Chapter 668: Target, Churchill
November 28, 1943. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info night.
In the evening, Zhou Gong led Xiaolu and others to visit the Soviet delegation such as Stalin and Marshal Voroshilov.
Stalin's attitude was extremely friendly, so he gave Zhou Gong a hug and said, "Zhou, I'm very happy to meet you." I am very grateful for the help of the Chinese Brotherhood Party. Your help has made our situation much better. The strategic counteroffensive is about to begin. ”
Zhou Gongdao: "I would like to express my admiration for the hard struggle of the party, the army, and the people of the Soviet Union, and my admiration for the wise command of Generalissimo Stalin. I am convinced that the Soviet people will triumph over the German fascists. ”
Stalin turned to the path and said, "You are General Lu." What a young general. We, the Soviet people, appreciate your political and military genius. ”
Xiaolu said: "I just did a little thing under the command of our party and followed the trend of history. I pay high tribute to the hard work of the Soviet people. Generalissimo, you have won the hearts and minds of the Soviet people and the Chinese people in handling relations with China, especially in abolishing unequal treaties, so that the Chinese people are willing to sacrifice the lives of their sons and daughters to cooperate with the Soviet Union's liberation war. Your credit will be written in the history of the world. History will speak highly of you. ”
Since Xiaolu has taken back a large area of territory from the Soviets, the words of praise are not costly, and to put it mildly, it is not a problem. This is what he had been ventilating with Yan'an before, and on the plane to Tehran this time, Xiaolu also told Zhou Gong about it.
The people around Stalin listened to Xiaolu's direct praise and admired it very much, if we had this ability, it would not be a straight up.
Stalin listened to the praise of the two, but there were no modest words, apparently he felt that he should have been, knowing that they were on our own, but standing up very comfortably. After listening to Xiaolu, Stalin said: "In the future, we will need to work together until victory." ”
Zhou Gongdao: "Even if the war against Japan and Germany is won, we must work closely together, because the post-war world pattern will have a confrontation between the two worlds, which will force us to stand together in order to survive." ”
Stalin said: "Our Chinese comrades are very far-sighted. The Chinese are full of talents, and your victory is inevitable. ”
Xiaolu had an opportunity and said: "The Soviet Union has more talent. There are dozens of military geniuses like Zhukov. In addition to this, the USSR had thousands of excellent scientific and technical personnel. None of this is surprising and is also found in other countries. But. They did not lead with such a great leader as you. The USSR had your great leadership, and it was only a matter of time before the victory over the German fascists. ”
The two sides sat down and began talks.
Stalin got straight to the point and said: "I do not agree to abolish those treaties, but unfortunately there is no way." ”
Zhou Gongdao: "But the abolition of the treaty has given you high honors and the initiative in the war. It's a great move. ”
Stalin: "After our victory over Germany, the Soviet Union was willing to help you fight the Japanese." The conditions were the restoration of the borders of the USSR and Manchuria, and the return of Mongolia to an independent state. The USSR used the port of Luda. ”
"Actually, at the moment, we are helping the Soviet Union, and our condition is the abolition of unequal treaties. ”
Stalin: "That means you don't need us to send troops in the future?" ”
Zhou Gongdao: "This matter can be put on the conference to be discussed." In addition, our current head of state is still Mr. Chiang, and we promise that nothing has the force of law. ”
Stalin: "We can agree with you to establish an independent state in Manchuria, Outer Mongolia and beyond. ”
Zhou Gongdao: "We will never do such a thing, this is a matter of principle. Still, I think we have a lot in common, and that is that we are now committed to helping the Soviet Union within our means. From our point of view, China and the Soviet Union were the most important battlefields in the fight against fascism, and no one was allowed to fail. ”
Stalin: "So can you send troops against the Germans?" ”
Zhou Gongdao: "I personally think that it is okay, as long as you provide equipment, we can provide the army." We'll discuss it with Mao Gong right away, and it should be fine. Of course, we also need to tell Jiang Gong. ”
Xiaolu said: "We have just received a war report from China, and our army has annihilated another 100,000 Japanese troops. Now we have blocked their escape routes by sea. Soon, we will achieve even greater victories in North China. ”
Stalin said: "This was done with the help of the Pacific Fleet of the USSR. ”
Xiaolu said: "So, we are helping each other. We helped you keep the Pacific Fleet, and your Pacific Fleet helped us fight the Japanese. The fight against fascism has brought our two countries closer together, and under this great interest, we help each other. ”
On the way back from leaving the Soviet embassy, no one spoke. There were no Chongqing government members in this delegation, and the vast majority of them were very fond of the Soviet Union. These words of Stalin shattered the good impression in everyone's minds.
While everyone was pondering, gunshots rang out from the street outside. Persian policemen and soldiers standing guard in the streets were in a hurry. Xiaolu said to the driver: "Drive!" Don't stop! "It was in English. The car was provided by Iranian officials, and it was a soldier who drove it.
The driver, apparently understood, increased the throttle and rushed forward.
The car drove less than a hundred meters, and three people flashed in front of it, hiding behind a tree and shooting at the corner. One of them, gesturing to the convoy, told them to keep walking, fast.
This person is none other than Li Shun.
The convoy returned to the villa safely, jumped out of the car on the path, checked around, saw that it was safe, asked Zhou Gong to get out of the car, pulled him into the house, turned around to check the other two cars, the people in the car were safe, and one car was shot in the body.
Half an hour later, Li Shun returned.
Xiaolu asked, "Is everyone safe?" ”
Li Shun said: "Slightly injured a person." OK. The German spies were nothing more than that, and we killed four. The Soviets and the British chased down. ”
Zhou Gong also rushed over to understand the situation. Seeing that a person was injured, he hurriedly called someone for treatment.
Passing by the living room, which was used as a conference room, the members of the delegation gathered there to wait for Zhou Lu.
Zhou Gong understood everyone's thoughts and said, "Since everyone is here, let's have a short meeting." I know that some people have written a number of articles about the Cairo Conference, and some have already been published. With regard to the Tehran Conference, because it involved the Soviet Union, the attitude towards the Soviet Union was somewhat unacceptable. However, this is the truth. For the sake of the overall situation of the War of Resistance Against Japan, there are some things that we should not write down first, and what has been written will be handed over to the Central Committee as an internal document. Published articles need to be reviewed by me, and even by the chairman. ”
Xiaolu said: "This is the struggle, please calm down." What the Vice-Chair meant was that we should try to keep the history as good as possible, and that was one of the historical responsibilities. In addition, I hope that everyone will accept the reality that there are still struggles within our party, let alone between major countries. ”
After a short meeting, Xiao Lu came to the room of Li Shun and others. The wounded were a soldier who had been sent out to kill two spies who had attacked the British convoy, and his own shoulder wound had been given an injection and was resting.
Xiao Lu asked, "Did you hurt your bones?" ”
Li Shun said: "It's okay. He's clever enough. ”
Xiaolu said: "You are good. I'll give you credit. He took out the map, pointed to a place on the map, and said: "In addition, Li Shun, only two people will be sent out tomorrow, and each person is asked to bring a joint team of British and Soviets, one group is at the meeting site, focusing on monitoring reporters and idle people, and one group goes here to monitor the people who enter the British embassy through the sewers." ”
Li Shun said: "I will contact the Soviets and the British now. ”
Xiaolu remembers this period of history vividly, the Germans had several different assassination plans, the most secret of which was the plan to enter the British embassy through the sewers. As for the photographer's assassination under the guise of a bombing, the bombing of the planes was not possible, and the airborne special forces had already been captured alive by the Soviets.
At this time, the British came, and they came to thank them.
Listening to their thanks, everyone knew that this time they had saved Churchill. The target of the shooting in the street was Churchill. This time, the number of spies dispatched by Germany was very large, creating chaos in several other places, attracting part of the troops and police, and more than a dozen capable personnel to assassinate Churchill, Li Shun and others to participate in the shootout. Several of them were sharpshooters, and they had a high skill in shooting sports targets during the sport, and they won big victories.