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Chapter 1815 Another Wedding

After the Axis *** won the war in North Africa and the Middle East, Germany's power reached unprecedented heights in history, and Hitler's prestige was unprecedentedly high. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In response to the "Three Nations Charter" issued by the United States, Britain, and South China and the "Declaration of the United Nations" signed by more than 20 countries thereafter, Hitler convened envoys from Italy and China, plus diplomats from Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Greece, Norway, Finland, Turkey, Denmark and puppet countries controlled by the United States, and also held a huge signing ceremony.

The new Axis Treaty stipulated: all Axis powers fought together until victory was won; No single armistice or peace shall be entered into by any of the High Contracting Parties without unanimous consent; After the end of the war, Germany, Italy, and Japan should work closely together to build a fair and reasonable world.

The treaty also clarified the areas of operation of Germany, Italy and China, as well as the ultimate goal, pointing out that after the victory in Asia, Europe, Africa and Oceania respectively, the German and Japanese forces will work together to capture the United States, Canada, and Mexico, while the German and Italian forces will capture South America!

With the signing of the ambitious and murderous Axis Entente, Hitler was no longer satisfied with what he had achieved. In his opinion, after the conquest of the Balkans, the Middle East and North Africa, the next operational target had to be the Soviet Union.

There were several reasons for attacking the Soviet Union: first, the Soviet Union bordered Germany on land, and it was necessary to use the army and air force without crossing the sea, which was precisely to Germany's strengths and avoid its weaknesses;

Second, the United States and Britain were colluding with the Soviet Union. German intelligence officers reported that American and British diplomats frequently frequented the Kremlin and that it was highly likely that some kind of agreement had been reached with Stalin. Considering the heavy forces deployed by the Soviet Union on the other side of the border, it cannot be ruled out that they may attack at any time. Rather than being passive in defense when the enemy attacks, threatening the security of Poland and the Czech industrial areas, it is better to strike first, ignite the flames of war into the enemy's hinterland, and seize the initiative;

Third, the Soviet Union is now in the midst of a civil war, and at this time Germany suddenly launched an attack, which has a certain degree of concealment and suddenness. More than four months have passed since the Soviets launched a campaign to retake the Urals and Siberia in January. With the elongation of the battle line and the lack of logistics, all the Soviet troops fell into passivity, especially Kazan, which was like a magnet, attracting about five or six hundred thousand Soviet troops. At present, the Far Eastern Republic is launching a counteroffensive on a number of fronts, and it is unlikely that the Soviet troops on the Eastern Front will be withdrawn back to the Western Front in a short time;

Fourth, Britain was now exhausted, and the United States was just armed, and it was unlikely that a second theater would open for a long time, so it was necessary to seize the opportunity to strike on the Eastern Front as a continuation and extension of the Polish campaign. Hitler had no doubt about the weakness of the Soviet Union, for two things had been unmistakably proven: the disgraceful defeat of the Soviet Union in Finland, and the Soviet Union dared to give only verbal warnings without taking any substantive action when Germany invaded the Balkans and Turkey joined the Axis powers to threaten the Soviet Union's traditional sphere of influence.

Fifth, the existence of the Soviet Union gave Britain the confidence to continue to resist to a certain extent. Once Germany defeated the Soviet Union with its superior army and air force, Germany not only greatly broadened its strategic depth and gained a permanent source of food supply, but also dealt a blow to the illusions of Britain, the United States and other countries. After incorporating the territory of the Soviet Union into its territory, Germany, which integrated the resources of the whole of Europe, took the British Isles and the Azores, so that the United States lost a springboard for landing in Europe, which was just around the corner.

In addition to these reasons, Hitler was obsessed with the elimination of Bolshevism. In his autobiography "Mein Kampf" in the twenties, he wrote: "We are national nationalists, and we must consciously change the course of our pre-war foreign policy, eliminate Germany's long-standing objectives in southern and western Europe, and set our sights on the East...... But when we speak of the new territories of Europe today, we are first and foremost referring to Soviet Russia and the client states under its control. ”

At a recent high-level meeting of the Nazi Party, Hitler declared: "The Bolsheviks have never been and will never be our friends." The battle that is about to begin is a war to cut through the roots. If Germany had not acted in this spirit, it would have been able to defeat the enemy, but in the next thirty years it would have made a comeback against Germany. ”

A week earlier, in a meeting with Heydrich, the third man in the Nazi Party, Hitler had revealed: "The vastness of Russia has endless treasures. Germany, if not able to take possession of it, must at least use it politically and economically. By doing so, Germany would be able to challenge the whole world in victory. ”

In addition, due to the successive victories in the attacks on Western Europe, Southern Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, the German High Command and the generals of the land, sea and air forces generally believed that Germany was now at its military peak and that the timing was extremely favorable. Field Marshal Brauchitsch, in a secret audience with Hitus, declared that Germany would defeat the 50 to 70 weak divisions of the Russian army on the Western Front in four to six weeks with less than 100 divisions, and he suggested that the war against the Soviet Union should be immediately followed by the end of the war in the Middle East and North Africa.

In order to thoroughly unify the thinking of the army and determine the direction of the main attack in the next step, on 16 May, Hitler held consultations with the generals of the General Staff and the Supreme High Command of the German Army in the Wolf's Lair.

The rigor of the Germans was world-famous, and they conducted a series of military maneuvers and map exercises in front of Hitler to prove the feasibility of war. Who knew that it would backfire, and as a result, most of the generals felt that if they launched an attack on the Soviet Union, there would be difficulties in space and manpower.

The so-called spatial difficulties mean that the geographical environment of the Soviet Union was extremely unfavorable for operations. Following the partition of Poland by the two countries the year before last, last year the Soviet Union successively annexed the three Baltic countries and occupied the southern part of Finland, the border line between Germany and the Soviet Union was gradually determined, it began on the Baltic Sea coast of Memer, extended along the old East Prussia-Lithuanian border, and then entered Poland westward, forming a prominent arc, and then extended westward to Brest to Litovsk, and then continued to extend southward until the Hungarian border, this border line is more than 700 kilometers long.

And the Ukrainian-Romanian border runs along the Prut River to the Black Sea, which is about 450 kilometers long. Finally, Turkey has long and narrow borders in Georgia and Armenia in Transcaucasia, and these can serve as the main direction of assault.

In the territory of the Soviet Union, in the western center of the European part, that is, southeast of the border between Brest and Rytovsk, there is a vast swampy area about 150 miles wide from north to south and more than 300 miles long. With the exception of one or two roads built on the causeway, there are few access roads in the area, and in some places it is densely wooded, which becomes a natural obstacle for tanks, armoured vehicles and motorcycles.

In the Belarusian region, north of the Pripyat marshes, although the situation is much better, there are problems. There is a direct communication line to Minsk, Orsha, Smolensk and Moscow, between Orsha and Moscow, the road on both sides of the road is open, and there are no river barriers, it is called the Orsha Land Bridge, it is the gate to Moscow, the road between the two water barriers of the Western Dvina and the Dnieper. The German soldiers would first have to cross more than 55 miles of dense forest to reach the Orsha land bridge, and these forest roads would make it impossible for the troops to organize their defenses and attacks as if they were through funnel holes.

In the Baltic region, there are several roads from East Prussia to Leningrad via the Baltic States, but the quality of the roads is extremely poor. In addition to the Neman River and the Great Narva River, there are many swampy areas and dense forests that can be daunting. The Valdai Hills between Leningrad and Moscow and their environs, wooded and swampy, were not conducive to the movement of armored troops.

The generals also proposed that the hinterland of the USSR was funnel-shaped, and that the deeper the breakthrough, the more open the front became, and that the front of 1,300 miles at the beginning would rapidly expand to 2,000 or even 3,000 miles. Unless the Soviets were annihilated near the border west of the Lake Bepass-Minsk-Kiev line, the Germans would not have enough strength to hold the widening front as they penetrated deep into the hinterland.

The commander-in-chief of the reserve army, Fromm, expressed his opinion that it would be very difficult to supply a force of six or seven million men, nearly a million horses, in a vast area. What's more, there are very few roads in this area, and the railways cannot be directly reached, because the Soviets have wider rails than those used in Germany and Central European countries.

In addition, the current logistical situation of the troops is not good, although the just-concluded Middle East and North Africa operations have not many troops, but the continuous operations have consumed huge supplies, and there is a great shortage of tanks, armored vehicles, and motorcycles, although they have occupied the oil-producing areas of Libya and Egypt, it will take three to five months to convert them into fuel, and the stock of oil can only support half a year's use, and because of the lack of natural rubber and synthetic rubber, tires have also become a problem.

Through this deduction, the commander-in-chief of the army, Brauchitsch, was taken aback, he did not expect that the majestic Wehrmacht would have so many problems. He thought for a moment and asked: "My Führer, may I ask if the Air Force is capable of supporting operations on the Western, Eastern and Southern Fronts at the same time?" ”

Hitler hesitated and looked at Goering. Goering immediately replied: "No problem, if the war against the USSR is not prolonged, the Air Force will be able to fight on three fronts!" ”

Brauchitsch frowned and fell silent.

"If the Soviet Union is to be attacked, the main direction of the assault of Army Group Center should be Moscow, without the slightest ambiguity, and at the same time the flanks must be equipped with strong armored forces to cope with flank attacks from the Baltics or Ukraine," said the Chief of Staff of the Army, General Halder, who was to attack the Soviet Union. ”

Hitler smiled confidently: "The purpose of the war against the Soviet Union was to defend the territory of the Reich from the attack of the sky and land, and to protect the industrial areas of Berlin and Silesia, which required distance and depth, so that the shattered Soviet Union became a number of unarmed socialist provinces, from the Polish border to the Volga, all garrisoned and ruled by the Germans." The primitive lands east of the Volga, frozen Siberia, were left to the weakened Far Eastern Republics as a buffer against the South China Republics. We want to make sure that from anywhere in Eurasia, no bomber will be able to fly to Germany. ”

Later, Hitler further added: "According to my speculation, after the start of the war, the Soviet Union will hold on to the Baltic Sea and Ukraine, because there are seaports there, which are economically vital, and for the center, Stalin will be generous." Therefore, the armored flanks of Army Group Center, to prepare for the Baltic Sea to the north and Ukraine to the south. ”

Seeing that Hitler had made up his mind, the generals praised it in unison, saying that it was a great plan, and Brauchitsch and Halder, on the basis of reserving their own opinions, followed Hitler's instructions and quickly began to formulate a battle plan.

On 19 May, in the name of the Commander-in-Chief of the German Armed Forces, Hitler issued a new operational directive -- the Barbarossa Plan.

According to the plan, the German armed forces must completely defeat the Soviet Union in a quick campaign before preparing for the end of the war against Britain, and the preparations must be completed by the 15th of next month.

In this plan, developed on Hitler's own initiative, the attack on the Soviet Union was divided into two stages:

In the first stage, the army of the Western Military District of the USSR was first destroyed by the method of surprise attack, and then, under the cover of the Air Force, with the tank units as the lead, drove straight into the hinterland of the Soviet Union.

In the European direction, the offensive route was divided into southern, northern, and central routes, and Army Group North, with a total of 29 divisions, under the cover of more than 1,000 aircraft, set out from East Prussia and took Leningrad through Dvinsk and Ostrov;

Army Group Center, consisting of fifty-one divisions, under the cover of 1,600 aircraft, set out from the east of Warsaw and attacked Moscow via Brest, Minsk, and Smolensk;

Army Group South of sixty-three divisions, under the cover of 1,400 aircraft, spread out in the area from Lulinburg to the mouth of the Danube, attacking Kyiv and then towards the Donbass.

In the Asian direction, the Turkish group, consisting of 16 divisions, supplemented by 40 Turkish brigades, crossed the border under the cover of 1,100 aircraft, entered the Transcaucasian republics of the Soviet Union, and seized the Baku oil field, the most important oil-producing area of the Soviet Union, at the first time.

In the second stage, Army Group attacked the Soviet reserves and occupied Arkhangelsk, Stalingrad and Astrakhan, which would become Germany's eastern border.

This was a grand plan that Hitler had single-handedly directed, and even Heydrich was excluded. Only nine copies of the plan were printed, one for each of the three armies, which were collected by the commander, and the rest were kept in the Supreme High Command. Hitler instructed that the number of officers involved in this secret be as small as possible, otherwise there would be a risk that the preparations would be leaked, leading to the most serious consequences, both politically and militarily.

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May 21, the Chinese lunar calendar Gengchen year Xin Si Yue Jiazi Day, the twenty-four solar terms of the Xiaoman, the almanac said that this day is suitable for marriage, collection, sacrifice, prayer, travel, etc., belongs to the zodiac auspicious day.

The sun is shining in Los Angeles.

At 12 o'clock at noon, An Yi held a banquet at the Holiday Inn to entertain domestic and foreign guests.

Just three hours ago, An Yi applied for a marriage certificate with Lin Xiaotong and Lin Xiaoran sisters. In order to avoid conflict with U.S. law, a government official in An Yi's entourage was authorized by the civil affairs department of Xinjing to issue a legally valid marriage certificate. Subsequently, the well-dressed An Yi, accompanied by two women in plain white wedding dresses, a luxury convoy composed of 50 cars, paraded around Los Angeles City for a week, during which they took photos in Santa Monica Beach, Hollywood, Rose Hill and other places.

After returning to the hotel, An Yi secretly received Mrs. Meir, a congratulatory representative sent by the Jewish Freemasonry.

American Jews in the thirties were not in a good position. Abroad, Germany began to crack down on Jews from the beginning of Hitler's rise to power, and carried out large-scale, top-down, and pervasive persecution of Jews in the political, economic, and cultural fields.

The outbreak of the economic crisis of the thirties provided a breeding ground for international anti-Semitism. Because Jews have a special position in the city and financial undertakings, many Americans put the blame for the economic decline of the United States on the Jews, such as the automobile king Ford has been sparing no effort to advocate that the Jews have the ambition to use their economic leadership to dominate the world, and politicians in various states are also willing to put the blame on the Jews, so countless anti-Semitic groups were born in the United States, and there have been endless incidents of attacks and violence against Jews.

Most American Jews, fearing losing their jobs and not wanting to expose their Jewishness by opposing anti-Semitic atrocities at home and abroad, have had to privately admit that they are Jewish, but in public they disguise their Jewish identity by changing their names so that they don't sound like them. The Jewish giants of the Hollywood film industry have the ability to influence the American people on behalf of the Jews through the films they produce, but they believe that prudence is better than foolishness, and they are unwilling to make unnecessary sacrifices.

Therefore, in fact, the Jewish Freemasonry in the thirties was still a secret underground organization in the United States, and it was difficult to show its face in public, which was also an important reason why An Yi did not visit the leaders of the Jewish Freemasonry after arriving in the United States for more than a month.

This time, taking the opportunity of the wedding celebration to gather guests, Mrs. Meir rushed to Los Angeles, and after extending her wedding blessings to An Yi, she made a request for the Jewish troops, which had recently been expanded from regiments to divisions, to fight for South China in the next round of the war against Japan.

An Yi did not refuse, saying that this "Jewish division" was trained in full accordance with the standards of An Jiajun and could be sent to the battlefield at any time. However, at present, the division and regimental commanders of the "Jewish Division" are all Nanhua generals, and only below the battalion commander level have some Jewish commanders, so he asked the Freemasons to send experienced generals and colonels to serve as deputy for the time being, and when the command skills are mature in the future, all the troops will be handed over to the management of the Jews.

Meirf *** was overjoyed and said that the matter would be resolved in the near future, saying that if nothing else, the Freemasons would send the chairman of the Zionist Executive Committee and the chairman of the Executive Committee of the Jewish Chargé d'Affaires. Root. The Gurion would go to South China to learn to take command of this hopefully hopeful force.

After the meeting with Mrs. Meir, the time for the wedding celebration was almost up.

An Yi apologized and left, and in the conference hall of the hotel, met with US President Roosevelt and his wife Anna. Eleanor, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Foreign Minister Song Ziwen of the Nanjing Government, King George of Greece, King Peter of Yugoslavia and other prominent dignitaries, after all the heavyweight guests arrived, they were sent to the banquet hall where the wedding banquet will be held soon.

The clock struck twelve o'clock, and the wedding sonata began to be heard in the sound system of the hotel's banquet hall.

As the festive salute sounded near the hotel, An Yi held Lin Xiaotong with his left hand and Lin Xiaoran with his right hand, surrounded by a group of children, stepped on the red carpet and walked into the banquet hall, walked to the rostrum in the middle, and accepted the blessings of relatives and friends.

In the banquet hall, the banquet hall was full, and there were more than 500 wine tables outside the hotel and in the nearby square, and more than 4,000 representatives from all walks of life in the United States attended An Yi's wedding, which was unprecedented.

The wedding master of ceremonies is Vivien Leigh, who starred in "Gone with the Wind", as a contracted actor of Lightning Films, one of the three major film companies under Meiya Media, she naturally knows the weight of the newcomer, so when hosting, sometimes talking and laughing, playful and funny, sometimes serious, and full of sincerity and blessings between her words.

When Roosevelt was in a wheelchair, Mrs. Anna. When Eleanor appeared on the podium under the push, the audience was in a sensation.

Roosevelt, as the officiant, wished An Yi and his twin sisters to grow old and give birth to a noble son early, and then Roosevelt made an impromptu speech, expounding the positive significance of the friendship between the United States and South China, and saying that he would continue to promote the rapid development of relations between the two countries during his presidential term.

The whole wedding ceremony lasted for 40 minutes, and many Americans were amazed at this kind of wedding style, while most unmarried Chinese young people were very envious of this wedding format and prepared to do it in the future.

After the wedding, An Yi's trip to the United States was a complete success.

Due to the tense situation in the world, An Yi did not stay in Los Angeles for long, and after accompanying Roosevelt, Churchill and others back to Washington, he returned to China on a special plane with his two newlywed wives and a delegation.

History has opened a new chapter.

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