readx; In the Soviet Russian Embassy in Nanjing, Molotov sat on the wide sofa with a deep face, while several Soviet and Russian diplomats next to him also did not look very good. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"These Chinese are too deceitful to annex not only the territory that has already invaded our country, but also Siberia and the Far East and the Middle East, which is not tens of thousands of square kilometers, but millions of square kilometers! If the Chinese's conditions are agreed, our centuries-old efforts to expand eastward in Russia will come to naught! The Russian ambassador to China, Pan Youxin, spoke angrily.

As the highest-ranking Soviet Russian diplomat and intelligence officer in China, Pan Youxin is also a rare China expert among the high-level leaders of Soviet Russia, and he has a very thorough understanding of all aspects of China, and his opinions are also the primary suggestions of Soviet Russia in handling Chinese affairs.

"They are making these demands in a very obvious way, not only to occupy many of our territories, but more importantly to maintain the strategic direction of the North in Siberia and Central Asia. In the past, with the help of the Novosibirsk puppet political axe, they tried to divide our country in exchange for their strategic security in the north by supporting them to maintain the front in Siberia and the Middle East! ”

Pan Youxin's remarks are nothing new, the northern strategy that China has been implementing before is not a secret, splitting Russia and meddling in the Russian civil war are just for the sake of advancing the strategic line of northern security to the west, in order to absolutely guarantee the security of the domestic region, for China, even if it is in Central Asia and Siberia, it is much better than waging war at home.

"It's just that now that the Novosibirsk puppet political axe has broken away from China and attacked us on its own, at that time, whether we win or the puppet political axe side wins, a unified Russia will appear, and this situation is unacceptable to the Chinese, otherwise they will not come to us for negotiations!" Pan Youxin continued.

As an alternate member of the Central Committee of the Social Workers Party of Soviet Russia, the most important diplomat of Soviet Russia and the commander of the intelligence agency, he is completely ashamed of his rank of major general, and the diplomatic achievements he has made in China over the years are almost equal to zero, even if China and Soviet Russia signed a peace agreement last year, it was only Molotov himself who negotiated it.

Molotov did not speak, his face was too dark to have the heart to accuse his subordinates of doing things unfavorably, as the most important diplomat of Soviet Russia in this era, Molotov's vision is far longer than others, and he sees the problem more thoroughly, he can't see China's intentions, but the question now is, does Soviet Russia still have the ability to refuse?

Molotov's international strategic vision was undoubtedly long-term and high enough, and in 1939, because of his non-aggression agreement with Germany, Soviet Russia occupied most of Poland and the three Baltic states, and even laid the foundation for the subsequent Finnish campaign, and at the same time directly encouraged Germany to launch a war against France. While gaining a lot of benefits for Soviet Russia, it also bought a lot of time, otherwise in 1939 the Soviet Union and Germany would have been able to fight because of Poland.

In the first half of 1941, Molotov was appointed by Stalin as the first vice chairman of the People's Commissariat of Soviet Russia, and after the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, Motorov served as the vice chairman of the National Defense Committee.

This is true not only of Molotov, but also of most other countries, where the person in charge of foreign affairs is generally in a high-ranking position and is the decision-making level of the state.

The same is true of China's Gu Weijun, although Gu Weijun does not have the power of vice chairman of the National Defense Committee like Molotov, his position is only a very simple Minister of Foreign Affairs, but he is the second official in the political axe system who can participate in the highest-level strategic meeting, Chen Jingyun held a strategic meeting, in addition to Chen Jingyun, there are two in the Government Council, one is President Ma Yinchu, the second is the Minister of Foreign Affairs Gu Weijun, and the rest is the mind of the three major military branches, For example, Shen Gang of the Army, Guan Shijie of the Navy and Wu Shizhong of the Air Force, and others, even Zuo Yugang, who is also a general, are not qualified to participate in this kind of core strategic meeting.

If the post of chief of finance in the Chinese Government Council in peacetime belongs to the core high-level, then the chief foreign minister in wartime is even more important.

Molotov, who has an important position in Soviet Russia, naturally did not come to China for tourism, and he shouldered the great responsibility of the rise and fall of Soviet Russia when he came to China, and he fought for China to send troops to the Russian Republic and provide Soviet Russia with resource assistance. To get this is a great price, and what he is now frustrated about is that the price demanded by the Chinese is too high, even beyond the bottom line agreed with Stalin before he came.

Before coming to China, Molotov and Stalin had already negotiated, and set the bottom line of this negotiation, that is, Soviet Russia could recognize that China could recover the more than one million square kilometers of territory ceded to the Russian Empire in the former Qing Dynasty, and even the Far East could make certain concessions, but this absolutely did not include Siberia and Central Asia.

"They don't want to see us fall, hmph, two Russia is what they need, if we fall and let the puppet axe in the East unify Russia, it will be unacceptable for them, so even if we don't negotiate with them, it is estimated that they will send troops to the Far East and Siberia." This was Stalin's idea, but when Stalin had this idea, Molotov reminded Stalin.

"For the Chinese, sending troops to the Far East and Siberia is certain, but the key to the problem is when they will send troops, if we do not agree to their conditions, the Chinese can wait for us to fail, and the puppet political axe will directly send troops when it is not firmly established, and the troops of the puppet political axe will definitely not be able to resist the Chinese soldiers, and then they can also get what they want!"

And time is more important for Soviet Russia than China, now the Western Front battlefield of Soviet Russia has reached the most critical moment, the Battle of Moscow has begun, the Germans' typhoon plan has been implemented very smoothly after the launch, and the Central Army Group to which it belongs has continuously broken through the multiple lines of defense of the Soviet Army, and the multiple lines of defense deployed by the Soviet Army on the periphery of Moscow seem to be like paper paste, and the Western Front and the Reserve Front of the Soviet Army have been surrounded by the German army in the Viazima area, and it is not far from being completely encircled and annihilated. And the news that these two major fronts were surrounded reached Molotov's ears, which made him even more desperate, once this main force was annihilated, it would almost announce that the door to Moscow was wide open, and the German army could reach Moscow directly.

Despite the desperate resistance of the Soviet army on the front line, the fate of defeat was still inevitable, and the Germans broke directly to Tula with amazing combat effectiveness, and then surrounded and annihilated the Soviet Western Front and the Reserve Front in the Vyazma area, the Soviet army lost more than 600,000 troops, and only a few remnants broke through.

The Battle of Vyazma was not only a brilliant victory for the German army, but also directly pushed Soviet Russia to submit at the negotiating table in China, if Soviet Russia had tried to rely on Moscow's outer defense line to block the pace of the German offensive, then now they were completely desperate, the German army's forward troops were only dozens of kilometers away from Moscow, and the rumbling artillery on Moscow's Red Square could already be clearly heard on Moscow's Red Square, and Zhukov, who was in charge of Moscow's defense, had used all the resources at his disposal, Women and children were forced to participate in the construction of fortifications, and even the Winter Palace was built in an attempt to make a last resort.

The plight of the Russians made them lose any choice, and they could only passively accept China's request, Gu Weijun touched the wine glass with Molotov, and then said: "I wish the Chinese and Russian people friendship for generations!" ”

Molotov still has the smile of a professional diplomat, but the bitterness in his eyes is something that not many people can see.

After the Soviet Western Front and the Reserve Front were encircled and annihilated by the Germans in the Battle of Vyazma, on October 12, China and Soviet Russia signed a series of agreements. The most important of these is the 'Agreement on the Settlement of the Border between China and Soviet Russia', also known as the 'Sino-Soviet Border Agreement'

In the Sino-Soviet border agreement, it was stipulated that the two countries should extend the Gulf of Ob in the Arctic Ocean to the south, along the Ob River to Topols, continue south along the left tributary of the Ob River to Togorsk, and then extend to the southwest in the direction of the Caspian Sea, passing through the Emba River to the coastal area of the Caspian Sea. (PS: For an intuitive understanding, you can check the map shared by the book group)

Since the above border demarcation line is not based on the Ural Mountains, this makes a large group of Chinese military generals, especially army generals, very dissatisfied, because that group of army generals said that the Ural Mountains are the best defensive barrier, as long as they control it, they can not only ensure domestic security, but also can use the Ural Mountains as the basis for sending troops to the western regions of Russia at any time, which can be described as condescending and has an extremely obvious strategic advantage.

However, it is not impossible for Soviet Russia to see such a strategic advantage, and although the situation of Soviet Russia is very difficult, they are not willing to risk defending China from crossing the Ural Mountains to attack their hinterland at any time in the future.

For the Russians, the Ural Mountains were the most important barrier against the Chinese army, without which Stalin could not sleep well.

Chen Jingyun saw that the Russians did not agree, and seeing that winter was coming, once the winter came, the Russians would be relieved, and then the German attack on Moscow would almost come to naught, and at that time it would be almost impossible for the Russians to accept their border demarcation. Therefore, Gu Weijun was directly instructed to accept the second plan proposed by the Russians, that is, not to use the Ural Mountains and the Ural River to the Caspian Sea as the benchmark, but to demarcate the demarcation line with the Ob River and the Emba River as the benchmark.