Chapter 218: Doomsday Vitality
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The establishment of the "Italian Socialist Republic" was proclaimed, and 45,000 League of Nations peacekeeping troops were stationed in Italy, and the Apennine Peninsula was immediately in chaos.
If the turmoil in Italy had only upset the leaders of the Western Allies, the sudden upheaval in Estonia really pricked their nerves and left them in a fidgeting situation: in the early autumn of 1958, Estonian revolutionaries launched an armed uprising and seized control of the capital Tallinn and strategic locations throughout the country almost overnight...... Although there is no evidence of a cross-border movement by Russian troops, the fact that the revolutionaries were able to sweep away the government forces with the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves would not have been possible without thorough and adequate preparation and strong external support.
Just when the Western allies led by Germany were preparing to carry out armed intervention in the name of the League of Nations peacekeeping force, Soviet Russia suddenly issued a "threat": In view of the fact that the stable situation in Estonia has a great impact on its neighbors, as long as the League of Nations announces the implementation of peacekeeping operations against Estonia, Soviet Russia will immediately respond to the League of Nations resolution and send 400,000 well-trained and well-disciplined troops to Estonia, believing that the situation in the country can be stabilized in the shortest possible time.
With the current military strength and military deployment of Soviet Russia, the Western Allies have no doubt that they will be able to send enough regular troops to Estonia within a day or two to overwhelm the Western peacekeeping forces; considering that the Soviet Russian side has already sent a considerable number of military personnel to Estonia, and its grasp of the country's geography and even humanity even exceeds that of the Estonian government, the Germans, after urgently consulting with the allied countries, decided to postpone sending troops to Estonia in the name of League of Nations peacekeeping and instead launch a "proxy war."
As early as the 40s, the Germans followed the example of the Irish Foreign Legion and formed their mercenary unit, which was called the "Knights of the Cross". The equipment and training of this force were first-class, and its size grew from more than 800 to more than 40,000 men, and it participated in a series of military operations around the world, but its reputation and influence were never as good as those of the Irish Foreign Legion, as the German General Staff clearly recognized through the observation and analysis of the Italian Wars, the Scottish Wars, and the Middle East Wars. Therefore, in their proposed "proxy warfare" plan in Estonia, foreign legions and volunteers from various countries were used to form "joint columns" to assist the weak and weak Estonian government army to turn the tide of the war and expel the Estonian revolutionary forces.
The belligerents not only gained experience in the Italian and Scottish wars, but also earned a lot of political and economic benefits, and with such an example, the indirect intervention plan of the German General Staff naturally received an enthusiastic response at the joint military conference of the Western Allies, and most countries such as Austria-Hungary, Spain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and even Norway and Denmark expressed their willingness to contribute troops. Austria-Hungary, Spain, and Belgium will send their foreign legions to the war, and the rest of the countries will organize "volunteer legions" from active military personnel, so that the combatants can go to Estonia without having to undergo lengthy training.
To the slight surprise of the Germans, this time, their hardcore allies behaved very negatively – or rather pessimistically. The Chief of the General Staff of the new United Kingdom, who attended the meeting, said that the Slavs and Turks in the Irish Foreign Legion had a grudge against Red Russia, and this resentment would seriously affect their tactical discipline and even some unpredictable and vicious events, so they would not send Slavs and Turks to Estonia. Given that the new United Kingdom has already sent more than 10,000 soldiers to Italian peacekeeping, they can only send about 4,000 European, Asian and African soldiers from the Foreign Legion to join the so-called "United Volunteers of Estonia". At the meeting, the chief of staff also warned his disapproving counterparts that the Russian army was never easy to deal with, and that the fighting will and fighting tenacity of the Soviet Russian soldiers, who were blessed by the red ideology, should be estimated by two to three times that of the old Tsarist Russian army.
From the autumn of 1958 to the summer of 1959, for about ten months, the United Volunteers organized by the Western Allies fought fiercely with the Estonian National Army supported by Soviet Russia, and the final result of this proxy war was beyond most people's expectations: the well-equipped and experienced Combined Volunteers, although superior in all technical indicators, were repeatedly beaten by the Estonian National Army using World War II weapons, and that long and cold winter became an unbearable nightmare for Western "volunteers". A large number of soldiers were disabled by wounds, many suffered from war phobia, and the Estonian government army, which was supported by the Western Allies, became weaker and weaker, often after a battle, more than half of them defected to the other side, and their area of control continued to shrink, and in the most difficult times they could only control a few islands off the coast......
Once the Estonian revolutionary regime is consolidated, this Baltic country will be subsumed into the camp of Soviet Russia, and a big gap will be opened in the Eastern European defense line that encircles and blockades Soviet Russia, and the camp of the Western Allies, led by Germany, certainly does not want to see this happen. Choosing the lesser of two evils, they decided to put aside the of the Italians for the time being and concentrate on solving the Estonian problem. At the same time, the General Staff of the German Army changed its previous style and carried out precision air strikes against the leaders of the Estonian Revolutionary Armed Forces on many occasions, and achieved certain results. In order to be able to capture or kill the spiritual leaders of the Estonian FARC, they threw in the most elite special operations units and almost succeeded. As the target crossed the border and fled into Russia at the last minute, the Western allies attacked the Russian government, demanding that they detain and hand over "Estonia's number one traitor", which was unsurprisingly refused. In view of the fact that the Soviet Union and Russia have made crucial progress in the field of nuclear weapons research, the German military also hopes to destroy the Russians' nuclear research facilities with the help of a large-scale nuclear strike, so as to fundamentally contain the strategic deterrence of Soviet Russia.
After receiving the intentional consent of Kaiser Wilhelm the Younger, the German General Staff immediately launched a nuclear war program, sending additional heavy long-range bombers and nuclear rocket forces to Eastern Europe. In the face of the nuclear threat from the West, the Russians did not compromise and retreated, and on the surface, they issued a national evacuation mobilization order, evacuated residents and military personnel of large and medium-sized cities, announced the extension of the Russian-Japanese non-aggression pact to 20 years, and accelerated the construction of a new industrial city on the shores of Lake Baikal. Covertly, they sent orders to the revolutionary underground organizations in Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, and even Latvia, telling them to attack military trains and army vehicles of the Western Allied troops, and to use rockets to attack military bases and military airfields, greatly disrupting the offensive deployment of Western Allied troops in Eastern Europe. In Bobruisk, east-central Belarus, the attackers fired rockets that hit a German heavy long-range bomber parked at a military airfield, nearly detonating two atomic bombs with a nuclear yield of 60,000 tons of TNT. After the incident, the German General Staff had to send nine additional divisions to Eastern Europe to strengthen military vigilance and carry out an almost frenzied sweep and extermination of the underground resistance groups in Eastern European countries. On this ground, Soviet Russia lodged a strong protest with the Council of the League of Nations and the Arbitration Commission, and made a big deal through international public opinion.
Since the birth of Red Soviet Russia, it seems that all countries have an innate hostility and fear of it, but in the face of national interests, under the political needs of combining vertical and horizontal, and strategic balance, ideological antagonism can also be temporarily put aside. In the context of the intensifying turmoil in Eastern Europe, the Western allied countries basically severed their contacts with Soviet Russia, and the Council of the League of Nations and the General Assembly of the League of Nations successively passed bills on sanctions against Russia, but there are still many countries that refuse to join the blockade, and the United States is the most influential of them. Ministerial-level officials of the two sides met in Alaska and agreed that the United States would provide Soviet Russia with materials and technology worth hundreds of millions of dollars in the form of loans and barter, including high-quality steel, alloys, heavy trucks, transport planes, and other civilian goods for military purposes, as well as electrical technology and mechanical computer technology at the world's cutting-edge level. In addition, Japan, which had been fighting viciously with Soviet Russia for many years, also made the decision to adopt goodwill neutrality when most of the world besieged Soviet Russia, and the two countries even carried out a series of secret cooperation in the field of military technology.
At a time when half of Europe is in flames of war, countless civilians have been displaced and even innocent people have died, and the pan-Pacific countries are moving closer to each other under the coercion of the Western allies, and there are gradually signs of confrontation between the two camps. You must know that the Americans were one of the first countries to master nuclear technology, and both Soviet Russia and Japan have stood outside the nuclear threshold, and once the war in Eastern Europe escalates, it is very likely to trigger a terrible nuclear war, bringing disaster to millions of lives. During this critical period, King Joachim I of the new United Kingdom abandoned his traditional position of unconditionally supporting the camp of the Western allies, and called on the leaders of Germany and Soviet Russia to proceed from the overall situation of human peace and the continuation of civilization, put aside their ideological obsessions, respect and understand each other, stop armed hostilities through active consultations, and resolve the military confrontation between the Estonian government and the anti-government in an internationally accepted way, that is, a referendum.
In order to strengthen diplomatic mediation, Joachim I subsequently announced that the armed forces of the new United Kingdom would withdraw from Eastern Europe until the disputed countries reached an agreement, and that they would not return to Eastern Europe as a League of Nations peacekeeping force.
Later, at the official occasion of the League of Nations Assembly, the legendary leader delivered a speech in which he analyzed and described the harm of nuclear weapons to the human living environment, proposed that the nuclear-weapon states jointly sign a declaration aimed at the peaceful development and utilization of nuclear energy, and established a special nuclear weapons monitoring and sanctions committee, and used international force to restrict the development and production of nuclear weapons by all countries, and promised that the new United Kingdom would provide countries with cutting-edge technology for the peaceful use of nuclear energy.
Under the strong pressure of international public opinion, the Germans, who did not want to see the formation and growth of the hostile camp, reluctantly made concessions, and the joint negotiations between Germany, Soviet Russia, and Estonia continued intermittently until the spring of 1960, when the parties finally concluded the peace treaty. A few months later, Estonia held a referendum in which a majority voted in favour of abolishing the monarchy, and in the referendum elections that followed, the Soviet parties did not prevail as expected, but formed a coalition government with the Republicans under the supervision of the League of Nations.
When the war in Estonia subsided, the Italian factions, which had been in turmoil for several years, were tired of it, and they took the initiative to sit down at the negotiating table and repeatedly concluded that they would follow Estonia's example in holding a national election, but in the meantime, there was a poll tampering scandal that almost led to a new armed conflict. During this period, the League of Nations implemented reforms at the behest of the participating countries, and had no time to pay attention to the farce of the Italians, and neighboring countries such as Germany, Austria, France, and Spain strictly guarded their borders and did not get too involved in Italian affairs, resulting in tens of millions of Italians spending a period of freedom in loneliness...