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The great confrontation between the German and Japanese naval and air forces is, of course, big news in the world, and at the same time, Germany's arming of China on such a large scale has also caused other Western powers to have various ideas:

"Is Germany going to form an alliance with China?"

"If China's armed forces become stronger, will it affect our interests in China?"

"Will the Chinese government abolish the unequal treaties signed in the late Qing Dynasty?"

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The war clouds in Europe are thick, and now Asia is also surging, the international situation is more complicated, and various countries have also launched intensive foreign visits for their own interests, all want to get a piece of the pie in this turbulent era, how can there be a free lunch in the world, if you want to obtain benefits, you must have the corresponding strength, if you don't have the strength, don't mix blindly, so as not to mislead others and yourself.

The German fleet and all the transport ships all arrived safely in Guangzhou, and the entire port of Guangzhou was suddenly crowded, there was no place for warships to dock, all the wharves were docked by 10,000-ton giant ships, tens of thousands of stevedores were slowly carrying all kinds of munitions, and all kinds of trucks were flowing endlessly, and in order to ensure the safety of loading and unloading munitions, Jiang Zhongzheng sent 500,000 central troops to deploy around Guangzhou, and several German armourers all came.

Jiang Zhongzheng sent a large number of high-ranking officials to greet them, Zhang Zhizhong and Yu Jishi, Shi Zhongzhong, Qiu Qingquan, Dai Li, etc., who had fought side by side with Zhang Jun, all came to the dock to greet their former old commanders, there was no subordinate who did not like the commander who could lead them to victory, if a commander always led the troops to defeat the battle, I am afraid that there was no subordinate who liked it.

Zhang Jun was on the bridge of the Zeppelin aircraft carrier, and he had already seen several huge banners of his former subordinates:

"Warmly welcome General Zhang's triumph."

"Are you alright, sir?"

"The invincible General Zhang is mighty."

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Zhang Jun's eyes moistened in an instant, that was his subordinates, that were his subordinates who lived and died together!

"Zhang Zhizhong, Qiu Qingquan oh oh, oh oh, I'm here, oh oh oh......"

"General Zhang, that's General Zhang...... Woowoo...... General ......"

Zhang Jun directly threw down the telescope in his hand, let it fall on the deck and shatter, and rushed down with his legs, and the crowd in front of him were all picked up by Zhang Jun, and those lieutenant ** officers who came to greet Zhang Jun also ran out with a whimper.

"Haha...... General, Lao Zhang, you've gained weight......"

Zhang Jun and his former subordinates were screaming and jumping on the dock, and those who didn't know thought they were a bunch of crazy people! When everyone calmed down a little, Dai Li quietly approached Zhang Jun, and then whispered a few words to Zhang Jun.

It turned out that Dai Li came with Jiang Zhongzheng's secret instructions, and Zhang Jun, who had no choice, had to let his former subordinates go to Guangzhou City to wait for him, and then took Dai Li's car to find a small restaurant, and began to talk while eating, Dai Li's instructions were personally signed by Jiang Zhongzheng, and it was to ask Zhang Jun to help save two people, these two people had a very good relationship with Jiang Zhongzheng, and they also gave great help to Jiang Zhongzheng during the Northern Expedition. He was Marshal of the Soviet Union Alexander Ilyich Egorov and Commander of the Special Army of the Red Banner Far East Vasily Konstantinovich Blyukhel.

This matter has to start from the beginning, the first socialist country of mankind founded by Lenin is like a new star piercing the sky and drawing the trajectory of the ideal society of mankind. But the Soviet Union at that time, surrounded by the hostility and hatred of the capitalist world, was like an isolated island in the ocean. After the end of the war, the Soviet Union suffered for a long time from blockade, isolation and refusal to recognize the international community dominated by the capitalist countries. It has never stopped facing the threat of foreign invasion, subversion, and destruction. The long-term priority for this nascent nation is survival.

Because it is a country with a backward industrial base, the impulse to rush for success has caused it to run counter to the objective law of social and economic development and mistakenly choose a development path that gives priority to the development of heavy industry, especially the military industry. The livelihood and welfare of people, one of the most fundamental advantages and characteristics of the socialist system, which is openly proclaimed, are forced to be sacrificed.

This country, which is constantly facing the threat of foreign aggression and subversion, has maintained a wartime dictatorship system for a long time, and has been cohesive in an environment of internal and external pressure. The Great Purge took place in such a difficult and treacherous living environment that is difficult for future generations to imagine.

Another important reason for the Great Purge was that after various problems arose in the course of Soviet social development and practice, Stalin, in order to maintain the "hall of words" and create "personal superstitions" about himself, extremely erroneously elevated various opinions within the Party and at home into hostile contradictions that threatened the Soviet power, and waged a brutal struggle and ruthless blows. The leader of any political party who regards normal intra-party opinions and controversies as hostile and destroys them by treating the enemy will eventually cause irreparable harm and unforgivable crimes to the country, to the nation, and to the party itself.

It seems that it all started in Kirov. His assassination is so far difficult to convincing the truth, but it was the direct trigger for the Great Purge. The current credible conservative figures for the Great Purge of 1937 and 1938 were that no less than 1.57 million people were sentenced, about 690,000 were executed, about 700,000 were imprisoned in labor camps, and an unknown number died in prisons and labor camps. (Disclosed archival information indicates that in 1940 the Gulag kept information on a total of 8 million people, and by 1953 there were no less than 10 million.) This means that about 10 million people were sent to the Gulag Archipelago during the entire Stalin era, and this is just the information of a prison. ）

On June 11, 1937, Pravda said that Marshal Tukhachevsky and eight other generals were arrested for treason. On June 12, it was reported that Tukhachevsky and eight others had been shot.

Marshal Tukhachevsky was recognized as the most talented general of the Soviet Red Army and the true soul of the Red Army. He and some other generals put forward the theory of large-depth operations and large-scale mechanized operations far ahead of their Western counterparts. All of them were shot.

The truth of Tukhachevsky's treason came out very early. However, there is no definite answer to the question of whether the materials on the Tukhachevsky conspiracy concocted by Heinrich, the leader of the German Security Service in 1936, were used by the Germans on their own initiative, or whether someone deliberately revealed the discord between the Soviet generals and gave them a chance to create a counter-plot. Since Zhang Jun has crossed over, he will personally confirm this unjust case in history, and it is not difficult for the SS to verify this matter, because these parties are all there now.

Even if Zhang Jun confirmed that this was a "counter-plot" of the Germans, Zhang Jun still would not tell the truth, it was too useful for the Marshal Tukhachevsky incident, and if it was used well, it would have unexpected effects.

Marshal Tukhachevsky had already been shot by Stalin, and now two more Soviet marshals have been arrested - Yegorov, and the commander of the Red Banner Far Eastern Special Army, Blyukher.

The highly decorated Red Marshal Yegorov was an outstanding commander who had experienced a hundred battles and performed many miraculous feats, a heroic revolutionary soldier, and a defender of Moscow. In the autumn of 1919, when Denikin's troops advanced on Tula, the gateway to Moscow, Yegorov was appointed commander of the Southern Front and led the campaign to crush Denikin, thereby saving the young Soviet Republic. In 1920, at the most difficult stage of the war, he was an indefatigable assistant to Stalin's side and the first chief of the General Staff of the Red Army. He was a man of great integrity and decency. From the end of the civil war until 1937, Yegorov successively held important military leadership positions such as commander of the Kiev and Petrograd Military Districts, chief of the General Staff of the Red Army, first deputy People's Commissar of Defense, and in 1934 he was elected a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU. During his tenure, he made an important contribution to the reorganization and refitting of the Red Army, the formation of powerful armored forces. He dedicated his life to the army, to the people, to the security of the Soviet Fatherland.

Later generations believed that with his outstanding talent and commanding art, he was enough to rank among such outstanding commanders as Frunze, Tukhachevsky, and even Zhukov. In the mid-20s, he served as a military attache at the Russian embassy in China. From the time of the civil war, he admired Stalin, and with Stalin he referred to him as "you" (in Russian custom, the word "you" in addition to the usual meaning of respect, also means a sense of distance, and sometimes it can be hostile, so close people only address each other as "you"). Therefore, when the Great Purge was launched in the army in the mid-30s, it could not have been imagined that the spearhead of the purge would be directed at Yegorov. However, in early 1938, when Yegorov disappeared forever after being abruptly removed from his important post, the unexpected happened.

After Tukhachevsky's hasty execution, the Great Purge did not stop, and more and more people became victims. It was an era of petty reports and anonymous letters, and any soldier who had been punished, any subordinate who was disgruntled with his superiors, could take revenge on officers and superiors he did not like and falsely accuse them. The internal affairs organs, on the other hand, have implemented the absurd procedure of "arresting first, then examining the case." Under the severe torture and inducement of confessions by the rebels, the people who were falsely accused had no choice but to "bite" people indiscriminately, and as a result, there were more and more reactionary officers of the coup cabal, and the more they were killed. Some of the testimonies involved Yegorov, and he was doomed.

On February 21, 1938, with Stalin's approval, Yegorov was arrested in the army sanatorium in Arkhangelskoye, Moscow, and was also thrown into the basement of the Lubyanka, where the arrest warrant was not reissued until April 29 and the arrest warrant was not issued until February 10, 1939. Yegorov wrote to ask for Stalin's forgiveness, but Stalin was completely indifferent to Yegorov's letter asking for forgiveness, although Yegorov mentioned in the letter that during the civil war, they had more than once drunk soup from a farmer's basin and slept with a soldier's overcoat...... But that was a long time ago, and now it's meaningless.

This Chinese friend is now also facing the fate of being purged, and no one in history can save him, and now Jiang Zhongzheng is asking Zhang Jun to extend a saving hand.