With Zhuang Jihua's counterattack, he was still laughing just now, and the harmonious dinner table immediately became tense, Zhuang Jihua stared at Hopkins, Weidemeyer and Stilwell frowned, the two exchanged glances, but they didn't know what to do, Chiang Kai-shek held the water glass casually, Chen Cheng looked gloomy, I didn't know what he was thinking, Chen Bui leaned back in the chair and looked at Hopkins gently, Song Meiling still had a faint smile, she was the only one at the dinner table who was still smiling

Hopkins wandered, Zhuang Jihua's counterattack hit the key point, Stalin's concession was actually not big, Xinjiang rebellion, the Chinese people have the ability to pacify, this is not his concession, and the country wants to withdraw from Mongolia, that means withdrawing from a large piece of land, QВ (5), cOm/

"Chairman of the Committee, the complex situation between China and the Soviet Union poses a great threat to our common cause, and this threat will affect not only the present war, but also the peace in the Far East after the war."

Hopkins decided to start with Chiang Kai-shek, and his tone was very earnest: "The president sent me precisely out of concern for these two points, Soviet Russia has recognized Xinjiang as the territory of the country, and abandoned the claim to the northeast, I think this is a victory for your country, and now what we need is to resolve the disagreement between the two countries calmly and rationally." ”

Chiang Kai-shek drank. Water, sorted out his thoughts, and then Ben said slowly: "Mr. Hopkins, in the past hundred years, the most radical powers that invaded our country, Soviet Russia and Ben were in the forefront, the former is even more than the latter, since the period of Tsarist Russia, Soviet Russia has been inexhaustibly invading our country, taking advantage of the weakness of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, through a series of treaties to cut off millions of square kilometers of land from our country, after the founding of Soviet Russia, they have never stopped their aggression against our country, they have just been peaceful and calm internally, they sent troops to occupy the Mongolian region of our country, planning the so-called establishment of the Republic of China, and instigated the Middle Road incident. ”

Chiang Kai-shek's tone was gentle about the invasion of Soviet Russia against the country since the Russian Tsarist era, and the humiliation suffered by the country again and again. Stuart Leiden frequently bowed his head, Weidemeyer sighed in his heart, the Chinese people have suffered too much humiliation in modern times, they are wary of the West, Hopkins is a little hasty in this matter, Stilwell sighed softly, he has been in the country for more than ten years, and he knows that the country's vigilance against Soviet Russia is not weaker than Ben, but Ben is too obvious and urgent, and the rapid rise of Sino-Japanese contradictions has covered up the problems between China and the Soviet Union, so that some people in the West have misunderstood.

"What a cowardly ally." Hopkins lamented in his heart that in Europe, Churchill was also wary of Soviet Russia, and if it had not been for his obstruction, a second battlefield might have been opened last year.

The room was tense and uneven, Hopkins was silent, he knew that he had encountered a problem, Chiang Kai-shek gave Zhuang Jihua a look, and motioned for him to give Hopkins a step down, but Song Meiling rushed ahead.

"Mr. Hopkins, you may not know our history, China and the Soviet Union are inexhaustibly entangled, in essence, Soviet Russia adheres to the former Tsar's ambitions for the north of our country."

"Madame said it well, in fact, it is not only Soviet Russia" Chen Bui also interjected at this time: "Historically, the threat of the Chinese nation has always come from the north, and the land under our feet is the place where the Han people and the nomads are fighting, and from the perspective of national security, we must also control the north in our hands." ”

"Mr. Bray is right" Zhuang Jihua also spoke: "After defeating Ben, our threat mainly comes from the north, that is, Soviet Russia, Mr. Hopkins, from the perspective of the post-war international situation, only Soviet Russia can pose a threat to the United States, we hope that the United States can assume the responsibility of maintaining international peace after the war, and we also believe that only Soviet Russia can pose a threat to international peace." ”

Hopkins now fully understood that the Chinese had made up their minds to a showdown with the Russians over Mongolia, and that his desire for one-sided concessions had been wrong from the start.

"Mr. Chairman, I wonder what is the bottom line that you can accept?" Hopkins decided to start correcting his own faults and considering what the next country was thinking.

Hopkins's stubborn psychology showed a crack, Chiang Kai-shek was relieved, he was about to answer, but he saw Zhuang Jihua give him a look, he picked up the glass and drank it. Water, Zhuang Jihua coughed lightly, drawing attention to his side.

"Mr. Hopkins, there is a situation that you may not understand, the puppet Mongolian army Li Shouxin has already proposed to surrender to our army, and our army has sent troops to accept Li Shouxin's surrender, so that the forward of our army can advance to the southern part of Wendurhan and Yang Province.

Hopkins did not appear, but looked at Weidemeyer and Stilwell with some doubts, as if he wanted to confirm Zhuang Jihua's words, but the Mongolian army was completely under the command of the Chinese people, and the American generals were not involved at all, and neither Weidemeyer nor Stilwell knew the actual situation of the Mongolian army.

Zhuang Jihua then made an offer: "In order to maintain the unity between the allies, our Mongolian army can be pushed back to the southern part of Mongolia's East Gobi Province and Kent Province, and cede Yang Province and Wendurhan, but Soviet Russia must stop intervening in Xinjiang, recognize the Northeast as my inherent territory, and ensure that Mongolia can be voted on after the war." ”

As Hopkins listened, he thought that he was glad that he had not promised Stalin that it would save his mission while he was in Moscow. Zhuang Jihua saw Hopkins's hesitation, he smiled and then enlightened: "Mr. Hopkins, in fact, I understand President Roosevelt's concerns, but Mr. President may have overlooked a problem, that is, Soviet Russia needs the United States more than we do. ”

In the face of Zhuang Jihua's assertion, Hopkins was a little surprised and obviously didn't believe it, Zhuang Jihua smiled faintly: "From the military point of view, Germany still occupies a large part of the territory of Soviet Russia, and Germany's main military power is still pressed on Soviet Russia, and Stalin needs a second battlefield more than the allies: from an economic point of view, after a tragic war, Soviet Russia's cities and industries in the west were almost all destroyed, even if they rebuilt their industry in the Urals, they could not meet the huge consumption of the Soviet-German battlefield, so, Stalin needed more American aid: Mr. Hopkins, I don't think Stalin would be able to cooperate when the Allies opened a second battlefield, he dreamed of defeating Hitler as soon as possible. "Weidemeyer and Stilwell bowed their heads almost at the same time, in fact, this is also the biggest reason why the country dares to go-for-tat with Soviet Russia, the country and Soviet Russia have a huge gap in strength, and now the country can invest fifty percent of its strength in Mongolia, and Soviet Russia may not even have one percent.

As the atmosphere got better and better, there was a hint of sourness in Chen Chengcheng, this scene once again confirmed that Zhuang Jihua's influence had surpassed him, from military to political economy, and now even involved in diplomacy, he looked around, and everyone wore a veil of warmth.

After the meal, Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Meiling went to rest, and in the afternoon their itinerary changed, Soong Meiling was going to the hospital and orphanage, and Chiang Kai-shek was to convene a military conference in the North China Theater, which Weidemeyer and Steven would join, and Chen Bui and Stuart Leiden were entrusted with the important task of accompanying Hopkins.

Hopkins did not have the habit of taking a lunch break, and after the meal, Chen Bui took him and Situ Leiden to the Forbidden City to visit, while Zhuang Jihua seized the time to send several telegrams to Wei Lihuang, asking him to advance quickly, take over Li Shouxin's defense area, and prepare for war with the Soviet army.

By the time he returned from sending the telegram, Chiang Kai-shek had already come out, and Huairentang had been set up as a conference room, with a large military map hanging on the side of the conference table.

After Chen Cheng announced the start of the meeting, Chiang Kai-shek spoke: "After the Battle of North China, our army is faced with two operational objectives, one is the Mongolian side and the other is the northeast side: for the purpose of the Mongolian target, our army is now preparing in advance If Mr. Hopkins can adjust it, this target will naturally not produce a battle, if we have to, we must consider fighting the Soviet army in Mongolia, what are your considerations?" At the beginning of the meeting, Weidemeyer and Stilwell were taken aback, one of Chiang Kai-shek's topics was the Mongolian war, and Washington had a clear order that the US troops in China should not be involved in the Mongolian war and the Xinjiang counterinsurgency, but now that they were sitting down, it was too late to leave, so the two had to exchange glances and began to pretend to be dumb.

Zhuang Jihua smiled at them very understandingly, and then said to Chiang Kai-shek: "Chairman, the Soviet army has about 200,000 troops in Mongolia, plus the Mongolian army, the total military strength is about 300,000, and there are very few aircraft and tanks. ”

Chiang Kai-shek bowed his head silently, and Chen Cheng was worried: "If it is only sent from the southwest, I am afraid that it will be too late in time, can the North China Theater transfer so much ammunition?" ”

Jihua nodded his head very controllably: "The 50,000 tons of ammunition that was originally prepared to attack Beiping, because the Japanese army in Beiping surrendered, saved it, and this batch of ammunition can be transferred to Mongolia." "Military strength, our military strength is not superior." Chiang Kai-shek suddenly spoke, obviously he was still worried.

"The 49th Group Army is in Rehe, and the 101st Army and the 102nd Army can be ordered to move closer to the Mongolian region, the 103rd Army will stick to its original position, the New Eighth Army and the 1st Army will immediately go to eastern Hebei, and the Fifth Army will go north to Rehe, join up with the 49th Group Army, and prepare to fight in Mongolia." "Wait, wait, general" Wei Demai finally couldn't help it, and stopped him repeatedly, Zhuang Jihua was interrupted by him, as if he was a little surprised, and looked at him very puzzled, the meaning in his eyes was, I know that you are unwilling to interfere, I didn't ask for your opinion, just don't cause you trouble, how can you ......

"Chairman, Zhuang" Weidemeyer looked a little anxious: "If the saved weapons and ammunition are sent to Mongolia, how to attack the northeast?" If the Japanese army counterattacks, what juice will we take? Zhuang Jihua smiled: "This is not too much to worry about, according to the information we have, the ammunition of the Kwantung Army is probably more difficult than ours, their ammunition savings in the northeast have all been transported to North China, Okabe Naosaburo is probably desperately urging Tokyo to make up for her ammunition, and" Zhuang Jihua paused here and smiled even more happily: "Even if he has enough ammunition, so what!" Could it be that Naosaburo Okabe still dares to step out of Shanhaiguan?"

Wei Demai and Zhuang Jihua stared at each other, Zhuang Jihua's gaze was calm and steady, without the slightest swing, Wei Demai knew the meaning of his gaze.

So what! So what!

At this moment, Zhuang Jihua looked extremely proud!

At this moment, Zhuang Jihua looked extremely arrogant!

From Nanjing to Xuzhou, from Shangqiu to Myanmar, from Northern Hubei to Xuzhou, Jinan to Beiping, from Beiping to Shanhaiguan!

I, Zhuang Jihua, led millions of soldiers, killed famous generals and millions of elite soldiers across thousands of miles, defeated all the Japanese generals, the Japanese army has already been killed by me, who else dares to face my blade!

Chen Cheng looked at Zhuang Jihua with envy and hatred, seven years of resistance against Japanese aggression and countless victories have created Zhuang Jihua's prestige today, whether it is a Huangpu classmate or a general, they are all unwilling to fight under his command: the people are crowned with the noble title of today's martial emperor.

Chen Cheng squinted at Chiang Kai-shek, and felt a little relieved in his heart that he was still the chief of the general adviser, and his position was still above him. However, Chen Cheng still wanted to impact Zhuang Jihua, and he smiled slightly! General Weidemeyer, we are not at all worried that the Kwantung Army will attack, because we know the battle plan of the Japanese army very well. "Oh" Wei Demaier was really surprised this time, he looked at Chen Cheng in disbelief, Chen Cheng glanced at Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Kai-shek also smiled: "The two generals are friends of the allies, they will not be spies." "As early as the beginning of the invasion of China, we set up a spy in the North China Dispatch Army, he was in an important position in the army, and he could get almost all of his own battle plans, and after the North China Dispatch Army was destroyed, he was sent to the Kwantung Army Headquarters to be responsible for the work of operations, so we know the truth of the Kwantung Army very clearly."

"So, General Weidemeyer, don't worry, Naosaburo Okabe is going to attack, and we will know half a month in advance." Zhuang Jihua didn't seem to see Chen Cheng's intentions, and he was still so relaxed and casual.

When Weidemeyer and Stilwell woke up from a dream, Stilwell immediately remembered the mission that Merrill Commando had carried out, so that the information on the mission must have been provided by this spy.

"Okay, let's make a combat arrangement based on this." Chiang Kai-shek made a decision, and Weidemeyer also dissuaded, he knew very well that he had no opinion to make, and if Hopkins had not come, he might have said a few words to dissuade him, but now, he had nothing to do.

Jihua stood up, Chiang Kai-shek waved him to sit down, and then motioned to Chen Cheng, Chen Cheng stood up and announced: "According to the progress of the war, the National Military Commission has decided to establish the Northeast Theater, General Zhuang Jihua, the commander of the Northeast Theater,......。 ”

"General Zhuang Jihua was dismissed from the post of commander of the North China Theater, Sun Lianzhong was removed from the post of deputy commander of the North China Theater, General Tang Enbo was appointed commander of the North China Theater, General Wei Lihuang was appointed deputy commander of the North China Theater, and concurrently served as the commander-in-chief of the Mongolian Army, and General Tang Shizun was appointed as the deputy commander of the North China Theater and concurrently served as the commander of the Tianjin garrison ................"

The only surprise that Chiang Kai-shek transferred Teng Jie from Shandong to serve as director of the Political Department of the North China Theater and director of the Party Department of Beiping City.

The personnel of the Northeast Theater is roughly the same as the list provided by Zhuang Jihua, but there are also discrepancies, the deputy director of the Political Department has added a Kang Ze, the director of the People's Driving Division is also from the background of the Three Youth League, Jiang Jingguo will be in charge of Jia Huailiang tomorrow, the chief adviser of the theater is still Xu Zuyi, and the deputy adviser Zhuang Jihua nominated Gong Chu.

For this reason, Zhuang Jihua proposed to Chiang Kai-shek that when taking over Beiping and Tianjin, because he was not prepared in advance, the final receiving city showed no small mistakes, so in the process of marching into the northeast, an urban task force should be established in advance, and each city should set up a corresponding task force, and after the city is recovered, it will immediately take over the city and begin to carry out post-war reconstruction work.

Chiang Kai-shek not only took it, but also directly promoted it and set up the Northeast Xingyuan, but he did not let Zhuang Jihua be the director of the Xingyuan, but appointed Xiong Shihui as the director, and Feng Yi and Xiao Zhenying as the deputy directors.

Xiong Shihui is a veteran of Yang Yongtai's Department of Political Science and a veteran politician in the political arena of the Republic of China.

The two deputy directors were recommended by Zhuang Jihua, Feng Wei needless to say, it is obviously Zhuang Jihua's people, Xiao Zhenying seems to be not that faction, after going to the Jiangbei Theater and later the North China Theater to take on the senior staff, he has been active outside, and has little contact with Zhuang Jihua, Zhuang Jihua recommended him to be the deputy director of the Chiang Kai-shek unexpectedly.

In addition to these two people, Zhuang Jihua also recommended Li Pinghe and Pingping to serve as the director of Jibei Xingcha, after the Cairo Conference, China and Britain in Burma completed a tacit understanding, Li Pinghe's mission in Burma was over, and Zhuang Jihua asked him to come over.

This candidate was vetoed by Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Kai-shek appointed the former military police commander Xiao Shanling, after Xiao Shanling broke through from Nanjing, he was transferred to Wuhan to continue to serve as the commander of the military police, after the loss of Wuhan, Xiao Shanling applied to the front line, was sent to the third theater as deputy adviser, after the establishment of the Jiangnan Theater, Xiao Shanling returned to Chongqing to serve as deputy director of the General Administration of the National Government. Zhuang Jihua could not raise any objections to this person's choice, so he could only let Li Pinghe calmly serve as Xiao Shanling's deputy.

Obviously, this personnel structure was the result of mutual concessions between Chiang Kai-shek and Zhuang Jihua, and Chiang Kai-shek, through the Northeast Theater and the Northeast Movement, divided the military and local powers, which was obviously specially designed to limit Zhuang Jihua's power.

But this time Zhuang Jihua did not tie his hands and regained some power through Feng Yi and Li Pinghe, Chiang Kai-shek also had to give in, Xiong Shihui did not have the support of Zhuang Jihua, and it was difficult to carry out work in the northeast.

The two sides have no objection that Stilwell is still in charge of the commander and adviser of the US forces in the Northeast Theater, and the Sino-US Joint Air Force under Li Mei's jurisdiction has been assigned to the North China Theater and under the direct command of the Air Force Command, but the seven air force groups, four fighter groups, three bomber groups, and one transport squadron of the National Air Force have been assigned to the Northeast Theater.

Stilwell's attention was somewhat distracted in the rest of the meeting, and he remembered the Merrill Commando, after the successful attack on the Turf Army, the Special Forces and the Merrill Commando were being chased and cut off by the Japanese army, and were struggling to fight in the mountains of the northeast. @

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