Cherev said: "I suspect that this top-secret information may be related to the Kwantung Army's Blade Plan!"
Blyucher said: "This is not what we should be concerned about. As long as Xu Rui really has top-secret information about the Kwantung Army, then the Soviets should obtain this information at all costs, not to mention, Xu Rui issued
A list of supplies worth five million US dollars is indeed not expensive, isn’t it?”
Bluucher is telling the truth. For a country, five million US dollars is really not much.
We must know that the economic assistance given by the Soviet government to the National Government amounted to hundreds of millions of dollars at a time. What is a mere five million U.S. dollars? What's more, these materials are all produced by the Soviet Union itself. After conversion, the actual value is only one million U.S. dollars.
Two million US dollars was a drop in the bucket for the powerful Soviet Union.
However, the information exchanged for these five million US dollars worth of supplies is very likely to help the Far East Front gain an advantage. This cannot be obtained even by spending ten times the money.
Cherev agreed, and the two of them jointly forwarded David's telegram to the Military Commission.
Just as Xu Rui thought, after the top Soviet officials learned the news, they sent a strongly worded telegram to the CCP through the Comintern, asking the CCP to put pressure on Xu Rui and obtain top-secret information about the Kwantung Army.
The information will then be forwarded to the Communist International free of charge.
After receiving the telegram from the Comintern, Vice Chairman Zhou immediately went to Chairman Mao and Mr. Zhu to discuss countermeasures.
After reading the telegram, Mr. Zhu sneered and said: "Old Mao, this telegram from the Communist International reminds me of an old friend of ours. Guess who I am thinking of?"
Chairman Mao laughed and said, "It must be Li De."
"That's right." Mr. Zhu said, "If it weren't for Li De's blind command, the Central Red Army would not have lost the fifth counter-encirclement and suppression campaign. Then today's revolutionary situation is completely different. These foreigners are really harmful.
People are not shallow, times have changed, and the international environment has already undergone earth-shaking changes, but those foreign adults from the Communist International still sound like I am the best in the world, huh!"
Chairman Mao took a deep breath on his cigarette and said: "The boss said it right. Li De did great damage to our Central Red Army and our Chinese revolutionary cause. Therefore, we must learn lessons and never accept these foreign policies again."
At the mercy of adults, we, the Chinese Communist Party, must make our own voice."
Vice Chairman Zhou asked: "Then the chairman means not to send a telegram to Dameishan?"
"I think there is no need to bother with this." Chairman Mao said with a smile, "I can probably guess the reaction of this little guy Xu Rui. He must have pushed it all away, so I think I will give it to the Communist International in the name of Damei Mountain."
Call me back and say that Dameishan does not have top-secret information about the Kwantung Army. It is the David Arms Trading Company of the United States that has the information and proposed a deal with the Soviet government. As for why David Company asked the Soviet government to transfer goods worth five million U.S. dollars.
The supplies were transferred to the Dameishan base area, and I suggested that the Soviet government had better ask David Company."
"Okay." Vice Chairman Zhou said, "I'll call the Comintern back right away."
Watching Vice Chairman Zhou leave, Mr. Zhu asked again: "Old Mao, are we offending the Communist International too much by doing this?"
"It doesn't matter." Chairman Mao put the remaining cigarette butt on the sole of his cloth shoe with a hole in his big toe and stubbed it out. Then he waved his hand and said, "Peace is never sought. Peace between countries is fought for.
The peaceful coexistence between parties was finally achieved through constant struggle and compromise."
Mr. Zhu hummed, deeply agreeing.
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Dameishan, Meixian.
Not long after Yan'an responded to the Comintern, the Soviet top brass finally made the decision and agreed to the deal with the David Arms Trading Company, because compared with the security of the entire Far East Front, the value was only five hundred dollars.
Thousands of dollars in supplies is really nothing.
Sometimes, the value of information is truly immeasurable.
If the information from David Company is really related to the Kwantung Army's Blade Plan, then this transaction is very likely to recover huge losses of billions of dollars. Compared with the loss of billions of dollars, it is only 500 dollars.
What’s the point of ten thousand dollars? What’s more, it’s supplies, not cash in U.S. dollars.
After David Company received the reply from the Soviet government, it immediately entrusted the U.S. Minister in Moscow to finalize the cooperation agreement, and then sent a transoceanic telegram to Xu Rui who was far away in Dameishan.
"Old Xu, it's done, the deal is done!" Wang Husheng waved the telegram, excitedly walked into Xu Rui's office, and shouted to Xu Rui, who was immersed in his work, "The deal is done, Old Xu, it's done!"
"Old Wang, why are you so happy?" Xu Rui said with a smile, "Isn't it just materials worth five million US dollars?"
"What? Isn't it just supplies worth five million US dollars?" Wang Husheng said angrily, "What a big sigh of relief. Do you know what these supplies worth five million US dollars mean to us?"
"I know." Xu Rui said lazily, "With this batch of industrial and military supplies worth five million US dollars, at least within two years, we will no longer have to worry about the blockade by the Japs. As for what will happen after two years?"
Whatever the situation is, I'm afraid the little devils can't block it even if they want to."
Wang Husheng snorted and said, "You knew you were still talking about the nonsense you just said?"
Xu Rui shook his head and said: "Old Wang, I'm not talking about you. You think about the problem in the wrong way. You shouldn't think about how important this batch of materials worth five million US dollars is to us. You should think about how important we provide it to the Soviet Union."
Government intelligence can help them recover a lot of losses."
"Speaking of this, I was worried." Wang Husheng said, "Is that information worth that much?"
"Old Wang, you have worked on the secret front for a while, but you still don't know the true value of this information until now." Xu Rui said, "Let me tell you this, this is the information we provided.
, which can at least help the Soviet government recover losses worth billions of dollars!"
"Is it such an exaggeration?" Wang Husheng was dumbfounded.
"It's such an exaggeration." Xu Rui said with a cold snort.
Xu Rui is really not talking nonsense. Although the Soviet army won the Battle of Nomenkan in history, it was a fluke and it was a tragic victory! During the battle, the Kwantung Army showed a tactical quality that was far superior to the Soviet army, regardless of speed.
In terms of insertion, detour, infantry and artillery coordination, or tactical execution, the Kwantung Army was far superior to the Soviet Red Army.
The Soviet Red Army was able to win entirely because of its powerful mechanized cluster.
It is no exaggeration to say that the victory of the Battle of Kanmenkan was achieved by the Soviet Red Army's use of huge mechanized clusters. But now the Kwantung Army is about to be equipped with rocket launchers, and the threat of rocket launchers to tanks is fatal. Even the most advanced T-tank tanks of the Soviet Union at that time
The -34 medium tank cannot block frontal attacks from rockets.
Therefore, it is completely conceivable what the scene will be like when the Kwantung Army soldiers with extremely high individual qualities carry a large number of rocket launchers and launch an attack on the armored clusters of the Soviet Red Army. It is foreseeable that what will appear on the battlefield is not
A one-sided massacre, the outcome of the Soviet Red Army would probably not be much better.
Then, once the Soviet Red Army loses the Battle of Nomonkan, the Kwantung Army's armored group can march straight in, attack westward into the hinterland of Mongolia, and then bypass Lake Baikal and cut off the Far East Railway. Once the life channel of the Far East Railway is cut off, the entire Far East
The Soviet Red Army will be trapped in a desperate situation of isolation and helplessness.
And how much is the entire Far East Front worth? I’m afraid it’s far more than tens of billions of dollars!
Therefore, Xu Rui said that this piece of information could help the Soviet government recover losses worth at least several billion dollars, which was actually a very conservative estimate.
Wang Husheng suddenly became worried again, frowned and said: However, Lao Xu, the information we provided can be submitted to Moscow in an instant, but the materials promised to us by the Soviet government cannot be shipped so quickly, let alone
It’s impossible to transport it all at once. Damn it, will the Soviet government change its mind?”
"That's not the case, because David Trading Company is endorsed by the US government, and the Soviet Union will not breach the contract easily." Xu Rui shook his head and said, "The Soviet Union will never breach the contract within at least two years."
Wang Husheng asked blankly: "Why won't the Soviet Union default on the contract within two years?"
Xu Rui snorted and didn't know how to answer. He could say that the Soviet-German war would break out in two years. By then, the Soviet Union would no longer be able to take care of itself. Even it had begun to receive aid from the United States, so how could it be repaid?
Are there any extra supplies to provide to the Dameishan base area? However, he can't say these things.
"Can't you tell?" Wang Husheng said, "I think this matter is quite suspenseful."
However, the facts proved that Xu Rui's judgment was correct, and Wang Husheng was indeed overly worried.
Just the day after the deal was concluded, the Soviet government responded to the request of David Company and sent the first batch of urgently needed supplies from the Dameishan base to Xinjiang. This batch of supplies included 20,000 instant and delayed fuses each.
Two tons of industrial lubricants, 500 sets each of lathe drill bits, planers, and milling cutters, as well as several water pumps, motors, and cables.
Of course, in addition to the above, there are also many medicines and communication equipment.
These medicines and communication equipment were gifts from Xu Rui to Yan'an and the Eighth Route Army.
Xu Rui originally wanted to add some weapons and equipment to the supply list, but considering that doing so might cause a violent reaction from the National Government, Xu Rui finally crossed out the weapons and equipment from the supply list. However, Xu Rui did not expect that,
Even though weapons and equipment were crossed out, it still triggered fierce reactions from the National Government and Chairman Chiang Kai-shek.