Chapter 377 Bingfeng 1939 Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou

On August 23, 1939, after reaching a neutrality treaty with Japan, the Soviet Union finally signed a non-aggression treaty with Nazi Germany after difficult negotiations. The Soviet-German non-aggression treaty included a secret clause, that is, to divide the sphere of influence among the Eastern European countries between the two countries, in which Finland was transferred to the Soviet Union. Then Germany attacked Poland, and the Soviet Union then sent troops to the east. In just a few weeks, the two countries divided Poland.

However, the situation in Finland is different from that in Poland. Finland maintains good relations with Western countries and receives military assistance from them. During the three years from 1935 to 1938, Britain provided Finland with weapons and equipment worth 220 million Finnish marks.

The German Air Force has built more than 20 field airports and a complete air defense system network for the Finnish Air Force. Military instructors from Britain and Germany have been helping Finland train officers. With the support of Western experts, Finland has built a solid defense line named after Mannerheim in the Karelia Isthmus.

This trend in Finland often aroused the vigilance of the Soviet Union, which thought it was surrounded by capitalism. As early as the spring of 1939, when the Soviet Union took the initiative to hold secret negotiations with Finland, it began to test the possible surname of its above attempts. In the negotiations, the representative of the Soviet Union directly proposed that it might be east in a third country. In the case of Finland's invasion of the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union used Finnish territory to meet the demands of the invading enemy, and also said that the former Soviet Union wanted to obtain the right to defend some islands in the Gulf of Finland.

However, Finland implemented a policy of non-intervention in the cracks of the conflict between major powers, claiming that it would never stand on the side of one major country against another. Therefore, all secret negotiations have not achieved any results because Finland refused the demands of the former Soviet Union.

In the end, Stalin's patience was exhausted, and the Germans achieved great success in the continuous armed operations against the Rhine Demilitarized zone, Sudetai, annexing the Czech Republic, and capturing and aparating Poland. This success deeply stimulated Stalin's ambition for the territory, or the revival of the wild surname in the bones of the Slavs.

However, the result of the Soviet-Finnish War was that Hitler saw the weakness of the red beast Soviets. The German power was strong, especially after occupying the world's second largest arms exporter and the world's third industrial power, the Czech Republic. The strength of the Germans surged and completely took over the Czech arms factory. After that, the Germans had completed the final preparations for the war. Just like the last world war, a large number of German youth began to enter reserve training bases in various places and receive professional military skills training.

Nearly three million German-age youths, under the advocacy of the Nazi Party, put on military uniforms to serve in the National Defense Forces and the SS. The Germans followed a typical elite military policy. This is also because at the beginning of World War II, Germany's weapons and equipment did not have an advantage, but they could win every battle, because of the high overall quality of German officers and soldiers.

The war cloud in Europe is becoming more and more dense, and the Germans have brought more and more oppression to Britain and France to the Soviet Union. In order to seek stability in the Far East, the Soviets began to secretly tell Zhang Xuewu that it is possible to reopen the long-range assistance route. The Soviet side began to mass-produced new fighters and tanks and equipped the guards of the Soviet Red Army. The army and the troops of the people's internal committee, and in Asia, I am also aware of the mistakes of its entire Chinese strategy. Before the complete elimination of Zhang Xuewu's forces, it has become impossible to swallow China. With the help of the greed of the nine-nation convention organization, Nanjing is still turned into an international trust zone, with the help of Nanjing against Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou. The area has formed a surrounding defense zone, relying on more than 300 combat aircraft of the three aircraft carriers on the Bund of the Huangpu River, which have been deployed in seven field airports near Shanghai, forming a favorable support.

The areas in the Beijing-Shanghai-Hangzhou area available for large-scale operations by the army are divided by vertical and horizontal water networks, which is very unfavorable to the development of the large corps. It is easy to fight the battle into troops one by one. During the Battle of Shanghai, this situation occurred in the [***] team. The elite The division was exhausted by the fierce ground and air firepower of the Japanese army.

On the contrary, the military has no such concerns, because almost every division is equipped with a temporary boat bridge brigade, with steamboats and rubber boats to fight in the water supply network area. It is said that I can quickly mobilize more than 300 armed steamboats and shallow water patrol boats from China, which is the advantage of the military, so The unfavorable situation of the army has become beneficial to the Japanese army and unfavorable to our army.

What I am most worried about with the nine-nation convention organization is that once the northern temporary political axe, which has just been announced to be established for less than a year, is agreed and unified with the Wuhan national political axe, the two sides will re-organize all combat resources under the same name, because according to Ishihara Guaner's analysis, once the negotiations between the northern and southern national political axes are completed, the two sides will form a group. If it becomes a joint political axe, then the imperial army of the 17th divisions and seven brigades in the Beijing-Shanghai-Hangzhou area will face a great test. It is not an empty word to be driven to the sea, but Zhang Xuewu has a huge combat power. If the army and navy aviation cannot gain an advantage in the battle for air semption, or even maintain a balance. Then, whether it is for the Chinese fleet on the sea or the 17 divisions and seven brigades on the road, this will be a disaster.

I can't even accurately estimate Zhang Xuewu's strength now? Because Zhang Xuewu is like a stingy landlord in the countryside of China, he can't find his family's money jar? God knows how many advanced weapons Zhang Xuewu has hidden?

What worries me most is that Zhang Xuewu has a huge industrial foundation, and the large amount of equipment he bought from the United States is not affordable in several youth cities in the west. The economic crisis in the United States can be said to have swept nearly 700 factories in the United States through European businessmen, so that the American political axe has to be made public. The biggest acquisition, demolition and merger in history was prevented, but Zhang Xuewu did not fulfill all his wishes. For example, the acquisition of the Aymanwen Shipyard in New York was stopped by the U.S. Navy and failed.

There are also many people of insight among Americans, but these people are still too weak. In the United States, which pursues an isolationist economy, the power that these people can exert is not great. Otherwise, Zhou Ying's hidden resistance to operation will be greater. When Americans realize that in just three years, the United States is close to 27% of the base. The industrial factory was acquired and demolished by sea transportation? 17% of senior technical workers went to the warring East to search for gold, and many even picked up their families from the United States a year later.

Is there really a paradise on earth in the far east? Despite the political ban, many American businessmen began to seek to register companies in Switzerland and Sweden to do business with Zhang Xuewu. Although the Soviets interrupted military assistance, greedy polar bears were allowed to pass as long as they paid enough fees for goods passing through their territory.

(to be continued)