Chapter 300 World War II 1

War is only one step away from the whole world.

On July 11, 1939, the German Empire suddenly launched a small-scale attack on the Lorraine region in an attempt to forcibly recover the Lorraine region. After attracting the French main force to Lorraine, the German army's main force began to attack Belgium, and the British and American garrison in Belgium had to urgently withdraw to France.

So far, World War II broke out.

This day may be very special for Hu Chuyuan. The Second World War he created finally broke out.

In the same battlefield, each country has a different definition of this.

In China, this is a war about nations and races; in Germany, Japan, Russia and Spain, this is a war of revenge; in Belgium, the United States, Britain and France, this is a just war against aggression; in the Ottoman Empire, Persia and Egypt, this is a holy war of faith; In the Yugoslav League, this is a war of final reading...!

In Italy, this is a war in which fascists rule over everything... This is a very interesting thing.

This war has long lost the division between justice and evil. It is actually a war for the decisive power of world finance, trade and resources. The winning party will establish a new order according to its own will and redistribute all power in the world according to its own needs.

If the Americans win, the Pacific and South America will be Americans.

The starting point of the real division between China and the United States is the Hawaii incident. After Hawaii was finally included in the territory of China's Mingzhu Federal Republic and became an autonomous province, after the U.S. Navy was forced to withdraw from Pearl Harbor, China and the United States were bound to have a war.

When China expels Italy, Spain and Portugal from Africa's sphere of influence and takes their original overseas provinces for itself, the war is doomed to come.

The Central Circle gradually replaces the British pound and may eventually become a new world currency. China and the United Kingdom can no longer negotiate cooperation as in the past.

As for the Sino-Russian war, no Russian is willing to give up so much territory.

When the world's major powers are still gathered in Europe, and they still hope that the British, American and French camps will dominate the world order, China can only become the world hegemon through the road of war.

Hu Chuyuan had thought of this before World War I, so he began to prepare for this inevitable war very early.

The world has fallen into the last madness. Everyone is roaring, the people in the war are crying in grief, and more people are turning grief into a force, picking up guns and going to the new battlefield...!

The National Military Commission in Yanjing Yingtai is busy with various meetings. Li Kaiye is still making his last efforts, warning that Britain, the United States, France and the Atlantic Alliance must be restrained from this matter. China is willing to conduct new coordination negotiations with the Atlantic Alliance and Germany on the Belgian issue. If the Atlantic Alliance ignores The serious consequences are the choice to declare war on Germany, and China and the Asia-Europe Alliance must also declare war on the Atlantic Alliance.

The domestic media are reporting on the progress crazily. Some are excited and some are angry. Under the control of the committee, the media has always been crazy. They have begun to promote war in a unified tone, Sino-German friendship, and China's dominance and responsibilities in the Asia-Europe League. Explain that Germany only In order to recover the Lorraine region, the ultimate responsibility lies with France. As long as the French are willing to return the area seized from Germany, Germany will withdraw from Belgium.

In this chaotic and noisy voice, Hu Chuyuan, the chairman of the Dagong Party and honorary speaker of the National Assembly, did not attend the meeting of the National Military Commission.

There are a total of 33 full members of the National Military Commission, seven of whom are members of the Standing Committee with the greatest power. Premier Hu Weizhong is a member of the Standing Committee. Hu Weitang, President of the 208 Academy of Engineering, and Hu Weirong, Speaker of the House of Representatives, are both full members. They all meet in the conference room and will finally decide whether China will participate in the war.

Hu Chuyuan is the general consultant and has the right to attend this meeting, but he did not go.

Others held a meeting there. He summoned his nephews Hu Weizong, Hu Weikang, Hu Weichen, Hu Weiqing and his son Hu Weixin to his office. These are the elites of the third generation of the Hu family. Their responsibility is to run the Fukang consortium.

Hu Chuyuan was so old, with white hair and wrinkles. He just sat silently in the chair on crutches and listened to Hu Weizong's report.

Since 1927, the Fukang consortium has begun to make preventive adjustments to the possible world war. In the past decade, the Fukang consortium has continuously retreated from the markets of the United States and other Atlantic Alliance countries, from which the huge profits have been used to strengthen BASF Group, Standard International and Fortis Group. Through the internal cross-shareholding of the sub-consortia, it controls Siemens Group, Op Group, German Thyssen Steel Group, Kryp Machinery Heavy Industries, Mercedes-Benz Automobile Company, Philips, Allianz Insurance Group, and Lufthansa.

Germany's good basic industry and the rapid expansion of Sino-German military cooperation have also created a very good opportunity for the Fukang consortium to fully intervene in the German industry. At present, almost all the major military industries of Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Yugoslavia and Greece are controlled by the Fukang consortium. In the joint holding, with the tension of the war situation and the large-scale expenditure of each [***] fee, the Fukang consortium also made huge profits from it.

Among these countries, the key targets supported by China and the Fukang consortium are Germany, Czechoslovakia and Greece, and the Czech Republic and Greece are two particularly important mechanical industry bases. For the Fukang consortium, the real and most safest investment is to transfer back to China, and a large amount of funds are withdrawn to China one after another. It is used to invest in mining industry and industry, support the development of domestic agriculture and light industry through financial pillars, and then collect rich returns from heavy industry investment, which is the most important way to survive of the Fukang consortium.

In terms of overseas investment, the Fukang consortium has also gradually avoided areas where war is likely to break out, especially in the early countries of Spain and Portugal, where investment is relatively concentrated. Except for part of the capital that is still retained through the status of a neutral country in Switzerland, most of the investment has been cashed out, although a complete industrial system has been established for Spain and Portugal. , which made the economies of Spain and Portugal among the top 20 seats in the world, but also got rich returns on a large scale.

The current total asset market value of the Fukang consortium is equivalent to six times China's total annual GDP, holding a large amount of gold and silver assets. The total treasury bonds of the Asia-Europe alliance countries, including China and Germany, held by the Fukang consortium, have reached 147 billion yuan, accounting for 1/5 of the total assets.

Through the mortgage of treasury bonds, these assets are reinvested in the second round of commercial investment in the Asia-Europe Alliance.

The war is bound to cause the whole stock market to fall on a large scale. However, resource and heavy industry stocks will inevitably rise against the trend. This is a doomed result. The Fukang consortium still has enough channels for investment and risk aversion.

It took Hu Weizong half an hour to report the current general situation of the Fukang consortium and Hu Chuyuan briefly, and Hu Chuyuan has been listening quietly.

It was not until Hu Weizong stopped talking and stood quietly in place that Hu Chuyuan gently raised his hand and said, "Weizong, sit down!"

"Thank you, uncle!"

Hu Weizong sat down respectfully and couldn't help but be relieved.

Now no matter who he is, he will be under unspeakable pressure in front of Hu Chuyuan, even his family and relatives like Hu Weizong are no exception.

Hu Chuyuan sighed silently and said, "Wei Zong, you have done a good job over the years. Your father did have an effect on your ** in the early years. It's a pity that your father is no longer there. There is only me and your third uncle left at home. We are also old and can't help you.

Hu Weizong said, "Sir, you don't have to care so much. You are also full of children and grandchildren now. After working for the country and our Hu family for so many years, it's time to enjoy the blessings of the Qing Dynasty!"

"Yes!"

Hu Weiqing, the eldest son of the Hu Shiyuan family, also sighed like this, but he is not an old man full of children and grandchildren. He has four sons, six grandchildren and two granddaughters under his knees. He is the most blessed person in the Hu family of Qingyu.

Hu Chuyuan sighed and smiled a lot.

Life, when it's time to recognize old age, you have to recognize old age. He has long been at such an age. His children and grandchildren are all successful in their careers. His eldest grandson, Hu Weiting's sons, are already in the sophomore year of Aurora University. Does he still want to accept his old age?

He turned to Hu Weizong and said, "This time I want you to come over, one is to get together and take a look at the juniors of your generation, and the other is to explain that the money is endless after all. The war in front of us is inevitable. If we defeat it, the Fukang consortium will pay a huge price. You should understand in your heart, so... At this time, don't care about making money. Find a way to raise more materials to donate to the country.

Hu Weizong said, "I just talked to Weizhong about these things a few days ago. If there is no accident, the brothers of our generation will make more efforts to donate at least ten aircraft carriers and 6,000 tanks. We also want to set up a separate charity fund to take care of the disabled soldiers in war. It is estimated that the total amount will not be less than 2 billion. Round."

"Hmm!"

Hu Chuyuan nodded with satisfaction, but said, "These are all small money. If it's just for this matter, I can't call you all over to discuss it together!"

Hu Weizong was quietly awe-inspiring and immediately said, "My uncle, there is no need to discuss this matter, but if you think you have to contribute, let Weitang tell me to wait, and I will just wait for my nephews."

Hu Chuyuan said, "You have to understand this account and the truth in it. Let me tell you an old story. At the beginning, the French fought Vietnam and endangered our country. At that time, our family had only more than 60 million taels of silver. I secretly paid more than 30 million taels of silver in advance to all kinds of soldiers and horses in the imperial court. If it weren't for those things in those years, where would today's China and today's Fukang Company come from? In my opinion, we can't afford to invest 100 billion yuan, at least it's better than defeat, waiting for the British, French and American people to copy our investments in Germany and Greek countries. In case Germany is defeated and others hit our homeland, our loss will be more than this money!"

Hu Weicong is not only a little smacking.

100 billion yuan.

According to the current exchange price between the middle yen, gold and silver, the 100 billion yuan is equivalent to 194,000 tons of silver, or 9,700 tons of gold.

What a huge asset this is.

However, Hu Weizong did not dare to object, but just sighed, "Sir, I don't think there are so many needs in China. According to the current domestic economic situation, the problem of military spending is not so big! Of course, since my uncle said so, I will definitely do it!"

Hu Chuyuan said, "What you said is not wrong, so this money is mainly for the German side. Wei Zong, you should hurry up and go to Germany to talk about a war donation. At the same time, you can finalize the subscription of a German treasury bond. It doesn't matter if the amount is a little larger. Of course, it still needs to be rewarded. As for other uses, you can talk to Wei Tang. I heard that the army requires larger tonnage transport aircraft. The technical problem is no longer big. The key is that the cost is high. If you can build a thousand aircraft, the cost may be reduced. Unfortunately, our military expenses are still a little tight after all. You can buy thousands of aircraft at a time. The last name is not big."

The transport aircraft that Hu Chuyuan wants to talk about can theoretically be regarded as a tactical transport aircraft. It uses a new turboprop engine with a carrying capacity of 20 tons. The same model of military transport aircraft is the new civil transport aircraft JN-10 developed by Jiangnan Heavy Industry Group, and the number of the military transport aircraft is A-10.

On the basis of this transport aircraft, there are also new early warning aircraft models, numbered EA-10.

The army decided to buy more than 600 aircraft after comprehensive consideration. Hu Weitang's actual analysis should be equipped with about 3,000 aircraft, not only to equip China, but also to other countries of the Asia-Europe Alliance, especially in the Southern Front Army Group and the Pacific battlefield, the A-10 will play a very important role.

The main limitation now is indeed the financial problem, especially under the premise of the large-scale expansion of the navy, the army and the air force have to cut part of the demand. This problem was originally caused by Hu Chuyuan, and he naturally had to solve it.

China's advantages in the engine field are obvious. Whether it is a turbojet or a turboprop engine, it is currently mature in technology and production. In the case that the engine is not an obstacle, the A-10 is easier to put into production as a transport aircraft than an epoch-making jet fighter.

Since Hu Chuyuan made this decision, Hu Weizong and others were not able to oppose it. They could only contact the military committee as soon as possible according to his request, and were willing to let the army install 1,200 A-10 series transport aircraft at a time by purchasing treasury bonds to increase military expenditure and direct donations.

Hu Chuyuan's goal of doing so is also obvious. Once the A-10 series of transport aircraft is in large-scale service, it will be a great supplement to the pressure of railway transportation during the whole war.

The number of 1,200 aircraft is not even enough.

Hu Chuyuan's suggestion is to try his best to increase the production capacity of several factories and jointly produce together in China. There is no advantage in quantity, and the advantage of this kind of transport aircraft is not worth mentioning.

... No one dares to ignore this upcoming war and make a small mistake.

Since 1933, the Atlantic Alliance has begun to prepare for war. The situation of the Asia-Europe Alliance is similar, but China's preparation period is slightly earlier than ten years, and the degree of investment is more resolute.

The arms race between the two sides is carried out simultaneously in the three fields of sea, land and air.

In terms of the army, automatic rifles have become the mainstream choice. Britain, the United States and France have their own automatic rifles and semi-automatic rifles, and tanks are the common focus of the two camps. At present, there are 7 new tanks in service in the United Kingdom, and there are many kinds of them being developed. There are 4 in France, 6 in the United States, and the United States. Two types have been jointly developed.

The competition in the navy is concentrated on battleships, and the idea of winning with tonnage and artillery is still clear. However, the competition for aircraft carriers has also begun to heat up. In various fields of cruisers and destroyers, the two camps are constantly competing.

In the naval competition, China is indeed stronger than any other country, but if it is calculated according to the two camps, the strength of Germany and France is roughly the same, the strength of China and the United States is roughly the same, and the Atlantic camp has one more British navy than the European camp.

Whether it is Poland, Greece, Yugoslavia, Osman, Persia... These are all weak countries in naval strength, and in the Atlantic camp, the United States, Britain, France, Italy, Russia and the West can be regarded as relatively powerful countries in the world's navy at present.

The reason why Li Kaiye is unwilling to invest too much resources in the navy is obvious. It is difficult for China alone to reverse the weakness of the Asia-Europe alliance in terms of naval strength.

In the competition of the air force, China is still dominant, followed by the United States, Germany and Britain at the same level, and France is relatively weaker. However, the strength of Italy and Russia in the air force is by no means comparable to that of Poland and Greece.

It is not enough to just look at the strength of China. There are some disputes within the National Military Commission at this time. The main problem of such disputes is that the strength of the allies is not enough to challenge the Atlantic Alliance.

The current situation of this war is already obvious, basically China and Germany VS the United States, Britain, Russia and France, Italy, Japan, Spain... These second-rate powers fight against the more second-rate Poland, Yugoslavia, Ottoman, Persia and other countries.

In addition, although Ukraine, Hungary, Romania and Greece are in the Eurasian League, their actual subjective willingness to fight is very low.

If World War II finally begins, what the final outcome will be like is indeed unpredictable by Hu Chuyuan and the vast majority of people in the world.

China's only chance of winning may be that the army's advantage is indeed obvious. According to the existing reserve situation, it is not a big problem to eventually expand to 30 million troops, and the equipment can still be maintained at the world's first-class level.

From this perspective, World War I and World War II are completely incomparable in the overall situation. This is a world war in the two concepts, and the scale is completely different.

...Belgium was too critical. The Atlantic Alliance quickly rejected the proposal of China's National Military Commission and asked Germany to withdraw from Belgium within three days with the harshest ultimatum.

The answer given by Germany is very simple, continue to attack.

Due to the insufficient number of troops stationed in Belgium by the United Kingdom, the United States and France in Belgium, and Belgium was not well prepared, under the lightning offensive of the two German armies, the Atlantic coalition forces had to urgently withdraw to France in an all-round way.

On July 14, 1939, the two sides finally declared war.

Li Kaiye is not an old man younger than Hu Chuyuan, but the times pushed him to this position. If the war breaks out a few years later, he will smoothly transfer the position of president to Cai E as initially discussed with Hu Chuyuan, and let Cai E face the Second World War.

On this quiet night, after the final mobilization order and the emergency front line adjustment appointment were issued, Li Kaiye sat silently in the office of the presidential palace. There were too many thoughts in his heart.

He really hopes that he can be 20 years younger. If so, he can step on the battlefield in person.

In order to cope with this battlefield, in the past few months, China's military strength has made a major comprehensive adjustment, setting up seven main battlefields: the North Line, the West Line, the Southwest Line, the Far East Line, the Southern Line, Africa and the Pacific.

There is no doubt that the most important thing is the two main battlefields, the North Line and the Pacific Ocean, which are the two places where China must win.

The commander-in-chief of the Pacific Theater Command is Lin Qiaochun, Deputy Chief of General Staff of the Navy. Vice Admiral Zhang Zhepei and Lieutenant General Wei Lihuang are the deputy commander-in-chief of the theater. The three are also urgently promoted to generals.

The Chinese navy has reorganized into three joint fleets with the highest tactical literacy. Zhang Zhepei, known as the "Navy philosopher", serves as the commander-in-chief of the Pacific Combined Fleet. His mission is to fight against the United States. In the early stage, he should try his best to prevent the United States and Japan from assisting Australia, which is conducive to the Pacific Theater and the Southern Front Army to capture Australia. Ya.

Zheng Dian, who is brave and courageous, serves as the commander-in-chief of the joint fleet of the Indian Ocean. His mission is to prevent the British and French navies from assisting India and Myanmar, blockade the Indian Ocean, prohibit the transportation of Australian and Indian resources to the European continent, impose a marine blockade on India and Myanmar, and assist the Southwest Line Army Group to fully occupy Myanmar. With Assam and Bangladesh, they finally annihemed the British garrison in India.

Chen Yuzhang, who is relatively more stable, serves as the commander of the combined Mediterranean Fleet. His combat task is to ensure the security of Yugoslavia, Egypt, Ottoman, Greece and other countries, and to ensure the transportation of the Black Sea to help the army support Ukraine in a timely manner.

The commander of the Atlantic Combined Fleet is Lin Chuanming. The temporary task is to prevent the Atlantic Alliance from attacking the German navy with all its strength. At the same time, it is to prevent the Atlantic Alliance Navy from defeating the coastal defense forces in West Africa, ensure that Africa's resources are supplied to Greece through the Mediterranean Sea, and then complete the supply to Germany.

[***] The force basically attacked two lines at the same time, mainly on the north and south lines. The north line quickly launched a comprehensive attack on Russia, and the south line attacked Australia. The strategic task of the former is to oppress Russia, prevent Russia from attacking Ukraine and Poland with all its strength, and avoid German two-line operations. The latter's task is to directly capture Australia and complete the occupation of Australian resources.

This is Li Kaiye's overall war. His overall war theory is like this. The more such a world war is, the more important resources are. First of all, it is to ensure the advantages of resources.

Almost in the shortest time, Germany expanded its total army strength to 4.8 million people, and on the surface planned to continue to attack France through Belgium. In fact, it was implementing the Manstein plan, rushing out of Mount Azan to directly attack the central part of France.

The Atlantic Alliance was caught off guard against such a battle plan, and most of its troops were concentrated on a full-line defense between Lille and Saint-Containe. In fact, as early as the plan was first proposed, German Field Marshal August von Markensen discussed some rough possible surnames with Li Kaiye.

Li Kaiye's answer to him at that time was completely feasible. The key is the level of tanks and armored vehicles. It is best to design tanks, combat vehicles and transport vehicles according to this requirement, and strengthen the engineering attack on this area in the shortest time after that to ensure the follow-up transportation supply capacity. It would be better if it could be transported by air. .

The Germans are very lucky. Both the T-20 and T-25 series tanks can meet this requirement. The PZI tank developed on the basis of the T-20 is also the first-class light tanks in Europe. The PZII is a medium and heavy tank developed on the basis of the T-25 tank. Combined with many of Germany's own ideas and advantages, it has made great progress compared with the T-25 tank.

The combat effectiveness of the German army and the power of China's military equipment are amazing. In just a few days, the steel torrent of the Pz series quickly destroyed the weak defense of the French army in the middle. After the German army penetrated, it went straight to Paris from the middle.

The defenses of the Atlantic coalition forces in the Lille region quickly contracted and retreated in an attempt to rescue Paris, while the German army gathered in Belgium broke through the defenses.

Under the north-south attack on both sides, the alliance army was in a dilemma and could only retreat to the Rouen region. The French army even had no time to mobilize the whole country. Paris was defeated by the German army in the shortest time, and the French political axe was forced to withdraw to Rennes.

The first person to get the news was Yang Zhenlin. At this time, he was mobilising the Army Group on the Northern Front to prepare to attack from Yabinsk. The army pressed on it and forced the Russian army to mobilize a large number of troops on the Eastern Front to defend him, giving him a chance to annihilate the main force of the Russian army on the whole line.

Yang Zhenlin and Cai E are classmates of the Central Army Academy and the Central Military University. They also participated in the battle against Russia in World War I together. Their fate is always so strange. Originally, he should have served as Cai E's deputy, but now he serves as the commander-in-chief of the entire Northern Front Army.

For this war and lightning raids, he secretly prepared for a few years like the Germans. After the official start of the war, he immediately led his army to the Volga River. The 22 expansion divisions were divided into six armies, with a total of 1.27 million troops, with a total of more than 12,000 tanks and armored vehicles.

The raid of such a large-scale mechanized corps is already a common tactic for China, and the only countermeasure of the Russian army is to resist with mechanized troops of the same size.

The Russian army, which has repeatedly suffered losses in the battle against China, has learned to be smart. This time, they did not let the army rush through quickly, but steadily expanded the defense line forward, and expanded the total strength of the First, Second and Third Armies in the Far East to 2.44 million in the shortest time, using a huge tank fleet to compete.

Before the advantage of China's new tank can be determined, it is most correct for the Russian army to adopt this steady defense strategy.

Yang Zhenlin was not surprised. While adding new troops and more mechanized troops to the country, he slowed down his progress and changed to defensive operations in Orenburg and Ufa, waiting for the opportunity to find the flaws of his opponents.

His task is not complicated. The focus is to attract most of the strength of the Russian army and strive for an unprecedented decisive battle in areas beneficial to China. If the final decisive battle must go deep into Russia, especially in the Moscow region, the gains are not worth the losses. Yes.

The northern line is the center of China's two major war zones. With the rapid expansion of armaments and mobilization in China, at the end of September 1939, the number of troops on the northern line has been expanded to 4.72 million, and the Russian army is also expanding its forces on a large scale.

This battle is destined to be an extremely fierce battle. Whether it is Chinese or Russians, no one can retreat and lose, especially the Russians, who have lost to an unbearable limit.

At this time, all Russians are willing to give up everything in order to win the war and take back everything they have lost.

At such a time, no matter how much weapon advantage you have, it is difficult to have its due effect.

China's National Military Commission has long predicted this. China's military tactics have always said that the right time, the right place and the people are the best. The Russians are the top of the people at this time. How can they be easily defeated?

Almost the best weapons and equipment have been sent to the Northern Army Group, attracting the main force of the Russian army to deploy in the Volga River Basin with large-scale forces, while preparing to quickly defeat the opponent with large-scale military equipment.

However, the Russians are also extremely afraid of this. They are firmly on the west bank of the Volga River, using the wide river to try to stop the attack of the armored group of China's northern army.

The army can't fight, the air force has been in full combat, the Russian army has suffered heavy losses in the air force, and large-scale bombing continues to extend to the abdomen of the Russian front.

Almost at the same time, the German army had captured most of France's territory, and the main force of the Atlantic coalition force was forced to retreat to Spain. The United States finally realized that they must take comprehensive action and had to send large-scale assistance to Spain.

The battle between the U.S. military and the German army on the European continent is already the inevitable result.

For the Germans, their best news is that the main force of the Russian army is completely contained by China. They only need to fight on one side, and even Poland and Ukraine have not been attacked too much by the Russian army.

On September 23, 1939, the Southern Army finally began a full-scale attack on Australia. In addition to the Southern Army, there were also the Southern Ocean Allied Forces, the Southern Ocean Combined Fleet and the Pacific Combined Fleet.

This attack has been premeditated for a long time, but for the Atlantic Alliance, it is indeed very unexpected.

Everyone could have thought that China would attack Australia, but who would have thought that it would be at this stage, and the first wave of offensive was so huge that the U.S. Pacific Fleet could not cross the blockade of China's Pacific Joint Fleet for a long time, and did not dare to fight the final battle with China in the navy.

Because the United Kingdom and the United States do not dare to cross the blockade of the Chinese navy to support Australia, there are 1.7 million Chinese in Australia, which is not much worse than the number of white people... One of the goals that Britain especially wants to achieve in this war is to deport these Chinese who illegally entered Australia, but This is very difficult. In fact, China quickly occupied the entire western and northern parts of Australia and sent troops to attack Australia.

In February 1940, the whole territory of Australia was occupied, and the re-established temporary political axe broke off all relations with the British and Atlantic Alliance, joined the Eurasian Alliance, and promulgated a new "Temporary Management of War Resources Act", allowing the exemption of mining taxes during the war. Make every effort to supply materials to China and the Asia-Europe Alliance.

In March, Li Jishen led the Western Front Army to officially intervene in the European battlefield, attacking Italy and sending more than 200,000 troops to support Persia and the Ottoman Empire to attack India.

On March 17, Yang Zhenlin launched the world's largest army decisive battle so far - the Volga decisive battle. More than 10 million troops gathered from both sides concentrated in Saratov.

Before that, air and artillery forces had carried out continuous bombing of Saratov for more than two months.

In this battle, the two sides used large-scale rocket artillery forces almost at the same time, but China's research and investment in rocket artillery is amazing. The overall scale is more than 20 times that of the Russian army. The continuous attacks of more than 6,000 rocket artillery vehicles have caused the Russian army to lose most of the positional barriers within 60 kilometers.

The two sides repeatedly competed around the Volga River, and the Russian army suffered heavy casualties. After losing Saratov several times, it was recaptured. In the case of losing the air command of the air force, the price was very tragic.

The army is under great pressure on transportation and supply, while the air force is transferred from Central Asia and Xinjiang to Yabinsk at the fastest speed. The large-scale emergence of jet fighters has also caused heavy casualties to the Russian Air Force. In the Battle of Saratov, the Chinese army also used missile forces for the first time, and It was a large-scale attack on the enemy's airport and other key facilities, and a large number of Russian air forces were forced to withdraw to the Moscow area.

On April 14, 1940, Jiang Guangqi took the lead in breaking through the defensive line of the Kazan area and bypassing the Volga River to attack the rear abdominal front of the Russian Eastern Army. This was the first large-scale appearance of T-30 and T-35 series tanks, and the Russian army also sent the elite TK-34 series of heavy forces during this period. Tanks.

The large-scale gap in quality and quantity between the two sides caused the TK-34 tank group to be quickly defeated. The large-scale mechanized regiment of the Northern Front Army quickly tore open the opponent's defense line, dividing the opponent, and finally allowed the main force to break through the Volga defense line.

After the loss of the Volga defense line, the Russian army quickly retreated on a large scale, giving up a large amount of land and concentrating on the outskirts of Moscow to organize a larger-scale defense line.

In the European battlefield, the German and U.S. forces also began to have the first large-scale battle. The German tank army group led by Guderian finally collided with Eisenhower and Bradley.

With the fall of Australia, the large-scale defeat of the Russian army on the Eastern Front and the full turn to contraction of defense, the whole World War II did not usher in the turning point of the hope of August von Macensen and Li Kaiye, but completely stimulated the strength of the United States.

The U.S. military began to fully enter the war, and millions of troops landed on the African and European battlefields. The United Kingdom and the United States truly cooperated and began to give greater assistance to Russia.

War is destined to enter a more crazy stage.

As Hu Chuyuan initially expected, this is only a war between China and Germany, Britain, the United States and Russia, and the others are just supporting roles. In order to maintain its naval advantage in the Pacific waters, China did not send a main fleet to attack Britain as initially promised. In fact, this was an impossible promise.

China has firmly blocked the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. At this time, the main energy of the United Kingdom and the United States is to concentrate its fleet in the Atlantic Ocean in an attempt to capture Africa and Europe.

In the case of the suppression of the Russian army, Germany has always been very stable and only needs to face its own front. With the assistance of resources from Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Balkans and other industrial countries, Germany has no major crisis at all.

Chinese Army General Li Jishen also led the Western Front Army into Italy.

Ma Jijiang was transferred from the Western Front Army Group as the commander-in-chief of the African Army Group, cooperated with the German army Rommel, jointly attacked the French and British colonies in Africa, and quickly captured Algeria.

... This is destined to be an era of famous generals.

When you have seen the company, you will sigh that a company-level officer has such good qualities. In fact, such a situation is easier to see in Germany and China.

In the long-term shift of national resources to industrial and military education, a large number of non-commissioned officers trained by the Chinese education system fill the whole army, and a large number of high-quality grass-roots officers ensure the combat effectiveness of the entire military force.

This is especially shown in the army and mechanized forces.

Starting in May 1940, World War II was completely out of control, and both sides had no way back. The large-scale landing of the U.S. military in Europe and the appearance of the German submarine wolf pack tactics almost came at the same time. In just a few months, the British and American militaries lost more than 600 transport ships and cargo ships, and died directly from the shipwreck. There are more than 40,000 soldiers.

Even so, the U.S. and British armies did not stop sending troops to the Iberian Peninsula and repeatedly competed with Germany for French territory on the European continent.

During this period, although Russia lost the Volga line, its western front troops continued to regain control of Belarus, Lithuania and other regions with the support of Britain and the United States, and tried to press on Poland.

Although Ukraine is an allied country of Asia and Europe and is controlled by the Fukang consortium on a large scale, they did not really send troops to support Poland, but secretly reached a special agreement with Russia, only providing Poland with resources and military products, not sending troops to participate in the war, and also did not prohibit the export of non-military troops to Russia. Materials and materials.

Ukraine is struggling. As a country with limited strength, he is certainly unwilling to go to war directly with Russia, but he is not willing to give up the Kursk iron mine that he accidentally acquired in World War I.

It was not until the Russian army suddenly sent troops to capture the entire Kursk iron ore area and the surrounding heavy industrial zone in July 1940 that Ukraine finally sent troops to the Russian army and stopped supplying any supplies to Russia.

The Ukrainian army certainly can't stop the Russian offensive. At the end of July 1940, with Ukraine's official full participation in the war, the Chinese Northern Army Group began to launch a second round of large-scale attack on Russia.

At the end of October, Yang Zhenlin was only 30 kilometers away from Moscow. Finally, considering supplies and other issues, Yang Zhenlin was forced to withdraw his troops and re-south to occupy Kursk and Tambov, completing the basic task of providing protection for Germany's eastern front.

The order to withdraw troops to Occup Koursk was given by Cai E. As the Chief of Staff of the Army, why did he do this? This is a question that many people can't explain.

Many of the decisions seem to be clear to only by the Army Staff Headquarters and Li Kaiye.

Hu Chuyuan was also surprised to know the news, but he was not in a hurry to ask.

When the war came to this period, it was no longer a war that could determine the universe. As for what Cai E and Li Kaiye were thinking, he couldn't explain it clearly.

(to be continued)