The fact that the Shijiazhuang battle went so smoothly really surprised the world, especially Jiang someone. Because there is a reference, in June 1944, the Scraping Army also carried out the Songshan Campaign, in this battle that lasted for more than three months, the Scraping Army invested nearly ten regiments of about 24,000 people to besiege the Japanese 113th Wing and the 3rd Brigade of the 56th Field Artillery Wing with the air support of the US Army, totaling about 1,300 people. Ten large-scale attacks were launched before and after, and nearly 8,000 casualties and missing were lost before victory.

However, T used nearly 100,000 troops to besiege more than 25,000 Japanese troops and the same number of puppet troops in Shijiazhuang, and the strength advantage was only two to one. And the casualties of T in these three days are really not large, probably one casualty is required for every devil killed. It's really a pretty good fight.

Why is there such a big difference in the same attack? There are both subjective and objective reasons, and objectively speaking, the topography of Matsuyama is indeed difficult to gnaw. But more importantly, the reason in charge, when the subjective side of the army was too self-righteous to fight Songshan, thinking that there was something great about the more than 1,000 devils, and blindly investing troops in the initial stage and blindly rushing and fighting. There was general optimism and luck among the officers, and they did not expect that the devil's resistance would be so fierce and tenacious. kicked on the iron plate, and naturally it was painful.

The T Communist Party was different, concentrating heavy troops from the beginning, recognizing the harshness of the battle from the beginning, and would rather bombard mosquitoes with artillery and kill chickens with cattle knives than add fuel step by step like scraping the army.

Not only in terms of troops, but the T Communist Party has adopted the principle of attaching great importance to it. And from the very beginning, we have set a policy of steady progress. And what about the scraping army? Every time during the day, he rushed and attacked the positions heaped with human lives, and at night he was careless and was easily lost by the Japanese army in a night attack. And that's not once or twice. Anyway, the officers of the scraping army have never had the idea of eating a trench and growing wise. Falling into the pit once and not attracting attention, twice, three, four, five times still falling into the pit, so you don't know whether to scold them for being stupid? Or scold them for not taking the lives of soldiers seriously.

The fighting style of the officers who scraped the army without thinking, summing up, and blindly and brutally worked throughout the Songshan Campaign. Knowing that the enemy's fortifications are strong and their own ability to attack fortifications is limited, they still don't take the initiative to think of a way, they have always been fighting and rushing to pile up with human lives, but they don't want to think about whether there is a better way to avoid casualties.

And look at the T Communists, in the War of Liberation, the T Communists also faced the problem of attacking fortifications, and the T Communists had less artillery fire and air support than the scraping army. How did the T Gong figure it out? Tunnel tactics are still useful. It wasn't until after a month or two of fighting that the scraping army remembered to use the trench operation, and finally it was the tunnel operation that blasted the enemy's fortress to achieve victory, how could it take so long to think of such a simple and practical tactic?

In fact, in the final analysis, it is not that the scraping army does not know the tunnel operation, but that an officer does not take the lives of ordinary soldiers seriously, thinking that the pile can also make a great victory. The second is that the top brass of the scraping army has issued orders again and again to be fast, and constantly put heavy pressure on the deadline. Under heavy pressure, the officers of the scraping army naturally blindly sought pleasure regardless of sacrifice.

Of course, we also know the final result, but it didn't get up quickly in the end. It took more than three months to get rid of this enemy. It's really in response to the old saying that if you want to hurry, you can't reach it.

On the other hand, the T side is not, and the mentality is very good. It can almost be said that he came with a learning mentality, summed up the lessons and lessons in the battle, did not work blindly and brutally, wittily dealt with the devil, and with the cooperation of the big brother, the result was naturally completely different.

Therefore, it is still necessary to be careful in fighting a war, and intentions and carelessness are completely two outcomes. This is not the intention of the T Communist Party to arouse the ulterior motives of some people, who is it? What kind of ulterior motives does a Yan Laoxi and a Jiang someone have? Two words - turf!

As mentioned earlier, the performance of the scraping army in 1944 was really clumsy, and the comprehensive defeat of Yu Xianggui was simply a loss of face. The victory that was finally won was the Songshan Battle mentioned earlier, and this Songshan Battle objectively said that the scraping army was not very good, not to mention that there was only one reason why Jiang was able to allow the Songshan Battle to continue--it was a last resort.

Why did Jiang hit Songshan? Or is it to open up land lines of communication so that American aid can come in, after all, it's not like that by air.

Of course, some things still have to be explained, it is this kind of counteroffensive action that seems to be beneficial to Jiang and Jiang, and Jiang did not agree to it at the beginning! This is really not to slander Jiang someone, but history is like this. On April 17, 1944, the United States forced the United States to sign an agreement called "Sino-US Nujiang Battle Agreement", so what is the main content of this forced agreement? That is, the United States asked Chiang to fulfill his promise to counterattack western Yunnan as promised before.

To explain Chiang's promise, we have to start with July 19, 1942, when Stilwell formulated a counter-attack on Burma, codenamed "Annajim", in order to open up the Sino-Indian line of communication and turn China into an advance base for counterattacking Japan. This ambitious plan included two large-scale strategic ideas: the first was to form the X-Army (Chinese Army in India) in India with the aim of recovering northern Burma; Second, the Y Army (Chinese Expeditionary Force) was formed in Yunnan for the purpose of recovering western Yunnan.

According to Stilwell's concept, the X and Y armies would go head-to-head and cross the Sino-Indian highway to fully recover Burma. With Stilwell's efforts, the X Army and the Y Army were successively organized and trained and began to prepare for a counteroffensive. According to Stilwell and Roosevelt's concept, the Y Army at home should cross the Nu River as soon as possible, launch a counteroffensive against the Japanese troops west of the Nu River, and open the Yunnan-Burma Highway as soon as possible.

But it is very interesting that until 1944, Chiang did not fulfill this promise. There are many reasons, the fundamental reason is that Jiang still wants to preserve his strength, he doesn't want to fight this kind of tough battle, and the hard bones are still left to you Americans to gnaw, Lao Tzu will be **** in the future!

Of course, there are secondary reasons, such as the British Empire, which is praised by many comrades, and Qiu Fatzi is dragging his feet. According to the plan originally agreed between Britain and the United States and China, when the X Army and the Y Army were head-on. The British also had to land from Rangoon to prepare for the expeditionary force. But the British side has always reacted coldly. There are no military obligations to Myanmar at all. Moreover, obstacles were created everywhere to restrict the expeditionary force. Anyway, Qiu Fatzi made it clear that he didn't want to contribute in Myanmar, but the interests of Myanmar in the future would have to belong to him. Of course, Lao Chiang was very annoyed by this, and naturally he was full of distrust of the British (the first time the expeditionary force entered Burma to fight, it was not bad in the hands of the British).

And the second secondary reason is that the material aid promised by the United States (10,000 tons of airlift and 500 fighter jets per month) has not yet arrived, and Lao Jiang has not received enough rice, how can he be willing to do it.

However, Jiang's delay angered one person, and the volcano of Stilwell had erupted. He couldn't command Lao Chiang, but he could do Roosevelt's work. So on April 4, 1944, Chiang received Roosevelt's ultimatum:

“…… While fierce fighting was raging in western Burma and on the Arakan coast, the Salween (Nu) front remained calm, with the result that the Japanese were able to switch to part of the 56th Division to deal with Stilwell's assault on the Mong Kung Valley...... Long-range assault forces are threatened in northern Myanmar. I can't imagine that Your Excellency's American-equipped Y Force would not be able to advance against the already empty Japanese 56th Division. In my opinion, the time is ripe for your 71st Army to march immediately to occupy the Tengchong and Longling areas without further delay. The confronting of your Excellency on the Salween was only an ill-equipped division. Your Excellency's march to the west will be successful...... In order to take advantage of such an opportunity, over the past year, we have equipped and trained Your Excellency's Y Force. Without using them for a common cause, we would not have been able to airlift equipment and provide the most diligent and extensive efforts of our instructors. I hope that you will act immediately. ”

In the face of this "ultimatum", Jiang finally couldn't sit still. The subtext is clear! If Chiang Lao does not send an expeditionary force again, the United States will stop sending supplies to China. Stilwell, on the other hand, hinted that the United States could provide assistance to the T Communist Party that was willing to counterattack. Even the Yunnan local armament for Long Yun is possible.

And by April 10, Roosevelt's threat had turned into a substantive move. On this day, Stilwell's chief of staff, Thomas Brown. On the instructions of Marshall, Chief of Staff of the US Army, Major General Hearn told the Military Affairs Department of the Military Commission of the People's Government: "It is proposed to transfer to the 14th Air Force of the US Army the airlift allocation of 734 tons of supplies allocated to the Chinese Expeditionary Force for four months." In addition, plans have been drawn up to "cancel the contract of the aircraft loaned to Chinese airlines and take back the aircraft that have been delivered so far".

In desperation, Chiang instructed He Yingqin, chief of staff of the Central Military Commission, to sign the "Nujiang Offensive Order" on 14 April, and ordered Wei Lihuang, commander of the expeditionary force, to prepare for a counteroffensive.

Therefore, we can see an interesting picture later, the scraping army in 1944 was "forced" by the enemy Japanese and the allied Americans to engage in two-front operations, namely the eastern front of Yuxianggui and the western front of western Yunnan. The battlefield on the Eastern Front, as always, was "depleting" the Japanese army in the process of transferring, while on the Western Front, under the supervision of American advisers, the scraping army could only bite the bullet.

After the war, we can still see the summary and criticism of the Kuomintang -- the gains outweigh the losses. The victory on the Western Front was far less than the loss on the Eastern Front, and it was all the work of the Americans, especially Stilwell and his supporter Marshall!

Anyway, it seems that the scraping army still feels quite innocent, but is this statement true? If the Western Front does not fight, the Eastern Front will be able to win? Can you win the battle just by running that bear? Of course, it doesn't matter if these are any of these, anyway, what the army is best at is making excuses for themselves, even if they are not excuses, they can be used, anyway, it is others who are wrong, and they will always be glorious and upright.

Of course, Lao Jiang is incompetent externally, but he is really angry internally. When he learned that the T Communist Party had opened up the situation in North China and almost recovered the entire North China, that little bit of careful thinking came out again. Soon he instructed the Scraping Army in the southwest of Shanxi to go to Hebei to receive the fruits of victory. According to Lao Chiang's theory, he is the orthodox government of the country, and the recovery of North China should belong to him. As for his failure to contribute to the recovery of North China, Jiang believes that this is not a problem at all.

To tell the truth, Lao Jiang is this kind of opportunistic little abacus too much, which finally led to his inability to succeed, he just wants to pick up cheap and is unwilling to contribute, how can there be such a good thing in this world? What's more, opportunism also depends on the opponent, T is afraid of you?

And at this time, the status of the T Republic in history was still very unusual, and Big Brother was completely on their side, facing Jiang someone's monkey picking peaches. The Soviet side immediately gave a stern warning. Then he also ridiculed Lao Jiang: "The scraping armies in Henan and Hubei have been defeated for thousands of miles." I didn't think of recovering the lost land, why didn't there be Japanese troops in Hebei, but the army was actively trying to recover? I see you as a false light and a true separation. ”

Of course, Jiang was skinless and faceless, and he did not take the Soviet Union's warning seriously at all, believing that the Soviet Union did not dare to do anything to him because of the American godfather. He even wrote a letter to Roosevelt, asking his godfather to help him quickly beat the Soviet Union. A warning to Lao Maozi.

So what is the attitude of the Americans? In fact, Roosevelt was also bored, and of course he hoped that the Chinese battlefield would exert more pressure on the Japanese army, and it would be better to turn him upside down. Otherwise, he would not have given Jiang someone an ultimatum before. But now this matter is completely unexpected by him, before he invested heavily in Jiang and helped build Unit X and Unit Y, Unit X is better, but Unit Y in China is really not very powerful. Look at the Soviet side, which abandoned the Kuomintang early on, and instead supported the T Communist Party, you can see how well the T Communist Party is fighting now.

Roosevelt wanted to spray Jiang someone's face. Can you be a little more cheating? Can you give it a try? And now this non-powerful thing actually asked him to put pressure on the powerful T-Gong, and lay down in a big groove. Do you want to nod your face!

To tell the truth, Roosevelt really didn't want to help Jiang speak, he really hoped that the T Gong would get better and better. But what made Roosevelt depressed was that emotionally he could support the T Communist Party, but politically, he couldn't. After all, he had already invested so much money in Jiang someone before, and now he has thrown all the previous investment into the water?

What's more, abandoning Jiang to speak for the T Communist Party is not something that can be explained in American politics. When he saved the Great Depression, he was attacked by many vicious Republicans and big capitalists as the Communist Party. Now that he really supports the Communist Party, he will really be sprayed to death. Moreover, the Communist Party already has the strong support of the Soviet Union, and I am afraid that it will not be possible to change its court.

To sum up, even if Roosevelt really didn't like Chiang, he had to stand up against his will to help him say two good words, and he immediately ordered the secretary of state to send a note to the Soviet ambassador to the United States, expressing a certain degree of dissatisfaction and concern.

"Which Chinese government did the Soviet government recognize? Is the decision of the Cairo meeting still respected? Whether or not it is prepared to intervene in China's internal affairs, if the Soviet government intervenes in China's affairs without restraint, the US Government will absolutely not sit idly by. The US Government hopes that the Soviet Government will handle Chinese affairs more rationally and not create contradictions within the allies! ”

What was Livinov's answer to this? He replied: "The Chinese government, which the Soviet government has always recognized, is the anti-Japanese united front formed by the Kuomintang and the T Communist Party, and the Soviet government will support whoever can fight the fascist forces." If the Kuomintang does not show the determination and courage to resist Japan and fails to meet the most basic demands of the Chinese people in opposing aggression and seeking national independence, then there is no need for this government to exist. The Soviet Government resolutely defended the basic all-out efforts of the Chinese people. If certain forces think that they can pretend to be powerful, that they can ignore the basic rights of the Chinese people, and that they will actively prepare for a civil war in order to preserve their strength in a passive war of resistance, then the Soviet government will resolutely say no to this. And such so-called allies don't want to! ”

The attitude of the Soviet Union was unexpectedly tough, and at the same time as Litvinov's reply, the Soviet Union also recalled its ambassador to Chongqing and warned Chiang here: "If you do not fight the Japanese, but wantonly provoke a civil war, the Soviet government will never stand by and watch!" ”

Roosevelt was taken aback by this unprecedentedly tough response, and he realized that the Soviet Union's determination to support the T was so strong that even his hint that it would affect relations between the United States and the Soviet Union.

So why was the USSR so tough? Not only did the T Communist Party perform very well, which made ****** feel that the Chinese Revolution had done a lot. More importantly, in July 1944, the Soviet Union conducted its third nuclear test. This nuclear test is completely different from the previous two, which were at best called nuclear devices, and they were so large that they had no real combat value. This time, it was a completely actual nuclear test, in which a four-ton atomic bomb was dropped by a Tu-3 bomber, indicating that the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons had entered a practical state.

And what is even more exciting for ****** is that with the increase in investment, the Soviet Union's uranium enrichment industry is beginning to enter the fast lane, and the first plutonium bomb is also in the final assembly, and the slowest will be tested in November.

All this meant that the Soviet Union initially possessed a nuclear strike capability, so Trotsky and other Grand Elders were naturally full of confidence, completely indifferent to the slightest verbal threat from imperialism, and were ready to resolutely defend the interests of the international domestic class. And on the issue of China, the Soviet Union ****** think that he has not done anything wrong, Jiang someone squatting in the pit and not doing anything, and still wants the monkey to go down the mountain to pick peaches? This bastard must be taught a lesson and taught him that if he doesn't work, he won't be paid!

The Soviet Union's strong reaction caused a crisis within the Allies, and the Americans were somewhat caught off guard, while the sinister British fanned the flames in the shadows, and the anti-fascist alliance, which had just converged, was in danger of shattering. (To be continued.) )

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