8.34 From Rome to Jan

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The highest authorities received a telegram from Berlin from Jiang Baili, and the Chinese delegation had finally sent back good news from the time of the Chinese delegation in Italy!

Since 1938, the situation of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression has deteriorated day by day, and the Japanese have pursued and attacked the Central Army of the highest authority on the battlefield, without the slightest intention of giving the Wuhan government a chance to breathe. At present, there is still some possibility of victory in the Battle of Lanfeng commanded by Huang Haoran, and the Chinese army is losing and retreating in all battlefields!

As the old saying goes, it's not bad at all, it's really a house leak that happens to rain overnight, and the disaster is not a one-way street! The aggressive military oppression of the Japanese on the battlefield has not stopped, and a new round of diplomatic offensive by Tokyo has overwhelmed the Wuhan government.

At the beginning of May, the German military advisers in China received instructions from Berlin: all German advisers in the Central Army must withdraw to Germany within a time limit!

Seeing that China's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression is about to be worse than the most difficult stage! Zhengzhou Wuhan is in danger! A large-scale fierce battle is about to break out!

At this time, Hitler withdrew all the German advisers from China, not to mention that it was easy to cause losses in battlefield command and coordination, and it was also a great blow to the morale of the Chinese army alone! Although the highest authorities had already sensed the change in Berlin's attitude towards China and had already regarded the Soviet Union as a new partner, after all, they had not yet broken face with the German government, and the highest authorities always fantasized about relying on their European friends to balance the Sino-Japanese war! But now Hitler suddenly broke his promise and played a trick to draw salary! This punch simply made the eyes of the highest authorities look like gold stars, and it was unspeakably miserable!

The Supreme Authority and his Central Army relied too heavily on Germany. Beginning in 1927, the highest authorities had set their sights on Germany, a military power in Western Europe that had risen from the ashes of World War I. In the following 10 years, the supreme authorities not only received a large amount of guns, ammunition, and military aid materials from Germany, but also directly imported a large number of military personnel and war ideas from Germany. By the time the Sino-Japanese War broke out, the total number of German military advisers in China had reached nearly 10,000! These German military advisers played a huge role in stabilizing the country at the highest level! Even China's defense facilities, the big seizure is the masterpiece of the Germans.

However, as the Sino-Japanese war continued to expand, the honeymoon period between China and Germany came to an end! Reality forced Germany to choose between two countries in the Far East. No one wanted to offend the German government, which had just crawled out of the ruins of its defeat in World War I. Whether it's China or Japan, weapons are still sold, and military supplies are still sent, as long as you are willing to give money.

But after witnessing the retreat of the Chinese army, Berlin's attitude finally changed subtly! In order to alleviate the contradictions with Japan, the German government decided to change the core personnel of the military advisory group sent to China from active German officers to retired officers.

This state of affairs lasted for quite some time, and the supreme authorities gradually changed from initial dissatisfaction with this status quo to acceptance, and in his opinion, after all, Germany had not turned its back on his government, and compared with the British and French governments to appease and swallow up against the current, and the United States to watch the fire from the other side, the German government was at least enough friends!

However, as soon as the New Year of 1938 passed, the Konoe cabinet instructed Foreign Minister Hirota to launch a new round of diplomatic offensive, focusing on Britain, France, the United States, Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic and other countries.

At this time, Germany, through its ambassador to Oshima in Berlin, conveyed to the Japanese side that it hoped that a "mutual agreement" would be drawn up between Germany, Italy, and Japan. In response to the invitation of the Germans, Emperor Hirohito clearly instructed the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to be cautious and to study and discuss the matter more carefully.

Officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tokyo immediately understood the emperor's intentions! Despite Berlin's impatience, Tokyo is playing deep!

Japan hopes to be able to join the "mutual agreement" in exchange for Germany and Italy to support their war of aggression against China, and Japan not only wants Germany and Italy to stop providing military assistance to China, but also prevents any third country from providing assistance to China! Tokyo wants to completely strangle the Wuhan government of the highest authority!

In order to get Berlin to completely abandon China, Foreign Minister Hirota also seized the opportunity to visit Europe and spread such remarks around the world as "China is gradually approaching the Soviet Union," "the Wuhan regime will fall into the Soviet Union's scheme," and "China's anti-Japanese behavior was instigated by Stalin." Under Japan's diplomatic instigation, Hitler and Mussolini's views on China changed dramatically. The ruling classes in Germany and Italy began to lose sympathy for China's war of resistance, and even made statements encouraging and encouraging Japan to fight China.

The relationship between Japan and Germany and Italy was not taken seriously by the top authorities at first. He believes that after all, China and Germany have a lot of military and economic interests, and since China and Italy are both ancient civilizations, they have always lived in peace and well, so they should not be confused by the Japanese remarks.

But what happened next made the highest authorities completely fall through the glasses!! First, Kong Xiangxi had a closed door when he asked to see Hitler. Later, Hitler telegraphed to China that Germany had unilaterally suspended the agreement to provide military supplies to China.

This means that Germany is about to close its doors to China!

The highest authorities finally felt the cruelty of Tokyo. However, at this time, the supreme authorities still hold on to the last glimmer of hope, that is, the doors of Germany and Italy to China have not yet been closed, and the supreme authorities have decided to make the last effort to strive to reopen these two gates!

The highest authorities were personally involved in the formulation of Wuhan's latest foreign policy, and he demanded that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs must focus on solving two problems: first, to win over Western democracies such as Britain and the United States; The second is to divide the alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan. In view of the fact that the policies of the United Kingdom, the United States and other countries would not change significantly in the short term, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Wuhan government focused on the second aspect.

When considering a candidate to send to Europe, one of the most ideal candidates jumped into the minds of the highest authorities: Jiang Baili, a veteran of the Chinese military circles and general adviser to the National Defense Military Conference!

Jiang Baili was appointed as his special envoy to the highest authority, and he had many advantages. Jiang Baili was not only a prodigy in the Chinese military, but also went to the German Army University in 1906 to further his studies. And it has been valued by many generals who are known as the world's number one military power.

As a military power in Europe, Germany looks down on China; Also as German soldiers, they also looked down on Chinese soldiers, but Jiang Baili was an exception!

When Jiang Baili was studying in Germany, he once met Hindenburg, the supreme commander of the German army. Before Jiang Baili, Hindenburg had never met a single young foreign student alone. It can be seen that Hindenburg attached great importance to Jiang Baili.

After the news of Hindenburg's meeting with Jiang Baili came out, General Burlumer, a well-known German military theorist and author of "On Strategy," went to the German Seventh Army to talk to Jiang Baili, who was a trainee company commander. Finally, General Burlumae patted the 29-year-old Oriental youth on the shoulder and said:

"Once upon a time Napoleon said that in a few years there would be a great military strategist in the East, and that may be what he was talking about you!"

Although Jiang Baili is in China, the government and military officials only respect him and abandon him, but abroad, Jiang Baili does enjoy a good reputation! Moreover, Jiang Baili also studied in Japan before studying in Germany, so he can be said to know Germany and Japan well!

Before Jiang Baili's departure, the highest authorities had a long talk with Jiang Baili, and he said earnestly to Jiang Baili, a military wizard: "China is now facing a diplomatic dilemma, and my husband has a heavy responsibility for this trip. You can use all relations and all means to undermine the possible alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan. At the very least, we must persuade Hitler and Mussolini not to support Japan in attacking us, and not to prevent or hinder our government's independent war of resistance. ”

Jiang Baili nodded solemnly, and then with the empty title of an envoy, with a mission that had almost no hope of completion, he embarked on a journey to Europe!

Jiang spent a lot of money in Italy to have a meeting with the Italian dictator Mussolini, who had previously refused to meet with his Chinese envoy, at the Palace of Venicia.

Due to the instigation of Japanese Foreign Minister Hirota Hiroki to take advantage of the dominance, Mussolini has a certain prejudice against China. Jiang Baili could only adopt the method of avoiding the real and making up for the false, and talked to Mussolini about whether Japan's rejection of Russia was false, and the compromise of the Soviet Union's invasion of China was true!

Jiang Baili's remarks succeeded in confusing Mussolini's thinking, and finally Mussolini promised that he would "never harm China" and agreed in principle to accept the request between China and Italy to exchange Chinese minerals for Italian weapons and equipment.

This is probably the best news the highest authorities have heard in recent months! After the victory in Taierzhuang, the Wuhan government has been mired in a quagmire diplomatically and militarily! Now that a breakthrough has finally been opened in diplomacy, it will be up to us to see if there can be new good news in the military field!

At the end of the telegram, Chiang also mentioned that his actions in Germany needed to be coordinated by domestic military victories! After the mission in Rome was completed, Jiang Baili was about to transfer to Berlin non-stop. In comparison, Jiang Baili's mission in Berlin will be more difficult than his previous trip to Italy. Germany was the initiator of the German, Italian, and Japanese anti-Communists alliance, and Hitler was a careerist, not as easy to fool as Mussolini! And as long as Hitler had the intention of dealing with the Soviet Union, Germany could not do without Japan!

What's more, China is still receiving a steady stream of aid from the Soviet Union, and it is very difficult for Jiang Baili to convince Hitler that China is in this regard!

The Central Army must make some achievements on the battlefield in order to restore Germany's confidence in China's War of Resistance! Huang Haoran's performance in the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of Nanjing caused the Wuhan government to play three batches of "Soviet aid", and it seems that this "German aid" matter still has to fall on Huang Haoran's head!

Soil Fertilizer Plain, Soil Fertilizer Plain! How can you do it if you don't hurry up and catch it!

The highest authorities are now a little impatient for Huang Haoran to win the victory of the 14th Division!

"Give me the unseal! Find Cheng Qian! No... Find Huang Youchen directly!

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"Throne! Don't be busy! That's the devil's reconnaissance plane! ”

Liu Yurong, the commander of the 170th Regiment, rode a war horse and rushed to Cao Fulin and Zhao Xiangchen's side from the rear marching column, and then pointed at the Japanese plane in the sky and shouted loudly.

Cao Fulin and Zhao Xiangchen were already far away from the highway at this time, and the officers and men of the 85th Brigade basically rushed to both sides of the road, and the whole process took about ten minutes. However, the Japanese planes in the sky never dropped bombs or dived and strafed! It seems that what Regiment Commander Liu said is right, it is really a devil's reconnaissance plane!

"Grandma's! Little Japan's reconnaissance planes dare to be so rampant! Captain Liu! Organize machine-gun anti-air strafing! Then get rid of these dead flies! ”

Cao Fulin remembered the embarrassment just now, and his blood suddenly surged, and his eyes widened! Although the 27th Division did not have anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns, it was not the turn of the devil's reconnaissance plane to run to his head to make a fortune!

The Czech Makqin can still be defended by erections! Even if you can't hit the plane of the little devil, it is good to scare and scare the pilot of the devil!

Regiment Commander Liu took the order, and after a short while, the officers and soldiers of the 85th Brigade standing on both sides of the road began to shoot into the sky one after another! It seems that the pilots of the little devils also know that the Chinese army lacks air defense weapons, and as long as the height of the reconnaissance plane can exceed the range of the machine gun, the Chinese army will have nothing to do with him!

"That's it! Stop it! Waste less bullets! Order all ministries to seize the time to restore the system! Not far ahead is Yang Yanyuan, we have to try to get to Lanfeng before dark! ”

Seeing that all the bullets fired by the officers and soldiers of the 85th Brigade were useless, Cao Fulin was a little angry! He knew that the artillery units directly under the 25th Army were equipped with anti-aircraft guns, and if it hadn't been for the artillery regiment that had been deployed to the rear to rest, it would definitely be able to shoot down this fly in the sky!

After the anti-aircraft firing stopped, the air raid sirens were lifted, and the officers and men of the 85th Brigade returned to the road from both sides of the road and continued to move forward.

The 85th Brigade can be regarded as making a big move this time, and the dense gunfire made the Japanese reconnaissance cavalry squad in Yang Yuanyuan Village prick up their ears!

The second lieutenant Fukuoka, Aikawa Juncao and Miura Juncao in the big house exchanged opinions with each other, and finally they came to the same conclusion--- it should be that the other cavalry squads had encountered the large force of the Chinese army, and they also encountered a Chinese elite with strong firepower!

Judging from the direction from which the gunshots came, this Chinese army will soon pass by the road next to Yang Yuanyuan!

Second Lieutenant Fukuoka's eyes sparkled with excitement! In a few minutes, he will be the best officer in the entire 14th Division in the observation position! Whether it is to guide artillery fire or guide bomber bombing, he can usher in a great achievement!

All the Japanese soldiers in Yang Yuandao Village opened their eyes wide and stared at the road at the entrance of the village!

Gradually, there was a sound from the north of the village, and Second Lieutenant Fukuoka immediately heard the sound of countless feet stomping on the ground at the same time!

"Turn on the radio! Report to the Wing Headquarters! There is a large force of the Chinese army passing through Yang Yanyuan! Ask for permission to direct an artillery or army attack! ”

The words of the second lieutenant Fukuoka quickly turned into a telegram floating in the air, and the person who received this telegram was not only the commander of the 18th Cavalry Wing, Kaneto Yasuda, but also the commander of the 14th Division, Lieutenant General Kenji Dohihara!

"Mixi! Let's wait a little longer! How many troops will Huang Haoran send to pursue us! ”

Lieutenant General Kenji Dohihara touched his Ren Dan Hu, and his smile was very obscene! (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )