Chapter 358: Soviet Traitor
More than 100,000 rebels, of course, are not the opponents of so many armies, began to organize a retreat, retreated to the northern mountains of the Soviet Union, suppressed the rebellion on the battlefield of the Soviet army suffered great casualties, more than 50,000 people were killed alone, of course, the rebels also suffered heavy losses, after all, they did not have tanks, artillery and other heavy weapons grabbed only a little light weapons, but these disadvantages were their battle-hardened excellent command, slightly reversed some of the situation, but still could not change the fate of defeat, in this case still not a rebel surrendered, Because surrender is death!
Why did the Soviet army fight so hard even the poorly armed rebels, look at what Stalin did, from the assassination of Kirov in 1934 until 1938, the losses suffered by the USSR were unprecedented, especially militarily, and their losses were far from comparable to those of the Great Patriotic War: in 1966 of the deputies to the XVII Congress, 1108 "disappeared".
The high-ranking generals of the Soviet Red Army were killed: 3 out of 5 marshals, 3 out of 5 commanders of the 1st class, all of the 10 commanders of the 2nd class, 50 out of 57 army commanders, 154 out of 186 division commanders, all of the 16 commissars of the 1st and 2nd class armies, 25 out of 28 army commissars, 58 out of 64 division commissars, 401 out of 456 regimental commanders. No war can afford an army to lose so many high-ranking generals, and Stalin did this in peacetime.
The Soviet Union suppressed the rebellion at home, and the Western countries gloated, but the Soviet Union did not go to other countries to trouble, but found little Japan, and the headless corpse is the best evidence.
Japan is also arrogant. Severely condemning the Soviet Union was made out of nothing, but the Soviet Union insisted that the Japanese planned this conspiracy and rebellion, and were directly involved, because there was a Soviet marshal who was rescued, he was the commander of the Red Banner Far Eastern Special Army Vasily? Konstantinovich? Blyukhel, as long as this man is willing to surrender to Japan, then everything in the Soviet Far East will be open to Japan.
At the end of June 1940, the Soviet army suddenly occupied Zhanggufeng, built fortifications on the mountain, and laid out barbed wire. The Japanese, who had already designated Northeast China as a puppet "Manchukuo" and Korea as their colony, quit doing it. The Japanese think. The Soviets' occupation of Zhanggufeng was equivalent to a strategic point where they could control Korea and northeastern China.
But since the Japanese army was preparing to attack Wuhan. The Japanese forces were making frequent moves, and it was difficult to clash with the Soviets on a large scale. The base camp had no choice but to order the Japanese Kwantung Army to enter a state of first-class combat readiness, and at the same time the cabinet instructed the Japanese ambassador to the Soviet Union, Shigemitsu Aoi, to mediate with the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union made its position clear. It was impossible to withdraw troops from Zhanggufeng. Shigemitsu Aoi's diplomatic mediation has reached an impasse.
The Japanese base camp made a painful determination: to recapture Zhang Gufeng. The Japanese and Soviet sides launched repeated battles for the heights of Shacao Peak and Zhanggu Peak. And constantly increase the number of troops. The total number of Japanese troops participating in the battle was nearly 7,000 and 37 artillery pieces, and the Soviet army "assembled more than 15,000 men, 237 artillery pieces, and 285 tanks in the area of combat operations before August 5."
Another 250 aircraft supported the operations of Soviet troops. On August 11, at the suggestion of the Japanese side, the two sides stopped fighting. The Soviets took control of Zhanggufeng and occupied Shacaofeng, and the Japanese retreated to the west bank of the Tumen River, abandoning the border line they had always adhered to. Then, the two sides signed an agreement, and the Soviet Union easily seized a large part of China from the Japanese imperialists.
In 1940, the Soviet KGB's Minister for the Far East, Lyusikov, fearing a purge, quickly made contact with Japanese spies, and in 1940 he secretly fled across the border to Manchuria, a territory in northeastern China, and defected to the Japanese Kwantung Army, where the Harbin secret service was responsible for examining them. Ryushikov was the head of the Far East region of the KGB of the Soviet Union, and he held a large number of secrets such as the code of espionage and communication in the Far East, and was detained by the Japanese army to Tokyo.
Ryusikov's escape, Soviet Russia pretended to be calm on the surface, and denied the incident as if nothing happened, but it caused a panic at the top of Soviet Russia, and also caused a shock to the Japanese that was no less than a sudden tsunami! The most important piece of information brought by this Lyusikov, whose full title is "Minister of the Far East Region of the NKVD of the Soviet Union" and whose rank is a general, is that there are hundreds of thousands of Red Army troops and 1,000 or more military planes in the Far East of Soviet Russia. By the end of June 1940, the Japanese army had only 9 divisions against the Soviet Union in Korea and Manchuria. Another 2 divisions are in China, and the remaining 23 divisions are deployed on the battlefield against China. If Soviet Russia had fought against Japan at this time, Japan would have been almost like a praying mantis.
As a precaution, Japan hastened to increase the strength of the Kwantung Army and vigorously expanded its air force and armored forces along the border. In the tense situation on both sides, in the area of "Nomenkan". A large-scale armed confrontation, in which both sides used artillery, tanks, and aircraft, would be a real contest of strength between Japan and the Soviet Union. As Ryusikov testified, the Soviet Union intended to attack Japan when Japan had exhausted its strength in the Sino-Japanese War.
On June 21, eight days after Rusikov's defection, Akira Kagesa, who had been transferred from chief of the Strategy Division of the Intelligence Department of the General Staff Headquarters to head of the Military Affairs Division of the Ministry of the Army, drafted a document entitled "Outline for the Handling of the Shina Incident" and submitted it to Seishiro Itagaki, who was already Minister of War at that time. In this document, which serves as an army's strategy, there is already the idea of striving to end the "Japan-China Incident" within the year in order to avoid the possibility of being attacked on the two battlefields in the future.
The "Japan-China Incident" was to be put to an end within the year -- at this time, Japan was already considering peace talks with the Soviet Union, and this kind of thinking of some high-ranking Japanese generals became even more serious, and some big changes began to take place in the thinking of the northward faction, and many people believed that with the help of Germany, it was no longer possible for China to completely defeat China, and in order to prevent the empire from falling into the quagmire of fighting on two fronts, it should immediately withdraw its troops from China to "Manchukuo" and wait for an opportunity to develop northward, while the southward faction advocated throwing all its forces in China into the war in the South Seas.
The biggest change in Japan was that there were many people who thought that it was time to go north, but there were also many people who opposed it, and the war between Japan and China was not fought or discorded, but Japan also sent the prince to Wuhan to negotiate with Chiang Kyu-shi. Jiang Jieshi did not dare to take the initiative to attack the Japanese army, and Jiang Jieshi's main task now was to train his own troops. Of course, the peace talks did not lead to anything, Japan wants to own the territory of China that it is now occupied, and can Chiang Kyu-shi agree? Do you dare to say yes? Once Jiang Jieshi agreed, he would be a thief through the ages, so the negotiations were just going through the motions, and the final result between China and Japan still needed to be resolved by force.
The armed confrontation between Japan and the Soviet Union, of course, Li Mo will pay attention, but he will not think of intervening, and Li Mo wants to participate in the negotiations between China and Japan, but it seems that he does not have that qualification, and it is impossible for the Japanese to agree to the appearance of the executioner who slaughtered the elite of 200,000 Japanese troops at the negotiating table, Li Mo can only use one sentence, "The motherland and the people can handle their own affairs by themselves, what I can do, I have done my best, I wish the motherland prosperity and strength as soon as possible." ”
…… (To be continued......)
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