Chapter 280: Severance of Diplomatic Relations
November 21, the day of the exchange of fire on the Sino-Soviet border.
In the afternoon, all the cities and towns in China, and the channels that were still broadcasting TV programs, were all switched to news channels. For those Chinese who often watch television, a soldier they are very familiar with appears on television. Spokesman for the Ministry of Defense of the Chinese Empire, Ran Tiejun.
Ran Tiejun was dressed in a straight military uniform, stood in front of the microphone with a serious face, faced all the audience in front of the TV, and said sonorously: "In the eleventh year of ZTE, on November 21, according to the latest news from the Ministry of National Defense, at noon today, a Chinese businessman was forcibly seized by the Soviet defenders on the border for no reason when he went to the Soviet Union for normal trade and trade. In order to prevent leakage of information, the Soviet Red Army also planned to kill people and destroy their mouths, and while they were sharing the spoils, the Chinese businessman Dai Hong and two Chinese workers escaped from the control of the Soviets. While fleeing, two Soviet soldiers were shot dead by the pursuing Soviet soldiers, leaving only Dai Hong, a Chinese businessman, to flee to the border. The Soviet soldiers who were in pursuit did not let Dai Hong go and shot at Dai Hong, who was about to enter China. In the face of such atrocities, our soldiers resolutely returned fire and rescued Dai Hong, a Chinese businessman whose life was in danger. The incident occurred two hours ago on the Sino-Soviet border in the Mongolian Province of the Chinese Empire, and the Chinese businessman Dai Hong is currently being treated in the field hospital of the Chinese Defense Forces, and his life is not in danger.
This was a premeditated and organized operation, and the target was the Chinese who often went to the Soviet Union to do business, and the Ministry of Defense hereby appealed to the Chinese businessmen to temporarily stop sending goods to the Soviet Union and wait for further notice.
China is a peace-loving country, and no one below the Imperial Majesty wants war to come. However, China is not a war-cowardly country, and our Chinese National Defense Force, with millions of Chinese soldiers, have the confidence and determination to safeguard China's peace and have the ability to resist China's aggression by foreign powers again.
Although China has developed peacefully for 10 years, the Chinese soldiers have never forgotten their mission for 10 years, and for the stability and prosperity of the empire, the Chinese army dares to engage any enemy.
In the face of the barbaric acts of the Soviet Red Army, General Chen Fuqin, Minister of National Defense of the Chinese Empire, and General Cai Yi and General Jiang Baili of the Supreme Operations Department and the General Staff Department jointly issued a first-class combat alert order on the Sino-Soviet border. We, the million-strong Chinese army, vowed to ask the Soviet Union for an explanation and tell the Soviet Union that China is no longer the China that can be bullied by others. We will resolutely fight back against those opponents who dare to challenge China. ”
The news was also disseminated to all parts of China through multiple channels, and was also reported on radio and in local media and newspapers. At the same time, the world's major media also received the news.
One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and this news caused huge repercussions in China. In the past 10 years, China has maintained a peaceful situation, and this is the first time that such news has appeared. The smoke and blood of ten years ago have not passed from the hearts of the people. The words of Ran Tiejun, spokesman for the Ministry of National Defense, once again aroused the heroic blood in their hearts.
All over the country, people who learned the news were talking. In the past ten years of development, China has made great progress in various industries and infrastructure, and earth-shaking changes have also taken place in the land of China. Every city changes once in a few months. The speed of development stunned everyone. The people's lives have also improved dramatically, and all of them have achieved food and clothing, and it has become a difficulty to eat again.
Food, clothing, housing and transportation are becoming more and more convenient, living standards are also improving day by day, and the cohesion of the people is also rising day by day. Such a face is difficult to see in the history of China.
Now that I heard the news from the Ministry of Defense, the voice of asking the Soviet Union for an explanation was raised. What is more, it directly appealed to China to wage war against the Soviet Union and to recover the land occupied by the Soviet Union in the Far East, so as to further complete China's territory.
At such a moment, Wei Ren, the prime minister of the Chinese Empire, personally announced to the major media that he would sever diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, recall all the staff of the Chinese Embassy in the Soviet Union, keep only the liaison office, and cut off all business and trade with the Soviet Union. And the staff of the Soviet embassy in China were expelled and only allowed to maintain liaison offices.
China's unilateral decision brought Sino-Soviet relations to a freezing point, and it can be said that now all it is to declare war.
All this was instructed by Chen Shao, who had not yet returned to Hanjing, in a secret military base in the southwest. After receiving this news, Chen Shao was directly furious. Originally, he just wanted to fight with the Soviet Union, but when he heard that a Chinese was shot dead by Soviet soldiers, Chen Shao was immediately furious.
This is not a civil dispute, nor is it a manslaughter or an accident, but the deliberate killing of a legitimate citizen of another country by the regular army of one country is a contempt of Chi Guoguo. Regardless of the antecedents of this matter, if China is not given a reasonable result, Chen Shao does not intend to settle with Stalin.
This military conflict, which is being prepared by both sides, as long as it does not involve civilians and is completely army-to-army, then Chen Shao is very interested in playing with Stalin. But things have deviated from Chen Shao's original intention, and the result will be very different.
After canceling the follow-up trip, Chen Shao and others immediately boarded the special plane and returned to Hanjing. On the plane, Chen Shao issued the above orders to Jiang Baili and Wei Ren in Hanjing. However, at this time, China did not declare war on the Soviet Union.
In the Kremlin, Stalin also received a credential from China, along with a copy of the cause and effect of the incident. In the face of this series of actions of China, Stalin was a little overwhelmed, and he did not even know what was going on. All the staff of the Chinese Embassy in the Soviet Union were already packing their luggage, and the plane back to China was ready, ready to board and depart at any time to return to China.
Stalin was also a man who wanted to save face, and in the face of a series of actions in China, although he did not know what was going on, he did not lose his momentum. It also announced the recall of the staff of the Soviet Embassy in China, and also announced the severance of all commercial relations with China. At the same time, all Soviet Red Army forces in the Far East were ordered to strengthen their alert to prevent a sudden attack by China.
At this time, the Soviet embassy in Hanjing had been taken under control, and the Soviet ambassador and military attache in China, as well as all the staff, were forced to sort out their things and roll back to the Soviet Union. One sentence: China does not welcome you. Expressing disgust with the Soviets.
When Stalin's order reached the point, the staff inside sped up to pack their things. Because there were already a lot of Chinese people outside, denouncing the atrocities of the Soviet Union. They couldn't stay any longer, for fear that the angry Chinese would storm the embassy.
Stalin, having announced the order, only then did he have time to think about what was going on. Could it be that Zhukov has already begun to attack? And when Stalin picked up the attachment sent by China, and after reading it, Stalin realized that this matter was not as he thought. Rather, there were Soviet soldiers who seized the goods of Chinese merchants without authorization and shot the Chinese.
Stalin originally thought that Zhukov had started to act, but he did not expect to be in such a situation. Now that China has seized the initiative and is on the side of reason, Stalin is very angry.
Directly ordered someone to send a telegram to Zhukov, scolded Zhukov, and strictly ordered Zhukov not to make any more mistakes. At the same time, he also pointed out that this matter must not be admitted, and the two bold regiment commanders and political commissars should not be punished. The troops were ordered not to mention it again, and to destroy everything as if it had never happened.
As long as the Soviet Union punished those two people, it would be equivalent to the Soviet Union admitting that what China said was the truth. In this way, the Soviet Union was passive, and this was also a great blow to the Soviet Union's international prestige. Stalin would never admit such a thing, even if it was true, if there were enough of it, if you don't admit it, you won't admit it.
Subsequently, the Soviet Union also announced to the world that this was a conspiracy of China, and that the so-called Soviet Red Army soldiers who shot Chinese civilians and robbed Chinese businessmen of goods were pure fiction and that China deliberately fabricated facts to smear the Soviet Red Army. At the same time, it was also pointed out that the Soviet Red Army was not afraid of any enemy and would not slacken its determination to defend its homeland.
The world situation was not small in the face of this sudden news. There is no happiest country in the world for this news than Japan. I hope that the quarrel between China and the Soviet Union will become more and more fierce, and it is better to break out into a full-scale war and draw both countries into the quagmire of war. And Japan can rest assured that it will be in the back, waiting for the time to pick up the profits of the fisherman.
The dispute between Japan and China and the Soviet Union is not small, and it is not the Soviet Union, because of the Sakhalin issue, both sides are saber-rattling. The Soviet Union looked down on the Japanese dwarfs, and how could Japan look down on the Soviet Union, especially until now, the Soviet Union did not have a navy that could handle it, which made Japan look down on the Soviet Union even more. In Japanese military circles, the Soviet Red Army at this time was compared to the Tsarist Russian army of that year, and it was a little inferior, because Tsarist Russia still had a navy that was not weak.
As for China, Japan can be said to be envious, jealous and hateful. In recent years, under the leadership of Germany, Japan has gained great convenience and benefits. But by this time, Japan had not forgotten its defeat. Although Japan has made many strategic adjustments, it has not completely let go of its coveting of Chinese land. In the words of the Japanese themselves, a strong China is not in the interests of the Japanese.
The neighbor is strong, and Japan is also worried that it will be beaten one day, and there is nowhere to reason. And as long as China and the Soviet Union are scarred, then Japan can think about which one to overturn first.
Britain and France are one of the many people who think the same way as Japan, and under the guise of hoping for peace, they are actually secretly fanning the flames.
Germany is also happy, as long as the Soviet Union can get in touch with China, Germany will be happy, and the reason does not need to be explained.
But there are also many countries that have come forward and called on the two countries not to be too radical. If you have anything to say, you can sit down and talk calmly.
(To be continued)