[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 673: Sino-Soviet Deal (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

The reason why Ma Zheng is so confident that the two sides can reach a deal, in addition to the above, the most important thing is that China and the Soviet Union have a basis for cooperation. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

What is the most important thing to build a house, the foundation, without the foundation everything is empty talk. Many people know that during the Anti-Japanese War, the Americans assisted China with a large amount of weapons and equipment, and even formed the Flying Tigers to deal with the Japanese air force. But how many people know that after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the Soviet Union was the first Western country to support China, and by 1938 it had become China's only foreign aid country.

Stalin was not a stupid dictator, but a very smart politician. The alliance between Germany, Italy, and the Japanese army was most worried and feared not by Britain and France, but by the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union straddled Eurasia, with Germany to the west, Japan to the east, and Italy to attack the Soviet Union from the south through Hungary.

In addition, at this time, Britain, France, and other countries implemented a policy of appeasement, in an attempt to divert trouble the east, so that Hitler, a hungry wolf who could not eat enough, and the polar bear of the Soviet Union could grab food, and Japan at this time not only wanted to dominate East Asia, but also coveted Siberia of the Soviet Union. Under these circumstances, it was an extremely wise choice for the Soviet Union to actively assist the Chinese anti-Japanese army in order to contain Japan and prepare for an all-out war of aggression against the Soviet Union, which might be launched by the more dangerous Germany.

Under these circumstances, on December 12, 1932, the Japanese army and the Soviet Union announced the resumption of diplomatic relations that had been interrupted since the end of the 20s, and had frequent contacts on the issue of bilateral military cooperation with the Japanese army. In March 1934, the Chinese government sent a military delegation to visit the Soviet Union.

In April 1937, the Soviet ambassador to China, Bogomolov, informed the Chinese government that if China was willing to sign a Sino-Soviet non-aggression pact, it could sell planes and tanks to China and provide a loan of 100 million legal currency, but the Chinese side did not respond.

After the "77 Incident", the situation became increasingly severe. On August 14, 1937, under the authorization of Lao Chiang, Zhang Chong, a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Nationalist Government, submitted to Bogomolov a draft of the arms supply agreement in his name, according to which the Soviet Union would provide China with 350 aircraft, 200 tanks and 236 artillery pieces, and the above-mentioned arms should be provided within one month from the date of the signing of the agreement, and at the same time, Soviet pilots, aviation technicians, artillerymen and tankmen would be sent to China to train Chinese military personnel.

Subsequently, China and the Soviet Union formally signed the Non-Aggression Pact, after which the Soviet Union decided to begin providing economic loans and military assistance to China, and sent military experts and volunteer air forces to participate in the anti-Japanese war in China.

The Soviet Union attached great importance to the relations between the two sides, and Stalin even sent a telegram to Chiang Lao to explicitly assure: "With regard to the section on assistance from the Soviet side, there is no need to have any doubts, and the Soviet Union should do everything possible to assist the great Chinese people in the heroic liberation struggle against the invaders." ”

On March 1, 1938, the Chinese and Soviet governments agreed in Moscow on the "Agreement on the Use of Loans of 50 Million US Dollars," which stipulated that the Soviet Government agreed to give the Chinese Government a total loan of 50 million US dollars for the purchase of industrial products and equipment from the Soviet Union at an annual interest rate of 3%, and the Chinese Government would repay it in the form of tea, leather, animal hair, tin, zinc, tungsten, cotton, tung oil, medicinal herbs, and red copper.

Just four months later, the Chinese and Soviet representatives agreed on a second loan of $50 million at an annual interest rate of 3 percent, to be repaid in five years. On June 13, 1939, the Chinese and Soviet representatives again agreed to repay the third loan of $150 million, which would be repaid in 10 years, with the same annual interest rate as the previous two times.

In 1940, the Soviet Union provided two more loans to China totaling $200 million. In addition to aiding the Nationalist Government in the form of loans, the Soviet Union also provided China with a large number of military supplies.

According to the statistics of the Nationalist Government, during the five years of China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression from 1937 to 1941, China purchased 904 aircraft of various types from the Soviet Union, including 318 light and heavy bombers, 82 tanks, 1,526 automobiles, 24 tractors, 1,190 cannons of various types, 9,720 light and heavy machine guns, 50,000 rifles, more than 167,000,000 rifle bullets, more than 17,000,000 machine gun bullets, 31,100 bombs, more than 1,870,000 artillery shells, as well as aircraft engines and a full set of spare parts, gasoline and other munitions materials.

In addition to providing military supplies to China, the Soviet Union also sent a number of military advisers and military experts to help the training of the Chinese army, and directly sent air force volunteers to fight alongside the Chinese Air Force. More than 2,000 Soviet Air Force volunteers came to China to participate in the war, and they took part in air battles to defend Nanjing, Wuhan, Nanchang, Chongqing, Chengdu, Lanzhou, and other cities.

According to statistics, the Soviet volunteers participated in more than 20 major battles during their stay in China, and in 1938 alone, they shot down more than 100 Japanese planes and sank more than 70 Japanese ships. During the operation, more than 200 members of the Soviet Air Force volunteers died in China.

It can be said that there is both a basis for cooperation and a condition for cooperation between Ma Zheng and the Soviet Union, Ma Zheng has the penicillin that the Soviets need, and the Soviets have the oil that Ma Zheng needs.

The Nationalist Government really regarded the Soviet Union's assistance to Yan'an as very important, and the agreement signed between China and the Soviet Union clearly stipulated that the Soviet Union could not provide Yan'an with any kind of assistance, otherwise the two sides would lose the basis and possibility of cooperation.

However, at present, the Soviet Union is only at the commission of the Huaxia Company to pay the money to Ma Zheng's department in the form of industrial products, presumably the Nationalist Government will not have any excessive reaction.

In addition to confusing the Japanese army, a very important reason for Ma Zheng not to return to Shandong with the warship immediately after the battle was over, saying that the first supplies they had prepared had arrived in the Mongolian border city of Zamyn-Uud and that Ma Zheng's troops needed to send someone to receive them.

Walking on the streets of Erenhot, Ma Zheng sighed a lot, he has been to this small northern border city no less than five times in his later life, and each time he has a major military operation, he is still familiar with this place.

Compared with the first city in the northern border, the current Erlian is too desolate and too small, and the permanent population of Erlian at this time is less than 3,000 people, not even a town, which is why China and Japan did not fight for this place.

In fact, it was not until 7 years after the establishment of New China that the second company was upgraded to a town-level administrative unit, and since then, due to the rise of trade between China and Mongolia, it has been continuously upgraded, all the way to the prefecture-level city.

Zamyn-Uud is the southernmost city in Outer Mongolia, separated from Erlian, only 10 kilometers apart and only a few minutes away.

After Ma Zheng arrived at the Second Company, he sent people to Zamyn-Uud to contact the Soviet side on the opposite side, and soon the two sides agreed on a time for the meeting.

The meeting was very successful, especially what Ma Zheng did not expect was that the person in charge of the Soviet side turned out to be the famous Soviet general Zhukov. The two sides conducted a detailed verification of the content of the transaction and the quantity of the goods, and finally determined the content of the next transaction, and the meeting was successfully concluded.

Because the Soviet side still has some concerns about this transaction, there are not many military supplies in the materials paid for this time, and the vast majority of them are industrial equipment eliminated by the Soviet Union, including many large machinery for steelmaking and mining, and in addition, at the request of Ma Zheng, more than 3,000 barrels of finished gasoline were specially sent, which were prepared for the aviation brigade.

However, what made Ma Zheng happy was that Zhukov privately revealed to him that the Soviet side, after verifying the super efficacy of penicillin, decided to place an additional order with the Huaxia Company, and now they have owed the Huaxia Company nearly 60 million US dollars, and at this time, Moscow has set up a special unit to deal with the affairs of the Soviet Union and the Huaxia Company and Ma Zheng's department, of which Colonel Ivanov will be stationed in Ma Zheng's department as the Soviet Union's plenipotentiary representative, and if Ma Zheng has any specific needs, he can contact Ivanov directly.

In addition, a large number of supplies have already left Moscow and Komsomolsk, and are rushing to Zamyn-Uud in overtime. (To be continued.) )