After reading Stalin's telegram, Han Yunhua fell into deep thought. He did not expect that the Soviet Union would complete these combat missions in such a short time, knowing that this was more than a year earlier than in history. Although he dug a bit deep in this pit, the Soviets did a good job, and the Battle of Kursk was arguably the most beautiful battle the Soviets did in 1942. Moreover, in Han Yunhua's view, the significance of the Battle of Kursk is far more important than the Battle of Stalingrad some time ago, and it is said that the Battle of Stalingrad is a turning point in the entire Soviet-German battlefield, but it is only a turning point.

The Battle of Kursk was the largest decisive battle in the Soviet-German war and the largest battle in World War II, which cost the German army about 360,000 soldiers, more than 2,500 tanks, more than 4,000 artillery pieces, and more than 1,800 aircraft, making Nazi Germany basically lose its offensive capability. From then on, the Soviet army completely seized the strategic initiative, and the German army was forced to switch to total defense. After that, the Soviet army launched an offensive on a front of more than 2,000 kilometers from Velikiye Luki to the Black Sea, and by November, it had regained nearly half of the lost territory, including Bryansk, Smolensk, Kiev and other large cities.

Stalin gave Han Yunhua another magic weapon, that is, to continue to ask Han Yunhua. Before, Stalin was only surprised by Han Yunhua, nothing more. But after this period of fighting, Stalin's trust in Han Yunhua has risen to the point of trust, and even a little dependence.

In Stalin's view, the amazing general of China was an unscrupulous strategist and tactician, and the special operations he created achieved great results on the Soviet-German battlefield, and the originally rampant German snipers now basically dare not appear on the frontal battlefield. In the process of attacking, the German army had to stay in a large number of troops to guard the rear lines of communication and the warehouses of the military stations, otherwise they would be killed by the Soviet special forces at any time.

In addition, under the reminder of the Chinese instructors, the Soviet special forces had already made contact with more than one million partisans in the German-occupied areas, and the Soviet Union had the cooperation of another friendly force in the battle, and the pressure was greatly reduced. In order to deal with the elusive partisans, the Germans had to send a large number of regular troops to encircle and suppress them, and counting the forces to protect the command posts of all sizes and large and small, the Germans alone accounted for almost one-fifth of the total force.

In the Kharkov battle, Stalin insisted on going his own way and did not pay attention to Han Yunhua's opinions, and the direct result was that nearly 300,000 troops of the four group armies were annihilated. It was precisely because of such a great contrast between the results of the Battle of Kharkov and the Battle of Kursk that Stalin no longer dared to treat Han Yunhua's opinion casually.

Han Yunhua did not hesitate to Stalin's request, he knew very well what the defeat of Germany meant for the whole world and China, so he drew up detailed operational plans for the Soviet Union for the Great Luki-Black Sea Campaign, the Caucasus Purge, and the Ukrainian Campaign. At the same time, Han Yunhua suggested that Stalin put pressure on the Allies to open up a second battlefield in Europe in France or Italy, and Han Yunhua also hoped that the Soviet Union could launch an attack in the Far East like the Japanese Kwantung Army, and that China would send millions of troops to fight with the Soviet Union and completely solve the Soviet Union's worries.

The Soviets had long proposed the opening of a second theater in Europe, when the Soviet-German war had just broken out, and Stalin had been urging Britain and the United States to open a second theater in Europe in order to relieve the heavy pressure on the Soviet Union. However, the opening of a second war in Europe must invest a lot of manpower, material and military resources, which must be provided by the allies themselves. Therefore, this proposal of Stalin was rejected by the United States and Britain under various pretexts. Therefore, from the summer of 1941 to 1944, in addition to fighting in the North African and Italian theaters and fighting with the United States and Britain, the German army used most of its troops and combat resources to attack the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front. …,

There is no doubt that the Soviets made a huge contribution to the absorption of the forces of the Second Battlefield, despite the huge casualties that the Soviets paid for it. It was not until May 1944, when the victory or defeat of the Soviet-German battlefield was decided, that Britain and the United States and other countries, in order to safeguard their interests on the European continent, successfully landed in Normandy, France, and attacked Germany from the Western Front. Han Yunhua believes that although the battle situation on the Eastern Front is still unclear, anyone with strategic vision can see that the Germans are already at the end of their crossbows, and although opening up a second battlefield at this time is a little risky for the Allies, the risk is not great. Moreover, it can guarantee the interests of the allies or Britain and the United States in Europe to the greatest extent, and the United States and Britain are likely to agree to the proposal to open up a second battlefield at this time.

As for the Soviet Union to go to war with Japan from the Far East, it was not all for China's sake, after all, Japan's threat to the Soviet Union was obvious. The more than 600,000 troops placed by the Soviet Union in the Far East and the 500,000 troops placed in Siberia were all used to guard against the Japanese. If there was no threat from Japan, at least it would be no problem to mobilize hundreds of thousands of troops from the Far East to the Eastern Front. In addition, although it is necessary to take a certain amount of risk in sending troops to the northeast now, unlike in history, now that the Inner Mongolia Military Region is here, the main force of Japan does not dare to cross the Ussuri River to attack the Soviet Union.

Moreover, if Stalin agreed to send troops to the northeast, then Han Yunhua would also lobby the Americans to contain the Japanese army in Southeast Asia. At that time, with the combat effectiveness of the troops of China and the Soviet Union, it can be said that the Kwantung Army will be taken nine times out of ten. And without the Kwantung Army, is Japan still called Japan? The destruction of the Kwantung Army could not only hit the Japanese in momentum, but also directly attack Korea, Japan's most important colony in Asia, which was quite fatal to the Japanese.

Stalin was also very moved by Han Yunhua's suggestions, but he still had many doubts about sending troops to the northeast. Because sending troops to the Northeast means going to war with Japan, it means that the Soviet Union will fall into a painful two-front war, which is very dangerous for the Soviet Union.

However, risks and opportunities are relative, and where there are risks, there will be opportunities, and of course the reverse is also true. The risks are not small, but the opportunities are even more important. As long as the Japanese Kwantung Army was completely destroyed, the sword hanging over the heads of the Soviets would most likely end there, which Stalin was most happy to see. In addition, the experimental materials of the military medical team of the Japanese Ministry of Water Supply and Epidemic Prevention that Han Yunhua asked Lu Zhengcao to transfer to the Soviet side, as well as relevant photos and confessions, had also been sent to the Kremlin, and Stalin was really shocked when he learned that the Japanese had conspired to carry out bacteriological warfare against the Soviet Union. In the face of the authenticated physical evidence, Stalin had no doubts about the Japanese intentions against the Soviet Union, because the Japanese had used poison gas bombs as early as the Battle of Nomenkan, which caused certain casualties to the Soviet army.

If it had been put forward by others, Stalin would definitely not have considered it, but it was Han Yunhua who proposed it, so after thinking about it again, Stalin decided to inquire in detail about sending troops to Northeast China, and if it was feasible, it didn't matter if it was a matter of sending troops, if it was impossible, then forget it.

After receiving the telegram of Stalin's inquiry, Han Yunhua was overjoyed, as long as Stalin was interested in the proposal he had made. As long as he doesn't refuse in one go, then things will take a turn for the better. Soon an analysis of the pros and cons of sending troops to northeastern China and a detailed battle plan were sent to Stalin's desk.

In this battle plan, Han Yunhua made full use of all the hostile forces in Japan and lamented the importance of sending troops. First of all, Han Yunhua made an analysis of the strength composition of the Japanese Kwantung Army, explaining that the figure of 1.2 million was just a gimmick said by the Japanese, and in fact, all the troops of the Kwantung Army added up to only about 850,000, and only 900,000 were killed, and the rest were all the troops of the puppet Manchukuo. Second, the current international environment is conducive to the Soviet Union's declaration of war against Japan, on the one hand, because in the Southeast Asian theater, the Japanese have lost absolute control of the sea, and the Battle of Midway has proved that the Japanese Navy is not as powerful as the Japanese themselves boast. As for the performance of the Japanese Army, the performance of the Inner Mongolia Military Region has proved that the Kwantung Army does not have much control over the northeast region in two consecutive battles, and as long as the Soviets send troops to the other side of the Ussuri River to contain the 300,000 elite Japanese troops placed along the Ussuri River and Heilongjiang Province, then the Inner Mongolia Military Region will send 700,000 troops to march from the south to the north to the hinterland of the northeast. In addition, the Northeast People's Liberation Army, which is in the hinterland of the Northeast, will also launch a full-scale counterattack against the Japanese puppet army at the first time, and the probability of successfully recovering the Northeast is more than 80%, the probability of completely annihilating the Kwantung Army is more than 60%, and even the probability of taking North Korea by chance is also 30%. …,

If the Americans and the Nationalist government were to wage a large-scale battle on the Burma battlefield and the Pacific islands, Japan would be in a dilemma, and the chances of success would be higher.

After reading Han Yunhua's analysis, Stalin waited for a day, with Makeen.**v. Timoshenko, Fyodor. Tolbukhin, Alexander. Vasilevsky, Nikolai. Vatutin? , Kliment. Voroshilov, Georgy. Zhukov, Vasily. Chuikov, Semyon. Budyonny, Nikita. After deliberation, Khrushchev and others decided to agree to Han Yunhua's suggestion that China and the Soviet Union jointly send troops to northeast China.

However, before that, Stalin still hoped to get the support of the Americans, if the Americans could launch a counterattack against Japan in Southeast Asia, then the Soviet Union and the ** side would be much less pressed. For this reason, Stalin specially telegraphed President Roosevelt to propose a joint dispatch of troops, and at the same time sent the battle plan drawn up by Han Yunhua to; Roosevelt, I hope President Roosevelt will take care of the big picture.

In fact, the elimination of the Kwantung Army has always been the most urgent thing for the Americans to rush to, because the Southeast Asian theater has always been threatened by this most elite Japanese army group, and since the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Japanese have continuously transferred elites from the Kwantung Army to the Southeast Asian theater. Moreover, if the fighting in Southeast Asia is frustrated, then the first reaction of the Japanese base camp is still to mobilize reinforcements from the Kwantung Army to the south, which has almost become a rule.

Since the main force of the Inner Mongolia Military Region moved north to deal with the Kwantung Army, the Americans obviously felt that the pressure was much less, and the Japanese Army was also significantly less transferred to the Southeast Asian theater. After reading Stalin's telegram and Han Yunhua's battle plan, Roosevelt immediately consulted General Stilwell, chief of the US General Staff in the Allied Southeast Asian Theater, and also asked General James, who was stationed in Guisui, about the actual situation of the Inner Mongolia Military Region.

General Stilwell was very dissatisfied with the British inaction on the Southeast Asian battlefield, and even some of the demolition, so after receiving President Roosevelt's telegram, General Stilwell told Roosevelt in detail about the actual situation in the Southeast Asian battlefield. And the Japanese made a comeback, attacking fiercely.

As for Major General James's answer, it surprised President Roosevelt, as a major general of the US Air Force, James's vision is very high. But it is such an American general who is full of praise for this squadron under his command, and uses all the beautiful words to say good things about this army.

President Roosevelt did not think that Major General James was advocated by the Chinese or accepted the benefits of the Chinese to say so, which can only show that the squadron is indeed very good, as evidenced by the continuous good news during this time. Since the answers from both sides are like this, it shows that it is still very necessary to unite with the Soviet Union and the ** side to send troops to the Northeast, so Roosevelt also agreed to Han Yunhua's proposal after thinking about it again.

The support of the United States was important because the only one that could compete with the Japanese Navy in the Pacific Rim was the American Navy, not even the invincible British. Immediately after receiving President Roosevelt's telegram, Stalin sent a telegram to Lieutenant General Ivanov, commander of the Far East Command of the Soviet Red Army, ordering him to immediately assemble his forces and prepare for war against Japan. At the same time, Stalin also sent a telegram to Han Yunhua, explaining that the Soviet Union had invested a maximum of 500,000 troops in the Far East, and that it could not all be transferred to the northeast, and that the troops directly used for operations in the northeast were about 350,000, including 330,000 in the army, 20,000 in the air force, and only a few dozen old warships in the navy. In addition, it was specifically noted that more than 2,400 tanks, more than 700 warplanes, and more than 1,200 self-propelled guns of various kinds were used in the war against Japan. …,

To be honest, for a behemoth like the Soviet Union, it can be said that it is very cold to only use this amount of troops to deal with the Japanese, but this can also show how badly the Soviets are being bullied by the Germans now. Even so, Han Yunhua was still very satisfied, don't look at the Soviets who could only send this little force. But the emaciated camel is bigger than a horse, just look at the heavy equipment of others, 2400 tanks, this is an illustrative concept, the Inner Mongolia Military Region has only accumulated more than 700 vehicles for several years, and more than 200 of them are still Japan's 94-type and 95-type bean chariots, and the only ones that can really be taken are only 150 Soviet first-generation T34.

Let's talk about the Air Force, the Soviets have 700 fighters, and they are all the latest Lager-7 fighters, but the Japanese Air Force suffered a heavy loss of vitality after the fiasco of the Guisui Air War, and now the total number of fighters that can take off is only 500, most of which are old guys who captured the Northeast Army after the 918 Incident, and they are all things that are about to be sent to the museum, even if they barely go to the sky, they will not do much. In the Soviet Union, a country where artillery doctrine is rampant, the number of artillery determines the combat effectiveness of a unit. Maybe in Stalin's eyes, 1,200 artillery pieces are really nothing, and the Soviets dispatched more than 5,000 artillery pieces in one Kursk battle, while the Far Eastern Military District only had 1,200 artillery pieces, maybe Stalin himself blushed when he sent this telegram again. But he didn't want this number to scare Han Yunhua, they all knew that the Soviet Union was a behemoth, and the Soviet troops were also wealthy, but Han Yunhua still didn't expect that a Far Eastern Military Region would have so many self-propelled guns.

Look at the Chinese and Japanese sides who are fighting to the death now, the investment in artillery is not calculated in the tens figures, even if the Japanese are extravagant, at most they have only invested in one artillery brigade, and it is only a hundred artillery pieces. As for the Inner Mongolia Military Region, it is even more unbearable, and dispatching two artillery regiments at one time is already a big move. 1,200 artillery pieces are equivalent to 15 artillery brigades, and with such a powerful artillery unit, the Kwantung Army can bear it.

On the whole, the Japanese are now far from being the opponents of the Chinese and Soviet armies in terms of strength and important weapons, and now it only depends on how many Japanese troops the United States can contain.

Since it has been decided to send troops, neither Han Yunhua nor Stalin nor Roosevelt will be perfunctory to the other side, because in this world war, whether it is the Americans, the Soviets or the Chinese, they all suffer deeply, and the failure of one side to work may cause the defeat of the campaign. The consequences of defeat are terrible, and the ultimate victims are likely to be all the countries of China, the United States, and the Soviet Union.

The intention of sending troops has been decided, but the specific timing of the dispatch and the amount of manpower and material resources to be invested by each of the three parties have not yet been determined. The Soviet Union is a single, our Far Eastern Military District has such a little money, it is impossible to have more, as for what to do, it is up to you.

Han Yunhua now doesn't know how many troops the Inner Mongolia Military Region can draw to participate in the war, and these need to be counted. Therefore, a top-secret telegram was sent to the six major military subdivisions of the Inner Mongolia Military Region through a secret radio station, and Han Yunhua demanded that each military sub-region immediately report the number of all troops in detail, and no one was allowed to hide it.