Two days later, Bai Sitong returned to Kunming, and had detailed talks with Zhuang Jihua and Long Yun before flying to Yucheng, Wang Jingwei refused to return to China, but repeatedly reiterated his two major reasons, he negotiated with Yue Ben in a private capacity, and if he succeeded, he would be defeated by the political axe, but his reputation would be damaged. Chen Gong Bo Tuo Bai Sitong brought a letter to Chiang Kai-shek and ran to Hong Kong by himself.

"Mr. Wang was completely wrong this time, and he buried a lifetime of fame, which is embarrassing." Bai Sitong was extremely sorry, but Long Yun was very shocked, Bai Sitong was Wang Jingwei's person, and now he also turned his back on Wang Jingwei, and then received telegrams from Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi, Zhang Fakui, Yu Hanmou and others, these telegrams all showed their attitude, supported the War of Resistance to the end, and opposed peace talks.

Chiang Kai-shek also sent him a telegram, and the tone of the telegram was very gentle, and he did not mention his return to Yunnan without permission, but suggested that he stay in Yunnan for a while, visit various places, and return after his body was well repaired. Long Yun also appeared in Kunming in a bright light, and then visited various places accompanied by Long Shenzu.

On the 23rd, Wang Jingwei sent a telegram asking the Kuomintang to adjust its diplomatic stance, start peace talks with him, and put forward three demands: good-neighborliness and friendship, joint defense against communism, and economic cooperation; The National Government is required to adopt three recommendations. On the 24th, Wang Jingwei announced the draft of the secret agreement reached with Yueben.

Chiang Kai-shek ordered Foreign Minister Wang Chonghui to inform the embassies of various countries in China that Wang Ching-wei had no right to handle foreign affairs on behalf of the Kuomintang, and on 25 July, Chiang Kai-shek convened an emergency meeting of the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang, announcing that Wang Ching-wei would be expelled from the party, and that Wang Ching-wei, Chen Bijun, Zhou Fohai, Zeng Zhongming, and others would be wanted throughout the country.

GCD sent a telegram to the Central Committee of the Kuomintang, reiterating its support for the Kuomintang to resist the war to the end and opposing compromise and surrender. The reaction of Yucheng and GCD did not surprise Wang Jingwei, and what disappointed him was that local powerful factions in various places also telegraphed, Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi, Liu Wenhui, Deng Xihou, He Jian, Yu Hanmou, and even Sheng Shicai of Xinjiang Province also telegraphed Yucheng to support the national political axe to resist the war to the end and oppose surrender and betrayal. On 29 April, Long Yun, whom he had high hopes for, sent a telegram in Kunming to denounce Wang Jingwei and support the Kuomintang.

People in various localities rose up to oppose it, and demonstrations continued in Yucheng, Chengdu, Kunming, Guiyang, Changsha, and Xi'an, and opposition to surrender became the hottest topic for a while.

On 8 May, the military commander's planned action against Wang Jingwei was launched in Hanoi, but he was already on guard, and Kagezo Zhenzhao knew that China had a unit that was good at assassination, so as soon as Wang Jingwei arrived in Hanoi, he was fully protected by the secret service of Wang Jingwei, and the assassination team was discovered as soon as they arrived around Wang Jingwei's house, and all four military commander agents who had infiltrated Wang Jingwei's house were killed.

After the assassination failed, Wang Jingwei immediately went to Shanghai to discuss the next plan of action with Yu Ben.

At the same time as the great changes took place in China, the war situation in Europe also changed dramatically, and on 10 May, the German army officially launched its offensive against Western Europe. The German army was divided into three routes, and the 28th division led by General Bock on the Western Front crossed the German-Dutch border and the Derby border, followed the old road of the Schlieffen Plan, avoided the Maginot Line, and attacked France from the Western Front.

The Anglo-French forces, under the command of the commander-in-chief of the French army, entered Belgium with the main force and blocked the German army in Belgian territory. But this move fell into the trap of the German army.

The main force of the German army was in the middle, General Rundstead commanded forty-four divisions, crossed the Ardennes mountains, crossed the Maas River in the Sedan area, with Guderian's tanks as the vanguard, hundreds of thousands of German troops in gray uniforms, under the spring sun, on a pleasant march in northern France, the whole of France, trembling under the attack of the German army, the whole world, by the lightning attack of the German army, was stunned.

Brussels fell, the Netherlands surrendered, Belgium surrendered, and 300,000 Anglo-French troops were surrounded at Dunkirk; The Germans detoured behind the Maginot Line, hundreds of thousands of French troops were besieged, and Paris became almost an empty city.

On 10 May, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigned, and Churchill became the British Prime Minister during the Axe War. Churchill invited the leaders of various political parties in Britain to form a joint wartime cabinet. On 20 May, Guderian occupied Amin, and the main forces of the Anglo-French forces in Belgium were completely surrounded.

On 10 June, Italy declared war on Britain and France, and the Italian army crossed the Italian-French border to attack France. At the same time, the French political axe declared Paris an undefended city, and the French political axe moved to Tours, and then to Porto. On 14 June, the German army entered Paris, French Prime Minister Renaud resigned, and Marshal Petain, a veteran hero of World War I, became French Prime Minister. On June 21, France surrendered.

France, which held out for four years in the last war, was completely defeated in a war of just one and a half months, and the whole world was stunned, from London to Washington, Moscow, to Tokyo, and Yucheng, and its eyes fell to the ground.

"Director Zhuang was prescient." Long Shenwu sighed and began to secretly build fortifications on the Yunnan-Vietnam border, and at the same time sent people to northern Vietnam to observe the terrain and draw topographic maps.

"Don't leave the bus behind!" The military headquarters in Tokyo was jubilant, and the victory of the German army made the South Seas seem so empty, like a ripe fruit without a master, which can be picked by reaching out.

"Britain will soon sue for peace, and Germany's huge military power will turn to the north, and it is the right time to avenge the hatred of Zhang Gufeng and defeat Soviet Russia." Another voice also wafted over Tokyo.

At the end of May, several delayed Zhanggufeng offensive began, the army concentrated two elite divisions and 200 planes to occupy the Soviet army to attack Zhanggufeng, after two days of fierce fighting, the army occupied Zhanggufeng and Shacaoling, and then the Soviet army counterattacked with three divisions and 500 aircraft, the two sides fought fiercely for half a month, the Soviet army finally recaptured Zhanggufeng, the army suffered heavy casualties, lost the ability to attack, in mid-June, just before the French surrendered, the Soviet Union signed an armistice agreement in Moscow.

The navy advocated going south to collect the British, French, and Dutch colonies in the South Seas, and to obtain oil and rubber, which were very precious to the city; The army advocated a northward march and another attack on Soviet Russia.

The Triple Alliance has once again become a point of contention in the Minai cabinet, with the Army advocating a sign as soon as possible, while the Navy is still opposed. The attitude of the Navy angered the radical young officers in the Army, and rumors appeared again in Tokyo that the Army was going to assassinate Yamamoto Isoroku, the Vice Admiral of the Navy, and Mitsumasa Yonechi hurriedly appointed Yamamoto as commander of the Combined Fleet.

What Minai wanted to solve most was that there was a glimmer of hope in the Shina Incident, and he was about to formally sign an agreement with Wang Jingwei in accordance with the predetermined steps, when the Minister of War, Hideki Tojo, and the commander-in-chief of the Shina Dispatch Army, Tada Jun, objected at the same time.

"According to the agreement, Wang Jingwei should set up a political axe in the China region, but now he is setting up a political axe in Nanjing, this is Prime Minister Wang Jingwei's sabotage of the treaty, and the original treaty should be annulled and renegotiated." Hideki Tojo spoke out at a cabinet meeting and insisted that the treaty be renegotiated and redrafted.

Hideki Tojo also read out a telegram sent by Tada Jun from Nanjing: "The officers and men of the Imperial Army fought hard for three years and won the victory with great sacrifices, so they gave up, there was no indemnity, no garrison, and the front-line soldiers would never agree; Besides, Wang Jingwei's establishment of a political axe in Nanjing can really bring peace? Can Yucheng really give up resistance? If this is not the case, why withdraw? Please consider it in detail by the Cabinet! ”

The strong opposition forced Mitsumasa Yonechi to reconsider, and at a meeting convened by the Cabinet, five principles were determined: (1) the new central government axe was composed of Wang Jingwei, Yin Rugeng, the provisional and restored regimes, and the Yucheng political axe who had changed his mind; (2) The new central government's political axe is based on the "policy of adjusting the new relationship between the two sides"; (3) Establish the quality and basic ability of people who are particularly needed for the new political axe; (4) The political axe system is based on the principle of division and cooperation: that is, North China is a region closely integrated with China in terms of national defense and economy, Mongolia and Xinjiang are highly autonomous areas for defense and communism, the lower reaches of the Yangtze River are closely integrated with the economy, and specific islands along the coast of South China are given special status; (5) Allowing the existence of the meaning of the sangming boil that cannot be resisted; (6) If the Yucheng political axe abandons the policy of resisting the CCP, changes the personnel, and accepts the first and second items listed above, it may become one of the constituent elements of the new central political axe.

The Cabinet meeting delegated to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the General Staff Headquarters the specific terms of the contract, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the General Staff Headquarters acted quickly, and it took only one week to put forward four documents, including the "Outline for the Adjustment of the New Relations between the Republic of China and the Republic of China," the "Principles for the Adjustment of the New Relations between the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China," the "Essentials for the Adjustment of the New Relations between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the General Staff Headquarters," and the "Matters of Secret Understanding," which completely overturned the secret agreement between Hong Kong.

At this moment, Wang Jingwei, who was in Shanghai, had fallen into a total passivity and was unable to set up a political axe in the Kuomintang region, which made him lose the initiative in negotiations with Yueben, and he felt that Yue himself began to doubt whether he could really represent China.

In order to counter the adverse effects of Wang Jingwei's surrender, Chiang Kai-shek was determined to launch a summer campaign and launch a nationwide counteroffensive.

The summer counteroffensive was dominated by the Ninth Theater, and Chen Cheng commanded three group armies to counterattack Nanchang; Gu Zhutong commanded the three armies of the Third Theater to counterattack in central Zhejiang; Five war zones, sweeping the periphery of Wuhan; Wei Lihuang commanded the first theater to counterattack Zhengzhou, and at the same time, in Guangxi, the fierce battle in southern Guizhou was still going on, and the [***] team gradually grasped the initiative on the battlefield, and the army abandoned the first-line position of Kunlun Pass and retreated to Nanning.

Black cars stopped at the ferry crossing waiting to cross the river, newsboys shouted along the long road, and passengers waiting for the ferry in the distance looked enviously at the long convoy, the bombed-out houses on the hillside were already empty.

"Look at the newspaper, read the newspaper, [***] counterattack Nanchang and eliminate two thousand troops!"

"General Gu Zhutong vs. Zhejiang!"

"Look at the newspaper, look at the latest battle report!"

The car door was pushed open, Zhuang Jihua stepped out of the car, looking at the other side with a solemn expression, he didn't know what Chiang Kai-shek recalled him from Guiyang this time?

(To be continued)