In July 1944, a bombshell news suddenly drew people's attention from the turbulent southeast Europe back to war-torn Northeast Asia: the governments of Soviet Russia and Japan announced that they would accept the mediation of the League of Nations, and the two sides ceased fire on all fronts from July 17. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Just over three months ago, the Japanese army headquarters held a solemn swearing-in ceremony for the upcoming spring offensive, declaring that it would drive the Soviet Russian army back to the cold and barren Siberia, and then from the Han River valley in the middle of the Korean Peninsula in the east to the Great Wall of China in the west, more than 700,000 Japanese troops were thrown into this offensive known as the "Million Operation." By the end of May, the Japanese troops on the Western Front had advanced to Mukden City, and the Japanese troops on the Eastern Front had approached Pyongyang, and the pair of large pincers intending to defeat the main force of Soviet Russia were only more than 300 kilometers away from being able to close together, but these more than 300 kilometers were an unattainable distance for the Japanese army, which was not strong enough in aviation and weak in armored forces. After stabilizing the front and depleting the Japanese army with a large amount of vital strength, the Russian army turned to a counteroffensive from the beginning of June. As the Battle of Pyongyang, which lasted for 26 days and nights, came to an end, the ancient capital of Korea, which has a history of more than 4,000 years, was razed to the ground in this unprecedentedly fierce battle. During the battle, both Japan and the Soviet Union tried to win a crucial victory, they invested a large number of combat units and technical weapons, and resorted to frontal force, detours, artillery coverage, carpet bombing, and elite special warfare, and so on. So far, the war between Soviet Russia and Japan for control of Northeast Asia has resulted in the deaths of more than a million soldiers, millions of civilians, and countless property losses. Because of this protracted war, the governments of Japan and the Soviet Union were heavily indebted, and it was difficult to sustain them with both human and material resources. Under these circumstances, the top leaders of the two sides had no choice but to sit down and negotiate an armistice and demarcate the sphere of influence of the two sides in Northeast Asia in a non-war manner.

At 0:00 on 18 July, the ceasefire agreement officially entered into force. A few hours later, the League of Nations put forward a four-point principle for the armistice between Japan and the Soviet Union, one of which was to demand that the two sides respect China's independent sovereignty, that is, when the two sides reached an armistice agreement, they must sign an official agreement with the Chinese government on peace matters, promising to withdraw their troops from Chinese territory within a certain period of time.

Although the proposal of the League of Nations was warmly welcomed by the Chinese side, for more than two years, Soviet Russia and Japan were the protagonists of the Northeast Asian theater, and their performance was impressive to the world - the Soviet Russian army proved that they lived up to the title of "steamroller" on land, and demonstrated first-class air-ground coordination and armored assault capabilities in a series of battles. The performance of the Japanese army was worthy of the bushido spirit they admired, the captured and surrendered personnel accounted for only a very small proportion of the troops participating in the battle, the battle loss ratio on the battlefield occupied a significant advantage, and the strength of the aviation, artillery, and armored troops had made great progress, relying on the plundering of the resources of the colonies, they were rapidly making up for their shortcomings......

Relying on the courage and self-confidence they had gained on the battlefield, both the Soviet Russian and Japanese governments ignored the proposal of the League of Nations, the former had already regarded northeastern China and the northern part of the Korean Peninsula as its own occupation zone, and had no scruples in plundering the resources of these regions and fostering a new puppet regime in the name of the Soviets, while the latter greatly adjusted its strategic layout, shifted the focus of its aggressive policy and colonial rule to the rich southern China and the strategically resource-rich Southeast Asian region, and stepped up the consolidation of military facilities in the western Pacific islands. Prepare for threats from the American direction. Under the heavy pressure of the League of Nations and international public opinion, Japan and the Soviet Union reached an agreement on July 31, and without the presence of officials of the League of Nations, the two sides signed the "Han River Armistice Agreement" on the outskirts of Seoul, and the Han River across the Korean Peninsula became the new border between Japan and the Soviet Union in Northeast Asia. The Japanese army will give up all interests north of the Great Wall and evacuate all Japanese nationals stranded there within the agreed time limit.

As soon as the "Armistice Agreement on the Han River" and the "Secret Treaty on the Great Wall of Japan and the Soviet Union" were signed, the main force of the Japanese army was rapidly transferred to the south, and not only did the long-paced Chinese battlefield regain waves, but the Indian federal army, which had easily turned the situation around in the South Asian theater, suffered even more losses. In the face of the fierce Japanese field divisions and regiments with very rich combat experience, the Ah Sanmen, who were good at opening and hanging, were beaten to the point that they lost their armor and lost their battles and strongholds that they had fought so hard to seize in the past six months. In northern Australia, when thousands of retired Japanese veterans lined up in a neat queue and walked through the port wharf, the local Japanese expatriates were ecstatic, chanting "Long live the emperor", and the already cooled situation in Australia immediately ushered in a new round of "hot weather......

On 2 August of that year, the Council of the League of Nations convened its 9th extraordinary session in Berlin, with 6 permanent members - Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Spain, Ireland and Argentina - and 20 members - the United States, France, China, Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Greece, Mexico, Chile, England, Scotland, Wales, Bulgaria, Romania, Belarus, Egypt, South Africa, the Arab League - Colombia, At this special meeting, they unanimously condemned the barbaric acts of Soviet Russia and Japan in trampling on the sovereignty of other countries, and discussed the plan proposed by the Chinese Government to settle the Sino-Soviet and Sino-Japanese disputes, thus forming an East Asian ceasefire plan and transmitting it to the Soviet Russian and Japanese governments in the name of the League of Nations, and clearly informing the two governments that they could propose amendments on the basis of this ceasefire plan and submit them to the League of Nations for discussion, but if they continue to ignore the proposal of the League of Nations, the League of Nations will unite all member states to impose sanctions on them.

At this special meeting, the Council of the League of Nations also held an in-depth discussion on the war in Albania, and despite the various arguments put forward by the representatives of Austria-Hungary and Italy, the Council determined the responsibility of the two countries for the war in Albania, and the three permanent members of the Security Council, Germany, Ireland and Spain, jointly proposed a peacekeeping plan for Albania. Both Austria-Hungary and Italy expressed dissatisfaction with the content of this plan. Under the previous rules of procedure, they had a veto, so any substantive bill that would be detrimental to the interests of the permanent members would not be passed. In order to solve this bug, which is not a bug, Germany, Ireland, Spain, and Argentina, which are among the permanent members, jointly initiated the establishment of an international security council with 16 members, which is specifically responsible for handling international security affairs and making decisions on the dispatch of peacekeeping troops. Under the new operational structure, the permanent members do not have the right to veto the Security Council's decision to send troops.

Although the formation and functioning of the International Security Council made it possible for the League of Nations to send peacekeeping troops to Albania, it was not realistic to rely solely on peacekeeping forces to solve the problem of war in Albania, and the deep involvement of Austria-Hungary and Italy was the fundamental factor in this situation. In order to force the two southern European powers to change their positions, as soon as the General Assembly of the League of Nations held in October voted to approve it, the International Security Council quickly issued a plan for the third expansion of the peacekeeping force, declaring that it would expand the size of the peacekeeping force to 350,000 and that it was ready to send 150,000 to 200,000 people to Albania, and said they could send 50,000 troops into Albania by the end of the year in the name of peacekeepers. The Habsburgs did not show weakness, they said that the troops sent to Albania in the early stage were originally for peacekeeping, and they were very happy to participate in peacekeeping operations organized by the International Security Council, and Austria-Hungary alone could undertake this peacekeeping mission......

Since Austria-Hungary and Italy have both made concessions on the Albanian question, the International Security Council has gone along with the boat and demanded that the Austro-Hungarian troops stationed in Albania be responsible for maintaining order in the country's capital and coastal areas, and that Italian troops be stationed in the southwestern and southern regions of Albania together with the peacekeeping forces sent by Germany, Spain, Ireland, France, Scotland, and Greece, and that the two sides of the Albanian civil war be invited to end the confrontation through talks and consultations and to form a joint provisional government. Referendum elections were held under the supervision of the League of Nations.

Without the back-the-scenes instigation of Austria-Hungary and Italy, the two sides of the Albanian civil war quickly reached a settlement, and the subsidence of the fighting not only benefited millions of people in the country, but also saved the precarious prestige of the League of Nations, and won praise from public opinion in various countries. However, in the months when the war in Albania was resolved, the war in East and South Asia became more and more vigorous: the isolated Chinese army was struggling under the aggressive offensive of the Japanese army, the capitulation faction gradually gained the upper hand internally, and the sense of crisis of national extinction and extinction hung over the heads of every Chinese. With more than 200,000 wolf-like Japanese troops going south to the Indian subcontinent, more than 500,000 well-equipped Indian federal troops can be called the Italy of Asia, even if there are a large number of European and American professional soldiers as instructors, consultants, staff officers and even help them command the battle, they are still defeated again and again, and later the soldiers surrendered to the Japanese army in groups, and even the capital was surrendered to the other party, and their leaders flew to Europe in a panic. Trying to persuade the great powers to send troops to intervene.

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