The People's Liberation Army headquarters building was brightly lit. Xu Shiyou, Zhang Xueliang, and Fu Zuoyi arrived one after another, and Pang Yuan did not leave. More than a dozen people were crowded in Xie Tian's office. Staff officers were walking in and out of the office like a revolving door, and intelligence from all aspects was flowing in. Continuously summarized in this office.
There was a table of food on the dining table in the corner of the office. Whoever was hungry came to eat, and no one greeted anyone.
The entire Northeast is like the eve of a storm during the wheat harvest season, with everyone running to harvest crops.
Li Yunlong's troops moved the fastest and received good news one after another. They recaptured Panjin, Yingkou, and Liaoyang within one day. They also fought with the Japs in Yingkou and Liaoyang. The Japanese troops in these two places also received orders to surrender to the Soviets. , but did not expect that the People's Liberation Army arrived before the Soviets, and he was still confused about whether to surrender to the People's Liberation Army, so Li Yunlong opened fire.
Li Yunlong kept the red flag planted outside Shenyang City, and the large troops behind him continued to advance in depth. If there were inhabited villages, they would plant red flags and send troops to garrison them. Even if they could only arrange one squad of soldiers, they would occupy them first.
After Guo Kaiming's troops occupied Fengcheng, they turned to Kuandian and marched towards Tonghua, occupying Baishan and Liaoyuan.
The Second Army of the Korean People's Liberation Army was ordered to move out of North Korea and occupy Yanbian and Dunhua.
Dong Shangwu of the Second Army of Dongye occupied Tongliao and met the Soviet Far East Army in Siping. Both sides adopted a restrained attitude and passed each other by.
Siping was occupied by the Soviet Far East Army, and Lishu and Gongzhuling were occupied by Dong Shangwu.
After occupying Hulunbuir, Ding Wei of the Huaye Third Army pushed eastward non-stop, seizing Qiqihar one hour ahead of the Soviet Far East Army.
A unit of the 25th Red Flag Army of the Soviet Far Eastern Army, which came by train, reluctantly set up an offensive formation, and Ding Wei also politely ordered all members to prepare for battle.
The two sides were in a stalemate on the outskirts of Qiqihar, with more and more troops gathering together.
The tank division of the 25th Red Flag Army was also ordered to come from nearby for support. More than 200 tanks were densely lined up in front of the formation, forming a tactical pressure on Ding Wei's troops.
The troops Ding Wei brought to Qiqihar were tank regiments and armored infantry divisions directly under the army, with 34 tanks, 110 armored personnel carriers, and 33 light armored assault vehicles. Both in terms of firepower and the number of tanks, they were compared with the opposite Soviet Far East Army. There are big gaps.
The X-1 main battle tank is specially designed for the Type 97 tank of Little Japan. The Soviet 25th Group Army tank division opposite is equipped with all T-34 main battle tanks. The X-1 main battle tank is against There is no advantage at all over the T-34 main battle tank. In terms of performance alone, it is slightly inferior to the T-34.
But Ding Wei was not timid.
Ding Wei ordered the tank regiments and artillery units to load red bombs for the first time. Damn it, there is no use in large numbers. As soon as the war starts, I will kill you first. All the more than 200 T-34s of yours belong to me.
The war was about to break out. Even the air between the two armies had solidified, and the soldiers' palms became sweaty.
The two armies were in a stalemate for a whole afternoon and half of the night. In the middle of the night, the Soviet army took advantage of the darkness to withdraw from the stalemate and gave up the occupation of Qiqihar.
After staying up all day and night, Xie Tian, Pang Yuan and others finally breathed a sigh of relief when they received the telegram from Ding Wei. As long as Ding Wei started fighting, then a full-front war would break out between the People's Liberation Army and the Soviet Union. Who would win or lose? unknown.
But everyone knows that with Xie Tian's personality, he will never give in. This will definitely be a life-and-death war.
During this period, even Li Zongren personally sent a telegram to Xie Tian, repeatedly reminding Xie Tian to exercise restraint.
From the perspective of the Nationalist Government, it cannot fight with the Soviets.
China and the Soviet Union are allies, and now our common enemy is the fascist alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan. If a war breaks out between China and the Soviet Union, this alliance will be broken.
Although since the establishment of this alliance, China has not received any substantial help from the Soviet Union except Yan'an, and the help Yan'an has received is extremely limited, after all, it can maintain this relationship and will not be in a hostile state.
China now really does not have the ability to establish a powerful enemy for itself.
However, in Xie Tian's eyes, he had never regarded the Soviets or the Russians as allies.
In the past hundred years, China has had only two biggest enemies, one is the Japanese and the other is the Russians.
The two enemies were in no particular order in Xie Tian's eyes. The Japanese were brutal on the surface, but the Russians were even more greedy. Millions of square kilometers of land were cut off by them.
This was before the end of World War II. After World War II, Russia's (Soviet Union's) oppression of China did not weaken at all. Because of the war to resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea, the Soviets provided relatively large technical support to China, hoping that the Chinese could develop on their own. national strength to counter the United States.
As a result, after the end of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, the first thing the Soviet Union did was to withdraw all experts who had assisted China in its construction, and also forced China to repay its debts.
At that time, China was suffering from natural disasters in those years, and people's lives were extremely difficult.
The Chinese government that was in power at that time was also very stubborn. The whole people tightened their belts and insisted on paying off the foreign debt owed to the Soviet Union, even if they ate chaffy vegetables and chewed tree bark.
What the Soviets did was simply to add insult to injury and add insult to injury. The reason was that the Chinese were disobedient and did not fully follow their wishes and serve as the vanguard of the confrontation with the Western camp.
Such neighbors, thank God they are not regarded as friends.
If we don't engage in direct confrontation now, it's because we need to free our hands to eliminate the little devils first.
The Huaye Third Army led by Ding Wei directly crossed the Mongolian border, and sending troops to Hulunbuir had already sent a signal.
When I finish taking care of the little devils, you will be next.
As a result, Xie Tian was now tricked by Umezu Yoshijiro, who led the Japanese Kwantung Army to surrender to the Soviet Far Eastern Army. Xie Tian's People's Liberation Army had to directly face the Soviet Far Eastern Army and the Japanese army that had not yet been completely settled.
If there is no fight now, it does not mean that there will not be a fight tomorrow.
Xie Tian, Pang Yuan, Zhang Xueliang, Xu Shiyou, Fu Zuoyi, Zhao Gang, Chu Yunfei, Qin Fen and others sat around the dining table, eating cold meals on the table while discussing the current situation.
At this time, there was a sound of footsteps, and Tang Haoer, Lan Yufang, Xu Jinghao and others walked in carrying several large plates of hot dumplings.
Several women were also up all night, so they couldn't be of much help at this time, but it was still possible to prepare some hot meals for them.
Who makes Xie Tian like to eat dumplings? Then make dumplings.
Pang Yuan picked up a dumpling and smiled bitterly: "We now make a big dumpling in the Northeast. It looks like it is filled with skin, but if you don't control the heat properly when cooking, the filling will burst the skin."
