Chapter 359 ends
No one expected that the battle between the two camps of the Axis and the Allies around the Mediterranean would last for eight months, and the duration and casualties on both sides were second only to the attack and defense of the fortress of Sevastopol. During the battle, the Germans used "secret weapons" including "Karl" mortars, H-177 heavy bombers and V-1 rockets, "at the height of the war, the German, Italian and French battleships gathered in the Strait of Gibraltar reached 10, although the British and American fleets twice tried to reinforce Gibraltar, but the Axis naval and air forces had a huge advantage, and the fortress finally fell on January 7, 1947!
No one expected that the German and Italian armies would take the initiative to hand over an olive branch to the Allies in March of that year after jointly capturing the fortress of Gibraltar and then controlling the entire Mediterranean region. There are two main reasons for this great change, one is that the Allies carried out large-scale strategic bombing of the big 6 in Europe, especially on the German mainland, although the Luftwaffe fighter units were fully intercepted, they were still unable to prevent the Allies from falling to their own Dublin again and again, coupled with the successive victories of the Allies in the Pacific direction, the Axis gradually lost hope of completely defeating the Allies; Second, on February 11, 1947, the Italian head of state went to North Africa to review his troops, but was assassinated by the resisters. The invincible fascist leader was seriously wounded, and although he was rushed to the field hospital in time, he finally stopped breathing the day after his assassination. The unpopular fascist regime in the country quickly collapsed, and the king of Italy then announced the appointment of **** people to form a cabinet. The new Italy** was proclaimed at the end of February, and the new cabinet was determined to abandon Italy's previous offensive strategy and inform Germany** of its readiness to withdraw from the war.
The preliminary talks were held in Madrid, the neutral capital of Spain, and were attended by important representatives from Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States. During the talks, Britain and the United States put forward three preconditions for the conclusion of an armistice treaty, namely, abrogating the treaty, withdrawing troops, and jointly administering it. The so-called abrogation of the treaty is the abrogation of the Triple Alliance Treaty by Germany and Italy; Withdrawal, that is, the withdrawal of European countries and parts of Africa that are currently occupied by German and Italian troops; Condominium, i.e. the International Condominium of the Strait of Gibraltar and the Suez Canal.
Such harsh conditions, especially the withdrawal of troops and the public administration, were unacceptable to the German and Italian representatives after communicating with the main project. Germany and Italy have issued statements that they believe that if Britain and the United States continue to adhere to the above three premises, they will have no sincerity in conducting peace talks, and the two sides can only continue this endless war.
In the end, due to the reluctance of both sides to make concessions, the first meeting
Talk about declaring a miscarriage. In order to gain more say at the negotiating table, the two sides took offensive action in early April of the year, and the German Afrika Korps, which had been silent for 16 months, attacked the British and American troops entrenched in Syria under the command of General Rommel of the 6th Army. The Germans not only brought in new Tiger heavy tanks, but also brought in the German 4th Air Force under the command of Air Force General Alexander Lehr from Europe. It took only a week for the Germans to break through the defensive line that the British and American forces had spent a year building, forcing the British and American forces to retreat in the direction of Iran.
At the same time, the German-Italian fleet, which rendezvous through the Strait of Gibraltar, was drawn to form an expeditionary fleet with 8 battleships, 4 aircraft carriers, and a large number of cruisers and destroyers, of which 22 French warships were controlled by German and Italian sailors. This fleet, under the command of German Admiral von Fenkenstein, advanced along the coastline of Spain and France to British waters, and the British and American fleets deployed in the Atlantic did not dare to meet them, and when the air forces were ineffective, they had to suspend the Atlantic shipping routes, and all Allied ships and ships took refuge in well-defended ports.
Despite the fact that on the 6th and at sea could not withstand the offensive of the Axis, the Anglo-American troops continued to put pressure on each other in the air. By early 1946, the United States had shipped a large number of B-17 bombers to Britain and formed 40 bomber units, while British aircraft factories were working hard to build large numbers of Lancaster and Halifax for more bomber squadrons. In view of the heavy losses caused by the fierce resistance of the Luftwaffe in the initial daytime bombing, the British and American air forces switched to night bombing, which reduced the bombing losses at the cost of reduced bombing accuracy. In the 10 days of early April, the Allied bomber department visited the German mainland eight times, three of which were over-sized, dropping more than 40,000 tons** in Berlin, Ruhr, Hamburg and other places, causing considerable damage to the German war machine.
The actions of both sides have their own gains and losses, but what really brought them back to the negotiating table were two other things that seemed to be unrelated: First, the Japanese army launched the "Operation I" in the Pacific Ocean aimed at suppressing the Allied air forces, "a large number of Japanese fighters frantically attacked the Allied ships and port facilities along the coast of Kuah Island, coupled with the regrouping and transfer of the main force of the Japanese Combined Fleet, the pressure on the Allied forces in the Pacific direction increased sharply; The second is the resumption of the production of the two major oil fields in the Caucasus -- according to the armistice agreement signed between the Soviet Union and Germany, the German army will gradually return to the Caucasus within five years, but the main oil fields here must supply oil to Germany unconditionally within 10 years, and with the resumption of production of the oil fields destroyed by the Soviet army during the retreat, the oil problem that has plagued the German army since the outbreak of the war has been greatly alleviated.
Driven by the situation on all sides, the second informal negotiations between the Axis and the Allies took place in Madrid, the Spanish capital, and the representatives of the Free France appeared at the negotiating table, and the Allies reduced the preconditions for the armistice negotiations to the following: Germany and Italy abrogated the Treaty of the Lannese Alliance, withdrew from French territory, returned the French fleet, and planned and gradually withdrew their troops from the European countries.
The German and Italian representatives accepted in principle the main preconditions for the armistice talks, and the two sides jointly announced that the armistice talks would be held in Lisbon, the Portuguese capital.
During this period, Germany and Italy decisively announced the abrogation of the Triple Alliance Agreement between Germany, Italy and Japan, and Germany also announced a plan to return French territory and return the French fleet within three years. In response, Britain and the United States stopped their large-scale strategic bombing of the German occupation zone and the German mainland, and after 3 years and 9 months, the sunshine of peace finally pierced the dark clouds of war.
The armistice negotiations, which the world is watching, are unfolding as scheduled in an atmosphere of yearning for peace, and although none of the parties are physically present at the negotiation site, Lisbon has become the focus of the planet. Frustrated, Japan** publicly condemned the "shameful" act of Germany and Italy unilaterally abrogating the Triple Alliance Treaty and hinted at sabotaging the negotiations, but the negotiations went unexpectedly smoothly over the course of the next week. Nevertheless, the delegates agreed on most of the terms of the armistice, and the final controversy focused on the European countries currently occupied by German and Italian troops. The Allies made it conditional on the continued control of the African colonies and part of Poland and Soviet Russia by the German and Italian armies in exchange for the acceptance by Germany and Italy of the five-year withdrawal plan drawn up by the Allies - according to this plan, within five years the German and Italian forces would withdraw their occupation forces from Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Greece and Albania, and would not interfere with the actions of the institutions elected by the local population themselves, and the Allies would likewise not send troops to the above-mentioned countries and interfere in their internal affairs.
On May 5, 1948, with the signing of the Lisbon Armistice Treaty by representatives of Germany, Italy and the Allied countries, the flames of war in Europe, which had been burning for 1,400 days and nights, were finally extinguished. Under the new strategic structure, the Allied powers only used the British Isles and Iceland as their foothold to influence Europe, and most of the territory of the Great 6 in Europe, except for the neutral countries, was occupied by Germany and Italy - no retreat could be complete, except for the plundering of resources, it was easy to cultivate a close-knit local government, and more importantly, the Allied forces were almost completely expelled from the Mediterranean, except for some coastal lands and ports that remained in France and the French colonies. In such a situation, the German and Italian rulers could finally proudly call it "my sea," and then the death of a man with such ambition in two assassinations with different processes and the same result, which had to be a trick of fate.
In Africa, vast colonies that once belonged to Britain and France had their flags changed thanks to a legendary German general. At the end of the war, Erwin Rommel was awarded the Order of the German Order, the highest honor of which was given to Marshal Heino von Fenkenstein, who led a staggering breakthrough in a weak navy. Although Germany later returned all the captured French ships to Vichy as agreed, the new Z plan, which had been supported by the United States, had used this precious time to build a modern fleet with H-class battleships, class battlecruisers and class aircraft carriers, making the total tonnage of the German Navy surpass that of Britain and Japan, only after the United States, and the advanced level of equipment and actual combat capability are even more advanced in the world. In addition, the scientific and technological spirit of the Germans led them to develop the V series rockets, the A series jet fighters and the 45 series submarines, which were known as the ghosts of the bottom of the sea.
In the Pacific, the war lasted until late 1948. Despite the fact that the Anglo-American forces freed up from Europe won a series of naval battles, they gradually gained overwhelming superiority and inflicted devastating damage on the foundations of the Japanese war with massive strategic bombing.
Due to the perennial war of the British Empire, the war economy has collapsed the troops, due to the long-term fighting of the increase in troops, the cabinet has collapsed, the African colonies have begun to fight for independence, Churchill then stepped down, the United States and Germany subsequently signed an armistice agreement, and the economic resources of both sides have basically dragged down many European countries in recent yearsγγγγγγ
As a result of the ongoing fighting, many island nations have barely a tenth of their population... The perennial fighting has brought down the small country, and there is no need to fight at this timeγγγγγγγγγγγγ
The hard-line Soviet army failed several times on the Eastern Front, the German army launched the largest battle, the Soviet army 3 million cannon fodder was consumed, and then the Soviet Union made trouble in the Ussuri River in the territory of the Northern Army, blew up three sentry posts of the Northern Army and killed more than 20 soldiers of the Northern Army, and the Northern Army did not intend to continue to entangle the Soviet Army. At this time, the German air force was already very strong, Britain and France were all out of the battlefield because of the battle dragged down and surrendered, and it was not honest Hitler sent 150 bombing teams to bomb these places in black and white, in order to make the polar bear completely and honestly guarantee peace for 100 years, the air force bombed the major cities of the Soviet army in the north for 8 months, all kinds of **, surrendered to the city, the polar bear and the beginning of the year truce, there is no way to run out of resources, what to fightγγγγγγ The domestic People's Liberation Army has unified the country more and more powerful, Li Ming also became the Minister of Defense, after the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Li Ming's troops became elite troops, with the support of Chinese and German technical experts, China and 1948 successfully developed ***, **, aviation technology, ship technology surpassed the United States at that time, the United States also successfully developed nuclear weapons in 49 years, the power of the US military to rush to Canada, China's territory is very large, the monkey who did not change at this time since he was making trouble in Vietnam, threatened to declare independence, Li Ming sent spies to arrest these rebels overnight, and the rebels quickly collapsed under the violent suppression, and those suspected were directly arrested and imprisoned, and the voice of resistance could no longer be heard. Li Ming supported Zhang Kai to become the leader of the country, and Li Xing was the leader in Myanmarγγγγγγγγγγγ
Under the leadership of Li Ming, 2 million troops from Europe were stationed in Southeast Asia, and these aliens were driven out of Myitkyina under the pressure of the large forces of the northern armyγγγγγγγγγ Li Ming's sons are commanders in the north, Berlin**, and Japanese industriesγγγγγγγγγγγγ
Li Ming's wealth is too many to countγγγγγγγγγγ Later, General Li Ming went to Berlin to talk to his grandson, and his grandfather ,,,,,, a happy family, and the family photos and color photos witnessed the era, Li Ming's children in Japan finally became the head of Japan with the support of Li Ming. North Korea Li Ming also has a daughter-in-law, and later gave birth to children, which is not good, a few children are not working, some are in the army, some are in the business world, Li Ming and Li Na's children became presidents in North Korea.
In his later years, Li Ming and his wives stayed away from the political stage, and in 1954 they returned to the private villa area of the Northern Army Command in Berlin at that time, lived a happy life, and enjoyed the military rights in their old age and let go of their sons. Li Ming felt like he had a dream in this time and spaceγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγ Before you know it, you're getting oldγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγγ