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Chapter 1967 Waiting for the enemy

On 11 November 1942, an urgent report came from the European side that the German army had a huge formation consisting of five aircraft carriers, including the "Zeppelin", "Seydlitz", "Europe", "Elbe", and "Gnessenor", as well as a "Scharnhorst-class" battlecruiser, a "Deutschland"-class pocket battleship, an "Admiral" class heavy cruiser, 16 Z-class destroyers, 18 transports and 12 landing ships carrying officers and men of the Marine Corps. Suddenly appeared in the waters off Iceland in the North Atlantic. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info ""

The German naval air force launched a surprise attack on the US Air Force stationed in Iceland and successfully wiped out the US air squadron that had a radar early warning system but was negligent in guarding against it on the runway, and about 90 P40, P38, and P39 fighters and more than 80 B17 and B25 bombers were turned into bonfires.

With the elimination of the air threat, bombers of the German naval aviation bombed the port of Reykjavík indiscriminately, and then the German marines carried out landing operations.

The battleships, cruisers, and destroyers of the German aircraft carrier formation were firing at full fire, desperately suppressing the return fire of the American troops guarding the harbor. After half a day of hard fighting, paying the heavy price of sinking two destroyers and two landing ships and suffering casualties among nearly 10,000 officers and men, the Germans completely annihilated more than 6,000 American troops guarding the harbor and nearby coastal defense positions and fortresses, and the Nazi flag was flying high over Iceland.

Hearing that Iceland had been attacked, Admiral Cunningham, commander of the Allied Navy, thought that this was an attack by a German sabotage ship, and immediately sent a fleet to Iceland to expel the German Navy, and the fleet was only four hours on the road, and Hitler had already proudly announced in Berlin that under the attack of the German Navy's powerful aircraft carrier fleet, Iceland had become a new colony of Germany, and Churchill was shocked when he heard the news, worried that the fleet would be ambushed northward, and immediately crossed Admiral Cunningham and instructed the fleet to return.

Churchill immediately met with the British Field Marshal and Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Viscount Arambru, who was in a meeting in Britain, and the commander of the Allied Air Force, Arthur Brown. Lieutenant General Eisenhower, Admiral of the Ted German Air Force and Commander-in-Chief of the Anglo-American Expeditionary Force, held consultations to anticipate the next move of the German army. At this time, news came that Luftwaffe units had parachuted the Faroe Islands and Shetland Islands, and after fierce battles, the Germans occupied Grutness and Tórshavn.

In just one day, the Allies lost an important North Atlantic island chain, and the next step is very likely that the German air force will use the Shetland Islands as a base to bomb the northern and central parts of the British Isles, and the German navy's wolf pack and surprise fleet will use the ports of Reykjavik and Tórshavski as bases to block the external traffic of the British Isles.

There was a great uproar in international public opinion, and both the Axis and the Allies unanimously agreed that this was a harbinger of the German landing on the British Isles.

After studying the map, US President Roosevelt discovered that the ocean from southwest Iceland to the North American continent was already flat, and the German aircraft carrier group could move south at any time to threaten the security of the eastern coastal areas of North America.

At the end of the call, Roosevelt contacted Stalin, who was commanding the operation in Kazan, through radio waves, and finally sent a telegram to An Yi, the head of the South China state, asking the South China side to fully open its production capacity, increase the supply of materials to the Soviet Union, and make a decisive counterattack in the bitter winter, so as to draw the attention of the German army back to the Soviet-German battlefield.

Before Roosevelt could catch his breath, another piece of bad news struck him. The Japanese air force at Houston Air Force Base suddenly attacked the Oak Ridge area of Tennessee, shooting down half of the opposing bombers along the way, but eventually 28 B17 bombers landed over Oak Ridge.

More than 2,000 civilian researchers, more than 3,000 military personnel, and more than 60,000 migrant workers and their families working in the Black Oak Ridge Valley were all contaminated with high-intensity radiation, and within a month, more than 70,000 people were covered in skin ulcers and died tragically.

Because the United States had already lost the atomic reactor of the University of Chicago in Illinois and the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, the US side had suffered a great loss of scientific researchers and scientific research materials, and now it has been bombed without warning beforehand, and the US scientific researchers in charge of atomic research have almost lost all of them, and they have to find a place again and hire scientists again to start the "Manhattan Project."

An Yi, who arrived in Vladivostok at 11 a.m. on 12 July, did not know that the US "Manhattan Project" had been sabotaged by the Japanese army, and that the Japanese army had begun to build a uranium isotope separation plant in the port of Darwin, Australia, through captured atomic scientists and captured US research materials, which had already undermined international security to a certain extent.

After An Yi received Roosevelt's telegram at Vladivostok Airport and replied to the telegram agreeing, he immediately returned to the headquarters of the Military Region Headquarters together with the generals Mu Zhaiyi, Li Fuqiang, Han Xianzhi, An Mingqi, Dong Jinming, Pei Yannian, He Yifei, Tang Wen, Xia Yuling, Li Xiao, and Lei Dong, who had come to meet the plane, to hold a military situation analysis meeting.

When An Yi served as the commander of the engineer battalion and the commander of the second company, Mu Recall was the instructor of the second company, and his qualifications were as old as Yang Fei, Cheng Chengguang, Xia Jian and others.

At the end of 37 years, the Mongolian Military Region was established, and in order to strengthen the leadership force, Mu Recall was ordered to transfer to the north to serve as deputy commander and chief of staff of the Military Region; because Yin Jinan was also in charge of civil affairs, it was actually Mu Recall who was exercising command over the army, and at the beginning of this month, Mu Recall was promoted to the rank of general and appointed commander of the newly formed Andong Military Region.

The temporarily established province of Andong has a vast territory, including the liberated Primorye, Khabarovsk, Amur and other places, and with the recovery of Ayan, Okhotsk and Magadan ports by Hu Jiyang's troops, it is possible that it will include Kamchatka, Magadan, Chukchi and other regions in the future. When the time comes, the province may be divided into several provinces, but a province in the Far East, which does not have a large population and is almost a large construction site, is sufficient.

In addition to General Mu Zhaiyi as commander, General Li Fuqiang, one of the founders of the Anjia Army's special forces, who was recently promoted, served as political commissar, Lieutenant General Hu Jiyang, who was leading his troops on a northern expedition, was appointed deputy commander, Lieutenant General Han Xianzhi was chief of staff, and Lieutenant General An Mingqi, former instructor of the Beishang Detachment, was transferred to the local government to serve as governor of the newly established Andong Province and concurrently served as deputy political commissar of the military region.

Since the Andong Military Region is basically composed of troops under the jurisdiction of the Mongolian Military Region, the scale of the Mongolian Military Region, which is now under sharply reduced defensive pressure, has naturally shrunk; Lieutenant General Tang Honglei, former captain of the Beishang Detachment, has been transferred to the post of political commissar of the Military Region; Lieutenant General An Chunlu is deputy commander; Lieutenant General Zhang Jie is the chief of staff; and Lieutenant General Yang Chao is the deputy political commissar; the military region has five group armies under its jurisdiction: the 34th, 35th, 36th, and 42nd and 43rd group armies. (《》)

An Yi has been busy in the past few days, and has been messing with several confidants every night, and Han Yu and Zhou Xuan, who have followed the art troupe to act together, have also joined the ranks of hot springs, and their tactful singing voices float by the hot spring pool, allowing An Yi to enjoy the life of an emperor.

Yesterday morning, An Yi personally conferred decorations on officers and men who had been awarded special meritorious service, first-class meritorious service, the first class meritorious service, the first class meritorious service, the National Defense Medal, and the Freedom Medal, and delivered a speech in public, encouraging the officers and men to make persistent efforts to make new meritorious contributions to the country and the people.

After the award, An Yi returned to the headquarters for a meeting with the commanders and generals of the various group armies who wore shining medals on their chests.

In the future, the Korean Peninsula was officially renamed the Dahan Peninsula, and Wang Xulun, commander of the First Group Army, was promoted to the rank of general and assumed the post of commander of the newly formed Dahan Army; Lieutenant General Jin Hongmo, commander of the 32nd Group Army, was transferred to the local government and served as the first administrative head of the Dahan Special Administrative Region and concurrently the political commissar of the Dahan Army; Min Jingxian, commander of the Second Group Army, was promoted to the rank of general and served as deputy commander and chief of staff of the Han Army; Lieutenant General Cai Shaohua, political commissar of the First Group Army, was reappointed commander of the group army, Lai Zhengyuan, political commissar of the Second Group Army, was reappointed commander of the group army, and Lieutenant General Hong Yupu, political commissar of the 32nd Group Army, was reappointed commander of the group army......

With this foreshadowing, An Yi announced the list of three troops stationed on the Dahan Peninsula, the first, second, and 32nd group armies were selected, and after the disbandment of the Hanzhong Xing Battalion, three of the nine recruit divisions that have undergone short-term training in Syria will be transferred to the Dahan Military Region, and at the same time, the Military Commission authorized the Dahan Military Region to recruit three divisions from the northeast and the locals to form mountain troops that adapt to the climate and topography of the northeast and Andong to adapt to the mountainous environment here.

In the future, the 1st, 2nd, and 32nd armies will be organized into six divisions, so that the number of troops in the peninsula area will reach 18 divisions, and the air force and the second artillery units stationed in the army will be sufficient to cope with the landing operations of three times the number of troops they have.

Before the results were announced, An Yi had an open and frank conversation with Gu Changfeng, saying that the six newly formed mechanized divisions in Xinjing would give priority to supplementing the remaining six group armies of the First Front Army, and these six armies would become a new establishment with two motorized infantry divisions, one tank division, and one armored division, so that each group army could take charge of its own affairs, and its combat effectiveness would only increase rather than decrease compared to now.

In fact, Gu Changfeng also knew that as a commander, it was taboo to obstruct the progress of his subordinates, and Wang Xulun and Min Jingxian were qualified enough, so it was logical for them to be promoted to actual generals this time.

Wang Xulun and Min were surprised and delighted at first, and they were surprised that although An Yi had already sounded the alarm bell and would leave the main force to stay on the peninsula, they never expected that it would be the turn of the first and second group armies with outstanding combat effectiveness.

According to the deployment of the Central Military Commission, Gu Changfeng rushed to Central Asia ahead of schedule to serve as the commander of the newly formed Central Asian Theater; once the southern part of the Western Front starts, the large army of this unit will directly enter Europe to fight after obtaining the consent of the Soviet side, and the first target is Stalingrad, and the remaining four group armies in the peninsula area, plus the seventh and eighth tank groups stranded in the northeast region, will all be withdrawn to the Central Asian theater by the end of the year.

After deciding on the issue of garrisoning troops on the Han Peninsula, An Yi once again telegraphed in the name of the Central Military Commission to order the 22nd Group Army in Northeast China, as well as the 44th Group Army, which was partially dismantled and reorganized by Lu Yixuan, plus nine second-class divisions and six armed police divisions, to form the Northeast Military Region, with Yang Guan as commander and political commissar, to continue to eliminate traitors and bandits in the area under its jurisdiction, and to organize the technological transformation and expansion of production in factories and mining enterprises.

After the military analysis meeting in the building of the Anton Military District Headquarters in Vladivostok was held, An Yi briefly introduced the North Atlantic offensive launched by the Germans and asked everyone what they thought about it.

Mu Recall smiled faintly: "This is obviously a trick played by the Germans, they don't know that we have advanced satellites, high-altitude reconnaissance planes, and airships to monitor, trying to create the false impression that their next main attack direction is to land on the British Isles." This trick was used when Hitler attacked the Soviet Union, how could we be deceived? ”

Li Fuqiang also said with a smile: "I have read the relevant intelligence of the Intelligence Department of the General Staff, the German army has deployed a maximum of 1.5 million troops in France, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Norway and other places, but in the areas bordering us, it has deployed 6 million troops. Hitler wouldn't have thought that we would make the same mistakes as the Soviets, would he? ”

An Yi nodded, and then asked:

"What do you think of the winter counterattack of the Soviet army? The Soviet Union used all the available human resources, barely scraped together enough eight million troops, and was ready to launch a full-front counterattack at the coldest time next month to recapture Moscow in one fell swoop! Due to the fall of a large number of mineral fields and military factories, the Soviet army has basically lost the ability to supply itself, and almost all of its weapons and equipment are made of our South China standard...... Do you think there is hope for the Soviets? ”

Han Xianzhi said: "The key to whether the Soviets retake Moscow depends on whether the German army will launch an attack on us. The German army and its servants were about 13 million, that is, in Moscow and Stalingrad and other surrounding areas, the German army also deployed at least 5 million troops.

"The problem of the German army is that the front is too long, after four consecutive years of war, the Germans have hoarded war materials, can no longer meet their huge consumption, although from France, Belgium, the Soviet Union and other countries to obtain a large number of replenishment, but still can not meet the needs of its rapidly expanding forces and continuous operations! Once the Germans attack us, the Soviet-German battlefield will inevitably be undersupplied, and in this harsh winter, any reduction in supplies may bring fatal damage to the front, and the Soviets can take this opportunity to retake Moscow and restore the front to the situation it was in May this year!

"Actually, we also have this problem, in a sense, we are worse than the Germans, because our industrial base is much worse than that of Germany! However, fortunately, our opponent has not been strong, the initial attack on Central Asia, with the support of the Republic of Anton, and at the same time the opponent is the Soviet army, which has suffered a serious decline in combat strength after the suppression, and later attacked Afghanistan, Persia, India and West Asia and other places.

"Most of the industrial bases we built in Central Asia and India were put into operation soon after the end of the war, during which through transactions with the United States and Germany, we obtained a large number of machine tools and production lines, coupled with our unique pure oxygen top blowing converter steelmaking method, which reduced our steelmaking cost by 60%, accelerated the production speed by 3 times, and increased the utilization rate of ore raw materials by 80%, making us stronger and stronger, coupled with a steady stream of human resources, as well as more and more abundant mineral and energy supply, so that our development is advancing day by day!

"Once the German invasion in the future, we are fighting on the inner line, coupled with the construction of railways and highways over the years, as well as our sea and air transportation, the possibility of successfully resisting the German invasion is extremely high! If the Soviet counterattack had been sharp and powerful at this time, the Germans would have been in unprecedented trouble, and it is not known whether they would have gone from prosperity to decline. ”

An Yi is very happy and sincerely proud of the growth of Mu Zhaiyi, Li Fuqiang, and Han Xianzhi. These three generals did not have a high level of education at the beginning, but in the revolutionary melting pot of the Anjia Army, the three of them first solved the problem of literacy, and through sand table drills again and again, their strategic and tactical literacy improved rapidly. Since then, they have all had the experience of teaching and studying at the Nanjing Central Military Academy and the Syrian Noncommissioned Officers School, and in recent years, they have studied at the National Defense University in Xinjing many times, broadened their horizons and thinking, and truly grown into the talents of generals.

Just when the generals in the conference room were whispering, and An Yi saw that no one wanted to take the initiative to speak anymore, and wanted to comment on the speeches of the three people, Shen Fengdao hurriedly walked into the conference room and handed him an urgent telegram.

This is an excerpt of information from a Japanese radio news program, An Yi was very surprised after reading it, pondered for a moment, handed the telegram to the curious Mu Retrospective, and then asked the participating generals to pass it to each other to read it, and then said: "Let's talk about it, what does it mean that Ishihara Waner, who has served as chief of staff for five years, was deprived of his post by Emperor Hirohito?" Based on this information, it seems that our defeated general, Hideki Tojo, took over the post of chief of staff...... Could it be that the little devil has changed his policy again and wants to make a comeback and invade our country? ”

Mu Zaiyi nodded heavily without thinking too much: "The probability of this possibility is not small, Tojo Hideki was a fanatical militant who advocated aggression and expansion against China at the beginning, and successively participated in the war of aggression against Rehe, Chahar and Suiyuan, and later led his troops to attack Shanxi.

"What could be a better proof of his military command ability than the success of a counteroffensive on the mainland? Ishihara has just suffered a heavy defeat on the mainland, if Hideki Tojo can succeed, his reputation will rise all of a sudden, if he fails, he has nothing to lose, after all, with Ishihara's defeat in front of him, he has a lot of reasons to excuse himself, it's a big deal to change his course and find a new opponent...... The new official has three fires in office, and we must pay attention to strengthening the defense! ”

An Yi stood up, paced back and forth, and said decisively after a while: "Let's adjourn, today's welcome luncheon is canceled...... Wait a minute, I will call the three generals Gu Changfeng, Wang Xulun and Yang Guan to discuss the war situation, and at the same time, the ports of Vladivostok, Soviet Port, and Miaojie under the jurisdiction of our Andong Military Region may be the targets coveted by the Japanese army, so I will not leave you behind, and prepare for war after I go back, and we will gather again when the situation is stable. ”

"Yes!"

All the generals stood up together, saluted An Yi, and retreated in turn.

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