[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 955: Zhu Kofu Visits Yan'an (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

With regard to sending people directly to China this time, the Soviet side has also made a great deal of determination. The Stalin www.biquge.info whom Ma Zheng had considered before, knew in their hearts that the threat from both the East and the West had made the bearded man quite uneasy. Therefore, in the more than a year after the German attack on Poland, Stalin repeatedly convened military meetings in the Kremlin at the level of army commanders to find a solution.

Although the conference has been held many times, the longest of which was even held for a day and a night, nothing has come of it, and there seems to be no other way than to expand the armament war.

Later, out of national security considerations of the Soviet Union, they signed a non-aggression pact with Japan, but this treaty still did not reassure Stalin, after all, Japan's military strength in the northeast has not decreased at all, and is even secretly increasing, which makes Stalin very uneasy.

In the end, it was Zhukov, deputy commander of the Belarusian Special Military District, who made a suggestion, saying that in dealing with the current crisis situation, everything that can be done internally has already been done, and it can only be done from the outside.

In his opinion, Germany had just annexed most of northwestern Europe, including Poland and France, and its rule there had not yet been fully established, and it should be impossible to launch an attack on the Soviet Union for the time being.

Moreover, there was a territory between the Soviet Union and Germany that originally belonged to Poland, and it was impossible for Germany to cross this territory to attack the Soviet Union, at least not in a short time, unless Germany could defeat the local Soviet army in a short time.

The most important thing is that the center of gravity of the Soviet Union is in Europe, so as long as Germany attacks the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union has no way to avoid it, and the only thing it can do is to fight to the death.

Therefore, under these circumstances, what we need to do now for the great Soviet Union is to completely stabilize Japan to the east.

After all, once the war starts, the main energy of the Soviet Union will be contained in Europe, and at most one front army will be placed in the Far East, with no more than half a million troops. The Japanese Kwantung Army alone had 400,000 troops, plus the puppet government of Manchukuo and Korea, its total strength was at least 800,000, and the Red Army was at an absolute disadvantage in terms of strength.

In the case that the treaty could not completely solve the Soviet-Japanese problem, the great Soviet Union still had to strengthen its forces in the Far East. Secondly, it is necessary to strengthen ties with the Chinese government, especially with Ma Zheng, who is stationed in Chahar and Suiyuan provinces in northern China, so as to contain the Japanese army in China, and of course the Kwantung Army.

Zhukov's proposal was approved by all the senior generals present, but some officers were still very skeptical about the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army. Although judging from the situation in the past few years, the strength of this little friend in China is not weak, especially the Suicha Military Region, which is under the jurisdiction of Yan'an, and its strength can even compete with the Japanese army's divisions or corps-level troops.

However, in the eyes of many officers, the Eighth Route Army is still subordinate to China's armed forces, and as long as it is China's armed forces, they do not trust it very much. The main reason is that the Soviet Red Army once fought against the Northeast Army, which was the strongest and best weaponized in the Chinese Army.

It was the Middle East Road Incident that occurred in 1929, and the Soviet Red Army fought with the Northeast Army, although the Northeast Army also fought very bravely, but the bravery was only manifested in morale, in fact, the Northeast Army suffered heavy losses. Because of this, many high-ranking officers in the Soviet Union were full of doubts about the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army, which was also China's national defense force, and doubted whether they could take on the task of containing the Japanese army.

Zhukov had already made arrangements for this, and he took out a document entitled "Evaluation and Analysis of the Combat Effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army", which was written by the commander-in-chief of the volunteer pilots to aid China, and was specifically analyzed and analyzed the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army, in which he objectively analyzed and evaluated the vast majority of the armies in China, including the Central Army of the Nationalist Government, the Eighteenth Group Army led by Yan'an, the newly formed Fourth Army, the Jin Sui Army in Yanxishan, Shanxi, the Northwest Army left behind by Yang Hucheng in Shaanxi, and the Northeast Army in scattered sand. There is also Ma Zheng's department, which has only risen strongly in recent years.

In this analysis of combat effectiveness, Major General Ivan analyzed the number and quality of soldiers, the quality of officers, weapons and equipment, logistical support, and economic strength, and finally came to an astonishing conclusion.

So far, among these resistance forces, the Nationalist Government has the largest number of troops, reaching more than 3 million, but the Eighth Route Army's attack is the sharpest and the most combat-effective, because so far only the Eighth Route Army's Ma Zheng Division has repeatedly annihilated the Japanese army at and above the division and regimental level.

Zhukov's analysis of combat effectiveness is not some boring data, and it comes with a large number of war examples, and when these high-ranking Soviet generals read those war examples, everyone was surprised.

Every battle example here can be called a classic, and the results are brilliant enough, no wonder this little-known little man can rise strongly in such a short period of time, such a record even these high-ranking generals here will be envious, jealous and hateful, no wonder if they are not famous.

According to Zhukov's analysis, as long as the support of Yan'an can be obtained, then the Japanese army in the northeast will definitely not dare to move.

What's more, Zhukov also reported to Stalin that his Chinese friends had penicillin, an important strategic material, and that if they could get this technology, the Soviet Union would lose millions of casualties during the war.

It is precisely because of this that Stalin instructed the Comintern to hope that Yan'an would take out the penicillin production technology and hand it over to the Soviet Union.

However, what made the Soviet Union angry was that Yan'an was full of prevarications, saying so much that it was unwilling to hand over the production technology of penicillin drugs.

In desperation, Stalin had no choice but to send Zhukov to Yan'an, China, to ask him to have a good talk with the disobedient Mao, and by the way, to see on the spot the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army, whether it could bear the heavy responsibility of containing the Japanese army, and if so, they could secretly ally with the Eighth Route Army.

Zhukov acted very quickly, and soon after receiving the order, he led a team from Moscow to China.

The first thing they did was Yan'an, but they were disappointed that the so-called holy land was just a small county town in their eyes, and there were few tall houses in the whole city. Not only are people poor, but they don't seem to have a sense of distress at all, and they have to play late every night.

Moreover, the army in Yan'an is also very average, there are not many garrisons in the city, and the weapons and equipment are also very poor, most of the soldiers are holding antiques from thirty years ago, and some of the rifling of the guns are smoothed. The most important thing is that they have hardly seen other weapons other than rifles, there are not many light machine guns, heavy machine guns are not seen at all, and even more so tanks and armored vehicles.

Zhukov's heart suddenly cooled half, it was really a dream that such an army still wanted to fight the Japanese.

He once commanded the battle of Nomenkan and saw the Japanese army on the battlefield with his own eyes, not to mention how effective the Japanese were, but the weapons and equipment of the Japanese army were not comparable to the Eighth Route Army.

Although the chairman and others were very enthusiastic about their group, once Zhukov turned the topic to penicillin and Huaxia Company, the chairman shifted the topic elsewhere, and he was really squeezed to a little bit, so he made perfunctory remarks, which made Zhukov very depressed.

In the end, a pro-Soviet high-ranking person came forward and explained to Zhukov that they had no jurisdiction over Huaxia and that everything was Ma Zheng's personal relationship.

In fact, there are not many people who know the beginning and end of Huaxia Company, and only a limited number of people such as Chairman and Ma Zheng know about the entire Yan'an side, even if some people know that Ma Zheng's wife is the general manager of Huaxia Company, but they do not know the specific relationship between Huaxia Company and Li Lanqing, which makes Zhukov very depressed.

However, in order to complete the task and for the future of the Soviet Union, Zhukov applied to go to the Suicha Military Region to talk to Ma Zheng, hoping that he could come forward to solve the matter of Huaxia Company, and at the very least, he asked Huaxia Company to lift the blockade of the Soviet Union and restore the supply of penicillin. (To be continued.) )