The pace of time quietly came to the 40s of the 20th century, with the successive accession of Soviet Russia and Japan, the International Security Alliance has played the role of another world "United Nations Organization", and many international affairs have been handed over to the Alliance General Assembly to discuss and make decisions. Under the rule of Germany, Turkey and other countries, Africa, with its vast territory and large population, is in a period of stability rarely seen in thousands of years, while in the Americas, although frictions between countries occasionally occur, there is no sign of escalating into large-scale conflicts.

However, all this is only a semblance under the calm.

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Tokyo, Japan.

Emperor Hirohito, who had just celebrated his 40th birthday, was riding a horse to inspect his army on the Great Autumn Field of the southern suburbs barracks. In the war ten years ago, Japan lost, lost the myth of invincibility since the Sino-Japanese First Sino-Japanese War, lost the navy and air force possessions that had been accumulated with great difficulty, and had to bear a huge war reparation. For a decade, Hirohito and his people shrunk back on a diet, leaving only barely enough to survive, and the rest was used to pay off the debt, so as to satisfy the countries that shared in the reparations—Germany, North Korea, China, Turkey, the United States, Australia, and other belligerent countries.

On the surface, Hirohito and his government and people were respectful of these countries, and repeatedly bitterly stated that they would forever renounce armed aggression and retain only the most basic self-defense forces, but in their hearts, a seed of hatred had already been planted. As with the Qing fleet that visited Japan in 1891, the ambitious nation was convinced that it could one day defeat a formidable enemy, leaving every nation on the list to taste the pain of defeat.

Over the past 10 years, the Japanese Government has not only worked hard to repay the war reparations, but has also sought the "understanding" of these participating countries through unremitting goodwill visits and bilateral talks. As a result, China was the first to give up its war reparations, followed by the United States, Australia, and finally even Germany, the "number one creditor", agreed to cut the total reparations by half, and at the end of the decade, Japan miraculously paid off the reparations!

As the saying goes, "no debt is light", Hirohito finally felt the first ease, but this was far from the end of his efforts. He was only 40 years old, the perfect age for a monarch and a careerist. Riding on a thin war horse and looking at the Japanese soldiers armed with old weapons, Hirohito said to himself that one day the world would tremble for this army!

In the past 10 years, under the "observation" of the International Military Observer Group, the Japanese Army has not replaced a batch of new equipment, the Navy has only built a dozen new patrol ships of less than 1,000 tons, and the Air Force has only used old airships and civilian aircraft built in the 20 s. But behind this appearance. Japan set up a fund with donations from the imperial family to protect the most important technical personnel and their families, and secretly gathered these people according to the military industry, shipbuilding, aviation and other departments to continue to engage in organized and targeted research. Japan sent personnel to the United States and Italy to engage in research, and the field of cooperation gradually expanded from the initial purely civilian to dual-use and even pure military industry.

In this way, Japan's domestic industrial technology, although it has not advanced much in the last decade, has a group of talents who have not fallen behind the times, and in addition to the fact that Japan has retained a certain industrial scale by repaying part of the war reparations in the form of manufacturing industrial goods, free processing, and low-cost shipbuilding, Hirohito and his government believe that Japan can rise again in a very short period of time if the time is right.

As a result, a huge revival plan was put on the table of Hirohito and his confidants, officials, and generals. From raising the industrial level to initially improving the national level, from developing new combat vehicles to developing and producing infantry weapons comparable to German equipment, the Air Force's advanced fighters and bombers and rockets and missiles that are unique to Germany at present, the Navy's modern submarines, high-speed cruisers equipped with radars, and even new capital ships, all of these things make people feel their blood boiling. At this moment, anyone who thinks that this strategy is too dangerous will be seen as cowardly, incompetent, and inferior without the Yamato nation.

Ten years, Hirohito and his henchmen were eager to complete this great project in the next decade, and then waited, waiting for an opportune moment to embark on the road of expansion again. The countries of East Asia are the best victims of this path.

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Moscow, Soviet Russia.

An alliance between the United States and Soviet Russia? These two societies with different systems are as incompatible as fire and water, but nothing is impossible to happen driven by common interests.

As early as 1928, after the collapse of the Tsarist government and the establishment of the Soviet Russian government, which controlled western Russia, Moscow began to seek cooperation with friendly foreign forces, initially with Germany as the Allied powers, but the Allied countries' assistance to the Russian government during the Russian Civil War made Moscow feel extremely disappointed and resentful, and they actively relied on their own forces to restore the economy and develop industry, and on the other hand, they looked for other international friendly forces. Spain during the Revolution had been a good target, but after the revolutionary and royalist parties compromised and formed a coalition government, the country remained under the strong influence of the Central Powers.

Subsequently, starting from the most basic bilateral trade, Moscow and Washington, two frustrated people with vast territory and great potential, began their cooperation from strangeness to contact, from mutual wariness to mutual trust.

Driven by their common old enemies and huge interests, two countries with completely different systems, one east and one west, can temporarily put aside their conceptual differences and carry out cooperation across ideological boundaries, and the content will gradually involve industry, economy, military, and high-tech technology.

Gradually, the style of Soviet and Russian designers began to appear on American fighters, and Soviet Russian tanks used American-made artillery; In the U.S.-Mexico border conflict, some of the wounded Americans were cared for by international medical personnel from Soviet Russia, and during the expansion of the port of Petropavlovsk, American engineers directed Russian workers to work day and night......

As the world entered the 40s of the 20th century, Germany was still the only superpower on the planet, with an economy larger than all countries combined. Colonies and military bases were spread across continents, but their advantage over other countries did not continue to expand. During this period, the economic and industrial scale of the United States had returned to the level before 1924, the number of troops was very limited, but the work of installing new equipment had been basically completed, and the combat effectiveness of the navy, army, and air force in the US-Mexico border conflicts in recent years was no longer the same. While the economy and industry were growing rapidly, Soviet Russia had a military power that was stronger than the Tsarist government at its peak in 1928, with an army size of more than 3 million. The four major fleets of the navy that have been formed have been continuously expanded, the Soviet and Russian navies are changing from a purely defensive type to an ocean-going type, and the size and equipment level of the air force are rapidly increasing.

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May 20, 1941, North Africa, Libyan desert (the most inhospitable part of the Sahara Desert).

"It's not summer yet, the sun is blazing, oh my God, what a pain it must be to live in Africa all year! General Rommel, I admire you more and more! ”

It was an old fat man with gray hair who spoke, and the originally handsome marshal's uniform looked very bloated on him. He was comfortably sunk in a large backrest chair. There was also a glass of cold beer still bubbling in front of him, and it looked very pleasant.

In Germany, this is an "old fat man" that everyone knows and everyone knows. Count Olivon Kahn, a veteran of the Army, a Grand Cross recipient, and Kaiser Wilhelm III's most trusted general, has been Minister of War for more than 16 years.

It is a large, well-equipped underground fortification, surrounded by an area reminiscent of an observation center at a rocket base, and the cool breeze blowing from the vents makes it completely unpleasant to feel the heat of the scorching sun, even though the surface temperature outside has climbed to 40 degrees Celsius.

Sitting on the right hand side of the old fat man was a thin army general who was ten years younger. Erwin Rommel, Army General and Chief Staff Officer of the German High Command, is also very well-known in Germany.

"Actually, it's nothing, I still like the climate here more than the cold of the Arctic!"

"I don't like the heat of Africa or the cold of the Arctic, but if I had to choose one of them...... I'll just go back to the countryside to retire, haha! ”

The man who spoke was about the same age as the old fat man. It was also a field marshal's uniform, with a slightly fat figure, more and darker hair than the old fat man, but the tone was very similar. Gianlugi Wilhelm III, the monarch of the German Empire, a man who "ruled half the world", the promoter of constitutional reform in the German Empire - now Germany, has changed from "one person speaks and many people listen" to "everyone speaks, everyone supervises", and more and more state power has been transferred from the hands of the royal family and aristocracy to the hands of the government and parliament - this is also a historical inevitability.

"Your Majesty, there's a call from Dr. Hahn, everything is going according to plan, and the countdown will begin in 20 minutes!"

The officer in charge of liaison respectfully reported to the greatest monarch in Germany's history.

"Got it!" The chubby Kaiser turned his head to look at his most trusted generals, "Gentlemen, in 20 minutes, we will witness another history!" ”

"We're going to use this ultimate bomb against those restless guys, right, Your Majesty!" Ollie was still drinking his beer, as if to store as much water as possible for his body so that he would not be dried out by the sun after leaving the underground fortifications.

"This is both the sickle of death and the harp of angels!" Chen Tian said meaningfully, although its appearance was later than he expected, but after all, it was 5 years earlier than history, after which, Germany will further consolidate its international position until other countries also have this kind of weapon, and the era of nuclear checks and balances will come, which is also a historical inevitability.

When the long-lost mushroom cloud rose, everyone was deeply shocked by this amazing scene, but Chen Tian's heart was another emotion, now, the World Nuclear Club was officially established, and Pandora's box was opened.

Some things can be predicted, but they can't be stopped, like the recovery and re-emergence of the United States, Soviet Russia, and Japan. Just like the envy and hatred of many people for the world's only superpower, just like everyone's ultimate destination is death......

Secrecy does not prevent other countries from taking an interest in nuclear and working towards it, and as time goes on, more and more scientists will notice this fission reaction, which can produce enormous energy, and it is impossible for Germany to stifle people's minds in the same way that the rulers of the Middle Ages defended theocracy, nor can it stop people's pursuit of truth.

Chen Tian already knew this.

Although Germany has successfully crossed the nuclear threshold and will use its technological and talent advantages to monopolize this field for a certain period of time, no matter which country, their leaders hope to improve their international standing and change the world by mastering this technology. The United States has the strongest economy. Soviet Russia had the greatest advantage in terms of talent, while Japan was the one with the most urgent needs, and it was only a matter of time before they plunged into nuclear research.

"Secrecy is the first premise, we cannot let other countries know about the terrible power of this weapon! The second is a huge and constantly improving arsenal of nuclear weapons, a number of effective and ready delivery tools, a peaceful, calm and prudent mentality, this is our mentality towards nuclear weapons! Chen Tian said this to his heirs and confidants at the highest-level imperial council, and a nuclear weapons planning, organization, and application department under the Supreme High Command was being established.

"Peaceful use, hard work, and perseverance!"

At a meeting of the German Nuclear Technology Research Committee, Chen Tian made such comments on the long-term planning of nuclear power plants and nuclear-powered ships.

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The wheels of history continue to roll forward.

Although Germany has long since put away the aggressive posture of the expansionist period. Although their military power has always been ahead of the world. Despite the terrible superweapon they possessed, they found themselves powerless to stop it when the clouds of war loomed over the land again. All they could do was meet every enemy challenge under the German battle flag.

Peace under the guise of hypocrisy lasted until 1945, just 14 years after the end of the last major war.

In that year, the Soviet Union, the United States, Japan, and Italy formally concluded a four-nation offensive and defensive alliance, stipulating that if any country was attacked by Germany, other countries would have the obligation to declare war on Germany, and from then on, the anti-German camp was formally formed. At the same time, the United States, the Soviet Union, Russia, and Japan have all increased their investment in nuclear research, and the United States has entered the substantive stage of nuclear weapons research. Coercion, inducement, and even sabotage through espionage agents. Germany's top brass tried everything possible to delay these countries' progress towards the nuclear threshold, but they failed to do so.

As a result, Germany began to impose severe economic blockades and political sanctions on them, but it also caused strong dissatisfaction in these countries.

In April, Japan announced the formation of a Combined Fleet Command and held joint military exercises with the Soviet Russian Pacific Fleet in the Sea of Japan.

In May, the United States issued a serious diplomatic warning to Mexico, demanding that Mexican troops retreat to the Mexican side of the border under the 1924 Treaty of Atlanta, or the United States would not rule out the use of force. Mexico agreed to negotiate with the Government of the United States in this regard. However, at the meeting, the Americans suddenly demanded a huge amount of compensation, and the representatives of the two sides finally broke up unhappily.

In late May and early June, the U.S. Army began to build up in the southern part of the country near the Mexican border, and its air and navy increased alert. On 10 June, the Mexican government strongly protested and announced mobilization in several northern states close to the United States when a U.S. destroyer clashed and exchanged fire with two Mexican patrol ships in the western Gulf of Mexico near Mexican territorial waters.

In June, Russia, Japan, and Italy began to move their troops frequently, and their naval and air bases were upgraded to security.

In response to tensions in North America, Germany also adjusted its deployment in June, sending additional troops to bases in Canada, Mexico and North Korea, converting 22 reserve divisions into front-line combat divisions under the pretext of overseas troop rotation, and bringing forward this year's autumn training to the end of June.

On July 4, the United States suddenly issued an ultimatum to Mexico to withdraw from "illegally occupied" U.S. territory within 24 hours, after Washington had issued a secret mobilization order to the states.

The Mexican government issued a-for-tat national mobilization order and ordered all front-line troops to be put on wartime alert, and the German troops in Mexico received an order from the High Command on the same day.

In the last hours before the outbreak of the war, Germany finally abandoned its diplomatic mediation with the United States. Kaiser Wilhelm III personally signed a mobilization order, ordering the whole country and all its direct colonies to enter a state of imminent war.

On July 5, the Fourth Mexican-American War broke out when U.S. troops assembled in the border area suddenly launched a lightning attack on neighboring Mexico, citing the Mexican government's refusal to return "illegally occupied" U.S. territory.

On the same day, Mexico declared war on the United States, and Germany declared war on the United States under the 1939 Supplement to the German-Mexican Treaty.

The next day. Soviet Russia, Japan, and Italy declared war on Mexico and successively announced a general mobilization of the whole country.

On 7 July, Germany issued an ultimatum to the three countries demanding that they renounce the alliance with the United States and withdraw from the war, but Soviet Russia and Japan flatly refused, and only Italy expressed its willingness to accept Germany's ultimatum conditionally before the deadline for this ultimatum arrived.

On July 8, Germany declared war on Soviet Russia and Japan, and the two countries immediately declared war on Germany, and a full-scale world war broke out.

On the same day, the Italian government announced the temporary lifting of the national mobilization. But the active forces and naval fleet remain on first-class alert.

Fierce battles. It was first spread over the North American continent. In order to compete for air supremacy on the battlefield, the United States threw 80 percent of its air force into the southern front, destroying more than a dozen important airfields in northern Mexico on the first day. However, the Mexican Air Force, supported by the Germans, launched a counterattack. After Germany entered the war, the US Air Force tried to carry out air strikes on the German military bases in Mexico, especially the airport facilities, and in order to destroy the German aviation units in Mexico, but Germany effectively blocked them with advanced ground radars and early warning aircraft, and both sides used a large number of advanced fighters in this campaign, and at the same time, this was also the first collision between the jet fighter units of the two countries in actual combat, and as a result, both sides suffered damage, but the US Air Force's dream of trying to seize air supremacy in World War I came to naught.

On the northern front, the United States planned to use a small number of troops to resist the attack of the German troops stationed in Canada with a small number of troops relying on its home superiority and pre-constructed defensive lines, while the German army used a powerful strategic bomber force to launch a 1924-style bombing of the major industrial areas, cities, and ports in the north, especially in the northeast, although the American ground fighters and anti-aircraft guns were on standby. But they could not stop German long-range and ultra-long-range bombers and new jet bombers from bombing their hinterland, and this time, Washington did not escape the fate of being bombed.

In the Far East, in order to support their American allies, Soviet Russia and Japan launched a two-pronged attack on German military bases in the Far East. The powerful Russian air force and the elite German Far East Dispatch Army aviation units fought fiercely over Vladivostok, Kuye Island, and the airspace near the Korean Peninsula, while the Russian steel torrent quickly approached Vladivostok and Korea from land, but their offensive soon ran into big trouble in front of German jets and Tiger 2 tanks; Submarines, warships, and aircraft of the Japanese Navy and Air Force attacked German ships operating in the Sea of Japan, the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, and the western Pacific Ocean, but in the northern part of the Sea of Japan, the German U-362, the largest warship built in Japan after the war, was equipped with wire-guided torpedoes. The slap in the face to the ambitious Japanese was a blow to the head, and the German bombers that took off from the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and the short- and medium-range rockets launched gave the Japanese people a taste of bombs for the first time in more than a decade.

In Europe, the Soviet Union and Germany deployed millions of troops on the border, but Germany did not take the initiative to attack the southern defense line of Soviet Russia, and Soviet Russia did not venture to attack Germany's Manstein defense line on the front line of Poland and Ukraine. However, the German Navy blocked the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea at the first time, and deployed a large number of submarines and surface ships on the northern route of Soviet Russia, thus cutting off most of the communication routes between Soviet Russia and the outside world.

Within a month after the full-scale outbreak of this world war, North Korea, Turkey, Australia, Britain, Finland, Spain, Ukraine and other countries also entered the war, but except for North Korea and Turkey, other countries did not have a head-to-head confrontation with their opponents at the beginning of the war.

At this time, in the German High Command in Berlin, the debate among senior German generals about the use of nuclear weapons intensified, and some people proposed to use 10 to 20 atomic bombs to raze the United States, and then use 5 to 10 to teach Soviet Russia and Japan a lesson. The war would end quickly within a week, and the proposal was quickly supported by the majority of the people – because although the United States, the Soviet Union and other countries were already engaged in nuclear weapons research, they could not intuitively imagine the terrible power of such weapons, and some Americans even thought that they were nothing more than oversized bombs that could level a block at once!

"No, that would plunge humanity into the terrible abyss of nuclear war, and Germany would become the eternal hatred of the people of these countries!" Tatsu rejected the proposal by all odds, but he proposed: "We want to let them know that we have the ability to win the war without nuclear weapons, but in the end." We will use a small number of nuclear weapons to keep this lesson in their minds for a longer time. ”

In the first half of the war, the warring sides had their own gains and losses, and the U.S. forces advanced the front to the U.S.-Mexico border before the Treaty of Atlanta in 1924, but the slow progress on the southern front and the heavy losses on the northern front were gradually erasing their confidence in victory; After paying a heavy price, the Russians recaptured Vladivostok and invaded the Korean Peninsula by land, but the terrible Tiger 2 of the Germans made them fearful of the road ahead; In the face of the overwhelming superiority of the German Pacific Fleet, which was able to sink some German merchant ships with submarines and high-speed assault ships, they could not even cross the narrow Soya Strait......

When the harsh winter arrives. The war finally entered a period of relative calm and détente. Italy eventually chose to enter the war, but instead of fighting the Germans, it once again turned its back on its allies. This period of reprief is precious for any country. But Germany had clearly made better use of it—one after another reorganized and trained reserve divisions and overseas colonial divisions were sent to North America and the Far East, new jet fighters and excellent pilots who were already familiar with their performance and tactics were replenished to the front-line air force, the elite Afrika Korps was sent to Canada, four elite army armored divisions equipped with Leopard tanks more powerful than the Tiger 2 were sent to Korea, and a large number of reactivated anti-submarine ships were overhauled and upgraded and traveled across the ocean to the Far East. Three newly integrated aircraft carrier battle groups have been added to the operational sequence in the Pacific maritime zone......

In 1946, after surviving the spring offensive of the United States, Soviet Russia, and Japan, the war entered a counteroffensive phase.

By the year, Germany's nuclear arsenal had more than 400 nuclear weapons of various types, including strategic rockets, strategic bombers and large ocean-going submarines. In the case of the overall situation of the war. Kaiser Wilhelm III ordered the distribution of nuclear weapons from the central reserve to forward strategic bases in Mexico, North Korea, Poland and Turkey.

On May 5, Kaiser Wilhelm III personally signed an order for the first nuclear attack in history by the 177th Separate Artillery Brigade of the German Army stationed in Canada, and an A40 long-range rocket carrying a 1.5-ton nuclear bomb flew to Norfolk, the most important US naval base, not only flattening the port facilities there, but also easily sending half of the US Atlantic Fleet to the bottom of the sea.

Just one day later, another A40 rocket carrying a nuclear bomb flew into Chicago, the largest industrial area of the United States during the war, and the huge mushroom cloud once again shocked the Americans.

As the German-Mexican forces violently broke into the United States from the south, the United States soon chose to withdraw from the war. What awaits them is a huge war reparations and a memorandum of never engaging in nuclear research.

Germany's nuclear attack and the withdrawal of the Americans were undoubtedly a double blow to the anti-German camp, but Soviet Russia and Japan not only did not retreat, but strengthened their offensive - in the Far East, on the one hand, Japan gathered the main force of the army and air force to launch a new round of attack on Kuye Island, and at the same time launched a landing operation in Yingri Bay in the southeast of the Korean Peninsula with the main naval force of the Soviet Union and the Russian navy and army; In Europe, the Russian army advanced in three directions, the northern route entered Finland on the Soviet-Finnish border, the southern route advanced from the Caucasus to Turkey, and the center concentrated more than half of the elite of the Soviet Russian army.

Behind the Manstein Line, more than 150 German and colonial divisions were on standby, and thousands of "tigers" and "leopards" with incredible strength were hidden in the forests of Poland and Ukraine. In Yingri Bay on the Korean Peninsula, the Germans set a precedent for using tactical nuclear bombs on the battlefield, and the violent nuclear storm deprived the Soviet Union and Japan of their most elite maritime forces in the Far East and their last hope of turning the tide of the war.

Throughout the summer, the Germans marched on all fronts, the German steel torrent trawed through Moscow mercilessly, and the Japanese archipelago fell back into the hands of the German navy......

In August, Soviet Russia announced that it had accepted Germany's request to withdraw from the war.

In September, the dark clouds of nuclear weapons finally loomed over the Japanese archipelago, with jet bombers carrying strategic nuclear bombs taking off from airfields in Korea and Kuye Island, cruisers carrying medium-range rockets and nuclear warheads posing in the waters east of Japan, and a long list of names on the list of candidates for a nuclear attack: Fukuoka, Yamaguchi, Hiroshima, Okayama, Osaka, Nagoya, Shizuoka, and Yokohama......

The war ended, and the countries that tried to set the world pattern ended in a crushing defeat. Since then, the planet has entered a rather long period of calm.

In May 1947, the renovation and expansion of the Berlin city was completed; In November of the same year, on his 65th birthday, Kaiser Wilhelm III abdicated and was succeeded by Crown Prince Andrés Wilhelm von Hohenzollern.

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For Chentian, the leakage of the battle was a thing of the past, away from the hustle and bustle of the city and the noise of politics, and he and his old friends lived a peaceful life in the country castle of Brandenburg until his death in 1982 at the age of 100. At the last moment of his death, he vaguely saw his homeland...... (Full Text)