Lao Jiang shamelessly stretched out his hand to his godfather again, so did the Americans give it or not? A part was given, but it did not fully meet the needs of Lao Chiang, for example, the 500 fighters really only cashed out a small part, and they were still given the P-39 and P-40 that the Americans did not use. Why so conservative? Because Lao Jiang's impression of Roosevelt was really bad, if it weren't for the fact that the army was really dispatched in the western Yunnan battle this time, then Roosevelt really didn't want to give anything.

In addition to the fighters, the US imperialists also gave the scrapers some guns, ammunition, tanks and artillery. However, like the fighter, it is not the most advanced model given. For example, the guns and ammunition are mainly given to the captured 98K and the Bren light machine gun produced in Canada, and most of the tanks are M3 light tanks, in addition to a copy of the M3 Grant medium tank eliminated by the US military, M4 is also given a small part, but it is mainly the earliest model, anyway, these can only be regarded as foreign in the United States. As for the artillery, most of them are the eliminated American version of Miss 75 and M2105 grenades, and the artillery above 155 mm is basically not given.

What's more, Roosevelt gave the arms to be true, but he asked Lao Chiang to make a promise, that is, this batch of arms aided by the United States must not be used in the civil war, but can only be used to fight devils. It can be seen how distrustful Roosevelt was of Lao Chiang. Of course, Lao Chiang really can't be trusted, because he didn't take his promise to Roosevelt seriously at all, and his mind was full of deceiving the arms first.

However, Roosevelt and Stilwell also guarded against Chiang, and these arms were only handed over to the expeditionary force in India for the time being, and not to China itself. Lao Jiang, if you want these arms, then hurry up and open up the Sino-Indian communication line, and the communication line is opened, and these equipment are yours!

Obviously, this is a fishing tactic, probably because Roosevelt felt that Chairman Chiang would never do his best to fight devils, so in order to make it more powerful, he had to put on more bait!

Don't say it, Lao Jiang still bites the hook, much more active than the reluctantly carried out the campaign of western Yunnan in history, and in the face of Songshan, which was firmly defended by the devils, he ordered He Shaozhou's Eighth Army to go out and fight. Under Lao Jiang's investment at any cost, the attacks on Songshan were like waves of wind and waves, and it was really quite tragic.

Huang Zhizhong, a second lieutenant and military doctor of the new 39th Division of the Lameng Field Hospital, recalled: "Five large-scale attacks on the Japanese positions were launched in a row, and the casualties were heavy...... Probably killed more than 850 Japanese soldiers and captured 9 people, while our troops suffered more than 6,000 casualties...... There were too many corpses, and the weather was too hot, so I had to dig three large pits and bury them hastily, and these three large pits could hold 1,000, 800 and 500 people respectively, all of which were filled to the brim ......"

Hong Shaokun, who was over eighty years old, arrived at the Songshan battlefield after the war, when he was a training instructor, and many years later recalled the tragic situation and cruelty of Songshan still sighing: "As soon as the battle was over, we arrived at Songshan, and before the car arrived in Lameng, the stench came to our noses, and it became more and more intense, blocking people's chests uncomfortably, as if it could freeze the air." We became nervous all of a sudden, and what we saw in Matsuyama, the first was a corpse, the second was a corpse, and the third was a corpse, and the scene was so miserable that we were crying all the way ......."

"Matsuyama is made up of many hills, quite large, and all the Japanese positions have trees that have been blown off or uprooted by shells...... Every section of tunnel, every bunker, was captured after a struggle. In addition to the smell of corpses, there was also a strong smell of gunsmoke...... We walked all the way along the offensive route of the troops, and there were corpses and bombed heads everywhere that still maintained various postures when they were dying, and other hands, feet, and thighs were also everywhere, which was truly shocking! ”

"We live in tents and every day we hear the sound of bulldozers burying bodies. They used bulldozers to push the bodies into dug holes and then bulldoze them to bury them. Sometimes there would be moans or wriggling in the pile of corpses, and people would stop, find them, or pull them out to continue their work. There is no counting, identification of bodies and registration of badges, and in some cases even the burial of the deceased's belongings. ”

"I couldn't stand it anymore and ran over with my nose covered and told them they couldn't do it. But they didn't pay any attention to me, and the officer on the side pulled me away, saying that some of them had been dead for more than a month, and that if there was a plague, it would be even more terrible......"

The scraping army really doesn't mean that human life is worthless. Probably it's a big deal for the scraping army to continue to pull Zhuangding, and after the Battle of Songshan was fought, it was really a river of blood. In the end, the only person who could be happy was Lao Chiang, and the arms he wanted were finally available.

However, this is not the point, the point is that while the battle of western Yunnan was going on, Lao Jiang also ordered Tang to run a counteroffensive and go to Henan to regain the lost territory. In Lao Jiang's view, since the main force of Okamura Ningji's North China Front had been attracted by the Eighth Route Army, it was a simple matter to regain the lost territory.

Of course, Lao Jiang was thinking more than just recovering the lost territory, he thought that no matter who won and who lost in the end on the Handan side (Lao Jiang thought that it was more likely that the devil would win), he would be able to pick up the cheap in Henan next. If he can recover the whole territory of Henan, he will be much closer to Hebei and Jiangsu in the future, and once the devil is defeated, his men and horses can receive the fruits of victory faster.

Lao Jiang also considered the worst possibility, in case the devil came back to find trouble with him after defeating the T Gong, anyway, he continued to let Tang Ran run wear the guilt and make meritorious contributions, with Tang Ranran's action, the devil probably couldn't catch up.

It's just that the only possibility that Lao Jiang hasn't considered is that T Gong won the devil, which is probably a fantasy in Lao Jiang's opinion. It was only in August 1944 that this fantasy became more and more a reality.

On August 5, Okamura Ninji launched the last wave of onslaught, and several of his divisions rushed in a row, but they couldn't help the 115th Division. Under the strict defense of the commanders and fighters of the 115th Division, the devils were exhausted to the last bit of sharpness. At this time, the 129th Division has completed its rest and is quietly moving south, and it is not only the 129th Division that has action, the 120th Division led by He Shuai also successfully took Shijiazhuang, annihilated more than 20,000 devil soldiers, and after cleaning up the battlefield, it also immediately moved south, preparing to reinforce the 115th Division and the 129th Division.

Not only did the Eighth Route Army open up the situation, but in Shandong, the New Fourth Army also fought vigorously under the leadership of Chen Shuai and General Su, and finally found a fighter plane through continuous movement, and decisively attacked and annihilated the two wings of the devil in one go.

Two wings seem unremarkable? However, this really can't be underestimated, because the equipment of the New Fourth Army is slightly worse than that of the Eighth Route Army, and the strength is also less, and it is really not easy to pull out teeth and eat two wings with more than 20,000 devils!

And through this battle, General Su has really made a name for himself, and the previous General Su is honestly not very dazzling among the generals of the T Communist Party, and there is no way to compare with Lin Shuai and General Chen, who are high-quality Huangpu materials. And in this battle, General Su initially played his own style, what style do you ask? One word can be described - dangerous!

It may be that in the propaganda of later generations, General Su gave people the feeling of a victorious general, and it seemed that there was no enemy who could not be equal, but in fact this was not the case. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the New Fourth Army was much weaker than the Eighth Route Army, and the environment it faced was more complicated.

During the Liberation War, all the elites of the T Communist Party were sent to the northeast by Taizu, and they could only take a strategic defensive position in the pass, and General Su's troops were active in the enemy's most powerful area for a long time, and they were always facing encirclement and suppression.

This special environment has created General Su's special combat concept and style, that is, to take risks. Lin Shuai may have seven or eight points of certainty to fight a battle, and General Su will dare to make a move if he is three or four points sure, because if he doesn't do it, he may miss the fighter. After all, the enemy is strong and I am weak, and if you don't seize every opportunity, you won't be able to survive at all. can be considered from another angle, if Lin Shuai is in the situation of General Su, I am afraid that he will have to die of worry, so he has always said that General Su is fighting a fairy battle.

Of course, it's not entirely good to like to take risks, and it's like gambling, either a big win or a big defeat. In the War of Liberation, General Su could not stay in Shandong for a time and could only go to eastern Henan to operate, one reason was that the enemy was indeed very strong, and the other reason was that the choice of his fighters was a bit rough.

Of course, this time General Su succeeded, and narrowly seized the gap of the Japanese army to get in, and pulled out his teeth and ate the two wings of the devil, but in retrospect after the war, it was still very scary.

The story of General Su is here for the time being, and I will continue to talk about scraping the army. On the one hand, Lao Jiang ordered Tang to run to regain the lost territory, and on the other hand, he also continued to negotiate with the T Communists. This brings us to the previously mentioned British, who like to be a-stirring stick.

The British, on the one hand, helped Lao Chiang stall for time in the negotiations, throwing out an offer today and another tomorrow, in short, constantly creating problems. Of course, this only delayed time, and for the British it did not solve the fundamental problem.

In Liervin's view, the only way to solve the fundamental problem is to draw wages from the bottom of the kettle. How do you get paid at the bottom of the kettle? Learwin suggested that if Chiang could stand on the side of the British, it would be able to block the Americans and Russians from using the pretext of respecting the sovereignty of China. Didn't you say that you respected the sovereignty of Huaxia? Now that the governments representing China have recognized Britain's vested interests, you and the United States and Russia can't slap yourself, right?

Therefore, under the order of Churchill, Britain changed its previous indifference to the Kuomintang, and really asked for warmth! He also gave loans and military aid, and deliberately praised Lao Chiang in international public opinion, saying that he deserved to be the anti-Japanese leader of China and a great leader. Anyway, the high hat doesn't need money, that's a strong greeting.

For a while, Lao Jiang didn't want to say that he was fluttering, but he was in a pretty good mood, and he was not so concerned about the Chongqing negotiations. The reason is also very simple, since what Britain and the United States should give him are cashing out, then why bother with T and a bunch of mud legs. Seriously, when the War of Resistance is won, it is the best policy to suppress bandits with the authority of the central government and leaders!

Therefore, in the negotiations, the Kuomintang changed its previous "concessions" and began to become aggressive, opening and closing its mouth to ask the T Communist Party to accept the leadership of the Central Committee and obey the arrangements of the Central Committee, and as for the rest, it did not promise anything.

"The British are dying again," Li Xiaofeng said calmly after receiving Yakov's report: "It seems that these idiots must be beaten!" ”

Although the Soviet Union and the United States basically "agreed" on the China issue, the relationship between the Americans and the British was still quite close, and Roosevelt could not completely abandon Churchill and follow a unilateral policy. So in the face of the small actions of the British, Li Xiaofeng chose to let the Americans solve it, this is a broken matter between your cousins, you can discuss it yourself.

However, the interesting thing is that the Americans chose to pretend to be deaf and dumb, ignoring the British to make things go about the wind and rain, so that things happened in a big way. At this time, if Li Xiaofeng does not express his position again, he will really be treated as a good bully by the Americans and the British. The conscience of heaven and earth, Li Xiaofeng is not a master who is easy to bully.

"Say hello to the Americans," Li Xiaofeng coldly instructed, "if they don't do the same, then give the British a little color!" ”

Yakov immediately took the order, and soon Roosevelt received a message from a certain immortal, and it was clear that someone meant, if you Yankees continue to be silent, then don't blame me for beating the British.

In this regard, Roosevelt still expressed his silence, he just did not express his position. Why? There are two reasons, the first is that it is indeed inconvenient for him to knock the British, after all, the current cooperative relationship between the two countries is unusually close, and they have similar interests in Western Europe, and in the long run after the war, it is not suitable to make too much trouble with the British.

Of course, this reason is not the main one. The main reason is the second reason, Roosevelt wanted to see where the bottom line of the Soviet Union's strength was, and whether it would be able to eat Britain to the death without the help of the United States. If so, then there is no problem with the previous division of interests, otherwise it needs to be adjusted. To put it bluntly, Roosevelt used the British as a touchstone, ready to check the quality of the Soviet Union.

So how did Li Xiaofeng deal with it? To tell the truth, he really didn't have any good way to knock the British, and after some thought, he chose Iran as his target. Since 1941, Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union have entered Iran, and the country has been in the midst of a competition for political power among major powers.

As the last king of the Pahlavi dynasty (and this dynasty also had only two generations) Muhammad. Reza. Pahlavi's rule is really not solid. Because it was not natural for this king to come to power, but his father Reza. Khan was targeted by Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union at the same time because of his rivalry with the Nazis, forcing the old king to step down and expelling him from Iran.

When Pahlavi first came to power, he was not much stronger than a puppet, and under the pressure of Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union, this was just a disguise. Don't look at Iran after the victory in World War II, it seems to be awesome, expelling Soviet troops from Iran's borders and counterattacking Azerbaijan, but in fact, everyone knows that it is not how awesome Pahlavi is, but that Britain and the United States stand behind him, and without their support he would be an egg.

In fact, we can also see in the later history that this Pahlavi is really not a political strongman, after Mossadegh became the prime minister of Iran in 1951, Pahlavi was actually a humanoid stamp, and he was simply placed under house arrest. It was not until Mossadegh became increasingly dissatisfied with Britain and the United States that the CIA staged a coup d'état to overthrow Mossadegh that the king was released.

However, there is no essential difference for Pahlavi, who has just gone from a puppet of Mossadegh to a puppet of the Americans. Under his rule, Iran's social problems became more and more complex, the polarization between the rich and the poor became more and more intense, and then by the end of the seventies, Khomeini roared and the king collapsed and had to go into exile.

It can be said that the end of the Pahlavi dynasty was actually doomed from the beginning of the creation of this dynasty. Khan took the path of a coup d'état to power, and it is reasonable that II died and was overthrown by a coup d'état.

Of course, this is not to discuss the legitimacy of the Pahlavi dynasty, but the question of the USSR creating problems for Britain in Iran. In Reza. Before Khan came to power, Iran was 100% of the British sphere of influence, and in fact, like China, it was reduced to a semi-feudal and semi-colonial miserable situation. That is, the outbreak of World War II and the decline of the strength of the British Empire gave the United States and the Soviet Union the opportunity to intervene.

However, the British are also a little too greedy, and most of Iran's oil revenues go into the pockets of the British Empire, which is an extremely fatal problem. If the British bite this point and do not let go, then this problem will break out sooner or later, even Mossadegh, which was very close to the British before, finally turned against the British when it came to this issue. It can be seen that although Britain has a lot of power in Iran, it is not stable and seems to be shaky!

Li Xiaofeng was the best at making a fuss about such crumbling and dilapidated houses, and soon, following his instructions, the KGB began to contact Mossadegh, who had just been re-elected as a member of parliament.

"Is it useful to touch Mossadegh?" Yakov disagreed.

Indeed, this guy Mossadegh still held a pro-British and American position at this time, and it seemed unrealistic to expect him to cause trouble for the British. But Li Xiaofeng said: "Mossadegh still has some ability to cause trouble. Tell him that the Soviet government is willing to withdraw troops from Iran and support Iran's efforts to reclaim its oil interests. ”

Yakov still didn't believe it worked, but Li Xiaofeng didn't plan to explain more. Mossadegh was a small pawn that was useless, and he could not have completely fallen to the Soviet Union, but it was still simple to make trouble for the British through him. As long as his "ambition" was fueled and he had the courage to bargain with the British, it would be enough to give the British a pot to drink. What's more, the USSR had more than one pawn available in Iran...... (To be continued.) )