Glorious Mission 1937

No one knew what Chen Feng was thinking, including Yang Yi and others, who could not pry into Chen Feng's true thoughts deep in his heart.Judging from the actual situation, no matter what the reason is, it is extremely unwise to go to war with the Soviet Union at this time. After all, anyone can see that the relationship between the Soviet Union and Japan will never be resolved because of a treaty. Neither Liao nor Emperor Hirohito would naively think that the "Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Treaty" had much binding force on each other, and Chen Feng's horizontal intervention at this time would only lead the situation to the side that was most unfavorable to China.

Although the gunfire at Nuomenkan stopped, and with the signing of the "Soviet-Japanese Non-Aggression Treaty", the state of war between the two countries also ended. However, the new treaty cannot erase the old memories. The rumbling artillery a few months ago It is even more impossible for the sound to turn into dust and drift with the wind.Stalin and the entire high-level Soviet Union did not take Japan lightly because of a treaty. In fact, from the beginning to the end, Stalin never believed the Japanese. Although the war in the Far East was extinguished, the Soviet Union had always stationed heavy troops in the Far East.

What's more, it is not anyone or any force who has such courage and strength to be enemies with two major powers at the same time. Therefore, after receiving the reports from their respective intelligence agencies, the leaders of the world's major powers were stunned. It was Chen Feng who was crazy.

Is Chen Feng really crazy?Obviously not, not only is he not crazy, but he is still very sober.He does so with good reason and reliable reliance.

The reason why Chen Feng turned against the Soviet Union at this time, and even went so far as to go to war, apart from those reasons that could be seen as people, there were two other reasons that could not be seen.The first one is to paralyze the Japanese.Create conditions for the Japanese to carry out the final madness, or clear the way.

It should be a foregone conclusion that the Japanese will go south, but when they will go south is a mystery.There are major concerns about the Japanese troops going south, mainly the Soviet Union and China.Historically, after the signing of the "Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Treaty", the Japanese army did not launch the Pacific War immediately, but negotiated with the United States, Britain and other countries for a long time, until the negotiations broke down, and finally launched the Pacific War.

In the many negotiations between Japan and the United States, Britain and other countries, sometimes the sincerity of the two parties is still very good, and even an agreement was almost reached.As history deviates more and more from its previous trajectory.Chen Feng has been worrying about whether history will undergo major changes.Especially under the premise of the strong rise of the Eighth Theater, will the Japanese postpone the Pacific War, or simply make peace with Britain and France.

The threat of the Eighth War Zone to the Japanese is obvious, if not for the sudden appearance of the Eighth War Zone.Now China's war of resistance will be even more difficult.At least the situation in North China will not be what it is now.The provinces of Suiyuan, Chahar, Shanxi, and Henan are already Japanese territories.

The main reason why the Japanese didn't immediately launch a war against the United States, Britain and other countries was because they were worried about Chen Feng's troops, and at the same time they didn't trust the Soviet Union.So what Chen Feng is doing now is to tell the Japanese that internal strife has already occurred among them, the road to the north has been cleared, and they can sweep Southeast Asia at any time.

Another reason was that Chen Feng wanted to beat the Soviet Union, to let the Soviets know that the Chinese were not the weaklings in their eyes, and that all the Chinese were heroes.I can beat you now, and I can still win the fight, so what request will I make in the future?

Many people thought that Chen Feng was seeking his own death in the war with the Soviet Union. After all, the Soviet Union’s national power was very strong, and the Soviet Red Army’s combat effectiveness was not weak, but in Chen Feng’s view, it was all nonsense. The current Soviet Red Army is just a hollowed-out giant. There is only an empty shell left, and being strong on the outside and doing well on the inside is the truest portrayal.

People who don't know the history may not dare to do this, but Chen Feng, who knows the history of the Soviet Union and the future development trend, he is not worried at all about the threat the Soviet Union will pose to him and the army under his command.

The Soviet Union was indeed powerful, but that was before Stalin launched the Great Purge. After so many years of great purges, is the Soviet Union still the powerful Soviet Union it used to be?

At this time, the Soviet Union was a relatively closed country. Since the Soviet Union was interfered by foreign capitalist countries after the October Revolution, domestic differences eventually turned into civil wars that lasted for several years. shadows.In addition, after World War I and until the outbreak of World War II, the United States, Britain and other countries have always adopted a policy of hostility to the Soviet Union, and even hoped that Germany would divert disasters to the east and try to let Japan go north to attack the Soviet Union. , so the major countries in the world are very strange to the Soviet Union.

The United States, Britain and France all know that the Soviet Union has carried out large-scale internal rectification in the past few years, and the rectification has been quite intensive, but what they know is only a superficial.But Chen Feng was different. Chen Feng knew very detailed about the process of the Soviet Union's Great Purge and the impact it had caused.

The Great Purge, which was duped into launching, began in 1936 and ended before the outbreak of World War II.This was a campaign of political suppression and persecution mainly aimed at senior leaders of the former Soviet Communist Party, with the ultimate goal of consolidating Stalin's authority.Due to the prevalence of personality cults, some of Stalin's erroneous views and practices had a great negative impact on the development of Soviet society, leading to the expansion of the anti-revolutionary movement launched by the Soviet Union, and a large number of innocent party, government, and military elites Leaders and famous intellectuals, as well as ordinary cadres and the masses were accused of various crimes and were "cleaned".

Chen Feng didn't care much about the purge of intellectuals and ordinary cadres, nor did he rely on Chen Feng to start a war with the Soviet Union, but Stalin's purge of the army gave Chen Feng the confidence to challenge the Soviet Union. In 1937, the anti-revolutionary movement expanded to the army, and by 1938, the focus of the anti-revolutionary movement turned to a large-scale purge of cadres in military institutions, especially senior cadres.In a short period of time, a large number of outstanding military generals in the Soviet army were brutally killed.Even Marshal Tukhachevsky, Marshal Yegorov, and Marshal Brucher, who enjoy great prestige in the world, were arrested and executed successively.

The scale of the purges and the heavy losses of the Soviet army were appalling. About 3.5 Soviet commanders and fighters became victims of the expansion of the "elimination of counter-revolutionaries."In this campaign, 5 of the 3 marshals of the Soviet Union were suppressed, 4 of the 3 first-level army commanders (equivalent to generals) were killed, and all of the 12 second-level army commanders (equivalent to the superior generals) were killed. will) be executed.

In addition, among the senior officers executed were 67 of the 60 corps commanders, 199 of the 136 division commanders, all of the four first- and second-level naval commanders, and six of the first-level naval commanders. All, 4 of the 6 second-level naval commanders, all of the 15 first- and second-level political commissars, 9 of the 17 army-level political commissars, 28 of the 25 municipal committees, and all 97 79 of the 11 deputy defense commissioners and the Supreme Military Council, and more than half of the officers in the officer corps were arrested.

The scale of the purge was far more than that. In addition to the senior commanders, about 50% of the regimental commanders and 20%-25% of other command personnel were purged.

The consequences of this great purge were gradually manifested in the following critical years. After the great purge, the brains of the Soviet army were completely cut off, and it was first shown that the consequences of this great purge were not in the Soviet-German war, but in the Soviet Union. It was the Soviet-Finnish War before this. Because the officers were purged in large numbers, the Soviet Union’s huge war machine was helpless against the small Finland in the Soviet-Finnish War, and suffered heavy losses. It was because Hitler saw this before invading the Soviet Union. Speaking to the senior German generals: "They don't have a good commander anymore."

When summarizing the Soviet-German war after the war, a respected marshal of the Soviet Union said: "The Red Army was not prepared enough to repel the sudden attack of this powerful and cunning enemy (referring to Germany). One of the reasons is that Yenov And Beria's gang of criminals caused huge losses to our military cadres, especially senior commanders. Due to the unfounded repression in the years before the war, the Soviet Armed Forces lost a large number of experienced commanders and political workers .At the beginning of the Great War, many positions in the army were held by young cadres who lacked sufficient knowledge and experience to lead the army in a complex environment. Moreover, the situation created by unprovoked suppression was not conducive to cultivating the creativity and initiative of cadres.”

Even Eriksson of the Soviet Union commented on the purged Red Army command: "Except for Shaposhnikov, the people in the Supreme Command are either mediocre or inexperienced." The lack of experience and experience prevailed, and the visionary Zhukov and Shaposhnikov's proposals for the formation of large-scale mechanized units were not adopted, and even the existing mechanized units were broken up and reorganized.

For the entire Soviet Union, this is a tragedy, not just for the military but also for the country and the nation.If this group of outstanding generals existed, perhaps Hitler would not dare to make up his mind to attack the Soviet Union so easily.Similarly, it was precisely because of knowing this that Chen Feng made up his mind to go to war with the Soviet Union.

Under the leadership of a lion, even a group of sheep will show amazing fighting power; and if the commander is replaced by a sheep, even if it leads a group of lions, the final result is endless retreat.The Soviet army without a qualified commander was just a group of stragglers armed with weapons. No matter whether they had enough will to fight, they could not save the war that had already broken out. This was also an important basis or reliance for Chen Feng to launch the war. (To be continued..)