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Chapter 962: A lot of help

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    The Japanese army¡¯s attacks on civilians still angered one of its traditional friends. It was also the only country other than Germany to vote in favor of condemning Japan at the League of Nations General Assembly. This country is called Italy.

    This country is now governed by the Italian Fascist Party. It originally had a better relationship with Japan than China. Its Korean War delegation leader, Ciano, has repeatedly supported the Japanese government.  But after this incident, its position quickly changed.

    Because of the two injured foreigners, one was Zhai Ludi, the Italian minister to China, and the other was Ada, an Italian citizen who had just arrived in China.  Needless to say, Zhai Ludi, Ada's identity is even more astonishing because her father is Mussolini, the head of state of Italy.

    As Sino-German relations are getting closer and deeper, Italy is hesitant between China and Japan.  If it were in the past, it would of course be on good terms with Japan, the Asian powerhouse. However, in this era, China has stood up again as if it were reborn.  For such a big country, it is normal to make some political investments in advance, but it will not lead to a falling out with Japan.

    ¡°But when its minister and the prime minister¡¯s daughter were injured in the bombing, Italian public opinion began to shift towards China.

    Coupled with the feedback from various countries on the combat effectiveness of the Chinese and Japanese armies, Italy has regained interest in this country with ancient traditions (the first attention to the East was in the 13th century, represented by Marco Polo), so it also responded to the League of Nations  Japan said "no".

    As for Germany, because of its economic, military and political relations with China and its feud with Japan over the Qingdao issue, it is clearly opposed to Japan.  China, whose industrial output has exceeded that of Japan, has a huge population, resources and market, and a huge geopolitical status, is far more important than Japan.

    ¡° Such a good opportunity, if Zhang Hanqing does not take advantage of it, it will really be a waste of money, although it is not a good thing to have casualties of Chinese civilians.  But things have happened. If he can use this incident to attack Japan and win friends, Zhang Hanqing will not hesitate to do it.

    He drafted a statement overnight in Dalian and solemnly declared to the world:

    "Early this morning, the Japanese naval aviation launched an attack on our civilians in spite of the world's disapproval, and caused heavy casualties to the moving trains in our country. This is a shame for the Chinese people and a shame for all peace-loving people around the world.

    As we all know, our army drove the Japanese army far away from Pyongyang, Seoul, and Daejeon in North Korea.  If we hadn't been peace-loving and wanted to teach Japan a lesson and give them a way to have a dignified truce in Korea, we would have driven them southward to the sea and driven them back to their home base in Japan!

    They can do nothing against our heroic troops and have to vent their pitiful courage on our unarmed civilians.  Isn't this act a shame to the Japanese army?  !

    They have always regarded themselves as the inheritors of the Bushido spirit, and interpreted leaving Asia and joining Europe as entering a club of superior people. Through this incident, we can see their clumsy nature.  The evil wolf thinks that wearing a human skin makes him a gentleman?  The nascent China must beat them into prototypes on the battlefield!  From now on, China will retaliate against Japan ten times or a hundred times as much.

    Here we solemnly give a piece of advice to all countries that still provide military assistance to the Japanese government: There is an old saying in China, "It is not too late for a gentleman to seek revenge in ten years."  The Chinese people will always remember all the crimes committed by the Japanese army in China, and they will also remember who provided them with bullets, machine guns, cannons and tanks!  The Japanese are the executioners, and you are the accomplices!

    Here we also call on all peace-loving people to extend your hands. China needs your help in the war of resistance against Japan in order to interrupt the Japanese arrogance as soon as possible.  China is unwilling to go to war. This war was imposed on us by Japan. Therefore, we have no shirk of responsibility.

    We also hereby declare that from now on, we will carry out unrestricted all forms of war against Japan. We will arm all possible armed forces and continue to attack Japan until they can no longer bear it!  "

    The young marshal¡¯s speech was spread to all corners of the world through radio waves, and also expressed the indomitable determination of the Chinese people.  His speech was not only to encourage the Chinese people and condemn Japan in propaganda, but more importantly, to reduce the United States' military aid to Japan and to obtain urgently needed war materials from the Soviet Union - such as aircraft propeller blades.  , and the most important purpose is to explain China's large-scale military expansion.

    Expanding the army by one million is indeed a scary thing. In Europe, it is almost all the troops that a medium-sized country can raise in a state of war.  And everyone knows that Japan only has 16 divisions in North Korea, which totals almost 500,000, right?  It¡¯s less than half of China¡¯s military expansion at one time!

    Therefore, France and the United Kingdom have expressed "concern" - they are in China's neighboring countries such as Southeast Asia, Central Asia, and South Asia.They all have interests, and because they are the "sovereign country", they are actually China's neighbors.  But these neighbors cannot see that China is being invaded. Once there is any trouble in China, they will be "concerned"!

    Zhang Hanqing was so angry that he raised his middle finger several times in private. If he hadn't been worried about making too many enemies, he would have wanted to curse in public: "I have such a big place in China, even three million troops are not too much. If it weren't for the East  The foreign devils insist on competing with each other, and I really want to wait ten years before expanding the army. It would be better to put the money on economic construction!"

    Because the sea route has actually been cut off, the only one who can supply China is the Soviet Union.

    When the United States supplied Japan with military supplies and China had difficulty obtaining military supplies from the West, the Soviet Union provided a large amount of military assistance to China.  At the proposal of the Soviet government, the Soviet Union and China signed a non-aggression treaty on November 11, 1928.  Subsequently, China sent a delegation to Moscow to purchase arms.

    At that time, China was in urgent need of aircraft. The Soviet Union agreed to use Soviet loans to provide China with 250 fighter aircraft, engines, shore artillery and supporting ammunition and equipment. It immediately began to transport the first batch of 125 aircraft to China on November 25 and dispatched  Flight instructors, instrument instructors, maintenance technicians and engineers, etc., train Chinese personnel to master and ensure the operation of military equipment.

    Soviet combat aircraft arrived in China on December 7.

    The Soviet Union knows this truth, and it has been "bullied" by Japan for a long time before: the Russo-Japanese War in 1904 ended with Russia's defeat, and Russia gave up China's South Manchuria Railway and all ancillary facilities along the coast; in 1918  In the Far East intervention that began in 2001, Japan invested the largest number of troops and lasted the longest time, causing great trouble to the Soviet Far East.

    Even in the years after the Japanese army withdrew from Vladivostok, there were voices in Japan saying that they would implement a "go north" policy.  The Northeast is already like this. Where else can they go "north"? It's just the Far East.  The Soviet Union, which was also engaged in economic construction, felt threatened and took advantage of this opportunity to help China fight Japan.

    Therefore, less than a month after the war started, the Soviet Union provided China with a loan of US$100 million to purchase Soviet weapons.  During the same period, the United States gave Japan $125 million in loans and credits to purchase American machine tools and other strategic materials to strengthen Japan's war machine for invading China.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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