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Chapter 496: Truce

In fact, the reason for the southward movement of the Soviet Red Army's position was not as speculated by the Japanese military leadership, but a knee-jerk action made by Ivanov on a temporary basis. Originally, Ivanov's intention was to create a little tense atmosphere for the Japanese army, so that the Kwantung Army would not keep its eyes on the anti-Japanese alliance in the northeast, and of course, not at the representatives he sent to the Inner Gate G Ancient Military Region.

Speaking of this representative, he has a very close relationship with Ivanov, and this time the representative who was sent by the command of the Soviet Far Eastern Military District to meet with Han Yunhua in Saibei is named Ilanova. Kavic, Ivanov's sister, is also a member of the State Political Security Bureau, the Soviet intelligence agency, and at a high level.

How could Ivanov not be worried about his own sister's "mission" to China, because the current situation in China is not much better than that in the western part of the Soviet Union, and even "chaos". After all, the Soviet Union has now stabilized the front, and it is no longer possible for Germany to completely eliminate the Soviet Union in a short period of time, but on the contrary, a large number of munitions enterprises established by the Soviet Union in Siberia have begun to play a role, and a large number of weapons and ammunition have begun to be delivered to Moscow and other battlefields. In the just-concluded Battle of Leningrad, Germany failed to take Leningrad although it inflicted heavy losses on the Soviet Union's Northwest Front. Before the war, Hitler's clamor to wipe Leningrad off the face of the earth became the laughing stock of everyone, and with the current development of the situation, the Soviet Union was still very promising.

However, China is different now, Japan has now basically occupied Burma, and Thailand has now completely surrendered to Japan and has become Japan's "ally". As long as the Japanese army can break through the defense line of the Chinese expeditionary force, then it will cross the Nu River through the Yunnan-Burma Highway and directly attack China's rear, and China will not be far from the end of the country.

In addition, the political situation in China is even more flattering, in addition to Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Government and the ** led by *** are still in joint resistance, a large number of puppet regimes have emerged in northern and southern China. Although Ivanov hated and looked down on those who betrayed the interests of his motherland and people, it was undeniable that the strength of China's current White Army was enough to pose a threat to Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Government and the *** leadership.

Although Japan had sent troops south to compete with Britain and the United States for the Pacific islands, it still had hundreds of thousands of troops stationed in northeast China, which exerted great pressure on the Red Army in the Soviet Far East. Although the Japanese were currently worried about being flanked by the Chinese and Soviet forces, they generally took a defensive stance against the Soviet military operations. However, this does not mean that Japan will watch the Soviets and Han Yunhua's subordinates contact, and the Japanese army's style of doing things will definitely spare no effort to sabotage the Sino-Soviet talks.

If it was a real Soviet officer, Ivanov would not be so worried, after all, even if Ilanova let the Japanese take prisoner, given the current tension between Japan and the Soviet Union, the Japanese army would not do anything to her, and when the time comes, Ivanov will probably be released if he puts some pressure on the Kwantung Army.

But now the problem is that Ilanova is not an officer of the Soviet Union, even if a state cadre is now infiltrating China in this capacity, once it is discovered, there is absolutely only one outcome, that is, to be disposed of as a spy. Espionage refers to agents secretly dispatched by espionage and intelligence agencies to the target country to engage in various illegal espionage activities, mainly stealing secrets, and the latter refers to their own citizens who are secretly recruited by the espionage and intelligence agencies of the other side to serve them. Broadly speaking, a spy is a person who works as a secret detective to spy on confidential information or sabotage from an adversary or competitor in order to benefit the party he is working for. Also known as spies and secret agents. One of the main tasks of espionage is to use illegal or legal means to steal information through secret or open channels, and also to carry out covert acts such as subversion, assassination, kidnapping, explosion, psychological warfare, and sabotage. Persons sent or bribed to engage in espionage, intelligence or sabotage. And Ilanova secretly infiltrated China as an ordinary person, which was a kind of espionage for the Japanese. The world is extremely disgusted with the identity of a spy, so the usual way to deal with enemy spies is to torture and extract all the useful information before executing them.

First of all, we must clarify two concepts, that is, spies and prisoners are different, prisoners refer to all regular armed forces including guerrillas captured in "engagement" battles, and both sides should be given preferential treatment for prisoners, of course, in practice, it is not necessarily whether prisoners are treated preferentially, and the massacre of prisoners is a common thing in "engagement" battles, and there are many reasons, sometimes for food and the combat capability of the troops, and some for political reasons. For the Japanese army, it was even more common to slaughter prisoners who had laid down their arms, let alone spies.

However, Ivanov himself didn't know that in fact, the Japanese army had been exhausted by Han Yunhua's provocation during this time, how could there be any "fine" strength to arrest Ilanova, and under the control of Li Dingguo, the Japanese army brigade did not dare to go out of the county ten miles away. The Japanese have not received any news about Illanova's secret visit to China until now, let alone sent troops to search for Illanova.

The tension between the Soviet Union and Japan relieved Han Yunhua, and it was impossible to retreat to the squadron according to the consistent style of the Kwantung Army, even if it suffered heavy losses in the previous period of battle, but it did not hurt the bones of the Kwantung Army, so it was impossible for General Umezu Mijiro to control Tongliao, an important city that controlled the entire Horqin steppe.

However, due to Ivanov's "inadvertent" move, the sensitive General Umezu Mijiro had to withdraw from the military enclave of Tongliao, which was cheapened by Han Yunhua's headquarters in vain.

However, after all, the Soviet Union could not fight with Japan, which Han Yunhua knew better than anyone that although the Soviet Union now said that it had a tendency to turn the tide of the war, it was no longer like when it was just started the war and had no power to fight back, and a large area of the country was lost. However, the Soviet Union still did not have any advantage over the current Germany, and even in terms of the combat effectiveness of its troops, it was much worse. Moreover, Han Yunhua also knew that Germany's new round of military operations against the Soviet Union had reached the execution stage, and in three months at most, Germany's millions of troops would come to Moscow, staging a real military presence in the city.

Therefore, in the current situation, Japan does not dare to go to war with the Soviet Union, and how can the Soviet Union dare to act like Japan. Han Yunhua was also a wise person, knowing that with the current strength of the Inner Gate G Ancient Military Region, it was impossible to compete with the Japanese Kwantung Army, so after Shen Yuquan's unit occupied Tongliao, Han Yunhua ordered the Suidong Military Division to stop its eastward advance and set the battle line at the border between Suiyuan and the northeast.

Shen Yuquan is also a person who understands, and knows that with the current strength of the Suidong Army Division, if he fights to the death with the Kwantung Army, the chances of victory are not great, and even if he barely wins, the losses will be very heavy. In addition, the soldiers of the Suidong Army Division were all puppet Manchukuo's national defense forces before, and if they were to fight with their former colleagues now, they would definitely not be able to accept it emotionally, and it would be really difficult to say how many layers the combat effectiveness of the troops would be at that time.

On April 14, Shen Yuquan sent a telegram from Tongliao, saying that Li Dingguo had joined up with Ilanova and was now heading straight for Tongliao.

Han Yunhua secretly said "It's so fast", from Boli to Guisui is five or six thousand miles away, this foreign girl is fast enough, it has only been half a month since they set off, that is to say, the average daily march distance of Ilanova and others is more than two hundred miles. It's easy to say in other places, but it's much more difficult in Northeast China, you must know that the development of Northeast China at this time is not enough, many places still have no road to go, there are vast forests everywhere, and if you are not careful, you will be "lost" in this kind of place... [This chapter is not finished, please click on the next page to continue reading!] ］