Where is this battle going to end?

The question that von Carson could not answer was not a problem for Crown Prince Wilhelm the Younger, who was also the chief of the German General Staff. The German emperor, who was over seventy years old www.biquge.info was obsessed with the glory of dominating Europe and dominating the world, and most of the time he was involved in various banquets, ceremonies, ceremonies, or inspecting those new territories that had never been heard of in the past. If William Jr. actively promoted the armistice and peace talks between Germany and the United States, it was a high probability that the war would end in a few weeks, but to the disappointment of all those who hoped for peace, the German General Staff led by the German crown prince was making comprehensive preparations for a transoceanic landing in North America, and the retirement schedule of the first batch of war mobilization troops was repeatedly postponed, which meant that the Germans had no intention of withdrawing their troops for the time being.

In Frederick's Castle on the island of Rügen, the huge hall is arranged as a modern combat command center, and in the center is placed a large sand table of rare specifications, which encompasses every continent and ocean on the entire earth. As the main cradle of modern civilization, Europe was placed in the center of the sandbox, and the German Empire in Central Europe was the center of the center.

When I came to William's office, I couldn't help but feel a sense of déjà vu from God's perspective through the floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the sand table in the hall. In the era when there was no satellite geodetic technology, the production level of the military sand table was often a direct reflection of the country's military foundation, which depended not only on the accuracy and detail of geographical surveying and mapping, but also on the professional quality of staff officers. In both respects, the staff of the German army was undoubtedly world-class.

William Jr.'s super chessboard clearly marks the current world pattern: all European countries except for Soviet Russia and a few neutral countries have joined the Allied camp, and now the Allied control area extends from Bermuda and Argentina in the west to the Aleutian Islands and Polynesian Islands in the east, covering nearly two-thirds of the earth's area, and the United States and the British Commonwealth are forced to shrink to a corner of North America, and need to defend the east and west coasts at the same time, and the strategic situation is very unfavorable.

After winning the Third Battle of Bermuda, the Confederate forces quickly captured the advance pedal more than 900 kilometers from the North American continent, laying the groundwork for the start of the transoceanic landing program. William Jr.'s battle plan can be summarized as two wings flying together: the southern flank will take the sea route to seize the important islands in the Caribbean Sea, gradually advance the battle line to the Florida Peninsula in the southeast of the United States, and then burn the war to the hinterland and west coast of the United States; The northern flank landed on the islands and coasts of southeastern Canada, and after the battle line was stabilized, it gradually advanced into the interior of Canada and the northeastern United States, seizing the areas with the highest concentration of industrial resources in the American and British camps. Considering that the cold winter in Canada was about to come, the southern flank operation would be launched first, and before the ice and snow melted the following year, the northern flank operation mainly used naval and air forces to sweep the military deployments and industrial facilities of the American and British forces in the coastal areas. In order to carry out this grand battle plan, the Allied forces will mobilize all the naval forces except the main fleets of Italy and Austria-Hungary, and invest more than 30,000 combat aircraft and more than 2 million combat troops -- William Jr. hoped to force the United States and Britain to surrender unconditionally with a loss of less than 200,000 men, but the result of many war games was more than 400,000, which is what von Carson said before, "it is impossible to achieve a perfect victory."

Listening to the overall overview of the battle plan in person, Natsuki was not in a hurry to make a statement, but walked to the big globe next to his desk, slowly turned the sphere to stay on the side of the Pacific Ocean, and then spoke:

"The Japanese army seems to have run into a bloody encounter on Oahu?"

Von Carson looked at Crown Prince William Jr., and after receiving affirmative instructions, he said: "The Japanese side has not yet informed us about the landing operation on Oahu, and according to the report of our special liaison personnel stationed in Japan, the Japanese army should have suffered defeat there, and the recently intercepted American communications also confirmed this, but the specific situation of the battle and the damage on both sides are not yet known." ”

Without waiting for Natsuki to respond, William Jr. interjected: "About two months ago, the Japanese military attache in Germany forwarded a proposal from their military headquarters, hoping to formally discuss with us on the issue of coordinated operations in North America, which shows that they have long planned for the land and resources of North America, once they occupy the Hawaiian Islands, the only obstacle to the east to the west coast of North America is distance. So, it's a good thing for us that the U.S. military is desperately defending Hawaii and curbing the expansion of the Japanese. ”

"Do you think Japan is expanding too fast?" Natsuki asked deliberately.

William snorted coldly: "In just a few months since they entered the war, they have seized dozens of times the land area of the mainland and half of the Pacific Ocean, and when the leather boots of Japanese soldiers set foot on the west coast of the United States, only a few islands we occupy in the entire Pacific Ocean are not under their control." Think about it, with such a large territory, in a few years, Japan will become a second United States, even stronger than the United States today, and it is better to contain it as soon as possible than to wait until that time to find a way to deal with it. ”

Natsuki turned the globe counterclockwise again, his eyes came from the middle of the Pacific Ocean to its west, and the smooth expansion in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific made Japan temporarily slow down the pace of aggression against China, and it can even be predicted that for a long time in the future, Japan's military center of gravity will be in the Pacific direction, but this does not mean that the Japanese have given up their attempt to destroy China, and the strategic resources from Southeast Asia and Australia will rapidly enhance Japan's military strength, and wait until minerals and rubber become weapons and oil is refined into fuelRice is turned into military rations, and Japan's war machine will surely crush the weak even harder.

"In that case...... Could we consider joining forces with Russia to aid China, on the one hand, to block the Japanese offensive on the battlefield, and on the other hand, to mediate through diplomacy, so as to retain a great power in East Asia that can strategically contain Japan? ”

To Natsuki's surprise, William taught in the tone of his brother: "Yoheng, I know that you have always liked oriental culture for a long time, since the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese war, you have always tried to help the Chinese against Japan, but as a leader of a country, personal feelings must give way to national interests." Before defeating the US-British alliance, I believe that we should avoid a violent conflict with Japan and keep a sufficient distance from Russia. In fact, the Russians are already providing military aid to China to reduce the Japanese threat to Siberia, and there is no need to stop the Russians or provoke the Japanese, and the most rational option at the moment is not to support either side. ”

Natsuki stared at little William's face, and his serious and resolute expression showed that this issue was not much negotiable with the German crown prince - this kind of arbitrary ruthlessness and domineering was as similar to that of Wilhelm II in his prime, and even the details of his demeanor were surprisingly similar.

Before figuring out why William Jr. came to such a conclusion, Natsuki did not argue with it, but said lightly: "If I am not mistaken, His Highness has always looked down on Russians, why is he so jealous now?" ”

"Because today's Russia is no longer the Russia we are familiar with." As he spoke, William walked over to his desk, took out a thick stack of papers from the file compartment, and handed it to Natsuki.

Natsuki opened the folder and flipped through the documents in it unhurriedly, some of them were reports on the ******** of Soviet Russia, some were descriptions of the development and operation of organizations at all levels of Soviet Russia, and many of the reports cited detailed corroboration, and the situation was roughly consistent with the history known by Natsuki, and only a small number of reports were exaggerated or distorted to a certain extent because they added the subjective judgment of intelligence gatherers.

William Jr. gave von Carson a look and motioned for him to leave the room for the time being with several of the officers present. After this, he raised his voice and said indignantly: "The revolutionary ideas of the Russians have an astonishing spread and contagion like a plague, no, more terrible than the plague!" The ordinary line of defense is useless in front of it, and even if we close the border passages, it will be able to spread through all kinds of hidden channels, so that our people will be bewitched, and even our army will appear infidels! ”

Xia Shu was surprised at first, but after thinking about it, although the current German Empire has broken through the bottlenecks of resources and space that restrict its development, its economic, financial, industrial, military, and scientific and technological strength has advanced by leaps and bounds, and the people's living conditions have also been improved accordingly, the inherent class contradictions have not only not been fundamentally resolved, but have deteriorated to a certain extent. On the one hand, the cheap labor from the colonies compressed the salary space of local workers, so that many citizens who were not good at business used their savings or loans to invest in factories and mines in the new colonies, and returned to Germany to live in poverty after business failures. The widening gap between the rich and the poor and the deterioration of the social atmosphere have bred discontent among the people at the bottom, and all this has provided the soil for the spread of Russian revolutionary ideas.

"The ideal state that the Russians portray is indeed very tempting, and the reason why the people yearn for it is because they have suffered so many injustices in their real lives that it is difficult to guarantee even the most basic living conditions, otherwise they would not risk their lives to join the so-called revolution. In the first few months, the Welsh people were still vigorously making a revolution, and now they are doing their jobs in a down-to-earth manner, because I have given them the basic security of life, and they see the prospect of improving their living conditions, and this is enough. Natsuki explained earnestly.

Unfortunately, William did not listen, and he gritted his teeth and said: "The human heart is greedy and never satisfied, so the most effective way to deal with those uncivilized heretics is to destroy their bodies and souls at the same time, so as to make an example!" When we end the war with the US-British alliance, we will be free to solve this troublesome problem - only by ceasing to exist in Russia will people give up on their so-called ideal country! ”

Fight the west and then the east? Natsuki couldn't help but sigh in his heart, defeating Soviet Russia could eliminate a temporary threat, but it was not a fundamental way to eliminate domestic shortcomings. It was not a bad thing that the German leadership would have paid early attention to the influence of the Russian revolutionary ideology, but if they had adopted a strategy of containment rather than dredging, all kinds of ills would only accumulate in a suppressed state until one day they would erupt like a volcano.

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