Section 543 Connecting the Eurasian Land Bridge
The Chinese National Defense Forces' 18th and 9th armies have advanced into Syria and northwestern Iran, respectively. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe British can still defend the Sinai Peninsula and defend the safety of the Suez Canal, but the Red Russia has been held up by two sharp knives in the lower abdomen, although the siege of Moscow has been basically lifted, but the German Army Group Center and the Northern Army have been stubbornly occupying Tula and the surrounding areas, threatening the direction of Moscow, attracting nearly 70% of the main forces of Red Russia, although the Southern Army has suffered heavy losses repeatedly, it is temporarily unable to attack the Don Plain, and the Red Russian Southern Front is only a few hundred thousand troops, It is unlikely that it would pose much of a threat to the German Army Group South.
If it was only a temporary defeat on the battlefield, it might not worry Britain, the United States and Russia too much, but after China raised the banner of "national independence and people's self-determination", the threat to the great powers was too great. For example, General Gazayyaf, a local armed force in Afghanistan, cooperated with the National Defense Forces, which was obviously not regarded as a stain by the Afghans, and Gazayev successfully consulted with the elders of several major tribes in the country, and established a new regime in the form of a tribal meeting, and Gazayev also successfully became the chairman of the tribal council and concurrently the minister of defense. Gazayev's army is also being trained by China's Xinjiang Internal Guard Force, which will become Afghanistan's national defense force. The establishment of an independent state of the Baizhen Christians in India, the independence of several princely states in northwestern India, the establishment of a secular state with the help of China, the liquidation of extremist religious forces under the guidance of the Chinese National Defense Forces, and the relinquishment of moderate religious leaders in politics. South Asian countries are not averse to the stationing of China's defense forces, and they are indeed far less important than Japan and South Korea. So, what kind of policies did China pursue in South Asia during its occupation? It is nothing more than fostering local pro-China forces, training state bureaucrats and state troops, and cracking down on extremist religious and ultra-nationalist forces. Agents from the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Social Investigation did not bother less, assassinations, explosives, carpet bombing, targeted killings, and other means rendered the Anglo-American forces in the local area and the power of traditional religious clans insignificant in almost a month.
In just one and a half years, the Wehrmacht defeated the British, Dutch, Vessie, France and other Western colonists, defeated the anti-China forces in the entire Central and Western Asia, and captured 27 countries or independent regions. In addition, the Kuwaiti Mandate Zone and the Indian Ocean Islands, which were under the de facto control of the three countries in South Asia and West Asia before the war. The whole of Asia, except for Turkey, part of the Asian territories controlled by Red Russia in the Sinai Peninsula and Japan, are under China's actual control, and a huge Asian alliance is being formed, although the war has also swept these places, but because the defense forces of these countries themselves can be negligible, and the colonial army is exhausted, even effective delay can not be done, China's control of these areas is simply too simple, and it is precisely for these reasons that Central Asia and West Asia have suffered very little in the war.
As Zhou Zhongfu said at the government work conference, "the key to the colonial liberation war, on the one hand, is to ensure China's strategic control over the Asian region; On the other hand, it is necessary to bring important resource areas under our management and control, so as to expand our combat strength...... "West Asia is regarded as China's oil and mining base, providing oil, minerals, and grain for the war. For example, after the National Defense Forces occupied the oil fields in Bahrain, they expanded their exploitation, producing 29.61 million barrels in the first 22 years and 36.91 million barrels in the first 23 years.
In order to facilitate the purchase of supplies, the Chinese Assistance Mission quickly restored the central banks of these countries, issued their own currencies, and adopted a tied exchange rate with the Chinese yuan. For example, after the rebellion was quelled, Iran issued 20 billion yuan in currency, and the exchange rate with the Chinese yuan was fixed at 1:0.1, and after the arrival of the national defense forces, it spent 7 billion to 8 billion yuan locally, bringing an opportunity for post-war prosperity.
The fact that the two armies of the Chinese National Defense Forces and half of the air force were able to achieve such a brilliant victory did not only depend on the army itself. Less than 10 years after World War I, China surpassed Britain, France, and the United States and actually occupied the position of the world's largest power, relying on an unimaginable level of scientific and technological development, strong industrial and agricultural production capacity, and a stable domestic political and economic environment. Although made in China has been subject to unfair trade barriers in the international market, but the economic crisis can not resist the technologically advanced and cost-effective Chinese goods, China's surrounding Japan and Red Russia were beaten by China in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, so China's surrounding geopolitics are also relatively stable, under the accumulation, it is reasonable to achieve this kind of jaw-dropping record in the world.
On the European battlefield, Germany could not have this crushing effect. The growth rate of Germany's manufacturing power was very limited compared to the progress of Red Russia. Although it has a certain advantage over the United Kingdom, it is considered that the population of the United Kingdom is only 44 million, compared to 80 million in Germany. When you take into account the manufacturing capacity of other countries in the Commonwealth, such as Canada, which ranks eighth, and countries such as Australia and New Zealand, Germany's advantage is not significant. Before the war, in order to strengthen the control of the Commonwealth countries, the United Kingdom was the "only arsenal" of the Commonwealth countries, and the industrial production capacity of other countries was extremely limited for the military industry, and most of the military equipment needed to be imported from the British mainland. In the aftermath of the Great War, other Commonwealth countries, led by Canada, produced large quantities of military equipment for wartime attrition in an undisturbed environment. In this respect, it is difficult for Germany to compare, although its allies and occupied areas also have considerable military industries, but among the military industrial products in these regions, only light weapons, light armored vehicles, and so on are acceptable. For technical reasons, these countries were able to play a very limited role in the aircraft, warships, and heavy artillery that Germany desperately needed.
After the Workers' Party came to power, Germany's military spending was simply insane, and in the first 18 years of the first 18 years, it was twice as high as that of Britain and the United States combined in the same period! It can be said that Germany has been preparing a lot for war since the mid-30s. This state of affairs has a negative impact on the development of the national economy. In the first seventeen years, the net value of products used for military purposes was 16.6 per cent in Germany, 7.9 per cent in the United Kingdom, and 1.5 per cent in the United States, as a percentage of the net available products. That is, although Germany took the lead in the mid-to-late 30s and took the lead temporarily, it did not have much momentum. After all, Germany does not have enough mineral resources, overseas interests and foreign exchange reserves to sustain this high growth momentum.
Germany's armament problems stemmed directly from Sitara's strategy, because Sitara had never expected to fight against a group of great powers, and he had no intention of fighting a protracted war. What he expected was to achieve his limited goals in the short term through diplomatic threats or blitzkrieg. It is for this reason that the volume of German armaments production was determined not by the available resources, but by a much lower level based on the needs of such strategic estimates. In addition, the concentrated production of weapons for immediate use, the "breadth armament", is precisely a tactic adapted to this lightning strategy.
But General Thomas, who was in charge of Germany's war mobilization, and many of his colleagues in the German General Staff, never endorsed Sitara's strategy. What they want is "deep armament", that is, a war that is solidly prepared, carefully organized, and carefully directed; "What they want is to be able to fight a protracted war against the union of the great powers." In addition to the weapons they already have, they need a large stockpile of equipment and heavy industry in general to replace them. Although there was a considerable increase in the production of coal, iron ore, pig iron and crude steel in Germany, most of which had been used in the war industry in the thirties, increasing the production of coal and steel from the "existing" factories was not equivalent to deep armament.
In addition, there are problems with the efficiency of the use of military funds in the process of rearmament. From the 13th to the 18th century, Germany invested about 3.5 billion pounds in military spending, while France's military expenditure in the same period was only 1.1 billion pounds, and about half of France's military spending was spent on the construction of the Maginot Line. In other words, during this period, although France's military expenditure on troop building was only one-fifth to one-sixth of Germany's, its national defense achievements were no less (or only slightly inferior) than Germany's. With Chinese technical assistance, the Luftwaffe was certainly stronger than the French, and the land forces were comparable to the French, but the navy was not worth mentioning. The reason for this, on the one hand, lies in the gradual accumulation of France from the period of World War I, and on the other hand, it shows that there is a certain bubble element in Germany's military spending. The price of commodities fluctuates up and down as the supply and demand of commodities change. Germany has built such a powerful army in five years, and the demand for its military products is very huge, and it is impossible not to affect the purchase price of military products. The decisive factor for Germany's rapid victory in the French campaign was not armament, but the quality and leadership of the German troops, as well as a series of fatal mistakes on the part of the Allies.
Now the war has become a long-term war with extensive participation, as China expected, and after Hess came to power, Germany's economic and military shortcomings have become undoubtedly prominent, and it can be said that without China's uninterrupted support and assistance, not to mention the counterattack against Red Russia, it is difficult to say whether it can even resist the attack of Red Russia. Of course, the Germans finally don't have to worry about this problem now, although China and Germany have not yet been able to meet in Red Russia, but after China occupies the Middle East, the Indian Ocean has basically become China's inland sea, and a Eurasian land bridge through the South China Sea - the Indian Ocean - the Persian Gulf - Iraq - Turkey has been penetrated, and the weakness of Germany's defense industrial base is no longer so fatal, at least with the supply of China's military industry, the ammunition of the German army on the front line can be much looser than before, and the polar bears who have survived the winter are blessed.