Chapter 682: The Japanese want peace talks
Chen Feng knew very well that it was unwise to send a large force to deal with the Japanese spies, and that the effort was completely disproportionate to the gain, and besides, now that the front line was fighting, the field troops of each regiment were extremely precious, and the purpose of the Japanese in doing this was not to let him divide his troops, how could Chen Feng make the Japanese satisfied.
The best way to deal with spies is to use internal security forces like the National Security Bureau, and Chen Feng also wants to test the combat effectiveness of the national security, knowing that the current national security is composed of the original Military Command Bureau and the intelligence department under Chen Feng combined with the special department in Yan'an, which includes China's top intelligence talents, and the strength is very strong.
Let's take the soldiers as an example, although it is only a department in charge of intelligence, there are more than 100,000 people in the original military command alone, and there are more than 100,000 people in the intelligence department of Chen Feng's department, plus the special branch in Yan'an, there are more than 250,000 peripheral and core members of the three departments.
After integration, the current national security is divided into 4 groups, each group is divided into 4 departments, although the national security does not have a regular formed force, but there are a large number of hoeing teams, take the action 1 group as an example, the scope of its responsibility is the hoeing, assassination, ambush and other tasks south of the Yangtze River, there is a brigade in each province, each brigade has 40 squadrons, each squadron has 10 squads, each squad has 5 5-person action groups, and the action group members throughout the Jiangnan region exceed 20,000 people.
These people may not be able to fight with the Japanese devils face to face with bayonets, but if they are behind enemy lines or on a dark battlefield, the combat effectiveness of these people is amazing, so this time they faced the provocation of Japanese spies. Chen Feng decided to send national security to respond.
Facts have proved that Chen Feng's method is very correct, and after Dai Li and others came out of the Central Military Commission building, they quickly formulated a counterattack plan, immediately arrested the Japanese spies who had already been mastered, and then gradually dug deep through those people to destroy each one.
Soon, the Japanese spy agencies in Chongqing and Chengdu were destroyed, and a large number of Japanese puppet spies were killed and captured. At the same time, the NSA launched a nationwide anti-espionage campaign.
By mid-September, the Northeast Battlefield had once again made significant progress. Under the command of Wei Lihuang. The Chinese and Soviet armies achieved a great victory in Dunhua, completely annihilating four divisions of the Japanese army, and clearing the obstacles in the hinterland of the northeast in one fell swoop. At the same time, the army captured Xinjing, the capital of the puppet state of Manchukuo. The puppet Manchu emperor and a large number of puppet high-ranking officials fled to Tonghua with the assistance of the Japanese army.
Xinjing was lost. The Japanese puppet army suffered heavy losses. In addition to the four field divisions that were annihilated, the Japanese army also lost more than 20,000 people in Xinjing, and more than a dozen puppet army divisions saw the defeat of the Japanese army. At a critical time, the battlefield revolted and turned against him, causing a lot of losses to the Japanese army.
After receiving a telegram from General Umezu Mijiro, the base camp was completely silent, and on the front of the Chinese battlefield, which stretched for several thousand kilometers from north to south, China and Japan had invested a total of 4.8 million troops in a decisive battle, and in the north, the Chinese and Soviet armies had an absolute advantage and were in an offensive position. And in Central China, the Japanese army had the upper hand on the surface.
However, the Japanese army now knows that the overall situation in Northeast China and North China has been decided, and the remaining Beiping and Mukden are no longer enough to support the Japanese Imperial Army to continue fighting, and the Central China region has been unable to make breakthrough progress for a long time, and the consequences of any further delay in this way are unimaginable.
The Japanese side believed that as long as the Empire of Japan withdrew its troops from the Chinese battlefield, the Chinese Government should be willing to negotiate with the Empire of Japan, so Emperor Hirohito personally ordered the foreign minister to communicate with the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The Japanese wanted to negotiate, and when Mao Zhou and the two men showed Chen Feng the telegram forwarded by the foreign minister, Chen Feng was thoughtful, but Chen Feng thought that China and Japan actually had nothing to talk about, and they had already fought to this point, either one side would fall, or everyone would die together, and there would be no possibility of a truce halfway.
At the same time, Chen Feng also said his own reasons, the reason why the Japanese want to negotiate at this time, and even do not hesitate to withdraw troops as a condition, is because the Japanese are already at the end of their strong crossbow, and their war resources no longer allow Japan to continue this war, and now drinking soup is to give Japan a chance to breathe, and when Japan recovers its strength, a new round of aggression and expansion will come again.
Unlike China, Japan has been an agricultural country for thousands of years, and until now it has not completed the most basic industrialization, and its industrial base is weak. After more than 100 years of development during the Meiji Restoration, Japan has developed into an industrial power with a strong industrial base, as long as the Japanese are given ten years, Japan will be able to restore its strength at that time, and it will be the Chinese who will be injured.
We have dragged the Japanese to this point completely with the blood and lives of tens of millions of people, and it is not easy to come by, so we must definitely fight snakes and kill them, and we will never leave any trouble.
Moreover, the conditions put forward by the Japanese are too taken for granted, and they want to restore the situation to what it was 37 years ago. After five years of fighting, I returned to the same place, I can fight if you want to fight, I don't want to fight, how can there be such a good thing in the world, peace talks, no way.
There are many people in China, and if you fight for another ten years, it will still be China, and Japan will be different, let alone ten years, I am afraid that if you fight for another three years, you will be dragged down.
Chen Feng's attitude was very clear: China would not stop attacking unless the Japanese side surrendered unconditionally.
Knowing that the Japanese side is stepping up negotiations with the Chinese Government and that the two sides have the intention of holding peace talks, the governments of the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain, and other countries are all panicked, and the role played by the Chinese Government in the Asian theater after its reorganization is obvious to all, and it can be said that China alone has supported the Asian theater, and if peace talks are held all day long at this time, then it will not be a good thing for the United States, Britain, and other countries.
To this end, Roosevelt and Churchill urgently consulted, believing that it was necessary to convene a meeting between the heads of the allied powers to increase communication and at the same time discuss the next phase of the war.
Both Churchill and Stalin thought Roosevelt's proposal was necessary, but they feared that Chen Feng would not attend the meeting. On the one hand, Chen Feng is very mysterious, he has only been to Moscow once over the years, and the rest of the invitations from Roosevelt or other heads of state have been rejected by him, and now that China is engaged in a strategic decisive battle with Japan, Chen Feng may not be willing to attend the meeting at this time.
On the other hand, Chen Feng has taken the initiative to hand over all the power of the government a few months ago, and only retains his leadership over the army, which means that Chen Feng cannot represent the Chinese government now, and there are many problems with planting.
But Roosevelt believes that these are not problems for China, as a person who has a deep understanding of China's politics, economy and culture, Roosevelt also has an understanding of Chinese behavior and habits, in China, many regulations are just put on the table, people will not be dead because of some rules and regulations, they are quite flexible.
Although Chen Feng has now handed over the position of chairman of the government to Mao, Mao is not recognized by everyone, and is now just an acting chairman, and Chen Feng's identity as the head of government is still recognized by the people. Moreover, Chen Feng is now in charge of all the armed forces of the country, and Chen Feng is the most powerful man in China, and no one can represent China better than him, and the only worry now is whether Chen Feng is willing to participate in the meeting.
On September 20, Roosevelt telegraphed the Chinese government and invited Chen Feng to attend the Cairo Conference, which was originally planned to be held in early October.
Chen Feng really wanted to go to Roosevelt's invitation, after all, many of the agreements at the Cairo Conference were still very beneficial to China, and if he did not participate, it would be a great loss for China.
But Chen Feng also knew that the current China could not do without him, and he could not represent the Chinese government, so Chen Feng recommended Mao to attend the Cairo Conference.
However, the government unanimously agreed that it would be better for Chen Feng to attend the meeting on behalf of China, because Chen Feng is now not only chairman of the Chinese Military Commission, but also the supreme commander of the Chinese theater in the Asian theater and the supreme commander of the Northeast Asian theater.
After careful consideration, Chen Feng decided to go to Cairo to attend the meeting.
However, although Chen Feng was going to Cairo, the fighting on the front line could not be stopped, and Chen Feng sent a telegram to each of the several theaters on the front line before leaving, asking them to let go of their hands and feet, and to maintain the momentum of the offensive and completely destroy the stubborn resistance of the Japanese puppet army.
On October 6, 1942, Chen Feng's special plane took off from Chongqing, and then transferred to Mumbai, India, for Cairo.
Cairo airport is heavily guarded today, because British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, and Chinese god of war Chen Feng will arrive in Cairo at the same time in the morning.
Comparatively speaking, the Soviet Union was the closest to Cairo, so Stalin was also the first to arrive. Hearing that Roosevelt's plane was about to land, Stalin did not rush out of the airport, but waited for Roosevelt at the airport with his fellow officials.
Less than ten minutes after Stalin's plane landed, Roosevelt's Air Force One plane also landed at Cairo Airport, followed by Churchill's plane at the airport.
After Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill met, there was a greeting for a while, and after learning that Chen Feng's landline was about to enter Cairo, Roosevelt and others decided to wait for this little brother at the airport.
In fact, it's just that everyone rushes to the scene together, some arrive first, and those who arrive first have to wait for the last to go together, it's such a simple thing, but in the eyes of others, it's different. Especially when Chen Feng's plane landed, Chen Feng's entourage was shocked and sincerely proud to see that US President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin were all picked up at the airport.
And the reporters accompanying him even thought of the headline on tomorrow's front page -- "The chairman of the NPC committee will attend the meeting in Cairo and the heads of state will be picked up at the airport." (To be continued......)