Glorious Mission 1937

After sending Delixi away, Chen Feng held talks with the Japanese special envoy Kenji Fangze. Sure enough, as Chen Feng expected, Kenji Fangze came here this time with the intention of making peace, and the Japanese government also proposed a series of preferential conditions.According to the intention of the Japanese government, as long as Chen Feng's troops abandon the policy of being hostile to the Japanese government and stop attacking the Japanese troops stationed in North and Northeast China, the Japanese government is willing to unilaterally sign a peaceful armistice agreement with Chen Feng's troops.

As long as Chen Feng recognizes Japan's vested interests in Northeast China, the Japanese government can withdraw its troops from North China and hand over all the territory in North China to Chen Feng's subordinates, including important cities such as Beiping and Tianjin. The only legal government in China, Chen Feng is the only leader of China.The Japanese government will also support Chen Feng to become the head of the Chinese government and army. When necessary, Japan can even directly send troops to help Chen Feng fight for state power.

The conditions offered by the Japanese government were not unreasonable. On the surface, Chen Feng's troops could get the territory of Hebei, Rehe, and Shandong provinces without spending a single soldier, as long as Chen Feng declared that he would not be an enemy of the Japanese government.

But Chen Feng was aware of the conspiracy. The Japanese government knew its status in the eyes of the people of the whole country. It was a god of war, a hero, and the cohesion of the anti-Japanese spirit of the [-] million people of the Chinese nation.If I even made peace with the Japanese government because of my own selfish desires, it would be no less than a devastating blow to the confidence of the Chinese people in the War of Resistance.And once national self-confidence collapses, it will definitely not be restored in three or two days.

And once Chen Feng negotiated a separate peace with the Japanese government, he would immediately turn from an anti-Japanese hero into a traitor that everyone scolded, not to mention others, perhaps even his own wives and wives would not be able to settle.What's more, the old lady Qiqige and the Japanese have a mortal hatred of killing their father, which is a real national hatred and family hatred.Therefore, no matter what, Chen Feng would not be able to make peace with the Japanese government.

What's more, the conditions put forward by the Japanese government are blatantly seductive and clearly sow discord.Chen Feng wasn't stupid, and Chen Feng didn't have the ambition to become king, so he set up a pole to beat devils.It is entirely because he is a soldier, and it is the responsibility of every soldier to defend his family, defend the country and return China.He only hopes that the country will be safe and peaceful, and that the people can live and work in peace and contentment.Fighting with the Japanese and the Soviets are all forced.

The Japanese wanted to provoke the relationship between Chen Feng, the national government and the Shanxi Jin faction warlords, but it was futile. Moreover, Chen Feng was well aware of the historical development trend.Even if there are some ulterior ambitions, how could they get on the boat of the Japanese government, which is about to be silent?

Chen Feng clearly rejected Kenkichi Fangze's proposal. He said to Kenkichi Fangze righteously: "Whether it is the four Northeast provinces or Taiwan, or North China, Central China, South China and the Ryukyu Islands occupied by Japan, these are all Chinese. Inherent territories, no one can divide them from China's territory. Soviet Russians can't do it, British guys can't do it, and you Japanese can't do it either. No matter how tempting the Japanese government's conditions are, as a soldier, I And the army under my command will not make peace with you anyway."

Afterwards, Chen Feng took the initiative to terminate the peace talks, and ordered Fang Zeqian to be sent out of the country with auspicious gifts. [

After sending away the Japanese government envoy.Chen Feng quickly summoned the senior officials of the Northern Serbia Provincial Government to hold a meeting in Guisui to discuss how to develop the territories that were newly incorporated into the Northern Serbian Province.

The meeting lasted for 4 days, and the results of the meeting were also very fruitful. According to the results of discussions by senior officials of the Northern Serbia Provincial Government, under the protection of the Eighth War Zone, the Northern Serbia Province revoked the administrative planning of the administrative district and divided the whole province into 12 cities. There are 5 league-level administrative divisions in the 17 leagues, namely Guisui City, Baotou City, Datong City, Zhangjiakou City, Chengde City, Chifeng City, Xinghe City, Yikezhao League, Wulanchabu League, and Bayannaoer League , Xilin Gol League, Alxa League, Saiyinshanda City, Dongfang City, Zongmod City, Ulaanbaatar City, and Terlji City.

Under the provincial government, there are three levels of government: city (league), county (district, banner), and township (town, Sumu). The eighth war zone's originally chaotic administrative divisions have been divided in detail, and a large number of administrative divisions have been adjusted. some of the duties of administrative officials.

Adjusted.The proportion of political officials who originally belonged to Chen Feng's department has increased significantly, while the number of political officials from the Kuomintang and the Communist Party has not increased much, but their ranks and positions have increased. In all 17 city-level administrative divisions, the Kuomintang, Communist Party There are 12 leaders of both sides in the government.

The three parties can be said to take what they need.Chen Feng needed to control the overall situation, and what he wanted was an absolute number, especially the number of grassroots officials.What the Kuomintang and the Communist Party want is quality, and they also know that it is obviously a foolish thing to want to have more people than Chen Feng in Chen Feng's territory, so they require that they have their own people in most of the alliance cities.

商定行政区划和官员调整之后，在陈锋的主持下，塞北省省政府又制定了1940年下半年的工作计划以及目标。陈锋要求在1941年中国农历大年前完成五重五轻四农牧一综合的建设任务，即要求建设5个重工业区、5个轻工业区、4个农牧业区以及1个经济文化政治综合城市。

Afterwards, Chen Feng called all the commanders and deputy commanders of the eighth war zone, as well as the commanders of the navy and air force to hold a military meeting. After summarizing the series of battles in the first half of the year, Chen Feng gave all the units tasks for the second half of the year.Chen Feng informed the troops that starting from next month, the theater command will gradually transfer one or two brigades from each army, but requires each army to recruit soldiers with the assistance of the local armed forces in the shortest possible time, restore fighting power.

根据参谋部统计的结果，现在第八战区共有陆军5个集团军零10个整编步兵师、4个装甲师、2个防空师、4个炮兵师、4个陆航旅。空军战斗机3个师、轰炸机3个师、运输机2个师、侦察机4个团、空降兵2个师。海军3大舰队148艘大小战舰、3个海军陆战旅。总兵力已经达到了104万人。

Although the army strength has reached one million, Chen Feng still feels that the strength of the troops is stretched due to the fact that they are divided into two places. In addition, in the second half of the year, a new battlefield in the Northeast is likely to be opened, so Chen Feng asked all the troops to expand by another 30 people within half a year.

On the occasion of the military meeting.Chen Feng also announced several decisions, the most notable of which was that Lieutenant General Yehlina, the former chairman of Sebei Province and deputy commander of the Eighth War Zone, would no longer hold government positions from now on, but the specific job transfer Chen Feng did not announce the reason and future arrangements, which aroused the speculation of many officers.

in addition.Chen Feng decided to hold a collective wedding ceremony for the commander of the theater group army and senior officers at the division and brigade level in mid-August. The group weddings will be held one by one according to the group armies, and each group army will be required to prepare in order of number. At that time, Chen Feng will personally preside over the wedding ceremony for each group army. .

Not to mention that all the military and government officials in Northern Saibei Province were busy here carrying out various orders of Chen Feng, and changed the topic to talk about the actions of the Japanese. The Japanese lost in the battle of Changsha.And they lost miserably, the Japanese performed too badly in front of Xue Yue's Tianlu tactics.This time the national government, especially Chiang Kai-shek's central army, performed extremely amazingly. During the Battle of Changsha, the national government mobilized 11 well-equipped Japanese mechanic divisions, which shocked the Japanese side.

Although there are only less than 11 people in the 15 Japanese weapon masters, what makes the Japanese puzzling is where did the Nationalist government get so many Japanese-made weapons.Is it captured or the Chinese have already obtained the production technology of imperial standard weapons.More importantly, with the powerful intelligence gathering capabilities of the Japanese military's special high-tech, they didn't even know when the Chinese formed such a Japanese military force, let alone how many of these new troops there were. Could it be that there were only eleven infantry divisions? ?

When the news came back to Japan, the base camp attached great importance to it, and hastily ordered the Mei and Ju agencies in Shanghai to find out the matter at all costs.For this reason, Japan's T-Tech and the Nationalist Government's Military Control Bureau conducted many secret confrontations. For a while, Shanghai, Chongqing and other places were full of spies.

The failure of the Japanese army in the Battle of Changsha made the Japanese government more aware of the current situation. It may be impossible to end the Sino-Japanese War in a short time.The only way out now, the only way is to stick to the existing territory and consider matters in Southeast Asia first, so as to ensure the acquisition of Japanese war resources. [

The Japanese government held three consecutive imperial meetings and eight four-phase meetings to unify their thinking. Several important ministers, including Japanese Prime Minister Fumma Konoe, agreed that as long as the Imperial Japanese Army defeats the Indochinese army as quickly as possible, French troops and British troops stationed in Burma.In addition, there are Dutch troops stationed in Indonesia and other islands in Southeast Asia, so the Great Japanese Empire can not only obtain a large amount of war resources including oil in a short period of time, but also cut off the only external channel of the Chinese government - Burma highway.Therefore, the Japanese government believes that it is necessary to have a talk with the above-mentioned countries.

According to the "Outline for Dealing with the Current Situation Adapting to the Evolution of the World Situation" formulated by the Japanese government some time ago and the defeat of the Changsha Battle, the attitude of the Japanese government to resolve the Sino-Japanese War has decided to change to a long-term and lasting situation.The Japanese government turned its attention to the south.

The situation in Europe has basically not changed much during this period. Except for the intensification of air battles and submarine battles between Germany and Britain, the French government has completely surrendered. joke.The Queen of the Netherlands, who fled to England, posed no threat to the Germans except for chanting a few slogans.Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, Norway and other countries still hadn't improved at all, and the whole of Europe basically maintained a temporary state of calm. At this time, the Japanese ruling and opposition parties were still immersed in the excitement of Germany's decisive victory over France.

European countries are still in a half-dead state, and Germany also has no intention of peace talks. This makes the Japanese extremely excited. In addition, the German government has promised that they intend to intervene in Asian affairs, let alone Southeast Asia. This is undoubtedly given to Japan. a signal.So the Japanese decided to test the depths of the water and see the attitude of the Europeans.

The first country that the Japanese government contacted was the Netherlands. The Netherlands had its own glorious era. The Netherlands used to be known as the sea coachman in Europe. It was once a country with strong economic and naval strength. When the Netherlands was at its strongest, The size of its overseas colonies is equivalent to hundreds of times its land area, including China's Taiwan, which was once its colony.

Even now that the Netherlands has fallen, most of its overseas colonies have been divided up by countries such as Britain and France, but in Asia, especially Southeast Asia, the Netherlands still has a large number of colonies, and these colonies are under the management of the Dutch East India Company.

There is a reason for Japan's idea of ​​the Dutch East Indies. The Dutch colonies in Asia are mainly concentrated in later generations of Malaysia and Indonesia.Of course, it also includes Brunei, so it is the kingdom of rubber and oil. In the 40s and 800s, it was known as the oil treasure house of East Asia, with an annual output of about 20 million tons, which is about [-] times that of Japan.

Japan needs about 500 million tons of oil per year at this time.But self-sufficiency is less than one-tenth.In order to obtain mainland land, in order to obtain more war resources, and to win the war, Japan has long been eyeing the weak country of the Netherlands.From the perspective of Japan, the declining Netherlands is the same as China. They are the kind of little kids crawling all over the ground holding gold, and they are naturally provoking crimes.

But the Netherlands has always been wise as a country.When the war broke out in 1939, the policy of the Netherlands was clearly wrong. This country, which had experienced 100 years of peace, was determined to implement a "resolute and unspoken policy of neutrality". Has made it clear that it is not bound by resolutions that mandate the maintenance of collective security.

Although its national sentiment is biased towards Britain.But it doesn't mind doing business with Germany, which is the same as during World War I; the Netherlands may be highly vigilant against the German invasion and has made some preliminary preparations, but at the same time it continues to express dissatisfaction with the British naval blockade measures, It is believed that this hinders the normal trade of neutral countries; there are many parties in the Netherlands, but thank God, whether it is the Communist Party on the far left of the political spectrum or the Nazism on the far right.are in a fundamentally important position.Due to the correct policy of the Netherlands, although its national strength is not strong, its status in the country is not low. Therefore, although the Japanese were greedy before they were determined to go to war with Britain and France, they did not attack the Netherlands.

However, it is different now, half a year ago, it fell after 5 days of fighting, and Holland was quickly conquered by Germany.However, to some extent.The Netherlands is clearly a typical European country that, with the exception of Luxembourg, was involved in the war in 1940.Originally, after the horror of two invasions, they both survived the thrill, so the Netherlands firmly believed that the Germans would not attack them.

So the furloughs in the army went on as usual, and the Dutch were convinced of their small army.Under the protection of the flood defense line, it is enough to guarantee support until the arrival of foreign aid.It turns out they were all wrong.Although not without warning, the Dutch appeared unprepared when the Germans invaded aggressively. Although they fought bravely everywhere, this small force was obviously no match for the German army. In front of them, the Dutch army was forced to give up resistance after only persisting for 5 days, but the time they won was enough for the Queen of the Netherlands to withdraw abroad.

The weakness of the Dutch has completely stimulated the Japanese. It is really a daydream and a whimsical dream to want to own most of the rich Southeast Asia with this strength.According to the decision in the "Outline for Handling the Current Situation", the Japanese government sent Minister of Commerce and Industry Kazuzo Kobayashi to the Dutch East Indies on July 1940, 7, to conduct negotiations on closer economic relations between the two countries.The government decided on "Measures to Develop Economic Relations with the Dutch East Indies" at the cabinet meeting on July 26.

Its basic policy is very tough. It says: "With the development of the new world order, an economic circle will inevitably emerge. According to the Treaty of Japan, Germany and Italy, the superior position of the imperial country in the Dutch East Indies should be confirmed; starting from the overall situation of coexistence and common prosperity, Quickly seek close economic cooperation with the Dutch East Indies, with a view to developing and utilizing its rich resources, making it actually become a ring of the Greater East Asia economic circle centered on the imperial kingdom.”This is of course the ultimate goal, and the most urgent task is to obtain strategic materials, especially the oil needed.

The Japanese are now determined to play hooligans. Anyway, for a small country like the Netherlands, the Japanese have no psychological pressure at all.The Japanese navy even threatened that if the Dutch government dared to say no, the powerful imperial navy would destroy the Dutch fleet stationed in the Dutch East Indies within half a month, and the casualties would not exceed 500.

The Japanese wanted to take advantage of the favorable situation to force the Netherlands to submit, but the Japanese underestimated the backbone of the Dutch, and even underestimated the confidence of the Netherlands in its allies, Britain, France and the United States. The attitude of the Dutch East Indies relying on the United States and Britain is extremely firm. It is a wing of the United States and Britain's economic strategy against Japan, so the negotiation with the Dutch East Indies is essentially the same as the negotiation with the United States and Britain, so the Netherlands is not afraid of the Japanese.

In the eyes of the Dutch, although the Dutch navy stationed in the Dutch East Indies is not strong, there are not many people.However, the strength of Britain, France, the United States and other countries in the entire Southeast Asian region is still very strong. If they unite, the Japanese will not be afraid at all. Therefore, the attitude of the Dutch is also extremely tough, and they are determined not to compromise with the Japanese. He is not afraid of the threat of war, and he completely ignores the Japanese, which makes the Japanese hate it. (to be continued...)