Chapter 610: Marching into Europe

In the past four years, Zhang Xinghan has benefited from the assistance of outstanding figures in the Communist Party and the Kuomintang in political affairs, and has carried out the foundation of immigration with great success. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

And in the military aspect, the Chinese army has also achieved very great development results.

First of all, on the naval side, after these four years of precious development opportunities, the Chinese Navy has not only reorganized the two fleets that it had lost before.

A new fleet was added, so that the Chinese Navy now has its 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th fleets, each of which has grown to a huge scale with two aircraft carrier battle groups, hundreds of jet carrier-based aircraft, and nearly 300 battleships, destroyers, cruisers, and other large and small ships.

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Moreover, in order to form an aircraft carrier battle group and enable the major fleets to form a perfect offensive and defensive combat capability, Zhang Xinghan assigned the submarine forces, which were originally independent of each fleet and subordinate to the dual leadership of the Navy Command and the Military Commission, into the operational sequence of the four fleets.

Therefore, the four major fleets of the Chinese Navy are equipped with such a huge underwater force as more than 500 XXI submarines.

The current combat missions and areas of responsibility of the four major fleets of the Chinese Navy are as follows.

As a result of the defeat of the British and American forces in the Pacific four years ago, the Chinese navy captured all the overseas military bases of the British and American forces in the eastern and western Pacific from the Strait of Malacca to the Hawaiian Islands.

The Bering Strait to the north, with the reconquest of Sakhalin Island, also fell into the sphere of influence of the Chinese Navy and Air Force, and has now become China's northernmost inland sea.

As a result, the South China Sea, the Sea of Japan, the East China Sea, and the Yellow Sea have all become inland seas of the Chinese Navy.

Therefore, the 1st Fleet of the Chinese Navy, which was originally stationed in the Taiwan Strait, is now stationed in Australia, and jointly controls the Indian Ocean with the 2nd Fleet stationed in the Persian Gulf.

The 2nd Naval Fleet is based in Mumbai, India, as well as on the island of Sri Lanka in the south, and on the island of Madagascar in southeastern Africa and in the western Indian Ocean.

The 3rd Naval Fleet moved eastward from its base in the Japanese archipelago to the Hawaiian Islands, more than 6,000 nautical miles away.

The Dove occupies the magpie's nest and is based on the U.S. military facilities in the Hawaiian Islands. It forms China's outermost defense chain in the Northeast Pacific.

At the same time, more than 100,000 troops are stationed in the Hawaiian Islands along with the Navy's 3rd Fleet to defend the island's land.

The 100,000 army forces are independently assigned to more than 200 large and small ships and warships, thousands of large and small artillery pieces, and 200 land-based jet fighters for island defense warfare.

The Fourth Fleet, which had just been established two years earlier, was used as a naval mobile force and remained in Taiwan, China, and the Japanese-occupied archipelago.

In addition, in the Bering Strait to the north, there is also a separate mixed fleet of the Navy, which does not have an aircraft carrier battle group, and is mainly dominated by battleships such as the new Huo Quai. Forming a sea force.

Its main role is to maintain the security of the territorial waters and airspace of the Chinese nation in the Bering Strait and the Sea of Okhotsk.

The second is to cooperate with the 3rd Fleet to enter the North Pacific and launch an attack on the west coast of the United States when needed.

As for the air force, in order to form aircraft carrier battle groups of major fleets, plus future operations, sea-based aviation units will be the protagonists.

Therefore, Zhang Xinghan leaned his focus towards the navy, and compared with the navy, the expansion of the air force was not large.

Only a thousand land-based combat aircraft were added to the original base. They are used for the presence of air forces in Sakhalin, the Hawaiian Islands, and the Persian Gulf in the Middle East.

The rest of the fighters were deployed in mainland China and land-based airfields in the newly occupied Indochina Peninsula and Southeast Asian islands.

Thus, the total number of land-based fighters of the Chinese Air Force is around four thousand, which is worth mentioning. Among them are nearly two thousand HE262 jet fighters.

In addition to this, there are more than a thousand helicopters, two thousand multi-transport aircraft and more than two thousand heavy and medium-sized bombers.

Plus sea-based aviation, Chinese aircraft at this time (including fighters, transport aircraft. bombers, helicopters) the total number has already exceeded ten thousand.

On the army side, the number of tanks and armored vehicles has also increased to more than eight thousand. Among them, Zhang Xinghan produced a batch of Leopard tanks that were more advanced than the No. 4 tank, with a number of about 2,000 units.

In terms of individual weapons, after four years of all-out efforts, the originally backward southwestern frontier guards (mainly the Central Army, the Gui Army, the Sichuan Army, and the Dian Army) have basically replaced more advanced semi-automatic rifles and a certain proportion of submachine guns.

The level of armament of the troops is basically the same as that of Zhang Xinghan's Northeast Frontier Army six years ago.

As the troops dispatched to Japan by their own descendants (the former Northeast Frontier Army, the North China Army, which was later absorbed and reorganized, and some elite units of the Central Army), the weapons and equipment of the Siberian garrison and the Australian garrison were more advanced.

The main weapons of the infantry have also been replaced by the more advanced MP40 submachine gun and the STG44 assault rifle (i.e., the MP44 assault rifle) from the original American semi-automatic rifle and MP38 submachine gun.

The 3,000 latest Leopard tanks were basically all given priority to Wang Yizhe, Gao Chu, Huang Xiansheng, Du Ting, Wang Tiehan and other departments.

At this time, the total strength of the Chinese Army had exceeded 8 million, and Zhang Xinghan's descendants had reached more than 4 million.

And it has a huge logistics supply system, that is, the Northeast Arsenal (the former Shenyang Arsenal, after years of development, has expanded to the only one in China that can mass-produce a variety of modern individual weapons, such as semi-automatic rifles, submachine guns, machine guns, various artillery, and No. 4 tank and other armored vehicles).

North China Arsenal (formerly Taiyuan Arsenal, although the scale and production capacity are not as good as the Shenyang Arsenal, but also under the strong support of Zhang Xinghan, it has become the second military enterprise in China that can produce all individual weapons and small-caliber artillery except tanks and armored vehicles, second only to the Shenyang Arsenal. )

The Central Plains Arsenal and the Jiangnan Arsenal were expanded from the original Hanyang Arsenal and Jinling Arsenal respectively.

The main thing is the production of individual weapons and some ammunition for the South-Western Border Guards and part of the North-Western Border Guards.

In addition, the Central Plains Arsenal also shoulders an important mission, that is, the production of military trucks for the transportation of materials.

These four arsenals, which represent the military industrial base of the Chinese nation, are all under the control of Zhang Xinghan, because Zhang Xinghan at this time controlled the huge financial revenues of the whole of China and foreign wars.

Therefore, updating the weapons and equipment of other non-descendant troops and improving their combat effectiveness will not pose any threat to Zhang Xinghan.

They all rely on Zhang Xinghan to survive. If there is no objection, once there is rebellion, Zhang Xinghan only needs to cut off their logistical supplies, and he can surrender without a fight.

This is not counting the huge navy and all the air force that Zhang Xinghan mastered.

In terms of the strength of the army alone, Zhang Xinghan is still the first in China, both in terms of quantity and quality.

Of course, the current Chinese nation has basically twisted into a rope under Zhang Xinghan's high-pressure mediation over the years, and the area under control has been constantly expanding.

The eyes of the leaders of many factions are not limited to the mainland of China in the past.

As long as Zhang Xinghan grasps the balance of the distribution of benefits from foreign expansion, then they will be happy to follow Zhang Xinghan. Anyway, if you can't fight it, it's better to expand the occupied area together and grab the inexhaustible endless war dividends.

The two blocs of Germany, Britain and the United States, have greatly weakened the war potential of these two blocs after four years of continuous war of attrition.

As I said before, the Americans possess a unique geographical advantage and strategic position, and are almost at the forefront of the times, so their war potential is very amazing.

However, before they could recover from the defeat in the Pacific War, the situation in Europe suddenly changed. and had to be involved in the war to aid Britain and resist Germany

As a result, their vast war potential is in a vicious cycle of immediate attrition, and they are never able to amass enough strength to strike a fatal blow at the enemy.

On the other hand, the German army was also uncomfortable, and the Anglo-American alliance caused the German army to suffer unprecedented losses and difficulties.

In order to be able to continue to compete with the British and American coalition forces. Hitler had to expropriate in other European occupation zones that had not been well digested in order to obtain the men, steel, oil, minerals, and food they needed.

This caused great disasters to the countries of Eastern and Western Europe in the German-controlled areas of Europe, and anti-German sentiment was growing day by day.

The economy of Europe as a whole is almost completely collapsed at the moment. Prices are skyrocketing, inflation is extremely high, and the lives of people everywhere are in unprecedented misery.

The United States and Britain are no better off there. The economy of the Americans has been regressing for at least a decade since the pre-war period, and the United Kingdom, as the main belligerent and belligerent region, has suffered even more.

Not only did the economy collapse completely, but the entire British Isles was almost in ruins.

Thanks to the support of China's submarine forces, the Germans inflicted great losses on the Anglo-American sea transport lines in the Atlantic.

On the other hand, in Asia, China has successively deployed troops to the Middle East and Africa in the past four years, but the Chinese mainland has enjoyed an extremely rare golden period of four years of peaceful development.

In fact, before this, because of Zhang Xinghan's promotion of the use of chemical fertilizers, the grain output of the vast number of farmers in the northeast region increased greatly and they were basically lifted out of poverty.

As a result, the four northeastern provinces have become the granary of Zhang Xinghan's foreign expeditions, and over the years, they have provided countless gold-grain in troubled times for the northeast athletes to conquer the south and the north.

After the completion of the substantial reunification of the Chinese nation, the success of the Northeast region began to be replicated in North China, East China, Central China and South China.

Generally speaking, it is basically impossible to replicate the prosperity of the Northeast region in such a short period of four years.

However, Zhang Xinghan has provided a huge boost to the leapfrog development of the entire Chinese nation, which includes resources, labor and money.

This help comes from the war dividends won by the Chinese Expeditionary Corps in the war of foreign expansion.

It divided the Soviet Union with Germany, monopolized the Japanese archipelago, the Goryeo Peninsula, the Indochina Peninsula, two-thirds of the Middle East, all the Southeast Asian islands and the huge area of Australia.

The war gains brought to the Chinese nation by these brilliant victories are extremely enormous.

Since ancient times, the risks and benefits of war have been directly proportional, and throughout the 5,000-year history of the Chinese nation, it is a huge volume of conquest, expansion, and integration.

I don't know how many nations have been wiped out in the vast river of time in history.

And what survived and prospered was to obtain extremely rich war gains.

Far from it, let's talk about the Sino-Japanese War between the Qing Dynasty and Japan in modern times.

Japan, the victorious party, not only allowed the Manchus to cede a large part of the country, but also received hundreds of millions of huge war reparations.

It was thanks to this huge war reparations that the Japanese quickly stepped into the ranks of the world's leading capitalist powers on the basis of the Meiji Restoration.

In just a few years. It defeated the old empire of Tsarist Russia at that time and became a veritable Asian hegemon and a world power.

It also laid the inducement for Japan's full-scale invasion of China in the future, which almost wiped out the Chinese nation.

It can be seen that the benefits of such a war are really great, and now Zhang Xinghan has defeated the Western capitalist empires such as Britain, the United States, France and the Netherlands through unprecedented largesse.

He seized the entire Asia-Pacific colony from his hands, and then conquered and destroyed Japan in the east, and it is the complete conquest and destruction of the Japanese imperialist regime.

This was far greater than the victory that Japan had won in the First Sino-Japanese War, and naturally. As the victorious country, China has also received more war dividends.

As for the colonies of the old empires in the Indochina Peninsula, the Middle East, and the Southeast Asian Islands, they have become free labor and material export bases for China to develop its own economy and industry.

According to incomplete statistics, in the past four years, under Zhang Xinghan's instructions and acquiescence, at least 50 million indigenous peoples from the Japanese archipelago, the Indochina Peninsula, and the Southeast Asian archipelago have been requisitioned for various kinds of work in China.

For example, mining, building railways, roads, airports, digging rivers and ditches. Dredging water conservancy and other projects.

It is worth mentioning that their work is unpaid, and the Chinese employers have carried forward the capitalist employment system even more vigorously on these foreign free laborers.

Free labor, no need for nothing.

Besides. Zhang Xinghan also transported all the products and minerals useful for domestic development from the above-mentioned areas back to China as much as possible.

The cost of transportation, because there is a myriad of free labor available, is also intimidatingly inexpensive.

With such great assistance and assistance, the speed of development of the Chinese nation is extremely astonishing.

Countless wastelands were quickly cleared by free labour. Grain output and cultivated land in various localities have doubled at a rate of dozens of times year after year.

In industry, countless large and small factories, enterprises and workshops have sprung up one after another.

With the support of the state, especially the military, these factories buy back the inexhaustible mineral resources of the occupied areas outside the countries and repatriate them for processing at extremely low costs.

Then it sells well all over the country. With the rise of industry, the rapid development of agriculture, and the improvement of people's living standards.

The Chinese nation's huge population and domestic demand advantage have begun to become prominent, and the industrial products produced in China can be digested by the domestic market without almost no need for export.

This cycle has led to more and more prosperity of the economy and the improvement of people's living standards.

Moreover, with the affluence of life, domestic merchants have begun to look for exports, such as food and various daily necessities that are in short supply in Europe.

And Zhang Xinghan only needs to collect commercial taxes and fees, and he has already obtained an extremely large fortune.

It has also brought about the development of agriculture, industry, and military industry in China, and has directly led to a blowout development of the Chinese nation's economy.

Compared with the poverty caused by war in Europe and the Americas, the Chinese nation is rapidly becoming prosperous and powerful by relying on huge war dividends.

With the rapid development of the domestic economy, there has been a backlog of various industrial and agricultural products after meeting domestic needs, and it is urgent to open up export trade to foreign countries and export all kinds of surplus goods to other places in short supply.

Zhang Xinghan has already sensed this sign, and with Britain, the United States, France, and Germany having fought for so many years, it is time to end the war and make a final blow to China's world hegemony.

Therefore, on September 18, 1940, on behalf of the Chinese nation, Zhang Xinghan officially announced to Britain, the United States, France, Germany and other countries that for the sake of world peace, an immediate truce would be made, and that the Chinese Navy and the Chinese Army and Air Force would be stationed in the Atlantic and Europe to mediate this world war. (To be continued......)