novelaction Chapter 139: All-out war breaks out
Chapter 139: All-out war breaks out
Just when the war clouds were gathering in China, the Germans far away in the west suddenly declared war on the State of Lu!
A shocking war broke out between the two superpowers!
This war shocked everyone, except Xu Yan.
As early as three years ago, Rudolf had discussed the future development of the situation with Xu Yan!
It was Xu Yan who gave him the idea to fight against the Lu Kingdom! At that time, Rudolf was a little bit unbelievable, after all, the Lu Kingdom's paper strength was there!
But after Xu Yan's analysis, Rudolf was finally convinced!
For this reason, over the past three years, Xu Yan and Rudolph have strengthened various types of cooperation!
He Jishen and a group of other young military officers were sent by Xu Yan to study in Germany!
Rudolf sent a large number of technical workers to help Xu Yan improve the industrial system! There was no way, the industrial system was too backward. Many of Xu Yan's ideas were difficult to realize, which really worried Xu Yan!
Especially when it comes to high-end machine tools, the first country Xu Yan can think of is Germany!
At the beginning, no one thought that this war would get out of control! Everyone thought that the two powers would restrain themselves and it would just be a small conflict, but in the end it became more and more out of control!
The scale of the war was getting more and more out of control! What surprised everyone even more was that, less than two months later, the Lu Kingdom actually surrendered!
This made everyone feel incredible!
With the support of Germany, Saudi Arabia and Finland broke through the defense line that had been maintained for six years and launched a strong counterattack against the Soviet Union!
In response to this, Xu Yan, who was far away in China, calmly issued a public statement to support the just actions of the two countries!
The entire northern region of China has once again secretly entered into preparations for war!
"Yan, will there be another war?"
Hu Ruoxue said with a worried look on her face.
"Yes! And the scale will be even bigger!" Xu Yan answered without hesitation.
"Are we not immune to this?"
"No one will! This war will reshape the world, and no one will be spared!" Xu Yan said heavily.
"Oh!" Hu Ruoxue leaned against the window and couldn't help but sigh.
"What's wrong? Are you scared? Xue'er, I'm here, don't be afraid! We won't fail!"
"I'm not afraid, I just feel sorry for our people! They have suffered so much! They have only had less than two years of good life." Hu Ruoxue said.
During these three years, Hu Ruoxue took out one day every month to go deep into the fields and work with the grassroots farmers.
Later, Xu Yan required that every official must participate in labor for at least four days a month! Gradually, it became a tradition in the northern region!
The gap between the north and south of China today is no exaggeration to say that it is a generation apart!
Jing Chao served as the Minister of Education. Now, in the entire Northeast and the surrounding areas of Shangjing, various forms of schools and technical schools have trained a large number of talents! Involving all aspects!
Everyone can eat rice and flour!
With Chen Keji's meticulous creation, Xu Yan's image has been deeply rooted in people's hearts!
The whole area was thriving, and all walks of life were developing steadily, but now they had to face the baptism of war again! Hu Ruoxue was very unwilling!
At this time, on the other side of the ocean, Japan was in a state of depression!
The global economic crisis has made the already resource-poor Japan even worse! All walks of life have fallen into decline!
After losing the precious land of Northeast China, their economy became even more scarce! In particular, in order to instigate Xu Yan to go to war with the Soviet Union, he wanted to reap the benefits and lent Xu Yan more than 30 billion yuan!
But Xu Yan didn't return a single cent!
He also firmly stated that he had no obligation to repay the money, and that these were all compensation for Japan's invasion of the Northeast!
This is simply a bandit-like behavior! The most unbearable thing is that when Xu Yan was already secretly negotiating with the Soviet Union, he actually deceived 500 million yuan in aid from Japan! As soon as the aid arrived, he immediately announced a ceasefire with the Soviet Union!
This also directly led to the complete collapse of the Japanese cabinet!
The powerful Japanese Army took the opportunity to steal the cabinet and formed a military cabinet!
"Our current foreign policy urgently needs to be adjusted! These literati are simply harming the country! They have failed the Emperor's high hopes for them!" Army Minister Tojo Noki said disappointedly.
"Yes! The direct reason why we lost the Northeast was that the previous cabinet was too weak! If they had not blindly avoided expanding the scale of the war, how could we be in this situation now! Our continental policy would have been successful long ago!" said Chong Kuye.
"China is currently in the midst of a civil war, with Xu Yan and Jiang Chao on the verge of a war! It's time for us to restart the mainland's national policy!" Mutsu Shigetake said excitedly.
"Inukai and others are harming the country! I suggest that we use war to divert the current decadent trend in the country! If we wait until China is unified, we will have even less chance! Prime Minister Konoe, we should not hesitate any longer!" Daisaku Ikeda said with a look of pain on his face, as if his mother had died.
This was the infamous first meeting of the Konoe Cabinet! At this meeting, they determined the decision to go to war against China!
The 21st year of the Chinese calendar, that is, June 1935, 6 AD.
The Japanese Marine Corps stationed in Jianye City, China, suddenly gathered its forces to conduct a week-long large-scale actual combat exercise!
On June 6, a team of Japanese troops suddenly appeared outside Wuxian County and demanded to enter the city to search for the missing Japanese soldiers!
Conflict occurred with the 21st Army stationed in China!
As a result, the situation got out of control in an instant!
Without declaring war, Japan massively increased its troops in Jianye City!
The Japanese navy also set out and gathered off the coast of Jianye City.
In an instant, the coast of China was in turmoil!
Large-scale demonstrations broke out across the country! Demanding opposition to civil war and unity against foreign aggression!
There were also demonstrations in Northeast China, but there was a big difference. The government supported the demonstrations in Northeast China, and even Xu Yan and his wife followed the crowd and took to the streets!
Jiang Chao in the south sent troops to suppress the rebellion! The winner was immediately clear!
The defenders of Jianye City spontaneously resisted without Jiang Chao's permission!
This marked the beginning of China's all-out fight against the Japanese invaders!