Chapter 1124: A Breakthrough in Diplomacy (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

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As the defense lines in the city were conquered one by one, the elite of the Japanese army was constantly consumed, and an abnormal undercurrent was surging among the puppet army in the city.

On the night of the 25th, the commander of an infantry company of a puppet army could not hold on to the huge pressure, and took the only 42 soldiers left in his department to the battlefield anyway. Although the Japanese army found out in time and executed more than half of the puppet soldiers who tried to escape, some of them still escaped through the net.

That night, the Metropolitan Village Sect held an emergency meeting to report the incident, and also executed a puppet army battalion commander, but the matter still spread secretly in the city like wings.

On the morning of the 27th, Yoshimoto Sadachi arrived at Shuangliao with the vanguard of an infantry division and a chariot division, and successfully rendezvoused with the remnants of the Japanese 9th Division, and then this Japanese army quickly came in the direction of Tongliao.

According to the idea of the Kwantung Army Headquarters, the Japanese army used Shuangliao as a base, recaptured Tongliao in one fell swoop with superior forces and a devastating formation, and finally concentrated hundreds of thousands of troops to march west into Naiman, crushing Ma Zheng's troops in one fell swoop.

However, the ideal is plump, but the reality is skinny, before the arrival of the follow-up troops of the Japanese army, about 100,000 reinforcements from the Saibei Corps have been stationed in Tongliao City, including a large number of artillery and chariot troops.

Yoshimoto Sadachi's stop at Shuangliaoer is undoubtedly bad news that can't be worse. After receiving the telegram from Lieutenant General Saichi Yoshimoto, Soichi Tomura in Naiman City suddenly felt that the sky was falling.

Soichi Tomura was really panicked at this time, he knew very well that the defenders of Naiman City had reached the most dangerous juncture, as of the 27th, there were less than 1,500 troops left under his command that could still fight, and the rest were either killed or wounded, and the lightly wounded were also organized and sent to the battlefield since yesterday.

As for the battlefield situation, it is extremely unfavorable to them, the people of China have already invaded the inner city, and the 6 inner city defense lines built by the Japanese army before have all been breached, and they can only rely on a large piece of territory of the garrison headquarters to support it.

After learning that the reinforcements were blocked in Tongliao, Tomura Soichi's heart was completely cold, although the Kwantung Army Headquarters ordered him to hold out for two days no matter what, and the reinforcements would definitely arrive in two days.

But Soichi Tsumura thinks that with their current situation, let alone two days, it is already a miracle to be able to hold out for two hours, and you must know that the attack of the Shina people is a continuous attack without night or night.

This time there was no miracle, and by the middle of the night of the 27th, Ma Desheng's troops finally attacked the garrison headquarters, and the Japanese puppet army defending the city was all wiped out except for some of them.

Ma Zheng's subordinates used troops in the Kwantung Army, which was a matter that everyone liked to see, including Lao Chiang in Chongqing, the United States and the Soviet Union and other countries were full of praise for Yan'an's decision.

Needless to say, Chongqing, some time ago, Ma Zheng's troops went south to Shandong, which put great pressure on Lao Jiang. As one of the most important provinces in North China, once Shandong is also captured by the Eighth Route Army, then it will inevitably be followed by Henan, Jiangsu and other places, and it is difficult to curb the development of the Eighth Route Army with the strength of the Nationalist Government in these places.

Lao Chiang has now reached the limit of tolerance for the development of the CCP, thinking that when the Red Army arrived in northern Shaanxi, there were only 30,000 or 40,000 people, and the territory under his control was only a dozen counties.

The most important thing is that the counties controlled by the Red Army were all poor counties in the west that Lao Chiang despised and far away from the core areas ruled by the Nationalist government, and were surrounded by warlords from all walks of life, including the powerful Yang Hucheng's Small Northwest Army, Yan Xishan's Jin Sui Army, and the Ganning Sanma in the northwest. Therefore, Lao Chiang did not think that the Red Army could really survive in the northwest region, so he could turn a blind eye.

But now, in addition to the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo border region, the CCP also completely controls Suiyuan and Chahar provinces, and even the Rehe, Hebei, and Pingjin regions are under the control of the Eighth Route Army. Since ancient times, most of the people who have unified China have completed hegemony from the north to the south, and few have fought from the south to the north. Throughout the entire ancient Chinese history, only Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty had this great ability to complete the great cause of unifying China from the south to the north, and there was no second one.

If the CCP is allowed to control Shandong again, it can attack Henan and Jiangsu, and it can attack Anhui as far away, which is a considerable threat to the Nationalist Government.

But now it is different, the CCP actually took the initiative to march to the northeast, which seems to be a complete trick in the eyes of Chongqing. White Mountain and Black Water are certainly good places, but now they are the territory of the Japanese, and it is also the territory of the Kwantung Army, the most elite of the Japanese army.

I think it was this army that competed with the powerful Tsarist Russian army, and it was also this army that drove the 300,000 Northeast Army out of the Northeast with a mere 20,000 troops in 918.

Now that Ma Zheng's troops are going to fight to the death with this army, no matter who wins or loses, they will inevitably lose both.

As the saying goes, one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers, unless there is one male and one female. The Eighth Route Army and the Japanese Army were both tigers that ate meat and drank blood, and they were both male tigers that exuded the taste of males.

The same is true of the United States and the Soviet Union; although the Americans have already gained the strategic initiative in the Pacific, the Japanese army's land, sea, and air forces are still very strong, and they are far from being broken to the extent of breaking their muscles and bones. Therefore, the U.S. military has not had the idea of attacking the Philippines until now, and as the Japanese army continues to move troops south from the Chinese battlefield, the U.S. military in the South Pacific is under great pressure.

Now that Ma Zheng's troops have advanced into the northeast and suddenly pinned down the Kwantung Army, the most elite of the Japanese army, it is obviously impossible for the Japanese army to transfer troops from the Chinese battlefield, which is naturally what the Americans like to see.

This was especially true of the Soviet Union, which after the Battle of Stalingrad gained a strategic foothold and began to counterattack Germany. However, the German army was still strong, still controlling the industrial regions of Eastern Europe and the small half of Ukraine, and the situation in the Soviet Union was still grim.

Now the Soviet Union is fighting the Germans in Kursk, and there is great intention to carry out a decisive battle with the main force. Therefore, according to Stalin's order, it was decided to mobilize a part of the elite troops from the Far Eastern Military District to fight in Eastern Europe, but the existence of the Kwantung Army was like a sharp sword chosen on the heads of the Soviets, so that Stalin did not dare to make a decision.

But as Ma Zheng's department moved east into the Northeast, the Soviets were happy, and the Japanese were now too busy to take care of themselves, so how could they have the time and energy to fight with the Soviets, so Stalin in the Kremlin naturally issued Ma Zheng a good man card.

Of course, Ma Zheng has already invested in it, so the United States and the Soviet Union will naturally repay him. First, the party Central Committee sent a telegram to Ma Zheng through a secret radio station, saying that the United States had decided to expand the target of assistance to the Chinese Communists, and that all the weapons and equipment of the first two integrated divisions had arrived in Xi'an.

Although the Nationalist Government did its best to stop it, with the insistence of the United States and the efforts of Yan'an, this batch of military aid had already left Xi'an and was heading for Yan'an.

In addition, a corps of officers headed by US Army Colonel Wilson went to Yan'an with the convoy to inspect and prepare for a half-month goodwill visit to Yan'an.

You must know that the United States has not provided weapons assistance to the CCP in history, and even the Soviet Union, which has always regarded itself as the boss, did not give any substantial help to the Eighth Route Army, but only sent hundreds of books with camels, and that's it.

However, now the United States has gone so far as to provide arms assistance to the Chinese Communists, which has to be said to be a breakthrough in the Chinese Communists' diplomacy and even more importantly, the Chinese Communists have been initially recognized by the international community.

Although the military assistance was limited to the weapons and equipment needed for the two integrated divisions, it appeared that there was no artillery. But this is enough for several bigwigs in Yan'an to be overjoyed, you must know that with the establishment of the United States' integrated divisions, these two integrated divisions are enough to arm the strength of the four divisions of the Eighth Route Army.

After learning that this batch of US aid had arrived in Yan'an, all units sent urgent telegrams, hoping that the central government could distribute this batch of equipment to them.

The palms and backs of these hands are full of meat, and it is not appropriate to give it to the boss or not to the second, and it is not appropriate to give it to the second child and not to the boss, and there is also the junior of the Saibei Corps, and the central government is a little difficult.