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Chiang Kai-shek, who received the Soviet Union's message, was neither embarrassed nor angry.
"Is that all you have to say?"
"Yes, that's right."
The Soviet ambassador to China, Aleksandr Panyuskin, was embarrassed by Chiang Kai-shek's indifferent attitude.
"Ambassador, let me make this clear. Mongolia is China's own territory, and I'm just trying to get it back to the way it was. "I have no intention of starting a war with your country, but if your country tries to stop it, I will never back down."
"Are you saying you are willing to go to war with the Soviet Union?"
"If you want to think that way, do it."
The Soviet Union's threats did not work on Chiang Kai-shek, who was already prepared to go to war with the Soviet Union.
China had already been pushed to the brink of a cliff by Japan's invasion. Despite going through numerous crises, China eventually emerged victorious. So what is there to fear now?
Of course, if the Soviet Union had been alive, Chiang Kai-shek would not have had the option of attacking Mongolia. However, the Soviet Union had collapsed and was dependent on support from the United States. Not only that, it was suffering from the threat of German invasion to the west. It's in progress.
In Chiang Kai-shek's view, there was no need for China to listen to the Soviet Union at all. On the contrary, the Soviet Union had to watch out for China.
But you still don't understand reality and are trying to be your master. It's absolutely ridiculous.
"Speaking of which, during the war with Japan, the Soviet Union joined hands with Japan to try to destroy China, went so far as to steal supplies sent to China by the United States, and even showed blatant ambitions regarding our territory."
"Is that why you started the war?"
"I didn't just tell you. We were just moving to return Mongolia back to Chinese territory. And don't even say war. "Because this cannot be part of the war axis."
When there was no room for further conversation, Pan Yuskin stood up without hesitation. However, even as he left, he did not forget to leave a warning to Chiang Kai-shek.
"You are making a mistake now. The Soviet Union will never back down."
After arriving at the embassy, Panyuskin hurriedly sent a telegram to Irkutsk. Chiang Kai-shek ignored the Soviet warning.
***
After receiving Panyuskin's telegram, Voroshilov immediately ordered the Red Army to mobilize.
Although Germany behind the Ural Mountains was anxious, if it gave up Mongolia without a fight, Hitler would consider war with the Soviet Union again.
Voroshilov gave orders to his best friend Bundy with the feelings of a criminal signing a document confessing to having committed a crime.
Still, to prepare for the worst case scenario, the divisions deployed in the Ural Mountains and the Kazakh border area were left in place.
These divisions had to be in place in case the German Army or the Free Russian Army invaded. Mobilizing these divisions was like begging Germany to invade.
Therefore, the Soviet Union had to compete with China with only the troops deployed in Siberia and the Far East.
However, the troops deployed to Siberia and the Far East are second- and third-level units with relatively low power and backward equipment. On the other hand, the troops that China mobilized to invade Mongolia were among the most elite troops in China.
There were more than one or two disadvantages for the Soviet Union.
Therefore, Voroshilov wanted to resolve this situation as quickly and quietly as possible.
To do this, help from the United States was needed.
"Chiang Kai-shek, this guy!"
The United States is also angry about China's invasion of Mongolia.
I told him not to do it so much, but he still did it. Chiang Kai-shek, is this person an enemy or friend? Why can't I understand what's being said?
Dewey immediately sent a warning message to Chiang Kai-shek.
Get out of Mongolia immediately and return the army. Then I will leave everything to question.
But Chiang Kai-shek remained silent.
The mindset to take over Mongolia even if it meant going to war with the Soviet Union.
From Dewey's point of view, he was going crazy and jumping around.
"Your Excellency, there is nothing we can do when it has come to this. To stop Chiang Kai-shek's rampage, we must gradually put pressure on him."
"I think the same thing. "If you hold on to the rope and shake it, this little boy will start thinking."
Dewey first presented the card of reducing aid to the public.
All the food and medicine that the Chinese people eat now is not from the United States, and the trucks, rifles, and fuel and ammunition needed by the National Revolutionary Army all come from American factories.
If this is reduced, China will be in trouble.
Rather than reducing aid to China, we considered withdrawing stronger loans and imposing economic sanctions, but the side effects were too great as the effects were strong.
Going so far as to impose economic sanctions was a declaration that China would no longer be considered an ally.
We can only hope that Chiang Kai-shek changes his mind about reducing aid to China.
But what if Chiang Kai-shek doesn't change his mind here? Dewey was worried about that.
"Why do we have to suffer for what they did… … ."
Dewey was once again missing the days when he worked as a prosecutor in New York. Back then, there was no need to worry about politics or diplomacy, all you had to do was beat up the mafia and that was it.
He became the owner of the White House, which he so desperately wanted, but as great power comes with great power, the burden he had to bear was too heavy.
***
February 2, 1949
New Fuhrer's Residence in Berlin, Germany
As expected, China's invasion of Mongolia led to the Soviet Union's participation in the war.
Still, the situation is still slightly more favorable to China.
While Chiang Kai-shek had been preparing to conquer Mongolia for a long time, Mongolia had too little population and troops, and the Soviet Union had to fight against China at the disadvantage of having to be wary of the Ural Mountains.
As if he had already forgotten what I said earlier, Vlasov called me today and asked for advice on 'what to do if the Soviet Army is defeated and the National Revolutionary Army begins its advance into Soviet territory.'
I didn't say it out loud, but I can clearly see it as a signal saying, 'Let's push in too, right?' Why are there so many friends who like war? What good will it be if you live in peace?
… … Now that I think about it, it's not something I would say. I also have a history of pushing forward after the civil war broke out in the Soviet Union.
Anyway, putting the past aside for a moment, Vlasov seems to think that if they take advantage of the Soviet spirit being sold to China and push forward, they can use this opportunity to achieve Russian unification, but that seems impossible.
We are not prepared for war at all, and the moment the National Defense Forces and the Free Russian Army cross the Ural Mountains, diplomacy with the United States will completely collapse.
While trying to have some fun with trade with the US, diplomatic relations with the US collapse? Shacht will be foaming at the mouth and going crazy? And the compensation that the Soviet Union pays to Germany every year also goes to waste.
Instead, one may ask whether the benefits would be greater if Russia were to be unified, as the vast Siberia would come under Germany's sphere of influence, but it would be impossible to occupy all of the vast Siberian territory in the first place.
All men in Germany are thrown into the army, given guns, and sent back to the battlefield. In addition, they receive support from European Axis countries and send them all to Siberia, but even if it is difficult, they have to wage a guerrilla war.
And if all the men are dragged away, who will run the factory? Who mines the coal, who runs the company, and who does the farming? Women, children and the elderly?
Is there any reason to eat Siberia while doing so? What if the U.S. military leads the Allied forces across the Atlantic while the available forces in Germany and Europe are held captive in Siberia?
Even now, the United States is threatening to consider reducing aid to China if China does not immediately withdraw its troops, and the Soviet Union is also gathering troops in Siberia and the Far East. Even if we are very lucky, the annexation of Mongolia will be the maximum. Pushing beyond and into the Soviet Union is not only impossible, but close to a delusion.
Chiang Kai-shek seems to think that if he takes Ulaanbaatar and defeats the Soviet army that came to support him as soon as possible, things will take care of themselves in the end, but wars rarely go as planned.
If you think about it that way, the United States would have strengthened its ties with Japan when it was defeated in the Philippines and pushed back to New Guinea.
All we have to do is put it in neutral gear and do our best. Coincidentally, our scientists had just arrived with very, very interesting news.
Nietzsche projekt.
Germany's plan to develop a hydrogen bomb to succeed Uranfrocht's.
The original name was Hölleprojekt, but the name was changed to Hölle because it was too ominous and enemies could easily guess its identity.
Nietzsche is a pretty good name.
For those who think that a hydrogen bomb is simply a nuclear bomb more powerful than an atomic bomb, a hydrogen bomb refers to a regular nuclear bomb, that is, a nuclear bomb that uses uranium as a catalyst to cause hydrogen nuclear fusion to increase explosive power.
Therefore, atomic bombs are called nuclear fission bombs, hydrogen bombs are called nuclear fusion bombs, and thermonuclear bombs are classified separately.
Unlike ordinary atomic bombs, hydrogen bombs are incomparably superior in power and efficiency, so most nuclear bombs used in the 21st century are hydrogen bombs.
There is no reason to use an atomic bomb, which is less efficient and powerful than a water bomb, which is much more powerful and efficient than an atomic bomb.
Of course, the pitfall is that even the atomic bomb is incredibly powerful.
Now that the United States is expected to succeed in developing the atomic bomb in the near future, it was necessary for Germany to develop a bomb more powerful than the atomic bomb in order to gain an equal or upper hand in the confrontation with the United States, and this is where Nietzsche Freud began.
Naturally, the scientists who participated in Uranfreud were directly put into Nietzsche-Freud, except for one, Einstein.
Einstein even sent me a handwritten letter asking me to participate, but he ultimately refused. You mean I can no longer get involved in killing people?
Of course, I fully understood his feelings as a pacifist, so I did not recommend him any further.
When Shacht saw Nietzsche-Freudund, he was momentarily stunned as if his brain had stopped working, but he did not object.
This is because I saw with my own eyes what kind of results the power of nuclear weapons could lead to in war.
On the contrary, he came to have such strong confidence in nuclear weapons that he even said that it might be more economical to build a large number of nuclear weapons because it would save troops. Of course, his argument was not accepted.
And a trump card that will raise Germany's international status even further, just as much as Nietzsche Freuzt.
Wagner projekt. Germany's satellite development plan.
Since Dornberger and Braun were friends who were not interested in weapons and such and purely wanted to research rockets, I did not spare any support for them even after the war ended.
Because of that, I received some notice from Schacht, but I still pushed ahead.
Consider the status that the Soviet Union enjoyed for a while after launching Sputnik 1. In addition to its practicality as a weapon, the development of rockets would bring enormous benefits to Germany, including a rise in international status.
Of course, you will lose a lot of money, but hiring the world's best rocket engineers and doing nothing because it is a waste of money is no different from selling a TV because it is not worth the electricity bill.
really. There is a high possibility that the Sputnik shock, which signaled the beginning of the era of full-scale space exploration for mankind in history, will not occur here.
All of the Soviet Union's rocket engineers have already died by Stalin's hands, and the Soviet Union is now in a situation where it is difficult to even protect Mongolia, let alone develop rockets.
Even if we develop a rocket and launch Sputnik with grit, it will be much later than actual history.
By then, Germany will be debating whether to send a man to the moon.
And, if possible, I plan to send people on a spaceship beyond the moon and even to Mars. Although this may be in the very distant future.
***
After the Soviet Union declared intervention, Falkenhausen became more desperate.
Now that conflict with the Soviet Union has become unavoidable, the best he can do is to somehow take control of Ulaanbaatar and gain an advantageous position to end the war.
Even if we entered Ulaanbaatar, the war would not end if the Soviet Union did not back down, but since the war had already begun, there was no other alternative. In addition, the United States was also putting pressure on China.
But the wall of reality was too high for Falkenhausen to do anything.
"Request for reinforcements from the 132nd Division!"
"They say the enemy's resistance is so strong that they can't take the damage!"
"The 88th Division also made money one after another!"
"Are they the Mongolian army?"
"No, it's the Soviet Army."
"Damn it."
The elite troops were stranded in the Ural Mountains in preparation for the German invasion, and the Soviet troops who came to Mongolia were mainly second-class units, but even these were not easy opponents for the National Revolutionary Army.
"Comrades, if we get out of here, it will be our turn next!"
"Let us fight in the name of the Soviet Union! "Woah!"
While the National Revolutionary Army's tanks were stranded in the minefield hastily laid by engineers, the artillery at the rear was pouring down shells.
Shells of various calibers ranging from 76mm to 152mm rained down like hail, and the tanks began charging.
-Kaang!
"It bounced, it bounced!"
"Quickly back up! "If you're late, you'll be punished!!"
The National Revolutionary Army tankers were in a panic when they saw the Soviet tank charging aggressively as if it would not be affected by shells hitting it.
Even Sherman's 75mm shells, let alone Stuart's, could not penetrate the T-34's frontal armor.
"Target, enemy tank at 10 o'clock. Distance is 800, with armor-piercing bullets."
"Loading complete, comrade!"
"good. launch!"
A flash of light came out from the muzzle of the T-34, which had stopped for aiming, and the Sherman, which had taken a direct hit from an 85mm armor-piercing round, burst into flames.
The T-34-76 and KV-1, which were older than the T-34-85, were nothing less than messengers to the National Revolutionary Army.
It was a shock and horror to the National Revolutionary Army, which had only fought with Mongolian infantry and cavalry.
On the other hand, the Soviet troops who fought against German heavy tanks ran wild like fish out of water.
"They're running away!"
"Chase! "Don't just let them get away!"
For the Soviet tank crews who barely survived a tough fight against the fearsome monsters such as the Panther and Tiger operated by the Nazis, the American tanks of the National Revolutionary Army were nothing more than a moving target.
Tankers who had been busy criticizing their own tanks for their inferior performance compared to German tanks finally began to have faith in their own tanks.
The leader of the National Revolutionary Army facing the Soviet Army retreated after suffering heavy damage, and Falkenhausen, who had been observing the situation, gritted his teeth.
He intuitively realized that the Mongol conquest had failed.