However, my fear and contempt is due to my inferiority complex, it can be said that under the education of the spirit of bushido, eighty percent of the people have a perverted inferiority mentality, said that I am not tall, but the surname is extremely cruel, for the strong they are willing to take the initiative to offer their wives and daughters, and for the weak they choose to torture and kill, the law of the jungle makes me play to the fullest, although the empire has the world's largest fleet in terms of total tonnage of surface ships, but they are still very inferior, This inferiority complex comes from the cracks in its bones, and it will not be removed by the revival of the Meiji Restoration District over the past century.

In contrast, China has been standing in the world for thousands of years, and has been at the forefront of the world's ethnic forests and at the top of the pyramid. It is equivalent to a nouveau riche and a down-and-out aristocrat, a down-and-out nouveau riche is still an aristocrat, and a nouveau riche can only be an upstart.

It can be said that Zhang Xuewu's 10th theater of war this beautiful defensive counterattack, the Kwantung Army can be said to be a head to run, even the proud Okamura Ningji had to avoid the limelight and retreat into the northeast Jinzhou to hold the defense, in fact, Okamura Ningji had every chance to retreat to the Pingjin area at that time, but Okamura Ningji learned that the youth army of the 10th theater had captured Shanhaiguan, so he immediately commanded the troops to retreat with the Kwantung Army, although the formation lost two divisions of troops, However, the remaining five divisions and four mixed brigades of the North China Front, as well as the headquarters of the Kwantung Army, were successfully withdrawn to Jinzhou for defense, and the Yue Army, which had lost the barrier of Shanhaiguan, set its strategic defense point at Jinzhou, the gate of western Liaoning!

Jinzhou is located in the southwest of Liaoning, north of the Songling Mountains, south of the Bohai Sea Liaodong Bay, and Huludao, Panjin, Chaoyang, Fuxin, constitute a radiation circle of Jinzhou, but now Huludao, Chaoyang, Fuxin, Panjin and all occupied by the Tenth War Zone, Jinzhou is isolated in a certain sense, said that the Kwantung Army has assembled almost all the mobile forces as many as 14 divisions and seven reading mixed brigades, plus five divisions and four reading mixed brigades of the North China Front, as well as the technical arms and special forces attached to it, all stuck to the vicinity of Jinzhou, digging a semi-arc defensive line day and night.

The geomorphological structure of Jinzhou is three mountains, one water and three fields, the terrain is high in the northwest and low in the southeast, from the mountainous area of nearly 400 meters above sea level, gradually descends to the seaside plain below 20 meters above sea level, the mountains are undulating, there are Yiwulu Mountains in the northeast, there are Songling Mountains in the northwest, Daling River, Xiaoling River, and Daughter River traverse the territory, the terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the terrain is complicated!

Therefore, Zhang Xuewu did not decide to directly attack Jinzhou to recover the Northeast, although the main force of the Kwantung Army and the main force of the North China Army are concentrated in Jinzhou, from the strategic point of view this will be a very good opportunity for large-scale battles, if you can defeat the main force of the Yue Army entrenched near Jinzhou with one blow, then Zhang Xuewu can wipe out the remnants of the Northeast and drive the Yue Army across the Yalu River, this rare opportunity for a strategic decisive battle is indeed rare, but Zhang Xuewu is also very clear, The 10th Theater now does not have the ability to deal with the troops of nearly 20 divisions and regiments of the Yue Army at one time, and it is not even possible to defeat them in person, and the Yue Army has used Jinzhou as the center to carry out a large-scale and in-depth deployment, Zhang Xuewu knows that what he is facing now is to be cautious and then cautious, and it is extremely dangerous to advance lightly and rashly.

Almost all of the two large-scale operations commanded by Zhang Xuewu against the Kwantung Army were based on the premise that the army took the initiative to attack, and Zhang Xuewu's main force waited for work, and the attacking troops of the army fell into exhaustion, and the strategic materials it prepared were exhausted, and the army was already in a position of being divided and dispersed tactically, so that Zhang Xuewu could directly invest in the new force to concentrate superior forces and technical equipment, and give one of the troops a blow with the surname of annihilation, in fact, this was all a tactic of defensive counterattack. The troops of the 10th Theater did not have the experience and preparation to directly attack the fortifications, and Zhang Xuewu's material and ammunition reserves were not enough for him to fight a large-scale war of annihilation.

In order to annihilate the troops gathered near Jinzhou, it is necessary to invest at least all the combat strength of the 10th Theater, and even the three divisions responsible for the defense of Baotou must be withdrawn; for Zhang Xuewu, they cannot even guarantee the supply of ammunition and materials needed for the battle; before the Kwantung Army attacked Chaoyang, Chengde, Chifeng, Zhangjiakou, and Baotou, the fortresses and field units under the 10th Theater fired as many as 1.1 million shells and aerial bombs of caliber of 75 mm or more, and the Yue Army also fired more than 500,000 rounds. It can be said that this rate of consumption is beyond the affordability of the ammunition factory in Baotou Industrial Zone, so the consumption of war materials and the losses caused by the campaign are even more astronomical.

For this reason, Zhang Xuewu decided to go to the Soviet Union in person, because according to the various abnormal surfaces of the Soviet Union, he is likely to make all the relative deployments to the Soviet Union, the polar bear seems to be very powerful, but in the face of the strong rise of the Germans, the last thing the polar bear wants to see is the situation of fighting on the east and west fronts, so if he makes a sudden move like the Nuomenkan, then it is easy to frighten the polar bear with a fierce appearance and very little courage.

In fact, after the Battle of Nomenkan in history, the Soviet army occupied absolute superiority and actual control, still retreated 50 kilometers to maintain a ceasefire, and signed a non-aggression pact with Yue himself. Zhang Xuewu has never seen a precedent for a polar bear to spit out what it eats in its mouth, which shows that the sense of crisis that Germany brought to the Soviets is far greater than what they see, and after the Battle of Nomenkan in history, the Soviet political axe began to reduce military aid to China in large quantities, which is caused by a successful and failed campaign of the Soviet Union.

Moreover, now that the Germans have risen stronger and are more prepared than in history, the Russians will naturally feel so nervous that they will carve up Poland with Germany and attack Finland in search of a strategic buffer!

However, everything that has not yet happened can only be said to be speculation for Zhang Xuewu, will history return to the original historical track? For the history that has changed, Zhang Xuewu is also very helpless, his biggest advantage is to be familiar with history, and what he has to do is to change the course of history, so that it will lose its ultimate greatest advantage, Zhang Xuewu also has to admit that if he loses the foreknowledge of history, then he and Okamura Ningji, Ishihara Waner, Umezu Mijiro and other strategic and tactical masters, relying on strength can only rely on strength, digging a pit for the other party to jump may not be big, The biggest possibility is that the surname dug the pit and fell into it by itself.

When the 10th Theater Commander's Department submitted Zhang Xuewu's request for a secret visit to the Soviet Union to the Soviet Volunteer Joint Logistics Special Command in Chengde, the Soviet side immediately contacted Molotov, who had been in charge of contacts with the Chinese side.

On August 22, 1938, Zhang Xuewu flew directly to Moscow via a Soviet special plane at Baotou Airport, and the 30 Saker fighters of the Thunderbolt Brigade escorted the whole process, because Zhang Xuewu was not the only one who secretly visited the Soviet Union, but also a number of experts from the Baotou Research Institute, who would carry out secret technical exchanges with the Soviet side.

In order to keep the formation of Zhang Xuewu's secret visit secret, Molotov arranged for the entire military delegation of the Nationalist Axe to be given a ministerial-level recuperation reception, so that all the personnel could not return to Moscow for at least 20 days, and all relevant Soviet personnel who had contact with him were also excluded.

The heat wave in Moscow in August did not last for a few days, and I already felt the coolness of autumn slightly, and the windy skirt corners of the Soviet girl made Zhang Xuewu and others, who came secretly, feel a trace of lightness, and I couldn't feel death here, I couldn't smell the gunsmoke, and it wasn't gray in Baotou all day, but the expressions on people's faces seemed to be standardized? Zhang Xuewu sat in the car, looking out the window at the Kremlin through the gap in the car curtains, which was once the palace of successive tsars and the oldest building complex in Moscow, but after the October riots and revolution, it became the seat of the party and government organs of Soviet Russia. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, it became synonymous with the political axe of Russia!

The Kremlin is located on the Borowitz Hill at the confluence of the Negrin River and the Moscow River, bordering the Moscow River in the south, the Alexandrov Garden in the northwest, and the Red Square in the southeast.

Zhang Xuewu looked at the towering Ivan the Great bell tower standing tall, on the left side of the bell tower there is a forty-ton cannon king, on the right side is the famous bell king, although these two behemoths have never been used, but show the superb casting technology of Russian craftsmen, there is a proverb in the Russians to describe the Kremlin, on the land of Moscow, only see the Kremlin towering; On the Kremlin, only the sky can be seen in the distance!

This time, the Soviet side also agreed to Zhang Xuewu's secret visit to the Soviet Union after repeated hesitation, because whether this news was learned by the side or the national government, it would cause unpredictable and serious consequences, so the Soviet side was also very cautious, and Zhang Xuewu did not make any excessive demands.

(To be continued)