Beiyang reactionaries

This is most evident in Japan.

The troops were scattered and fought everywhere, but none of them fully fulfilled their strategic goals.Especially in the United States, this is like Xiaoqiang who can't be beaten to death, and he can't be beaten to death no matter what.The main force of the US Pacific Fleet was wiped out by the Japanese Navy many times, and it was wiped out by the Japanese Navy after a little recovery.But such a heavy casualty, but as long as the United States is given a little time, the Pacific Fleet can be alive and kicking again.Tojo would not be so distressed if it was done once or twice. The problem is that it has come down several times, which is the case in the United States.So much so that Hideki Tojo suspected that Japan could really destroy the US Pacific Fleet?How could Japan not be in a hurry in this situation.

The United States is an unbeatable Xiaoqiang, but Japan is not.

Japan has suffered huge losses on the Pacific battlefield in the past few years, but it is not so easy to make up for it.Although Japan's shipbuilding industry is developed, it is not at the same level as the United States.If it weren't for collecting so much money and buying a large number of warships from China, how could Japan compete with the United States.And even if China and Japan add up, the tonnage of the ships produced is not comparable to that of the United States, and the difference is much, much worse.

"Yes, we thought so too."

Li Ji nodded in agreement.

Dao: "Judging from the current situation, the United States has really slowed down. The US Pacific Fleet has once again received a large number of warships, including large aircraft carriers, battleships, and cruisers. Except for these warships, the United States is now almost ten days old. Just build an escort aircraft carrier, a destroyer in a few days, and the Japanese submarine was sunk. According to this speed of shipbuilding, it is estimated that the US Pacific Fleet will be able to restore its original size soon. Japan wants to improve and Our relationship wants to use the strength of our country to fight against the United States."

"Taiwan must never be ceded."

Duan Xun shook his head.

Not to mention other things in Taiwan, its geographical location is very important.In China's future maritime strategy, Taiwan is an indispensable place.It is completely impossible to cede Taiwan to Japan.

But the negotiations have progressed to the present, and it is not such a thing to go back without reason.So Duan Xun said: "Let's see, how do we deal with this negotiation now?"

The general direction Duan Xun made a final decision, that is, the Taiwan issue cannot be discussed, this is Duan Xun's bottom line.But now that Japan has made such concessions, how to deal with this matter requires everyone to make suggestions.After all, China was the first to initiate the secret talks between China and Japan. Now that Japan has decided not to let it go, China can't just tell Japan for no reason that we are just kidding you, and the negotiations don't count.

"Chairman, this matter is actually quite simple."

Dai Kan said with a smile: "The last time we negotiated with Japan, the United States disseminated it. At that time, the news that China was going to cede Taiwan was widely circulated. As a result, many professors, university students, and many newspapers reported Express dissatisfaction with our negotiations with Japan. Many groups even wrote directly to the Supreme Council and the cabinet to protest. At that time, if we hadn’t worked one by one, we would have given them a lot of guarantees, and the Sino-Japanese negotiations had no substance The public opinion at that time was calmed down because of the sexist results. Now that Japan wants to reach an agreement with us, isn’t this a ready-made interface? If the news is released and we do some work, it will inevitably cause an uproar in public opinion. Those university students They are all fresh-blooded young people, as long as we do a little work, there will be big troubles. With public opinion, we can have enough excuses to refuse Japan's request when negotiating with Japan."

"Well, that's a good idea."

Duan Xun nodded.

Anyone who can sit in this position is one of the best in this era.Everyone has experienced many things, and has rich experience and outstanding ability in dealing with various emergencies.

Duan Xun just asked everyone's opinions, and Dai Kan said it.

China does not want to give up Taiwan, all it needs is an excuse.Such an excuse only needs to be found out.The ready-made excuse is public opinion, as long as public opinion is mobilized, then things will be much simpler.

Especially those students.

That's the easiest thing to mobilize.

"Public opinion can sometimes hurt people and yourself, so we must be cautious. There are also student movements, if some things go too far, it is easy to cause chaos. So before launching public opinion, you must make all plans It is necessary to arouse public opinion, but also to control the degree. Our youth league in the university must be calm, and we must quickly appease the emotions of those students when necessary. Vice Chairman Dai, the Propaganda Department must do this well. Yang Vice Chairman, communicate with the leaders of the Youth League."

"it is good."

"Yes."

Dai Kan and Yang Wei nodded immediately.

"As long as the public opinion on our side is uproarious and the university students object, then immediately use this as an excuse to terminate the negotiations with Japan on the cession of Taiwan. Tell Japan that domestic public opinion is surging, and we cannot go our own way. Because of the pressure of public opinion and the pressure within the party, we are Taiwan's sovereignty must be taken back. If Japan returns Taiwan's sovereignty to us, then we can continue to lease several ports currently used by Japan to Japan and allow Japan to use them as military ports. If Japan even agrees to this condition, then what It’s easy to say, at this stage we will support whatever they want. But if Japan wants to buy time, under the guise of negotiating, then we will continue to kill time as before.”

"Yes."

715

"Comrade Stalin, Comrade Molotov's telegram. The United States agrees to send 15 troops to the North African battlefield."

1942 4 Month 2 Day.

Time is always passing, and for some people it feels like time is passing fast, but for others it feels like time is passing slowly.Just like the Soviet Union, now I really feel that every minute and every second is too slow.

Especially after the Quebec meeting started, the Soviet Union has been looking forward to any good results from this meeting.Therefore, Stalin must know the content of the daily meetings in Quebec, and Molotov also sent a telegram to Stalin every day to report the content of the negotiations that day.

Mikoyan came to Stalin's office with the report of the Quebec meeting.

"These crafty Yankees."

The Quebec meeting has been held for 14 days today.

Overall, such a high-level meeting went smoothly.But overall it went smoothly, but it doesn't mean that this meeting is really perfect.On the contrary, the meeting has been held up to now, and there are still many issues that have not been reached.Many conditions that Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union wanted to achieve were not able to be fulfilled in such a high-level meeting.Including China, Spain, and Turkey, the three neutral countries that Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union are planning to win over, are also ambiguous.

All of them just came with their ears, talking nonsense with Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union.But there is no clear answer to any of them, because everyone does not want to give up the current situation of two boats.Because at this stage, for countries such as China, Turkey, and Spain, it is in the best national interest to step on two boats.Only by stepping on two boats can the two groups give enough benefits.

Therefore, although the three countries have not communicated, they acted in unison.

Of course there is bad news, but there is bound to be good news.After all, such an important meeting, Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union have giants to participate in the meeting, it is impossible to have no results at all.At the Quebec meeting, the United States finally let go and stated that it would participate in the European battlefield.But the United States is very cautious. At this stage, it is impossible to send large troops to intervene in the European battlefield.According to news from Quebec, the United States only agreed to send 15 troops.And these troops only participated in the North African battlefield.

The response of the United States can be said to be greatly reduced.

In the current European battlefield, what Britain and the Soviet Union need is the full involvement of the United States.They need the United States to send millions of troops to fight Germany with them, and it is best to directly join the ranks of the main force against Germany.Now the European battlefield is often fought by hundreds of thousands of troops, and the United States can send 15 people to do nothing.Even in the North African battlefield, this force does not have much advantage.

Stalin sneered with a pipe in his mouth.

After taking a few puffs, Stalin asked Mikoyan, "How is the situation at the front?"

"The German troops have begun to retreat, and the German Army Group A has also withdrawn from the Caucasus. The German Sixth Army is about to fail. Comrade Zhukov has already stated that he will end the war in Stalingrad within a month."

"It will take another month?"

Stalin was somewhat annoyed.

The Battle of Stalingrad took too long.Up to now, I have been playing for almost 9 months, and in another month, I will be playing for a full ten months.Such a large-scale battle, fought for ten months, is really very rare.The Battle of Stalingrad was really a blood mill, and the Soviet army suffered heavy casualties.When Zhukov was preparing to counterattack the troops, he really persuaded and pulled all the troops that could be mobilized around him.In this way, Zhukov's grand strategy was barely able to be completed.

German Sixth Army?

To be honest, it was not the Soviet army that was defeated, but because after they were surrounded, their logistical supplies were seriously insufficient.When Zhukov's encirclement strategy was blocked by the Romanian Army for the first time, the German front-line generals told Hitler to let the troops withdraw in an orderly manner.Because the Soviet army's grand strategy was already obvious at that time, the position of the Sixth Army was also very dangerous.

But Hitler was also a bigot.

Hitler believed that the German army had a chance to take Stalingrad, especially after the first Soviet attack was blocked by the Romanian Army, Hitler believed that the Soviet army was completely incapable of attacking.Hitler thought he had seen the weakness of the Soviet army, so he ordered the German army to continue to attack Stalingrad and take Stalingrad.

As a result, Stalingrad was not taken, but the main force was surrounded by the Soviet army.

The Romanian Army can block it once, but not the second time.Because the Soviet army had too many casualties and too many recruits, its ability to attack tough problems was indeed greatly affected.However, after such a long period of fighting, the Romanian Army suffered heavy casualties and a serious decline in strength.

More importantly, because the Soviet army had a large number of recruits, Zhukov wanted to cover up this weakness, and the Soviet Union was originally a cannonist country.So during the second attack, Zhukov began to concentrate tanks and cannons, blasting away the positions of the Romanian Army completely abruptly.The result was that the Sixth Army was surrounded by Soviet troops.

After the Sixth Army was besieged, they immediately asked Hitler for instructions, preparing to take advantage of the incomplete encirclement of the Soviet army to immediately lead the troops out of the encirclement.If the German Sixth Army concentrates its elite troops and finds a weak point in the Soviet encirclement to break through, there is a high possibility that it can break through.Even if it is impossible for all to break through, it is still possible for the main force to break through.

But at this time Hitler still believed that the Battle of Stalingrad had a chance, and believed that the Soviet army lacked the ability to attack.Therefore, the Sixth Army was ordered to stand by and wait for reinforcements.For the Sixth Army, airdrops were used for resupply.

However, how can the airdrop of supplies satisfy the Sixth Army with hundreds of thousands of troops.Although the German Air Force is currently working very hard, it was able to meet one-third of the supplies of the Sixth Army from the beginning, and now it can only meet one-tenth of the needs of the Sixth Army.

The result was fighting and fighting, the Sixth Army's logistics was insufficient, ammunition was insufficient, casualties were increasing, and the will to fight was getting lower and lower.By now the German Sixth Army has begun to appear a large number of deserters.

The peripheral reinforcements also slowly lost their will to fight.

In fact, the German army and the Soviet army are the same.The Soviet army's offensive ability declined, and so did the German army.After such a long battle, the war weariness within the German army is also very strong.More importantly, after such a long battle, the German army lost a lot of planes, tanks, and artillery in the Battle of Stalingrad.Like some tank divisions of the German army, the number of tanks is only one-third or one-fourth of that before the war.Therefore, the German army's ability to attack fortifications has also been greatly reduced.Facing Zhukov's counterattack corps, the German army could not get in at all.