Chapter 880 The Wind Rises

The Soviet-Japanese Far East War, which lasted nearly three months, was settled, and in this battle, the Soviet Union and Japan used more than one million troops to wage fierce battles in the Far East of the Soviet Union, and the flames of war burned from Ussuriysk on the coast of the Sea of Japan to the cold land of Siberia.

As a result of the war, the Soviet Union and Japan had their own victories and defeats, and the Soviet side suffered even greater losses, with the Soviet Far East Second Army under the command of Admiral Timoshenko suffering heavy losses, suffering more than 200,000 casualties, and the Pacific Fleet was completely annihilated, losing all the land from Haishanwei to the Trans-Khingan Mountains, although this was snatched from China by Tsarist Russia.

The Japanese Kwantung Army suffered more than 200,000 casualties, and the air losses exceeded those of the Soviet Union, and the battle also violated the Achilles' heel of the Japanese army in terms of equipment and the command art of senior commanders.

The result of this battle was by no means as boasted by the Japanese newspapers to the ordinary people, the Japanese Imperial Army was advancing all the way, the Soviet Russian army was losing one after another, and the empire was increasing its land area by several square kilometers.

Before and after, the Kwantung Army lost more than 380,000 troops, and these troops and soldiers were all first-class divisions and regiments that had been reorganized and trained after the fiasco at Niuxinshan, and they were consumed again in the battle against the Soviet Russian army.

With the current strength of the Kwantung Army, at least for a year and a half, they did not dare to challenge Tang Qiuli's independent division troops occupying the Jinzhou region of western Liaoning, not to mention, in order to defeat the Soviet Russian army, the empire had to pay ten tons of gold and a large number of industrial equipment to the empire's sworn enemy, the devil Tang Qiuli.

Begging for peace with their enemies, from Emperor Hirohito to all the high-ranking generals in the base camp, there was a nameless fire in their stomachs, just like being slapped on the back when they were dripping with joy, interrupting the feeling of normal excretion, such a victory, like a strange bean, a little sweet at first taste, taste it carefully, there is a bitter and sour taste, and then it is a spicy to the stomach uncomfortable.

And the biggest winner of this war is that Tang Qiu left, the Kwantung Army and the Soviet Army faced off on the front line of the Outer Xing'an Mountains, no one could help anyone, this is what he is most willing to see, and it is also the result of deliberate creation, in the vast northeast region, the garrison strength of the Kwantung Army is extremely weak, and Liu Tiehan's eastward command troops can launch an attack at any time.

What is even more favorable is that the Kwantung Army did not dare to launch a new offensive against western Liaoning and North China, and the eastern command troops no longer stabbed the Kwantung Army in the back, which was already a blessing from Emperor Hirohito burning high incense, and the North China and Pingjin regions had at least a relatively balanced and stable situation for more than a year.

Tang Qiuli can free up his hands and arrange other aspects of work, as well as the ten tons of hard currency gold, and three thousand sets of oil extraction equipment and three thousand sets of jīng secret machine chuáng, so the ultimate beneficiary of this war is Tang Qiuli, although after the end of the war in the Far East, the supreme leader of the Soviet Union, Stalin, and the Japanese Emperor Hirohito both believed that Tang Qiuli, the devil of China and the Chinese scoundrel, was the driving force behind the Soviet-Japanese war, but it has become a fact, between the Soviet Union and the Japanese, There is no possibility of peace anymore, knock out your teeth and swallow it in your stomach, and consider yourself unlucky.

All of them are under control, for the current strategic pattern of the Northeast and the Far East, Tang Qiuli is absolutely satisfied, which is in his telegram to Liu Tiehan, the joy can be seen, "Brother Tiehan, I am glad to hear that the Japanese have taken out 5,000 kilograms of gold, and my brother's shot is really sharp, and the strategic pattern of entering the Northeast is certain, and the independent division has extensive financial resources, all of which are the merits of my brother, and I will call to commend him." ”

Liu Tiehan was not as excited as Tang Qiuli, and it was always his regret not to take advantage of the intractable battle between the Soviets and the Japanese to recover the entire northeast, and the knots in his heart were not so easy to unravel, so his call back to Tang Qiuli was much more insipid.

"Division Commander's Honor, the war in the Northeast, first, the division commander is in place, anticipating the enemy's opportunity, and second, I am referring to more than 300,000 soldiers in the east to fight the battlefield, as for the iron man himself, he has not made an inch, and he dare not take the words of commendation seriously," Tang Qiuli received a call back from Liu Tiehan, and after reading the message, he was slightly stunned, somewhat surprised.

Liu Tiehan's heart didn't seem to be very happy, as if he was angry, he wasn't like this before, this guy is that mén evil fire? I wanted to go to the Jinzhou front line and have a face-to-face conversation with Liu Tiehan to understand his actual thoughts, but time did not allow it, the German ambassador to China, Feng. Count Sterslang, another telegram has been sent.

The German head of state seemed to be a little unable to wait, so Tang Qiuli had no choice but to suppress this matter and prepare for the visit to Germany, he only took Mei Xue, the director of communications, Chen Feng, Shanhu, and 28 members of the special guards, and after the personnel accompanying him on the trip were determined, Tang Qiuli locked himself in the room and began to prepare some necessary materials.

Then, he sent telegrams to the commanders of each corps, informing them of their visit to Germany, and made corresponding arrangements, especially Liu Tiehan on the Jinzhou front in the northeast, Sun Zhenbang of the Waiméng Ancient Frontier Army, Tang Qiusheng, commander of the Sulu Mobile Corps stationed in Xuzhou, Tang Qiuquan, commander of the fleet at the Qingdao Naval Base, and Han Tie, commander of the Marine Corps.

During his visit to Germany, the Corps directly under the command of Chief of Staff Chang Feng was fully commanded, and the troops returned to the North Plains station, and Feng Jiwu's Niangziguan garrison Corps went south to Wuhan to station, as a strategic reserve in Central China, Tang Qiuli's main purpose in doing so was to guard against the Japanese movements along the southeast coast during his visit to Germany.

This is a matter within his purview, there is no need to report to the Chongqing National Civil Affairs and Military Committee, the Japanese do not dare to make a move in the north, the southeast coast and South China are very likely to be the next target chosen by the Japanese, for the Japanese who invaded into a crime, Tang Qiuli never dared to take it lightly, and must be precautionary.

In the blink of an eye, a few days of busy work passed, and the things that should be prepared and arranged were all in place, and the date of departure was finally finalized, but at this moment, a yīn wind blew on the land of the Republic of China, and the source of this yīn wind was the wartime capital, located in the mountain city of Chongqing, in the southwest.

There are many versions of the rumors, nothing more than one thing, known as the anti-Japanese hero, the mainstay of the anti-Japanese battlefield in the north, the current vice chairman of the National People's Political Affairs Committee, the director of the Nanjing camp, and the commander of the North China Independent Division, the army general Tang Qiuli, secretly reached a reconciliation with the Japanese, and after accepting a large amount of gold from the Japanese, he was ready to recognize the legalization of Japan's occupation of Northeast China, recognized Manchukuo as an independent country, and was preparing to withdraw the troops stationed in the western Liaoxi area to Guannai.

It should be said that such rumors are very naïve, too pediatric, Tang Qiuli led the army to fight a bloody war with the Japanese for six years, from the northeast to North China, and the Japanese have long formed a grudge against each other, the two sides have no possibility of reconciliation at all, and have successively recovered North China and the ancient region of Méng, how can they lose the basic principles of being a human being and national integrity because of some gold and property?

But the matter involves the second person in the current rapid rise of the Republic of China, the limelight and strength, and Tang Qiuli, who is stabilizing Chairman Jiang, is not so simple, giving people enough room for reverie, the rumors are not credible, and the rumors stop at the wise, so Tang Qiuli did not take it to heart after receiving the information about the rumors from the Chongqing Intelligence Station transferred from the Intelligence Department.

However, the development of the situation did not fend for itself because Tang Qiuli ignored it, but spread more and more, at first, it was just circulated, and later, some mainstream newspapers in China also published articles, although they did not question face-to-face, but also raised many questions, the whole thing, as if there was a mastermind behind the scenes, pushing bō to add fuel to the fire, making things as big as possible.

Immediately, some seemingly professionals wrote articles in newspapers to argue about the possibility of this matter, and the only basis was why Tang Qiuli did not recover the northeast region when he had the opportunity, ability, and strength, but instead withdrew his troops from the Liaodong Peninsula and Mukden, which had already been recovered.

These writers of the articles are very knowledgeable about military affairs, and they deduce the war that took place in the northeast between September and December as if it were a real scene, and the people can't help but be unconvinced.

Up to now, if you want to say that there is no Chongqing National Civil Affairs and those military dignitaries, Tang Qiuli himself does not believe it, the people who write the articles are obviously some people who lead troops to fight, and they should be from the old army, otherwise, they will definitely not have such rich military knowledge, and they will not be able to write such lethal articles.

The shape became more and more intense, the major mainstream newspapers in China, the tone gradually sharpened, the voices of questioning continued, unanimously demanded, Vice Chairman Tang gave the people an explanation, so as to relieve the people's hearts, Tang Qiuli was pushed to the forefront of the scene, finally, the situation escalated, some members of the Republic of China Political Supervision Committee stood up and asked Tang Qiu to leave the Chongqing Supervision Commission and give a reasonable explanation.

What is even more strange is that none of these members of the supervisory committee who came forward are members of the Kuomintang, but all of them are people of democratic parties with high moral integrity, and it seems that they pay more attention to this matter than those of the supervisory committee members of the ruling Kuomintang, and their attitude seems to be a bit of shouting and shouting and killing.

The political government and the military committee of the Republic of China were surprisingly silent on this matter, neither came out to refute the rumors, nor participated in the controversy, and those important officials of the state government and senior military generals, including Chairman Chiang, all lost their voices collectively and bizarrely, but General Zhang Zhizhong, who was guarding the Songhu area, sent a telegram to comfort Tang Qiuli without worry.

When things developed to the current Cheng dù, Tang Qiuli also understood that this was a conspiracy against him, and the source of this conspiracy should be the Japanese, so he had to postpone his visit to Germany again and devote all his efforts to solving this matter.