Song Biao was not willing to participate in the actual negotiations, but he was forced to participate anyway, entangled with Commissioner Vyacheslav Molotov over these trivial issues.
The Soviet Union did not want to perish, and China did not want the Soviet Union to perish prematurely.
After a long period of negotiations, Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov and the Imperial Central Military Department initially reached a new secret agreement - the Soviet Union gave up the Kazakh and Georgian regions and recognized the independence and freedom of Georgia and the Democratic Republic of Kazakhstan. , recognized the leadership of China and the Asian League in Central Asia, and promised to no longer support Soviet organizations in the Asian League members.
On this basis, China will agree to sell military supplies to the Soviet Union totaling more than 4 billion yuan, including 3 million M35 assault rifles, 7,550 tanks and other armored vehicles and self-propelled artillery, and 2,400 J-5D Tiger Shark fighter-bombers , 1,700 J-404 fighters, 1,500 BF120 rocket launchers Moreover, China and the Asian Alliance countries will purchase the Soviet Union's foreign debt, which is equivalent to supporting the Soviet Union in disguised purchase of all needed materials.
Whether China and the Soviet Union can finally reach this contract will actually have to wait until Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov returns to Moscow before reporting to General Secretary Joseph Stalin. If Stalin does not agree to this deal, then there is no choice but to As if nothing happened.
As for Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov's suggestion that once China and the Soviet Union reach a final secret agreement, China and the Asian League must abandon all support for Germany and fully support the conditions for the Soviet Union to win the war, the imperialist side does not Agree and never accept it.
While the Imperial Central Military Commission was preparing for a huge arms purchase trade with the Soviet Union, Chen Wu, who had restored the reputation of the senior army general and succeeded General Cai E as the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Defense Forces and the Asian Alliance East Asia Military Region, was conducting a large-scale attack on the Northeast Defense Forces. targeted adjustments.
Chen Wu is a veteran expert in mountain warfare and traditional Suvorov mobile warfare theory. The adjustments he made to the Northeastern Army were obviously different from Cai E, who was prudent and innovative. He first adjusted the upper limit of squad-level soldiers in the entire army, and reduced the number of soldiers to each squad level. The size of an infantry squad has been increased to 18 to 20 people, which is equivalent to half an infantry platoon in peacetime. The firepower configuration of the infantry squad has been greatly improved. The M1938\40 8mm sniper rifle, commonly known as the 38th Sniper, is used to comprehensively To replace the M1925\33 Hanyang semi-automatic sniper rifle, each infantry squad is guaranteed to have at least two heavy sniper gunners to make up for the medium and long-range shooting disadvantages caused by the replacement of the M35 assault rifle in the entire army, and the M40 7.62mm general-purpose machine gun is even more large-scale It replaces the light machine gun and is in large-scale service in the army.
Secondly, the 33N system is adopted. Each platoon is under the jurisdiction of 3 infantry squads, and each company is under the jurisdiction of 3 platoons. The previous mortar squad is eliminated through the expansion of the infantry squad personnel, and the mortar combat team is directly classified into the infantry squad. , to expand the combat capabilities at the squad level, but at the battalion level, each battalion usually expands to a huge size of 10 to 14 companies, and establishes more professional companies such as engineers, communications, reconnaissance, and logistics, making the battalion The first level can have the combat scale and scope of regiment-level combat units in the past. In actual operations, it also relies more on battalion-level units to adapt to the characteristics of mountain operations with many small-scale conflicts and numerous garrison and attack points.
Third, in addition to the three elite armored divisions and seven light tank brigades retained for urban combat, Chen Wu disassembled all the armored units under the jurisdiction of the Northeast Defense Force into armored battalions and placed them within each infantry regiment.
Fourth, Chen Wu once again established artillery as the center of the Northeast National Defense Force. He established 4 artillery divisions, 14 artillery brigades and 9 rocket launcher brigades on a large scale. He replaced the 120mm caliber howitzers that were not suitable for the Korean and Japanese battlefields. The larger-scale equipment is particularly suitable for this battlefield, the ZP15 88mm self-propelled howitzer and the ZP18 105mm self-propelled light howitzer, as well as the M1937 truck-pulled 105mm light howitzer.
Chen Wu completely regarded these three types of self-propelled and barrel artillery as the main equipment of the entire Northeastern National Defense Force, while the M1934 120mm towed howitzer, M1930\38 130mm cannon, and M1933 ??152mm cannon were exclusively deployed in each artillery division and artillery force. The brigade was used to cooperate with infantry and armored forces to suppress the Japanese army's small number of heavy fortresses head-on.
The artillery regiments under each infantry division will completely replace the ZP15 88mm self-propelled howitzer or the M1937 105mm light howitzer. Each artillery brigade will use the ZP18 105mm self-propelled light howitzer as the main body.
Fifth, Chen Wu comprehensively reorganized and organized the four group armies to ensure that each group army has 5-7 infantry divisions, each with at least 2 armored tank brigades, 1 artillery division, 3 artillery brigades, and 2 rocket launchers. Brigade, each infantry division, whether it is the main elite force or a new infantry division, has a comprehensive infantry brigade, which serves as the division's reserve force to adapt to the difficulties of high casualty rates in mountain operations and urban operations. At the same time, the division's The reserve brigade can operate as a logistics brigade during normal phases and is responsible for assisting transportation.
Sixth, Chen Wu removed all the units that had previously performed poorly and transferred them to various logistics and reserve units, regardless of the history and honor records of the units, including the Third Mountain Army that he had personally createddivision.
Through this series of adjustments, Chen Wu reorganized the entire army in just a few months, shrinking the main force to 1.275 million, while the reserve force and logistics force increased to 1.1 million, almost On average, there is one backup support soldier behind each front-line soldier.
At the general level, Chen Wu also made some large-scale adjustments. After Wei Lihuang was transferred to the Siberian Military Region, he promoted Huang Baitao to serve as the commander of the Second Group Army. The commander of the First Group Army was taken over by Lieutenant General Liu Yazhao, and Xue Yue served as commander. Commander of the Fourth Army, Zhang Zizhong continued to serve as commander of the Third Army.
A group of young and middle-aged generals who performed well or relatively well in the early battles were promoted to major generals on a large scale. A large number of major generals such as Xu Wei and Su Bin were promoted to major generals and served as division commanders and chiefs of staff of each main division. Almost half of the deans have also been replaced.
Chen Wu's actions in the Korean battlefield were too big, which more or less caused some criticism within the Central Defense Forces, but no one dared to say too much. After all, he was one of the earliest senior generals. When it comes to military merit, except for Zhao Tingzhu , Cai E, several senior army generals currently in service cannot compare with him.
In fact, it was precisely because of such qualifications and the emperor's trust that Chen Wu was able to make such large-scale adjustments and changes in the Korean battlefield.
After his adjustments, the Northeastern National Defense Force had a clearer advantage in decisive land battles against the Japanese army than before. With this foundation, the Battle of Busan finally began on July 22, 1940. After this battle, the Japanese army would completely defeat the Japanese army. was cleared out.
When the Sino-Japanese war continues to this extent, the Japanese army will face Chen Wu's Northeast Defense Force, and the situation will inevitably be very bad. For Japan, the fact that is more cruel than the Battle of Busan is that China has basically completed the ring blockade strategy. Deployment, once Japan repeats the mistakes of the Ryukyu Islands in the Iwo Islands, Japan will be completely blocked by China's navy, land and air forces, and all Japan's foreign trade and exchanges will be completely interrupted.
Japan is a country with no manganese ore in its territory. Once it is blocked, even if it has coal mines of a certain scale and a small amount of iron ore in its territory, it will not be able to smelt steel. How can it fight a modern war?
The situation of being blocked by a ring is no longer avoidable. The Japanese base camp is very aware of this. They are also looking for many ways, including using submarines to transport overseas resources to continue the war.
For the Chinese Empire, now is a relatively relaxed moment. The country's military expenditure has decreased compared with last year and the first half of the year, and the total burden and pressure on the central finance is not serious. With the destruction of the Japanese navy, the Empire The external maritime trade channels have regained their former peace. After wiping out most of Japan's military forces outside its homeland, the empire occupied most of Japan's colonies in the Pacific.
After occupying the Marina Islands and the Marshall Islands, the Empire established a new military base in Guam. Just as the United States feared, without the restraint of the Japanese Navy, the Imperial Navy has occupied control of the entire Western Pacific, with a huge naval scale. Surpassing Britain and the United States, becoming one of the three most powerful naval powers in the world.
The empire maintained its consistent policy in Southeast Asia and continued to cut Indonesia out of the two overseas provinces of Kalimantan and Sulawesi, while Papua established a new republic and prepared to join the Asian Union. The empire also continued to expand its influence in these three regions. Large-scale immigration. In the next ten years, the empire will immigrate 1.5 million people to the overseas province of Sulawesi, expanding the proportion of Chinese in the local population to 70%, thereby firmly controlling the Sulawesi region within the empire. In the territory, it gradually transformed from an overseas province into an autonomous province like Guangxi and Chahar.
The territory of the Chinese Empire will continue to expand. In the past, it was mainly based on land expansion, but now it is mainly based on maritime expansion.
The empire is also re-examining its territorial policy. Now a controversial issue in the country is how to deal with post-war Japan. Gu Weijun put forward a bolder proposal that has not been made public to the outside world. He believes that just as Japan originally Just like Taiwan was cut off from Ryukyu during the Sino-Japanese War, the empire should cut off Hokkaido from Japan.
Considering that the current total population of Japan in Hokkaido is about 800,000, this is still relatively difficult, but it is indeed a very good proposal.
¡°Compared with the military ministry¡¯s proposal to cede Kyushu Island, Gu Weijun¡¯s proposal is easier to implement.
On the premise of possessing Jeju Island, the strategic position of Kyushu Island is not important to the empire. If the empire can obtain Hokkaido, the empire will completely stabilize the entire Far East and guard the entire Bering Strait together with the United States.
After signing the secret agreement with the Soviet Union, Song Biao¡¯s attention has been on the battles of Hokkaido and Iwo Jima. As for other things, he didn¡¯t pay much attention. After the hot summer arrived, Song Biao decided to fight in the company.After going to Chengde to escape the summer heat in the fourth year, he changed to Lushan Summer Palace again to escape the summer heat.
Just before the Battle of Busan and the Battle of Iwo Jima broke out, the royal family collectively took a special train to Lushan County.
The Lushan Conference in recent years has been under the responsibility and preparation of the Congress, and the topics discussed are broader, but they are still limited to the country. Major issues in East Asia are held at the annual Macau Forum. The issue was held in Almaty.
These three forums, along with the Beijing Asian Alliance Cooperation Forum and the Shanghai Free Trade Forum, are the five most important forums in the empire, and are also the main meeting areas for discussing various issues in China, Asia and the world inside and outside the empire.
Unlike the Lushan Conference in previous years, which discussed various issues in China, even the Seventh Five-Year Plan being formulated was not included in this year's Lushan Conference. This year's Lushan Conference has only one magical theme - China in twenty years!
This year, the Ministry of Culture and Education very creatively set the essay topic for the National Joint Entrance Examination as "China in Twenty Years." This is a complete science fiction question. For those young people who like Verne, this is simply their 100th anniversary. A common entrance examination question.
On the special train to Lushan that day, the Ministry of Culture and Education prepared a very interesting train reading book for the emperor, "A Collection of Full Score Essays for the National High School Joint Entrance Examination". This was the reading book chosen by Song Biao himself. He really wanted to pass it. This is a way to take a look at the thoughts of young people and the imagination of Chinese youth.
The train flies by on the Beijing-Guangzhou Line.
This is a national arterial railway that has been fully electrified. China's first high-speed electric railway development project is under the joint research plan of the Central Academy of Transportation Research and Northeast Heavy Industry, Central Railway Company, Far Eastern Railway Company, Southern Railway Company, and Southern Train Company. It will also be initially completed by the end of this year. First, such a brand-new high-speed railway will be built from Hangzhou to Shanghai.
After the technical verification is completed, the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway and the Far East Railway will jointly use relevant technologies to carry out the second major speed increase of the national arterial railways. The Imperial Railway technology is far ahead of other countries in the world.
In 1903, Germany's Siemens completed the development of a three-phase AC electric train. In a test in October of that year, the prototype reached an astonishing speed of 210.2 kilometers per hour. Although for a long time, electric railways were just a The legendary science fiction works are still far away from human life, and the astonishing speed has not yet been demonstrated in actual operations.
With the continuous advancement of science and technology, various problems and difficulties were continuously overcome. In 1933, the Imperial Far Eastern Railway Company completed the development of the electric high-speed railway project, which subsequently brought the Imperial Electric Railway into the first stage of major speed increase. The average speed of electric railways began to exceed the 120 km/h mark.
According to the plan of the Ministry of Transport, in 1945, the average speed of the empire's national electric railways will reach the standard of 140 kilometers per hour, and the national railway electrification ratio will also exceed 75. The high-speed railway standard set by the empire is more than 180 kilometers per hour, with the highest The Shanghai-Hangzhou high-speed railway with an experimental speed of over 220 kilometers per hour will be the first true high-speed railway in the empire.
Even though the era of highways has arrived, and road transportation accounts for an increasing proportion, rail freight is still the focus of the empire's transportation industry. Considering energy efficiency ratio, the empire still gives more policy support to rail freight. Freight railways are also gradually separating from high-speed passenger railways and separating into two systems.
Riding the Dongfang special train, Song Biao and his royal family enjoyed the joy of traveling on land at high speed. Although the speed of 140 kilometers per hour was far from the peak of the empire's technological limit, it was As far as passengers in this era are concerned, people have enough reasons to be happy, and people have enough reasons to be proud of the empire's technological achievements.
The speed is very fast and the train is very quiet.
Song Biao could smoke a cigar leisurely and look at the perfect score essays written by high school students in the joint entrance examination answer sheets. Among these more than 140 perfect score essays, they almost covered all the imagination of the younger generation. As a reader, Song Biao found all kinds of strange science fiction articles interesting.
These compositions include soft science fiction and solid hard science fiction.
Imperial high schools are strictly prohibited from setting up liberal arts and science subjects. All students must receive a complete preparatory education, and only begin to receive education in professional subjects during their sophomore year. Such as the Central Polytechnic University, Central Imperial University, and Aurora University are leading research universities in the country. Universities do not set any major restrictions in the early days. Students only need to be admitted to the university, and they only need to choose a major in their sophomore year. Science and engineering majors at Aurora University and Central Polytechnic University take five years to obtain a bachelor's degree.
So in high school, students studied a very wide range of subjects, but the breadth of imperial higher education was enough??It ensures that high school students over 40 years old can get a suitable university education. Therefore, the vast majority of students do not need to devote all their energy to the high school joint entrance examination, and the joint entrance examination scores are only of reference significance for the first-class universities. , except public universities.
Public universities and colleges in the empire have strict admissions evaluations. The joint entrance examination score accounts for 3/5 of the total score, the social score accounts for 1/5, and the usual and other comprehensive scores account for 1/5. There are no recommendation points and no interview points. The only exception is Chuo Imperial University. In theory, only the best active students recommended by each famous high school or the best students in interviews can be admitted to this university. The stepping stone for Imperial University is to meet that standard.
Private universities in the empire usually lower the proportion of joint entrance examination scores to 1/2 of the total score, leaving more admissions points on other criteria such as interviews and recommendations.
For all high school students and technical secondary school graduates, it is definitely the best choice to attend the best school. However, except for the vocational colleges funded by the central government, the tuition fees of most well-known universities are not low. For many students, the best choice is to apply for admission to a local public university, a vocational college or a social university in the province or city, or even the county.
Of course, according to the practice of previous years, these students who have perfect scores in the composition of the high school joint entrance examination and are included in the collection of excellent compositions of the joint entrance examination will almost all be admitted to the best universities or be specially recruited.
This year is definitely a bit complicated. For the Chinese and Chinese colleges of various universities, it is really a confusing matter whether these students with perfect scores in this year's college entrance examination essays can be specially admitted to the hospital, right?
Song Biao read the previous ten full-score essays and soon discovered that today's young people are really an interesting generation. Even he was surprised by their rich imagination and precociousness. Although it was a science fiction essay, it was suitable for students who focused on literature. There is a lot of room for development, and the majority of people write this topic as a political fantasy or a historical war fantasy.
Among the ten full-scoring essays he read, only two really focused on science and technology. The others were all historical essays and political essays. In particular, there were many essays that used this topic to explain political and cultural topics, accounting for almost 100% of the essays. Half done.
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Very good, very good.
A very loving and ambitious generation of children.
It is said that the empire¡¯s free education has cultivated a generation of weird teenagers, and everyone¡¯s ideas are crazy.
If not all of them can be admitted to Central Imperial University, the talents of these young people will be in vain!
This is how Song Biao sighed.
He began to admire the empire's education. Unlike the exam-oriented education he received as a teenager, such a liberal education indeed had very strange results. The empire's education actually had several great characteristics. One was freedom, which was available in public schools in all provinces. Private schools have more freedom when they have the right to choose their own textbooks; second, they pursue traditional education and comprehensive quality education, with traditional Chinese studies education taking up a very large proportion; third, there are many practical education and social education courses, encouraging students to practice more and more Use your brain to think.
It is undeniable that the Chinese people have always been characterized by diligence, parents are diligent, and students are also diligent. The best young people are always those diligent and studious students. There are a large number of freaks who can score more than 530 points in the high school joint entrance examination every year.
Fortunately, the universities in the Empire do not only accept nerds.
It¡¯s just that nerds are really talented too.
Song Biao saw a very pure hard science fiction article, which was actually about Verne's journey to the moon. The subtitle of his article was "From China to the Moon", in which he planted the flag of the empire on the moon and occupied the moon.
What¡¯s weird is that another soft article directly writes that the Empire and the Soviet Union landed on the moon at the same time, and started the Second World War for the ownership of the moon. Well, young people don¡¯t realize that the Second World War is right in front of them. Now.
The train keeps moving forward.
Song Biao read all the 140 essays for the National Excellent Entrance Examination in his special train carriage. After reading them, he was full of unprecedented confidence in the new generation of the empire's youth. This could really be done. A generation of young people who are doing great things. They are extremely stylish and possess the best qualities in the human world - imagination and confidence.
They are full of confidence in the empire, full of confidence in themselves, have unlimited imagination, and also have logic worth mentioning.
They are very powerful.
It¡¯s so awesome that Song Biao can¡¯t believe that these compositions are all written by the 17-18-year-old generation of teenagers in the empire. In short, there are strange and powerful young people everywhere in this empire. They obviously have enough enthusiasm and future.?Set the country on fire, set the world on fire.
Until night, just when the train was about to cross the Yellow River to Wuchang.
Song Biao put down his reading glasses, opened the window and looked at the brightly lit Wuchang City. He couldn't help but smile, and smiled with satisfaction. He suddenly felt that the greatest legacy he left to the empire was not the territory of 20 million square kilometers, not half of it. The Pacific Ocean is not about nuclear weapons, but about countless young people with a bright future.
Precisely because their future is infinitely bright, the future of this empire will also be infinitely bright.
They have all the excellent qualities that can make them successful, and when they succeed, the success of countless young people will allow the empire to continue to develop and develop infinitely.
The importance of education can be seen from this.
Without free and great education, there will be no free and great youth. Without free and great youth, there will ultimately be no free and great country.
This is such a simple truth.
"OK!"
Song Biao was extremely happy and filled with joy. He closed the collection of excellent essays for the National High School Entrance Examination again and patted the cover of the book gently with his hand. He was thinking about more things worthy of his pride and joy, imagining the two No matter what he thinks about China ten years from now, he will no longer have any hesitation or worry. With countless young people full of hope, no country will have to worry about the future.
Education is really important.
Song Biao thought, from this it seems that the empire's education is still successful, but it should be even more successful. The empire can lag behind other countries in technology, military, and economy, such as the United States, the only country that can challenge the empire, but as long as education is better than If the United States leads, the empire will eventually become the most powerful country in the world.
Vice versa, even if the empire is ahead of the United States in technology, military, and economy, if the education is backward, it will not be able to maintain its lead forever, or even be short-lived.
From Cai Yuanpei to Liang Qichao, from Liang Qichao to Zhang Boling, from Zhang Boling to Huang Yanpei, from Huang Yanpei to Mei Yiqi, the empire went through five different ministers of culture and education in the thirty years. It was they who were the leaders of modern Chinese education and made it "free" "Modern Education" from dream to reality.
Since Cai Yuanpei put forward the concept of "China's education should be free modern education", after thirty years, from the original private school system in Northeast China to six-year compulsory education, to today's twelve-year national education, the empire's education has It has developed to a very mature stage, absorbing many characteristics of modern education in the United States and Germany, and also made many innovative innovations based on national conditions, and finally developed into one of the best modern education in the world.
The empire's 12-year national education, in addition to six years of primary school and three years of junior high school, also includes three years of high school or secondary vocational education. The 12-year national education is free and compulsory. Students in junior high school are based on various Evaluation and your own needs. Transfer to high school or technical secondary vocational school. From high school, you can enter university. There are four-year applied degrees and five-year research degrees. The latter can continue to study for master's degrees and doctoral degrees. From technical secondary schools, there are four-year applied degrees. After graduation, you can go directly to a higher vocational college to continue your studies.
In order to encourage more students to choose secondary and higher vocational colleges to facilitate the cultivation of intermediate and advanced technical workers and basic engineers, Imperial College still maintains a high proportion of state support, and a larger proportion of students study at their own expense for one to two years to complete an applied bachelor's degree Bachelor of Science.
It is this foundation that allows the empire to firmly occupy the position of the world's industrial hegemon. The empire's development in industry has clearly surpassed virtue, and is moving in a higher, broader and more advanced direction.
The Empire is already the most important motorcycle in the world, leading the entire world forward.
The newly appointed Minister of Culture and Education Mei Yiqi has made up his mind to continue to promote higher education in the empire during the fifteen-year term promised to him by the emperor, and strive to ensure that 70% of young people can receive higher education every year after fifteen years, so that It became the national higher education plan he advocated, ensuring that 100 young people can receive 12-year national basic education, and ultimately realizing the "universal and free modern national education" he hoped to achieve.
? ?Everyone has a great dream.
It is precisely when everyone pursues great dreams that the world can progress, and the Chinese Empire can gather the great aspirations of 500 million Chinese people and continue to move forward. (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!)