August 1, 1939. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Yesterday, the trail bid farewell to the Soviet observer. On the way to the airfield, Xiaolu told him that the Soviet Union had completed the task of clearing the wasteland, and the task of sowing autumn vegetables was also completed, and he was ready to participate in the war.

The observer only agreed to transmit the request.

Back at headquarters, the trail calls a meeting. It is just that in order to cooperate with the fighting of the Soviet troops, the army movement was carried out.

During the meeting, Xiaolu issued an order:

Xiaolu ordered the Mongol columns: 1, to buy sheepskins in large quantities, 2, to make leather clothing. 3. Build a garrison stronghold.

Ordered the Xing'an Column: Wei Xilin prepared food and engaged in logistics. Li Fanglin buys sheepskins and prepares winter clothes. The supplies were sent to the base area near Zhalantun.

ordered the Lissen Railway Column to go to Baichengzi; Han Dengying's Suihua Column and Wan Quance's Yilan Column headed for Zhalantun.

ordered Lan Yundong to form a simple command center to stand by;

He ordered Xie Chengrui and his direct subordinate tank brigade to go to Zhalantun. Both tank and artillery brigades carried only small arms and repair tools, not tank artillery.

Ordered Luo Cequn to equip the troops and send 1,000 people, including the repair factory, to Zhalantun with the team. Prepare to set up a Daxinganling Ordnance Repair Branch.

All in all, several units were ready for the end of the campaign.

Such an order is of course secret, and it is like going to a family gathering, saying that everyone should bring at least one dish, but only bringing a pair of chopsticks, obviously to take advantage of it, to eat white food.

Here's the good news.

Negotiations with the Soviet Union on penicillin production technology have come to fruition.

It was Zhou Gong who presided over the negotiations. The two sides were not so much negotiating the transfer of a technology as they were fighting for the status of the CCP and trying to change the attitude of the Soviet Union.

In the past few days, Lu Ganzi, a major Soviet mission in China, was due to leave his post on 8 July, but suddenly an order asked him to wait for his departure for the time being. On July 11, the Soviet Union asked him to negotiate with northern Shaanxi on the transfer of penicillin drug production technology.

After Lu Ganzi arrived in Yan'an, he met with Constanta and understood the importance of the whole process and technology.

In March 1938, Lu Ganzi, also known as Orelsky, suggested that the government of the Republic of China exploit the Yumen oil field. This time when I arrived in Yan'an, I was surprised to hear that Yan'an had also discovered oil fields.

Negotiations began after a two-day visit to Yan'an. Olesky was a politician and naturally wanted to lighten the burden on the USSR. In order to allow Yan'an to smoothly transfer technology, he used the name of the Comintern to suppress Zhou Gong at the beginning, which of course had no effect.

Later, he changed his tactics, and in addition to the equipment of a division that he had promised a long time ago, he also promised to transfer half of the Soviet Union's air force to Yan'an, which had been aided by China.

The Yan'an side launched a warm offensive against the people participating in the negotiations, and Zhou Gong proposed that in addition to transferring part of the air force to northern Shaanxi, he also hoped that the Soviet side would give some aid materials to northern Shaanxi, mainly oil production equipment, to help the Eighth Route Army set up a stronghold and channel in Xinjiang. The factory equipment can be transported directly to Yichun. In addition, it was hoped that the Soviet ambassador would restrain Chiang's behavior in Chongqing to restrict the CCP, that is, to strengthen cooperation with northern Shaanxi.

After asking for instructions, Olesky signed an agreement with Zhou Gong. In fact, the Soviet Union did not spend much more, and it was still the equipment of the first division that was promised, but part of the materials to aid China were transferred to northern Shaanxi, and more than a dozen factories and equipment were transferred to Yichun, plus moral support was given to northern Shaanxi.

The amount of aid given to Chongqing was reduced and used in Yan'an. The only thing that has strategic value is the equipment of an aircraft factory that is about to be phased out, the equipment of a tank factory.

Because the Soviet Union provided huge amounts of aid to China, he could still give some of the supplies to northern Shaanxi. In addition, restraining the Chongqing government from restricting northern Shaanxi will always have an effect, although it cannot play a great role.

The USSR has been aiding China for some time. In order for China to have the ability to hold back Japan's large forces, aid some supplies. In the Battle of Wuhan, the Soviet Union dispatched a large number of planes to fight the Japanese army. Now it seems that the strength of the northeast is gradually becoming stronger, and it is beneficial to tilt the aid to the northeast and northern Shaanxi in order to hold back more Japanese troops.

Speaking of the Soviet team's assistance to China in the War of Resistance against Germany, not only was it large, but the time was much earlier. This was in the interests of the USSR. In February 1938, Chiang sent Sun Ke as a special envoy to the Soviet Union to request Soviet aid to China. Stalin made it clear that "the Soviet Union is ready to help all the time." On 7 February, China and the Soviet Union signed the Military Aviation Agreement.

By March 1938, the Soviet Union had granted the first long-term loan to the Chinese government for the purchase of Soviet weapons and equipment. In July, the Soviet Union extended a second credit loan. The above two loans are $50 million each. On June 13, 1939, the Minister of People's Foreign Trade of the USSR Mikoyan and Sun Ko reached another agreement and signed a loan treaty of 150 million. By 1940, the USSR provided an additional $50 million.

In order to aid China, the Soviet Union established a base in Hamidi Lanzhou, from which supplies for China were transported to Shaanxi and Sichuan, and from there to the anti-Japanese front.

On June 16, 1939, China and the Soviet Union signed a treaty of commerce, which stipulated the development of commercial relations between the two countries under the principle of reciprocity. This dealt a heavy blow to Japan's economic blockade of China.

By 1941, the Soviet Union's arms and loans to China were 4.5 times that of Britain and the United States combined. Even Soong Meiling, who has always been pro-American, openly admitted: "The material aid China received from the Soviet Union during the three years of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was actually several times more than the sum of the material aid received from Britain and the United States." ”

In addition to loans for China to buy Soviet weapons, the Soviet Navy sent military advisers and volunteers to directly help the Chinese people fight Japan. From the end of 1937 to the summer of 1939, the Soviet Union sent 3,365 military advisers and experts to work in China, and the Soviet Air Force pilots volunteered to China for five brigades and more than 2,000 and 1,000 aircraft.

More than 200 pilots died on the battlefield of resistance against Japan in China, including bomber group captain Kulishenko and fighter group leader Rakhmanov.

The basic model of American aid is the same, but the difference is that the Soviet loans were directly turned into weapons and planes to China, and did not become private property.

Later, the Soviet Union made Outer Mongolia independent, which offended the Chongqing government and made Chongqing hate it so much, how could it publicize the benefits of the Soviet Union? As a result, the assistance of the USSR, which is rarely mentioned.

Immediately after the negotiations, the Soviet ambassador flew to Chongqing to inform the Chongqing government that Soviet aid was ready to change its focus and move to several other theater of operations.

Chongqing was a little incomprehensible, and after knowing the reason, he was very angry and negotiated repeatedly. The Soviet ambassador refused to back down.

Song Ziwen was later sent to Moscow, and it is not known how effective it was.

At the end of the negotiations, Zhou Gong took a few people to Moscow to discuss with the Soviet side the details of the specific implementation of the aid. The Yan'an side also has to discuss the issue of long-term close cooperation with them.

At the same time as Chongqing negotiated with the Soviet ambassador, the Soviet Air Force, which participated in the campaign, began to transfer to Vladivostok in Yichun, Yan'an. Part of the remaining loans will continue to be turned into aircraft, and part will be turned into army equipment, which is planned to be transported from Lanzhou to Yan'an.

The departure time of the Zhou delegation to the Soviet Union was tentatively scheduled for the end of August.

Through this incident, the Soviet Union further changed its understanding of northern Shaanxi. They even believe that northern Shaanxi is China's hope.

For northern Shaanxi, they are also very satisfied with the sale of a technology at such a price. Koji's own idea, originally did not want to sell, but to win an important ally, it was worth it.

In addition, Xiaolu was also very relieved to know that Zhou Gong did not break his bones because of the startled horse.

Because the equipment of that division had already been prepared, the Soviet Far East began to prepare and hand over the equipment. Yan'an sent Wei Jialiu to the Soviet Union to help the Soviet Union produce penicillin.

According to the advice of the Yan'an side, these equipment were given to Li Lanchi's subordinates, who were close to the Soviet Union and could easily obtain ammunition.

In addition, the Soviet Union also invited the CCP to send personnel to the Soviet Union, and after research, the CCP sent Zhou Gong and others to the Soviet Union. In other words, historically, he originally went to the Soviet Union for medical treatment, but this time he went to the Soviet Union on a business trip.

Zhou Gong was going to go to Moscow as well, and Xiaolu reported his recent intentions and plans. Because there is a big combat mission, I can't go.

Taking advantage of the fact that the Kwantung Army had no strength to deal with him, Yichun desperately expanded his troops, expanded his base areas, and expanded his organization.

Soon after the Spring Festival, Yichun spread a series of fake news, and in conjunction with these fake news, he also made a lot of fake actions. These purposes were to paralyze the Kwantung Army and allow the Kwantung to concentrate on dealing with the Soviet Union. After the conflict between Japan and the Soviet Union began, Yichun stopped strategic deception, cooperated with the Soviet side, and took advantage of it. Japan sensed this and wanted to remedy it, but it was too late.

This summer, hundreds of Yan'an cadres were sent to the northeast through various channels. The vitality of these cadres is astonishing, and one base area after another has been built up with their efforts. At present, only the railway lines and villages, as well as the large cities, are still under the control of the Manchukuo government, and the rest of the region has been gradually controlled.

South Manchurian and Jidong are the hardest-hit areas of the group tribes, and 80 percent of the group tribes have been destroyed by the efforts of the past two years. The people returned to their hometowns, to their lands, and were very grateful to the United Nations.

The individual units only fight small units, or even only traitors, and only destroy group tribes.

Because of the mass base, the common people all sent messages to the Anti-Japanese Federation, and the number of people who sent messages to the Japanese was greatly reduced. In particular, the traitors were deprived of their land and distributed to the common people, and a large number of basic masses were cultivated.

The army has told the people many times that the army has been reorganized, and it is called the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army, and it is okay to call it the Eighth Road. However, the common people still call them the Anti-United Nations.

This year will be a peak year for refugees and newly allocated farmers to repay their government arrears, and it is certain that as long as they survive the summer and the autumn harvest, the days in the Northeast will be better.

If there are two such summers, Xiaolu will be able to regain the Northeast, but unfortunately, I don't know how long this good situation will last.

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1. On January 19, 1938, the new Soviet ambassador to China, Olesky, together with Rogov, the head of the TASS news agency, and the secretary Meramed flew from Hankou to Chongqing. On October 20, 1938, six people, including the new Soviet ambassador to China, his wife, his secretary and TASS President Rogov, arrived in Chongqing by car.

2. On September 1, 1939, Pan Youxin, the new ambassador of the Soviet Union to China, presented his credentials to Lin Sen, chairman of the Chinese Nationalist Government, in Chongqing, expressing deep sympathy for China's War of Resistance on behalf of the Soviet people, reiterating the Soviet government's policy of loving peace and assisting those who were invaded, and expressing its resistance to China

The fervent hope for the final victory of the war.