Chapter 56: The Prototype of the Axis Powers
PS: Christmas Eve, everyone is safe, eat more apples, hahaha
The problem of Jianghuai can only be to fundamentally change the atmosphere by adapting to all changes with the same and persisting in basic education.
However, some goods touched by Jianghuai people need to be purchased along the Yangtze River and in border areas with household registration books and identity certificates, and they are registered, and they are not allowed to be smuggled into the national control areas. If you want to do business with the national control area, you can set up a company and carry out it after passing the approval of the industrial and commercial department, but the taxes on these goods are very high.
There are no restrictions in the mainland, but you can't ship it out if you buy it in the mainland, because the station will check it.
The reason why the national control area is not moved is that the governance of Jianghuai is now so difficult. After receiving the national control area, it will definitely be bloody. At present, there are too many issues involved in the northwest, and there is also the North Korean issue. The Wuhan government really doesn't want to get into such big trouble.
In North Korea, the number of students has gradually reached 100,000. But it's still vast and sparsely populated. Some Shandong people also spontaneously ran to North Korea. Thirty or forty thousand people have passed. The basic economic system has been formed. The transportation from Pyongyang to Dandong to Dalian was forcibly opened by the army and is being further remodeled. A military railway bridge was built over the Yalu River. Construction of civilian bridges also began.
The People's Revolutionary Army expelled the KPA units in the eastern mountains and occupied the port of Wonsan. However, Wonsan Port was completely destroyed by the Japanese army. The People's Revolutionary Army in the north has arrived to occupy Tumen and Chunhua. It is across the sea from Vladivostok. And the Northeast government's access to the sea has completely disappeared.
The Japanese were so nervous about this that the navy, army, and air forces in Vladivostok were heavily massed, and at night searchlights illuminated the river and defensive lines as if they were during the day. It's just to prevent sneak attacks.
Fortunately, the People's Revolutionary Army really can't keep up. The Wuhan government's fighter jets can't take care of it for the time being.
Japan has also stepped up the pace of immigration from the Outer Tohoku.
The Soviet Union, in order to recapture the Aldan Mountains, is massing heavy troops. Japan had no choice but to sign a peace agreement with the Korean People's Army and hand over southern Korea to the government of Ri Dong-nyeong. But allow the withdrawal of Japanese troops, expatriates and Koreans willing to follow Japan from Korea.
March 28. The Korean People's Self-Government was formally established in Seoul. Syngman Rhee in the United States returned to North Korea. Syngman Rhee, formerly known as Lee Seung-ryong, claimed to be a member of the Korean royal family, the first president of the provisional government of South Korea, and the first to the third president. He believed in the creation of an independent South Korea instead of the Korean Autonomous Government of the Republic of China, and founded the Korean Freedom Party.
It's just that the support of this party is too obvious in the United States, and the popular support rate is not high.
But both Kim Koo and Lee Dong-nyong acquiesced to Rhee's activities in southern Korea. Other words. The idea of separation in North Korea is not dead.
"Let them make trouble, we can't find a reason to hit him."
When Zhou Rong returned to Wuhan to report, Mao Shishan and Bai Chongxi said with a smile.
Jeju Island and Weihae. It became the main base of the East China Sea Fleet. The number of destroyers reached six, and that of submarines - three. Plus supply ships, landing ships and hospital ships. Now only the helicopter carriers of Lianyungang and the large aircraft carriers of Port Arthur can form a complete combat capability.
And four destroyers and one of the latest submarines from Lianyungang moved to Naha in the Ryukyus.
Li Zhilong personally went to Naha to prepare for the construction of China's Pacific Fleet.
Although the Wuhan government has repeatedly claimed that the Osumi Islands belong to the Ryukyu Province. But in fact, it's just talk. The Osumi Islands have a special status for Japan. The Japanese Navy and Army still have a part of the garrison force stationed there. It's just that they don't react to the door-to-door actions of Chinese fishing boats and maritime surveillance vessels.
But. As the navy grew stronger, Japan was basically powerless at sea. Japan's shipbuilding program was also only aimed at the defense of the Sea of Japan.
At this time, Chen Shaokuan, the Minister of the Navy of the Central Government, led the Zhongshan and another warship to visit Naha, because the American aircraft carrier could not be delivered for a long time, and a light aircraft carrier of the Wuhan government was said to be about to be launched.
Naha, Chen Shaokuan, and Li Zhilong mainly talked about the joint defense of the Ryukyus and Taiwan, and tentatively talked about the feasibility of helping to build aircraft carriers and exchanges with the Naval Academy.
However, after Chen Shaokuan returned, he was placed on probation by the Kuomintang in the name of the Communist Party. He was not asked to resign from his post as Minister of the Navy, but only asked him to go to Britain to inspect the navy and equip it and negotiate with Britain to help build an aircraft carrier.
This was actually a means by which Chiang Kai-shek struck down the Fujian forces. The same is in cooperation with the Wuhan government. Song Ziwen didn't know how many times he had run.
And the Chinese Navy has taken an oppressive posture against the Japanese island of Kyushu. The Japanese navy retreated into the archipelago, and Japan was ready for an island-by-island battle with China. Including the Osumi Islands.
In April, the struggle between Japan and the Soviet Union for the Lena River valley intensified, and both sides invested large amounts of troops and equipment.
The Trans-Baikal Railway was extended to Ivanovsky with great difficulty during the fighting. However, China refused to return Akagi to the Soviet Union and held the Khingan Mountains. The Soviets have been unable to launch attacks on the rear of the Japanese army, and the Japanese army has always used the Outer Khingan Mountains to launch counterattacks and regain lost territory. The Soviets could only watch their armored units being dragged to death by the Japanese.
In desperation, I had to start a defensive offensive with the Lena River and its tributaries as the border, Zhukov is also ruthless, I can't cross the Outer Khingan Mountains, and I won't let you have a good time in Ardan, using the surprise advantage of the armored corps, after quickly harassing the Japanese army, quickly withdraw.
It was not until the Japanese took advantage of the numerical superiority in the forward positions to dig a large number of trenches and anti-tank fortifications that the battle lines of both sides were stabilized. No one can help anyone.
This back-and-forth tug-of-war came to a halt in May. Because the Lena River basin is beginning to thaw, the roads are muddy. The superiority of the Soviet armoured forces was wiped out. The Japanese tried to attack the Soviet defenses, but the Soviets used the tanks as ready-made fortresses. A large number of Japanese troops were killed under the dense artillery and Soviet counterattacks.
In the end, it evolved into an artillery battle between the Soviet Union and Japan for one day, not a day.
The Soviet Union also had to stop its offensive in the east, as Germany entered the Rhineland in flagrant violation of the Treaty of Versailles. And France, for various reasons, did not react. By not amending the Military Service Act and other laws, Germany actually overturned the restrictions imposed on Germany by the Treaty of Versailles.
After the First World War, Britain lost its long-standing maritime supremacy and, under the pressure of the United States, lost its status as the world's financial center. The British economy suffered from a long period of stagnation, and the world economic crisis that broke out in 1929 dealt a heavy blow to it. Britain did not dare to provoke a war at this time, but only wanted to achieve a Anglo-German rapprochement, save the economy and preserve vested interests.
France is even more miserable, they think that if a country goes to war with Germany at this time, France's already fragile economy will collapse, and the Treaty of Versailles is the interests of Britain and France and other countries, and France should not be let alone bear the responsibility of maintenance. That is why France has made the decision that no one country should act alone.
Germany revealed to Britain that Germany could use the Rhineland as an exchange of Anglo-German relations. Therefore, when the French foreign minister asked about Britain's attitude, he got that France had to show its own attitude first. But France did not dare to act.
Then Britain and Germany reached a compromise that nothing could not be sold as long as the interests of the consortium were guaranteed. When France highlighted sanctions against Germany, Britain opposed them, and Prime Minister Bowerwin told his French foreign minister that France's policy "has no right to oblige Britain to do so, even if it is only one percent likely to cause war."
This adventurous act of German military diplomacy succeeded as a result of the Anglo-French policy of appeasement, when it was established that the Anglo-French countries would not take effective joint action. Hitler began to build up the army on a large scale on the grounds that the signing of the "Soviet-French Economic Cooperation Treaty" between France and the Soviet Union would seriously threaten Germany's security. and made an offensive posture towards the Soviet Union.
In fact, this was a scare action by foreign powers and middle cadres, and Britain and France secretly rejoiced, thinking that the disaster could lead eastward. And the Soviet Union thought that Britain and France acquiesced in Germany's attack on the Soviet Union. It was only in Berlin that Germany, Italy, and Japan negotiated the formation of an anti-Comintern alliance.
The Soviet Union was extremely nervous because the constitution that marked the communist system had just been adopted, and it was under unanimous international siege.
General Zhukov personally went to Kulen to inquire about the attitude of Feng Yuxiang and Lu Zhonglin.
Feng Yuxiang, on behalf of the Wuhan government, said: "China must not lose an inch of the territory that belongs to China. Territory that does not belong to China will not be demanded by China for an inch. As long as the Soviet Union does not do anything that violates the agreement, the Sino-Soviet friendship agreement will continue to be in force. The Khing'an Mountains and the Great Khing'an Mountains south of the Great Khing'an Mountains are the result of Sino-Soviet friendship agreements, and China will find a way to take back its territory. ”
When Zhukov asked if the CCP would be able to send troops to fight in conjunction with the Soviet Red Army.
Feng Yuxiang said: "The People's Revolutionary Army is a local army, and it is also separated by the local government in Northeast China, and if the Chinese central government does not declare war on Japan and takes joint action, the People's Revolutionary Army will not do anything that violates domestic peace." But the CCP will fight against Japan within its means, because the Wuhan government's declaration of war against Japan continues to be valid. (To be continued......)