readx; Just when the enemy was attacking on a large scale and the situation of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was deteriorating, a Chinese political axe plane flew to Wuhan from other places, and the dignitaries on board the plane were Chiang Kai-shek and his wife. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Due to bad weather, the US-made Boeing passenger plane encountered strong air flow interference and hovered over Wuhan and could not land. The captain reported that the plane would be redirected to Jiujiang Airport after receiving an emergency notice on the ground.

Chiang Kai-shek did not speak, his expression was always serious and unfathomable, and his wife Song Meiling was close to her husband, looking out of the porthole from time to time, and she could see that she was a little worried. The atmosphere in the cabin suddenly became tense, because the guards who were familiar with Chiang Kai-shek knew that the expressionless expression of this big man was the most serious expression, so they tiptoed cautiously one by one.

The plane changed its alternate landing attitude, the captain raised the nose sharply, and the plane let out a heavy roar, trying to break through the air vortex and heavy clouds. A glass of water fell to the floor with a screeching sound of shattering bones. It was as if the passengers were all pressed to their seats with a large frightened hand, and they heard a palpitating protest from the wings of the plane.

Chiang Kai-shek still sat upright, his hands on his cane, oblivious to the shattered glass of water and the bad weather, as if the safety of the plane had nothing to do with him. For the ruler of great power, it was not the weather that put him in danger now, but the war, and his mind was still on the Xuzhou front line that he had just inspected.

To be precise, the battle in Xuzhou has become irreversible, and he has just issued a retreat order to the Fifth War Zone.

It can be expected that the retreat of Xuzhou on all fronts will inevitably cause another strong earthquake in the crisis-ridden national political axe. "VII. In just 10 months since the "Seven Incidents," he has unstoppably occupied half of China, and the capital Nanjing, Tianjin, Yanjing, Shanghai, Shijiazhuang, Taiyuan, Jinan, and other large cities have fallen one after another, and the whole country has been condemning and condemning it.

Not only did those ill-intentioned opposition and anti-Chiang forces attack one after another, but even the righteous people who resolutely supported the War of Resistance also asked bitterly: If this continues, in another 10 months, will China not be destroyed by the small country of Pier?

An imperceptible sneer appeared on Chiang Kai-shek's face.

He was a professional soldier, a military politician to be precise, and he was never afraid of war and the threat of force. He understands the mystery of war, fighting is not arithmetic, and one plus one does not necessarily equal two. Does 10 months of my occupation of half of China mean that 20 months will mean that I will definitely occupy the whole of China? No, that's just an excuse for others to oppose him.

Looking back on the ups and downs of the Anti-Japanese War, it can really be described as a series of twists and turns, and it is difficult for outsiders to know. At the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, the international community intervened to mediate, and the German ambassador to China, Mr. Taudemann, shuttled back and forth between Tokyo and Nanjing, and after repeated mediation, four secret "armistice agreements" were reached in November last year:

"1. Recognize Manchukuo and conclude an anti-communist pact; 2. Banning anti-anti-anti-anti-speech activities; 3. Abolish free flight and special trade in eastern Hebei; Fourth, the Chinese and Chinese armies retreated to the "seventh. VII. "The ceasefire line before the incident." ”

Even Wang Jingwei, the leader of the "pro-Yue faction" who had read the contents of the agreement at that time, was puzzled and said: If it was just these conditions, I really don't know why the war was going to war.

China said that an armistice was imminent.

Only Chiang Kai-shek knew in his heart that the results at the negotiating table came from the battlefield, because the army encountered unprecedented stubborn resistance in the Shanghai area, and the myth of "destroying China in three months" was shattered, which showed that it was not completely impossible to stop or even thwart the invasion of Yueben. However, as diplomatic negotiations were in full swing and the cease-fire agreement was about to be signed and put into effect, the situation on the Songhu battlefield took a sudden turn for the worse, and the successful landing of the army in Hangzhou Bay directly led to the rout of the defenders and the fall of the capital Nanjing.

The military victory brought his own arrogant ambitions to the top, and they not only greatly raised the asking price for the armistice, but also revised the first four conditions, and added two new items: "autonomy of North China and Inner Mongolia" and "payment of huge war indemnities."

Even the German ambassador Tao, who had read the terms, had to pessimistically say that it was impossible for the Nationalists to accept such harsh armistice conditions.

Diplomatic negotiations broke down, and the result of the continuation of the war was that the Battle of Xuzhou once again ended with a complete defeat for the Chinese [***] team.

The plane finally broke out of the clouds, got rid of the strong air current, and the flight became smooth. The passengers breathed a sigh of relief, and a murmuring began to sound in the cabin. Lin Wei, director of the chamberlain, sent an urgent telegram to the chairman, which was jointly sent by Wang Zanxu, acting chairman of the Sichuan Provincial Political Axe, and Deng Xihou, director of the Sichuan Kang Appeasement Administration, to the effect that the rear of Sichuan warmly and unanimously welcomed the central government's entry into Sichuan to resist the war.

The corners of Chiang Kai-shek's mouth twitched slightly, indicating that he had a little anger in his heart, but he didn't show it, just gave a brief instruction:

"Hui Wang and Deng Dian, please take the overall situation of the Anti-Japanese War as the priority, make preparations for the relocation of the central government as soon as possible, and hope that there will be no delay."

The core issue of the War of Resistance was still the question of leadership. With defeat after defeat on the battlefield, rifts and contradictions within the Kuomintang appeared, and Chiang Kai-shek's iron-fisted rule was repeatedly weakened. The "pro-Yue faction" headed by Vice President Wang Jingwei was unprecedentedly active, and they united forces from all sides to actively carry out activities and wait for an opportunity to seize power.

Since the establishment of the capital of Nanjing, Chiang Kai-shek was forced to go into the opposition twice as a result of his political opponent Wang Ching-wei's active "overthrow of Chiang." Although the chairman of the NPC National Committee eventually returned to the political arena through the crisis, his prestige was greatly damaged and he had to have some scruples. The question is that at present, he is going to attack fiercely and step by step, and he will definitely put the national political axe and himself to death; if Wang Jingwei launches another intra-party coup d'état at this time and forces him to step down, will he, the chairman of the NPC National Committee, who has had three ups and downs, still have a chance to come back to life?

The plane travels through the clouds, and the motor sings majestically. The clouds outside the portholes thinned out, and the snow-white clouds swept backwards like a flock of sheep. Chiang Kai-shek, who was preoccupied, was still in his own thoughts.

Originally, the Kuomintang was a hodgepodge of Chinese and Western cultures, and the "three-ming-boiled righteousness" was the biggest breeding ground for intra-party struggles. In a sense, party struggle is more than a battlefield, and the enemies within the party are more dangerous and threatening than the open enemies, and it is impossible for him to destroy China, but the anti-Chiang forces headed by Wang Ching-wei were able to oust Chairman Chiang from power and defeat him from within.

Now Chiang Kai-shek was once again faced with the dilemma of fighting on two fronts.

After the fall of Nanjing, Li Lingzhi said that he thought that he had done a great job, and even threw out the so-called political axe statement of "not taking the national political axe as an opponent", that is, the notorious "First Guard Statement".

Facts have proved that most of the politicians in China are short-sighted and warmongering, and the occupation of China's capital does not mean China's destruction, even if China's remaining unoccupied territory exceeds the area of China's capital by more than 20 times, do you issue a prime minister's statement that the national political axe does not exist? Will the resolute resistance of the [***] team of millions disappear automatically? Why "not to use the national political axe as an opponent"? What a bunch of self-deluded war maniacs.

Chiang Kai-shek crossed east many times, and was well aware of the so-called "bushido" spirit of the Yamato nation of bullying the weak and fearing the hard, and said that the limit of his combat power was to mobilize 2 million troops, while China could mobilize at least 20 million troops, which means that if he compared this to a snake, then China is an elephant, can a snake swallow an elephant?

Therefore, the War of Resistance must be persevered, this is the only way out for China. Summing up the lessons learned from the 10 months of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Chiang Kai-shek came to the conclusion that victory or defeat at the negotiating table was ultimately on the battlefield. If you don't want to fight, then you must fight a big victory, and if you don't want war, then you must resolutely fight. Last year's Songhu War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, which lasted more than 100 days, not only caused the arrogant Yue himself to suffer a great deal of suffering, but also almost forced the present representative to sign the armistice agreement. The word "forced" reflects Chiang Kai-shek's core strategic thinking in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War.

More than two months ago, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the mobilization of 600,000 troops to carry out the Battle of Xuzhou, ostensibly to prevent the enemy from opening up the Tianjin-Pudong Railway, but the underlying intention of the base camp was still to force Yue himself to return to the negotiating table.

For this reason, the squadron once broke the main force of the elite 5th and 10th divisions of the Yue Army in Taierzhuang, and achieved the famous victory in Taierzhuang.

It is a pity that the banner of victory could not be held high as desired, and the two major dispatch armies of North China and Central China carried out a flanking attack from the north and south, and the Fifth Theater had no choice but to abandon Xuzhou and carry out a strategic retreat. Although theoretically speaking, the Battle of Xuzhou should not be regarded as a defeat, because the main force of our army was not surrounded by the enemy, and preserving its strength was conducive to the long-term war of resistance, domestic public opinion and the masses would not look at the problem in this way. Retreat means that more land is occupied by the enemy, and more people are reduced to slavery in the country, so retreat is to flee, and Wang Jingwei and the opposition will never fail to take advantage of this opportunity to make trouble. In a sense, any military defeat at the front would lead to a political crisis and push Chiang Kai-shek into the crater of an imminent eruption

The plane began to circle down, and the passengers developed a feeling of weightlessness with dizziness and tinnitus. Suddenly, the fuselage shook heavily, and then it jolted, and the passengers couldn't help but let out a burst of exclamation.

Jiujiang Airport has arrived. Chiang Kai-shek stretched out his hand to his wife, who grabbed her husband, and the two smiled. The lady got up and said softly:

"Darling, we are safe, God will bless China."

Dai Li rushed to the heavily guarded Donghu Mansion early in the morning to meet the principal.

He was told that the principal had just slept in the early hours of the morning when he had seen the guests the previous night, so Dai Li had to sit in the reception room and wait patiently. But soon he was told that the headmaster had gotten up and wanted to see him immediately.

Chiang Kai-shek sat in his study, the formidable ruler who looked good at this time, dressed in a thin poplin robe and round cloth shoes, with a calm expression on his eyes, and no sign that he had slept for only two hours. Chiang Kai-shek is said to have slept very little, had a clear mind and was full of energy, and never met with his subordinates when he was poorly dressed or in poor spirits. Dai Li's ghostly spirit, this spy leader is rampant in the world, but it is not without reason to be afraid of Chiang Kai-shek.

Dai Li arrived to present two important pieces of information to the principal.

According to a report, Wang Kemin, the puppet head of the North China Political Axe, led a delegation of the so-called "Provisional Political Axe of China" to visit Tokyo, saying that he had given the puppet the etiquette of receiving foreign heads of state and publicized it in a big way, and diplomats from several Western powers even appeared at the welcoming ceremony at the Tokyo airport. Another report is that Wang Kemin's assistant, Gao Lingwei, the leader of the North China Han Dynasty and the provincial chairman, was assassinated by secret agents of the Military Intelligence Bureau.

Two pieces of information bring two very different flavors; It is also cold and warm, happy and worried, such as overturning the five-flavor seasoning plate, which makes Chiang Kai-shek's brows tightly locked and his mood complicated.

The first piece of information shows that he has begun to create international public opinion that "does not use the national political axe as an opponent" and tried to create a fact that the legitimate Chinese political axe will be replaced by a puppet political axe of the Han Dynasty. Originally, this was just a farce directed by himself, and it was not worth refuting, but what deserves attention was that "several diplomats from Western powers were present", what signal did this sign reveal, and did it indicate that the positions of certain Western powers have begun to change? Could it be that the selfish Westerners have lost confidence in the Chinese Nationalist Axe in the arduous war of resistance, and have turned to make an unspeakable secret deal with him?

The second telegram came at a very timely time, and it happened to give a solemn warning to all the Han cloverdogs who were willing to betray the country and join the enemy, believing that Wang Kemin and his ilk, including those hidden surrender factions, would be frightened into a cold sweat. Of course, in fact the content of the telegram was not entirely accurate, and Gao Lingwei was not killed on the spot, he was only seriously injured and died in the hospital the following year.

Chiang Kai-shek pondered for a moment and instructed Dai Li to disclose to the newspaper the news that the Han annihilator had been killed by patriots, and to continue to monitor the movements of the enemy and the puppeteers. As soon as Dai Li, who understood this, had withdrawn when the chief of the guard came in and reported that the Soviet ambassador to China, Mr. Rumganz, had asked to see the chairman.

Chiang Kai-shek changed into a majestic yellow tweed commander's uniform, wore a bowler military hat, and wore a formal short sword at his waist and walked into the living room. Chiang Kai-shek has always been very particular about receiving foreign envoys, and during the War of Resistance Against Japan, clothing is an important prop, and he wants to convey an unshakable message to the international community through this diplomatic image, that is, his leadership is unshakable, and Chairman Chiang is the supreme commander of the Central [***] team.

The Soviet ambassador was a shrewd and well-rounded career diplomat, fluent in Chinese, who embraced the Chinese chairman according to Western custom. Chiang Kai-shek frowned slightly, but it was only a momentary expression, and a cordial and friendly smile soon appeared on his face, and he congratulated the Soviet ambassador "IV. 29 air victory".

In fact, Chiang Kai-shek did not like this obese Russian with a pair of blue eyes, he did not even like all Westerners, he always thought that Westerners had a bad animal smell.

The Soviet ambassador arrived to inform the chairman of the Chinese National Committee of the latest proposal on his country's political axe; In order to effectively ensure the unbreakable friendship between China and the Soviet Union, Generalissimo Stalin and the great Soviet political axe proposed to formally send a military advisory group to China to help the Chinese [***] team more effectively master Soviet weapons to fight the invaders

This proposal would be one of the preconditions for the Soviet government to consider granting three loans totaling $250 million to China.

The chairman smiled meaningfully, but his smile began to stiffen and solidify. Since the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, only a small number of Soviets have been allowed to serve as military advisers in the Central Army, and their main task is to help the training team master Soviet-style weapons.

However, people with a modicum of common sense know that the CPSU provided international assistance to Chiang Kai-shek, who had always been known for his political axe, completely out of necessity, and Stalin's move was by no means out of international morality but out of consideration of his own strategic interests

At that time, almost all European capitalist countries, including Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and of course, the powerful opportunist United States, all hoped to see the ambitious and expansionist Yue himself attack the Soviet Union instead of China, and the more resolutely the Chinese resisted, the longer the war protracted, the more it dragged Yue himself, so that he could not let go of the attack on Siberia.

But the Soviets were by no means fools, and they were not willing to make a loss-making deal even if it was in their national interests to help China, so of course their assistance came with conditions, and at this moment the Soviet ambassador justifiably proposed to send a military advisory mission to ask for something in return. The Soviet advisers came to China for no show, and they naturally demanded certain privileges, such as entering the command center of the base camp, intervening in the core secrets of the political axe, and even demanding military command.

Chiang Kai-shek felt this creeping red threat. If before the arrival of the Russians, he was more welcoming to German advisers, in addition to the generous German military aid and other material reasons, it was also because Hitler's anti-Russian [***] stance coincided with him. So what kind of goods are the Soviets? They are the ancestors of [***], and they are the birthplace and base camp of [***], which is regarded by the Western world as the "red peril".

Chiang Kai-shek still smiled gracefully and magnanimously, hiding his ever-changing inner activities, and only those who knew him well could see the iron will behind the various masks of the chairman.

Chiang Kai-shek's biggest enemy was the war of aggression launched by imperialism and his opposition in the party, Wang Ching-wei, so he had to unite all international forces, even if he made the greatest concessions to his former enemies. The chairman of the NPC National Committee is the leader of a big country, and a politician has no eternal enemies or permanent friends, and only the principle of putting interests first is the unchangeable principle.

Chiang Kai-shek said to the Soviet ambassador on the spot, of course, the Nationalist political axe does not object to the friendly Soviet political axe sending a military advisory group to China to help in the war, but the advisory group alone cannot win the war, so please Mr. Ambassador to convey to the distinguished Excellency Stalin, please your country ratify the loan treaty as soon as possible, and this is the only correct way to defeat the Yue himself!

(To be continued)