Chapter 806 I don't want to be in my hands

On August 23, the 28th year of the Republic of China, there was destined to be an unquiet night, and since Tang Qiuli had been leading several special operations detachments to lurk in the eastern section of the Sino-Soviet border, in the area of Dongning and Suifenhe, in the high mountains and dense forests, Major General Tang Qiuquan, the head of the special operations detachment of the independent division, issued an action order to "bloom roses." On this night, from Boli to Golenji, from Heilongjiang to Suifenhe, the long border line of several hundred kilometers was full of gunfire.

The Soviet Far Eastern Military District quickly reported this sudden incident to the General Staff of the Soviet Army, and the General Staff could not make up its mind, or Stalin, the supreme leader of the Soviet Union, set the basic tone for this series of incidents against the Soviet Army.

In Stalin's strategy for the Far East, the first thing to be solved was the issue of the Outer Méng, to eliminate the Chinese Tang Qiuli troops in the Outer Méng Ancient Region, and to preserve the vested interests of the Soviet Union in the region, which was in line with both the immediate and long-term strategic interests of the Soviet Union.

Stalin was a seasoned politician and a smart man, and he did not want to see that at the critical moment when the future of Zhukov's troops was uncertain and the fate of the Wai Méng Gu was decided, there were frequent changes in Japan's Far East, and the huge military strength of the Kwantung Army in Manchuria made Stalin even more vigilant.

Therefore, Molotov's instructions to the People's Commissar of the Soviet Union were to deal with the current very sensitive Soviet-Japanese relations as low-key as possible through the guòwaijio route, and as long as the Japanese government showed sincerity, the Soviet government could even make appropriate concessions, and wait until the Chinese Tang Qiuli troops who had the upper hand in the ancient area of the outer region were resolved.

After reading the protest letter, Foreign Minister Ishishè Inotaro was absolutely surprised and shocked, he did not believe that the Kwantung Army would do such a brutal act behind the back of the emperor and the base camp, but the Soviets came up with conclusive evidence, and since the Soviets fought with Tang Qiuli in the ancient region of Waiméng, the domestic military circles have greatly raised their heads of love for the Soviets to start a war.

Ishi-in-artaro is really not sure, whether the Kwantung Army is carrying the Japanese government behind its back and doing it to the Soviets without authorization, this matter is also a big thing for the Japanese government, as the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ishishè Inotaro does not dare to call the shots, looking at the ambassador Stovicchia, who has an unkind face, he is full of smiles, and his tone is unusually kind: "Mr. Ambassador, it is related to the relationship between the two countries, especially when it comes to the Japan-Soviet friendship treaty, please allow me to report to our country's government. In giving you a satisfactory answer"

After stabilizing the Soviet ambassador to Japan, Stovicchia, Ishishi-Shè Inotaro ran into the palace like a smoke, and presented the Soviets' protest letter to Emperor Hirohito.

In the same way, having Tang Qiuli's troops in the north of China and occupying the western Liaoxi region of Manchuria is a problem for all the leading figures in Japan's military and political circles, and the Japanese also do not want any military conflict with the behemoth of the north until Tang Qiuli's forces are completely eliminated.

From the "Japan-Soviet Friendship Treaty", it can be seen that the Soviet Union and Japan did not want a military conflict under the circumstances of that time, although the Japanese dreamed of obtaining the oil resources of the Russian Far East, Siberia and Transcaucasia, but now is definitely not the time.

Hirohito pondered for a while, ordered shì to serve as an official, and immediately announced the chief of the general staff of the base camp, the prince Zaihito of the imperial brother Xianyuan Palace to enter the palace, Zaihito arrived in a hurry, and felt inexplicable about this protest letter, according to reason, the Kwantung Army at this time, should not have extra jīng force, in Manchuria and the Soviet border, to make so many military operations, just the independent division's Liaoxi offensive, has made the Kwantung Army commander Ueda Kenkichi a lot of headaches.

But the protest was true, and the emperor's brothers, together with Foreign Minister Ishishè Otaro, decided after urgent deliberation to let Zaihito, in the name of the chief of the general staff of the base camp, issue an order for General Kenkichi Ueda, commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army Command, to explain this qiē clearly, and at the same time, send the protest letter of the Soviets to the Kwantung Army Command in the original language.

After receiving the order from the General Staff of the base camp, Ueda Kenkichi was also at a loss, he really didn't do anything, just to deal with Tang Qiuli's troops, the matter of gathering troops in Shenyang had already made Ueda Kenkichi anxious, at this time, I was still going to provoke the Soviets, wasn't I sick?

Kenkichi Ueda thought indignantly, and immediately sent a telegram back to the base camp, calling for a collision with the heavens, declaring, "I am concentrating on the battle that will be launched against the Tang Qiuli troops in China, and I will never dare to go against the decree of His Majesty the Emperor and start a war with the Soviets lightly. ”

Emperor Hirohito and Prince Zaihito, who had already been Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ishishè Inotaro, mostly believed Ueda Kenkichi's words, so the reply to the Soviet ambassador to Japan, Stovicchia, was: "Our government has already questioned the Kwantung Army troops, and the series of incidents that occurred on the border between Manchuria and the Soviet Union were definitely not the work of our Japanese Kwantung Army troops, and the Japanese government and the army of the Emperor Xià absolutely abide by the one qiē clause stipulated in the Japan-Soviet Friendship Treaty. Our government reserves the right to demand an apology. ”

In a word, there is absolutely no such thing, you are planting a false accusation, our Imperial Japanese government, and we have to ask what is the intention of you Soviets? Naturally, it was difficult to satisfy the Soviets with the Japanese government's reply, and the two sides exchanged telegrams endlessly, and in the end, the Soviets became angry, and the scene of the attack on the Soviet border patrol was still preserved, and the Japanese did not see the coffin and did not shed tears.

As a result of the quarrels, the senior generals of the armies of the two sides and the senior officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs jointly investigated the scene of the attack on the Soviet patrol.

On the Japanese side, the military leaders involved were Major General Yuichi Watanabe, deputy chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, and Mitaro Takashima, director of the Asian Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; on the Soviet side, Major General Aruschenko, deputy chief of staff of the Far Eastern Military District; Tsytoyawsky, deputy member of the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs in charge of Asian affairs; and one special member, General Timoshenko, commander and political commissioner of the Second Soviet Far Eastern Army, which was being formed.

Temoshenko was specially ordered by Stalin to participate, and the two sides agreed to inspect the scene near the No. 183 boundary monument on the Soviet side of the Suifen River, and Major General Aruchenko, who had just lost more than 1,000 people, naturally would not be in a good mood, and felt that Major General Yuichi Watanabe, who had been wronged, was also full of anger, glaring angrily at each other, and jumping as soon as he spoke, and the corpses of Soviet patrol soldiers had been hanging in the wilderness for a day and a night, and they still maintained the posture before death.

The Soviets did put a lot of effort into proving the problem, and Major General Yuichi Watanabe glanced at it and said arrogantly: "What does this prove? The death of your soldiers does not have anything to do with the Kwantung Army units of the Great Japanese Empire."

Major General Aluchenko was so angry that he almost scolded his mother, "Damn the Japanese, in the face of ironclad facts, you still have to quibble and deny, well, let you see the evidence," he ordered the accompanying guards to bring all the bullets that could be collected.

A large pile of Japanese-style bullets was piled up at the feet of Major General Yuichi Watanabe, deputy chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, and he was stunned, the real standard bullets used by the Kwantung Army troops, what the hell? As the deputy chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, Major General Yuichi Watanabe participated in the planning of all military operations of the Kwantung Army troops, and he can vouch with his head that the Kwantung Army absolutely did not attack Soviet soldiers, but what about these bullets?

The Kwantung Army didn't do it, and Major General Yuichi Watanabe naturally wouldn't bend into a move, and his answer was: "Although it is a bullet from our Kwantung Army troops of the Great Japanese Empire, it cannot be proved that it was issued by the soldiers of the Kwantung Army," Major General Aruschenko couldn't help it anymore, he had seen shameless, and he had never seen such a despicable and shameless person as the Japanese.

In a few words, the two generals who both had arrogance in their bones immediately quarreled, if it weren't for the fact that the members of the foreign jiāo department on both sides pressed each other, these two guys who were not convinced by each other and felt that they were upright, they would have drawn their guns on the spot and staged a modern version of the duel.

Timoshenko did not speak from beginning to end, he instinctively felt that this matter was not so simple, out of the sensitivity of the soldiers and the desire for war, he felt that the possibility of Japan playing yīn plot was greater, and the main forces of the Far Eastern Military District were attracted by the war in the ancient region of Outer Méng, and it may not be a great opportunity for the Japanese who have long coveted the Far East.

The two sides broke up unhappily and agreed to continue the consultations tomorrow, and this qiē was all seen by Tang Qiuquan at the observation post set up in this area, and he immediately reported the reactions of the Japanese and Soviets he had collected, as well as the handling methods adopted by both sides, to Tang Qiuli, the division commander who was far away in Uriya Sutai.

After Tang Qiuli received the telegram, he smiled coldly, it was expected, if the Soviets and the Japanese fought so lightly, he would not have to arrange for Brother Qiuquan to play this move in the Sino-Soviet border a few months in advance, whether it was the Soviets or the Japanese, they put solving their own forces in the first place.

This can be seen from the restrained attitude adopted by both the Soviets and the Japanese, and if the two countries do not fight, not only will they not be able to take advantage, but they will also be beaten back to their original form by two countries that are fat and strong and greedy.

Tang Qiuli's latest instruction to Tang Qiuquan was: "Continue to add fire," which is still four words, with murderous and yīn danger.