Let's put it this way, Li Xiaofeng's purpose of going to China is nothing more than two, the first is to solve the traitor Wang Jingwei, and the second is to push Britain and France directly to the opposite side of Japan. In the past, whether it was Britain or France, although they did not want to see Japan dominate in East Asia, the means they chose were still relatively restrained, basically staying at the level of mouth artillery, and there was almost no actual suppression of Japan.

And this also caused Japan's ambitions to be difficult to contain, after all, China was poor and white, and its national strength was not on the same plane as Japan at all.

In this most difficult stage, the only one who gave aid to the government of the Republic of China was the Soviet Union, but this little aid was still too little. And soon with the entry of Germany into the war, the main energy of the Soviet Union will be on the German side, and it is really difficult to be distracted from taking care of China.

Therefore, Li Xiaofeng believes that in the face of the common threat of all mankind, the richest and strongest can't watch the white drama and let the poorest and hardest rush to the front to block the gun, right? The attitude of Britain and France is obvious, that is, to let others block the sword, and then wait for Germany and Italy to be almost trapped, and then personally go on the field to symbolically punch twice, and finally put the fruits of victory into their own pockets.

For example, on the issue of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in China, the wishful thinking of Britain and France was that the Soviet Union would pay for the guns and the Nationalist Government would send people, not to mention completely trapping the devils, but also pit the devils enough. When the devils are almost pitted, they will make a glorious appearance again, solve the devils by dividing them by two, and by the way, pull the national government back to their chariot with a little profit. In the end, Britain and France were the biggest winners, while the Soviet Union was the biggest loser of the bitter press.

Anyway, Li Xiaofeng would not be such a wronged leader. Counting on the USSR to pay out of pocket to serve the national interests of Britain and France. There is no such thing as a good thing. You British and French people watch white plays, right? Then Lao Tzu is going to force you to play.

In the end, Li Xiaofeng's goal was basically achieved, and the British had to grit their teeth and take down Wang Jingwei, but Yakov still had questions: "What if the British don't play?" ”

Yakov's question is very good, if Li Ervin just doesn't make a move, what will Li Xiaofeng do? Could it be that he just watched Wang Jingwei run away?

"He can't run away." Li Xiaofeng sneered, "The plane is loaded with bombs, and if Li Erwen doesn't make a move after takeoff, Wang Jingwei will still be inevitably killed by then." ”

Yakov was stunned. He really didn't expect someone to be so ruthless, and it was clear that he would not give Wang Jingwei a way to live, but he still had doubts: "It's easy to blow up the plane, but won't the plan to lure Britain and France to take the bait fail?" ”

"How could it be frustrated?" Li Xiaofeng smiled and said: "Soon, the American press will get the news that MI6 secretly assassinated a high-ranking Kuomintang official who defected, and I have a hundred ways to make the British have to bear the blame." ”

For Li Xiaofeng, as long as Li Erwen has his eyes on him and follows him to Huaxia and Vietnam, it will inevitably take the blame. It's just that the way of carrying the pot is different. Now, to be honest, this way of backing the pot is a little better for the British Empire.

Why? Because Wang Jingwei is not dead, it is a great favor to give this goods to Lao Jiang. And this veteran of favors has to admit it even if he doesn't recognize it.

There may be comrades who want to ask, how could Lao Jiang not admit it? Could it be that he hoped that Wang Jingwei would go to the Japanese? Hehe, maybe Lao Jiang really hopes that Wang Jingwei's escape will be successful, for the following reasons:

As I said before, since the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War a year ago, the overall war situation has been quite unfavorable to the Nationalist Government, not to mention the loss of a large area of land, and the descendants of Lao Chiang have also suffered a certain amount of losses. In this case, Lao Jiang really didn't want to fight, but it was difficult to ride a tiger. At this time, a surrender faction is needed to throw stones and ask for directions, to see if there is no other way to end the war.

In fact, the eyes of many important members of the Kuomintang were fixed on Wang Ching-wei, and they all wanted to see if Wang Ching-wei could explore a way. In this case, many guys at both ends of the snake and mouse are looking forward to Wang Jingwei's successful defection. Probably in their opinion, this is called leaving a back road, in case the anti-Japanese resistance does not go well, it is better to use Wang Jingwei's way to take refuge in the Japanese.

Lao Chiang never thought of defecting to the Japanese, Lao Chiang was waiting for the overall international situation to change in his favor. Wang Jingwei's defection to the Japanese may be able to ease the passivity on the frontal battlefield and maintain a situation of no war and no peace.

This is one of them, and the other is that Lao Jiang and Wang Jingwei have always been at odds with each other, which is well known. As long as Wang Jingwei betrayed the country and defected to the enemy, Lao Chiang would be able to eradicate all the pro-Wang Jingwei forces in one fell swoop, which was quite beneficial to strengthening his personal authority.

At that time, Lao Jiang was able to nail Wang Jingwei to the pillar of shame in history and never turn over, but now this situation makes Lao Jiang a little worried: although Wang Jingwei has openly committed treason and defected to the enemy, there are not many evil deeds of defecting to the enemy, and he only issued a declaration of flattery to Japan. This is too light compared with Wang Someone's slave faction who was a traitor for several years and constantly knelt down and licked Japan.

For Lao Jiang, this is not enough to completely nail Wang Jingwei, and this product may turn over in the future. Naturally, Lao Jiang blamed the British for being troublesome, how good it would be for you to let that thing kneel and lick the Japanese stinky chrysanthemum, let his ugliness be known to the world, let the people of the whole country shout and beat in unison, and let him become a rat crossing the street and never be able to turn over. And what is this state of not being up or down now?

So this favor is really a little unacceptable to Lao Jiang, it can be said that the favor is made into a sandwich rice, which is really not delicious! If possible, Lao Jiang really wants to throw this so-called favor back.

The question is, the British are godfathers, how dare godfather Lao Jiang offend? Don't say that this is a human favor, even if he poops, he has to pinch his nose and admit it.

Anyway, Li Xiaofeng is damaged enough, and if he walks in person, he will be disgusted to the British and Lao Jiang. By the way, there are also the Japanese, and it was easy for the devil to win over a Wang Jingwei, and he was preparing to buy horse bones for thousands of dollars, using Wang Jingwei's signboard to fool more people into becoming traitors. But now it's a good thing, Wang Jingwei was arrested just two days after becoming a traitor. And it was the British who took it, what does that mean?

This means that a large number of people in Huaxia who want to be traitors but can't make up their minds have to weigh more. The Japanese are terrible, but the British are even more difficult to mess with. Now that Britain has made it clear that it supports the anti-Japanese resistance, it is still stupid to be a traitor. Isn't that death?

Wang Jingwei's arrest. In an instant, most of the previous hustle and bustle of surrender disappeared. Even if he wants to be a traitor, he has to temporarily restrain himself at this time, at least he doesn't dare to shout openly to be a leading party. This greatly improved the anti-Japanese atmosphere in China, and dissipated most of the bad effects of the previous series of failures. And this is what Li Xiaofeng wants to see the most.

Unfortunately, someone could not see it with his own eyes, and at the same time as Wang Jingwei was arrested, he had already left Chongqing to inspect Komsomolsk and Vladivostok. Someone focuses on two main points. The first is the process of industrialization in the Far East, and the second is the issue of armament warfare in the Far East on the Red Banner front.

First of all, with the development of the tide of development in the Far East, a large number of young workers, technicians and soldiers have been drawn to the Far East, and in just five years, this once barren land has greatly changed its appearance.

The Komsomolsk Aircraft Factory and the Amur Shipyard are getting bigger and bigger day by day, and their technological level is also rising, from the very beginning of the old aircraft and small ships that can only produce gold and wood structures to the production of active equipment of the Soviet Red Army in addition to the B17, and even the Amur Shipyard is starting to build four Type 36 destroyers and one Type 36 light cruiser.

Speaking of Type 36 destroyers, it is impossible not to mention the previously unsuccessful Type 33 destroyer. The Red Navy found from previous use that the Type 33 destroyer had an excessively large length-to-width ratio. The seaworthiness is not very good, and because of the extensive application of welding technology, there are certain problems with the structure of the hull. For example, the Excellence, which was first put into service, was reinforced with structural strength after returning to the factory.

After absorbing the experience of the Type 33 destroyer and also digesting the advanced technology of the United States, the Type 36 destroyer was born. The lead ship, the Dreadnought, was started at the Leningrad Shipyard, with a length of 130 meters, a width of 12 meters, a draft of 4.5 meters, a standard displacement of 2,300 tons, a maximum speed of 35 knots, and a cruising range of 4,000 nautical miles at 18 knots. It is armed with four twin 130 mm guns, four four 37 mm anti-aircraft guns, two AK630s and two five 533 mm torpedo tubes.

From the technical parameters of the Dreadnought, it can be seen that there is still a big difference with the Excellence, the length has been reduced by 20 meters, the length-to-width ratio has been reduced from 12.5 to 10.83, and the freeboard height of the Dreadnought class has been increased to 6 meters, which is a full meter higher than that of the Excellence class, which not only increases the volume of the cabin, but also greatly improves the seaworthiness.

Of course, the maximum speed of the Dreadnought class has been reduced to 35 knots, which is still a gap with the Excellence class. Because in actual use, it was found that when the Excellence class was raised to a speed of about 37 knots, the vibration was quite large, and it was difficult to steer. And with the redefinition of the destroyer's function, the previous one-sided emphasis on speed and firepower has been corrected.

The Dreadnought class paid more attention to seaworthiness and habitability, and after entering service, according to the crew, it was more comfortable than all previous destroyers, including the Excellence class. Moreover, in addition to being slightly weaker, the Dreadnought class has completely inherited the powerful firepower of the Excellence, and with the service of fire control equipment, the combat performance of the Dreadnought class has been greatly improved.

In particular, it should be noted that when the Dreadnought class achieves this qiē, the tonnage is still smaller than that of the Excellence class. This is very valuable. In short, after the technical state of the Dreadnought class was frozen, it was soon fully started in the major shipyards of the Soviet Union, and the first batch of orders was as high as six, and from the start of construction in 1937 until the outbreak of war in 1941, the order for eight ships was maintained every year for four years. At the time of the outbreak of the war, 22 Dreadnought-class destroyers were already in active service.

What is even more commendable is that even if the war broke out and military resources were tilted towards the army and air force, the Dreadnought-class also maintained the level of two ships to start construction every year, and by 1950, a total of 60 Dreadnought-class ships had been built, becoming the backbone of the Red Navy.

Of course, Li Xiaofeng didn't go specifically to see the Dreadnought-class destroyers, and the destroyers couldn't work for the Politburo. Li Xiaofeng's most important task was to inspect the Red Banner Front in the Far East.

Since Blyukhel went to China as a military adviser, the Red Front of the Far East was handed over to Stalin's henchman Tyulenev. Speaking of this Apanashchenko, you may not be familiar with it, but this is not a nobody. As one of only five generals in the Soviet Union before World War II (Meretskov, Zhukov, Tyulenev, Paplov), this is really not an ordinary figure.

A brief introduction to Apanashchenko, who is also a fellow Stalinist. It's Stavropol (North Caucasus). During the Civil War. This served in the 1st Cavalry Corps. One could even say that. The old foundation of the First Cavalry Army is this single-handedly pulled out (guerrilla First Cavalry Division), once Apanashchenko and Budyonny were of the same level, but after the formation of the First Cavalry Army, the army commander was Budyonny, and even Apanashchenko was once demoted to brigade commander, until 1920, when he succeeded Timoshenko as division commander.

Why wasn't Apanashchenko's official fortune too smooth for a while? The reason is very simple, this one's temper is really bad. Moreover, there is a guerrilla habit and paternalism in its troops.

All in all, this is a simple and rough person, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a big boss. Those who worked with him had memories of his unbridled scolding, often in an insulting tone and using swear words. He is very prone to anger, and when he does, the wrong person should not think of forgiveness.

However, the big old coarse also has the advantage of being big and coarse, and Stalin liked such straight tubes. In the Great Purge, Apanashchenko was unscathed and promoted to the rank of knight. For example, when he was the commander of the Far Eastern Military District, he was accused.

At that time, the first secretary of the party committee of the Khabarovsk Territory, Borkov, reported to Stalin: "The situation of leadership in the Far Eastern Front urgently needs to be eased. In Apanashchenko and Alexei . Sergeyevich. Relations with Zhertov (a member of the Military Council of the Front, who after the war served as the head of the General Political Department of the Soviet Army) were very tense. The commander refused to be a colleague with Zheltov. ”

According to Borkov, Apanashchenko is self-righteous and self-conscious, beyond a party spirit. He finds fault with people who are not in his circle, and likes and reuses those who flatter and slap horses in front of him. He has no leadership, never thinks deeply, is short-sighted, always handles problems with his temperament, and acts hastily according to the pattern of "I instruct" or "I order" and "I demand". He treats his subordinates simply and rudely without restraint, and his favorite mantra is "I arrest you" and "I judge you......

According to Borkov, since Apanashchenko became commander of the Front, he considered himself the only "master" of the Far East, arrogant, unscrupulous, and lawless in public, and when it came to specific affairs, he was the only one for me.

In short, it is absolutely impossible to entrust such an important region of the Far East and the responsibility of defending the borders of the Soviet Far East to such a reckless man. However, Stalin laughed at Borkov's advances and still trusted Apanashchenko.

But that was Stalin's helpless move in wartime, and now, Li Xiaofeng has a certain opinion about this Apanashchenko. As director of the General Political Department, he had already received more than one call from the leading cadres of the Red Front Army in the Far East to remove Apanashchenko, and they really could not bear this dictatorial and arbitrary leader.

However, it is not easy to remove Apanashchenko, who is Stalin's confidant and has recently been quite angry because of Khrushchev's "accidental death". At this time, taking Apanashchenko, if it is not done well, will anger Stalin and detonate the contradiction between Stalin and Sverdlov.

Obviously, it was inappropriate to do this, so Li Xiaofeng decided to go to the Far East in person to understand the situation on the spot, and if he could do the work, then try to do the work. It really doesn't work, so I'll find another way.

It stands to reason that the director of the General Political Department personally inspected the work, and no one below dared to be careless, but when Li Xiaofeng arrived at the headquarters of the Red Banner Front in the Far East, Apanashchenko was not there, and this comrade commander went down to the grassroots level two days ago to "inspect" the work.

Why are inspections in quotation marks? Because Apanashchenko didn't really inspect any work, in fact, after arriving in the Far East, he didn't inspect much work, usually in Vladivostok as a commander, most of the time in the office listening to the flattery and sycophancy, or just enjoying life to the fullest - going out on horseback and hunting.

Yes, the underdeveloped Far East is a paradise for an old cavalryman like Apanashchenko, who can enjoy the pleasures of hunting left and right, often for a week as soon as he goes out.

For example, this so-called grassroots inspection work is to go out hunting. Because Voroshilov sued him: "You kid has been sued, that nasty ghost of the General Political Department has attracted attention, don't have a head-on conflict with others......"

Apanashchenko felt that if there was no head-on conflict, that is, let him avoid Li Xiaofeng a little, so as soon as he heard that Li Xiaofeng had arrived, he hurriedly took the guards and flashed. In the eyes of this big boss, this is already very face-saving for a certain immortal.

Knowing that Apanashchenko went out to "inspect", Li Xiaofeng was also a little annoyed, because this trip was a wake-up call, but in fact, it was a gesture, that is, to warn Apanashchenko not to go too far, and it was almost over. It stands to reason that as long as the goods make a gesture, even if it is perfunctory, it will pass. But what does this strange guy mean when he knew he was coming, but he avoided it?

In Li Xiaofeng's view, this is not to give him face, but to ignore him. So he was going to just warn Apanashchenko a little bit, and he was going to move a little bit and teach this stupid guy a good lesson...... (To be continued......)

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