After learning about the "Northeast Incident" and the Japanese invasion, the Beijing government ordered Zhang Xueliang to organize a counterattack, and immediately mobilized eight divisions from Outer Mongolia, Inner Mongolia and Rehe to march into the Northeast in three directions.

The "Northeast Incident" was created by the Kwantung Army and a group of young and strong soldiers from the Japanese military. There was no strict combat plan in advance. It was not until the Kwantung Army successively occupied major cities such as Fengtian and Changchun that the military headquarters were led by the nose and drove the troops into China one after another.

The Japanese army occupied less than four divisions and more than 70,000 troops, but they launched their troops with the Manchurian Railway as the center and acted quickly. In addition, Harbin has been under Japan's control since the Russian war. They used Fengtian, Changchun and Harbin as strongholds to implement a stronghold.

As Japanese reinforcements continue to advance into the Northeast, a full-scale war will break out between the two countries. The Beiyang government ordered a suspension of march and confronted the Japanese army on the front lines of Qiqihar, Baicheng, Tongliao and Jinzhou. Through the Northeast incident, the Japanese army occupied most of the territory of the three northeastern provinces in China.

Foreign Minister Wang Chonghui was ordered to negotiate with Japanese political f and complained to the League of Nations, demanding that the Japanese army withdraw from occupied Chinese territory.

The Japanese ignored the resolution of the League of Nations to withdraw its troops and supported the former Northeast Army general, Xiqia, to establish a "pseudo Manchukuo" in Changchun. Sino-Japanese relations deteriorated sharply but did not cause a full-scale war.

The Japanese were not prepared for the war, and the Beiyang government also wanted to win a few more years of development. Although they were drooling and notes one by one, the troops on the Northeast front tacitly opened a buffer zone.

The Northeast region instead presents a strange tranquility.

Although the war between the two sides was not fierce in the "Northeast Incident", with more than 10,000 casualties in the Japanese and Beiyang Army each, the top leaders of the two governments and military officials realized that the two countries would inevitably fight in the end, and both sides began to sharpen their swords and step up their military preparations.

The Beiyang government was worried that the outbreak of a full-scale war would affect its industrial development plan. Therefore, it adopted a relatively restrained attitude, which also encouraged the development of militarist forces in Japan. After all, the Kwantung Army's adventure in the Northeast achieved great results. It occupied most of the "Manchuria". In China, including President Li Genyuan, Prime Minister Lu Zhengxiang and Foreign Minister Wang Chonghui became the three major "traitors".

A large-scale student movement broke out in China. Foreign Minister Wang Chonghui was besieged by students while giving a speech at Peking University and was beaten. Later, Li Genyuan and Lu Yanxiang also resigned. The Beiyang government changed again, Duan Qirui's original position as president, and Gu Zhongxiu, a Democratic Party's group, became the prime minister of the government, and now the Beiyang pattern has reversed. The Duan faction has become the "presidential faction", while the Li faction has become the "responsible cabinet faction".

The problem was that at this time the Russians also got involved. After the civil war, the Soviet Union, which gradually recovered its national strength, began to demand sovereignty from China in the Far East. On the front line of the Greater Yenisei River, the Chinese border guards and the Red Army also began to continually clash. The situation faced by the Beijing government is very dangerous.

After two "five-year plans", especially after signing a large number of "leasing agreements" with the United States, Britain, France, and even Germany, the surplus and bankrupt factory equipment of these capitalist countries poured into Soviet Russia in large quantities. After 1929, Soviet Russia's heavy industrial production developed rapidly. By 1934, its steel production had reached 6.5 million tons, surpassing France and Japan, and became the fifth largest steel producer in the world. Although there were problems of inefficiency and serious waste, the planned economy also showed its unique charm. It is worth noting that the Soviet Union has maintained a huge army of more than 3 million people, which is a very terrifying force.

Now the Russian bear has recovered from the heavy blow, and its first goal is to find China, the weakest in the Far East.

The reason why Lee Haydn personally went to the Far East for this "demonstrative visit" was because the Beiyang government was not ready for war.

After the "September 1th Incident", Beijing realized that most of its industries were concentrated in the coastal areas, and compared with Japan, the Navy of the Republic of China was far from it. It can be said that if the Sino-Japanese War broke out, China's coastal industry would definitely suffer a heavy blow. Therefore, starting from 1931, the Beiyang government began to consciously move the national defense industry to the west and re-produce industrial layout and adjustments.

The arsenal in Dexian was moved to Xi'an, while the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau and the Jinling Arsenal were moved to Chongqing.

To this end, the Beiyang government plans to build three major steel and machinery manufacturing bases in the west within five years, and at the same time build three major aircraft manufacturing plants in Kunming, Chengdu and Xi'an, and establish a complete military-industrial system in the west.

It all takes time.

Although China's industry has developed greatly after ten years of development, due to its weak foundation, it takes 30 years of stability and development time for China to catch up with the industrial level of Western powers, but the Japanese will not give them much opportunity. In the process of China's modernization, the Japanese interrupted this process through war every time. The last time was the Sino-Japanese War of 194-195, and this time, it seems that they want to do it again.

At present, the Wuchang Steel Plant is the largest in China, with an annual output of 500,000 tons, followed by Xuanhua Steel Plant, with a production of 300,000 tons. Since other steel companies are completed and put into production in 2 to 30 years, the scale is not very large, with a production of about 150,000 tons. Even so, since most of Japan's military resources are used for naval construction, the level of the army's equipment is still very different from that of the world's first-class military power.

Judging from the equipment level of the Beiyang Army, it is not weaker than that of the Japanese Army, but there is a big gap in the number of aircraft equipment. The Beiyang Army is only equipped with more than 1,400 fighter jets, of which about half are old-fashioned biplanes. In fact, there are only more than 00 combat aircraft that can cope with modern warfare, and the situation in the navy is similar to that of the Army.

On the Japanese side, with the emergence of military cabinets and reorganization of military equipment, the number of aircraft equipped by the Army and Navy has exceeded 5,000, which has exceeded China's number and is more than twice that of China, and its performance is also superior.

Another major problem in China is the chaotic command system, and the central and local governments do not belong to each other. The central government has opened Nanyuan Aviation School and Zhangyuan Aviation School, while the direct department has opened Nanjing Aviation School and the Guangxi Department has opened Nanning Aviation School. However, the training levels of graduates from aviation schools in different places are different, and there are also differences in command and combat methods.

In fact, with its current military strength, the Beiyang Army is fully capable of fighting with the Japanese army, but the problem is that the Soviet Union and the Beiyang Army have to spend half of its energy to deal with the possible invasion of the Soviet Union.

This made Duan Qirui feel a little worried. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!