Chapter 260: Ceasefire

In the face of worldwide condemnation and sanctions, as well as China's fierce military strikes, Khrushchev felt that the war should be over. No matter what kind of war the Soviet Union fought with China, it could not win the war. The Soviet army was even weaker than it expected, and China was many times stronger than expected. Conventional wars are fought like this, let alone nuclear wars. If it continues to fight with China, it will inevitably lead to the consequences of the Soviet Union's catastrophe.

Now it is the turn of I, Khrushchev, with the mind of a great proletarian revolutionary, to act as a messenger of world peace and a savior of the Soviet people. It is no longer time to let those who are the main fighters go around blindly, and it is time to liquidate those who think they are pushing the Soviet Union into the dire straits.

It's just that the suffering of these ordinary people in the European part of the USSR is not enough, how can they suffer a little more? Right! Compress their daily bread supply first, and starve them for a few days. Then there will be formal negotiations with the Chinese to restore the current supply. Let them know how happy it was to live in the Khrushchev era with Khrushchev's wise leadership.

The Soviet people did not agree to settle the Sino-Soviet border issue, as Comrade Lenin said. Whoever does not agree will first send them to the Siberian front, so that the Chinese can teach them a good lesson. When the time comes, they will all be honest.

Hmph, hum, people? What are the people? The people are a group of politically blind obedience, a group of out-and-out vested interests. What doctrine, what kind of faith, is not to follow some slogans created by politicians. When Stalin was alive, which one was not Ulla, and in the past few years of his death, including himself, which one did not "bitter and hateful" scold him to the bottom. To put it bluntly, these so-called people are not following the guidance of public opinion. Whoever gives them a little sweetness, even if it is a sweet poison, they will eat it with relish, and they will still sing praises for today's rulers.

Well, the most urgent task now is to first talk with the Chinese and resolve the Sino-Soviet border issue as Comrade Lenin said. Everyone knows that the Chinese people have the determination and ability to completely remove the Soviet Union's nuclear threat to China. But just talk about it, but don't play it for real. I want to make it clear to the Chinese comrades that I didn't let them do the damn atomic bomb, and it has nothing to do with me, Khrushchev. Let the Chinese comrades never mention the stubble of a nuclear counterattack on the entire territory of the USSR. It's scary! Isn't it okay to take you?

On the one hand, he sent a secret envoy to China to explain the situation, express goodwill to China, and express his desire to stop the war and peacefully resolve the border issue between China and the Soviet Union. On the other hand, they plan to carry out actions against the main battle faction and those who oppose their political ideas, knock them to the ground, and step on 10,000 feet, so that they will never be able to turn over.

After the outbreak of the Sino-Soviet border war, despite the fact that the USSR used tactical nuclear weapons. However, China soon learned that the nuclear attack was carried out only by the personal actions of a few junior officers in the Soviet army. As a result, no immediate nuclear retaliation was taken, and the results of the investigation were not made public. Only in this way can China show its demeanor as a responsible major country in the world.

But whether it is a political act or an individual act, the consequences are the same. The Chinese Far East Corps seized this favorable opportunity and pretended to be confused. On the one hand, it maintained a high-pressure posture against the Soviet nuclear threat and was ready to carry out a nuclear counterattack against the Soviet Union at any time. On the other hand, it has accelerated the pace of the offensive in the central and eastern parts of the country, and occupied all possible areas to the greatest extent possible before the armistice between the two sides, so as to open up greater space for China's future development, because China's population base is too large, with a population of more than 1 billion like ants in the next few decades. Squeezed into the purported 9.6 million square kilometers, in fact, there is not such a large and narrow space at all. And the usable area is even smaller and pitiful, which is definitely not good.

The vast number of commanders and fighters of the Chinese People's Liberation Army have carried forward the spirit of fighting continuously without fear of sacrifice and fatigue; with full patriotic enthusiasm and stubborn will to fight, relying on the superiority of advanced weapons and equipment in their hands and adopting brand-new methods of warfare, they have completely stopped considering the constraints of this treaty and that treaty; under the guidance of space reconnaissance satellites, with tank armored assault groups and armed helicopters as the lead, supplemented by long-range strikes and air force support, they have continuously advanced in depth into the Soviet Far East.

On the central front, they conquered and occupied Irkutsk, Tuku, Ulan-Ude, Chita and other large and medium-sized cities in the Far East. The Eastern Front occupied Komsomolsk and the political, economic, cultural and industrial-manufacturing centers of the Far East, such as Habarsk and Vladivostok.

On 11 March 1959, the headquarters of the Far East Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army received an order from the central authorities and the supreme leader to cease fire on all fronts and deploy defenses on the spot.

In this border war, which attracted the attention of the world, China and the Soviet Union lasted only 28 days, and the two sides achieved a ceasefire and held peace talks again on the Sino-Soviet border issue. The "Bear Hunt" has come to an end for the time being. The heart that the world is hanging for can be put down for the time being.

The invincible polar bear of the Soviet Union finally paid a heavy price for their stupidity and arrogance, and took on this historical responsibility for their ancestors of Tsarist Russia, which should not have been shouldered!

In these short 28 days, the million-strong army of the Far East Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army swept through the Soviet Far East with a thunderous force, eliminating nearly 490,000 Soviet army, navy, and air force of the Soviet Far East Military District and the Trans-Baikal Military District, of which 120,000 were killed, 230,000 were wounded, and 150,000 were captured. The armed forces of the USSR in the Far East were basically eliminated.

On the Eastern Front, more than 250,000 square kilometers of land lost in the Xing'an Mountains and west of the Erguna River in September 7, 1689, in the 27th year of Kangxi, when the Treaty of Nebuchu was signed, and in 1790, in the 55th year of Qianlong, it was secretly annexed by the Russian Emperor, and in 1860, the "Sino-Russian Treaty of Yanjing" Tsarist Russia forced the Qing government to cede 100,000 square kilometers of Kuye Island; On May 28, 1858, in the 8th year of Xianfeng, Tsarist Russia forced the Qing Dynasty to sign the "Aihui Treaty", which lost a vast area west of the Tongtong River, north of the Heilongjiang River, and south of the Outer Xing'an Mountains, covering an area of about 460,000 square kilometers; On November 14, 1860, in the 10th year of Xianfeng, the "Treaty of Yanjing" lost about 430,000 square kilometers of land near Xingkai Lake east of the Tongtong River and the Ussuri River. This has regained more than 1.2 million square kilometers of land that China had previously lost.

The Kamchatka Peninsula, which is 1,250 kilometers long and covers an area of 372,300 square kilometers, which originally belonged to China in the northeast, is bordered by the Sea of Okhotsk in the west and the Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea in the east.

On October 21, 1727, in the fifth year of Yongzheng, Tsarist Russia deceived the Qing Dynasty into signing the Kyakhta Treaty through deception, and lost about 100,000 square kilometers of land south and southwest of Lake Baikal, and occupied more than 700,000 square kilometers of land north of Outer Mongolia, east of Lake Baikal, and south of 53 degrees north latitude, and recovered the place where Su Wu was shepherding sheep. In total, more than 800,000 square kilometres of land have been recovered and occupied.

To the west of Lake Baikal, the 5th Army of the Far Eastern Corps and the Air Force of the Far Eastern Corps wiped out more than 75,000 Soviet troops of the Baikal Military District and the Siberian Military District of the USSR that came to reinforce the Soviet Army, of which nearly 18,000 were killed, more than 42,000 were wounded, and 15,000 were captured.

Occupied the Irkutsk region west of Lake Baikal, Tuku, as well as the island of Olkhon on the western side of Lake Baikal. A total of more than 100,000 square kilometers of land. So far, half of Lake Baikal, which has been insulated from China for more than 300 years, is more than 600 kilometers long from north to south and more than 40 kilometers wide from east to west, accounting for one-fifth of the world's freshwater resources.

After 28 days of fierce fighting, China regained and occupied more than 2.1 million square kilometers of land at the cost of more than 160,000 casualties and nearly 60 billion yuan. Following the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA), more than 3 million armed backbone militias led by county magistrates, deputy secretaries of county party committees, and ministers of armed forces throughout the country, as well as more than 800,000 military construction soldiers and more than 2 million former civilian workers of the Production and Construction Corps in six regions of Xinjiang Province, Inner Mongolia, Tibet Province, Heilongjiang, Shannan Special Economic Zone, and Ryukyu Special Economic Zone, have been fully stationed in these vast areas recaptured and occupied by the Chinese Far East Corps.

This was followed by a massive migration from the interior to meet the needs of the mobilization of troops and strategic materials. On the cars and trains on the roads and railways leading to these newly occupied areas, you can see those Chinese armed immigrants who carry their burdens, I lead their horses, and carry all kinds of old-fashioned rifles. The arrival of these Chinese completely changed the proportion of the population of the Chinese nation and the Russian nation in these areas, and the rest of the original Mongolian and Manchu natives and the chaotic ethnic minorities who emigrated from the Soviet Union, including Jews, were no longer a force for confrontation. With the incomparable superiority of socialism, China has mobilized the manpower and material resources of the whole country in a short period of time, and at the fastest speed, has created the reality of de facto occupation of these areas.

If we include the 1.5 million square kilometers of Outer Mongolia recovered in the early stage and the Tangnu-Ulianghai area, which was formally invaded and annexed by the Soviet Union in 1944, with an area of 170,000 square kilometers, a total of more than 3.77 million square kilometers of land has been recovered and occupied.

On the Western Front, the Chinese People's Liberation Army Xinjiang Provincial Military District, the Tibet Provincial Military Region and other local units, with the cooperation of the Western Theater Air Force, wiped out more than 50,000 Soviet Central Asian Military Regions through fierce counterattacks. Of these, 13,000 were killed, 22,000 wounded, and 15,000 captured. The Xinjiang Provincial Military Region and the Tibet Provincial Military Region also suffered nearly 30,000 casualties. With the exception of a few areas still occupied by Soviet troops, the pre-war situation on the western border was largely restored. But Tacheng, Hot Springs and other places occupied by the Soviet army were completely destroyed by artillery fire from both sides. It was in ruins.

As a result of the ceasefire on all fronts, it was not possible to concentrate efforts on resolving the issue of the territory occupied by the Soviet Union in the west after the end of the Eastern and Central Campaigns.

China and Tsarist Russia originally had no border in the west, but in 1864, Tsarist Russia spent a hundred years to finally conquer the Bukhar Khanate and Kokand and the three large, medium and small Kazakh regimes that originally belonged to China, invaded and annexed China's dependent states with an area of more than 1 million square kilometers, and finally bordered China's northwest border. Taking advantage of the internal turmoil in China's Taiping Heaven, the Tsarist political axe threatened with force and forced the Qing Dynasty political axe to sign the "Treaty of Survey and Demarcation of the Northwest Boundary" with it. The Treaty stipulates that the border between China and Russia is marked by a permanent Karen, or border outpost. The map unilaterally drawn by Russia has gone far beyond the Chinese border of Karen and into the interior of the province. When the Qing negotiators objected, Russia sent a large army to expel the isolated officers and soldiers of the Karen outpost all the way to the borders of the Russian claim, and arbitrarily seized nearly 440,000 square kilometers of China's land.

In 1865, Aguba, the leader of the Kokand Khanate in Central Asia, launched a rebellion, invaded the province and occupied many areas, preparing to take it for himself. Russia immediately used this as an excuse to send troops to occupy the Ili region of Xinjiang Province, claiming that the Qing Dynasty was temporarily "administering" this area, but in fact it wanted to dismember Xinjiang Province together with the Agubo rebels. The Qing Dynasty showed great courage in the rebellion of its subjects and sent Zuo Zongtang's army to Xinjiang Province to quell the rebellion. Defeated the army of the Aguba rebels and recovered all the provinces except Ili. Later, after arduous negotiations with Russia, the "Ili Treaty" was signed, and Tsarist Russia finally gave up Ili, but cut more than 40,000 square kilometers of land west of the Altai Mountains and the upper reaches of the Irtysh River from China, including a large freshwater lake, Zaisangbo.

After the Treaty of Ili, Tsarist Russia signed several boundary demarcation protocols with the Qing Dynasty one after another, and ceded more than 30,000 square kilometers of land west of the Khorgos River in Xinjiang Province from China. In 1898, Russia sent troops to forcibly occupy more than 20,000 square kilometers of land west of the Salekol Ridge of today's Pamir, seized most of the Pamir Plateau from China, and took away the "Silk Road" from Persia and Rome, which had been opened in the Western Han Dynasty. Thus a long border between China and the Soviet Union in the west was formed. At the same time, it has also created a century-long problem of undefined borders in the Pamirs. It was not until 2001 that China signed a border treaty with Tajikistan, recovering nearly 2,000 square kilometers of its territory, and the rest was separated from China's territory forever.

Now that there is a ceasefire, we can only slow down the mess in the west for now, and then solve it when the opportunity arises.

(To be continued)