Su Tong, who was about to go out for inspection, heard the news from the Vietnamese ambassador to China who was about to leave Nanjing and return to China. The muscles on his face jumped twice uncontrollably.
"You can surrender if you want, but it must be unconditional surrender." Su Tong, who calmed down, immediately put forward the first condition.
"If the Vietnamese government refuses to surrender unconditionally, our war will never end. Only if the Vietnamese government agrees to surrender unconditionally can our negotiations continue." After saying this, Su Tong went out.
"Unconditional Surrender" After hearing the news coming back from Nanjing, almost all the top leaders of the Vietnamese government jumped to their feet.
"No, we can only accept conditional surrender. If we agree to this condition, our country will be finished." Vo Nguyen Giap was the first to stand up and express his opposition.
Ordinary people may not know it very well, but everyone here knows the huge difference between unconditional surrender and conditional surrender: Unconditional surrender is the surrender of the defeated party to the victorious party without any conditions, which means the complete defeat of the defeated party. The defeated country must
Sign the unconditional surrender document and implement the terms stipulated in the surrender document. The victorious country can cancel the government of the defeated country and try its political officials responsible for the war. Conditional surrender means that when a sovereign country is defeated in a war, it may
When surrendering, some opinions are put forward, such as maintaining sovereignty, not disbanding the government, refusing or partially handing over the occupied area, etc. Generally speaking, such situations can only be raised when there is still a chance to fight. For example
When Germany surrendered at the end of World War I, the Versailles Peace Treaty was the condition of surrender. As long as Germany abided by the peace treaty and fulfilled its obligations under the peace treaty, the Allied Forces could not enter Germany, and Germany's internal affairs were still handled by the Weimar government.
Now, if the Vietnamese government agrees to the unconditional surrender of the Chinese government, the newly established Vietnamese Workers' Party will definitely be ordered to dissolve, which is unacceptable to the Vietnamese government.
Vo Nguyen Giap's attitude was very firm, "Chairman Hu, we must not accept such humiliating conditions. Although our military strength is not as good as that of the Chinese, we still have the support of 30 million people. We can still push it into the woods as before."
Fight guerrillas with the mountain and Chinese people."
"Fighting guerrillas." Ho Chi Minh smiled bitterly, "Now most of our troops have fallen in the direction of Hanoi. The First Division of the Capital has also been destroyed by the Chinese. At this time, there are less than 5,000 people left around Saigon.
Miscellaneous troops, do we just rely on them to fight guerrillas?"
The door of "Peng"'s office was rudely pushed open again, and Ho Chi Minh's secretary walked in quickly, "Chairman, it's bad, Chinese ground troops have landed on the beach a hundred kilometers away from Saigon city.
Now they're coming at us fast."
There was a "bang" and someone's chair was knocked to the ground.
Vo Nguyen Giap, who was originally clamoring to go into the mountains to fight guerrillas, now looked like an eggplant that had been beaten by wind and frost, but there was still a look of dissatisfaction in his eyes.
Slowly looking around at everyone present, Ho Chi Minh sat down on the chair behind him with difficulty, looking around the crowd, "Comrades, what we are discussing today is related to the future destiny of our country. Because the matter is so important, I can't
It’s your own decision. Let’s vote. If you agree to surrender unconditionally to the Chinese government, please raise your hands.”
There was silence in the conference room. Everyone remained silent. Only the clock hanging on the wall made a ticking sound when it moved. About ten minutes passed, and finally someone raised his right hand. This was the Vietnamese political axe.
Minister of Agriculture Nong Yeming.
Nong Ming smiled bitterly and said to the many eyes around him that were looking at him: "Everyone, if we continue to fight, our country will be completely destroyed. In order to preserve the vitality of our nation, what if we surrender?"
With a leading example, several more arms were raised, followed by the Minister of Industry, the Minister of Commerce, the Minister of Finance and others who also raised their hands.
Seeing more and more people raising their hands, Giap became anxious and said, "Comrades, we cannot surrender. If we surrender, wouldn't our efforts of more than ten years be in vain?"
"But can we survive without surrender?" The Finance Minister was a thin middle-aged man. He grabbed a financial statement in front of him and waved it angrily, "You soldiers know how to fight, but our weapons never
You have no idea where the ammunition will come from and whether our finances can sustain it. All you care about is how many more soldiers you have and whether there are enough weapons. But these are all bought with money. We have had a hard time
We established our own country with the support of the Chinese government. How much did we pay for it? The lease of Cam Ranh Bay and the cession of north of Hanoi were exchanged for the support of the Chinese government and five infantrymen.
Division equipment.
But after getting all this, some people feel that their wings have become hardened and they can already challenge China. The Soviets have poured a few good words into your ears and you don’t even know your last name, so you have hurriedly encouraged them.
The masses went to destroy and kill the overseas Chinese. They also found an excuse to say that the overseas Chinese had robbed the property and land belonging to the Vietnamese, which was simply nonsense. Now it is better, the Chinese people have finally been angered, and you are happy." This person.
The Minister of Finance, who had always opposed the persecution of the Chinese, stood up and angrily spoke out what was in his heart.
"Why do you think that the Chinese dare not attack Vietnam, and why do they dare not bomb Saigon? Are you only allowed to incite people to kill the Chinese, but not allowed to come over? Now I have tasted the bitter consequences, I can be responsible
To put it bluntly, if we don’t sign the unconditional surrender treaty as soon as possible, our country will soon be destroyed.”
The words of the Minister of Finance were like a heavy drum beating in people's hearts. The only official in the government who opposed targeting overseas Chinese was almost called a traitor some time ago, but this time
Only then did the people realize that everything the minister who always spoke unpleasantly had said was true.
After a while, a few more hands stretched out. At this time, fifteen of the twenty-eight political members with voting rights had raised their hands.
Seeing this scene, Ho Chi Minh, who was sitting in the front seat, laughed bitterly. If he had known that today, why would he do it in the first place?
It was already two o'clock in the morning in China when Su Tong received a telegram from the Vietnamese government agreeing to unconditional surrender. When Su Tong got up from the nurse's soft and fragrant arms, got dressed, opened the door and went out, he found that the living room was already full of people.
Many people startled the sleepy-eyed Chief Su.
"What the hell are you doing? You came to my place in the middle of the night. You don't even need to sleep. Isn't it because Vietnam is about to surrender? Isn't it necessary to make such a fuss?"
Facing Su Tong's question, Jiang Baili, who was sitting next to him, rolled his eyes upwards and gave him a big roll of his eyes, "If it was just about the Vietnamese, why would we come here to make noise with you in such a big way in the middle of the night? Do you think we are the same?"
The old man has nothing to do."
"Uh, Mom Zhang, hurry up and ask the kitchen to put in some bowls of noodles and add more chopped green onions." After saying this, Su Tong stood up and poured a few cups of hot tea from the hot water kettle and handed them to Jiang Baili, Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi.
"Tell me, what's going on?" Su Tong sat down and poured himself a cup of hot tea and drank it slowly.
Jiang Baili held the tea cup in his hand but did not drink it. Twenty said slowly: "The Americans want to form an alliance with us."
"Pfft" Su Tong spat out the tea he had just poured into his mouth.
"What do you mean, Roosevelt's brain was broken and now he wants to form an alliance with us?" Su Tong grinned, his mouth wide enough to fit a ball.
"Yes." Jiang Baili looked serious. "Just now, the U.S. Ambassador to China Johnson came to me and said that the United States was preparing an Allied organization to resist the expansion of Germany, the Axis power, and wanted to invite our political ax to join. And he also promised
provided us with many unexpected benefits”
"Well, let me first guess the benefits Roosevelt promised." Su Tong said with a smile: "The first must be to return to us all the concessions of the United States and Britain in Shanghai and the whole country."
"Well, yes, as for the second one, keep guessing."
"The second thing is definitely to strengthen military cooperation between several countries, such as placing orders with our shipyards."
"Jianming, you are so good, you can guess all this." Bai Chongxi and Li Zongren also laughed beside them.
"What's so hard to guess about this?" Su Tong said nonchalantly: "Now the British are overwhelmed by the German submarine warfare, and there is a serious shortage of escort destroyers, and there are still no Americans who can help them.
The wartime system and the powerful military-industrial enterprises were unable to exert their power for a while, and now we are the only ones in China who can support their destroyers all of a sudden."
Jiang Baili nodded slightly: "Jianming, you really guessed it right. The British not only want destroyers, but they also specified that they are second-hand destroyers in our hands. As long as the surname is good, it is not impossible to accept this condition. For this reason, the British have come up with
A whopping £500 million."
"Hmph, the Americans and the British have a good plan. If we really form an alliance with them now, then the Germans will probably fall out with us immediately." Su Tong snorted a few times to express his inner feelings.
dissatisfied.
"It's not just that." Jiang Baili shook his head, "The United States and Britain are now afraid that if we join forces with Germany, we will be too powerful and it will affect the United States' world strategic plan."
Su Tong snorted coldly: "Bah, you just want to get rid of us with just a few small coins and a few concession dollars. It's not that easy. I'm determined to get this fat piece of Soviet Russia."