Chapter 53: Not idle
On this side, more than 300,000 troops (including five Northeast Army and more than 200,000 troops) were stepping forward to the Chengde front line, preparing to recover the entire territory of Rehe. On the other hand, the four-party peace talks in Nanjing are also underway.
After flying to Nanjing, Minister He Yingqin took a day off in the name of hard work on the journey. The next day, as the representative of the Nanjing government, he participated in the four-party peace talks with materials.
Faced with the armistice agreement proposed by John Niu and the Bald Eagle family, Minister He proposed several requirements from Nanjing as conditions for the armistice: 1. All the Japanese soldiers withdrew from the Zhongtian family, including the Rehe Great Wall front and the three eastern provinces and the Tianjin Concession. 2. It declared that the puppet Manchukuo was not a legal regime. 3. It compensated the Zhongtian family for the loss of 20 billion oceans in the war. 4. It punished the war criminal Muto Xinyi, etc.
The Japanese diplomats became angry after seeing a few things. They knelt at the feet of the ambassadors of John Bull and Bald Eagle's house, hugged one thigh with one hand and cried in English: "Mr. Second Master, look, look. This is not an armistice agreement, it is a way for our imperial army to surrender unconditionally.
The Imperial Army is invincible, but I came to negotiate for peace between the two countries. They are not ungrateful. You must know that if you don’t give us the Imperial Army face, even if you don’t give Mr. John, you won’t give Mr. Yingjiang’s second master. Mr. Er, you must punish them heavily and punish them.”
The ambassador of the Bald Eagle family spoke first: "I'm sorry, dear Mr. Robin Legs, our Bald Eagle family is not strong enough to sanction a powerful Asian country, just like your country sends troops to Manchuria, we can't do anything. I'm here, but the government's orders put my responsibility. Suffering something like this requires the parliament and the president to approve it."
When the Japanese diplomat saw that the Bald Eagle family refused, he hugged the ambassador of the John Niu family with all his strength and cried: "Mr. John. It's all up to you."
However, the ambassadors of each country must first consider the interests of their own country and kick the Japanese diplomats away: "Sorry, this sanction will affect our interests in the Yangtze River Basin, the interests of the concessions and Hong Kong. However, we will act in accordance with the regulations of the League of Nations, which is to impose a weapon import blockade on belligerent countries and warring areas."
That being said, no one seems to have blocked the recent inflow of weapons. After all, the Zhongtian family has tens of thousands of miles of borders on land, except for the thousands of miles of sea borders. For example, the Big Mao Xiong family deliberately made trouble no one can do anything about it.
In the eyes of the Bald Eagle family, since you are both weak in the sea and land battlefield, these agreements are not unacceptable. After all, both countries have declared war. If they do not negotiate a ceasefire, do they have to fight a dead species and destroy the country? The Bald Eagle family ambassador said to the John Niu family: "I think there is room for improvement in this treaty. What do you think?"
The ambassador of John Niu's family also nodded in agreement and said to the Japanese diplomats: "I think so too. If the two countries want to truly reach a agreement, they must understand each other. I think there are still many places to talk about this treaty."
The Japanese diplomat realized that these two newly recognized godfather countries were not reliable, so they had to send a telegram to Tokyo, whether the peace talks broke down and continued to talk, let Tokyo make the decision.
The telegram arrived in Tokyo for two consecutive days without any news, and John Niu, Bald Eagle's family, and Minister He Yingqin and He were also happy to be idle.
The Ministry of Military Affairs of Peking pushed three Northeast Army, the 17th Army of the Central Army, the 29th Army of Song Zheyuan, the 32nd Army of Shang Zhen, the 41st Army of Sun Dianying, the 35th Army of Fu Zuoyi and the remnants of the 61st Army of the Shanxi-Sui Army of the Army of the Central Army, the 30th Army of the Central Army of Song Zheyuan, the 30th Army of the Central Army of the Central Army, the 30th Army of the Shanxi-Sui Army of Fu Zuoyi and the remnants of the 61st Army of the Sixty-First Army of the Sixty-First Army to the Chengde line.
The first person to arrive was the 17th Army, which relied on planes and tanks to open the way. After arriving, the 17th Army did not idle to transfer artillery to the front line of the puppet army, but bombarded the puppet army in a row. For the 17th Army artillery that could not fire several guns a year ago, this time it was a great time.
But the puppet army on the front line was in trouble. After a long time of deployment on this defense line, the shelling came after more than a day. There were no permanent fortifications for steel and cement, only simple trenches and anti-aircraft holes. However, only Song Yinya's trenches and anti-aircraft holes of the Second Manchukuo Army were proved to have some effect - after all, they were from a regular army, and civil engineering operations were not difficult to defeat the Second Army.
The other puppet Manchukuo troops from other bandit troops were blown up happily. In the past, these bandit troops had only one move to face the cannons that suppressed the bandits. But now the Japanese are supervising behind them. Where can they run? Those who were determined to surrender to the ** have just shot and knocked them down from behind the trenches.
The Japanese were also open-minded. Even if they exchanged these enlisted bandit troops for the shells and time, it was worth it. Anyway, there were too many traps in the three eastern provinces, giving the title of the army commander and the division commander would bring back a large number of puppet troops.
With the arrival of other friendly troops, the 105 howitzer, the hero of Gubeikou, the master of the 17th Army's magic weapon, was also transported. The power of the heavy artillery in Gubeikou directly destroyed the confidence of the puppet army and the Japanese. The maximum range of the 30-fold diameter 105 howitzer is ten kilometers, and a single 105 mm high-explosive grenade weighs 32 kilograms. In Asia, this is already the range of heavy artillery, and this artillery is indeed not light and heavy, especially when traveling without roads.
In contrast, the Japanese proud Type 92 infantry cannon was only 70 mm caliber, and the grenade weighed only 3.8 kg, and its power was only ok (relative to its caliber). Even the mainstream 75 mm mountain and field dungeons were equipped with the 29th Army, which also had shells weighing 6.5 kg per round.
In the early artillery battle, the Japanese, who were not supported by the heavy artillery corps, were embarrassed to take action. They just asked the front line to dig deep anti-aircraft holes to let the puppet army and colonial troops bear artillery fire again and again. Fortunately during the day, a large number of puppet troops fled at night. **There are always a flare or a shuttle bullets coming from here. The bandits' department thought they dare not come, so they could only run to the rear of the flanks. The Japanese were also busy catching deserters overnight. Every morning, Chengde had to stage a good show of collective shooting of deserters.
The Tokyo base camp was not idle either. In order to solve the urgent need of the Chengde front line, the Army launched air transport, but the Japanese had too few transport planes and limited supplies and personnel. The ghost explosion incidents that occur from time to time on land have turned a large number of personnel and heavy equipment into a very high risk. The Navy repeatedly persuaded the Emperor to agree to the Navy's decisive battle plan to send two Nagamon-level fighters to actively seek fighters, but the Emperor was determined not to send the Nagamon-level to fight abroad.
As for the negotiations, no one would agree to the conditions of the Zhongtian family, and for a moment, all the Japanese were in a deadlock.
Chengde's predicament caused a series of telegrams that needed to be supplemented with combatants, heavy artillery, ammunition, etc. to fly into the base camp continuously.
Chapter completed!