In addition to insisting on the claim to land east of Lake Baikal, Hu Weidong also pointed out that the war with the Soviet Union had consumed a lot of China's military expenses and caused 70,000 or 80,000 casualties, so the Soviet Union also needed to pay economic compensation, which would make the Soviet representatives and Stalin himself very angry. In order to force the Chinese to make concessions at the negotiating table, the Soviet high command decided to launch a medium-sized offensive to prove that it was not a soft persimmon

Knowing the strength of Sun Liren, the Soviet army did not dare to provoke on the Western Front, so it chose to launch an attack on the North China Field Army on the central line, but it was easily defeated by Ma Zhongying's 51st Army of less than 100,000 people, and counterattacked with the situation, like a hot knife cutting cream, invincible along the way, destroying nearly 200,000 enemy troops, and hitting the city of Novosibirsk within three days. After Ma Zhongying gathered his troops and slowly withdrew to China, because the Soviet army, which had increased to more than 400,000 troops one after another, no one dared to chase him, and Stalin was so angry that he removed all the generals above the military level of the Novosibirsk Military Region, and at the same time deeply regretted that he had let Ma Zhongying return to China

The West Siberian counterattack brought the Soviets back to the negotiating table, but the Soviet representatives explained their two difficulties, hoping to use the traditional culture of Chinese sympathy for the weak to induce the Chinese representatives to back down. The first difficulty raised by the Soviet representative was that if the more than 500,000 square kilometers (44+7) square kilometers southeast of Lake Balkhash were returned to China, more than eighty percent of the land of Kyrgyzstan, a Soviet republic, would be lost and would exist in name only, which would shake the foundation of the Soviet Union. And the second difficulty is. The eastern section of the Trans-Siberian Railway was largely built on the lost land of China, and if China took it back, the remaining central and northern parts of the Soviet Far East would be cut off from the rest of the country, and the Soviet government would be giving up a large amount of land, so that the Soviet Union would actually lose much more land than it had returned to China. And in the Far East there is Vladivostok, the most important and almost only port of the Soviet Union in the Pacific, well, the Soviets call it Vladivostok

Objectively speaking, the complaints of the Soviets cannot be said to be completely innocent moans, but what the Soviet representatives did not expect was. Hu Weidong not only did not relent because of their weakness. Instead, a solution to the stunner of the Soviets was for China to give up the land west of Xinjiang in order to keep the Kyrgyz Republic intact, but in exchange for the Chinese government demanding a large area of no-man's land north of the lost territories in the east. In this way, the second problem of the Soviet government also did not exist.

What's more, when Tsarist Russia invaded and occupied Chinese territory. The land north of the lost land was not settled at all. The so-called sovereignty of Tsarist Russia and even the Soviet Union over this land was actually based on the illegally occupied southern land, so strictly speaking, Central Siberia and Eastern Siberia should have been returned to China together. Now the Chinese government has agreed to cede 500,000 square kilometers of high-value land to the Soviet Union, which has been developed to a higher degree, and this condition is sufficient

As for the outlet to the sea in the Pacific Ocean, Hu Weidong believes that he has taken the wrong path since the time of Tsarist Russia, and Russia's naval strength is not good, and it has to be divided into three in pain. So now China simply wants to bring over all the land along the Pacific coast, so that the Soviets can completely cut off this unrealistic idea, which can help the Soviet Union unify its thinking, stop thinking about Asia in the future, and just keep attacking the land of Europe to the west, in other words, Russia's center of gravity has always been in Europe

After hearing Hu Weidong's self-proclaimed new plan of "killing two birds with one stone" and complaining about Russia's expansionist policy, the Soviet representative was almost stunned, but Hu Weidong innocently said that he was completely thinking about the Soviet Union. Hu Weidong pointed out in what he considered to be a fair and objective attitude that the Soviet Union was vast and sparsely populated, and even the European part had not been fully developed, and that under such circumstances, the size of the territory was too large and although it looked more proud, in fact it greatly increased the cost of administration and garrisoning, and that the vast cold of Siberia and the Soviet Union's population, which had further declined compared with the pre-war period, could not see the slightest hope of developing it even in a hundred years, and in fact it was a complete burden to the Soviet Union. And the land on the Western Front, although much smaller than Siberia, had the population, industry and agriculture that the Soviet Union needed more, and it was obvious which was more valuable.

In fact, even China, which is narrow and densely populated, will find it difficult to fully develop Siberia, which has extremely harsh natural conditions, in the past few decades, but if Siberia can be obtained, it will have special strategic significance for China.

Due to geographical constraints, China is far away from the easternmost elite of the United States, while the United States is closer to the eastern part of China's most elite, and this disadvantage is very fatal in a nuclear war, and even if nuclear missile technology advances, it cannot be completely eliminated, because the cost of increasing the range of ballistic missiles by two or three thousand kilometers is very high, and the high cost means that the number of nuclear missiles equipped is relatively small, and the longer flight distance also increases the possibility of being intercepted by the enemy.

As for nuclear submarines, because the waters in eastern China are generally very shallow, nuclear submarines are easy to be spotted when they go out, and although the South China Sea is deep enough, it needs to make a big detour, and there are still anti-China countries all around, and the first island chain is controlled by the United States, so in fact, it is not easy for China's ballistic missile nuclear submarines to reach the waters east of the United States if they want to reach the waters east of the United States with submarine-launched ballistic missiles.

However, if Siberia becomes Chinese territory, the situation will be very different; whether China's nuclear missiles take the Arctic Ocean route or hit the United States from the Kamchatka Peninsula, they can cover the entire territory of the United States in terms of range, and nuclear submarines can hit the United States even if they have just left the port, while the nuclear missiles on the US mainland will have to fly a much longer distance to be able to reach China's most elite areas, and the situation will be slightly better if the nuclear submarines and overseas bases are used, but they will not take advantage of any advantages.

In that way, China will be able to completely ignore the nuclear blackmail of the United States, and with regard to the Soviet Union, which will inevitably possess nuclear missiles in the future, China will also gain a certain geographical advantage after obtaining Siberia. Of course, unlike the United States, if China and the Soviet Union, both continental countries, were separated from each other by such a large piece of land unsuitable for human existence, it would be easy to achieve long-term peaceful coexistence afterwards, because the difficulty of supply would make a full-scale war between the two countries seriously outweigh the economic gains, and unless there is such an extremely rare opportunity as now, it is pointless to make a small fight. It is precisely because of this that Hu Weidong believes that the Soviet government has the possibility of accepting this plan (to be continued......