Chapter 368: Cannibalizing the Soviet Union
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Of course, the accuracy is not so high, but it is used for a wide range of strikes.
If there is guidance technology, plus satellite technology, etc., after directly discovering the enemy's troops, they can directly hit them with a round of rockets, which can destroy one of the opponent's divisions in an instant.
At this time, the rocket artillery was far from reaching that power, and when Xia Jun arrived at the shooting range, there were already two rocket launchers erected.
These two rocket launchers, using a 32-tube combined assembly mode, look similar to a swarm of bees in the Ming Dynasty, except that this is a modern version of a swarm of bees. The caliber is 130mm, which is not the kind of large caliber, and it is still in the experimental stage, so there is no need to make such a large one.
When the small one can be made, will it not be able to make the big one?
When the order to launch was transmitted, a puff of white smoke suddenly rose from the shooting range, and thirty-two rockets whizzed away with orange-red tail flames.
Xia Jun took the telescope and looked at the situation at the shooting range, around the target about eight kilometers away, it exploded one after another, but most of the rockets still deviated from the target.
"It's a little bit worse." Xia Jun shook his head at it, although it was said that the rocket artillery currently developed was useful in the war.
But the problem is that the use is not too big to play too well.
And when the time came, this weapon was also exposed.
It's not cost-effective.
If the Imperial Chinese Army wants to launch this weapon, it must first hurt the other side.
You can't just fight half-dead, people go back to study it, and they also research out some kind of weapon.
If you want to fight, you have to fight.
They didn't even have time to catch up.
This is the main reason why the Chinese Empire now has a large number of advanced military technologies but does not use them in the army.
With the current equipment of the Chinese Empire, it is already the best in the world, there is no need to catch up with the front all the time, you are improving, and others will catch up.
If others see that you are not improving, it can paralyze them.
"Report to the Führer, the shooting is complete, please instruct." The members of the research team stood in front of Xia Jun and waited for instructions, and Xia Jun said to them: "Continue to study the rocket artillery with stronger surnames, and all research must be kept secret." ”
"Yes~!"
…… Xia Jun inspected the progress of rocket artillery research and went to the research center of the headquarters.
This research center mainly studies some of the things that are needed in the headquarters.
At the research center, researchers showed Xia Jun a newly drawn map of the world.
"This is a new world map projection, which is very different from the normal map, in general, this map is round, while the normal map is square."
Xia Jun listened and nodded.
"For example, if we want to bomb the United States, because the earth is round, we can build a strategic bombing airfield from the Arctic region in northern Russia, and we can directly bomb Alaska in the United States, and if the bomber has a long enough range, it can even pass through Canada and bomb the northern United States."
"For another example, if we want to attack the United States, then it will be tens of thousands of kilometers from the equator, and if we attack Alaska from Kamchatka, it will only be a few hundred kilometers."
Yes, the United States is actually not far from China, especially after China has gained territorial sovereignty east of the Nale River.
World War II, which was originally scheduled to be in history, was actually a victory over the old one by the new map.
The biggest strategic mistake in starting a war with the United States may be to choose to attack the United States from the equator.
If China were to go to war with the United States in the future, then China's preferred offensive route would be to attack from Alaska. Despite the coldness there, the United States has extremely weak defenses there.
And there are no roads from the United States to Alaska, all by sea.
After landing in Alaska, you can go south to attack Canada, and from Canada all the way to the United States.
The sparse population of the Americas has created a major weakness, which is the low density of defenses, especially in Canada in the north and in the southern part of the United States.
The population of the United States, on the other hand, is mainly concentrated in the north and west.
At the very least, China doesn't necessarily need to attack the United States from Hawaii.
It's too far to take the equator after all.
If China builds a strategic bombing airfield in Greenland, then China's strategic bomber formations can bomb all of Europe, as well as the northern part of the United States.
The old map, which was about to disappear from the command of the Chinese Empire, was replaced by a new one.
One of the most important messages that this new map tells the commander is that the Earth is round.
If it were an ordinary flat map, the North and South Poles would look complicated, and it would not be easy to judge the geographical relationship between the two regions.
After equipping the command headquarters with this projection map, the staff officers are better able to make plans.
For a country like China that is going to war with the United States in the future, this kind of map is very necessary. At the same time, China will also have conflicts with European countries in the future, which makes it necessary for China to pay attention to the Arctic strategy.
As long as China can achieve air supremacy in the Arctic, then China will be able to bomb any European country at will in the future.
In fact, in this era, very few countries paid attention to the Arctic region.
After all, in this era, people mostly use flat maps, and the development of the air force has not reached that level, so the Arctic region is not very noticeable.
In the future, the Arctic route will be very busy, and many planes will fly over the North Pole every day, and the earth is round, which is a shortcut route.
…… Russia, in 1921, the Sino-Russian coalition launched another offensive, this time with greater momentum than before.
The Chinese Empire had mobilized the main forces along the Volga River.
The strength of the army has already reached the level of 1.6 million, and there are many new recruits, and it is indispensable to train the Soviet Union for an attack on the Soviet Union.
After conquering Volgograd last year, the Russian-Chinese forces advanced a hundred kilometers, mainly for population plunder, and then retreated to the Volgograd region.
As a result of the increased US aid to the Soviet Union, the situation in the Soviet Union has improved much this year, and at least the people can barely eat enough.
Of course, the lack of food is all due to the relationship between the Chinese and Russian coalition forces. Eating well is all due to him Stalin.
After receiving a lot of aid from the United States, the Soviet Union's heavy industry developed at a faster pace.
However, before the offensive of this year's Sino-Russian coalition forces, according to the practice of previous years, they still carried out in-depth bombing of the Soviet Union.
Nearly 5,000 mosquito bombers took off from the airfield to carry out large-scale bombing of bombing targets that had been reconnoitred long before the attack.
Mosquito bombers were inexpensive, and the Chinese Empire had developed a very large production line, capable of producing fifteen per day.
For this reason, the mosquito bombers were equipped with a large number of troops, and the Chinese Empire established strategic bombing airfields in the southeast, northwest, and northwest.
However, the small bomb load of the Mosquito bomber is also a problem, and it can only carry 1,000 kilograms of bombs at a time, and 5,000 bombs can only drop 5,000 tons of bombs at a time.
Ten voyages could only drop 50,000 tons of bombs.
However, the Chinese Empire was not in a hurry to equip a new bomber at this time, because the Mosquito bomber could still be used, and this was indeed a very good bomber.
This is the pinnacle of the most advanced, wood-framed aircraft.
After 5,000 mosquito bombers took off, they carried out a large-scale bombing of Soviet industry, railways, and bridges, and this bombing still achieved good results.
When bombers flew over from low altitudes and destroyed railways and bridges, Soviet transportation was quickly paralyzed, but roads were still available.
But after the factory was bombed, it immediately stopped production.
However, the Soviet Union's air defense facilities were also much improved, and nearly 30 of the 5,000 Mosquito bombers were lost in a single voyage, all of which were shot down by Soviet anti-aircraft fire.
Soviet fighters are still so bad that you can't even touch the corners of mosquito bombers.
And the bombing was sudden, and the USSR did not have radars, so it was impossible to arrange them in advance.
But compared to the last bombing, the effect was a little worse. The effect was still enormous, inflicting huge losses on the USSR.
Before the attack, the mosquito bombers successively dispatched more than 20 batches and dropped nearly 100,000 tons of bombs.
The reservoirs, power stations, and other facilities of the Soviet Union were all bombed to varying degrees.
After the strategic bombing, the Imperial Air Force of China bombed the Russian units on the front line, this time with tactical bombers.
At the same time, artillery began to wield.
This time, the Sino-Russian coalition forces gathered nearly two million troops to launch an offensive on the Ukrainian region. The Chinese Empire wanted to completely cut off the Soviet Union's ties with the Black Sea, thus completely cutting off the Black Sea lines of communication.
At the same time, the regions of Ukraine are currently the main grain-producing regions of the USSR.
For a communist country like the Soviet Union, its social production capacity is low, and food is a very fragile link, although the United States aided the Soviet Union at this time and gave the Soviet Union a large amount of grain, but it was not the United States that completely supported the Soviet people, but only plugged the food gap.
The attack on Ukraine is to widen this food shortage.
If the United States is willing to continue to help, then this will be a big burden.
The population of the Soviet Union at this time was 110 million people, which is equivalent to 10 million more than the total population of the United States.
Nicholas II's Russia, which had previously numbered only 20 million people, had recovered nearly 30 million people since the capture of the Caucasus and the southern part of the east and west banks of the Volga River, and the population had recovered to about 50 million.
Thanks to the efforts of China and Russia, these recaptured populations have finally done a good job in ideological work.
Although there are still some thorns, they are generally much more settled.
Big sticks and sweet dates, this is the way to buy the hearts of the people.
At this time, Russia's internal system has indeed undergone great changes, and the people still have basic living materials and other benefits to enjoy.
As Russia's economy began to develop, there were fewer and fewer people in need of such relief, and the burden began to lighten considerably.
Under such circumstances, the Chinese Empire basically did not need to provide much food to relieve the Russian people.
On the contrary, the economic development of the Russians is equivalent to fattening the milk bear and milking it, but it is not too fat at this time, and out of the need for the war in the Soviet Union, it is still possible to let the Russians live a little better for the time being.
At this time, the Asian Federal Reserve (APA) was following the trick of the United States in Russia and began to drastically lower the lending rate.
Although China did not follow this model in China at this time, it still followed up to a certain extent in Russia.
This led to the fact that the Russians began to become very rich.
Just like the book of the 10s, it claims to be able to buy the whole of the United States. In fact, he said that he was all poor later, although he seemed to be very rich, and the reason why he still looked very prosperous when the people were heavily burdened was because of the need of the United States to contain China.
At this time, Russia was somewhat similar to the first ten years of the story, but it was not completely similar.
After the Russians had a lot of money, the economy began to prosper, and the Russians began to build like crazy.
Transportation infrastructure such as roads, railways, and bridges are being built like crazy, and for a country as big as Russia, it really costs a lot of money to build these things.
And China wants to exploit Russia's resources, and it seems that it is not cost-effective to build it on its own.
So lend to the Russians and let the Russians build themselves.
Anyway, these construction achievements are ultimately the stuff of the East China Bank, or the foreskin of the East China Bank.
The prosperity of Russia also became a focus of propaganda to the Soviet people.
The Russian people began to enjoy a very rich material life, and many goods were imported from China, most of which were imported, which was tantamount to lending money to the Russians to buy Chinese goods.
Among them, light industrial commodities are scarce in Russia, so Russia mainly imports more light industrial commodities in terms of imports, and light industrial commodities are industries in which China can expand its production capacity at will.
Not only Russia prospered, but also China's light industry began to prosper.
Of course, this is not the main thing, the main thing is to get the Russians money into the construction.
With the boom in the market, infrastructure is as natural as a hen laying eggs, and with the strong support of the Asian Federal Reserve, Russia's infrastructure is building at a rapid pace.
At this time, the main economic center of Russia was the region on the east bank of the Volga River and the Caucasus, and Siberia was still relatively backward.
Most of the Far East was ceded to China.
The Siberian region is mainly cold, and the Siberian cold snap is not your average cold. In Siberia, roads are not very developed, there are basically no roads, and they mainly rely on water and air transportation.
The railways are also built in the southern, and basically pass through Mobei Province in China.
The Far East and Siberia, like China's backyard, are mainly responsible for China's construction, and everything to be built is also the demand of the mining area.
If the mining area is to be mined, it must be able to be transported.
The Eastern Railway was a long railway that ran through the east and west, and this railway has been playing a huge role today.
However, the main lines of communication were shifted to the railway from the Western Regions Province of China to the Kazakhstan region and then to the Volga region.
The climate of this railway is not as harsh as that of the Eastern Railway, and it is not too troublesome to repair, most of it is flat land, and the Chinese Empire has built this railway into a double track.
As the Chinese Empire transferred its main forces to the Volga region, the railway was busy every day.
After all, the railway had to bear the needs of nearly three million Sino-Russian allied troops, and many of the supplies for the Russian troops were also imported from China.
At the same time, this railway also bears the burden of transporting a lot of minerals and agricultural products.
Mineral mining is easiest in the Kazakhstan region, where there are large copper mines, and in agriculture, China's cotton is mainly produced from there.
Although most of Kazakhstan belongs to Russia, it is not different from its Chinese counterpart because there are no import and export duties, and the land is bought by the Chinese agricultural reclamation company.
Russia is China's food at this time, and you can eat it whenever you want.
Before eating, China spent a lot of effort to help Russia restore order, and set up a credit system, etc., all of which paved the way for future development.
With the advance offensive of nearly two million troops of the Sino-Russian coalition army, the Soviet Union was naturally losing and retreating.
In the face of the Sino-Russian coalition forces, the Soviet Union only had a sense of powerlessness.
Although the Soviet Union mobilized a lot of troops, the frontal battle was not at all the opponent of the Sino-Russian coalition forces, especially this time, China has already transferred 1.6 million troops from the country, and only about 1 million people participated in the offensive this time, and only 1 million Russia participated in the offensive at the same time.
There were still nearly two million troops in the rear.
Under the non-aggressive encroachment strategy of the Sino-Russian coalition forces, the Soviet Union had no way to resist the advance of the Sino-Russian coalition forces.
Moreover, under the fierce leaflet offensive, many traitors appeared in the Soviet Union, and these traitors only waited for the arrival of the Sino-Russian coalition forces and immediately cooperated with the Sino-Russian coalition forces.
After all, after the revolution in the Soviet Union, there were still some vested interests of the original remnants, whose interests were damaged by the Soviet Union, and naturally hoped that Nicholas II would be able to counterattack Europe.
There are also those who cannot resist the temptation of material conditions and take refuge in Russia.
Especially at this time, the Soviet Union has lost battles every year, although the news is blocked, but everyone is about to hit Ukraine, what does this mean?
This shows that the Soviet Union could not defeat the Sino-Russian coalition forces at all.
What Russia wants is those who can take the initiative to take refuge, and it welcomes this kind of group the most, and these people do not need to do much ideological work.
The offensive also revealed a very serious problem, that is, the Soviet Union distributed a large number of individual weapons to the people.
This led to guerrilla warfare everywhere.
Although the Sino-Russian coalition forces have set up special forces to fight against guerrilla warfare, they have still caused great obstacles to their core goal, which is naturally to grab people.
The population of Russia is too small.
This leads to a low war potential.
With a population of 50 million, at most 5 million troops will be mobilized, and this is not easy to mobilize, after all, with the economic development of Russia, the mobilization of troops is not so easy, and many laborers cannot leave their jobs.
Grabbing land is secondary, and grabbing people is primary.
Nicholas II soon accepted this view, which made him suppress his desire for European territory, especially when the Soviet guerrilla war was intensifying, and Nicholas II's strategy of great counteroffensive was finally abandoned, fully agreeing with the encroachment strategy proposed by the Chinese advisers.
(To be continued)