October 15, 1941. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Yan'an.

Yan'an received a telegram from the Soviet side, which was very polite but non-negotiable, saying that Foreign Minister Molotov would arrive in Yan'an today to discuss the strategy and action of jointly fighting fascism.

Mao Gong took the telegram from Xiaolu and said: "Mikoyan did not get any promises in Ulaanbaatar, so Stalin sent Molotov to us. Looks like we're really going to need to prepare. Don't get too stiff, instead, be enthusiastic. But be principled. ”

Mr. Zhu said: "Because there is an anti-Japanese united front, we can let Chongqing express some views. Someone has to sing white faces. ”

Mao Gongdao: "Xiaolu also looks at it this way. He has already released the news, and the Chongqing side already knows about it. This morning's newspaper had a headline: "Abolish the Unequal Treaties in the History of China and Russia." Look, this is JoongAng Daily. ”

JoongAng Ilbo is very good. They got the ready-made manuscript of Hongyan Village, and after approval from above, they posted the headline on the front page.

Ren Gongdao: "It seems that Chongqing is very angry with the Soviet Union. Actually, the USSR was still very good to them. So much aid was taken up by them, and we only got a little, which was in exchange for pharmaceutical technology. ”

Mr. Zhu said: "On behalf of the Foreign Minister, Song Ziwen wants to come to Yan'an with Enlai. I don't think we can stop him. ”

Mao Gongdao: "Those who come are all guests." Welcome. ”

In the afternoon, members of the Standing Committee of the Political and Governance Bureau in Yan'an went to the Yan'an airport to welcome Molotov.

The plane landed, and everyone stepped forward. Molotov got off the plane, smiled and shook hands with several people one by one.

This was Molotov's first visit to Yan'an. He saw the tattered airfield in Yan'an, and when he saw the clothes of Mao and others, he was in a trance: How could the people who commanded so many troops be dressed in such tatters? Is their army strong?

Molotov had big doubts: I didn't look for the wrong person, did I? Rely on them to beat the Japanese? Stalin

Mao Gongdao: "Soviet comrades have come to us twice in a row, which is really brilliant. Don't you really believe that we can recover Outer Mongolia? ”

Molotov is good at diplomatic rhetoric, listening to Mao's first sentence is still very diplomatic, but the second sentence is very simple and clear: "We believe in your strength." You already have a million troops south of the Great Wall and 500,000 troops north of the Great Wall. At present, your prestige in the eyes of the Chinese people is very high, and we admire you very much. ”

After greeting for a while, everyone got in the car and went back to Yan'an. Along the way, a well-organized welcome procession: welcome, welcome, warm welcome! Welcome, welcome, warm welcome!!

Molotov was very useful, although the loess on the road was very choking, although the broken car he was sitting in was very bumpy. People are enthusiastic, and that's what makes people happy.

In the evening, the parties began talks. Molotov gave a briefing on the progress of the Soviet battlefield, and Mao gave a briefing on the basic situation of the Chinese battlefield and our role.

Next, Molotov asked them to present the situation with the troops in Manchuria.

There were 500,000 Manchurian troops, and they cultivated their own land, made their own weapons, and snatched weapons from the Japanese, and at present they already owned 70 percent of Manchuria's population and 80 percent of its land.

Recently, they regained Outer Mongolia, bringing them back to the bosom of the motherland, and the people of the whole country were very excited. Because we have a united front, Chongqing is ready to send officials to Outer Mongolia. Our opinion, if you can get past the Japanese-occupied area, you can send the officer.

These circumstances, to a large extent, Molotov knew. That's what intelligence in the Far East says. One difference is the number of troops. The intelligence of the Far Eastern Military District said that it was 300,000, not 500,000. Another difference is, how did the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army occupy 80% of the land?

Yan'an's explanation is that the army has recently expanded by more than 100,000 people, and the total military strength has reached 500,000. The land occupied is all mountainous and rural. The Japanese currently occupy the railways, the cities, the mines, and the coast.

Molotov said: "What we mean is to fight together with the Chinese comrades against the two fascists, Germany and Japan. Ask the troops of Manchuria to attack the rear of the Japanese army. If the Japanese army stops advancing westward, we can deal with the Germans with all our might. ”

Mao Gongdao: "This request is reasonable. However, we are also under a lot of pressure. As soon as the news of your visit to Yan'an spread, Chongqing published an article demanding the abolition of the unequal treaty signed between the tsar and us. It's not easy for us either. If the people don't support us, then we will fail. ”

Mao Gong's thinking was wild, and Molotov felt a lot of pressure.

Molotov did not expect at all that the other side would mention the conditions of the treaty of the Tsarist era. If these treaties are abolished, what is the point? The areas that Japan is now attacking are those areas stipulated in the treaties.

The next day, Song Ziwen and Zhou Gong came to Yan'an. At present, Chairman Chiang personally serves as the foreign minister, and Soong Ziwen negotiates on his behalf. Yan'an executives went to the airport again to welcome.

Molotov talked in Yan'an for two days.

Although Song Ziwen represented the government, he also asked for negotiations to go to Chongqing to continue. Molotov insisted on Yan'an, and he thought clearly that it was Yan'an's army that he would use.

Therefore, when Song Ziwen first joined the negotiations, he still wanted to give Molotov a dismissal, and he didn't want others to accept him at all, and soon he no longer wanted to lead the negotiations. However, he still kept passing on the situation to Lao Jiang.

Lao Chiang wanted the Soviet Union to resume aid, but was decisively refused.

Song Ziwen discussed with Yan'an in the middle to send officials to send troops to Outer Mongolia. This is an internal matter in China, Molotov does not express an opinion, Yan'an knows that they are just proposing, it will be difficult to send troops and officials, so he does not refuse.

In these two days, the situation in Moscow has changed.

It began to rain and snow in the Moscow area. The rain and snow made it difficult for the Soviet troops advancing towards Moscow.

Difficulties also fell on the Germans, except for the transportation by train, which was relatively smooth, and the transportation by car was difficult. Fortunately, the Germans captured the western part of Moscow ahead of schedule, and this time, the Germans had a much better time than the German army marching in the mire in history.

Historically, the German army was still on the way to Moscow during this period. Because the road is full of mud, after passing a few cars, the road surface becomes a big sauce tank, and after more than half of the wheels, the tank can still go, but the car basically can't.

The Germans attributed the failure of the attack on the Soviet Union to climatic reasons, one of which was the cold weather, and the other was the muddy roads of early winter. This, of course, was one-sided, because the will of the Soviets to resist was high and underestimated by the Germans.

The second change is the temperature. As the temperature dropped, the Germans began to feel the power of Moscow's climate. However, the Germans found a large number of Soviet cotton coats, cotton hats and cotton boots, and more than 800,000 German troops put bloated Soviet cotton clothes on top of the neat German uniforms.

There were also some units that did not have cotton clothes, and the German commanders allowed them to find cotton clothes in people's homes and put them on their bodies.

In this way, the combat strength of less than a million German troops was largely unaffected by the cold. Now, the temperature is not so low that it does not affect the performance of the vehicle's firearms.

The third change was that more than a hundred thousand Soviet troops marched into Moscow. In the past few days, the Germans have occupied a number of neighborhoods on the east bank of the Moskva River, and there is a tendency to pursue them with victory. Because of the arrival of Soviet reinforcements, the German offensive was affected.

On the afternoon of October 18, 1941, Yan'an.

The two sides were about to start talks when an attaché came to Molotov's room with a telegram and said: "Not good, the whole of Moscow is lost. ”

Molotov sat down on the bed all of a sudden, and said for a while: "How did you lose it?" ”

Moscow is a symbol of this war, whoever occupies the city will be able to seize the initiative, and whoever will have a strong fighting spirit among the people and soldiers.

The attaché said: "It is not clear in the telegram. However, it can be guessed between the lines that the Germans, under the guidance of counter-revolutionary White Russian spies, attacked in the dark of night, and part of the guard surrendered. ”

Molotov calmed down and said: "Send a telegram to Stalin immediately, asking if there is any change in the direction of negotiations." ”

The next thing is to wait. At this time, Molotov began to feel itchy on his body, and when he lifted his clothes, he saw that there were red bags one by one. What kind of bug bites this? Itchy!

Soon, Stalin called: "It is possible to make appropriate concessions to Dihua." "I didn't say exactly what it was appropriate. Molotov knew this, because he had discussed this matter with Stalin before he came. If there was no current war, the Soviet Union would have turned Dihua into Central Asia and turned it into a Soviet republic, but there were too many Han people in Dihua, and it was very difficult.

However, the process of Central Asianization of Dihua was halted, and the rise of Germany disrupted all plans.

Soon, Yan'an told the Soviet delegation some details of the fall of Moscow. Indeed, some White Russian spies helped the Germans to succeed in their sneak attack. The White Russian spies were familiar with the terrain and the streets of Moscow, and the small troops lurked through the blockade line through the sewers, flanking the front and rear, tearing a hole in the defense line, causing the core of Moscow to be lost, and finally, the Moscow defenders were overburdened with heavy casualties and collapsed.

However, the news was not all bad, the Soviet troops did not go far, and heard that some troops were preparing for a sneak attack at night to return to the city of Moscow.

Later, when Hitler summed up the battle of Moscow, he focused on praising Semenov, and without his cooperation, then at least a few more days of fighting would have taken Moscow.

Semenov has now completely fallen to Germany, and his method of cooperation is very simple and effective, that is, he sent people to disguise himself as Soviet troops, guide the German troops into the Soviet defense area, and flank the front and rear, crushing the Soviet army, and making the surrounded Soviet army surrender. In addition, the Soviet soldiers were scattered because of the absence of the commander.

The surrender of a small number of Soviet troops caused a chain reaction, and the rest of the Soviet troops who did not surrender were hit on the flanks and retreated under the leadership of the commander. However, at the time of the arrival of the telegram, these retreating Soviet units had already begun to fight guerrilla attacks in the city of Moscow.

Hitler soon gave a speech about the victorious capture of the Soviet capital, and today he is the best man in the world.

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1. Stalin literally means steel. Joseph Vissarionovich Xiaogang.