On January 25, 1939, the puppet government of the Soviet Union, supported by the Germans, publicly declared that all the unequal treaties signed by the former Tsarist Russia with China during the Manchu Qing Dynasty would be null and void, and the land it had seized would be returned in full, and it would officially enter into force from that day. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Hearing this news, except for the Soviet Union and China, which were concerned, no country in the world had much reaction, after all, the Soviet Union had already existed in name only. However, there is one country with the exception, and that is Japan.

You must know that when the Soviet Union was caught between Germany and Japan, in order to ensure the more important western region, they almost abandoned Siberia, leaving less than 100,000 troops to fight guerrillas. Taking advantage of this good opportunity, the Japanese army occupied a large area of Siberia, and a large area of this occupation was cut from China during the Tsarist period.

In any case, Japan is the aggressor, and now the orthodox Soviet government has said that it will return these lands to China, and if they Japan do not return them, they will have encroached on China's land.

But if they want to change, how can they be willing to do it in Japan? More importantly, if it is returned, 600,000 square kilometers of land, from Sakhalin Island to the Trans-Khingan Mountains, will be returned to China.

The Japanese know better than anyone how important this area is, if the Chinese government deploys its troops here, it can attack the Japanese troops stationed in Siberia at any time to the west and north, and the Japanese mainland's support for the Soviet troops will also have to go around a long distance, and it will need to enter Siberia from the Sea of Okhotsk, but the Chinese troops occupying Sakhalin Island can cut off the support of the Japanese mainland to the Soviet Union and attack the Japanese mainland if they go south.

Some time ago, the Japanese were glad that they took advantage of Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union, and they picked up a big bargain, but now they know that this is to make a wedding dress for China, how can they be willing?

"Baga, it's so hateful......"

"Is it going to be a full-scale war with China again?"

"However, after these years of development, the Chinese army has become stronger and stronger."

"I'm so unwilling to ......"

The Japanese base camp has already quarreled with the sky, but the losses suffered in the war with China in the past two years are vivid in their minds, and the speed of development of the Chinese army is far faster than that of the Japanese army.

China did not urge Japan to hand over the land as soon as possible, the Germans first approached the Japanese, and the German ambassador to Japan made it clear to the Japanese side that these lands, which originally belonged to China, must be returned to China.

However, Germany also knew that Japan had grievances and losses, and in order to reduce Japan's losses, Germany could allow Japan to occupy the colonies of France, the Netherlands, and other countries in Southeast Asia.

The Germans also said that China was Germany's recognized ally, and that Germany could only compensate Japan for this, and that if Japan did not agree, then Germany would have to cooperate with China, and it was not ruled out that it would take back these lands from Japan by force.

The Japanese are not stupid, and one of the purposes of the so-called colonial exchange of the Germans such as France and the Netherlands is probably to lure them to confront the United States.

Actually, if the Japanese think about it carefully, this is not an inducement, but a persecution. Although Germany wants to be close to China and does not take Japan to play, it does not like them to play with the Americans, and the most direct way is to let Japan and the United States confront each other, so they can rest assured.

Having figured out why, the Japanese considered the choice they had to make, whether to ignore the Germans' warnings or turn to the United States.

However, thinking about the world-wide achievements of the German army during this period, even if they have always boasted that the Japanese army is the first in the world, they have to admire the terrifying combat power of the German army.

It took only a few months to defeat six million Soviet troops, and less than a month to destroy France, which had the largest army in Europe, and now the whole of Europe was trembling under the coercion of the Great Germany, and their Japanese army really did not have the courage to confront such a powerful German army. What's more, there are millions of Chinese troops on the lookout.

If the two armies of China and Germany attack from the west and south, the Japanese army can fully imagine that their millions of troops stationed in Sicelia will have no capital to contend at all, and the Sino-German alliance forces will destroy the Japanese army in Siberia, and I am afraid that they will divide their forces to directly threaten the Japanese mainland from the two directions of Korea and Sakhalin, which is definitely not the result that Japan wants to see.

It can be seen from this that it is probably not a wise choice to make friends with the United States, and if Japan really stands on the side of the United States, then the Great Japanese Empire will probably die before Britain.

After discussions, Japan directly gave up its plan to befriend the United States, and the United States is too far away, and distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, and the best way for Japan to survive is to make friends with China and Germany. In order to get along with China and Germany, we must first try to ease relations with China.

In the end, Japan compromised and expressed its acceptance of Germany's proposal to unconditionally return the land belonging to China to China, and even hinted that as long as China was willing to sign an alliance treaty with Japan, Japan was willing to return Taiwan to China unconditionally.

After the German ambassador conveyed the meaning of the Japanese to the Chinese side, the Chinese side only changed one sentence: Taiwan has been China's territory since ancient times, and no one has the right to use China's territory to negotiate terms with China.

After receiving China's reply, the Japanese base camp knew that Japan's damage to China for nearly half a century was not so easy to eliminate. But for now, the Japanese must eliminate the hostility of China and Germany towards their Japan and return the land first.

Since it has already planned to return the land that originally belonged to China in Siberia, Japan has decided that Heilongjiang and Jilin should also be returned, and there is no need to wait for the one-year period to expire, and take the initiative to return it in advance, which can also leave a good impression on the Chinese.

As a result, Japan quickly began to withdraw from Jilin, Heilongjiang, the Outer Khingan Mountains, Sakhalin Island, and other places.

The Japanese army withdrew from Trans-Khingan Mountains and Sakhalin Island, but it was impossible to abandon Siberia, and even took the initiative to propose to China that the two sides draw a military demarcation line at the junction of the territory.

Of course, the Chinese side also knows that Japan has made such a concession not because it is afraid of China, but because it is worried about being jointly attacked by China and Germany.

Although the Japanese are arrogant, they are not stupid, and with enough benefits, they dare to risk all costs to rob them, and when they offend China and Germany at the moment, it is obviously more than worth the loss.

In addition, although Siberia has various resources, oil resources have not been discovered, and Japan is very short of oil and mainly relies on imports.

In Southeast Asia, on the other hand, there were several large oil fields, which Japan had long coveted, and when they saw that the German Union had occupied several large oil fields in the western part of the Soviet Union, the Japanese had already been tempted, but they were not able to snatch them from the Germans.

Although Japan was now forced to give up parts of Siberia due to Sino-German coercion, it also succeeded in exchanging a neutral attitude towards Japan's actions in Southeast Asia. From the point of view of the exchange of interests, there is no loss at all, as long as the Japanese dare to offend Britain and the United States, they will still make a lot of money.