"Germany's needs are changing, and we can't meet Germany's needs, so Germany naturally looks for another partner. Don't worry too much, there is basically no shortage of what we should have now, guns, planes, and tanks can't all be built by themselves, what is lacking is scale. Even if the Germans leave us slowly, they will be able to go it alone. Ever since we brought Xinjiang under our rule, we have had some disagreements with the Soviet Union. Jiang Li waved his hand and said.

"It's fair to say, we are no better than before, we can produce our own guns and cannons, we can produce everything by ourselves, we don't have to ask foreign devils everywhere like before, as long as we have guys in our hands, and there are fewer Germans, we can still take the Japanese army down." Ma Zhanshan nodded in agreement and said, "Although I don't agree with the Central Red Army in northern Shaanxi, what does this have to do with the commander's decision?" ”

"The rise of the Northwest has aroused a certain fear in the Soviet Union, and if it is not through the relationship of the Central Red Army, I am afraid it will be difficult to remove their vigilance. The Soviet Union would not be happy to see a regime rise under its nose that was completely different from its own. Once the war with the Japanese army starts, we will be completely cut off from foreign aid from the east, and we will not even have a reliable ally, so who can take us at this time except the Soviet Union? I don't need the USSR to directly send troops to help me fight the Japanese, as long as they hold back the main forces of the Kwantung Army. Since the occupation of Northeast China in the 21st year of the Republic of China, a few years have been enough for the Japanese army to integrate the resources of Northeast China, and the reconstruction of Anshan and Benxi mining areas has been completed one after another, and the Kwantung Army, which has obtained these resources, is also expanding rapidly. The speed of the expansion is even faster than ours. The resources of the Northeast are vital to Japan, and if the Soviet Union does not contain them, we will face at least hundreds of thousands more elite Japanese troops. In this regard. Later, we will also go further in our relations with the Soviet Union. ”

"That's right. The foundation of the old Northeast is still very thick. At the beginning, our Northeast Army was able to stand tall in the Republic of China, because the Northeast is rich in resources and can afford to raise people, which is like the current Northwest. If it weren't for the commander's good management, the 15th Route Army would have collapsed long ago. With the ability of the Japanese, getting something, a few years is enough to pull up an army of hundreds of thousands. Feng Zhanhai and the others nodded when they heard this. Although the expansion of the 15th Route Army in recent years has been quite large, the thought of facing hundreds of thousands of elite Japanese troops is still a numbing thing for people's scalps.

"We were able to withdraw to Xinjiang with the help of the Soviets, but since the commander had the intention to take advantage of the Soviets' momentum, why did he accumulate heavy troops in the area of Dihua and Tacheng?" Li Du was a little puzzled.

"Be prepared, the railway from Lanzhou to Dihua will be connected in the next year, if it is because we have risen too fast and are suspicious of the Soviets, there will be a smooth road from Xinjiang after the railway. The example of Germany clearly shows us that there are only eternal interests between countries. There are no permanent friends, especially during these war years. The Soviets have always been unclear about the question of Outer Mongolia. may not be willing to let us take back Outer Mongolia smoothly. Don't forget the battle between our Northeast Army and Lao Maozi on the Middle East Road. The Soviet Union was jealous of the Japanese, but it was not necessarily willing to give up its illegal interests in China. Jiang Li said with a sneer.

"The commander is right, these old hairy people have ill intentions and have to guard against it." The people present were all from the Northeast Army, and they still remember the fiasco on the Middle East Road that year.

Although the Red Army in northern Shaanxi at this time was still very weak compared with the 15th Route Army, in Jiang Li's eyes, it was possible to establish a cooperative relationship with the Soviet Union through northern Shaanxi. In addition, Jiang Li also needed the mobilization physique of the Red Army in northern Shaanxi. Although the large profits obtained by the Silver Act, penicillin, Viagra, and sulfonamides have also been transferred to the Northwest in recent years, there are still more than 40 million dollars in windfall profits a year. However, the import of these funds cannot change the fact that the northwest is congenitally insufficient, and the population balance is small, and the resources are not very rich. Once a full-scale war with Japan broke out, Jiang Li needed the kind of mobilization system of the Red Army in northern Shaanxi. The Soviet Union, although a greedy polar bear, could not deny the amazing achievements of its first and second five-year plans. Although there are various drawbacks in this mobilization system, they can be remedied in comparison with ending the War of Resistance as soon as possible. The Northwest, the whole of China, needs to end this damned war as soon as possible, at least before the USSR defeats the Germans, otherwise once the USSR turns around, the Republic of China will have an inherent weakness in Outer Mongolia, where there were previously territorial disputes in the Far East. The massive torrent of steel in the USSR was a formidable force for anyone.

"So the Soviet Union had to guard against it, but now it is a matter of time before it parted ways with the Germans, and the Soviets still have a certain use value." In the end, Jiang Li ended the meeting with this sentence.

A country's right to speak is based on force, although the Red Army in northern Shaanxi has the shadow of the Soviets behind it, but after all, it is the people of the Republic of China, once it has enough strength, it also dares to say no to the Soviet Union. The leader of the Red Army in northern Shaanxi, who could rise from the troubled times, was not an easy person to deal with. Similarly, Chairman Chiang in Nanjing was not incompetent.

In the previous Chiang-Gui War, Chairman Chiang brought the Gui faction, a political force that could once influence the political situation of the whole country, back to its original form as a local powerful faction. Once the Gui faction joins forces with the Guangdong faction, the momentum will inevitably shake the foundation of Nanjing, and it will also deal a heavy blow to Chairman Chiang's painstaking efforts to infiltrate forces into the southwest region. Naturally, Chairman Chiang could not sit back and wait for the situation to deteriorate. Chen Jitang and Li Zongren have been plotting for a long time, but Chairman Chiang has been working to weaken local forces. How could there be no defenses against the Yuegui system.

Yu Hanmou, commander of the First Army of the Guangdong Army, secretly contacted Chairman Chiang, and at the same time, more than 70 planes of the Guangdong Air Force defected to Nanjing under the leadership of Air Force Commander Huang Guangrui. The Second Army retreated without a fight under the threat of the First Army, and even Chen Jitang's closest confidant, Chen Hanguang's division, was absorbed by Yu Hanmou because he was unwilling to enter a barren place like Guangxi, and the alliance between the Guangdong and Guizhou factions was quietly disintegrated by Chairman Chiang, and at the same time instigated hundreds of thousands of troops from Guangdong and Hunan to encircle Guangxi. It's just that the tricks of coercion and temptation are not useful for the new Gui system, which is very united internally, and the powerful factions in the southwest are also afraid of Nanjing, plus the 15th Route Army, the Northeast Army and other strength call for the cessation of the civil war and unanimous resistance against Japan, under the pressure of these aspects, it is not possible to fight in the face of the Gui army that is in a group, so Chairman Chiang also had to give up the idea of consuming the new Gui system in one go, and after making peace with Li Zongren, he hurriedly went north again, and re-proposed the resolution to exterminate the Red Army in northern Shaanxi. (To be continued.) )