At the time when the Inner Mongolia Military Region won a decisive victory in the Northeast War, the Allied forces also won a major victory, and the World Anti-Fascist War ushered in a spring. 1 -- The first good news came from the Soviet-German battlefield, and Stalin was a bold leader, and despite Stalin's own shortcomings, the courage and perseverance shown by Stalin himself in this war were admirable. Compared with the insistence of the Soviet Union, it is a bit unbearable that France surrendered within four weeks. When the Inner Mongolia Military Region launched the Northeast Campaign, Stalin organized the army to launch the Belgorod-Kharkov offensive campaign, the Mga offensive campaign (Leningrad direction), the Smolensk offensive campaign, the Donbass offensive campaign, and the Chernigov-Poltava offensive campaign on the Eastern Front, which was good news for the Soviet Union, which needed a lot of Western assistance.

The next good news came from the North African battlefield, to be honest, Han Yunhua didn't pay much attention to the North African battlefield from the beginning, after all, he couldn't even take care of himself in this era, how could he have so much time and energy to care about other things. Moreover, North Africa is too far away from China, and Britain and the United States do not believe in Han Yunhua's strategic judgment as much as the Soviet Union, and even if Han Yunhua wants to help them, they may not necessarily accept his favor. So compared to history, the North African theater of war is the slowest theater of progress.

However, the North African theater was the main battlefield of the Allied forces, and a large number of Allied elites and famous generals were stationed in North Africa, such as Eisenhower, Patton, Montgomery, etc., while the German side was a combined army with the Italian army to attack North Africa. From the end of June 1942, the Axis launched a new offensive at Alam Halifa and once again attempted to invade Cairo. However, due to the ample preparation of the Allies and the large number of reinforcements sent by the United States and Britain to North Africa, Germany was repulsed, all strategic intentions were frustrated, and it suffered heavy losses. The Allies seized the opportunity, and after a series of build-ups and trainings, the British launched a large-scale offensive and decisively defeated the German and Italian forces in the Second Battle of El Alamein, launched in early October 1942. The 8th Army pursued the Axis to the west and captured Tripoli in mid-November 1942. By December, the 8th Army was facing the German-Italian Panzer Army close to the Marais Line and joined the forces of Harold. The 18th Army Group under the command of General Alexander ended the fighting in North Africa in the Battle of Tunisia.

At the same time, the Allies also carried out Operation Torch, also known as the North African Landing Campaign, in which the United States, Great Britain and Canada landed in French North Africa between November 8 and November 10, 1942. In fact, this battle also has a certain relationship with Han Yunhua, but he himself doesn't know it. After the Battle of Kursk, Han Yunhua suggested that Stalin immediately put pressure on the United States and Britain and other countries to let the Allies open up a second battlefield in Europe as soon as possible to relieve the pressure on the Soviet Union. This suggestion was adopted by Stalin, and he soon sent representatives to negotiate with the United States and Britain and other countries.

The Soviet Union's demand to launch a military operation in Europe as soon as possible and open a second battlefield to reduce the pressure of the Nazi German ** team on the Soviet Red Army This request caused tremendous pressure on the United States and Britain and other countries, and finally the US commander agreed to Operation Sledgehammer - landing in the occupied areas of Europe as soon as possible, but this proposal was collectively opposed by the British ** officer, and the British commander believed that this type of action would lead to disaster, so he suggested attacking French North Africa instead, in order to eliminate the Axis ** in North Africa. Improving naval supremacy in the Mediterranean and preparing for the liberation of southern Europe in 1943. Therefore, the United States and Britain planned to defeat the German-Italian forces in Africa, seize strategic points in North Africa, and then threaten Germany and Italy from the southern flank, so they decided to carry out a landing campaign codenamed "Torch" in North Africa in the fall of 1942. This campaign was the first large-scale sea-crossing and landing campaign in the history of warfare in which landing ships were used to "go from ship to shore," and it was also a landing test of the allied forces, which provided experience for future landing campaigns in terms of campaign organization and equipment use. …,

However, although the landing battle achieved some success, the results were not very satisfactory, and the battle began on November 8 and ended on November 11. In an attempt to launch a pincer offensive against the German-Italian forces, the Allies envisaged that the landing in French North Africa under the control of Vichy France would meet only with weak resistance. However, with the exception of a successful coup d'état in Algiers on 8 November, in which the Vichy French commander was arrested and the 19th Army was suppressed before the landing, the Vichy French forces put up fierce resistance to the Allies in Oran and Morocco.

However, the war could not be achieved in the following negotiations miraculously, after three days of negotiations and threats, Mark . Clark and Dwight. General Eisenhower forced Vichy Admiral François. Darlan (and Alphonse. General Juan ordered the Vichy French forces in Oran and Morocco to cease their military resistance on November 10-11, with the proviso that Darlan would become the leader of the Free French institutions, and the Vichy army in North Africa joined the Free French forces in the Allied forces, and the Allied forces in North Africa were greatly strengthened.

The last good news came from the Pacific Theater, due to the containment of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, a large number of Japanese elites were pinned down in the Northeast Battlefield, and were finally defeated and annihilated by the Chinese and Soviet armies. In October 1942, in order to cooperate with the Northeast Campaign launched by the Chinese and Soviet armies in Northeast China, the Sino-American and British coalition forces took the Chinese Expeditionary Force as the main force, and the three countries jointly launched a counteroffensive campaign in northern Burma and western Yunnan, and by the end of December, the coalition forces finally conquered Myitkyina, and the Japanese army was completely driven out of northern Burma, and the battle was completely victorious. This victory not only opened up the land lines of communication between China and the allies, but also opened the prelude to the counteroffensive of the Allied forces against the Japanese army in the Asian theater.

The Battle of Kuah Island, which was launched as early as June, also had a result at this time, and the Battle of Kuah Island was completed by the Americans alone, and they launched a fierce attack on the Japanese-controlled Kuah Island in early June 1942, trying to destroy this important strategic base of the Japanese army in the South Pacific region, which was more than half a year.

The U.S. military at the time of the Battle of Kuah was extremely poorly prepared, and because Kuah Island has always been little known, apart from the sporadic intelligence provided by the U.S. military to Australian plantation owners on Kuah Island, there was only a ninety-year-old chart, a few old photographs taken by missionaries, and Jack? A novel written by London about the Solomon Islands. The 1st Marine Division, which was the main force of the landing, was the first elite unit in the United States to conduct special training for landing warfare, but a large number of outstanding and well-trained officers and noncommissioned officers of the division were transferred to serve as the backbone of the newly formed 2nd and 3rd Marine Divisions.

Due to the disastrous defeat at the Battle of Midway, the Japanese army lost its sea and air supremacy in the Pacific Ocean at the beginning of the war, and also lost its strategic initiative, and was forced to stop its strategic offensive and abandon or postpone its attack on Fiji, Samoa, and New Caledonia. However, the Japanese army did not realize that its strength had been greatly weakened and that the strength and morale of the US military had greatly increased, so it still decided to continue its attack on the islands of the South Pacific, and planned to first build an air base on Kuah Island and send out air forces to cover the attack on Port Moresby on the island of New Guinea, and after gaining a firm foothold on the island of New Guinea, it would gradually advance to the southeast and attack Australia, an important base of the Allies in the South Pacific, so as to regain the strategic initiative. In order to realize this strategic attempt, the War Department of the base camp vigorously strengthened the 17th Army, which was originally planned to fight for Fiji and Samoa, and was formed in May 1942, with the younger brother of the Emperor's Chief Military Attaché as the commander, Lieutenant General Hyakutake Haruyoshi, and the military headquarters was located in Rabaul, New Britain, and by the beginning of August, the army had jurisdiction over the Nanhai Detachment, the Ichiki Detachment, the Aoba Detachment and other units, with a total strength of about 13 brigades, assembled in eastern New Guinea and the Bismarck Islands, and assumed the task of capturing Port Moresby. The Admiralty of the base camp established the 8th Fleet in July 1942, appointed Vice Admiral Mikawa Gunyi as commander, under the jurisdiction of the 6th, 18th, 29th, 30th destroyer groups, 7th, 13th, and 21st submarine fleets, with a number of warships and submarines, including 4 heavy cruisers and 3 light cruisers, and the main force was deployed in Rabaul to cooperate with the 17th Army. The Combined Fleet also sent more than 100 shore-based planes under the jurisdiction of the 25th Air Force to Rabaul to provide air cover, so the US forces at this time did not have too much advantage in terms of strength or weaponry. …,

When the Battle of Kuah Island broke out, Han Yunhua was commanding operations in the northeast, but he knew that the Japanese army would be defeated in the Battle of Kuah Island, although the US army did not have an advantage in all aspects, at the beginning of the campaign, Japan and the United States were almost the same in terms of ships, aircraft, and troops, and the Japanese army still had a slight advantage in large warships such as aircraft carriers and battleships, but they could not bear the Japanese to make their own stupid moves, and they simply collapsed themselves.

However, due to the change of history, Han Yunhua did not dare to believe in the time when the U.S. military would completely wipe out the Japanese army on Kuah Island and occupy this strategic point. However, the Americans did not disappoint Han Yunhua, and soon after the beginning of the 43rd year, the US military came with good news, and the great American ** team finally won a decisive victory in the battle of Kuah Island.

In this battle, the Japanese army invested about 36,000 troops on Kuah Island, about 14,000 were killed in the battle, more than 9,000 died of wounds and diseases or their whereabouts are unknown, a total of nearly 23,800 people died, and more than 1,000 people were captured. During the six-month air battle, 427 Japanese planes were shot down, and the American army lost only 118 aircraft. Together with those shot down by anti-aircraft fire, the Japanese lost a total of 892 aircraft and 2,362 pilots. The U.S. military lost about 250 aircraft. In this protracted battle, the US military lost about 5,000 casualties, 6,700 wounded, 24 warships, 3 transport ships, and about 250 aircraft. In total, about 80,000 Japanese troops were killed, and 44 warships, 36 transport ships, and 1,292 aircraft were lost.

Under the vigorous propaganda of the American government, almost the whole world knew the day after the end of the campaign that the Americans had won a major victory in the Pacific, and that the Japanese had suffered unprecedented heavy losses in the Pacific region, especially in the battle for the Pacific islands.

In a commentary in the American media, it said: "In this battle, the Japanese army not only suffered heavy losses in navy and aviation, but even the army, which had never lost since the beginning of the war, and the most elite 2nd Division and other units also suffered huge losses, especially the loss of large warships, planes and skilled and well-trained pilots of the Japanese army, which was difficult for the Japanese army to make up for, and the superiority of the Japanese army in strength at the end of the battle was gone, and the strategic situation of the two sides also changed." ”

"If the defeat of the Japanese army in the Battle of Midway was a turning point in the Pacific theater of World War II, the situation of the war began to develop in favor of Japan and in favor of the United States, and the Japanese army's strategic initiative was gradually lost; In the Battle of Kuah Island, the Japanese army not only failed to realize its operational attempt to regain the strategic initiative, but on the contrary, its military strength was further weakened, and finally it completely lost its strategic initiative and fell into a passive situation. ”

"From then on, the Japanese army will inevitably shift from strategic offensive to strategic defense, fortifying everywhere, and being passive step by step until defeat. The United States, on the other hand, gradually improved its unfavorable strategic posture through the Battle of Kuah Island, won time to mobilize manpower and material resources, and created favorable conditions for the strategic offensive that was about to begin in the Pacific theater. ”

The period from the end of 1942 to the beginning of the spring of 1943 can be said to be the spring of the Allies, and every day there will be good news coming, and every day you will hear which country has won a decisive victory in what battles and where, how many enemy troops have been annihilated, and what impact it has had on the war. For a time, the anti-fascist wave in the world was repeated, and people seemed to have seen the moment when the victory flag was flying.

Because the Kuomintang troops have also made brilliant achievements in Central China and the Burma battlefield, Chiang Kai-shek himself is also sunny during this time, although whenever he thinks of the Northeast, Chiang Kai-shek himself can't help but feel a pain in the flesh, but he also knows that the current ** is not a few years ago**, and the Eighth Route Army at this time is not the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army with tens of thousands of broken guns in the past, and Han Yunhua's military region alone can defeat the Kwantung Army, not to mention the Eighth Route Army, the New Fourth Army and the border troops. And ** now not only has an army and air force, but even formed its own navy not long ago, although ** navy only has 4 cruisers and 2 destroyers, as well as more than 20 torpedo boats and armed merchant ships, even the dilapidated navy of the national government is not as good, but it is a navy after all. …,

If in the past, Chiang Kai-shek was planning how to weaken the army he led, then now Chiang Kai-shek is more afraid of constantly expanding his territory in the name of resisting Japan. On the one hand, the name of Han Yunhua, a national hero, has spread throughout China, and almost everyone knows that there is a big hero, and it is not appropriate to say that the Japanese devils will not be able to defeat the army. On the other hand, Chiang Kai-shek wished to stay honestly on the existing territory, not to act rashly, and to leave all the anti-Japanese tasks to the Nationalist Government.

Although Chiang Kai-shek's military command level did need to be improved, Chairman Chiang's political vision was not comparable to that of ordinary people, and he could easily judge the state of the Japanese at this time.

Through the congratulatory telegram celebrating the liberation of Northeast China, Chiang Kai-shek raised his own concerns about the situation in Northeast China at this time, especially about the public security and economic situation in Northeast China.

After reading the telegram, Han Yunhua couldn't help but smile, Lao Jiang really has a lot of tricks, and he is afraid that the veteran of the Inner Mongolia Military Region will get involved in the Central Plains, so he can be said to have done everything, and even used such a trick. In history, Lao Jiang only played this hand when the Anti-Japanese War was about to be won, and he was afraid of receiving the surrender of the Japanese puppet army, especially the fear that the strength of the Eighth Route Army would be too inflated after receiving the weapons and equipment of the Japanese puppet army.

But this is exactly what he wants to see, now there is no need to force him, the old will also take the initiative to attack the Japanese puppet army, and now the national government is not the historical national government, seeing the full support of the Soviet Union, the US government can not sit still, and the materials transported to China have also increased exponentially, if it is not limited by the volume of air transport teams, I am afraid that more than half of the troops of the national government have changed their equipment, but even so, there are still 44 infantry divisions all replaced with American equipment, and the combat effectiveness has increased greatly.

After completely driving the forces of the Japanese puppet army out of Hunan, Chiang Kai-shek set his sights on Hubei. After the Second Battle of Wuhan, with the fall of Wuhan, the entire Hubei region immediately became the territory of the Japanese, and Chiang Kai-shek was now greatly strengthened, and he was eager to take the little devil and test the combat effectiveness of the Kuomintang troops armed with American equipment.

In order to recover Wuhan, Chiang Kai-shek personally ordered the Ministry of Military Affairs to set up the Third Wuhan Battle Headquarters, Xue Yue served as the commander, and mobilized 380,000 troops from 25 infantry divisions, including the 88th Division of the 11th Army, to prepare for another war against Japan.

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