Episode 15 Divide up

By the time it was the 16th, Xiang Xiaoqiang finally looked forward to the plane he was looking forward to. But not six aviation regiments, but only two fighter groups, a total of eighty Kingfisher fighters. The reason why the high command sent these two groups may be just that they are afraid that the 90 bombers in the northern Xinjiang will not be escorted, so they sent 80 fighters just in case.

Xiang Xiaoqiang also learned that the two army motorized infantry divisions stationed in Shanxi have now also set off for Lanzhou by train. Since they are mainly wheeled vehicles, it should take 3-4 days to get from Lanzhou to Dihua.

Combined, these two things finally gave him a little comfort. In this way, the three divisions together can also have 50,000 people. Together with 170 combat aircraft, hundreds of tanks, armored vehicles and self-propelled guns, it is also a considerable deterrent. The Soviet army on the opposite side did not gather several times the heavy troops, and they would not dare to act rashly. Xiang Xiaoqiang finally breathed a sigh of relief, and he was also interested in opening a bonfire banquet, visiting Tianshan Tianchi with fourteen grids, and enjoying the fruits of victory.

On the morning of the 17th, Xiuxiu sent a secret telegram, which had nothing to do with the affairs of Northern Xinjiang, but a matter on the other side of the world - Guangwu had news.

The destroyer Imu followed the Dominican cargo ship around the Pacific Ocean for more than a month, and finally reached Panama in April. The Dominican cargo ship is a civilian ship, and it will enter the Panama Canal at once, but the Inoki is a warship, and when it passes by, it is much more troublesome, and it requires a lot of diplomatic procedures, and it drags on for several days. After completing the formalities and entering the Panama Canal and exiting the Caribbean Sea, the cargo ship will no longer be found. The Inomu wandered around the high seas of the Caribbean Sea in a very low-key manner for several days, never found the cargo ship again, and had no choice but to return home.

Although the Ming Dynasty knew at that time that the cargo ship must have gone to the Dominican Republic to dock, it was useless to know, and the Jingmu Qian would definitely not be able to enter other people's territorial waters to see. Then the only way to do this would be to send spies from home to Dominica to find out the news.

It wasn't until early May that the East Factory spies arrived in Dominica and lurked to gather information. More than ten days later, yesterday, it was determined that Guangwu was in Dominica, in the country's ruler Trujillo? Under the protection of Molina.

Now, it is time to activate "American relations" and force Dominica to repatriate Guangwu.

Xiuxiu's telegram said that His Majesty had held a special imperial meeting to discuss this matter. Now it is generally believed that the affairs of northern Xinjiang are over, and the affairs of the United States and Dominica are more important. The majority of the cabinet and the high command were in favor of letting Xiang Xiaoqiang end his mission in northern Xinjiang and return to Nanjing in the near future to participate in the task of negotiating with the US Ford consortium. Because of Xiang Xiaoqiang's special status - the daughter of Ford's major shareholder, the fiancé's sister's husband. This kind of personal relationship can play a big role in this matter.

Of course, Xiang Xiaoqiang knows that there is another very important reason: Zhu Yourong wants Xiang Xiaoqiang. She had long been looking forward to such an opportunity to let Xiang Xiaoqiang return to her.

Not only Zhu Yourong, but also Zheng Yuxuan also wanted to kill himself. In order to return to Nanjing as soon as possible, this little girl must have worked hard. There are also Qiu Yu and Xiuxiu, who wish they would go home sooner. It's been a whole month since I left Nanjing.

The only one who didn't want to leave was Fourteen. The newlywed Yan'er, she has only enjoyed her husband for a month, and she is about to return to Nanjing to share with the two little girls. For this reason, the arrogant Fourteen Gege was very annoyed. She almost wanted to make some small moves here and ruin her plan to return to Xiaoqiang. She was annoyed when she thought about it - it was reasonable, she had to give Xiang Xiaoqiang to them as soon as she went back. The two little girls had been in the empty room for a month, and now they were like hungry wolves. Then I'm afraid that in the next ten days and half a month, I can only see Xiang Xiaoqiang during the day.

Although Xiang Xiaoqiang is very uneasy about the situation in northern Xinjiang, he is still satisfied that he can return to Nanjing as soon as possible and withdraw from the bear clutches of the polar bear as soon as possible. Therefore, after receiving this telegram, he did not chirp any more, and cooperated with various departments in Nanjing to negotiate with various departments in Nanjing by telegram to determine the date of return and the delivery of northern Xinjiang affairs. Finally, the date for the return to the East was set,

In the next few days, Xiang Xiaoqiang was arranging his affairs after he left. He left Gao Dayi in northern Xinjiang and continued to command the First Armored Division. At the same time, the siege of the "Soviet Embassy" continued, both to put pressure on it and not to push the other side into a hurry. After all, he was just Erdun Mutu, not Guangwu, just a bandit leader who did the wrong thing at the wrong time.

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In the few days when Xiang Xiaoqiang was preparing to return to the east, in Tokyo, more than 4,000 kilometers away in the east, an imperial meeting that decided Japan's national fortunes had lasted for several days.

As usual, Emperor Hirohito sat in the center, and the ministers of civil and military affairs sat upright on both sides.

However, in addition to Emperor Hirohito, Prime Minister Hayashi Mijuro, Foreign Minister Naotake Sato, Minister of War Sugiyama Moto, Minister of the Navy Mitsumasa Yoneuchi, and Chief of Staff Prince Kaihito Miyayajihito played a decisive role.

Although the Imperial Council lasted for a long time, there were not many differences, and to this day, it is surprisingly unanimous. Not only are there unanimity within the cabinet, but even the views of the cabinet and the armed forces are basically the same. This is extremely rare in the history of high-level decision-making in Japan. To a large extent, this is determined by the characteristics of this cabinet. This cabinet is a military cabinet, and Prime Minister Hayashi Juro is himself an army general, and he is also an extremely fanatical militarist, who has always cherished the "dream of the mainland" and likes to take risks.

Another important reason for the unanimity at the top level is that Japan is now faced with a multiple-choice question, which is all too clear in the eyes of these military and political officials.

Ten days ago, a Soviet cargo ship sailed into Tokyo Bay, and a secret Soviet mission arrived in Tokyo. The leader of the group was Stalin's confidant and diplomatic veteran - Molotov. He brought with him a suggestion from Stalin: taking advantage of the fact that the Ming State had just finished a major war, the north was not stable, and the war potential could not be formed, the Soviet Union and Japan jointly attacked the Ming State and tried to create a buffer zone in the north of the Ming State. The ideal way is for the Northern Qing to be restored and become a puppet of the two countries.

Molotov even drew a map of future spheres of influence: the western part of the north, Gansu, the western part of Inner and Outer Mongolia, and the northern and southern parts of Xinjiang belonged to the Soviet Union's sphere of influence; The eastern provinces of Northeast China and North China belonged to Japan's sphere of influence.

What calculations Stalin had, of course the Japanese knew. Coupled with the recent series of actions by the Soviets in southern and northern Xinjiang, the Japanese understood that Stalin probably wanted to make a move in the northwest of the Ming Dynasty. At this time, I wanted to pull Japan together, attack from both sides, and let the Ming Kingdom, which had just taken the north and had not yet taken a breath, fall into a two-front battle.

Molotov put it very bluntly: the Soviet Union did not allow the capitalist Ming State to lie directly on the southern side of the Soviet Union, ensuring that in the long run, the East would have no worries. Japan, on the other hand, needs a wide continental territory to remove the barriers to becoming Asia's leader. The purpose of both of us was not to annex the Ming Kingdom, but only to try our best to restore the north to the state before the unification war, and at the same time, our two families were tantamount to dividing up the Northern Qing Dynasty, and both of them got the greatest benefits. But this benefit must be done by both companies to be successful. It will be difficult for any one to deal with the Ming Kingdom alone to achieve the desired goal.

The Japanese were also shrewd, knowing that Stalin was superficially generous, and that he only needed a few provinces in northwest China, and assigned North China, the most fertile, most populous, and most economically developed region in northern China, to Japan, but in fact it was a bit of a feeling that Japan was on fire for the Soviet Union. The eastern provinces are very good, that is the core interests of the Ming State, and it is the Ming army that will desperately protect it. Although the northwestern provinces are barren, as long as Japan is making trouble in the east, the Ming army will not abandon the east and look to the west, and will definitely leave the main force in the east to fight the Japanese army, and let the Soviet Union easily pick peaches in the west.

But while the Soviets had such plans, the Japanese had their own plans. In the words of Hayashi Mijuro, Japan must seize this rare opportunity, do its best to expand its own interests, and do its best to weaken the Ming Kingdom. However, it is absolutely not possible to be the main force. The main force must be left to the USSR. Moreover, it is necessary to wait until the Soviet Union and the Ming Kingdom are fighting to a fever pitch and all the elites of the Ming Kingdom are transferred to the northwest before Japan can make a move in the east. Japan is the weakest of the three countries, and with this "weakness," Japan has every reason to let the Soviet Union act first.