Episode 14 Fear from the North

On the morning of April 10, when Erdun Mutu announced the "founding of the state" and "coronation," Stalin sent a congratulatory telegram on the evening of the same day, and then within a week the two sides exchanged envoys and established diplomatic relations at the ambassadorial level. But so far, the Soviet Union is the only one in the world that recognizes the "Ili Empire". The Soviet Union is obviously Sima Zhao's heart, and everyone knows it. There is no country that does not know what calculations the Soviet Union had.

Xiang Xiaoqiang's first thought was: "Ili Empire", you Soviet Union recognized me, Ming Dynasty does not recognize, and your "Soviet Embassy in Ili Empire" is naturally not recognized by Ming Dynasty. At that time, he wanted to order the troops to storm the Soviet embassy and arrest people.

But when you calm down and think about it, it's hard to say that this is not what the Soviet Union wants. If the Soviet Union wants to annex the northern frontier, then this excuse is too appropriate. Even if this lawsuit goes to the League of Nations, the Ming Dynasty may not be able to win: what if only the Soviet Union admits it? The Soviet embassy is not an embassy? There are always some countries in the world that are not recognized by others, so is it not true that foreign embassies on the land of the former are not protected?

If you really want to quibble, it's really true.

He pondered for a while, and then had the Soviet embassy surrounded, and arranged for local guides to be around it, carefully identifying everyone who came out of the embassy, and preventing Erdun Mutu from being sent out in makeup. Roadblocks were erected to prevent the embassy's vehicles from leaving to prevent Erdun Mutu from hiding in the cars, and the Soviet side refused to search them on the grounds that "diplomatic vehicles are also part of the territory of the USSR."

Immediately afterwards, Xiang Xiaoqiang contacted the fourteen grids of the Dihua base and asked her to send a secret telegram to the mainland to report the battle situation and report the matter.

What to do next, that's a matter for the politicians in the cabinet. As soon as this matter reached the cabinet, Xiang Xiaoqiang believed that it was unlikely that they would let the troops rush to the embassy to arrest people. For the most part, they have resorted to diplomacy.

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This time, Xiang Xiaoqiang hopes that the cabinet will not be so "hawkish" and that it is better to be restrained. At the same time, he felt a deep sense of insecurity. Don't be afraid of 10,000, just in case.

The location where he is now is relatively safe, 140 kilometers from the borders of the USSR. But the fourteenth grid is less than 100 kilometers away from the southern frontier where the Soviet army is heavily hoarded. At the speed of the Soviet mechanized corps, it was two or three hours by car. In case the Soviets also play a night blitzkrieg, she may not even have time to run.

Xiang Xiaoqiang immediately ordered the tank troops, which were still driving under the guise of driving on the road, to return the same way and deploy in the Tianshan Pass between Dihua and Turpan to guard the only passage between southern and northern Xinjiang within a few hundred kilometers. This is also equivalent to protecting the fourteen grids.

At the same time, he set up a temporary headquarters in Altay City, drove his prisoners to start building an airfield a few kilometers south of the city, and at the same time dispatched bulldozer tanks and other engineering vehicles from Dihua to speed up the construction of the airport.

The airfield has three functions: 1. To detect whether the Soviet troops on that side of the border have begun to assemble. 2. Once the Soviet army attacked, provide air cover for the Ming army. 3. At a critical time, it is convenient for Gao Dayi to withdraw, so as not to fall into the hands of the Soviets.

Xiang Xiaoqiang arranged for Gao Dayi to lead this half of the troops to stay in Altay, and then returned to the Dihua base with the other half of the troops, rendezvous with the fourteen grids, and began to arrange the next things.

Late that night, Xiang Xiaoqiang returned to the Dihua base, and then the first thing he did was to send a telegram to the command, requesting more troops.

He opened his mouth and immediately demanded that three bomber aviation regiments and three fighter aviation regiments be sent first. That adds up to hundreds of planes. The ground troops have been mobilized for a long time, and the first transfer of several hundred planes can at least form a relatively strong combat effectiveness, and can also form a certain deterrent to the Soviet Union, so that they know that the Ming army has been prepared.

Then, Xiang Xiaoqiang discussed with Zhang Zhaoxian that he wanted to transfer all his people's guards, five armored divisions and five mechanized divisions, and more than 100,000 troops into Xinjiang. He believes that the more this is the case, the more he can keep the peace of northern Xinjiang without fighting.

However, it was already late at night. I don't know if the "relevant departments" in China are asleep, or they haven't worked out a unified opinion, and Xiang Xiaoqiang is waiting left and right, but he can't wait for a return call with content. Several telegrams were sent urging Xiuxiu, and Xiuxiu's calls back were "forwarded", "delivered", "please be patient", and so on.

Xiang Xiaoqiang was anxious, and he could understand Xiuxiu's helplessness. I am not in Nanjing, and I can't participate in many things. And Xiuxiu is a lieutenant, and she is soft-spoken, and she can't get involved in these national-level decisions at all. And those people who have a stomachache and Li Gensheng are probably asleep now, and Xiang Xiaoqiang also feels inconvenient to immediately drag people out of the bed. To be honest, the person he can command without scruples in the middle of the night is Xiuxiu alone.

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During this day, the cabinet's energy was focused on studying how to deal with the "Soviet embassy incident", and no one paid attention to Xiang Xiaoqiang's sudden increase in troops in the middle of the night.

However, this night was finally tossed by Xiang Xiaoqiang. Although nothing came of it.

On the morning of the 14th, Xiang Xiaoqiang fell asleep. When he got up at noon, Fourteen Gege handed him a telegram, which was a reply from Nanjing in the morning.

The telegram was sent by Zhang Zhaoxian. The old man was not at all in favor of a large-scale increase in troops in northern Xinjiang, and his opinion was that this would provoke the Soviet Union, intensify the tense atmosphere between the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, and form a military confrontation. However, at present, the army in northern Xinjiang is a little smaller, and there is only one division, which is not enough to suppress bandits, so two or three additional divisions can be sent as appropriate. But it is not advisable to send armored divisions. First, the armored division belongs to the People's Guard, the most elite armed force of the Ming army, and the political meaning is too great. As soon as the People's Guard Force is used, if it is only to suppress bandits, no one believes it. Second, the mobilization of the armored division was difficult and too slow, which can be seen from the difficult journey of the 1st armored division into Xinjiang.

In the end, Zhang Zhaoxian knocked him twice, saying of course, you are directly commanded by the People's Guard, and if you insist on mobilizing, the old man will not be able to stop it. However, because the matter of "increasing troops in Northern Xinjiang" can completely affect the diplomatic level, the old man still doesn't want to see you too willful and make irreparable decisions.

After reading it, Xiang Xiaoqiang handed the telegram to Fourteen Gege, leaned back in the chair and sighed, but did not speak.

After reading the telegram, Fourteen Gege pondered for a while and said with a smile:

"Xiaoqiang, what Zhang Zhaoxian said has a certain truth. The current situation is not to the extent of 100,000 urgency. Your huge demand for additional troops, not to mention that Nanjing does not understand, even I do not understand. Xiaoqiang, why do you always recognize that Da Ming will be attacked by someone? Earlier, you recognized that Japan would attack the Ming Dynasty, and you were so nervous that I couldn't say anything. And then? Japan doesn't have one. Now you have the USSR again. Think about it. Didn't the Soviet Union take Erdun Mutu into the embassy for protection, just to use him as a pawn for a while? If the Soviet Union was going to attack the northern frontier immediately, why did it bother to protect Erdunmutu? You say that the Soviet Union covets northern Xinjiang, and I have no objection to this. But...... In any case, the Soviet Union was, after all, a country that flaunted 'truth and justice', and it was unlikely that it would have rolled up its sleeves so much and directly grabbed it. Think about it, after the founding of the Soviet Union, which country did it invade? ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang looked at Fourteen Gege and smiled dumbly.