More than two months after the fall of Sichuan and Shu, all the subordinate agencies of the Nationalist Government were evacuated to Dihua (now Urumqi) in Xinjiang, and some of the advance personnel had already arrived in Kazakhstan, the autonomous republic of Soviet Russia, to prepare for the establishment of the first overseas foothold in the War of Resistance in Exile. During this period www.biquge.info more than two million soldiers and civilians successively traveled from all over the southwest to the northwest, which is much more spectacular than the migration of many people following Uncle Liu during the Three Kingdoms period.

After attacking Sichuan, the Japanese army slowed down the pace of the offensive slightly, but they obviously did not intend to let the tiger return to the mountains, and connived at the Nationalist government to entrench in the northwest and continue to lead the war of resistance. At the end of 1945, the Japanese army on the North Road launched a fierce offensive against Liankelan and Xining, and the Japanese aviation units stationed at Xining Airport covered the main retreat routes opened by the Nationalist Government, and frequent air raids during the day caused countless casualties among the retreating Chinese soldiers and civilians. Out of the internationalist spirit of upholding justice and saving lives and helping the wounded, Germany, the United States, Ireland, and other countries once again organized the joint volunteer air force to provide front-line support at the request of the Nationalist Government......

By February 13, 1946, the news of the nuclear explosion in Tokyo, Japan, had spread all over the world, and it was widely believed that Japan had fallen into anarchy because of the lack of official voices, as to whether the emperor and other members of the imperial family had been killed, the number of casualties among the top military and political officials, the extent of the damage to Tokyo, and the number of casualties among the military and civilians. For the ordinary people of Japan, this is definitely a terrible situation, but for the Chinese government, which is in a state of war with Japan, and for the vast number of soldiers and civilians who are still persisting in the War of Resistance, this is tantamount to the great news that "God has opened his eyes." It is said that in the temporary camp of the Nationalist Government in Dihua, the high-level leaders held a celebratory reception on February 12, and the recovery of rivers and mountains and the expulsion of Japanese invaders have once again become the slogans on the lips of officials and generals.

Of course, great feats of joy are not just the vices of the officials and generals of the Nationalist Government, but they are a common feeling that is common everywhere, but not all of them have their eyes turned to the sky and their nostrils are on the ground; General Zhou, the former commander-in-chief of the Nationalist Government's air force, and his staff members are keenly aware that this is a great opportunity to launch a surprise attack on the Japanese army's Xining air force, and with the consent of the chairman of the committee, they quickly worked out a daytime surprise attack with the command team of the United Volunteer Air Force.

On February 14, Western Valentine's Day, in the early morning of this day, 9 Soviet-made I-16 fighters, 3 SB-2 medium bombers, 2 Ju-30 light bombers belonging to the Air Force of the Nationalist Government, 15 German-made Fokker G-51s, 14 Ai-made Me-50E, 11 American-made P-45 and 19 Soviet-made Yak-3s of the United Volunteer Air Force, a total of 73 fighters took off from Hami Airport in the morning light. Just as this murderous mixed aircraft group flew to Xining, Japan's former commander-in-chief of the Military Command Department and retired Navy Marshal Nagano Shusei appeared in Kyoto together with Prince Takamatsunomiya Nobuhito, the younger brother of Emperor Showa and the third son of Emperor Taisho, to announce that Emperor Hirohito and all members of his cabinet had disappeared due to the Tokyo explosion, and that Japan had entered an extraordinary period and adopted special military control, with Prince Nobuhito Nagatsunomiya, 40 years old, in charge of the country, authorizing Nagano Shusei to form an "extraordinary period cabinet" to act as an agent for the country's military and political affairs......

Emperor Hirohito had five daughters and two sons, the eldest son Akihito was the first heir to the throne, if Hirohito and his heirs died, his three brothers - Prince Yoshihito Chichibu Palace, Prince Nobuhito of Takamatsunomiya, and Prince Takahito of Mikasa Palace were the legal heirs in line, and Prince Yoshihito Chichibu Palace was in the palace with Hirohito at the time of the Tokyo explosion. The Japanese military and civilians had no objection to Prince Takamatsunomiya Nobuhito's supervision of the country, but the appointment of Navy Marshal Nagano Shusei as prime minister of the cabinet during the extraordinary period, and the army veterans, especially Terauchi Shouichi, who served as the commander-in-chief of the Japanese invasion of China, and Sugiyama Moto, who served as the governor of Malay, had quite a lot of opinions, and they believed that the performance of the Japanese navy in both the Pacific War and the Japan-Soviet War was not worthy of the huge investment given by the government and the huge expectations of the people year after year, and that the army was the only pillar for Japan's rise. Therefore, it is advocated that the army should obtain more resources and a higher status.

Despite the difficulty of gaining the support of the army, Nagano had enough qualifications and prestige as a naval father to gain the trust of the people, and after a brief inauguration ceremony, his first speech as a prime minister in extraordinary times caused a very strong reaction - he believed that one of the two German and American countries had launched a nuclear attack on Tokyo, with the aim of permanently destroying the brain and soul of the Japanese state, so that the Japanese state could no longer stand in the way of their expansionist strategy. Then gradually take away Japan's overseas colonies, and let Japan return to the weak country that was at their disposal.

In the absence of conclusive evidence, Nagano's speech immediately drew strong protests from Germany and the United States. The two countries that were the first to possess the atomic bomb then defended themselves in the form of an official press conference, saying that although they had successfully carried out a nuclear explosion, they did not have enough nuclear materials to make a second atomic bomb in a short period of time, let alone an actual plan to attack Japan with an atomic bomb. In response, the Germans cited some information they had obtained, Japan had long formulated its own nuclear weapons program, and in recent years a large number of nuclear weapons raw materials have been refined, and the separators and reactors used to extract raw materials were built in the urban area of Tokyo, and the Tokyo explosion was probably caused by Japan's mishandling of technology or human error, and the cabinet that took over the power during the extraordinary period deliberately misled the people and deliberately provoked a conflict to achieve their ulterior motives.

The outcry from Germany and the United States and the general criticism from international public opinion did not put the Nagano cabinet in a desperate situation, and their main energies were quickly devoted to the relief work of the Tokyo explosion. Despite warnings from some physicists, Nagano did not hesitate to lead his cabinet members into the Tokyo area, setting an example of death for the hundreds of thousands of army and navy officers and reservists who left for Tokyo.

In the mid-40s, Tokyo was the most prosperous city in Japan and the Asia-Pacific region, with a permanent population of nearly 10 million, and the nuclear explosion on National Day caused a terrible number of casualties on the spot. After inspecting Tokyo, Nagano Shusei demanded that the military urgently transfer 300,000 troops from the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and North and East China to join the rescue, which aroused strong dissatisfaction from the commander-in-chief of the Japanese invasion of China, Terauchi Shouichi, and the North China and East China Fronts, who believed that the Soviet Russian army might take the opportunity to move south at any time and expel the Japanese army from North China and even the rich East China.

The powerful Soviet Russian army has always been the object of careful vigilance of the invading Japanese army, and the Chinese army, which has been beaten by them and has no strength to parry, is regarded as a dead tree that may fall at any time. It was precisely with this idea in mind that the Japanese air force stationed in Xining was somewhat unprepared, and as a result, they tasted bitterness: In less than half an hour, the 44 fighters and 26 bombers that were neatly placed on the runway of the airport were basically turned into scrap products with poor bullet holes, only a small half of the 29 fighters stored in the hangar were spared, more than 300 tons of aviation fuel and 200 tons of ammunition were ignited and detonated, and Xining Airport instantly became a place of brilliant fireworks, and many elite pilots died in a foreign land.

The bad news of the surprise attack on the Xining airfield gave Marshal Terauchi Toshiichi and his front commanders more reason to resist the demands of Nagano's cabinet. Since the high-ranking generals of the Japanese army headquarters and the army staff headquarters had disappeared with the Tokyo ceremony, the officers who had hastily organized to act as their agents lacked binding force on the various dispatching officers, even though the Japanese ships that had been ordered to carry army troops at the ports of Tianjin, Shanghai, and Hangzhou on the orders of the Admiralty arrived when they arrived at the ports of Tianjin, Shanghai, Hangzhou, and other ports to carry army troops, they found that the requisitioned soldiers had returned to Japan less than one-third of the designated number, and the rest were either "attacked by Chinese guerrillas on the way to assembly and transfer" or " The railroad tracks were damaged and forced to be turned into a march on foot", and as a result, most of the ships could only carry the food and medicine hastily looted by the invading troops to the mainland. The discord between the high-ranking generals of the Japanese invasion of China and the provisional command structure in China soon became a well-known joke, and the Nagano cabinet later used this as an excuse to shirk responsibility for the ineffective organization of the Tokyo rescue operation, and the Japanese army sent troops and horses from all walks of life to follow the example of the invasion of China, and the orders of the temporary base camp were prevaricated and delayed, resulting in a situation in which the Japanese occupied areas were doing their own thing......

After the successful raid on Xining Airport, the Air Force of the Nationalist Government and the Joint Volunteer Air Force then carried out a night bombing of the military facilities of the Japanese Air Force in Lanzhou, although the results achieved were far less brilliant than the raid on Xining Airport, but they successfully weakened the deployment of the Japanese Air Force in the northwest region, and after more than half a month, the Japanese fighters only harassed the Chinese retreat line sporadically and a few times, and a large number of Chinese sons and daughters who were unwilling to become slaves of the country braved the cold weather and carried hope all the way to northern Xinjiang. Taking advantage of the fact that the Japanese invasion troops were too busy to take care of themselves in the near future, the Nationalist Government relied on European and American aid to resettle the displaced people and straighten out order, and at the same time reorganized the troops, accumulated strength, and strived to stabilize their positions in this last unconquered piece of land and wait for a favorable change in the international situation.

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