Glorious Mission 1937

()Chapter 240 Three: War Declaration (2)

Lao Jiang didn't expect Ri himself to react so fiercely. He declared war as soon as he said war. He didn't know what kind of feeling he felt in his heart now. In fact, he was under pressure to declare war with Ri himself, but he was already prepared, after all, both sides had already fought It's been more than a year since we met.Although he hadn't declared war before, and he planned to continue fighting like this, it didn't mean he was unprepared.

However, Lao Jiang is still suffering in his heart. Declaring war with Japan is really not what he wants. As the leader of a country, and a leader who has climbed from the top, Lao Jiang's wrists are undoubtedly extremely clever. The relationship between countries in the world is also deeply studied.He is very clear that, compared with the two countries at war, the major international trend is that whoever declares war will be detrimental to whom in terms of jurisprudence.

Because in 1928 there was an international "Convention of Non-War" that declares war, whether it is the invading party or the invaded party, there is suspicion of belligerence and will be isolated by the international community.Therefore, if China and Japan declare war in this way, no matter whether China is fighting back in self-defense, or whether you are a righteous party or not, Western countries will formally keep a very long distance from you.In order not to be isolated internationally, no matter how persecuted by the Japanese army, Lao Jiang has always maintained an important reason for not declaring war on Japan.

Lao Jiang didn't expect that since a successful air strike caused Japan to declare war on China, perhaps it was because this air strike had a prefix of "success", if this air strike was the same as before, the record would be mediocre.Then Japan himself would not just declare war on China, Lao Jiang thought so.

Now that Japan himself has declared war, Lao Jiang must reconsider his strategic decision-making and relationship with Japan.For this reason, Lao Jiang didn't care whether he had breakfast, but told Wang Shihe to immediately notify the ministers and major military officers to attend a meeting in the camp.

All the military and political officials who came to the meeting were surprised to find that the commissioners were wearing military uniforms today. You must know that commissioners rarely wear military uniforms, especially when they are in meetings.

"You all know about Ri himself and our declaration of war, so talk about it. What should we do?" Lao Jiang's voice was not high.I couldn't tell whether it was joy or sadness, but it was this faint voice that made the atmosphere in the entire conference room upset again, because these officials of the government knew that this faint expression was just the old man's cover up before his outbreak.Because of knowing these.So no one dared to take the lead.It's okay to say it.A bad answer is not just a swearing, maybe the black hat that was put on so hard will be taken off like this.

As the well-deserved No. [-] figure in the national government, He Yingqin doesn't care whether he likes it or not.He has to follow up on what Lao Jiang said, and he must not let the meeting become cold: "Commissioner, the declaration of war between Japan and us was already expected. Both sides have been fighting for more than a year, and the declaration of war is not so unacceptable." Question. What we have to consider now is how to respond to Ri himself's declaration of war, whether to declare war on Ri himself tit-for-tat, or continue to fight without declaring war?"

Wang Jingwei, the vice president of the Kuomintang government, pondered for a while and said: "Everyone knows the situation of the party-state. It is obvious that declaring war will do more harm than good to the party-state. Evil consequences. The strategic impact of declaring war alone has to be carefully considered. The word declaring war is easy to say, and it is easy to say, but think about it, once you declare war, there is no way out. International Not to mention aid and international mediation."

He Yingqin frowned and said: "What the vice president said is not unreasonable. After the 9.18 Incident and the 77 Incident, Britain and the United States did not stand on the side of the party-state, nor did they aid us. Especially the Americans, they also strongly assisted Japan. , especially some military supplies, including oil, steel and even loans. If the Americans will increase aid to Japan once war is declared, it will be really troublesome."

"Another point is that the only countries that aid us now are the Soviet Union and Germany, especially Germany. Our army is also trained by German officers. A large amount of German military supplies, including heavy weapons such as guns and artillery, are continuously shipped to China. , and these weapons and equipment are also an important basis for us to dare to fight against Japan. Once China declares war with Japan, Germany, which has an equally good relationship with Japan, will not be able to provide assistance to China and must remain neutral. According to international law, once If war is declared, other countries will not be able to assist the warring countries, including troops, military supplies, loans, transportation, intelligence, etc., which will have a catastrophic impact on us, so my opinion is not to declare war, or even Contact the Japanese themselves as soon as possible, or let the Germans come forward to coordinate and end this war as soon as possible." Wang Jingwei said.

Although Wang Jingwei's ideas are a bit useless, even a little humiliating and humiliating to the country, but a weak country has no diplomacy, and people have to bow their heads under the eaves.Now the situation is very obvious, the party-state has been defeated repeatedly, and the entire coastal area has been lost. Now the Japanese navy has even reached the outskirts of Wuhan. There are still many people who support it.

Minister of National Defense Chen Cheng got up and said: "I disagree. The war against Japan is a foregone conclusion. Sima Zhaozhi's evil intentions to destroy our party and country are well known to everyone. They have declared war now. If we continue to pretend to be deaf and dumb like this, we can only It will be deceitful, coaxing yourself, and it will do a lot of harm and no benefit. More importantly, if we don't immediately declare war on Japan, how will the people and the army in the country think of us and the committee? They are afraid What’s wrong. If we don’t respond again, I can guarantee that there will be a larger-scale defeat immediately. If the hearts of the people are scattered, we won’t last long without Ri himself to beat us.”

Bai Chongxi, who has always been known as the little Zhuge, looked at Li Zongren, who was taking notes with his head down, and then stood up and said, "I think declaring war is better than not declaring war. Don't even think about international mediation. Whether it's Ri himself or the Americans, they are cannibals." Hungry wolves who don’t spit out their bones, they are all the same. After the September [-]th Incident, it’s not that there were no people from the League of Nations, but everyone must know the result, so I don’t need to tell you here. The British and the French, their goal is to occupy our land to make up for their own inherent shortcomings. They never thought about making peace with us. It's not that Germany has helped us mediate Sino-Japanese relations, but Japan's asking price is too high, not only We want China’s war compensation, and we need to recognize Manchukuo. We are not the corrupt Qing Dynasty, a single Outer Mongolia is enough to make us get stabbed in the back by the common people, and another Manchukuo will be more fun.”

"So it's okay to mediate, and now our navy is completely gone, the sea transportation is over, and the assistance is even more gone, so talking about assistance and mediation are all nonsense. If you want to continue fighting, you must Declare war on Japan, or simply surrender. It is stated in advance that our Gui army will never compromise with Japan himself."

"Vice President Bai, what do you mean by this, your Guangxi army will not be a prisoner, so is our Central Yang army willing to be a prisoner?".Chen Cheng said dissatisfied.

Bai Chongxi continued: "That's not what it means. Anyway, if you declare war, you will lose some diplomatic relations at most, and the country will not really be destroyed. But if you keep it secret, the consequences will be really disastrous. If you don't do it well, you will really be destroyed. If we don't declare war, what will he do? If he raises his arms at this time, what do you think we can do to him? manage?"

"If we lose the support of Zhu Mao and the No.40 Army, how long can we persist? In addition, Chen Feng is Yan Xishan's son-in-law, and he also controls Suiyuan and Chahar. It can be said that if Japan himself does not declare war, we will also You can pretend you don't know, no one will care about this. But now that Ri himself has said this, the only thing we can do is to confront them and confront them hard."

Li Zongren, who had been silent for a long time, finally spoke: "It is still necessary to declare war. Anyway, the situation is already like this. Instead of letting yourself be eaten in silence, it is better to clarify your point of view and put on a posture to let everyone know Our position. In this way, not to mention boosting morale, the most important thing is to tie everyone to our chariot. Zhu Mao or Chen Feng, or Yan Xishan and our Guangxi Army and Sichuan Army can only Fighting closely behind the central yang army, anyone who has other ideas will be cast aside by the people of the whole country." (To be continued...)