaking.

"No more?" Jiang Tingfu looked surprised, "Is this the concession of your country?"

Molotov felt an uncontrollable sullenness: "Of course, is there something else your country wants?"

Jiang Tingfu said angrily: "Outer Mongolia, Xinjiang, and Tangnu Wulianghai are originally Chinese territory! Your country returned the Chinese territory that was forcibly occupied by your country to China. Is that all? Nuwulianghai split from our country and then established a vassal state that completely obeys the orders of your government. This is an extreme trampling on our sovereignty! It has seriously damaged our interests! As for Xinjiang, your country has been intervening, infiltrating, and controlling in every possible way! Now, returning the property to its original owner is a one-and-done solution? Your country is simply deceiving people too much!"

Molotov suppressed his emotions: "Is there anything else your country wants?"

Jiang Tingfu said coldly: "Our country's request is to completely abolish the "Sino-Russian-Mongolia Treaty", "Manchuria Treaty", "Khakhtu Treaty", " The Sino-Russian Brigade Lease Treaty and the Sino-Russian Renewal of the Lvda Lease Treaty, the Sino-Russian Secret Treaty, the Sino-Russian Treaty of Aigun, the Sino-Russian Survey and Division of the Northwest Boundary, and the Sino-Russian Beijing Treaty", "Sino-Russian Treaty of Tianjin", "Tacheng Boundary Treaty", "Kobdo Talbahatai Boundary Treaty", "Sino-Russian Ili Talbahatai Commercial Regulations", "Revised Treaty" and subsequent A total of 21 treaties that are extremely unequal to our country including the five demarcation protocols!" (If all these treaties are abolished, China can roughly regain the outer northeast, northern outer Mongolia, Lake Baikal, northwestern Xinjiang, and western Xinjiang The total area is about 170 million square kilometers of lost land.

In addition, although the "Xin Chou Treaty" also had a copy of the Soviet Union, the Soviet government announced its abandonment in 1920) "In addition..." Jiang Tingfu added in a deep voice, "Your country will also pay our country 15 billion US dollars in war compensation! "

Molotov suddenly became furious: "Ambassador Jiang, did I hear correctly? Your country is truly a fantasy! It is ridiculous to make such a nonsensical request! The Soviet government will never agree to such an almost blackmailing act." Shameless conditions!"

"Extortion?" Jiang Tingfu sneered, "That's a good word! When did you get these large territories that belonged to our country? When was it not extortion? Also, Mr. Molotov, I want to remind you that the battlefield in the Far East is being defeated. What you want is your Soviet army! Not our Chinese army! What you don’t return to us at the negotiating table, we will take it back on the battlefield!”

Chapter 448

In December, Jiang Weiguo could finally hold a cup of hot tea and calmly wait for the final victory, because the overall situation of the Far East battlefield was basically settled.

On the Irkutsk battlefield, the 74th Division of the Nanjing Army lived up to its mission. Although the entire division suffered heavy casualties, its position was as solid as gold, as stable as Mount Tai, and as solid as a rock. , maintaining the state that the main line of the Siberia Railway was cut off at this time, the 150th Division of the Nanjing Army, which was going to reinforce, boldly and decisively detoured and cut across the rear of the Soviet Army in Yicheng, forming a situation that threatened the Soviet Army's flanks. The 74th Division, cooperating with the inside and the outside, succeeded in severely injuring the Soviet army.

In the forest, sea and snow field, the Nanjing Army fought hard and was unstoppable. Although the number of Nanjing troops participating in the battle was only one-third of the Soviet army, they were overwhelmingly suppressing the Soviet army. There is no problem with the situation in Iraq”;

On the battlefield in Manzhouli, the 77th, 88th, 99th, 101st, and 200th Divisions of the Nanjing Army formed a huge and indestructible "c" semi-encirclement circle in the west of the Soviet army trapped in Heishi, and firmly surrounded the Soviet Union. The army blocked in Heixi, and successively smashed five breakout attacks of the Soviet army.

The Soviet army trapped in Heixi can be said to be unable to fly with wings. The sky should not respond and the earth cannot work. Since the Battle of Nomonhan, the Far East War has lasted for four months. The Soviet army that participated in the war did not bring enough supplies at all. Because of the underestimation of China and Japan and blind optimism, the high-level Soviet army estimated before the start of the Far East War that "the war will end in two months if it is slow, and it will end in one month or even half a month if it is fast." Sex, preparations for a war of attrition, ammunition and food can only last for about two months. In addition, the main line of the Siberian Railway was cut off by the Nanjing Army. .

In fact, at this time, the Soviet army had run out of ammunition and food. If the Chinese and Japanese allied forces launched a powerful offensive together, it would be enough to destroy the Soviet army. The tactics of switching from offense to defense, encircling without fighting, enabled the besieged Soviet army to linger until this time without the entire army being wiped out.

However, with the passage of time, the besieged Soviet army gradually dried up in terms of food supply, and fell into a difficult situation of starvation and starvation. It was only a matter of time before their destruction;

The flames of war were also raging on the Liaoning battlefield, and the Northeast Army and the Japanese army were fighting in full swing.

The political nature of this battle is very peculiar. Although the Northeast Army belongs to the Chinese army, their actions were carried out by "the next defeats the top". China and Japan fought again, because the Chinese High Command claimed to the Japanese side that it "had no knowledge of this matter", and the Northeast Army was only fighting the Japanese army as a "Northeast Local Army" or even a "Chinese Rebel Army".

Because the Japanese army was caught off guard, the Northeast Army, which took advantage of the vacancy, could be said to be invincible. It not only took down many large cities such as Jinzhou and Panjin in succession, but also took down Shenyang in one go on December 12. It can be said that It was a brilliant victory.

The recovery of Shenyang has to be said to be a "great victory of great historical significance". Naturally won, and also paid five times the casualties of the Japanese army.

"Shenyang, Shenyang, it's been eight years, and I'm finally back!" Zhang Xueliang, who walked into Shenyang, couldn't help himself, weeping with joy.

The Northeast Army's occupation of Shenyang not only received the support of hundreds of thousands of Northeast civilians in the city, but also received a large amount of food and supplies and the most precious ordnance supplement, because Shenyang has a large-scale arsenal.

The predecessor of the arsenal was the Fengtian Arsenal and the Fengtian Mortar Factory founded by Zhang Zuolin. They were originally the largest arsenals in China and even in Asia. After the September 1th Incident, the Japanese expanded these two arsenals and merged them into the Shenyang Arsenal. Its scale and productivity have been raised to a higher level. At this time, the factory has more than 1200 machines, more than 30000 employees, and more than [-] workers, which is amazing.

The Northeast Army's acquisition of the factory is tantamount to obtaining a treasure. In fact, the factory originally belonged to the Northeast Army, which is quite ironic.

However, the "good days" of the Northeast Army also came to an abrupt end, because the Japanese army mobilized troops from the Black West battlefield to launch a massive counterattack.

The Japanese counterattack against Shenyang consisted of the 2nd and 6th divisions as the backbone, with a total strength of about 5. The Northeast Army defending the city had more soldiers than the Japanese army, but it was inevitable to fall into a bitter battle.

On December 12, the Battle of Shenyang broke out. More than 17 Japanese troops besieged the city and more than [-] Northeast troops defended the city launched a desperate fight. Not only soldiers from both sides participated in the battle, but also all kinds of "militia". The Japanese army had a large number of armed Japanese overseas Chinese to help However, the Northeast Army also had a large number of Northeast civilians to help in the battle, which greatly enhanced the scale of the Shenyang Campaign.

Jiang Weiguo did not refuse to save Zhang Xueliang, he adopted a series of "indirect and ingenious" countermeasures.

First of all, after learning that the Japanese artillery on the Shenyang battlefield had bombarded the city of Shenyang, Jiang Weiguo angrily lodged a "strong protest and serious condemnation" to the headquarters of the Kwantung Army. Recognizing the so-called Manchukuo and the ownership of the Northeast region, China and Japan have also reached an agreement (according to the relevant agreement on the Sino-Japanese alliance, China can use the territory of a third country to exchange the Northeast region at an equivalent value with Japan. This "third country" refers to The Soviet Union), therefore, the Northeast is Chinese territory, and the people of the Northeast are Chinese nationals. You bombarded Shenyang City with cannons and killed a large number of Shenyang civilians. This is tantamount to killing our nationals in disguise. Fang must immediately stop these intolerable behaviors of our country! Otherwise, our country will take all measures to fight back!" Regarding Jiang Weiguo's protest, condemnation and "warning", the top Japanese army was angry and angry but helpless.

What Jiang Weiguo meant was this: Your Japanese army can destroy the Northeast Army, but you must not harm the civilians in the Northeast.

The inner meaning of this set of high-sounding rhetoric is clearly revealed: when the Japanese army attacked and killed the Northeast Army, they could not use heavy weapons such as aircraft groups and artillery groups that would accidentally injure civilians in the Northeast on a large scale. Naturally, the Northeast Army was also "protected".

Under Jiang Weiguo's military pressure, the desperate Japanese army had to swallow their breath and do what Jiang Weiguo said, and stopped attacking Shenyang City with artillery, which greatly reduced the pressure on the Northeast Army defending the city. Aircraft will also be mobilized to help the Northeast Army in operations.

Not only that, Jiang Weiguo mobilized several second-line divisions of the Nanjing Army to gather at the border between Jehol and Liaoning Provinces, declaring to the Japanese side that they would "clean up the former rebels of the former Northeast Army, and prepare to enter Liaoning at the invitation of the Japanese side at any time." Assist the Japanese army in destroying the Northeast Army", this set of rhetoric is still high-sounding, but how dare the Japanese believe it, so they had to mobilize two divisions to take precautions at the border of Liaore.

Therefore, Jiang Weiguo helped Zhang Xueliang contain a large number of Japanese troops and relieved the pressure on the Northeast Army.

It is equivalent to the Beiping Camp of the Nanjing Army Headquarters, in a certain teahouse.

Jiang Weiguo and Xiao Yao are playing chess and drinking tea leisurely. Both of them are in a happy mood, which can be called a happy face.

"Military teacher..." Jiang Weiguo, whose chess skills and chess skills are very poor, once again regretted the game, and asked Xiao Yao at the same time, "You said, can our 'Master Zhang' hold on in Shenyang?"

Xiao Yao smiled slightly: "If you can't hold on, you have to hold on, does he have a choice?"

Jiang Weiguo giggled: "Yes, he has no choice at all, so we completely counted him dead.

He ran away eight years ago, but if he runs away now, it will be impossible to justify it!Even if he wanted to run away, the officers and soldiers of the Northeast Army would not run away!Therefore, he and his Northeast Army will fight the Japanese to the death in Shenyang, even if he realizes that he is just our pawn crossing the river, he has no choice!" He patted Xiao Yao's hand with a grateful attitude Shoulders, "Everything is in our hands! "

"Although Zhang Xueliang is a playboy who has more than enough success than failure, his simple mind is his shortcoming, but this point can be used by us!" Xiao Yao narrowed his eyes, "Others can take advantage of his stupidity, and of course we can take advantage of it too.

Otherwise, why would we deliberately provide him with so much ammunition.

How can there be no return for such a big investment? "

Jiang Weiguo became more and more devoted to Xiao Yao: "Military Master, you are too good! Zhang Xueliang is just a useless chess in my father's hands, but in your hands it is a wonderful chess with infinite power!"

Xiao Yao smiled modestly: "Where is that, I just used this idiot to muddy the water in the northeast, so that we can fish in troubled waters!" He picked up a chess piece and put it down gently, "Okay, You lost, don't regret this time!"

Jiang Weiguo looked helplessly at himself being killed by Xiao Yao again: "Okay, I admit defeat, what is this move called?"

Xiao Yao paused every word and said: "Drive the tiger and devour the wolf!"

The Far East War began in mid-December and officially came to an end.

On December 12, the besieged Soviet army on the Black West battlefield launched its sixth breakout attack. For the Soviet army, this was a desperate fight against the odds.

Under the planning of Blyuchel and Zhukov, about 30 Soviet troops (including a large number of wounded and sick) who were still surviving in the encirclement at this time were reorganized, and the few remaining ammunition and food were concentrated among the 57 uninjured and unarmed soldiers. The sick officers and soldiers, with the designation and establishment of the [-]th Army, formed an "Essence Seed Unit" to pin the hopes of the entire army.

Next, Blyuchel led the 20 remnant troops with guns and ammunition, hungry and cold, to break through the Nanjing Army's blockade line in the west of the encirclement again. At the same time, they deceived the Japanese army, so that both the Nanjing army and the Japanese army mistakenly believed that the sixth breakout of the Soviet army was westward like the previous five times, thus attracting the attention of the Nanjing army and the Japanese army. When it could be called a suicidal attack to break through, Zhukov took the [-] "essence" and suddenly turned around to attack the Japanese blocking line, breaking through eastward uncharacteristically.

When parting, Zhukov bid farewell to Blyukher with tears in his eyes. He knew very well that Blyukher would never return, or even die.

Choked for a long time, Zhukov couldn't speak, he could only salute Blyukher with tears in his eyes.

"Comrade Zhukov..." Blyukher sighed and patted Zhukov on the shoulder, "Don't let me down, don't let us down, that's all.

In addition, when you reported to the Kremlin, you said that most of us died in battle, including me, and did not surrender, so that our family members will not be implicated at least!" He had an awe-inspiring look on his face. The vicissitudes of admiration also have a kind of desolation at the end of the road.

Blueher could only do this, because he had no choice. Even if he escaped from the siege and returned to Moscow, what awaited him was definitely not comfort, encouragement, or rewards, but Stalin's anger, prison, and the firing squad. of bullets.

It is better to die with honor on the battlefield than to die without dignity, tortured and humiliated in prison.

Blyuchel hoped to trade the lives of himself, the 20 officers and soldiers, and the fate of the prisoners of war in exchange for the survival of Zhukov and the [-] officers and soldiers.

The Soviet army's breakout operation was very successful, and the Japanese army was caught off guard. Unexpectedly, the Soviet army turned around and broke through to the east. In addition, the Japanese army dispatched a large number of troops to Liaoning to "put down the chaos", so they fell into a weak military force. Zhukov and the first The 57th Army broke through the Japanese army's blockade line in Qiqihar in one go, and then rushed northward, crossed the vast Greater Khingan Mountains, crossed the frozen Heilongjiang River, successfully broke through, and returned to the territory of the Soviet Union. However, because the main line of the Siberia Railway had been cut off by the Nanjing Army , Zhukov and the 57th Army had to continue to the north, all the way westward in the vast forest and snow field more than 100 kilometers north of the Siberian Railway, and traveled more than 1000 kilometers, and finally arrived in the eastern part of the West Siberia Plain in mid-January 1940. Novosibirsk is the hub of the Siberian Railway and the third largest city in Russia.

Along the way, half of the nearly 5 Soviet troops who escaped died due to factors such as hunger, disease, and severe cold. In the end, only more than [-] people arrived in Novosibirsk.

When Zhukov broke through the encirclement, Blyukher had already been wiped out in Manchuria.

With 20 ammunition and food exhausted, hunger and cold, and no fighting spirit, the Soviet army once again attacked the Nanjing army's blockade line. The battle situation is conceivable. The battle was completely one-sided. The casualties of the army were astonishing. The Manzhouli wilderness, which had already been filled with Soviet corpses frozen like stone ice sculptures by the cold wind, was once again filled with Soviet corpses layer upon layer.

More than an hour after the start of the battle, Bliuchel, who learned that Zhukov had led his troops to break through the Japanese blocking line, knew that his cover mission had been completed. He couldn't bear to let the troops continue to die in vain, and in despair, he ordered the troops to surrender, and then shot himself.

Of the 20 Soviet troops, more than 3 were killed and injured by the Nanjing Army, and nearly 17 people surrendered to the Nanjing Army.

The Nanjing Army captured more Soviet prisoners than themselves in one go, and the number of Soviet prisoners was so large that the Nanjing Army felt overwhelmed for a while.

For the wounded and seriously ill among the prisoners of the Soviet army, the Nanjing Army still adopted the old method to deal with them, regardless of them, ignoring them, and letting them fend for themselves, thereby saving medicine and food. More than 4 Soviet troops died in vain. In the end, as many as 15 Soviet troops were imprisoned by the Nanjing Army in a temporary prisoner-of-war camp on the wasteland of Outer Mongolia. The Nanjing Army also captured Soviet-made weapons and equipment that could arm 20 people. There are more than 20 firearms, more than 1000 large-caliber heavy artillery, more than [-] cars, more than [-] tanks and armored vehicles, and a lot of machine guns and mortars. The fly in the ointment is that there is very little ammunition.

The reason why the Nanjing Army captured such a large amount of spoils is because there is such a detail in this battle: Blücher, who already had a premonition that he and his troops would be wiped out, secretly sent envoys to contact the Nanjing Army and negotiated in secret. "Surrender affairs", thus testing the attitude and tone of the Nanjing Army, implying that "the Soviet Army can surrender, but the Nanjing Army must treat the Soviet prisoners well." In this regard, Zhang Fakui replied to Bliuchel, "The Chinese army is not a brutal army, of course it will Treat Soviet captives in accordance with the international laws of war, the Geneva Conventions, and the humanitarian spirit. However, the Soviet army must surrender all weapons and equipment and must not destroy them before surrendering. Be kind".

Because of this, Bliuchel did not order the troops to destroy weapons and equipment on a large scale, allowing the Nanjing Army to seize extremely rich spoils of war.

"There are so many old Maozi prisoners of war, tsk tsk, they are all good labor for us to build roads and mines in the future!" The generals of the Nanjing Army after the victory were all beaming with joy.

There are more than 4 "special prisoners of war" among the Soviet prisoners of war, all of whom are from the puppet Mongolian army, including the head of the puppet Mongolian army, the head of the puppet Mongolian People's Republic, and the head of the puppet Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, Horlo Choibalsan.

It's hard for the master to protect himself, so these jumping clowns are naturally desperate.

The officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army hated this kind of traitorous scum who betrayed the country and sought glory and recognized the thief as his father. After discovering that Qiaobashan's 77th Division Deputy Chief of Staff Liu Fengling ordered Qiaobashan and more than [-] puppet Mongolian soldiers, pseudo-Mongolians, The main members of the Puppet Mongolian Party stripped off their clothes and threw them on the wild snowy field in Manchuria to freeze to death.

The sixth breakthrough of the Soviet army declared the complete failure of the "Far East War" launched by the Soviet Union.

On the same day, Germany launched a large-scale military operation in Europe, echoing the Chinese and Japanese coalition forces to put pressure on the Soviet Union. Hundreds of thousands of German troops launched the "Dro Joint Military Exercise" with the Romanian army in Romania. Bessarabia and North Bukovina provinces bordering the Soviet Union and which were ceded to the Soviet Union by Romania at the request of the Soviet Union. More than that, Germany and Poland jointly announced that "the 'Danzig issue' that was previously disputed between Germany and Poland has been resolved. "Solution", Germany and Poland will launch all-round military, economic and political cooperation in the future.

These "big movements" in Germany naturally shocked and anxious the Soviet authorities. They were extremely suspicious that Germany would suddenly launch a war of aggression against the Soviet Union and were extremely afraid that they would be attacked by enemies. concession".

After more than a month of verbal wars, on December 12, the last day of 31, China and the Soviet Union formally signed the Treaty of Peace and Armistice, "restoring peace between China and the Soviet Union."

The main contents of the treaty include:

First, the Soviet Union recognized Outer Mongolia, Xinjiang, and Tangnu Wulianghai as Chinese territory;

Second, the Soviet Union abolished the "Sino-Russian Aigun Treaty" and returned to China more than 60 square kilometers of land in Northeast China south of the Outer Xing'an Mountains and north of Heilongjiang;

Third, the Soviet Union abolished the "Sino-Russian Beijing Treaty" and returned to China more than 40 square kilometers of land east of the Ussuri River, including Sakhalin Island;

Fourth, the Soviet Union abolished the "Sino-Russian Kyakhta Treaty" and returned more than 10 square kilometers of land south of Lake Baikal and southwest of Lake Baikal to China, and Lake Baikal completely belonged to China;

Fifth, the Soviet Union paid China [-] million U.S. dollars in war reparations, which should be repaid within six months.