The Soviet side recognized that the Anti-Japanese League was an anti-Japanese armed force under the direct leadership of the Chinese Red Party, and promised not to send personnel to take up posts in the Anti-Japanese League beyond the Red Party in the future, and in addition, the Soviet government promised to provide no less than 10,000 rifles, 3 million rounds of ammunition, and 100,000 grenades to the plateau by July 38 at the latest.

In addition, to Hu Weidong's surprise, perhaps in order to dispel the dissatisfaction of the local party in power in China with the Soviet Union, Stalin also put all the responsibility for the failure of the fifth anti-encirclement campaign on Wang Ming personally, just as he later betrayed Gao Gang in history. In addition to being surprised, Hu Weidong analyzed that this may be because the Soviet Union has now realized the Liliang of the Red Party and its increasingly important role in containing the Japanese army, and the Soviet Union has also gained huge benefits in the process of Soviet aid, and compared with these practical benefits, sacrificing one or two pro-Soviet foreigners is nothing. But for the Chinese Red Party, the Soviet Union's move undoubtedly dealt a fatal blow to the internationalists in the party

These aids from the Soviet Union were no less helpful to China's industrialization process than Hu Weidong's previous purchases in Western countries, but these benefits were not given in vain, in addition to the quid pro quo given by Hu Weidong, the Red Party also had to owe the Soviet Union a debt of 300 million US dollars, which was repaid in ten years at an annual interest rate of 3%. However, Hu Weidong took advantage of the arrogance of the Soviets and set the agreement to be repaid after five years, and at the same time specifically stated in the agreement that if the Soviet Union could not provide assistance in full and on time, then the Chinese Red Party also had the right to refuse to fulfill its obligations. Stalin, on the other hand, had anticipated a future war with Germany. However, he never expected that he would lose so badly in the early stage of the war that he did not even have the ability to fulfill this agreement or threaten the Chinese Red Party, so he did not care much about this detail, and as a result, he could only watch the Chinese justifiably pay this arrears

It is worth mentioning that in the process of aiding the Chinese Red Party, the Soviet Union also benefited a lot from it, in addition to the quid pro quo promised by Hu Weidong, in the process of aid, the Soviet Jishu personnel, who are generally relatively modest and studious, have also learned from their counterparts in the border areas a production management system that transcends the times. This greatly helped the industrial construction of the Soviet Union. Coupled with the advanced jishu that were acquired one after another after the signing of the agreement, the Soviet Union in this time and space was even more powerful than the same period in history.

Hu Weidong, who has always hated Lao Maozi, is not unable to do this, but in order to accelerate China's industrialization, defeat the Japanese army as soon as possible. Trade-offs have to be made. However, the butterfly effect of history is sometimes really unexpected, the strength of the Soviet Union made Stalin more and more unscrupulous purges, and Germany did not dare to attack the Soviet Union too soon and gave him more time to toss, as a result, when the Soviet-German war broke out, the losses of the Soviet Union were even more amazing than in history, of course, these are later stories

Chairman Chiang in Nanjing was naturally very dissatisfied with such a large-scale Soviet aid to the Red Party, but after all, all this Soviet aid was mainly for civilian industry and mining. Basically there was no involvement in the military industry (at least the Soviet Union did not help the Red Party to develop the military industry, but the Soviet Union benefited a lot. As for weapons and equipment, the number of points obtained by the Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation and the Soviet Aid Air Force is only a drop in the bucket. In addition, in order to appease Chiang's dissatisfaction, the Soviet Union's aid to Jihua was also increased compared with the original plan, and the total value also reached 300 million US dollars, and it was an unsecured loan, compared to the Red Party at a cost of at least 50 million US dollars in exchange for a loan of 300 million US dollars, Stalin's attitude was obviously still biased towards the side of the government. This reassured Lao Chiang, who was worried that the Soviet Union would support the Red Party and oust him from power...,

The more important reason for the softening of Lao Chiang's attitude was the rapid decline in the situation of the Anti-Japanese War, which caused tremendous pressure on Lao Chiang. Let's talk about the North China Battlefield first, although the commander of the Japanese Army's North China Front, Terauchi Shouichi, was almost beaten to the commander of the bare pole, but when a large number of reinforcements arrived in Tianjin, the front army's strategy also changed to the direction of the Jinpu line. But it suddenly became extremely ferocious again, and in less than a month, it swept away almost everything east of Taihang and north of the Yellow River. Li Zongren, commander of the Fifth Theater, did his best to temporarily block the Japanese offensive by relying on the natural danger of the Yellow River, but the Fifth Theater was seriously short of troops, and the situation was precarious. The Songhu battlefield was already becoming more and more difficult, and the Japanese army really landed near Jinshanwei in Hangzhou Bay as Hu Weidong said at the beginning, and hundreds of thousands of people in Songhu were in danger of being intercepted and had to retreat in a hurry.

Fortunately, due to the previous victory in North China, the Japanese army was restrained from entering the Songhu battlefield, which made the landing of the Japanese army in Jinshanwei later than in history, and at this time the "League of Nations" meeting had ended, and Lao Chiang naturally would not let the troops continue to hold on to the death in order to show the determination of the Western powers to resist the war as in history, and the fortifications of the "Wufu Line" have now been repaired by Chen Mingren's troops. In the face of the menacing Japanese pursuers, Chen Mingren led the 88th Division to fight bloodily here, withstood the crazy attack of the Japanese pursuers for more than ten days, and successfully covered the retreat of a large number of friendly troops, so compared with the historical Battle of Songhu, the casualties, especially the number of casualties, were greatly reduced (about 200,000 casualties, 780,000 casualties, while in history 300,000 casualties, nearly 200,000 killed, half of which were sacrificed in the chaotic retreat). ), while the losses of the Japanese army increased. Coupled with the previous victory in North China, the start of the Anti-Japanese War was still much better than that of the same period in history.

But even so, in the face of the Japanese Central China Front, whose total strength had skyrocketed to nearly 300,000 troops, everyone knew that the national capital Nanjing was no longer defendable, but at this time, Tang Shengzhi, who was deliberately taking the opportunity to seize power, jumped out and impassionedly said that he wanted to "live and die with Nanjing", hoping to move Lao Chiang to appoint him as the commander of Nanjing's urban defense. Fortunately, unlike in history, when he was still studying at the Army University at this time, Chen Mingren, as the commander of the 88th Division, has just made great contributions, and he is also a Whampoa student of Lao Chiang, and his competitiveness is much greater than that of Tang Shengzhi, Lao Chiang's former opponent, and when he also stood up to compete for the post of Nanjing City Defense Commander, Tang Shengzhi's plan naturally failed

In fact, Chen Mingren also thought that Nanjing could not be defended in his heart, but he debuted very early, and knew that Tang Shengzhi had neither talent nor courage, and if he handed over more than 300,000 troops in Nanjing to him, he would have to be completely destroyed, so he also had to seize the command of this battle at the risk of losing his reputation. (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )