The one in Moscow was an unusually ruthless lord, and he was able to purge the Soviet army from top to bottom on trumped-up charges, and how many marshals and generals with great military achievements fell to the ground. So if he felt that Yang Zhen was a harm to the interests of the Soviet Union, he would not let Yang Zhen go because of the ideas of several marshals and generals under him.

And whether Yang Zhen is a Soviet general or not, whether he is a Chinese, he will not care about that qiē. During the upsurge of the Soviet rebellion, were fewer Chinese who remained in the Soviet Union killed? They dared to detain the commander-in-chief of the Anti-Japanese Federation yesterday and kill the cadres of the Anti-Japanese Federation, and today they may not dare to kill Yang Zhen, a guy who may become a stumbling block for them.

Don't say that the central government will not agree to him going, even if it agrees to him to go, he will resolutely not go. He didn't want to go to the Soviet Union to be a prisoner at this time, or lose his head in the Soviet Union for some reason. The revolution is far from succeeding, and Yang Zhen cherishes his own life. What's more, whether the central government will agree to him to take the risk, Yang Zhen is still confident.

In fact, this time Yang Zhen was really a little careful, this time the invitation was really the current General Staff of the Soviet Army, Shaposhnikov, and General Zhukov, who had just been transferred back from the Leningrad front at this time and took over the Moscow defense line, to the supreme leader who was called the old man of Moscow by Yang Zhen.

As the chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Army, he has always been very worried about the security of the Far East under the current situation in which the entire Western Front is in danger. Especially some time ago, the losses of the Soviet army were too great. As chief of the General Staff, he had great concerns about whether several military districts in the Far East could transfer some more troops to the Western Front while there was still a Japanese invasion.

As the chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Army, although he clearly knew that the Anti-Japanese Union had now occupied the border area with the Soviet Union, temporarily relieved the crisis of possible existence in the Far East of the Soviet Union, and at least alleviated the possibility of the Japanese army cooperating with the German army to attack the Soviet Union, it did not fundamentally alleviate it.

Although the Anti-Japanese Union has done a good job at present, it is still not enough for the Soviet army. Whether they could hold out until the end of the war against Germany and develop to completely solve the pressure of the Soviet army to fight on both fronts, the Soviet General Staff did not have much confidence at present.

In the opinion of the General Staff of the Soviet Army, although the threat on land was already small. But the Japanese Navy has always been a considerable threat to the Soviet Far East. The Japanese army, with its powerful navy, was able to completely avoid the defense zone of the frontal resistance coalition and carry out landing operations in the coastal areas of the Soviet Far East.

If the Japanese army insisted on cooperating with the German forces in the western theater and fighting the Guò landing, it would also threaten the security of the Soviet Far East and contain its forces in the Far East from being transferred westward. Moreover, Japan has a strong navy, which can fully guarantee the safety of its sea transportation routes. As long as the Japanese Navy was active on the coast of the Far East for a day, the Soviets felt a thorn in their backs.

What is even more crucial is that after most of the original troops of the Far Eastern Military District have been transferred, the newly organized army of several hundred thousand troops is also urgently needed on the Western Front. In the event that there is still a threat at sea, how many of these troops can be transferred in the end is also related to whether the situation on the Western Front can be replenished with sufficient supplementary troops.

Before the Japanese army's next move was fully understood, it was impossible for the Soviet army to let go of the heart that had been hanging. Now more than ever, it is necessary to contain more Japanese troops in the Far East. They will not make any unfavorable moves against Yang Zhen at this time.

The reason why Marshal Shaposhnikov made the invitation was to meet with Yang Zhen in person to ascertain his views on the current threat of the Japanese army to the Soviet Far East. He also discussed with Yang Zhen to maximize the use of the anti-union forces to share the pressure in the Soviet Far East.

This mention was originally proposed by General Zhukov, who had fought against the Japanese army in Outer Mongolia, to Marshal Shaposhnikov when he took over the Moscow theater of operations. The aim was to integrate the defense of the Soviet army in the Far East with the alliance of resistance in order to reduce the pressure on the coastal areas of the Far East.

In the eyes of the only army general who has directly fought with the Japanese among the current top echelons of the Soviet army. Regardless of the reasons and intelligence, as long as the objectives of the next phase of the war were not really unfolded, the threat of the Japanese forces in Korea and Japan proper, to the Soviet Far East, would always exist.

And the Soviet Union, which is currently in the midst of a war, simply does not have the ability to cope with two wars. Moreover, the defeat in the battle of Vyazma-Bryansk has become a foregone conclusion, and the total loss of troops may be as high as more than one million. The Soviet army, which was already running low in reserves, urgently needed to transfer troops from the Far East to replenish the Western Front.

In particular, the tank units deployed in the Far East were of great importance for the defense of Moscow in the opinion of the former chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Army. Therefore, he established the General Staff and invited Yang Zhen to pay a visit to the Soviet Union to study with the Anti-Japanese Union the issue of the two armies assisting in the defense of the Soviet Far East.

In particular, after the main forces in the Far East were withdrawn, once the Japanese army landed in the Far East of the Soviet Union, the question of whether the Anti-Japanese Union could transfer troops into the territory of the Soviet Union to cooperate with the Soviet army in combat. Because of the current forces in the Far East, the reduction of the number of troops will not help the Western Front. If too much is transferred, the remaining forces will not be able to resist the Japanese landing operation at all.

This viewpoint was quite in favor of Marshal Shaposhnikov, who was worried about the current rather unfavorable situation in the western theater and about the possible landing of Japanese troops in the Far East and attacking the Soviet Union on both sides. If the Anti-Japanese League could contain more Japanese troops in Manchuria, the less threat the Soviet Far East would have.

After consulting the supreme leader and obtaining his consent, Marshal Shaposhnikov, who was the chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Army, came forward, and then dragged the Minister of General Ordnance Yakovlev, who had always been curious about the United Nations. and the general pulled Marshal Timoshenko to co-sign the invitation telegram and sent an invitation to Yang Zhen together.

And even if the Soviet leader didn't wait to see Yang Zhen, a troublemaker, he would not destroy the defense of the Far East at this time. He knew very well that the stronger the Anti-Japanese Alliance, the greater the containment of the Japanese army, and the further the Japanese threat to the Soviet Far East could be thoroughly contacted.

So he agreed to Shaposhnikov's request without the slightest consideration. Moreover, after personally reviewing the contents of the invitation telegram, he also added that the Soviet side would guarantee Comrade Yang Zhen's safety in the Soviet Union. and personally drafted a telegram to Yan'an, hoping that Yan'an could exert some pressure.

It's just that Yang Zhen's ambiguous attitude of always not replying to the invitation of the Soviet Union, as well as the central government's lack of cooperation in this matter, also made this matter not come to fruition in the end. In the end, despite the needs of the front, General Shaposhnikov, who was anxious, sent a deputy chief of the General Staff to visit Harbin together with the commander of the Far Eastern Military District, General Abanashenk, when the defense of Moscow was in full swing.

There is no way that Yang Zhen is not in a hurry, but the Soviet army, which urgently needs to replenish the troops, is in a hurry. During the Battle of Moscow, the Soviet troops, who were already hungry for reinforcements, almost drained the Far East. Even the border troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, with the exception of some troops on the Soviet-North Korean border and Sakhalin Island, were transferred as a division.

As for the technical arms, except for the Pacific Fleet aviation, the rest of the aviation and tank units were all transferred. Two-thirds of the artillery units were transferred, and all the air defense units were transferred. The remaining strength of a huge Far Eastern Military District is less than a group army. Not to mention the defense of the entire Far East, even the defense of Vladivostok is not enough.

In such a situation, could that Marshal Shaposhnikov not be in a hurry? If the Japanese had landed on the coast at this time, the Soviet troops in the Far Eastern Military District would have had almost no resistance at all. Yang Zhen did not reply to the invitation for a long time, so he could only send someone to the Anti-Japanese Federation.

Fortunately, although Yang Zhen did not give a reply, the deputy chief of the general staff, who had come all the way from Moscow, did not run in vain. Yang Zhen was not ambiguous about the demands made by the Soviets. In the presence of the deputy chief of staff of the Central Military Commission, who arrived from Yan'an and carried the true intentions of the chairman, as well as the commander and political commissar of the advance army, an agreement was reached with the Anti-Japanese Federation on defense assistance.

It's just that this so-called defense agreement was walked in front of the deputy chief of general staff of the Soviet army, and Yang Zhen was thrown into the safe like waste paper in front of the three old commanders. He didn't even look at the actual contents of the agreement negotiated between Li Yanping, political commissar of the military region, and the deputy chief of staff.

As for the battle plan required for the so-called cooperative defense operation, at this moment, he put all his mind on preparing for the next stage of the battle, and he did not think about it at all, let alone take it to heart. The deputy chief of staff of the Central Military Commission, who had come to assist him in formulating the battle plan, could only shake his head and smile bitterly.

When he went back to report to the Chairman, he just shook his head and smiled and said nothing. The central government did not put any pressure on Yang Zhen in this matter. After all, as a human being, the chairman would not have done such a thing as harming China's own interests and protecting the interests of the Soviets.

Sending people to cooperate with the Anti-Japanese Federation is just because of Moscow's pressure to do something to save face. He does not look forward to whether this agreement can be truly implemented, and even hopes that this agreement will never take effect. Yang Zhen did this, which was very much in line with the chairman's wishes. Naturally, the chairman will not exert any pressure on Yang Zhen in this matter.

However, although the chairman did not want this agreement to be completed, he was always worried about the Anti-Japanese Union in his heart. After all, although Yang Zhen's report had been received, the Japanese army would go south to launch an offensive against Nanyang. But before the Japanese army really started its southward campaign, no one could guarantee where their true intentions were.

In case the Japanese, under the pressure of the Germans, really attacked the Soviet Union, would this agreement, which was more harmful to the Chinese, be implemented? If it is not implemented, not to mention the pressure of the Soviet Union, the external channel of the Anti-Union will also be cut off. Execution, for the Anti-United Nations, is an act of taking charcoal from the fire for others. It wasn't until the outbreak of the Pearl Harbor incident that the chairman's heart for Yang Zhen and the Anti-Japanese Federation was put down.

And in the years to come, although there were stumbling blocks, the Soviet side also tried countless times to reach out to the materials of the Anti-United Nations. But under Yang Zhen's calculations, the cooperation between the two sides is generally barely complied with. Although there were some twists and turns, it was fortunate that there was no big mess.

Although in some respects everyone did not fully abide by the agreement, there was no big confrontation on the surface, but in fact, the things that secretly calculated the other side did not stop for a moment. And the weak Anti-United Nations has suffered more hidden losses, but on the whole, it is barely said that in the past, at least the big losses have not been suffered.

The Soviets, who wanted to eat more and occupy more, were really too much in some incidents, and they couldn't even get over face. What they did not expect, under the unprecedented strong backlash of the Anti-United Nations. In other respects, the Soviets also gave some compensation to the Anti-United Nations.