Two days passed. On the 16th, Xiang Xiaoqiang finally got the plane he was looking forward to. But instead of six aviation regiments, there were only two fighter groups, with a total of eighty Kingfisher fighter jets. The high command sent these two
The reason why the brigade came was probably because they were afraid that the 90 bombers in northern Xinjiang would not be escorting them, so they sent 80 fighter jets just in case.
Xiang Xiaoqiang also learned that the two Army Motorized Infantry Divisions stationed in Shanxi have now set off to Lanzhou by train. Since they are mainly wheeled vehicles, it should take 3-4 days to get there from Lanzhou to Dihua.
The combination of these two finally gave him some comfort. In this way, the three divisions combined can have 50,000 people. Add in 170 combat aircraft, hundreds of tanks, armored vehicles and self-propelled artillery, and it is also a large force.
The Soviet army on the opposite side did not dare to act rashly unless they gathered several times the number of troops. Xiang Xiaoqiang finally breathed a sigh of relief, and was also interested in having a bonfire banquet, and took Fourteen Gege to visit Tianshan Tianchi to enjoy the fruits of victory.
Something like that.
On the morning of the 17th, Xiuxiu sent a secret message. It had nothing to do with matters in northern Xinjiang, but something on the other side of the world - there was news from Guangwu.
The destroyer Jingmuyan followed the Dominican cargo ship and wandered in the Pacific for more than a month, and finally arrived in Panama in April. The Dominican cargo ship was a civilian ship and entered the Panama Canal immediately, but the Jingmuyan was a warship and passed by
It would be much more troublesome and better when
Many diplomatic formalities were delayed for several days. After completing the formalities and entering the Panama Canal, after exiting the Caribbean side, the cargo ship was naturally nowhere to be found. The Jingmuyan kept a low profile on the high seas of the Caribbean.
After wandering around for several days, the cargo ship was never found, so we had no choice but to return.
Although everyone in the Ming Dynasty knew at that time that the cargo ship must have docked in the Dominican Republic, it was useless to know that the Jingmuyan could not enter its territorial waters to see it. Then the country could only send spies to the Dominican Republic to find out the news.
It was not until the beginning of May that Dongchang spies traveled all the way to Dominica and lurked down to collect information. More than ten days later yesterday, it was confirmed that Guangwu was in Dominica and was under the protection of Trujillo Molina, the country's ruler.
.
Now, "American relations" can be activated to force Dominica to repatriate Guangwu.
Xiuxiu's telegram stated that His Majesty held a special imperial meeting to discuss this matter. Now everyone generally believes that the matter in Northern Xinjiang is over, and the matter in the United States and Dominica is more important. Most people in the cabinet and the headquarters are in favor of letting Xiang Xiaoqiang end his career.
Northern Xinjiang's Ren
He recently returned to Nanjing to participate in the task of negotiating with the American Ford consortium. Because of Xiang Xiaoqiang’s special status—the husband of the fiancé’s sister of the daughter of Ford’s major shareholder. This personal relationship can play a role in this matter.
Very useful.
Of course, Xiang Xiaoqiang knew that there was another very important reason: Zhu Yourong wanted Xiang Xiaoqiang. She had long been looking forward to such an opportunity to have Xiang Xiaoqiang return to her.
Not only Zhu Yourong, but also Zheng Yucong also wanted to kill herself. This little girl must have worked hard for her to return to Nanjing as soon as possible. There were also Qiu Qiu and Xiuxiu, they even hoped that she would go home early. She left Nanjing
It's been a whole month.
The only one who didn't want to leave was Shi Shi Ge Ge. She was newly married and had only had her husband for a month, and she was about to return to Nanjing to share it with the two little girls. For this, the arrogant Shi Shi Ge Ge was very annoyed. She
Almost everyone wants to do some small tricks here to destroy Xiang Xiao
Xiang Xiaoqiang made plans to return. She became angry just thinking about it - for reasons and reasons, she had to give up Xiang Xiaoqiang to them as soon as she returned. Those two little girls had been guarding the empty house for a month, and now they were like hungry wolves. I'm afraid they would not accept
For the next ten days and a half, I could only see Xiang Xiaoqiang during the day.
Although Xiang Xiaoqiang was very worried about the situation in northern Xinjiang, he was still satisfied that he could return to Nanjing as soon as possible and escape from the polar bear's paws as soon as possible. Therefore, after receiving the telegram, he stopped chirping and cooperated very cooperatively.
Communicated via telegram with various departments in Nanjing to determine the date of return and the settlement of affairs in northern Xinjiang. Finally, the date of return to the east was set.
In the next few days, Xiang Xiaoqiang was arranging the affairs after he left. He left Gao Dayi in northern Xinjiang and continued to command the 1st Armored Division. At the same time, he continued to surround the "Soviet Embassy", not only to put pressure on it, but also to
Don't push the other party into panic. In the final analysis, he is just Erdenmutu, not Guangwu. He is just a bandit leader who did the wrong thing at the wrong time.
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Just a few days before Xiang Xiaoqiang was preparing to return eastward, in Tokyo, more than 4,000 kilometers away in the east, an imperial meeting to determine Japan's national destiny had been going on for several days.
As usual, Emperor Hirohito is sitting in the middle, and the civil and military ministers are lined up on both sides, sitting upright.
But the decisive ones, in addition to Emperor Hirohito, were Prime Minister Hayashi Senjuro, Foreign Minister Naotake Sato, Army Minister Gen Sugiyama, Navy Minister Mitsumasa Yoneuchi, and Chief of Staff Prince Kanin Miyazahito.
Although the imperial meeting lasted for a long time, the differences were not big. Today, it is surprisingly unanimous. Not only is the cabinet internally unanimous, but the opinions of the cabinet and the military are also basically the same. This is extremely rare in the history of high-level decision-making in Japan.
Rare.
This is largely determined by the characteristics of this cabinet. This cabinet is a military cabinet. Prime Minister Hayashi Senjuro himself is an army general, and he is also an extremely fanatical militarist. He has always cherished the "dream of the mainland".
People who like to take risks.
Another important reason for the high-level consensus is that Japan now faces a multiple-choice question, and this multiple-choice question seems too clear to these military and political officials.
More than ten days ago, a Soviet cargo ship sailed into Tokyo Bay, and a Soviet secret mission arrived in Tokyo. The mission was led by Stalin's confidant and diplomatic veteran Molotov. He brought a suggestion from Stalin: take advantage of the situation.
When the Ming Dynasty had just finished a great war and the north was not yet stable and had no war potential, the Soviet Union and Japan jointly attacked the Ming Dynasty and tried to create a buffer zone in the north of the Ming Dynasty. The most ideal way was to let
The Northern Qing Dynasty was restored and became the puppet of both countries.
Molotov even drew out the future sphere of influence on the map: the western part of the north - Gansu, the western part of Inner and Outer Mongolia, and the northern and southern Xinjiang belong to the Soviet sphere of influence; the eastern part of Northeast China and the provinces of North China belong to Japan's sphere of influence.
Of course the Japanese knew what Stalin planned. In addition, the Soviets had recently carried out a series of actions in southern and northern Xinjiang. The Japanese knew that Stalin probably wanted to take action in the northwest of the Ming Dynasty. At this time, they wanted to bring Japan together to do it, attacking from both sides.
, causing the Ming Dynasty, which had just taken over the north and had not yet taken a breath, to fall into a two-front battle.
Molotov put it very bluntly: The Soviet Union did not allow the capitalist Ming Dynasty to lie directly on the south side of the Soviet Union to ensure that in the long-term future, the East would have no worries. And Japan needed extensive continental territory to remove the obstacles to becoming a leader in Asia.
.The purpose of both of us is not to annex the Ming Dynasty
, but only tried our best to restore the north to the state before the Unification War. At the same time, our two families divided the Northern Qing Dynasty, and both got the greatest benefit. But this benefit can only be successful if both families work together. Any one of them can deal with the Ming Dynasty alone.
It is difficult for all countries to achieve their expected goals.
The Japanese are also very smart, knowing that Stalin was very generous on the surface. He only wanted a few provinces in northwest China, and assigned North China, the most fertile, populous, and economically developed area in northern China, to Japan. But in fact, it allowed Japan to take chestnuts from the Soviet Union's fire.
The feeling. The eastern provinces are very good.
That is the core area of interest of the Ming Dynasty, which the Ming army will defend with all their lives. Although the northwest provinces are barren, as long as Japan is making trouble in the east, the Ming army will not abandon the east and focus on the west, and will definitely send its main force to the west.
Stay in the east and fight the Japanese, and let the Soviet Union easily pick the peaches in the west.
But although the Soviets had this plan, the Japanese had other plans of their own. In the words of Hayashi Senjuro, Japan must seize this rare opportunity, try its best to expand its own interests, and try its best to weaken the Ming Dynasty. However, it must not be the main force.
.The main force must be left to the Soviet Union
Do it. Moreover, Japan must wait until the war between the Soviet Union and the Ming Dynasty reaches a fever pitch and all the elites of the Ming Dynasty are transferred to the northwest before Japan can take action in the east. Japan is the weakest country among the Three Kingdoms. With this "weakness", Japan has
This provided sufficient reason for the Soviet Union to take action first.