Chapter 1178: The Far East's Resentment (continued)
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After the order of the Soviet Defense Committee to abandon the Far East was transmitted to Chita, the commander of the Far Eastern Front, General Apanashchenko, pulled out the **** and aimed it at his temple at that time, but fortunately, the political commissar and the chief of staff saw the opportunity quickly and took the ****. {/update}
Like a hungry child, General Apanashchenko held his head in his hands, squatted on the ground and whimpered and cried, crying and saying: "I have betrayed the trust of Comrade Stalin, I am a sinner of the Soviet Union!" ”
Seeing that General Apanashchenko was too agitated, Political Commissar Zhertov went to the National Defense Committee to send a report recommending that General Apanashchenko be removed from the post of commander of the Far Eastern Front.
The Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Smorodinov, stopped him, went to pull General Apanashchenko up again, and said loudly: "Comrade commander, you have to cheer up!" The Japanese army stared at us like hungry wolves, and even if we wanted to evacuate the Far East, we would not be able to achieve it. Please don't get excited, and quickly command the troops to move. Otherwise, we may still be surrounded by the Japanese army and annihilated! ”
After all, General Apanashchenko was a great general of the Red Army, and he was only emotional for a moment just now, and Morodinov's reminder woke up at that time, knowing that the situation was extremely dangerous, and if he did not handle it correctly, he might send the entire front army into the wolf's mouth of the Japanese army.
General Apanashchenko, who woke up, looked at the map for a long time, and the scar on his face left by the Budyonny cavalry when he was a cavalryman was a ball, and said viciously: "The little devil is too bullying!" They think that if they control air and sea supremacy, they can do whatever they want! Chief of Staff, inquire which unit of the aviation units that Comrade Stalin ordered to form in the Urals to support us. ”
Morodinov reported: "It is the newly formed 122nd Air Force Mixed Brigade. ”
"122nd Air Force Mixed Brigade?" Senior General Apanashchenko asked suspiciously.
Lieutenant General Morodinov replied: "Yes." This is the women's aviation corps that Comrade Stalin has just ordered to form. I've just passed the exam and haven't started training yet. But. The commander is reassured. These women are all members of the aero club and have a flying base. ”
General Apanashchenko muttered to himself: "O woman, woman like a Russian flower, damn war!" ”
After saying that, Senior General Apanashchenko ordered the chief of staff to organize all the surviving pilots of the 1st Army, the 2nd Army, the 15th Army, the 25th Army, the 35th Army, and the Pacific Fleet and organize a new aviation unit. The 122nd Air Force Mixed Brigade was ordered to transfer to the airfield in the Chita area at night, and the woman got off the plane and went into study and training, and the pilots of the Far Eastern Front got on the plane to carry out an air ambush on the Japanese plane early tomorrow morning to strike at the arrogance of the Japanese army. Cover ground forces operations.
The Soviet Union was an industrial power, and aircraft building, tank building, automobile manufacturing had already been industrialized last night. The war potential is much greater than that of China. Due to the defeat on the Western Front, Stalin had already ordered a general mobilization. All the retired pilots and members of the flying club who could fly planes in the rear received orders to enlist, including the truck drivers and tractor drivers, and they also rushed to the barracks. Hitler was still ignorant, thinking that the Soviet Union only had more than 20,000 planes and tanks, and destroying these key equipment was equivalent to destroying the Soviet army. Superficial, really superficial! Hitler too. Emperor Hirohito, I am afraid they never dreamed that the Soviet Union would soon be able to form fifteen aviation armies in one go, and that more and more new aircraft would be produced for battle. Including the aviation units of the various armies of the Far Eastern Front, although the planes were destroyed, most of the pilots were still preserved due to the sudden attack of the Japanese army. In time, several aviation divisions will be formed to return to the blue sky for fierce battles.
Then, Senior General Apanashchenko ordered the newly formed 35th Combined Arms Army to resolutely block the Japanese armored group. Buy time for the main assembly and transfer. Ordered all organs in the Far East to organize the transfer of the elderly, women, and children to the western part of the Great Khing'an Mountains. All men over the age of 18 and under the age of 45 in the Far East were urgently conscripted into the army, including prison convicts, to join the Red Army to make up for the shortage of reservists.
The Far East is far from the hinterland of the Soviet Union, sparsely populated, and understaffed. General Apanashchenko's conscription order was not simple, and it required great courage for even criminals to be conscripted into the Red Army. In this way, the Far East will become an empty place, and even if the Japanese army occupies it, it will only occupy some empty towns and boundless wilderness.
The war has been fought to the point of giving up the entire Far East, and it will not work without taking measures to break the wrists of strong men. Although the political commissar Zhertov felt inappropriate about the conscription of criminals into the army, he nevertheless supported the decision of General Apanashchenko, for the simple reason that General Apanashchenko told him that many crimes and crimes did not lead to death, and that the transfer was a drag, and that they could not be left to the Japanese, in that case, the Japanese would use these criminals to organize troops and act as the vanguard of the pursuit of the Red Army. Such a tragedy could only be avoided by integrating them into the ranks of the Red Army and transferring them into formations.
During the war years, the aggressors were again slaughtered at their doorstep, and the orders of the Far Eastern Front Command were well carried out after they were transmitted by radio waves to the regions of the Far East that were still under the control of the Soviet Red Army. In the vast land of the Far East, teams drove cars, horse-drawn carriages, and mules and horses, trudging on highways and country roads. The largest migration of the Soviets from the Far East began.
The next morning, the Japanese aircraft group was again dispatched to cover the attack and advance of the ground forces.
This time, the little devil didn't get a good deal. The mixed brigade of the 122nd Air Force of the Soviet Army, which had long been ambushed in the air, came out and fought with the aviation of the Kwantung Army.
The Japanese army's newly developed KI43 Falcon fighter was equipped with a combat flight regiment that was preparing to go south, and a few days ago it went to the Far East to show its skills, and while showing the advantages of flexible operation and high speed, it exposed the shortcomings of the fragile fuselage structure and weak firepower, and the Japanese army was busy returning to the mainland to rebuild and develop the second type of aircraft.
The aircraft equipped by the Kwantung Army Flying Group are all Type 97, which are comparable in performance to the Soviet planes and have no advantages. However, the Japanese fleet dispatched few planes, just a bomber group and an escort fighter. The Soviet Army was a mixed brigade. At this time, the Japanese aircraft group suffered a big loss.
The air battle began early in the morning and lasted only 20 minutes, and the Japanese air force was beaten and left with wreckage and fled. The Red Army in the Far East achieved its first air victory in the Japanese-Soviet War.
Seeing the victory of the air force warriors, the spirit of the 35th Composite Army, which blocked the Japanese mechanized group, came up, and the tank brigade was also dispatched to start a tank battle with the Japanese army.
Slowly on the wasteland, the dust was filled, and the artillery of the Japanese and Soviet armies was roaring, intercepting the reinforcements of the opposing troops. The tanks of the two armies strangled together. The motor roared, and the cannon rumbled. It's not spectacular.
The tanks of the little devils are poorly armored and not good at firepower. When encountering Soviet tanks, they are definitely not opponents. Unfortunately, after the defeat of the Japanese army in the air battle, they soon rushed to retaliate again. Otherwise, the Japanese armored group's plot was doomed to fail.
The front line was in full swing, and negotiations between Japan and the Soviet Union were also intensive.
Japan's ambassador to the Soviet Union and negotiating plenipotentiary Miji Kenkawa organized a working group. Specifically to help him negotiate with the USSR.
Historically, Japanese Foreign Minister Yoyo Matsuoka and the Soviet Union signed a treaty of friendship and neutrality between Japan and the Soviet Union, which was lightning. This time it was different, although both Japan and the Soviet Union wanted to end the war as soon as possible, but the Japanese army had an absolute advantage, and the Japanese appetite was great.
Miji Kenkawa carried out the instructions of Fumima Konoe and Sadajiro Toyoda, and the conditions for the negotiations put forward could not be regarded as very high, that is, the Soviet Union was to return the territory of China before the signing of the "Sino-Russian Treaty of Nebuchu" and return the territory of China, and the bottom line of the negotiations was to return the territory occupied by Tsarist Russia after the signing of the "Sino-Russian Treaty of Nebuchu".
Molotov had already felt that the Soviet Union had been humiliated by Japan. Unwilling to give up the Far East, as soon as Miji Jianchuan's conditions were proposed, Molotov was annoyed and pointed at Miji Jianchuan's nose and scolded. Miji Kenkawa did not show weakness either, threatening that Japan was not in a hurry and could afford to wait.
The two sides quarreled over this issue for several days. The reason for the construction of the Tsumiji was that the Treaty of Nebuchu itself was a product of the eastward invasion of Tsarist Russia and was unfair. Now that negotiations were to be made, it was necessary to demarcate the border according to the territory of the Qing Dynasty during the Shunzhi period, otherwise Japan would not be able to account for the Manchurian people, who were eager to recover their homeland. Because most of these places were the homeland of the Mongol people in Manchukuo, the Japanese Army had the obligation to safeguard the interests of the Mongols.
Molotov's insistence was that the Sino-Russian Treaty of Nebuchu was an equal treaty, and that the Chinese side had not raised any objection to it since it was signed during the Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty. The Soviet government twice declared that it would absolve all unequal treaties signed between Tsarist Russia and China, referring to the treaties that followed the Sino-Russian Treaty of Nebuchu.
At this point, Molotov did not budge.
In the end, the two sides reached an agreement that the Soviet Union would return the territory occupied by Manchukuo and Tsarist Russia in Manchukuo in accordance with the Sino-Russian Treaty of Nebuchu.
The next issue was entangled again, and Japan proposed that the Soviet Union recognize Manchukuo and Japan recognize Mongolia, and Japan said that Mongolia's sovereignty should belong to Manchukuo. The two sides had another long argument.
The war in the Far East began on July 26 and lasted for a month until August 26. After inflicting heavy losses, the Far Eastern Front, covering the organs and inhabitants of the Far East, broke out of the encirclement of the Japanese army and retreated to the Trans-Khingan Mountains and Lake Baikal. The Japanese continued to launch offensive operations.
If the Japanese army breaks through the defense line of the Trans-Khingan Mountains, the Soviet Union will be finished!
Stalin severely criticized Molotov and demanded that he sign an agreement as soon as possible to end the war in the Far East.
The Japanese army did not think so, because the Far Eastern Front took the initiative to withdraw, and all the stored materials and equipment that could be taken away were taken away, and those that could not be taken away were also burned by fire, and the Japanese army did not get the large quantities of gasoline, steel, weapons and ammunition that they had imagined before the war. Therefore, the commander of the Kwantung Army, General Umezu Mijiro, set his sights on the Soviet industrial base in the Urals region, and reported to the military headquarters several times, asking for pressure on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to postpone the signing of the agreement and leave room for the Kwantung Army to attack westward.
As a result, Miji Kenkawa, who was in charge of the negotiations, delayed the negotiations and even had to take a vacation on Sunday.
As a result of the great victory of the Japanese army in the Far East, the war maniacs in Japan began to clamor again. On September 3, Emperor Hirohito convened the Imperial Council again, which clarified the policy of the Japanese army's southward advance, demanded that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs speed up the process of negotiations with the United States, that the Americans must guarantee the supply of oil to Japan, and forced the Chiang Kai-shek government to negotiate peace with Japan. If the Americans do not agree to these two articles, they will resolutely start a war with the United States and Britain, thoroughly wipe out the British and American forces in Southeast Asia, and establish Japan's hegemonic position in Asia in World War I.
Emperor Hirohito ordered the army and navy to draw up a war plan against the United States, form a southward combat unit, and prepare to carry out the southward advance operation.
The Soviet Union was caught between Japan and the Soviet Union and was in a disadvantageous position in the negotiations, and Britain was too busy to take care of itself under the bombing of German bombers, and was unable to stop the Japanese army from advancing southward. There is only one United States left, and it has become an obstacle to Japan's march to the world.
Emperor Hirohito was concerned that the Japanese Army was no match for the U.S. Navy, but Sugimoto told him that the Japanese Navy was on a par with the U.S. Navy. If the tactics of a sneak attack on Vladivostok can be adopted and the main force of the US Pacific Fleet can be defeated in World War I, the Japanese Navy will become the world's largest in the veritable name, and the Pacific Ocean will become Japan's inland sea.
Emperor Hirohito, thinking that the Soviet Union had such a powerful force in the Far East, had been abandoned by the army and navy, and became more and more convinced that his army and navy were invincible in the world, and not only did not stop Miji Kenkawa's deliberate delay in negotiations, but on the contrary, he also approved China's request to send troops to launch the Second Battle of Changsha.
On September 18, the Japanese Eleventh Army launched an attack on the Chinese Ninth Theater troops in Changsha.
Unexpectedly, on the night of September 18, Emperor Hirohito was called by Konoe Fumima, Sugi Sugimoto, and Tojo Hideki, and was stunned by Konoe Fumima's report: "It is suspected that the fleet of Liu Yimin's department of the Eighth Route Army passed through Wusongkou." ”
At this time, the Japanese no longer twisted their posture, and Miji Jianchuan received an urgent order: "100,000 urgent, immediately sign a Japanese-Soviet treaty of friendship and neutrality with the Soviet Union!" ”
Miji Jianchuan made an appointment with Molotov overnight, saying that he had received instructions from the country, and the agreement reached by the two sides of the negotiation some time ago had been approved by the Imperial Council and could be signed.
Molotov, who did not know what was going on, was overjoyed, and immediately finalized the final terms with Miji Jianchuan, and reported to Stalin overnight.
Stalin had already been sleepless by the war on the Western Front at this time, and after receiving the report, he read it carefully, and saw that the main terms were in his expectations, so he approved it.
The "Japan-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Neutrality" was delayed in the early stage, but once it was signed, it was like a woman giving birth to a child, and it was reached overnight, and the signing came into effect, and the Kwantung Army and the Soviet Army immediately ceased fire, and the Japanese-Soviet War ended temporarily.
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