Song Zhewu's words made everyone's hearts very heavy.

If the Great War in the Central Plains is [***], then the current flood of the whole country is a natural disaster. [***] just ended, Nanjing political axe has not yet put the breath, this decades of not encountered major floods and heels on this ancient land, including the Songhua River Basin, the country's major water basins have occurred very serious floods, the affected population of more than 100 million, in this case, Nanjing political axe does not have much ability to take care of North Mongolia.

Song Zhewu let out a sigh of relief and asked, "In this case, how much power do you think the Central Political Axe can still have to support us in resisting the Soviet invasion in Northern Mongolia?" ”

Looking at everyone's worried expressions, Song Zhewu raised his voice slightly and said: "However, don't worry too much, the Soviet Union has actually just recovered from its domestic predicament, and their economy is now struggling. And the most important thing is that the Soviet Union's military center of gravity is not in Siberia, but in Europe, and it must always maintain a comprehensive military defense against those European countries in Europe that are deeply hostile to them, so the military strength they invest in this invasion of Northern Mongolia will be relatively limited. With the strength of our Fourth Route Army, as long as we deal with it properly, it is entirely possible to defeat the Soviet army and keep Northern Mongolia. ”

Song Zhewu paused, turned his gaze to the sand table, and said in a low but very firm tone: "Northern Mongolia is the defense area of the Northern Frontier Governor's Office, others can ignore it, but I, the border commander, can never ignore it, no matter how difficult it is, I will never allow an inch of land to be lost in my hands, even if there is no foreign aid, only our Fourth Route Army will have to fight." Moreover, the Soviets only used the Tangnu Ulianghai as an excuse to make it clear that they were coming for the whole of North Mongolia, and even if we temporarily put up with this breath and withdraw from the northwest region of North Mongolia, the Soviets would not stop, and Stalin would still gain an inch and then seek to seize the whole of North Mongolia, and then it would be even more unfavorable to us politically and militarily. ”

"Another very important issue is that after this flood, we will receive about 30 million to 50 million refugees, who are planned to be resettled in Northern Mongolia. There are large tracts of uncultivated land and mines in North Mongolia, and as long as we distribute this winter's relief food, they will be able to feed themselves in the coming year, and there will be no tragic situation of a large number of starving people dying of starvation because of the loss of their homes. Therefore, even if it is just for the sake of these tens of millions of victims, Beimeng must not be lost. ”

Song Zhewu waved his hand fiercely and said: "Therefore, the convening of this military conference today is not a question of whether to fight or not, but a question of how to fight. Director Meng, let's introduce the situation of the enemy and the enemy in Northern Mongolia. ”

After Mengxi picked up the demonstration stick and began to introduce the situation of the enemy and the enemy in Northern Mongolia on the sand table. Song Zhewu rubbed his temples, walked to the window silently, lit a cigarette, and looked at the tall French plane tree in the courtyard with branches and leaves in the morning sun, and became ecstatic.

Regarding the Soviet army provoking a war in Northern Mongolia at this time, although Song Zhewu tried his best to remain calm on the surface, deep in his heart, he was very anxious.

The original historical trajectory has not deviated from it so far, the Gui system, the Northwest Army, and the Jin Sui Army have failed one after another, Zhang Xueliang has entered the customs, Yang Hucheng has successfully entered Shaanxi, and Shiyou has completely collapsed, and the wheel of history has not deviated from his original trajectory in general.

Thus, nine. The 18 Incident is likely to happen as scheduled, but when the Soviet army attacks North Mongolia at this time, all his previous preparations for contingency will come to naught.

Originally, in Song Zhewu's plan, there were two sets of contingency plans.

Case A is to urge Zhang Xueliang to transfer the elite main force back to the Northeast after pacifying Shi Yousan. In this way, there will be nearly 300,000 troops of the Northeast Army in the northeast, especially more than 150,000 troops in Liaoning, plus more than 40,000 irregular troops, and a total strength of 200,000. After all, the Kwantung Army only has one downsized Second Field Division in the northeast, and with the addition of auxiliary troops, the Kwantung Army has only 27,000 men, and the difference in strength is too large.

In the original history, the reason why the Kwantung Army dared to launch the September 18 Incident was, to a large extent, because the elite main forces of the Northeast Army were all in Guannei, and although the Northeast Army still had 150,000 or 60,000 regular troops in the northeast, most of them were provincial defense troops and their combat effectiveness was relatively poor. There are only more than 50,000 people in Liaoning, and the only elite of them is the 10,000 people of Wang Yizhe's Seventh Brigade stationed in Beidaying. Although the Kwantung Army had only 27,000 men, they were mainly stationed in Liaoning, and the ratio of troops to the Northeast Army in Liaoning was about three to one.

With the strength of the army, they still have no fear to deal with the Northeast Army, which is three times their size. However, if they have to deal with the Northeast Army, which is seven times their size, they may not be sure of victory, and they may delay the occurrence of the incident.

However, Zhang Xueliang couldn't let go of the rich Pingjin area, and he refused Song Zhewu's several suggestions under the pretext.

In Song Zhewu's view, after Zhang Xueliang's rebellion against Shi Yousan, he was not at ease with these major forces in the north, including even Song Zhewu. The young Zhang Xueliang really wanted to use the window of North China to show himself well in front of the Chinese people, and he definitely did not want to be limited to just a corner of the northeast.

Therefore, because of Zhang Xueliang's reasons, Case A is no longer feasible.

Case B is that after the Kwantung Army launched the September 18 Incident, taking advantage of the fact that the political axe was still hesitant about whether to fully invade the northeast, the troops of the Fourth Route Army in North Mongolia quickly swung south into the northeast, eliminated, or at least drove away the second division of the Kwantung Army, and pushed the battle line to the border between Liaoning and Korea. Then, the Northeast Army was converging and using the resources of the Northeast and Taiyuan Administration, Suiyuan, and North and South Mongolia to resist the war.

However, Zhang Xueliang recently not only sent Tang Erhe, Zhao Boxin and his adviser Araki Goro to Tokyo to find out the truth. Zhang Xueliang, who was reluctant to expand the incident, even instructed Liaoning Provincial Chairman Zang Shiyi: "With regard to the case of the Chinese and Chinese negotiations, we should treat each other with sincerity and make concessions as much as possible on minor incidents." ”

In view of Zhang Xueliang's current attitude, after Song Zhewu's repeated consideration, the feasibility of this plan is not very high.

The War of Resistance in the border areas of Liaoning and North Korea required the full support of the Northeast Army, and it would have been impossible without Zhang Xueliang's support. And Zhang Xueliang will almost certainly not have this determination, and he will still hope to negotiate a settlement with the political axe. Even the best-case scenario was that after Zhang Xueliang paid a heavy price, he said that he would have restored the rights and interests of the South Manchurian Railway and retained Lushun.

It is more likely that Yue, who is absolutely unwilling to give up his policy toward Manchuria, Mongolia and Chinese mainland and cannot withstand defeat, is now launching an all-out war of aggression against China in a state of anger and shame. Although he now only has 17 standing divisions, his military service system is very perfect, and he will soon be able to raise a million troops. With the strength of the Fourth Route Army and the Northeast Army, it is absolutely unrealistic to resist the blow of the Yue Army with all the strength of the whole country.

Moreover, at this time, the strength of the Nanjing Central Political Axe was far worse than six years later, and at this time, a full-scale war of resistance was to be carried out, and the Nanjing Central Political Axe, which was completely unprepared, would even have no power to fight back.

And the most important thing is that the Soviet army is now invading North Mongolia, at this time, if the troops of the Fourth Route Army in North Mongolia want to go south into the Northeast War of Resistance, then North Mongolia will fall into the hands of the Soviet Union again, and it is not necessarily impossible to recover North Mongolia, but it will be very troublesome. Moreover, the charge of not resisting the general may fall on his head first, Song Zhewu.

And if you want to fight on both sides, it is almost impossible, not to mention that the Fourth Route Army only has hundreds of thousands of troops, even if it is the strength of the whole country, in the face of the two powerful countries of the Soviet Union, the Chinese [***] team will also be vulnerable.

In particular, Song Zhewu considered that if Beimeng was in his hands, it would be of great benefit to the future war of resistance, at least he could use the convenient geographical location of Beimeng to maintain pressure on the Kwantung Army in the Northeast at all times, so that they would have many scruples when launching a full-scale invasion of China. The longer the full-scale invasion of China was delayed, the more beneficial it would be for China, and Chiang Kai-shek had now realized this, and he was already discussing with his German advisers the question of reorganizing the troops and training German armourers. If, before the army launched a full-scale invasion of China, Chiang Kai-shek had been able to train 60 German armourers as planned, instead of a few in the original history, then the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression might have led to a different situation.

Therefore, after discussing with Xiao Guodong and Tao Rong for one night last night, Song Zhewu finally reluctantly decided that he would devote his main energy to resisting the invasion of the Soviet army at present.

However, this does not mean that he will ignore the invasion of the Northeast by the Yue Army, and Song Zhewu will not let the Yue Army get the same as when he was in his previous life, snatching huge wealth in Shenyang and getting a complete, rich, and strong industrial foundation in the Northeast.

According to historical records, the loss of official property in the September 18 Incident alone amounted to more than 1.8 billion yuan, and more than 400 million yuan of gold, US dollars, and oceans were robbed of the Northeast Frontier Bank, the Bank of China, and other financial institutions, and 80,000 gold bars were robbed of Zhang Xueliang's marshal's mansion.

The loss of ordnance and ammunition was even more serious, with 262 aircraft, 3,019 mortars and cannons of various calibers, 26 combat vehicles, 5,864 machine guns of various types, 118206 rifles and pistols of various types, as well as a large number of guns and ammunition, clothing, and food.

In particular, the army got a complete Northeast Arsenal, which is even more heart-wrenching. The Northeast Arsenal has invested more than 280 million yuan. In the Far East before World War II, this was on an incredible scale. Nearly half of the rifles and mountain artillery used in the mainland were produced by the Shenyang Arsenal, and 75 percent of the ammunition was produced by the Shenyang Arsenal. Due to the advanced equipment of the Shenyang Ordnance Mortar Factory, the mortars and grenadiers of the Chinese army are basically all produced by the Shenyang Arsenal.

Since neither Bills A nor Bills B seem to be feasible now, it is necessary to prepare a new plan.

(To be continued)