freenovelworld Chapter 789 Three Conditions for Dispatching Troops
Chapter 789 Three Conditions for Dispatching Troops
However, in 1945, the Japanese personnel sent to the Soviet Union received the answer from the Soviet leaders that because Japan was still continuing the war and refused to accept the Potsdam Declaration, the Japanese government's proposal to request Soviet mediation had lost all basis.
As early as February 1943, the Battle of Stalingrad, which lasted for 199 days, ended with the defeat of the German army. In the Battle of Kursk in the summer of the same year, the Soviet army won a brilliant victory, which made the German army completely lose the strategic initiative on the Eastern Front.
Under the counterattack of the Soviet army, the German army began to withdraw from the previously occupied Soviet territory. At the same time, the British and American coalition forces defeated the German and Italian coalition forces on the North African battlefield, and in May 1943, forced the German and Italian troops in North Africa to surrender to the Allied forces.
In July 1943, the Allied forces landed on the Italian island of Sicily, thereby successfully gaining control of the Mediterranean, opening the door to Europe from the south, and ultimately forcing Italy to surrender in September of the same year.
On the Pacific battlefield, the armies of the United States, England and Australia also launched fierce attacks on the Japanese army from all directions. The United States army inflicted huge losses on the Japanese army in the Battle of Guadalcanal, forcing the Japanese army to surrender the strategic initiative in the Pacific battlefield and sea control in the South Pacific.
At the same time, at the end of November 1943, the Allied forces led by the United States successfully drove the Japanese troops out of the Gilbert Islands, New Britain Island, and southeastern New Guinea.
Because of the comprehensive change in the situation of the Allied forces in the three major battlefields, the United States, England and the Soviet Union had to consider many issues such as the strategic deployment among the anti-fascist allies and the military operations of all parties.
So, at the end of 1943, the heads of the United States, England and the Soviet Union held a meeting in Tehran. At this meeting, it was decided that the Allies would open a "second front" against Germany in Europe in May 1944.
At the same time, in this meeting, after considering the opinions of the United States and England, the Soviet Union expressed that it would do its best to consolidate the alliance and eliminate the source of the war in the Far East. In principle, it had tacitly acknowledged that the Soviet army would participate in the fight against the Japanese army after crushing the Nazi German army.
By 1944, the influence of Germany and Japan was rapidly shrinking under the offensive of the Allied forces.
On the Eastern Front in Europe, the Soviet army had cleared the German troops on Soviet territory and attacked into the Balkan Peninsula, liberating Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Albania and other countries.
On the Western Front, the Allied forces led by the United States and England finally successfully opened up a "second front" in Western Europe, drove the German army out of France and Belgium, and pushed the front line to Germany's western border.
On the Pacific battlefield, the U.S. Army further struck a blow to the Japanese government's military power in the Pacific region through the Battle of the Marshall Islands in February 1944 and the Battle of the Marianas in June 1944. The U.S. Army also launched a campaign to capture the Philippine Islands in October 1944, pushing the front line in the Pacific battlefield to the vicinity of the Japanese mainland. At the same time, the Japanese military's invasion of India from Burma suffered a miserable failure.
In the context of the inevitable defeat of Germany and Japan, the heads of state of the United States, England and the Soviet Union held a meeting in Yalta on the Crimean Peninsula of the Soviet Union in February 1945.
At the Yalta Conference, the heads of state of the United States, England and the Soviet Union had a heated discussion on how to deal with Germany, Poland, the Far East and other issues after the war. Finally, after intense discussions, the heads of state of the United States, England and the Soviet Union signed the Yalta Agreement on February 11, 1945.
In the Yalta Agreement, although the Georgian leader of the Soviet Union promised to go to war with the Japanese army two to three months after the end of military operations in Europe, the Soviet Union put forward three preconditions for the Soviet army to attack the Japanese army to the United States and England.
First, the Soviet Union demanded that the status quo of China's Outer Mongolia must be maintained. Secondly, Russia's previous rights and interests that were destroyed by the Japanese government's treacherous attack in 1904 must be restored. In addition, the Kuril Islands must be handed over to the Soviet Union for occupation.
Although the three prerequisites for sending troops proposed by the Soviet Union undermined the sovereignty of the Chinese government, the United States and England did not hesitate too much in the face of the three conditions for sending troops. They quickly agreed to the three conditions and chose to keep it "confidential" from the Chinese government.
On April 5, 1945, the Soviet army announced that it would not extend the Japan-Soviet Neutrality Pact signed by the Soviet and Japanese governments in April 1941, on the grounds that "Germany attacked the Soviet Union, and Germany's ally Japan helped Germany in its anti-Soviet war. In addition, Japan is fighting the Soviet Union's allies the United States and England, so the previously signed neutrality treaty has lost its meaning."
A month later, the Soviet Union told the United States and England that its troops in the Far East would be ready on August 8, 1945. It was not until this time that the Soviet Union clearly expressed to the United States and England its intention to go to war with the Japanese army.
In fact, shortly after the end of the Yalta Conference, that is, at the end of February 1945, the Soviet Supreme Command had already begun preparing for war against the Japanese army.
In order to attack the Japanese troops in China in the Far East, the Soviet Supreme Command began to transfer the Fifth Army and the 39th Army from East Prussia, the Sixth Guards Tank Army and the 53rd Army from Czechoslovakia, and a certain number of armored, aviation, artillery, engineering and other troops from other regions. It secretly appointed Marshal AM Vasilevsky as the commander-in-chief of the Soviet Far East Army, established the Soviet Far East General Headquarters in Khabarovsk, and announced it to the outside world as the "General Vasilyev Combat Group."
On the evening of October 10, 1944, the second day after the talks between the Soviet leaders and the British leaders and the American ambassador to the Soviet Union, Harriman, the Soviet leaders put forward a preliminary combat plan: "While the Soviet army will put pressure on the Japanese army on the northeastern border of Manchuria, it will use the main force of the highly mechanized corps to attack Zhangjiakou, Beijing and Tianjin from the Trans-Baikal direction."