A ray of white light appeared on the horizon, and the sun rose to dispel the darkness that shrouded the earth. Dawn heralded the arrival of a new day.
October 4th was already the third day after the Hainan Air Force air raided Haiphong Port.
In fact, on the night that the Hainan Army dispatched more than a hundred aircraft to attack Vietnam's Haiphong Port, intelligence organizations in various countries got the news.
The actual leaders of various countries have different reactions to this. They may be surprised, disdainful, or dismissive. But the real heroes of various countries have thought of another side.
British Prime Minister Churchill, who was far away in London, England, was woken up by the ringing of the phone in the middle of the night. He got out of bed and learned the shocking news.
His first reaction at the time was: Chinese people are crazy! Although he is far away in Europe, it does not mean that he does not pay attention to the situation in Asia.
Asia is too small to have two powerful countries. The traditional Asian hegemon, the Chinese nation, wants to rejuvenate and rise, while Japan, the emerging industrial power, wants to replace it and dominate Asia.
This is destined to determine the outcome of the two most powerful countries in East Asia, and the war will determine who is the Asian hegemon.
In Asia, British India, known as the most dazzling jewel in the Queen's crown, has important interests in the British Empire in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in China, as well as in the treaty ports of some coastal cities in Guangzhou and Macau.
Regarding the Sino-Japanese War, British Prime Minister Churchill was actually not optimistic about China's Nanjing government. Japan had already started its industrial revolution since the Meiji Restoration. For a long time, the industrial gap between China and Japan could not be offset by large numbers of people.
But in Churchill's heart, Japan was not the most ideal target. The emergence of a single powerful country in Asia was not in the interest of the British Empire. In particular, Japan and Germany are now very close, which has to make
Churchill on guard.
Berlin, Germany.
When the German head of state Rudolf Hitler received the news from the Gestapo, he was slightly surprised. What made those Chinese people provoke France at this time?
Although Hitler looked down upon the strength of those French guys who only knew how to advocate romanticism, that was not something China could provoke casually.
Especially at this juncture, Japan has already left you in a hurry and exhausted to cope with it, and now it has exploded the "young chrysanthemum" of the French.
Hitler could imagine what the current French president looked like.
In Paris, France, when the French president heard the news, he didn't react at first.
Later, feeling that his face was being provoked, he broke his favorite blue and white porcelain vase in a rage. No matter how distressed he felt afterwards, he didn't care about other people's affairs.
The Hainan Army attacked Vietnam and started fighting with the French. This news was like a flashlight that exploded in the dark night, blinding a large number of people.
As newspapers from various countries published the exchange of fire between China and France, it soon spread internationally and attracted widespread attention internationally.
The last person to get the news was Chairman Chiang Kai-shek of our Nanjing government. When he got the news, Chairman Chiang was very shocked, and then he cursed!
"War between China and France!? Niang Xipi! You Li Weidong, do you still have me as the chairman of the Generalissimo in your eyes? The country is in crisis and you want to plunge the country into the abyss?" Lao Jiang was completely furious.
He really wanted to crack open Li Weidong's head to see if he was so stupid that he actually started a war with Vietnam at this time.
In particular, neither the war against Vietnam nor the military deployment was notified to the Nationalist Government in Nanjing. It was purely out of focus, which made Chiang Kai-shek very angry.
The national crisis was at the forefront, but a foreign war was launched! Was it Li Weidong who brought disaster to the country? Of course not! No one knows the sufferings endured by the Chinese nation better than Li Weidong, who came from a later generation.
In later generations, the Allies won World War II, and the arduous War of Resistance Against Japan also won, but China actually lost!
The eight-year war made the entire Chinese nation grieve. The elderly lost their sons, the wives lost their husbands, the children lost their fathers, the Chinese soldiers who sacrificed their lives in the arduous war of resistance, and the thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians who died.
The cries of 340,000 wronged souls floated over the city of Nanjing, still echoing in Li Weidong's ears. Every night, Li Weidong would wake up because of it, and he would never allow those tragedies to happen again.
As the victorious country, what did China get after the war? In this war to re-divide the world, what piece of "cake" did China get?
Countless Chinese people were displaced because of this war, and the people are still struggling with hunger and poverty. This was the case during World War I, when the sweat of half a million Chinese workers was wasted, and it is still the case after World War II!
This is a world of great contention. Ever since Li Weidong chose to embark on this path, he has been fighting for a breath and the moral integrity that will make the Chinese people stand tall.
This is completely different from Chairman Chiang's national salvation route. Li Weidong followed the path of capital export, militarism and expansion, and would be doomed if he failed. Chiang Kai-shek's idea, on the other hand, was relatively conservative, that is, to fight against foreign aggression, he must first pacify his country and gather the strength and power of the entire Chinese nation.
The Japanese fought to the death.
Already aware of the seriousness of the incident, Chiang Kai-shek quickly sent a telegram to the Hainan Military Government, ordering Li Weidong to stop all attacks to ensure the stability of the situation, and asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to contact the French Ambassador.
Although he cursed verbally, Chiang Kai-shek was still ready to wipe Li Weidong's butt. Chairman Chiang had been coveting Li Weidong's ability to produce large numbers of aircraft for a long time, so he took this opportunity to find a way to get it.
But the result made Chiang Kai-shek dumbfounded. The telegram sent to the Hainan military government was like a drop in the sea, and the Hainan army still went its own way.
The development of the incident was unexpected. The Hainan Army not only bombed the French Far East Fleet in Haiphong Port, causing heavy losses to the Far East Fleet, but also quickly sent troops to land in Hon Ki County on the coast of Vietnam.
Subsequently, the Hainan Army advanced with great success, and several cities near Hongji County basically fell into the hands of the Hainan Army. This made those who wanted to see a joke break their glasses on the ground.
Everyone thinks, has France really declined? Have army soldiers become so weak?
If you say this, you really have wronged those French soldiers! It is not that they are weak, nor is it that the Hainan Army is strong, but that they were caught off guard. Many of the troops that collapsed were composed of indigenous Vietnamese soldiers.
The number of French soldiers stationed in Vietnam is not large, and they are not elite troops, just some second-line troops with weak combat effectiveness. However, the most powerful Far East Fleet was attacked by the Hainan Army Air Force, and it has not recovered for two or three days.
And more people are paying attention to what France, which has been provoked, will do in the near future.
[End of this chapter]
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