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Chapter 1814 Who is the Fisherman?

The "Three Kingdoms Charter" only presents a broad political framework dominated by the United States, Britain, and China, but the specific military layout will not achieve results in the short term. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Churchill lived in the White House and could communicate with Roosevelt anytime and anywhere, and this effectively resolved the possible differences between the United States and Britain, so that the two countries could seek common ground while reserving differences and reach consensus on international affairs.

Unlike An Yi, who took Wu Tingyan and Zhao Dongquan with two officers, Churchill was surrounded by a strong lineup - the chief of staff of the British navy, army and air force, Lord Beaverbrook, the minister of supply, and many assistants, secretaries and subordinates. These people quickly negotiated with their American counterparts, enabling British and American strategists to have an intimate exchange of views that South China, as a third country, could not enjoy.

The chiefs of staff of the United States and Britain held a total of 12 meetings, and General Marshall, chief of staff of the US Army, particularly wanted to get something from the meetings, that is, to reach an agreement on the principle of unity of command on the battlefield, which means that the problem of unity of command between different branches of the armed forces must be resolved, and it also means that the problem of unified command of the armies of different countries must be resolved.

You must know that at present, in Australia, the Middle East and North Africa, China's Shandong and North China, and other places, there are situations where the armies of many countries are fighting side by side. In addition, even between the US Army and Navy, there is a question of leadership.

Although the US Navy was skeptical of the principle of unity of command, it could not raise any strong reasons to oppose it, so it reluctantly agreed to the motion submitted by Marshall.

With regard to the overall strategy, General Marshall was in favor of Europe first and then Asia, that is, defeating Germany first, and then proceeding to solve the problem.

The reason for formulating this strategy is that the US Navy is temporarily unable to obtain sea supremacy in the Pacific region, and in the Atlantic, after the United States and Britain join hands, even if they join hands with the Italian and German navies, they can only retreat, so that the army can easily get supplies.

However, this strategy, even within the U.S. Army, is not uniform.

At present, *** has occupied the Hawaiian Islands, the territory of the United States, and can threaten the security of the United States at any time. At the same time, Australia in the South Pacific is in the midst of a bitter war, and if the strategy of Europe first and then Asia is implemented, this means that most of the troops will be transferred to Africa and Europe to participate in the war against Germany, and the number of troops and supplies available to Australia will be rapidly reduced. If something happens to Australia, New Zealand will inevitably not be protected, and then the entire Pacific strategy of the United States will fall into a complete passivity.

However, it must be noted that the implementation of the policy of putting Europe first and then Asia will make the army have a greater say than the navy in the competition for relatively limited manpower and material resources.

However, there is a general skepticism in the navy about the overall strategy of Europe first and then Asia.

You know, the tradition of the U.S. Navy is the expansion of defense, and naval officers are undoubtedly extremely depressed when they are ordered to concentrate on attacking an enemy that can only be defeated on land, but they have not been able to avenge the humiliation of Pearl Harbor for months or even years.

Roosevelt himself supported defeating Germany first and then settling it. Because in his opinion, Germany is inherently more threatening than ***. At present, the situation in Britain can not be described as precarious, and if Germany is allowed to easily gain access to North Africa and the Middle East and concentrate its forces on the British Isles, then the United States will lose its most reliable ally and springboard to the European continent. Let Germany integrate the whole of Europe, and the best outcome is to maintain an undefeated list, which Roosevelt did not want to see.

On the other hand, in the Pacific, even if the Japanese military gains a temporary advantage, it is still difficult to threaten the security of the United States.

After all, Nanjing and Xinjing threatened the rear of the Japanese army, so that it did not dare to focus on continuing to attack eastward in the Pacific. After the United States has accumulated enough strength, it can defeat the superior navy in one fell swoop, and then divide the defensive island chain as tight as a spider's web, and clean it up one by one, and the final victory still belongs to the United States.

At the same time as the military consultations were underway, the "United Nations Declaration" drafted by the US State Department was discussed and adopted by the cabinet, and then An Yi and Churchill added their own opinions, and Roosevelt also made some amendments. Finally, the declaration was deliberated and adopted by the U.S. Congress and officially addressed to the heads of state gathered in Washington.

The declaration reads as follows:

Endorsed by the common platform of purposes and principles contained in the Joint Declaration of the Three States, signed on 4 May by the President of the United States of America, the President of South China and the Prime Minister of Great Britain, convinced that the complete and worldwide victory of Governments is necessary to defend and secure life, liberty, independence and the defence and preservation of those legitimate and achievable freedoms, justice and social security of human beings, not only in their own countries but throughout the world, and convinced that the war is now being waged, In order to defend life and live a decent life together everywhere, against the barbaric and brutal forces that seek to conquer the world, it is hereby declared:

The governments and authorities pledged to use all their resources to resist the Axis conquering armies and continued to do so until they were finally defeated; 2. Governments and authorities pledge to other Governments and authorities associated with this Declaration to cooperate fully in military efforts and in the use of their resources against a common enemy; Thirdly, the Governments and authorities undertake to continue to fight against the common enemy or any one enemy and not to make peace alone. All other Governments and authorities wishing to associate themselves with this Declaration are entitled to participate.

Within a week of its release to the world, no less than 20 countries and regions signed the declaration.

At the moment, however, it was the question of Free France that was at the head of the problem.

Now the United States is trying to win over the Vichy government, while Britain only recognizes the "Free France" led by Charles de Gaulle. However, on the third day of the Declaration, a small number of Free French troops landed on the islands of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, just south of Newfoundland, which made the United States Government extremely angry, and this dispatch was carried out without the knowledge of Canada, Great Britain and the United States Government, and even despite the opposition of the three countries.

Signing on behalf of China was Foreign Minister Soong Tzu-wen.

Song Meiling and Song Ziwen were greatly frightened on the way to the United States. As the Axis powers controlled air supremacy in the Mediterranean, the route between the United States and China was changed to the South Atlantic, Africa, the Arabian Sea, India, and Hump, and finally to Nanjing.

However, when the passenger plane was flying over the Arabian Sea, it was targeted by the Japanese land-based fighters deployed on Socotra Island, and when the special plane was about to land and refuel at the Aden airport in the Red Sea, it was bitten by the Japanese Zero fighters that rushed to the air, and the AN6 passenger plane was hit with billowing smoke.

The anti-aircraft artillery fire guarding the airport drove away the arrogant Japanese fighters, but the passenger plane rushed out of the runway during the forced landing, fortunately, the fuselage was thick and the problem was not big, but Song Meiling suffered a violent collision and suffered serious injuries. Song Ziwen was lucky, he was holding his head with both hands, and his body was just a simple bruise, and there was no major problem.

The U.S. government urgently dispatched a Boeing 307 stratoquad-engine aircraft to Aden to meet it, and An Yi also instructed to send long-range escort fighters to escort the convoy.

Song Meiling had been asleep on the special plane to the United States, and when the plane arrived in Palm Beach, Florida, An Yi and Song Zi'an, the youngest of the six Song siblings, went to the airport to greet her. Under the emergency rescue of doctors and nurses sent by the US government, Song Meiling's condition was eased, and Song Ziwen was also bandaged properly. After staying there for a day and a night, the group took An Yi's special plane to New York.

The plane arrived at the Mitchell Military Airport on Long Island, New York, at 2 p.m., where Roosevelt's special representative, Hopkins, greeted him on the apron and escorted Soong Meiling to the Harkness Ward Building of Columbia University Presbyterian Medical Center.

When Soong Meiling was in this situation, Soong Ziwen replaced Soong Meiling and signed the Declaration on behalf of China.

Before Soong Ziwen signed, Roosevelt personally told him that as an encouragement for Madame Chiang's heroic performance, the US and British governments were willing to immediately abolish consular jurisdiction and other relevant privileges in China.

As a result, after a short period of negotiations, a week later, the Sino-US treaty and exchange of letters on the abolition of the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the United States in China and the handling of relevant issues were signed by Soong Ziwen and Hull at the White House on behalf of the two countries. On the same day, the Chinese and British treaties and exchanges of letters on the abolition of Britain's extraterritoriality in China and related treaties and exchanges of letters were still signed by Soong Ziwen, and the above two treaties are usually referred to as the "New Treaty of Equality between China and the United States" and the "New Treaty of Equality between China and Britain".

While Roosevelt and Churchill were consolidating international forces and seeking political and military superiority over the Axis powers, the situation in the Middle East and North Africa deteriorated rapidly.

In mid-April, Rommel led the German-Italian army, and after converging with the troops landing in Alexandria, he immediately launched an attack with the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves, and he divided his army into two routes, and the southern army swept across the lower Nile plains, linking the cities of Damanhur, Tanta, and Benha, and captured Cairo, the capital of Egypt, on May 1.

The army of the northern route, along the coastline of the Mediterranean, pocketed the port cities of Idku, Rosetta, Batim, and Damietta, and captured Port Said at the northern end of the Suez Canal on May 4, and joined forces with the Axis *** team with the main force of the Japanese army from Jerusalem and the Sinai Peninsula.

In the early morning of 9 May, a German division from Cairo arrived at Suez and captured the extremely important canal city that the Allies had just abandoned without bloodshed.

After the German team occupied the city of Suez, it immediately strengthened its control over the Suez Canal, and the 190-kilometer channel was all controlled by the Germans. Since then, the Germans have successfully completed their operations in North Africa and turned the Mediterranean sea east of Sicily into the Inland Sea of the Axis powers.

On 13 May, just when Roosevelt and Churchill judged that Rommel would halt his advance, the German-Italian forces of North Africa led by him unexpectedly appeared in Wadi Halfa, an important town on the border between Egypt and Sudan, and after a fierce battle, again defeated Jan Anderson. Christian. The Allied forces under the command of Marshal Shi had firmly controlled the military airfield that Britain had painstakingly built to accommodate large four-engine bombers.

On the other side of the Red Sea, on the morning of the 15th, the Axis forces occupied Jeddah, an important city on the Arabian Peninsula, and the city of Mecca, the holiest site in Islam.

The Allied forces on the right bank of the Red Sea, in Saudi Arabia, retreated all the way south to the port of Aden at the mouth of the Red Sea, where the main force of the British Mediterranean Fleet retreated.

The Saudi royal family, which was overwhelmed by the Japanese army and moved its capital from Riyadh to Mecca, had no choice but to flee south again, and retreated to the Hejaz Mountains area in one go, relying on the complex terrain and landforms there to fight guerrillas. After continuous battles, the entire royal army has shrunk to more than 900 people.

The strength of the Allied forces in the Middle East was almost completely destroyed.

In this extremely unfavorable situation, Roosevelt and Churchill met with An Yi again and asked him for help.

I haven't seen him for a few days, Churchill is a lot haggard, his eyes are red and swollen, like staring at a big light bulb, and with that puffy face, at first glance it looks quite shocking, I believe that Mr. Prime Minister doesn't need to wear makeup anymore when he starred in Hollywood horror movies.

The conference room of the White House had already been temporarily changed to Churchill's headquarters, and at this moment, dozens of British and American generals were gathered in front of the large combat sand table, shouting noisily.

In the small living room next to the conference room, a tired Roosevelt sat in a wheelchair, holding a magnifying glass in his right hand, looking at a large map of the Middle East and North Africa hanging on the wall from a distance. Hearing the steady footsteps behind him, he turned his head, saw that it was An Yi, and smiled reluctantly:

"Dear Ann, it's a pleasure to have you in the White House! I invite you here this time to talk to you about the return of Chinese cultural relics...... Last night, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and I decided that the Chinese cultural relics on display in the museums of the United States and Britain were unjust and incompatible with the war we are engaged in, and therefore decided to transfer these cultural relics to the South China government!

"However, there is a thorny problem now, as the airspace in the Mediterranean is completely controlled by the Axis ***, and the European continent has become the pasture of the Axis powers, it will be very difficult to send these items back to China by air from the United States and the United Kingdom. Therefore, we would like to ask you to send your air force to temporarily *** the airspace of North Africa and the Middle East. It's not long, maybe a week to ......"

An Yi was slightly stunned, figuring out the true meaning of Roosevelt's words.

With the relative balance of North Africa and the Middle East shattered by the invasion of the Axis powers, it is no longer the empire on which the sun once set that controls the region.

The South China government has become an increasingly important voice in the political situation in the Middle East and North Africa.

As a model, the Persian government, which was single-handedly supported by South China, worked well.

Reza. After Khan abdicated the throne, Muhammad. Reza. Pahlavi became the king of Persia, and a group of officials who received half a year's civil service training in South China were appointed as prime ministers, court ministers, defense ministers, and interior ministers. Khan's religious reforms and other measures.

According to the agreement, Nanhua currently provides 50 million Chinese dollars to the Persian royal family every year to make up for the loss of Persian oil fields in the Khuzestan region, and at the same time, through joint ventures and joint ventures, it also helps Persia build mines, factories, department stores, and highways to improve the transportation conditions in various places, and at the same time provides help in agricultural science and technology. Greatly increased the grain reserves of Persia.

Since the South Chinese army was stationed in the border area to help Persia defend against threats from the Soviet Union and Turkey, the main role of the three divisions of the Persian army, which is now being trained, is to maintain local law and order. From the beginning of its formation, the new Persian army completely copied the model of the Anjia army, advocating that the relationship between the military and the people is the relationship between fish and water, and the garrison must take the initiative to help the people build bridges and pave roads, carry water and repair houses for the orphans and widows, which was praised by the people, and the position of the Persian royal family was greatly consolidated.

The current situation in Persia has a huge attraction for the rest of the Middle East.

Since Cairo was threatened by the Axis forces, the royal families and governments of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Transjordan, Qatar, and Oman have moved to Tehran, on the one hand, to inspect the political and economic operation of Persia nearby, and on the other hand, to obtain the commitment of the South China government to help it establish a state.

Combined with the battle reports of the past few days, An Yi vaguely understood Roosevelt's true intentions, he smiled and walked to the side of the American president who was full of expectations, looked into the eyes of the old man, and said in an extremely sincere tone:

"Mr. Franklin, we're friends, aren't we? Doesn't the kindness we showed in rescuing the Philippine troops prove our friendship? Naturally, I welcome the return of our lost cultural relics by your country and the United Kingdom, but I still want to know the real reason for sending the Air Force to the airspace of North Africa and the Middle East, okay? ”

Roosevelt sighed, turned his head and looked at Churchill, who was striding from the side of the map.

Churchill reversed his unruly posture and said to An Yi with a solemn expression:

"The Middle East forces led by General Wavell were suppressed by the Axis *** in Abu Zaimai Mah, Wadi Faran, Tours and Sharm el-Sheikh south of the Suez Canal and south of the Sinai Peninsula. Although the Tich Plateau and Mount Catherine area of the Sinai Peninsula are easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the Axis *** team, which has the advantage of troops, cannot be conquered for the time being, because the Luftwaffe has sent a large number of fighters into North Africa and the Middle East to fight, the Axis powers have air supremacy in this region, so that our navy cannot penetrate deep into the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba to rescue the army.

"At present, nearly 200,000 Allied troops are crammed into this land of less than 10,000 square kilometers, and there are already serious difficulties in supply. The Royal Air Force had to deal with German operations in Britain and Gibraltar and North Africa and the Middle East at the same time, and it was simply unable to deploy redundant fighters to maintain air supremacy over the Sinai Peninsula.

"General Ahn, we very much need the Forces nouvelles to take control of the airspace over the Red Sea in place of the Royal Air Force, as long as we give our Navy a week or so to safely evacuate all troops from the Sinai Peninsula. In other words, we need your help very badly, my dearest ally! ”

An Yi frowned, looked up at the map of the Middle East and North Africa, and pondered for a long time before breaking the silence: "With all due respect, if you want to control the airspace in the Red Sea region, then you must build enough military airfields in the central and eastern regions of the Arabian Peninsula. After occupying the coastal areas of the Persian Gulf, I immediately sent our army deep into the desert and successively captured Riyadh, Buraidah, Hail and other places, but unfortunately the above areas were burned to the ground by the Japanese army, and there were naked bones everywhere.

"What is particularly important is that the Japanese troops stationed in these places have not been completely annihilated, and a small number of troops have fled into the vast desert, playing hide and seek with us, and we will jump out and shoot cold guns if we are not caught off guard, and we have not completely controlled the central and eastern regions of the Arabian Peninsula from beginning to end. If we want to build airfields and send troops to defend the above areas, we can't do it without an army of 20,000 or 30,000, and our logistical pressure will be very great!

"Finally, the German and Italian air forces have at least 1,000 fighters in North Africa and the Middle East, which means that we have to invest at least twice as many to completely expel German fighters. In the event of an air war of this magnitude, a major land war will not necessarily break out in the border areas controlled by our side and Syria and Turkey controlled by the Axis powers.

"Therefore, I have one condition: if we come forward to resolve this matter, I hope that in the future Britain and the United States will recognize our special interests in the Persian Gulf!"

Roosevelt and Churchill looked at each other, unable to understand why An Yi would make such a request. You must know that the area mentioned by An Yi is full of deserts and Gobi, especially most places along the west coast of the Persian Gulf, there is not even an oasis, known as the forbidden area of life.

Since the twenties, countries have suffered successive failures in oil exploration in the Middle East, and now most of the Arab region still exists in the form of tribes, which can be described as poor and white, mainly living on fishing and industry and commerce.

An Yi saw that Roosevelt and Churchill were in deep thought, and couldn't help but be stunned, saying that he was still in a hurry, would Roosevelt and Churchill find clues from it?

He thought for a moment, and added: "I must control the Persian Gulf...... Now that there are three million Jewish immigrants in South China, I promised the Zionists to help them recover in the Middle East after the war, and the Jews demanded that we must have a territory in the Middle East and be able to take care of them nearby, so as to deter those Arab countries and reduce their hostility towards them.

"Since the beginning of the war, the Jews have provided us with a lot of money, materials and technology, and it stands to reason that we must fulfill our promises! Of course, those desert areas are not completely useless to us, and we are ready to make a unified plan to build layers of pumping pipelines in the two river basins to divert the water of the Shatt al-Arab River to the dry desert areas, and if we can't invest in the construction of seawater desalination treatment plants, those deserts and the Gobi Desert, with water sources, will soon become fertile land. ”

The corners of Churchill's mouth curled, and he felt that An Yi was too whimsical. But it is better that the construction of such a huge project will bring down the country's economy, and then the British Empire will use pro-British people to incite ethnic hatred in the Arab region, and the British power can return to the Middle East.

For Roosevelt, it didn't matter who controlled the Middle East, anyway, the American power had never been involved there, so he didn't feel anything bad.

“ok！”

Churchill nodded heavily: "I can agree to your conditions, but this is clearly contrary to the spirit of the "Three Kingdoms Charter", I don't know how you deal with it?" ”

An Yi said with a smile: "With the fall of the Middle East and North Africa, most of the royal families and government members of those tribes have now moved from Cairo to Tehran. I have decided to help these Arabs to establish their state on the Arabian Sea coast and in the Hejaz, Rub al-Khali and other regions. We will promise to give some financial compensation, and even help them build a sound industrial and agricultural system for free! Of course, some countries will make some sacrifices, but in the current context of solidarity against the Axis powers, I think this is just a minor issue, what do you think? ”

Roosevelt can't control so much now, as long as he can rescue the Allied forces surrounded by the Axis ***, any conditions are negotiable. After the United States and Britain agreed on an overall strategy, the Army General Staff was considering sending reinforcements to the British mainland to conduct training and at the same time defend against possible landing operations launched by Germany.

In addition, the United States is also preparing to send a fleet from the Atlantic Ocean into the Indian Ocean to attack the island of Madagascar and its surrounding areas, in order to attract Japanese reinforcements from the Pacific region and reduce the pressure on Australia.

According to the concept of the top US political leaders, it will be a year before the US team will have the ability to launch a counterattack in North Africa, and the ideal landing location is Dakar in French West Africa, and it will take one to two years to burn the flames of war to the Libyan border, gradually recover Libya, Egypt, the Middle East and other places, and then wait for an opportunity to land on the European continent.

And all of this is premised on the premise that there must be enough allies to fight against the Axis, and not to throw the hastily organized and seriously undertrained US military into a brutal war of attrition.

"Ann, I promise you that the reconstruction of the Middle East after the war will mainly respect your opinion. If you don't feel at ease, we can sign an agreement, and I think that should show our sincerity! ”

At this point, Roosevelt turned the subject back again: "Ann, I wonder how many warplanes you are going to use to control the airspace over the Red Sea and the Sinai Peninsula?" Also, how much time can I complete the assembly of fighters? ”

An Yi's face returned to seriousness, he thought for a while, and said:

"As I analyzed earlier, it is necessary to mobilize more than 2,000 fighters, as for the time, I can only say that I try my best, usually a week is enough, and before that, maybe the allies in the Sinai Peninsula will endure the suffering of hunger...... Mr. President, the situation is now extremely complicated, and there is a possibility that a major war between South China and Germany will break out because of this...... I would like to ask you to attend my wedding as the officiant, and then I will return to China with my new wife to take command of the battle. What do you think? ”

A smile appeared on Roosevelt's face: "Ann, bless you!" I will definitely be on time! The cultural relics I want to return will be given in the form of congratulatory gifts, so that everyone can get by. What do you say, Winston? ”

"That's good!"

Churchill was demanding, so he let go of his usual high profile. And he has a selfish intention, if the German army and the South Chinese army can be pinched, then the situation of the British army in the southern Arabian Peninsula and East Africa will quickly improve, the British team said that it may not be able to profit from it, once Germany and South China are both defeated, the British team can go north to recover the lost territory, and then all agreements will be overturned and restarted.

In state-to-state relations, only strength can have the right to speak. Churchill had already begun to imagine the scene of the South China army being crushed by the Axis coalition forces, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but show a hint of a smile, looking at An Yi's eyes, a little more mockery.

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