Three hundred and twentieth chapters new offensive
When the agreement was signed, the Americans never thought about the poor people at that time. Most of the people could not even have enough to eat. The Chinese, who even needed food support from the United States, could not only obtain some mineral resources and energy, but also What is available for export?
The base areas in Northeast China and North China controlled by the CCP will become dumping grounds for a large number of American agricultural products and light industrial products after the war. Signing this agreement will not cause any harm to the Americans, and they can obtain a large amount of cheaply. China’s mineral resources have also found a new dumping site for American goods.
It is impossible for the Chinese to pose any threat to the United States economically. The Chinese have nothing to export except tungsten and tin. Including agriculture, the United States has an absolute advantage. , so on this matter, there is not much consideration at all.
The Americans, who established themselves as the world's number one military, political, and economic power during World War II, are simply too confident. Perhaps militarily, they once viewed the Chinese as a threat. Of course, this threat was at best aimed at their so-called power. range, not to the continental United States.
Even though New China's medium-range surface-to-surface missiles and long-range bombers were put into service, the Americans did not think that China would pose a threat to their homeland. However, the Americans believed that China's military strength must be curbed and have been hindering the development of China's military industry. Take containment measures.
Therefore, as soon as World War II ended, in the name of preventing the outbreak of the Chinese Civil War, the most stringent blockade of technology and industrial equipment was implemented on various base areas of the CCP. All equipment related to the development of heavy industry, except for some power generation equipment, were all embargoed. .
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it has also implemented stricter technical sanctions than those imposed on the Soviet Union. Although the export controls on industrial equipment were slightly relaxed in the late 1950s, the high-tech blockade was actually strengthened to a certain extent. , but economically they never thought that the Chinese would become their opponents.
The areas designated before the founding of New China to implement most-favored-nation trade status with the United States are busy with large-scale industrial construction and require a large amount of industrial equipment. However, the Americans have imposed a technological blockade on China, and they do not sell the required industrial and technical equipment. , the light industrial products sold have become the base for the war to liberate all of China, and there is neither the ability nor the need to buy them.
After kerosene was mined in the Daqing oil field, American products were no longer needed. All fuels were focused on aviation fuel and marine diesel. The Americans imposed an embargo on all base areas. As for the consumption of agricultural products, Northeast China, the largest area in China, In this rich and high-yield agricultural area, there is nothing for Americans to do except cotton.
The large-scale reclamation of the Sanjiang Plain and the banks of the Nen River has doubled the grain output in Northeast China. It was changed from being under the Anti-Resistance Federation to being directly under the Central Military Commission. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was changed to the Northeast Production and Construction Corps of the Northeast Agricultural Reclamation Administration. The grain output was enough to meet the needs of both inside and outside the customs. Requirements for all troops.
Not only does it not need to import American grain, but it also exports tens of millions of dollars of soybeans to the United States every year, relying on the industrial foundation established in the Northeast during the Anti-Japanese War, as well as barter trade with the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries during the War of Liberation, and the dismantling of Japan's mainland With a large number of industries, the Northeast economy has been developing rapidly.
Coupled with the unique perseverance and perseverance of the Communist Party members of that era, as well as the drive and drive to build a new China, the development of Northeast industry has undergone major changes almost every year. During the entire liberation war, the development speed of Northeast industry has As high as 200%, no one in the base areas buys American grain and light industrial products.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, an economic system in which a highly planned economy and local collective economies coexisted was implemented. All foreign exchange transactions and foreign trade approval rights were controlled by the state. Even if the United States was granted most-favored-nation trade status, all trade plans required Central approval.
And it’s still the same old problem. Americans don’t sell the technology and equipment that China needs most, as well as all the technology related to military equipment. Even China’s industrial construction, the most urgently needed large-tonnage trucks, mining equipment and engineering trucks, Americans have imposed quite severe export restrictions on China, such as high-horsepower marine diesel engines.
As for the luxury accessories that Chinese people don’t need, no one buys them despite large-scale dumping. Moreover, the light industrial products approved for sale by the United States have no market at all in the Chinese market due to price reasons. This most-favored-nation trade status is for For the United States, it is almost useless.
But for the Chinese, it's a completely different story. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, with the strong encouragement of the state, those light industries with low investment and quick results developed very quickly. Not only did they firmly take advantage of price and relatively good quality , occupying the domestic market, and export volume has always been large.
First came textiles and light industrial products, then small-displacement cars. Home electronics captured more than half of the U.S. market, raking in enough dollars from Americans’ pockets. Even medium-sized passenger planes captured part of the U.S. market, and the U.S. Because labor is expensive, the price of products is generally high. Although the quality is superior, it is difficult to enter the Chinese market.
The most important thing is that when this damn agreement was originally signed, the areas that were granted most-favored-nation trade status to the United States were the areas controlled by the CCP at that time, which were North China, Northeast China, plus parts of East China and Northwest China. However, the Americans wanted to give China However, all regions in China receive most-favored-nation treatment for export trade.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the areas that were granted most-favored-nation status for trade with the United States were still the same few provinces. Other regions, including the entire country except Northeast China, the most developed East China region have always said no to American goods. Once this is done, it means that The area given to the United States is only one-fifth of the area.
This one-fifth of China's needs for American supplies, raw materials, and production technology also require a large amount of the latest American technology and technological products with high scientific and technological value, but these products are all on the U.S. embargo list. It can be exported. Except for large-scale power generation, transmission and transformation equipment, and some metallurgical equipment, the US government agrees to sell almost nothing.
But in this agreement, the market that the United States needs to open to the Chinese is facing the entire China. With this calculation, the Americans are basically unprofitable. Instead, they want to give up their entire market, or give up Initiate technical sanctions and agree to export a series of high-tech products such as aviation jet engines and high-power diesel engines that are most urgently needed by the Chinese, or continue to suffer losses.
The Americans approached the Chinese and asked them to modify the trade agreement, but Yang Zhen refused to do so. He directly told the Americans that modifications could be made, either by lifting the blockade on high-tech products, on China's purchase of U.S. technology patents, and on the elective majors for Chinese students, or just like that. Go down, and everyone should do what they are supposed to do.
First, he failed to repay his debts, and played tricks on the United States with the spoils of war against Japan, and then he made such a bunch of tricks in trade. Americans hated Yang Zhen with all his heart. Universities and scientific research institutions across the United States, in order to study Yang Zhen, There are fifteen or sixteen research institutes on who this guy Zhen is, and there are thousands of research reports on Yang Zhen every year.
Yang Zhen has always been among the top five on the CIA's list. Even Yang Zhen's every move has hundreds of senior CIA agents watching him. If Yang Zhen If you disappear from the political arena for a month, Americans will spend a lot of money to study what this guy did during the time he disappeared.
The funniest thing is that in the early 1970s, Yang Zhen relapsed from an old injury and went to Hainan Island to recover for half a year. Within half a year, the U.S. government failed to find out Yang Zhen’s whereabouts and became a mess, which cost a lot of money. , specializing in studying what Yang Zhen has been doing in the past six months.
When Yang Zhen was invited to visit the United States for the first time after taking over as Chairman of the Central Military Commission in the late 1970s, the Americans even recruited hundreds of so-called experts on China issues to study Yang Zhen, the second generation of Chinese leaders. What kind of trouble would the youngest among them cause during this visit to the United States? If it weren't for Yang Zhen's important position at that time, I'm afraid the Americans would have declared Yang Zhen unpopular in the United States for life.
However, although Yang Zhen has already started secretly planning these things, and has even begun to deploy them in some aspects, especially the next focus of bombing the Japanese mainland, he has asked the aviation force to formulate a plan according to his own requirements. In the selection of targets, he must Pay more attention.
But now, even Guo Bingxun didn't know it, a capable team consisting of intelligence, political workers, industrial experts, and Japanese economic experts has been secretly formed. They are painstakingly planning, from intelligence to target selection, including the possible consequences of the follow-up. Yang Zhen, who had thought it over carefully, never thought of the final impact his plan would have after it was implemented.
Now for Yang Zhen, the focus is still on the current battlefield. However, although Yang Zhen disagrees with Guo Bingxun's concerns, Yang Zhen thinks that more preparations are still necessary. Yang Zhen finally decided to agree with Guo Bingxun and attack the Japanese army. Certain measures will be taken and a response plan formulated.
Again, don't be afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of the worst. Although the Japanese army's tactics are a bit more rigid and its adaptability is a little worse, it cannot be said that this army is completely rigid from its brain to its heels. This army's adaptability , it's still okay. Although their ability to respond to new tactics is a little slower, it doesn't mean that they don't accept it completely. For some things, it's better to make some preparations as early as possible to avoid being passive when the time comes.
After Yang Zhen and Guo Bingxun quickly came up with countermeasures, the Anti-Japanese Alliance put all its reserves into the front-line battlefield. On the Siping battlefield, they concentrated all the tanks and aircraft on the Northeast battlefield and adopted a frontal squeeze and two-wing clampdown in the Siping direction. , the latest offensive was launched with the overall tactics of large-depth detours.
In order to attract the attention of the Japanese army from the Shanxi battlefield back to the northeast, Yang Zhen mobilized some troops from the front of Siping, launched a large-depth penetration operation in the directions of Kangping, Faku, and Changtu, and launched a forced offensive through Zhangwu to the Juliu River line.
, approaching the depths of the Japanese divisions on the Siping front line, as well as the entire rear area, and assuming a posture of once again pressing forward to Fengtian.
The troops pointed directly at various key points outside Fengtian such as ***zi, Hushitai, and Xintaizi. In conjunction with the frontal offensive, they tried to once again launch a front and rear pincer attack on the Japanese troops on the Siping front line. At this time, the entire southern Manchurian enemy was in the original position.
After a division deployed on the front line of Kaiyuan and Tieling was crippled, the Kwantung Army was left without troops to defend.
In the originally relatively peaceful Rehe battlefield, the Anti-Japanese Alliance and the First Division of the Advance Army under its command continued to concentrate their forces. The Kwantung Army relied on the Nuruerhu Mountain front line to launch an attack on the defense line built by the Nuruerhu Mountain. In the Nuruerhu Mountain area, the two armies
A fierce artillery battle broke out, which attracted the attention of the Kwantung Army and the entire Japanese base camp from the North China battlefield back to the Northeast battlefield.