Chapter 197 International Situation
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Zhang Lanfeng, as the largest puppet army leader in eastern Henan, not only openly treasoned against the enemy, but also "cared" for the people of Chongqing, and at the same time avoided conflicts with the armed forces of the national army as much as possible. But Yang Tianfeng didn't want to let him go, in eastern Henan, no matter how much Zhang Lanfeng was left and right, he was also helping the devils to suppress his compatriots, and he also had a serious conflict with the interests of the three verticals.
The night is getting darker, but Yang Tianfeng has not rested, he is writing hard, writing articles under the pen name of thunder.
At present, the situation of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in China is relatively stable on the whole, but the rapid changes in the international situation are becoming more and more unfavorable to China. The Chinese government, which had rejoiced at the Japanese and Soviet battles at Nomenkan, was not only disappointed, but also faced an even more severe situation in the war of resistance.
In May 1939, about 700 Outer Mongolian troops crossed the Haraha River west of Nomenkan and entered the territory of the puppet "Manchurian Empire" and clashed with the Manchu army. The 23rd Division of the Japanese Kwantung Army stationed in the area immediately went to support, and the Soviet troops also rushed to help the Mongolian army, triggering the famous Battle of Nomenkan.
The Kwantung Army was approved by the chief of staff of the headquarters of the War Department, the approval of the Ministry of the Army, and the approval of the chief of staff of the War Department at the base camp, which was in fact the acquiescence of the emperor. Immediately he galloped like a wild horse that had escaped the leash. In June, a large number of aircraft were suddenly dispatched to carry out a lightning attack on Tamsk, shooting down and destroying 124 Soviet aircraft. Only four Japanese planes were missing, the rest were unharmed.
Subsequently. The Kwantung Army, with the main force of the 23rd Division and other subordinate units, forcibly crossed the Haraha River and swept the western flank of the Soviet-Mongolian Army with an unstoppable momentum. On the endless steppe, he fought brutally with the Soviet and Mongolian troops. The Soviets blocked the Japanese with superior heavy artillery and tank groups and drove them back to the right bank of the Haraha River.
Then. The Japanese army launched another large-scale offensive, but did not break through the Soviet-Mongolian defenses. The two sides are once again at a standoff. The Japanese high command did not take the Soviet Union seriously and was determined to deal a severe blow to its "aggressive acts." As a matter of fact, these actions were all backed by the anti-communist agreements of Japan, Germany, and Italy.
However, when the Japanese army was red-eyed with the Soviet army at Nomenkan, Hitler's Germany, the "big brother" of the Triple Entente, engaged in very warm political, economic, and military transactions with Stalin in Moscow, hoping to form a secret military alliance with Stalin and jointly divide the territory of Poland.
The Soviet Union, in order to gain benefits on the Polish question, allied itself with Germany and used a clever trick: while negotiating with Germany, it also entered into military negotiations with Germany's sworn rivals, Britain and France, so that both Germany and Britain and France felt that if they did not get the Russians right, they would fall to the enemy's side. As a result, the Soviet side gained a situation of left and right.
Another reason for Hitler's secret talks with Stalin was his disappointment with the other two little brothers of the Axis powers. Hitler wanted to conquer the world, knowing that war with the Soviet Union and Britain and France was inevitable, so he ranked the Soviet Union as the number one "revolutionary object" in the main alliance to delineate the Axis powers, and Japan and Italy had no objection to this.
However, when Hitler also listed Britain and France as "revolutionary objects" of the Axis powers, and demanded that Japan and Italy assume military obligations to fight against Britain and France, the two little brothers were not so reluctant.
The reasons for Italy's reluctance will not be mentioned for the time being. Japan is reluctant, but it is because there is a strong opposition force in the country. Mainly in the sea phase, the foreign minister and the Tibetan minister agreed, and resolutely opposed to making enemies of Britain and France, which were far away in the sky, for the sake of a Hitler who was far away in the world. However, the powerful Army side was in a-for-tat manner, insisting that Hitler's "revolutionary object" should be the enemy for the sake of sincere unity of the Axis powers.
Ignoring the resolute opposition of the Navy, the Foreign Minister, and the Tibetan Minister, Prime Minister Hiranuma turned to the side of the Army, betting his political future on whether Hitler would be trustworthy in the future and oppose the Soviet Union together with Japan. However, when the Hiranuma cabinet made its attitude clear, it became clear that Hitler's Germany was secretly engaged in friendly talks with the Soviet Union, and there were rumors that Germany and the Soviet Union were going to form an alliance and sign a non-aggression pact.
At this time, the battle at Nomenkan entered a fierce period. The Japanese side believes that even the signing of an agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union on the smallest scale will be a shameless betrayal of Japan. Because as long as Germany was friendly with the Soviet Union, even temporarily, and in fact relieved the pressure on the Soviet Union's Western Front, the Soviet Union would concentrate heavy forces in the Far East against Japan.
The Japanese discovered that just as Hitler weighed China and Japan in the Far East together and abandoned China because he thought Japan had strength, now Hitler weighed Japan and the Soviet Union together and thought that the Soviet Union was more powerful.
In order to stop the collusion between Germany and the Soviet Union, the Hiranuma cabinet was in a hurry to make wisdom and also played diplomatic tricks to restrain Hitler. Japan suddenly turned to Britain in a similar way. In late July, Japanese and British diplomats held talks in Tokyo and reached an agreement, with the two governments simultaneously issuing identical statements.
In this way, the Japanese side resoundingly resounded back at Hitler's act of colluding with Soviet Russia, and at the same time, it achieved its goal of isolating the national government, while Britain also achieved his ulterior motive by engaging in the Munich conspiracy in the Far East at the expense of China's interests. In the end, it is China that suffers.
The anti-Japanese coalition formed by Hitler's main coalition has now been destroyed by Hitler himself. He betrayed his "loyal and honest" Japanese brothers. In response to this, the Japanese cabinet was furious, and Ambassador Oshima lodged a strong protest with the German Government on the grounds that this treaty violated the "Secret Subsidiary Agreement of the Japan-Germany Defense Communism Agreement."
The signing of the treaty between Germany and the Soviet Union declared the defeat of Hiranuma diplomacy. Prime Minister Hiranuma was heavily attacked by domestic political forces and was forced to announce his resignation and downfall.
In August, the Kwantung Army and the puppet Manchu Army were still engaged in a major battle of tens of thousands of troops with the Soviet-Mongolian army at Nomenkan, and the Soviets were engaged in the front-line battle with three infantry divisions, seven tank brigades and artillery corps of several thousand men, and another five divisions and a large number of aircraft were on standby.
The muscles of the Japanese dwarf were obviously not as strong as the polar bears, and they suffered heavy casualties under the repeated onslaught of Soviet tanks and the indiscriminate bombardment of artillery and aircraft. The Japanese were unable to attack again and switched to the defensive.
Subsequently, Japan proposed an armistice to the Soviet side. Unexpectedly, the Soviet side once again agreed to an armistice, as in the case of the Zhang Gufeng incident, and its eagerness for an armistice was even stronger than that of the Japanese.
This was because Hitler's military preparations for Poland had been completed, and according to the German-Soviet secret treaty, a large area of land on this side of Poland should be occupied by the Soviet Russian Red Army. It was only because the Japanese army was worried about escalating the conflict with the Soviet army at Nomenkan that the Soviet army had no time to look at the Polish land and did not rashly send troops to Europe.
Everyone has what they need, and it's going well. After the armistice agreement between Japan and the Soviet Union was reached in Moscow, the Soviet Red Army began to transport cars and tanks from the Nomenkan to the Western Front through the Trans-Siberian Railway, preparing to swallow a large area of Polish territory.
Japan, for its part, really wanted to devote itself exclusively to the Sino-Japanese war. As for the war between Japan and the Soviet Union at Nomenkan, in the eyes of the newly appointed Prime Minister Abe, it was originally Hitler's business, and the Japanese simply believed his promise and stepped into that quagmire. But after all, Japan has not yet fallen into a deep position, and it is still too late to pull it out.
Only the war in China was launched by Japan on its own. Therefore, it is Japan's business to fight well and badly, and it does not expect help from others, let alone let outsiders interfere. The statement of the new prime minister of the Japanese cabinet is, in fact, that he has no intention of interfering with any incident anywhere in the world, except for the China incident.
The conflict between Japan and the Soviet Union not only did not contain the Japanese army, but deepened the pressure of the Chinese army to resist the war and deepened the cruelty of the Sino-Japanese war.
This is the political relationship between countries, there are no permanent friends, there are no permanent enemies, there are only eternal interests. Filthy and disgusting, a foul-smelling pool of black water.
Now, the War of Resistance has become China's own business. The United States, Britain, and France declared neutrality, and even the Soviet Union's military aid would be cut off, although the Soviet Union's aid to China to resist Japan was based on its own interests and strategic considerations. However, it is undeniable that in the nearly four years from the "July 7 Incident" to the outbreak of the Soviet-German War, most of the foreign aid materials urgently needed and actually obtained by China in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression came from the Soviet Union.
At that time, the Chinese Air Force had established three flight groups, of which the largest first flight group and the third flight group were built on the basis of the aircraft and weapons provided by the Soviet Union, and only the second flight group was equipped with aircraft provided by the United States, France, Britain, Italy, and other countries.
The Chinese Air Force has used Soviet-made combat planes and fought side by side with Soviet volunteer pilots, defended political and economic centers and strategic locations such as Nanjing, Chongqing, Wuhan, Lanzhou, Xi'an, and Chengdu, bombed Japanese airfields, stations, ships, trains, and warehouses, and went on expeditions to Taiwan and Vietnam to support army operations.
But now, the fighters of the Chinese Air Force will be lost one and one less, and next year, Japan's zero battle will be played, and the Chinese Air Force will be hit one after another, and it will be reduced to an air force that avoids war, and it will be transferred everywhere.
Isolation, the cruelty of war, will indeed make some people depressed, and there is no hope of dawn.
As a traverser, Yang Tianfeng of course knows all the answers, knows that we finally won the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression for eight years, knows that this is the first time in history that the entire Chinese nation and the whole nation rise up against foreign invaders, knows that Japan launched the Pacific War and finally ate the atomic bomb of the United States, knows that the Japanese army did not capture the southwest in the end, and knows that ......
Therefore, when looking back or experiencing this history firsthand, especially when it is far away from the final outcome, he can understand why the ancestors who eventually rose up to revolt were so cautious, trembling, and even a little cowardly. (To be continued.) )