For the Soviet side, Zhang Xuewu has always maintained a cautious attitude of communication, although the German side is becoming more and more estranged from the national political axe, but for the Rehe side, the German political axe has a secret liaison station between Rehe and Hong Kong, the German side of the BF-109G has been followed by the latest Maybach engine and other accessories, and the German side of the 40 Leopard medium tanks designed according to the jackal tank were transported from Vladivostok by Swedish ships from Mongolia to the Dingyuan camp in Suiyuan through the Far Eastern Railway.

In terms of material transportation, the Soviet side gave Rehe great convenience and support, but all the grain, materials, weapons, oil, and so on needed by Rehe were loaded and shipped as soon as possible, and the train marshalling along the way was also passed through the first time without delay.

Historically, the Dingyuan camp was also the first place for the Soviet Union to select the aid [***] materials, but because Suiyuan was invaded and occupied by the army in history, Xinjiang Province could only be selected for limited assistance in the later period.

Now the Dingyuan battalion is controlled by Zhang Xuewu's Rehe Corps, so the Soviet side decided to hand over part of the ordnance purchased by the national political axe loan to the Rehe side, and strive to let the Rehe direction open up a communication channel with the southwest of Shanxi and Jinzhong, not only for self-protection, but also for the most important thing to attack, and effectively contain the Kwantung Army, which is constantly replenishing its troops, and the continuous growth of the Kwantung Army has made Stalin in the Kremlin on the Soviet side deeply feel the threat and unease.

Because after the army captured Taiyuan, its intention to land in Qingdao was already quite obvious, and the strategic materials and reserves that he had hoarded were simply not enough to support the consumption of 60 divisions and regiments fighting at the same time, and this huge material consumption was quite terrible in his opinion, so after capturing Taiyuan, the 25 divisions under the Kwantung Army returned to the three northeastern provinces, and the rest of the troops were organized into the Central China Dispatch Army and the North China Dispatch Army.

The main task of the Kwantung Army was to completely cut off the economy and transportation of Rehe, carry out siege tactics, use the blockade to strangle the Rehe Army, and wait for Zhang Xuewu's subordinates to be in turmoil, and then attack Yicheng with all their might.

The operational intention of the base camp and the general staff headquarters of the Chinese army is to seek another decisive battle similar to the Battle of Songhu by the main forces of the Central Army, and strive to use two or three large-scale battles to completely defeat all the main forces of the Central [***] and completely subjugate the national political axe.

Since the Kwantung Army Headquarters transferred 22 divisions and regiments, a new round of conscription and mobilization began one after another in the preparatory departments of the local area, and a large number of reservists began to arrive in the three northeastern provinces by sea from Korea for training.

Originally, it was thought that the Kwantung Army had been reduced from 47 divisions to more than 20 divisions, but the Soviet side had not yet relented, but as a result, a new round of expansion had begun, and it was the Americans and the British who made the Soviets extremely angry, and the Americans, out of commercial and political needs, issued two low-interest special loans totaling $370 million to Yue himself, and he said that he used these loans to buy scrap steel, aero engines, machine tools, and even weapons in the United States on a large scale. Several military factories in Pennsylvania even produced Type 92 heavy machine guns and 6.5 mm ammunition for him.

The Americans were lending money to themselves, so that the imports of the United States would pull the decadent economy into crisis, while the British were afraid that the capital would fall to Germany too quickly, so they also relaxed the policy on this little brother of the First World War and gave him a loan of 40 million pounds.

At the same time, the Chinese diplomatic delegation was not able to borrow a penny from Britain, and only generously received 5 million US dollars from the United States, which could not be used to buy military and related products, but could only buy medical supplies.

What the Americans sell to themselves is weapons, and what they give to the Chinese is money for medicine, so there is no so-called justice or injustice in international affairs, and there is always right and wrong, history is written by the victors, whose fist is big, who says the truth is probably only within the range of our artillery.

Politically, Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union were two incompatible systems, but Germany was afraid that the Soviet Union would stifle its rise, and the Soviets were worried that the Germans would turn their weapons against the Red Reich after the rise?

Both the Germans and the Soviets were worried, so Soviet-German relations in 1937 became very delicate, even a little weird! The Germans and the Soviets, that is, the Germans and the Slavs, had one thing in common: both peoples were very passionate about the land, and they may have been pirates earlier? That's why you're so attached to the land? Anyway, in Zhang Xuewu's view, whether it is a Germanic or a Slav, the ancestors are definitely not particularly wealthy, so they always worry about other people's things, and to put it in layman's terms, they have a strong aggressive surname.

So this is destined to hook up with the Soviets and the Germans in secret, but on the bright side, both sides slander each other, this is the so-called international politics, the bitch who set up the archway.

Otherwise, the Soviets would not have been able to turn a blind eye and let a large number of German arms be transported to Suiyuan through Vladivostok through Mongolia, the Soviets knew very well that these weapons and ammunition were used to resist the Yue himself, and the Kwantung Army, which was too powerful, had already posed a great threat to the Far East, and the Yue Army had inflicted heavy losses on more than 1.5 million Chinese [***] troops on the northern and southern fronts in more than two months, and even soldiers were in the city! How long can the [***] team last? This is what the Soviet Union is most concerned about at the moment, because once it is said that it completely occupies China? Then I will get a lot of resources that they couldn't have imagined before.

The strategic staff officers of the Soviet High Command believed that once he conquered China, even if it was only to rule the Chinese government, he would get unprecedented strategic resources, and if he seized the oil resources of Southeast Asia and Indochina, then no one in the Far East and the whole of Asia would be able to resist his chariot.

Because he paid special attention to protecting the interests of Europe and the United States in the process of invading China, the Soviets felt that the Soviets were in crisis, and the specter of [***] was hated the most by almost all European countries, and they hated [***] to a much greater extent than they hated fascism, so the European and American countries have always adopted a policy of appeasement towards Asia, and the origin of this policy is more because of the combined fleet that he owns, which is a huge fleet that has ranked among the top three in the world in terms of total tonnage. This is a strategic force that no country, even a political international coalition, would dare to take lightly.

However, Zhang Xuewu is not particularly worried at the moment, because he has already given Feng Heping specific instructions, that is, to show them what should be shown to the Soviet side, and resolutely not to give what should not be given, and to ask for as much as the Soviets want, because Zhang Xuewu knows that with the tension in Europe, the expansion of the German Third Reich and the appeasement of Britain and France, the Soviets will soon completely abandon China, the ally they have used, after three years.

There is no love for no reason in this world, let alone hate for no reason, all countries deal with international affairs from the perspective of their own best interests, these are understandable, you can only blame yourself for not being strong enough!

However, Zhang Xuewu believes that the shameless Britain and France will probably be calculating how to lead Germany to the east, and the appeasement policy is actually a disguised compromise, so that Germany feels that there is no threat on the Western Front, so that it can show its strength on the Eastern Front, and let the Germans fight the Red Empire, which is the most hated in the world, is not as simple as killing two birds with one stone?

Zhang Xuewu also grasped a principle of cooperation with the Soviet Union, that is, the Germans must be given more than the Soviets, if the Soviets developed the T-34 tank in advance, then the T-34 crisis on the Eastern Front broke out in advance, I am afraid that it was not the Germans who attacked Stalingrad, but the Soviet army invaded Berlin, which shows the serious threat of the T-34 crisis on the Eastern Front to the German army.

So much so that it changed the overall tank design route of the German army, the Tiger King and the follow-up heavy and super-heavy E series tank Rat King, etc., Zhang Xuewu did not plan to build the T-34T tank, the reason is very simple, because he can't afford the fuel consumption of the mechanized corps, to put it bluntly, the war is fought on the industrial base and military output, the Germans' weapon design is indeed improving, even the driver's seat in the tank has to take into account the level of comfort, and it has to go through seventy-nine procedures before it is made, The seats of the same Soviet Tb series fast tanks are just a few synthetic panels and foam, and the seats of the Soviet T-34 tanks during the Soviet-German war are simply cast iron.

However, Zhang Xuewu did not build it, he sent Feng Heping to the Soviets to support chemical plants, oil exploration equipment, oil refineries, a large number of machine tools and forging equipment, Zhang Xuewu is preparing for a rainy day, once the time is ripe, he will also have his own mechanized corps, but before that, he has to hide his excessively inflated strength, because Zhang Xuewu is also worried that he will besiege Rehe at all costs, so the strong strength of Rehe must be controlled within a certain range, that is, let the army dare not act rashly, Nor can it be regarded as a thorn in the side of the army, and it must be eradicated immediately.

(To be continued)