Chapter 324: A New Offensive

When the agreement was signed, the Americans did not think that they were poor at that time, and most of the people could not even eat enough. Chinese who even need food support from the United States. In addition to some mineral resources and energy, what else can be exported?

The base areas in Northeast China and North China, which are controlled by the Chinese Communists, will become dumping grounds for a large number of American agricultural products and light industrial products after the war. The signing of this agreement will do no harm to the Americans. It is possible to obtain large quantities of China's mineral resources cheaply, and at the same time find a new dumping ground for American goods.

Economically, the Chinese are unlikely to pose any threat to the United States. The Chinese do not have anything for export other than tungsten and tin. Including agriculture, the United States has an absolute advantage. So in this matter, there is not much consideration at all.

The Americans, who established themselves as the world's number one military, political, and economic power in World War II, are too confident. Perhaps militarily, they once saw the Chinese as a threat. Of course, this threat is at most aimed at their so-called sphere of influence, not at the United States itself.

Even if the new China's medium-range surface-to-surface missiles and long-range bombers are in service, the Americans do not believe that China will pose a threat to its homeland. However, the Americans also believe that it is necessary to contain China's military strength, and they have been using containment measures to contain the development of China's military industry.

Therefore, as soon as World War II ended, in the name of stopping the outbreak of the Chinese Civil War, the most severe blockade of technology and industrial equipment was imposed on the various base areas of the Chinese Communist Party. All equipment involved in the development of heavy industry, with the exception of some power generation equipment, is embargoed.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it has also been imposing technical sanctions that are more severe than those imposed on the Soviet Union. Although at the end of the fifties, export controls on industrial equipment were somewhat relaxed. However, the blockade of high technology has been strengthened in disguise to a certain extent. But economically they never thought that the Chinese would become their opponents.

The areas that were set aside before the founding of the People's Republic of China to implement most-favored-nation trade status for the United States are busy with large-scale industrial construction and require a large amount of industrial equipment. But the Americans have imposed a technological blockade on China, and they do not sell the industrial and technical equipment they need. The products of light industry that were sold had become the base of the war for the liberation of the whole of China, and there was neither a place to come nor a need to buy them.

After the kerosene was exploited in the Daqing oil field, the products of the Americans were no longer used. The focus is on aviation fuel and marine diesel fuel, and the Americans have imposed an embargo on all base areas. As for the consumption of agricultural products, with the northeast, the richest and most productive agricultural region in China, there is nothing for the Americans to do other than cotton.

The large-scale reclamation of the Sanjiang Plain and the Nenjiang River has doubled the grain output in Northeast China. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was changed from the original subordinate to the Anti-Japanese Federation to the Northeast Production and Construction Corps under the Central Military Commission, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was changed to the Northeast Production and Construction Corps of the Northeast Agricultural Reclamation Bureau, and its grain output was sufficient to meet the needs of all troops inside and outside the Guanxi Territory.

Not only does it not need to import U.S. grain, but it exports tens of millions of dollars of soybeans to the U.S. every year. Relying on the industrial base established in Northeast China during the Anti-Japanese War, as well as through barter trade between the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries during the War of Liberation, as well as the dismantling of a large number of industries in Japan, the economy of Northeast China has been developing rapidly.

In addition, the members of the Communist Party of China in that era had the unique perseverance and willpower, as well as the drive and momentum to build a new China. The industrial development of Northeast China is almost a major change every year, and the industrial development rate of Northeast China was as high as 200 percent during the entire period of the Liberation War. No one buys grain and light industrial products in the United States in the base areas.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, an economic system in which a highly planned economy and a local collective economy coexisted was implemented. All foreign exchange transactions and foreign trade approval rights are controlled by the state. Even if the United States is granted most-favored-nation status, all trade plans need to be approved by the central government.

And it's the same old problem, the technology and equipment that China needs the most, and everything that involves technology in terms of military equipment, the Americans do not sell. Even the Americans who are carrying out industrial construction in China, the most urgently needed large-tonnage trucks, mining equipment and construction trucks, high-horsepower marine diesel engines, etc., have imposed quite severe export restrictions on China.

As for those luxury accessories that the Chinese do not need, although there is large-scale dumping, no one buys them. Moreover, the light industrial products approved for sale by the United States have no market at all in the Chinese market because of the price. This most-favored-nation trade status is almost useless for the United States.

But for the Chinese, it's completely different. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, with the vigorous encouragement of the state, those light industries with little investment and quick results developed rapidly. Not only firmly with the price and relatively good quality advantages, occupy the domestic market, but also the export volume has always been very large.

First textiles and light industrial products, then small displacement automobiles and household electronics captured most of the U.S. market. Enough dollars from the pockets of the Americans. Even medium-sized airliners have seized a part of the American market. And the price of products in the United States is generally high because of the high price of labor. Although quality is dominant, it is difficult to break into the Chinese market.

The most important thing is that this damn agreement was signed in the first place. The areas that granted the most favored nation (MFN) treatment to the United States in trade referred to the areas controlled by the Chinese Communists at that time, that is, North China, Northeast China, and parts of East China and Northwest China.

After the founding of the Communist Party of China, the most favored nation (MFN) status granted to the United States was still the provinces. The rest of China, including the whole of China, with the exception of Northeast China, the most developed region in East China, has been saying no to American goods. In this way, it is said that the area given to the United States is only one-fifth of the area of the people.

And this one-fifth of China's needs for American materials and raw materials, as well as production technology. Although there is also a large demand for the latest American technology and high-tech products with high technological value, these products are all on the US embargo list. The U.S. can export, and with the exception of large-scale power generation and transmission equipment, as well as some metallurgical equipment, the U.S. government agrees to sell almost zero.

But in this agreement, the market that the United States needs to open to Chinese is facing the whole of China. With such a calculation, the Americans are basically unprofitable, but they want to give up their entire market. Either lift technical sanctions and agree to export a series of high-tech products such as aviation jet engines and high-horsepower diesel engines, which are most urgently needed by the Chinese, or continue to suffer.

The Americans approached the Chinese to demand a revision of the trade agreement, but Yang Zhen resolutely refused. Directly tell the Americans that it is okay to amend, or lift the blockade on high-tech products, China's purchase of American science and technology patents, and the elective majors of Chinese students. Either it goes on like this, and everyone still has to do what they should do.

First, he did not repay his debts, played the United States on the spoils of war against Japan, and then made such a bunch of tricks in trade, and the Americans hated Yang Zhen to the core. Among the universities and scientific research institutions in the United States, there are fifteen or sixteen research institutes in order to study what kind of person Yang Zhen is. Every year, there are thousands of research reports on Yang Zhen.

On the CIA's list, Yang Zhen has always been in the top five. Even Yang Zhen's every move, hundreds of senior CIA agents were staring at him. If Yang Zhen disappears from the political arena for a month, the Americans will have to spend a lot of money to study what this guy has done during the time he disappeared.

The funniest thing is that in the early 70s, Yang Zhen went to Hainan Island to recuperate for half a year because of a recurrence of an old injury. The U.S. government, which did not find out Yang Zhen's whereabouts within half a year, was in a mess, and spent a lot of money to study what Yang Zhen had done in the past six months.

In the late seventies, Yang Zhen, who took over as chairman of the Central Military Commission, was invited to visit the United States for the first time. The Americans have even sent hundreds of so-called experts on China issues to study what kind of tricks Yang Zhen, the youngest member of China's second-generation leadership group, will come up with during this visit to the United States. If it weren't for Yang Zhen's pivotal position at that time, I am afraid that the Americans would have declared Yang Zhen to be unpopular with the United States for life.

However, although Yang Zhen has begun to secretly plan these things now, he has even begun to deploy them in some aspects. In particular, with regard to the next bombing focus on the Japanese mainland, the air force has been asked to formulate a plan according to its own requirements. In the choice of targets, we must pay more attention.

But now he has secretly formed a crack group composed of intelligence, political and industrial experts, as well as economic experts on Japan, which Guo Bingxun did not know. Yang Zhen, who was planning painstakingly, from intelligence to the selection of targets, including the possible results in the follow-up, had to be carefully considered repeatedly, and he did not think of the final impact of his plan after it was implemented.

Now for Yang Zhen, the focus is still on the current battlefield. However, although Yang Zhen disagreed with Guo Bingxun's worries, it was still necessary for Yang Zhen to prepare a few more hands. Yang Zhen finally decided to agree with Guo Bingxun and draw up a response plan for certain practices that the Japanese army might take.

Again, if you are not afraid of 10,000, you are afraid of what happens. Although the Japanese army said that its tactics were a little more rigid, its ability to adapt was a little worse. But it cannot be said that this army, from the brain to the heels, is completely ossified. The adaptability of this army is still okay. Although the ability to react to new tactics is a little slower, it does not mean that they are completely unacceptable. For some things, it is better to make some preparations as early as possible so as not to be passive when the time comes.

After Yang Zhen and Guo Bingxun quickly came up with a countermeasure, the Anti-Japanese Federation threw all the reserves in their hands into the front-line battlefield. In the Siping Battlefield, all the tanks and planes in the Northeast Battlefield were concentrated, and the overall tactics of frontal squeezing and two-wing clamping in the Siping direction were adopted to launch the latest offensive with the overall tactics of large depth and roundabout.

In order to draw the attention of the Japanese army from the Shanxi battlefield back to the northeast, Yang Zhen transferred a part of his troops from the front of Siping and launched a large-depth interspersed operation in the direction of Kangping, Faku, and Changtu. Through Zhangwu, he launched a forced offensive on the front line of the Juliu River. It approached the depth of the various divisions of the Japanese army on the Siping line, as well as the entire rear, and put on a posture of forcing Mukden again.

The troops pointed directly at the key points on the periphery of Mukden, such as Ma Sanjiazi, Hushitai, and Xintaizi, and cooperated with the offensive launched from the front, trying to once again launch a front and rear attack on the Japanese army on the Siping line. At this time, the entire southern army was full of enemies, and after a division originally deployed on the front line of Kaiyuan and Tieling was disabled, the Kwantung Army was already defenseless.

In the originally relatively calm Rehe battlefield, the Anti-Japanese Federation and the advance army under the command of the first section. The continuous concentration of forces was the defense line built by the Kwantung Army on the front line of Nurur Tiger Mountain to launch an attack. In the Nurur Tiger Mountains, a fierce artillery battle broke out between the two armies. This battle drew the attention of the Kwantung Army and the entire Japanese base camp back to the Northeast Battlefield from the North China Battlefield.