Chapter 40: Fight with Japan First
This is just an impulse in Yang Xiaolin's heart that is not willing to be lonely, and he has done a very happy thing, and it is really a bit unpleasant to have no applause, but this impulse must be pressed in his heart, and the way to tell the Japanese emperor is not like this.
Combat aircraft had to be kept secret, and the French formed their first flying unit in 1910, but without machine guns. This thing is like his own tank, and Lao Maozi's tank didn't attract attention when it first appeared, because it wasn't a tank at all.
Later, China's tanks continued to play an important role on the battlefield, and now the whole world is studying it. If his own combat aircraft appears, it is estimated that this will be the case.
So what he has to do at the moment is to keep it a secret, bombers and fighters must not show up too early, reconnaissance planes don't matter, at this time many countries have aircraft, even if they promote it themselves, they will think that it is just a toy.
He also didn't think that this matter could be kept secret forever, there is no impermeable wall in this world, let alone using a group of foreign technicians to develop an aircraft. In peacetime, these technicians can happily cooperate with China for their ideals, but once war breaks out, or if their country asks them to provide information, Yang Xiaolin cannot guarantee that these dozens of people will keep China's secrets.
Then again, it is understandable if they really betrayed the treaty with China for the benefit of their own homeland. Although Yang Xiaolin said that he asked them to fully fulfill the contract they signed with him, the bottom line in his heart was that these people could keep China's aircraft development cause secret within two years.
Two years is not too long, not too short, at least enough for China to build a special aircraft research and development team, just like China's tank manufacturing now, when my own technology is ahead, I am not afraid of you catching up.
On January 27, the second year of the Republic, Yang Xiaolin decided to form a Chinese air force. Li Debiao also arrived at the Sino-Russian border at this time. The pace of the Chinese troops slowed down, because the road conditions were not very good after arriving here. In addition, a large number of civilians who had fled from Russia had already been encountered in this place, and the Chinese troops immediately set up three large refugee camps in the border area to provide food and necessary living supplies for these Russians.
The situation of the Russian comrades is very bad!
Trotsky had little experience in the first place, and he did not know how to solve the many problems that had been solved after the sudden success of the revolution. Under such circumstances, the forces of the international community entered Russia to "keep the peace", and the blow to the comrades was considerable.
Politically, military pressures made the nascent proletarian regime seem to be crumbling. Fortunately, things are not too bad. Comrades at least have the capital to work hard. Although Trotsky's political movement in Russia shed the blood of the capitalists and killed many innocent people, it really mobilized the enthusiasm of the poor.
It may not be appropriate to say that when the hands of the poor are covered with blood, they have no way out. They must follow Trotsky all the way down, and must not allow the reactionary forces to counterattack.
The morale is still there, but there is nothing but morale.
When Amirol arrived in Neriungrí, the entire force consisted of only twenty-four infantry battalions, three cavalry battalions, and one artillery battalion. In just a dozen days. The ranks of the comrades were rapidly expanded, the infantry battalion was expanded to one hundred and three, the cavalry battalion seventy, and the artillery battalion thirty. The total strength of the army reached 130,000, which was on par with the Japanese troops who were approaching.
With such a rapid expansion of troops, we need not say much about the quality of the soldiers and the armament of the troops, and the blow to the bourgeoisie paralyzed many industries. The Russian side simply did not have its own military-industrial system to support the fighting, and all this made all the countries think that the comrades did not have a chance.
On the Japanese side, on the contrary, this time small Japan is bent on using Russia to establish its hegemony in Asia. They wanted to show the bravery of the Great Japanese Army in Russia, so they came with the strength of the whole country, not only the Russians could not compare the materials and weapons, but also the quality of the officers on both sides was not on the same level.
Comrade Trotsky's uprising relied on the Russian officers at the grassroots level, and the high-ranking officers who had status in the past either ran away or were killed, so there was an extreme lack of generals capable of commanding a major war in the Russian insurrectionary forces.
To add, Comrade Amirol was only a platoon commander half a year ago. This really makes it impossible to see what chance the Russians have.
The battle on the periphery began on the afternoon of the 27th after the arrival of the Japanese troops, and it was almost a one-sided war, with the Russians losing 30,000 soldiers in just one afternoon, and all the outlying positions.
"The current batch of Russian troops is simply a rabble. We believe that the Japanese army can march all the way, maybe the day after tomorrow, maybe tomorrow this place will be occupied by the Japanese army, there is no doubt about that. ”
This is what the British Empire wrote in the report to the British military sent by the military observers in the Japanese army, but at this time no one thought that the rabble was the weakness of the revolutionary ranks, but it was also their greatest strength!
Since Peter the Great, the Russians have not fought by quality, they have relied on one word: "Drag!" ”
I just rely on my big territory, I rely on my large number of people, exchange space for time, I can't beat you, I will drag you to death!
From Charles XII, who built a strong Sweden, to Napoleon, who was peerless, to the passionate mustache in the future, they were all killed by the Russians. It was as if the mustache was the closest to success, and his troops had reached the city of Moscow, just a little closer.
Later, many commentators said that the mustache made the mistake of being attracted by Kyiv and giving Moscow a respite. But even if the mustache knocks Moscow down, who can guarantee that the war will end?
Against Russia, it doesn't mean that you win as much as you take his territory or how many soldiers you kill him. Yang Xiaolin knew this very well, so the Chinese side was not in a hurry to march, and Li Debiao's troops also distributed leaflets when rescuing those Russian civilians, telling the Russians that the Chinese were not here to fight.
But Nogi Noshinori obviously didn't know what to do, and he was here to fight. After capturing the Russian outlying positions, he immediately gathered his forces and launched a fierce attack on Neryungeri.
The progress of the Japanese army was indeed quite smooth, infantry, artillery, cavalry, and a small number of armored troops actually played a good match in the face of those Russian soldiers who had no weapons at all, and attacked rapidly, boldly interspersed, and outflanked in a wide range, and soon rushed the Russian defense line to pieces.
By two o'clock in the afternoon, tens of thousands of Russian troops were scattered on the battlefield and had lost the ability to fight. Nothing could stand in the way of the victory of the Japanese, and Comrade Amilol did not know where he had gone, and no one had seen him since, anyway.
In this way, the military town that Comrade Trotsky hoped for fell into the hands of the Japanese.
This battle has further inflated the confidence of the Japanese, and it has been proved that little Japan has not changed his brutal nature because of his inferiority. Their previous march was quite regular, they didn't do anything, and even the Russian prisoners of war were quite respectful.
However, this battle completely destroyed the position of the Russians in the hearts of the Japanese, and the bloody smell of the battle also aroused the brutality of little Japan, and those Japanese soldiers washed the whole Neryungri in blood in the name of hunting down Russian soldiers!
The British military observer sent a telegram saying that he had seen a Japanese soldier hacking to death an old Russian man in the street with impunity, and that several Japanese officers standing there oblivious to the situation had even knocked on the window of a nearby Russian civilian after the killing, and said to the Russians inside: "If you are interested, come out and collect the body, you still have this right!" ”
Of course, such reports can only exist in the reports of military observers. The gentlemen of the international community still supported Japan, because although they flaunted the banner of peacekeeping, their real aim was to get rid of the proletarian power led by Comrade Trotsky.
It took the Japanese two hours to capture Komsomolsk, and two days to fight Neryungeri, and the Japanese army. Regardless of the Russian fortress or the Russian troops, there seemed to be no way to stop the Japanese, and the mood in Japan was very high, and those junior officers had blind confidence in victory.
They simply didn't realize at this time that their victory was because they hadn't gone far. The Japanese continue to move forward, the mentality of the island country is so complicated, and the lessons of Charles XII and Napoleon are not ignorant to them, but they really feel that the Imperial Japanese Army is much better than Napoleon.
As they advanced faster and faster, Comrade Trotsky felt that the pressure from Japan was the greatest problem he had to face. At this time, the Chinese stopped at the Sino-Russian border, and heard that they also clashed with the Siberian gang.
Trotsky did not know what happened to Stessel and the Chinese, and he was not interested in knowing it. But it is true that the Chinese troops will not be able to come for a while and a half. There is also good news that Kerensky suddenly transferred the Belarusian troops to the west, and the intention of this action is very obvious, that is, to tell Trotsky that I am also Russian, and that I will not be able to stab you from behind when the motherland is in danger.
After some analysis, Trotsky felt that if it was simply unrealistic for him to resist the armed forces of China, the West, and Japan, and that the danger of China and the West was not approaching, then he should fight the Japanese first! (To be continued......)