Chapter 214: Unexplained Intent in the Battle of Nanjing (Part 1)

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Regarding the Soviet Union, Zhang Xuewu has always maintained a cautious attitude of communication. Although Germany is getting more and more alienated from the National Government, the German government has set up a secret contact station between the Rehe and Hong Kong. The German bf-109g has followed the latest Maybach engine and other accessories, as well as the forty Leopard medium tanks designed by the German tanks, all of which are transported from Vladivostok to Dingyuan Camp in Suiyuan by *** through the Far East Railway.

In terms of material transportation, the Soviet Union gave the Rehe great convenience and support. Any food, materials, weapons, oil, etc. required by Rehe will be loaded into the first vehicle and shipped, and trains will be organized along the way, and there will be no delays.

In history, Dingyuan Camp was also the first place selected by the Soviet Union to aid the CCP. However, since Suiyuan was occupied by the Japanese army in history, he could only choose to provide limited aid in the later period. Compared with Dingyuan Camp in Suiyuan, *** was undoubtedly looking for far away.

Now the Dingyuan Camp is controlled by Zhang Xuewu Rehe Lehe Legion, so the Soviet side decided to hand over some of the weapons purchased by the National Government to the Rehe side, and strive to open a connection channel with southwest and central Shanxi in the Rehe direction, not only for self-protection, but most importantly for attack, effectively restraining the Kwantung Army, which is constantly replenishing its forces. The continuous growth of the Kwantung Army has made Stalin in the Soviet side deeply feel threatened and uneasy.

Because after the Japanese captured Taiyuan, their intention to land in Qingdao was already quite obvious. The strategic materials and reserves hoarded by the people were not enough to support the consumption of 60 divisions and simultaneous combat. This huge material consumption seemed quite terrible to the people. Therefore, after the capture of Taiyuan, the 25 divisions under the Japanese Kwantung Army returned to the three northeastern provinces, and the remaining troops were organized into the Central China Expeditionary Army and the North China Expeditionary Army.

The main task of the Kwantung Army was to completely cut off the economy and transportation of Rehe, carry out siege tactics, use the *** to strangle the Rehe Legion, and wait until the people of Zhang Xuewu's army were in chaos, and then attacked 10% of them with all their strength.

The combat intention of the Japanese headquarters and the General Staff was to seek the main force of the Chinese army to engage in another decisive battle like the Battle of Shanghai, and strive to use the second to third large-scale battles to completely defeat all the main force of the Chinese army, so that the National Government would completely surrender.

Since the Kwantung Army headquarters dispatched 22 divisions, the local preparatory department began a new round of recruitment and mobilization, and a large number of reserve troops began to be transported by North Korea to the three northeastern provinces for training. It can be said that the Great Empire almost took out its own foundation this time, and even the originally retired Taisho 11th-Year-One 75mm 126 mountain cannons and Type 38 various types of artillery were once again re-equipped.

Originally, the Kwantung Army had reduced from 47 divisions to more than 20. Before the Soviet Union could breathe a sigh of relief, the Soviets began a new round of expansion. What made the Soviets extremely angry were the Americans and the British. The Americans issued two low-interest special loans totaling US$370 million for the needs of commercial politics. The people used these loans to purchase scrap steel, aircraft engines, machine tools, and even weapons in the United States. Several military factories in Pennsylvania in the United States even produced Type 92 heavy machine guns and 6.5mm bullets for the people.

Americans are lending money to the *** people, causing the import of the *** to drive the US decadent economy into a crisis, while Britain is afraid that the *** will turn to Germany too quickly, so it relaxed its policies for this little brother during the World War and gave it a loan of 40 million pounds.

At the same time, the Chinese diplomatic delegation failed to borrow a penny from the UK, and only generously obtained five million US dollars from the US. These dollars cannot be used to purchase military and related products, but can only purchase medical supplies. It can be said that the military and militaris of the *** people are supported by the Americans and the British, so that the *** people can continue to launch wars from China to plunder a large amount of precious metals and continue to buy scrap steel and weapons from the Americans.

What Americans sell weapons to the *** people, and what they give to the Chinese is money for buying medicine. Therefore, there is no so-called justice and injustice in international affairs at all, and it has always been right and wrong. History is written by the winner. Whoever has a big fist and whoever says is the truth. Axioms are probably only within the range of our cannon.

The Germans and the Soviets were quietly hooking up. Politically, Germany dominated by Hitler and the Soviets controlled by Stalin were two systems that were incompatible with water and fire. However, Germany was afraid that the Soviet Union would kill its rise, while the Soviets were worried that the Germans would turn their weapons against the Red Empire after the rise?

The Germans and the Soviets were worried, so the Soviet-German relationship in 1937 became very subtle and even a little weird! The Germans and the Soviets, that is, the Germans and the Slavs, had a very obvious commonality. These two nations were very enthusiastic about land. Maybe they were both pirates in the past? That is why they were so persistent in land? In any case, in Zhang Xuewu's opinion, whether it was Germans or Slavs, their ancestors must not be particularly wealthy, so they always remembered other people's homes. To put it simply, they were extremely aggressive.

So this is destined to have a secret relationship between the Soviets and the Germans, while on the surface both sides slander each other. This is the so-called international politics, the *** of archways.

Otherwise, the Soviets would not turn a blind eye and let the German arms transport to Suiyuan through Vladivostok through the Soviets. The Soviets knew very well that these weapons and ammunition were used to fight against the people, and the Kanto Army, which was too powerful, had already posed a great threat to the Far East. In more than two months, the Japanese army severely damaged the Chinese teams of more than 1.5 million from the north and south, and even came to the city! How long can the Chinese team last? This is what the Soviet Union is most concerned about at this moment, because once the people completely occupy China, then the people will get a large amount of resources they dare not imagine before.

The staff of the Soviet General Staff were obviously more courageous than the radicals in the *** General Staff Headquarters. The strategic staff of the Soviet Supreme Command believed that once the *** conquered China, even if they were only conquering the Chinese government, the *** would get unprecedented strategic resources. If the *** seized the oil resources of Southeast Asia and India, then no one in the Far East and Asia would be able to withstand the *** chariots.

Because the *** people paid special attention to protecting the interests of Europe and the United States during the invasion of China, the Soviets felt a lot of crisis. The ghost of communism is the most hated by almost all European countries. They hated communism far more than fascism. Therefore, European and American countries have always adopted a policy of appeasement towards the *** people in Asia. The origin of this policy is more because the joint fleet owned by the *** people, this huge fleet that is already among the top three in the world in total tonnage. This is a strategic force that no country or even the political international alliance dares to underestimate.

However, Zhang Xuewu is no longer particularly worried at the moment, because he had already given Feng Heping specific instructions, that is, to show them what should be given to the Soviet side, and to resolutely not give what should not be given, and to the Soviets should be as much as they can, because Zhang Xuewu knew that with the tension in the European situation, the expansion of the Third Reich of Germany and the appeasement of Britain and France, the Soviets would soon completely abandon China, a ally that had been used, in three years.

There is no love for no reason in this world, and no hatred for no reason. All countries handle international affairs from the perspective of their own best interests. These are understandable. If you want to blame, you can only blame yourself for not being strong enough!

However, Zhang Xuewu believes that shameless Britain and France are probably planning to divert the disaster between Germany and the United States. The appeasement policy is actually a disguised compromise, making Germany feel that there is no threat to the Western Front. In this way, it can show its strength on the Eastern Front and let the Germans fight the Red Empire that the world hates the most is not just a kill of two birds with one stone.

Zhang Xuewu also grasped a principle of cooperation with the Soviet Union, that is, more people were given to the Germans than the Soviets. If the Soviets developed the T-34 tank in advance, then the T-34 crisis on the Eastern Front would break out early, and it would probably not be the Germans who invaded Stalingrad, but the Soviet army invaded Berlin. It can be seen that the t-34 crisis on the Eastern Front would have a serious threat to the German army.

As a result, the German army's overall tank design route was changed, and the subsequent heavy and super heavy E-series tank rat kings, etc. Zhang Xuewu did not intend to build the T-34t tank. The reason was very simple, because he could not withstand the fuel consumption of the mechanized corps. To put it bluntly, the war was based on the industrial foundation and military output. The Germans' weapons design was indeed perfect. Even the driver's seats in the tank had to take into account the comfort level and had to go through seventy-nine procedures before they were finished. The same Soviet TB series fast tank seats were just a few synthetic plates and foam. During the Soviet-German War, the Soviet T-34 tank seats were simply cast iron. On the same technical level, when the mass and quantity reached a dangerous warning line of one to six, the quality would eventually be overwhelmed by quantity.
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