Chapter 111 The price that must be paid?
+:|The Potsdam Forest was held in the suburbs. After the meeting, on July 26, the United States, Britain, and Chinese leaders Truman, Churchill, and Chiang Kai-shek jointly signed the last spy-style "Potsdam Proclamation" to Japan. The announcement restricted Japan's unconditional surrender in a very tough tone: "We inform the Japanese government that all Japanese armed forces will surrender unconditionally and provide appropriate and sufficient guarantees for the sincerity of such actions. In this way alone, otherwise Japan will be completely destroyed quickly."
There have always been political forces in Japan to seek to end the war. After the publication of the Potsdam Proclamation, they prompted them to make their political propositions more public. They believed that Japan's failure in the final decision was a foregone conclusion. If the war dragged on for a day, Japan would increase the disaster for a day. If this continues, Japan would be completely destroyed. Therefore, Japan had no choice but to surrender unconditionally to protect the Yamato nation.
However, as the trend of the Soviet Union participating in the war became clear, they believed that this added a chance to choose between Japan's unconditional surrender. They saw that the United States and the Soviet Union would soon become two major camps that were incompatible. Whether Japan surrendered to the American camp or to the Soviet camp was an extremely serious event that determines the future and destiny of the Japanese nation.
They believe that at present, the United States is Japan's number one enemy, and the United States bombed Japan the worst. However, given the Soviet army's approach after occupying half of Germany not long ago, they shuddered. After repeated arguments, they believed that given the situation after the Soviet Union occupied half of Germany, Japan was willing to surrender to the United States, the United States, and would rather let the Americans occupy Japan's main body. Although everyone knew that the situation was hopeless and could not turn the situation back, they were indifferent to the word "unconditional surrender". They felt that since the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union, and China had their own plans, then there were always room for trouble and could still achieve a slightly decent ending than "unconditional".
However, due to the unrealistic fantasy of the Soviet Union, the Japanese military made fundamental mistakes in their judgment of the war situation. They believed that the Soviet Union and Japan were trustworthy and would not go to war against Japan. This was because, during the eight-year war between China and Japan, Japan often used the Korean Peninsula to pass through Manchuria and North China to dispatch troops. On the long "corridor" near the Soviet Union, the Japanese army entered and went, came and went freely, and remained in peace with the Soviet army. The Japanese army's war against China was not disturbed. Although there were two major frictions in the "Manchuria" and the Soviet border, both Moscow adopted a high attitude, which calmed the tension. Similarly, when Hitler led his troops to the suburbs of Moscow and the Soviet Union was in a life and death, the Japanese also believed in "neutral" with the Soviet Union and did not take advantage of the situation to rob, allowing the Soviet army to calm down the German army.
On the other hand, Japan thought it was well aware of China and the two major neighbors of the Soviet Union, and believed that the Soviet Union would never declare war on the enemy of China for the benefit of a Chinese government that completely turned to the United States. In this regard, Japan's judgment was more wrong and went further on the wrong path.
Anyone with a discerning eye knows that the Japanese are about to be finished. Although the Japanese army is still fighting desperately, they even led the Kamikaze special attack team to fight with the US military with a senior general. But they are just struggling to death, and they can only vent their anger but not intake.
No one knew that on the first day of the Potts, the United States successfully exploded the first atomic bomb in human history on the Alamogordo Desert in New Mexico. The successful test of the atomic bomb means that the United States has the ability to erase a big city's strike in an instant.
Truman was extremely excited when he heard the news and said to Marshall that since we have this magical weapon, we can defeat Japan with Britain and China. Then there is no need to ask the Soviet Union for help.
Truman and Marshall agreed that the United States still welcomes the Soviet Union to participate in the war, but does not place any hope for it. At the same time, it should try its best to save the part of Yalta's secret treaty that sacrificed China's interests in order to make China stand firmer on the side of the United States. At the same time, Truman sent a secret letter to Chiang Kai-shek, asking China to be tough in the negotiations between China and the Soviet Union, and not to consider the fact that offended the Soviet Union and did not send troops.
The sudden change in the United States' attitude and the sudden toughness of the Chinese negotiator made Stalin feel that there must be a reason for this. Therefore, the Soviet army tightened its pace of gathering forces to the Chinese border.
The once-in-a-lifetime World War II is about to end in the East of Asia. It is impossible for all parties in the Allies to squeeze onto the stage to perform a prominent performance in the highlight of this last scene.
As soon as the Potsdam announcement was released, Wu Ming sent Xiao Minghua through Chen Jiageng
, with certainty, that Japan will surrender within a month, reminding the overseas Chinese to prepare and make sure to create a established independent fact before the British landed.
But he didn't expect that after only three days, Chen Jiageng hurriedly took a plane to Kunming.
"Brother Dehua, this is a telegram sent by Minghua." Chen Jiageng took out the telegram from his pocket and handed it to Wu Ming, "Things are not as simple as you imagined!"
"Oh!" Wu Ming took the telegram with questions, looked carefully, and fell into deep thought.
After three and a half years of battle, the Chinese anti-Japanese army in Malaya had developed into a powerful armed team with more than 15,000 people, but Xiao Minghua and others could directly control only more than 7,000 people. The defeat of the Japanese army was decided, and the Chinese anti-Japanese army was also caught in a quarrel because of disagreement.
Liu Yao, head of the Central Military Commission of the Chinese Anti-Japanese Army, believed that the British army was an allied army, and when they retreated, the Chinese Anti-Japanese Army was fighting bloody battles. The British would not forget the contributions of the Chinese Anti-Japanese Army. After World War II, Malaya had entered the era of democratic construction. The Chinese Anti-Japanese Army mainly assisted the British government in establishing a democratic and free new Malaya. Therefore, the Chinese Anti-Japanese Army should not take radical actions, at least look at the actions of the British. Moreover, many volunteer soldiers also had this idea that the British would not treat them, those who had made contributions to the anti-Japanese war, and therefore they could be lifted off their troops and returned to their fields after the war and live a civilian life with peace of mind.
"Are the Chinese anti-Japanese troops going to split?" Wu Ming murmured to himself: "Why do you always have to place your destiny on others? Why do you use the naive idea of gratitude to guess politics and the psychology of the colonists? Is the lessons in the past not profound enough? You are still expecting that the colonists will suddenly become kind?"
Chen Jiageng smiled bitterly. To be honest, he was also in a conflict. He hoped to take this opportunity to make the Chinese in Southeast Asia turn around from now on, but he also hoped to use a relatively peaceful way.
"Mr. Chen, you stay here first." Wu Ming stood up slowly, "Let me think about it, it won't take too long."
"Okay!" Chen Jiageng nodded, "I also want to thank you American friend. The radio equipment has been shipped from the United States. She also followed her in person and said that if you do something, you will come to Kunming to find you."
Wu Ming grinned, feeling very regretful. Why did he contact Dorothy who had returned to China and ask her to purchase supplies? Now, wouldn’t it be embarrassing and a headache when he met!
"What do you think?" Wu Ming turned around and immediately summoned the backbone of the last group of team members who were about to return to Nanyang, circulated the telegram and asked.
"Split it will split, and use flesh and blood and sacrifice to fight for the right to democracy and freedom." Xiao Hui said angrily: "The British are greedy, cunning, vicious, sucking the blood of the Chinese in Southeast Asia and stabbing them from time to time. I remember that in order to colonize and expand in Malaya, the British used "going to Nanyang to hunt for black gold" as bait to trick Chinese workers into Malaysia and exploit their labor force. Chinese workers had to pay three years of debt slave labor for a price of 100. My grandfather died in the tin mine, and they also forced my father to repay the debt."
"They have forgotten the bloody and tears of piglet money and the bitter and painful journey." Ma Zhichao's face was gloomy and said coldly, "The British will be grateful, and the sun will come out from the west."
"The key is not this." Chen Quanhua shook his head, "To put it bluntly, this is a chronic disease of most Chinese people. If you don't see bleeding or butcher's knife, you won't recognize the face of the British."
"Yes!" Wu Ming nodded and agreed: "If Xiao Minghua's troops insist on their own opinions and fight with the British, I am worried that they will not be recognized and supported by other Chinese people, but they will complain that this will cause the Chinese to lose the opportunity to obtain their due rights."
"This possibility is relatively high." Ma Zhichao sighed silently, "After all, the British are veterans of politics, and the means of division and disintegration are still very powerful. If the Chinese in Southeast Asia cannot unite, it will probably be difficult based on our own strength alone."
"Does it take blood to wake up? Do the Chinese in the South China Sea have to pay a price to unite?" Xiao Hui said with grief and grief.
"Maybe this is really necessary." Wu Ming said helplessly: "This may be the price that has to be paid for freedom and democracy. Although this price is a bit helpless and painful, it can unite the Chinese in the South China into an iron plate." A person's resistance to Japan is shameless and heroic, and his spirit is so angry that Zi Nisheng
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