George Bush’S Great America [EN]: Chapter 321

“Are they saying they’ll fight the U.S. instead of dealing with the warlords? Are they crazy?”

Or are they just passing through to eliminate the rebels in Guangzhou? That couldn’t be it. If they were just passing through, there would have been some negotiation or demand before they were discovered right at the border.

Even if that wasn’t the case, they should have given some warning. This was a blatant surprise attack. As if to prove it, the Communist Party’s self-propelled guns and rockets spewed fire, and the fighters and bombers parked on the runway exploded in flames.

Well, they had built bunkers and trenches as defensive facilities to prepare for an invasion, but in a modern total war, it was absurd to think that these defensive facilities would stop the enemy’s advance, except perhaps in an African battlefield where all they had were assault rifles and modified civilian trucks.

Rather, the reason for delaying the Communist forces’ advance was not the bunkers or trenches dug by the rebels, but the natural terrain itself.

They had hoped that the stationed U.S. forces would drive out or deter the Communist forces, but the U.S. had publicly stated that they would participate in the war to protect ‘Qingdao citizens’ for humanitarian reasons and ‘if the U.S. forces were attacked.’

Therefore, the U.S. forces quietly defended only Qingdao Bay as they had declared, and as if they had made a promise, the Communist Party’s forces and the U.S. forces pretended not to know each other. There were disturbances on the outskirts of Qingdao, but they ended without firing a single bullet, only engaging in some probing.

The dispatched U.S. forces also had their own difficulties. They were supposed to move after sufficient agreement in advance, but they were moving after a surprise notification like this!

Well, they admitted that they had to move quickly and secretly, but if they were going to work together, shouldn’t they at least meet the minimum requirements? How could they unilaterally demand cooperation?

Bush conveyed this to Li Keqiang.

-It was too radical.

“It was urgent. Did you want to see the Communist Party collapse? Or did you want to ruin the great cause? If even one of our preconditions collapses, things won’t go according to your plan anyway.”

It was a twisted agreement itself. The most important thing in the great cause was to work together, but it was frustrating that the agreement was not being met.

The preconditions that Li Keqiang spoke of were not cheap threats. Of course, it couldn’t be said that such elements didn’t exist at all, but it was a fairly reasonable statement.

The conditions were, first, Li Keqiang’s Communist Party, and second, to have absolute trust in each other until a certain point and not to deal fatal blows.

Of course, this was a secret agreement only between Bush and Li Keqiang. Well, these two weren’t the only ones who knew about it, but anyway, there’s a reason why a secret agreement is called a secret agreement. Moreover, if Li Keqiang stepped down, the person who seized the next regime would not be in line with Bush’s will.

That’s because if Li Keqiang had to step down, the next person to take over the party would be an opposing faction and a radical figure, and anyway, since they were Chinese, they wouldn’t have good feelings towards the United States.

Moreover, if it was the United States of George W. Bush, who had messed up China, it would be even more so. In that case, both the Communist Party and the United States would be failures.

Therefore, absolute trust is needed. Not vague trust, but absolute trust intertwined with conditions, agreements, and interests. The Communist Party wanted to rule China again, and the United States didn’t want nuclear weapons to be leaked or launched.

Frankly, the second condition was almost non-existent.

Even the United States was planning to buy some nuclear weapons through the CIA that had infiltrated the country because they couldn’t trust each other. Perhaps China, being a Communist Party den, would be doing even more than the United States.

They were always thinking of hiding a baseball bat behind their backs and hitting each other’s heads, so trust was a dead word. That’s why it’s not trust but faith. Faith that if there is mutual benefit, they will at least not betray each other.

However, the Communist Party was always at a disadvantage, and all the Communist Party could do was to try to screw over the United States as much as possible while proceeding with the work. Conversely, in order to achieve what it wanted, the United States had no choice but to put up with all the troublemaking and force cooperation.

In any case, in the world’s indifference, the past warlords disappeared into the records of history, which were plentiful. The reality was not much different, so there would be no particularly distorted records.

And the battle in the Taiwan Strait ended around that time.

“The air force defeated the navy with pure air power……”

The cause of the defeat was that they fought in front of Nanjing’s front yard. Unlike the air force, which could be supplied almost unlimitedly as long as it could land on the runway, the navy could not be supplied unless it docked at a port. The fleet lost its firepower within hours of the start of the war, and a warship without ammunition was no different from a civilian ship.

The air force was constantly aiming at the defenseless fleet, but sinking them was virtually impossible.

Of course, if it were a pure battle between air power and naval power, every single ship would have sunk into the sea, but the Communist Party would not have stood by and watched. The warlord’s air force had to fight desperately against the flight squadrons from Beijing and the anti-ship missiles from the coast.

The Nanjing warlords were most embarrassed by the sudden large-scale air battle. Nanjing had an alliance with Guangzhou, and if a war broke out, they would automatically declare war on the enemy.

The problem was that it was Guangzhou, not Nanjing, that started the attack. Nanjing and Guangzhou had been showing quite efficient cooperation in a short period of time for joint operations and joint training to strengthen their alliance.

In the first place, they were not completely different countries, and until a few months ago, they were the same army of the same country, so it was a natural story in a way.

In any case, this confrontation was also part of the joint effort. Nanjing didn’t really want to fight with the Communist Party, even though they didn’t know what Guangzhou was thinking. Wasn’t the military district itself something that guaranteed autonomy in its own way? They were just trying to go a little further from that era. It was like the One Country, Two Systems of Hong Kong, which was half independent from China.

In any case, the war had begun, and in order to gain the high degree of autonomy close to independence that Nanjing had dreamed of, either the Communist Party or the warlords had to die. Then, wouldn’t it be okay if it wasn’t them?

Thus, Nanjing dispatched troops to Jinan as soon as the war broke out. So, did the Communist Party easily block the military power of Nanjing? No, it wasn’t.

“We will never die like this!”

Although they were warlords who had been in charge of one axis in China, which had been in a fairly balanced state, the Jinan warlords, who had now become mere rebels, focused on policies to distance themselves from the identity of China.

While other warlords were dreaming of independence in the near future and the world in the distant future, Jinan was trying to break away from China and achieve complete independence. Part of that was the U.S. military, which had stabbed them in the back, but in any case, unlike the complacent national security, they had implemented quite a lot internally.

For example, the easiest and most effective was agitation. One of the most representative examples was the use of the Communist Party’s policy of never sparing counter-revolutionaries, spreading rumors that if the Communist Party occupied Jinan, they would carry out a massacre to ferret out counter-revolutionaries [people deemed enemies of the revolution].

And this was half accepted as fact. That’s because the Communist Party’s actions had been exactly like that. There was not a single person in China who did not know what would happen if they criticized or opposed the Communist Party.

“We are the People’s Liberation Army today! Never use dialects!”

And the fallen Jinan warlords decided to make it so. Half of the military district was occupied in a day by the large forces that had rushed in like a tide without even putting up proper resistance, but the troops were preserved as they were hastily occupied.

And the troops massacred the citizens to make the rumors a reality. This did not require much sympathy. A single company that sold its conscience was enough. Divided into squads, they indiscriminately massacred civilians, and another Jinan warlord pretended to suppress them to secure the truth and legitimacy of the rumors.

And this was the result.

“We will fight and fight until we die, but we will never sit still and die!”

The People’s Liberation Army had to face fierce resistance. The U.S. military, which had agreed to withdraw after a proper agreement, was also embarrassed.

Originally, they had planned to hold out for a month or two after an agreement with the Communist Party, but the civilians were driving out the United States and flocking to the port where the U.S. Navy was stationed.

And Lanzhou and Chengdu, who were watching this situation, were extremely embarrassed. They knew that the troops would move someday, but at least not now.

The series of events taking place in the east forced Lanzhou and Chengdu to take extreme measures. No matter how they thought about it, they couldn’t beat India right now, and if they just had the out-of-control autonomous region, they thought they should let them become independent under their management.

Therefore, the Lanzhou-Chengdu alliance declared the complete independence of each autonomous region in the negotiations with India, considering the special circumstances of the war, with time and sequence.

Instead, they were promised peace with India and were able to draw manpower from each autonomous region as a kind of mercenary in exchange for independence, and these mercenaries began training to be投入 [tóurù – thrown] into the war with the Communist Party.

The Tibetan and Uyghur governments were satisfied with establishing friendly relations with the Lanzhou-Chengdu alliance and India and becoming independent in a relatively peaceful manner.

There was only a fierce debate about where to separate from, which was to be negotiated after the war. This was possible because the Lanzhou-Chengdu alliance, Tibet, and Uyghur had similar ideas.

Tibet and Uyghur judged that the Lanzhou-Chengdu alliance would have much less will to negotiate or would not exist at all after suffering great damage. Conversely, the Lanzhou-Chengdu alliance judged that they could start full-scale negotiations after the war was over and something was sorted out.

The Chinese Civil War has just begun.