In the face of the tremendous pressure on the Soviet side, Stalin began to hesitate and hesitate, Zhang Xuewu defeated the Kwantung Army, and would not give the Soviet Union an inch of land, at most for the Soviet Union to contact the threat from the Far East, if the Soviet Union and Germany can sign a neutrality treaty, then the threat from the Far East will no longer be a threat, on land Stalin does not think that the Soviet Union or China will be the opponent of the heroic Soviet Red Army.

Stalin did not believe Lottsov's words, although Lottsov was his commander-in-chief, and if it were not for Stalin's own purge, which killed all the admirals of the Red Army, it would have been absolutely impossible for an incompetent person like Lottsov to become the naval commander of the Soviet Red Army.

Stalin even knew the current situation of the Soviet Red Army more than Lottsov, and he was full of confidence in the army, but Stalin was a hundred uneasy about the navy, because the aging of the ships of the Soviet Red Army Navy has become a big problem, and only less than half of the ships can be operated, and the rest can only lie in the dock for repeated renovations, and the resources are occupied by the huge Red Army Army, so in line with the principle of the army first and then the navy, concentrate all forces to give priority to the development of the army.

Therefore, Stalin made a choice that he thought was wise, and ordered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Molotov to contact the Soviet side, and if he was willing to make concessions on the Mongolian question, then the Soviet Union would agree to negotiate a Soviet-Chinese neutrality treaty with the Soviet side, and from the date of the treaty, the Soviet side would stop providing military assistance to the Rehe Zhang Xuewu side, and stop the relevant civilian technology and the project of aiding the construction of factories.

It can be said that Stalin finally chose to ask for his own interests and compromise with the Germans on the platform of Germany, Beneans, and China, as the only [***] country in the world, the Soviet Union was isolated by the whole of Europe, so Stalin had to be more cautious in considering international issues, and the Soviet Union had no friends, let alone allies!

Zhang Xuewu was also very shocked that he had dispatched a combined fleet to demonstrate to the Soviet side, and Zhang Xuewu knew that the Soviets were afraid that there would be a big change in their policies and attitudes toward themselves, and that almost all the supplies aided by the Soviet Union had arrived, and Zhang Xuewu was very worried that the Soviet side would cut off the passage of supplies to Suiyuan through its territory, so that the materials and equipment that Zhou Ying purchased from the United States would no longer be able to continuously import Rehe from the Soviet Far East Railway.

This is what Zhang Xuewu is most worried about, [***] the main force is almost all deployed in the Fifth Theater, under the command of Chiang Kai-shek, Li Zongren with the strength of the 37th Army set up a position to prepare for the main force of the Central China Army to start an offensive, intending to counterattack the Beijing-Shanghai-Hangzhou region, for the [***] in Xuzhou launched a comprehensive counterattack, Zhang Xuewu adopted a cold attitude, the entire Tenth Theater of Theater of forces have been invested in the northwest to clean up and maintain local stability.

The whole Pingjin is already at Zhang Xuewu's fingertips at the moment, but Zhang Xuewu is not in a hurry to eat the fat in his mouth, because the attitude of the Soviet Union towards himself is not clear, and the situation in Europe has begun to enter the beginning of the chaotic era at this moment, and the rise of Nazi Germany and the appeasement of Britain and France have made the German chariot look unstoppable.

Sure enough, the offensive launched in Xuzhou was contained in the Beijing-Shanghai-Hangzhou area, and the seventy consecutive days of bloody battles made the [***] team and the main force of the Central China Army and the remnants of the North China Army also suffered huge losses, and the actual combat proved that the army was very strong when it contracted its defense, although the concentrated artillery fire of the [***] team once smashed the Beijing-Shanghai-Hangzhou defense line, but because Nanjing was in international trusteeship, the [***] team was unable to outflank the weak flank of the Chinese army, resulting in the [***] The main force of the team could only storm the frontal defensive position of the army, and more than a dozen elite troops took turns to go into battle, killing 800 enemies and losing more than 3,000 at the same time, so the huge consumption of the combat government could not support it for a long time.

North China, where the army is extremely empty, has fallen into a strange circle, hundreds of thousands of [***] troops entrenched near Zhongtiao Mountain in the northwest of Shanxi Province are eager to try the Pingjin area and most of North China, but they do not dare to go deep into the Pingjin area, and the various departments of the army and the puppet army even abandoned Beiping City, but the Tenth Theater of Operations, which is a stone's throw away, has never sent troops to take over the defense, the troops of the Tenth Theater have not received the defense, and the rest of the [***] departments have not dared to pull their teeth, so there is a strange circle in North China? They don't even have explosives for large-scale destruction, and the powerful 10th War Zone and the [***] main forces near Mt. Nakajo seem to be on the sidelines?

In fact, Zhang Xuewu was also hesitating, because although the 10th Theater under his command could be called strong, its greatest reliance on the Soviet Union's military assistance was cut off? The whole world believes that Zhang Xuewu is the largest purchaser and buyer in the world, and the strength of the 10th War Zone is bought, but if anyone has visited the Baotou Industrial Base and the emerging Lanzhou Industrial Base, it can only be described as shock.

Zhou Ying took advantage of the economic crisis in the United States to buy more than 400 American factories at the price of scrap iron, and dismantled and transferred them to China, more than 100 of these factories were installed and recommissioned in Baotou, and the rest will be set up in the emerging Lanzhou industrial base, which is also the main reason why Zhang Xuewu is in a hurry to attack the west, Zhang Xuewu is not used to putting all his eggs in the same basket.

Moreover, nearly 70,000 technicians and engineers who have returned from the United States will constitute industrial skilled workers in a huge industrial system, Zhang Xuewu used Zhou Ying's almost astronomical funds to build a systematic industrial chain in just a few years, and the people who sent a large number of laborers to Germany and the United States for training at any cost to Zhang Xuewu now truly understand Zhang Xuewu's so-called foresight.

The decision of the Soviet Union is undoubtedly the worst decision for Zhang Xuewu, which means that Zhang Xuewu's tenth theater has been completely isolated since then, which is also the worst situation that Zhang Xuewu expected before finally appeared.

Zhang Xuewu has made comprehensive preparations to deal with it, and lonely China is destined to resist alone! In this contest of national will, defeat is equal to destruction!

(To be continued)