Chapter 413: The German Army Blitzes Poland
The time soon came to mid-August, and the four aircraft and tank production lines purchased from the United States had arrived at the 331 base, and had entered the intensive commissioning and installation stage, and were about to be put into production. Iron and steel mills are making iron, making steel, casting steel, and rolling steel, and all departments are running at high speed 24 hours a day, and the finished steel products in the warehouses are already piling up, just waiting for the senior technicians of the military factories to turn them into tanks and planes.
Jiang Haoran also stopped going out and spends most of his day in the arsenal, discussing and finalizing the final plan and details with some experts and technicians in the field of aircraft and tanks, such as Liang Changhe, Tan Kai, and Liang Xiaotian.
The rest of the time, Jiang Haoran spends his time watching newspapers and listening to the radio, and only pays attention to international news.
Jiang Haoran always told her in an unfathomable way, look, a moment that can change the pattern of the war is coming, and the turning point of China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression has arrived.
Leng Rushuang always scoffed at this, saying that you Jiang Haoran is indeed a bit of a level in strategy, but it is only the war in front of you, and it is impossible for you to even see the international disputes, right?
On the third day after Leng Rushuang said this, an explosive news made her look at Jiang Haoran in amazement, and she didn't change her expression for three minutes.
And Jiang Haoran was also dumbfounded when he held this newspaper, and muttered in his mouth: "Why? Why is it fifteen days earlier than in history? "
The 28th year of the Republic of China, August 18. The front page of the New York Times reported: At four o'clock this morning, a group of German bombers roared towards Polish territory, targeting Polish troops, arsenals, airfields, railways, roads and bridges. A few minutes later, for the first time, the Poles tasted the greatest sudden death and destruction in the air. Thousands of artillery pieces rang out on the border, and shells rained down on the Polish positions. About an hour later, the German ground forces launched an offensive on all fronts from the north, west and southwest. At the same time, the German battleship "Holstein", which was anchored outside the port of Danzig and disguised itself as a friendly visitor, suddenly opened fire on the Polish military base. The Polish army was caught off guard, 500 first-line planes were blown up at the airfield before they could take off, countless artillery, automobiles, and other baggage were destroyed before they could retreat, the transportation hub and command center were destroyed, and the troops fell into chaos. Taking advantage of the situation, the Germans took advantage of the situation and led by armored and motorized units, and soon broke through the Polish defense line from several major positions・・・・・・ and the Germans blitzed Poland, half a month earlier than in history.
At 9 a.m. on 19 August, Britain issued an ultimatum to Germany, demanding that Germany provide an armistice guarantee by 11 a.m., otherwise Britain would soon declare war on Germany.
At noon on 19 August, France issued a similar ultimatum to Germany, demanding that Germany guarantee an armistice by 5 p.m., otherwise France would soon declare war on Germany.
However, Germany's ultimatum to Britain and France was ignored. As a result, Britain and France declared war on Germany one after another, and World War II broke out in full swing.
Almost at the same time, the Japanese army again assembled 20 divisions on the Manchurian-Mongolian border, launched a large-scale night attack on the Soviet-Mongolian coalition forces at Nomenkan, and successfully broke through the Soviet-Mongolian defense line. The cluster charge at the division and regimental level can be said to be unique in the history of the Japanese army.
However, with the rapid entry of a large number of Soviet troops into the battlefield through the Trans-Siberian Railway, the war soon fell into a stalemate, and the casualties on both sides were very large, and the Japanese army was even worse, with more than 50,000 battle losses and hundreds of aircraft and tanks. On the battlefield, the Soviet army lost 100 tanks, and in less than 10 days, 200 tanks with poor performance would be driven out of the workshop and put into the battlefield, but the Japanese army may not be able to do it for half a year.
In view of the German blitzkrieg on Poland, the Soviet army was eager to transfer troops to carve up Poland, and at the same time, it was also necessary to guard against the powerful Germany threatening the security of the Soviet Union.
The Japanese army also felt that it was hopeless to advance into the Soviet Union, so it took advantage of the slope to get off the donkey, so the "Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Treaty" was newly released under these circumstances, in addition to stipulating that the two armies would not invade each other, but also recognized each other's practical interests in Outer Mongolia and Manchuria, and the Soviet Union suspended its assistance to China.
The early and middle stages of the Anti-Japanese War, especially the middle period. The Soviet Union believed that the Japanese army had violated its interests in the Far East, and at the same time to prevent the Japanese army from coveting the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union began to aid China. According to historical records, the Soviet Union's aid to China included 1,285 airplanes, 1,850 automobiles, 14,000 machine guns, 110,000 rifles, 150 million rounds of ammunition, 1,600 artillery pieces, 2 million shells, 82 tanks, and a number of loans. However, with the signing of this agreement ahead of schedule, less than one-tenth of the above-mentioned weapons finally reached the Chinese battlefield. Theoretically, China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression at this time was even more cruel and difficult than in history.
The changes in the war situation greatly surprised Jiang Haoran, but it is reasonable to think about it, it seems that the Japanese army has won a strategic victory, but this victory is piled up with great casualties and losses, although the national army has lost strong reinforcements, but this does not have a 331 base? This is the law of nature.
But there is another thing that Jiang Haoran did not expect.
After the fiasco of the 331 base and the Nomenkan, the Japanese army was no longer able to wage war, and its troops and logistical supplies could not make ends meet, so the Japanese army changed its strategy and began to vigorously propagate such remarks as "restoring peace," "jointly defending the communists," and "economic cooperation," declaring that as long as the Nationalist Government agreed to reconciliation, the chairman of the committee would send a telegram to the wilderness and punish the number one criminal who had committed heinous crimes against the Japanese army, and the Japanese army would immediately withdraw from Central and South China, and North China would still nominally belong to China.
Of course, Jiang Haoran is the number one war criminal who committed heinous crimes against the Japanese army; perhaps Jiang Haoran is only dealt with, and there is no chairman to send a telegram to the wilderness, and there may still be a glimmer of hope for this peace talks, but after this article, the chairman of the committee immediately held a press conference to fight back, saying that the most difficult moment of the War of Resistance Against Japan has passed, the Chinese are about to usher in the dawn of victory, the Japanese army knows that it is the day of the West Mountain, and it is absolutely impossible to succeed in vainly trying to disintegrate China's anti-Japanese forces in the name of "peace." Blood debt and blood repayment!
However, at this time, Wang Jingwei, the former No. 2 figure of the Kuomintang who had been removed from the Kuomintang because of the collaboration with the enemy and the "Yandian" incident, once again stood in the field of vision of the Chinese. (Wang Jingwei believes that the Chinese know about it, so I will not repeat it)