In the blink of an eye, it has been more than half a month since the Battle of Fengtian ended.
The situation in the three eastern provinces has once again undergone earth-shaking changes. The Soviet Union finally betrayed China and secretly signed a non-aggression treaty with Japan. The two parties agreed to use the current line of actual control as the boundary to achieve a ceasefire. In other words, the Soviet government de facto
Recognized Japan's rule over almost the entire Far East and half of Siberia.
According to the agreement, the Soviet Union only retained half of Siberia west of Irkutsk, and only a small area near Vladivostok in the Far East.
Almost the same night after the signing of the non-aggression treaty, the Far Eastern Army commanded by Yamashita Tombumi split into two groups and couldn't wait to turn around and head south. One of the groups was personally led by Yamashita Tombumi, first moving to Chita via the Trans-Siberian Railway, and then from there.
The North-Manchuria Railway advanced eastward, and within half a month the vanguard had arrived in Harbin.
The other group was led by Rommel, with four infantry divisions that were basically motorized and supplemented by four armored divisions. They went south through the Mongolian Plateau, first captured Kulun, and then went straight to Suiyuan, China, on the Sino-Mongolian border. In just half a month,
Within months, the Western Group of the Japanese Far Eastern Army had arrived outside Baotou City.
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In Fengtian City, Xu Rui's regiment headquarters.
Shi Changqing walked in angrily and said to Xu Rui: "Captain, there is no way to rectify this unit."
As an old saying goes, ideals are rich, but reality is skinny. Xu Rui originally wanted to organize and rectify the rebel puppet Manchukuo army and civilian armed forces in the three eastern provinces, and then gradually incorporate them into our party's
Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, however, the progress of this work was not smooth. First, there was a lack of political cadres. Second, the composition of the puppet Manchukuo National Army and even civilian armed forces was complex, making it very difficult to clean up and rectify.
Let’s talk about the Puppet Manchukuo Army first. The Puppet Manchukuo Army is mainly composed of veterans of the Northeast Army who were stranded in the three eastern provinces, bandits, and gangsters recruited by the Puppet Manchukuo State. The bandits and the gangsters recruited later were very resistant to accepting the adaptation of our party.
Even veterans of the Northeast Army who are stranded in the three eastern provinces have very complicated thoughts.
There are very few officers like Yu Qi and Jin Shengjie who are willing to accept our party's adaptation.
As a result, after half a month, the rectification work had made no progress and was almost standing still.
After sending Shi Changqing away, Xu Rui said to Wang Husheng: "Why is this adaptation work so difficult?"
Regarding the matter of adaptation, Wang Husheng took a very open-minded view and waved his hand and said: "Adaptation work has always been difficult to do. Remember when our Red Army reorganized local armed forces, there were often repetitions. Many of the adapted armed forces eventually broke away from the organization. This
At this time, our party's cohesion and credibility will be even more tested, so Lao Xu, you must stay calm and never think of reorganization by force, because reorganization by force can easily arouse oppositional sentiments!"
Xu Rui smiled bitterly and said: "I would like to adapt it by force. The problem is that I have to have the ability."
Xu Rui indeed does not have the ability to reorganize by force now, because his troops were almost completely wiped out in the Fengtian Battle more than half a month ago, and there were only less than 500 people left in the nine main infantry battalions. Although in the past half month,
More than 5,000 wounded people have gradually returned to the army from field hospitals, but now there are only more than 5,000 people.
More than five thousand officers and soldiers were used to protect Fengtian.
The good news is that now almost the entire three northeastern provinces have rebelled. The Japs only control big cities such as Harbin, Xinjing and Dalian, as well as several main transportation lines such as the China Eastern Railway. In other words, the Japs Kwantung Army now has no control at all.
There are no extra troops to fight against Fengtian, otherwise Xu Rui and the others will really be in big trouble.
While he was talking, Leng Tiefeng suddenly walked into Xu Rui's large office with a livid face.
Seeing Leng Tiefeng's expression, Wang Husheng couldn't help but joked: "What's wrong, veteran, have you suffered at the hands of that little bitch Chiyoko Inoue again?"
After the Battle of Fengtian, the Langya Brigade planned several raids on Xinjing, but all of them were sniped by Chiyoko Inoue's special operations brigade. The two sides fought several times, but the Langya Brigade failed to take advantage.
In one of the operations, he even suffered some losses, so Wang Husheng often teased Leng Tiefeng about this incident.
Leng Tiefeng did not answer the question, and said with a livid face: "Old Xu, Old Wang, there is an urgent call in Baotou!"
"Baotou?" Xu Rui and Wang Husheng were slightly startled when they heard this, but neither of them paid much attention.
But when Xu Rui read the telegram handed over by Leng Tiefeng, his face suddenly turned red.
Seeing Xu Rui's expression was different, Wang Husheng asked anxiously: "Old Xu, what's wrong? What happened in Baotou?"
Xu Rui didn't answer, but his handsome face turned redder and redder. After a moment, he opened his mouth and spit out a mouthful of blood.
Digua and Zhuoligetu, who were standing behind Xu Rui, immediately became anxious when they saw this. They rushed forward at the same time and asked with concern: "Captain, what's wrong with you? Commander, don't scare me!"
"It's okay, I'm okay!" Xu Rui took a deep breath and suppressed the salty smell that continued to rise in his throat.
It was only then that Wang Husheng finally recovered from the huge shock and exclaimed: "Old Xu, what are you doing?"
Xu Rui didn't say much, just handed over the telegram in his hand. After Wang Husheng read the telegram, he was stunned. The Japanese Far Eastern Army's heavy group suddenly appeared outside Baotou City? How is this possible? The Japanese Far Eastern Army
Aren't they still fighting fierce battles with the Soviet army in Siberia? How could they suddenly appear in Baotou?
"Let's go to the communications office!" Xu Rui said, turned around and walked out.
Soon, Xu Rui and his party arrived at the communications office and asked the correspondent to send a telegram to Zhukov.
There is a communication channel between Zhukov and Xu Rui, and Xu Rui can directly contact Zhukov.
After a while, the radio station of the Soviet Far East Front responded, and Xu Rui said to the signal corps: "Ask, why?"
When Xu Rui asked why, Wang Husheng and Leng Tiefeng both had sad and angry faces. They both had the same question, why? The Japanese army withdrew its troops from the battlefield in Siberia. It was impossible for the Soviet army not to know, and it was impossible for Zhukov not to know. Since they knew it, why?
Not telling them the situation in advance? There is only one explanation. The Soviet army is deliberately concealing it! That's why Xu Rui asked, why? Why should it be hidden from them? Why should it help the Japanese?
The signal corpsman didn't say much, and immediately translated the message dictated by Xu Rui into dots and dashes, and then sent it to the Soviet Far East Front Headquarters. After a while, Zhukov had a reply.
The signal corps copied the dots and dashes, and then translated the text, but it turned out to be four words: national interest!
It was obvious that Zhukov had fully understood Xu Rui's question and answered it.
"Haha." Xu Rui immediately laughed miserably and said miserably, "National interests, what a national interest! For the sake of the Soviet Union's national interests, can China's interests be sold out unscrupulously?"
Wang Husheng couldn't understand what Xu Rui was talking about and asked anxiously: "Old Xu, what's going on?"
Leng Tiefeng took a breath and gritted his teeth and said, "Isn't it obvious? We have been betrayed!"
"The veteran is right," Xu Rui said, "We were sold, we were betrayed by the Soviet government to the Japanese government!"
"Why is this?" Wang Husheng said in disbelief, "There is no reason. The Soviet Union has no reason to betray us? The Soviet Union and Japan are enemies, and the enemies of the enemy are allies. There is no reason."
Xu Rui said happily: "There are no permanent enemies in this world, let alone permanent allies!"
Wang Husheng shook his head and said: "But I still don't understand. I don't understand what benefits it can have to the Soviet Union by betraying us?"
"Of course there are benefits." Xu Rui said in a deep voice, "Due to the rapid progress of the German army in Western Europe, this can only lead to one result, that is, the time for a full-scale war between the Soviet Union and Germany will be greatly advanced, so Stalin hopes to end the conflict with Japan as soon as possible.
war, so as not to fall into the desperate situation of fighting on two fronts."
"Isn't this a weird reason?" Wang Husheng said, "In order to avoid fighting on two fronts, we can betray China? Why can't Stalin think of cooperating with China to defeat Japan as soon as possible, and then prepare for the war with Germany? Normally?
Isn’t that what we should do?”
Leng Tiefeng shook his head and said: "But it is obvious that Stalin did not think that by cooperating with China, we could quickly defeat Japan. Therefore, he chose to make secret peace with the Japanese government. Then, it was probably because the Japanese government issued a
The bargaining chip that Stalin could not refuse would help conceal the military situation of the Japanese Far Eastern Army going south!"
Xu Rui nodded and said: "Yes, this is the national interest Zhukov said!"
"National interests? National interests?!" After repeating national interests twice, Wang Husheng finally broke out and roared hysterically, "Bullshit national interests, they are clearly scoundrels, villains, and bastards! Just one sentence of national interests can put our country at risk."
Are you in a desperate situation? Can you sell China with just a word of national interest? Damn it!"
"Old Wang, calm down." Xu Rui had already calmed down and said, "It's not a big deal. Even if the Japanese Far Eastern Army suddenly appears outside Baotou City, even if Baotou is finally lost, it's not a big deal. We
Isn’t there still Fengtian and Northeast China? As long as we manage the three northeastern provinces well..."
However, before Xu Rui finished speaking, Du Junjie hurried into the communications office from outside.
"Commander!" Du Junjie gasped, "I just received information that the Japanese Far Eastern Army's heavy troop group has arrived in Qiqihar, and the forward troops have even arrived in Harbin!"
"What?!" Xu Rui was stunned when he heard this, and his face instantly turned red.
After a while, Xu Rui couldn't hold it back any longer. He opened his mouth and spat out a large mouthful of blood, then fell back.
Fortunately, Zhuoligetu and Digua had been on guard for a long time. When they saw this, they rushed over to help. Wang Husheng could not worry about the situation of the independent group at the moment and said in a hurry: "Send to the hospital quickly, send to the hospital quickly!"
