Over Poland, warplanes were dense and bombs rained down.

Arsenals, airfields, barracks, granaries, almost any military target of value were destroyed by German bombers in a matter of minutes, and for the first time the Poles tasted the greatest death and destruction from the air in human history.

The German ground forces launched an offensive on all fronts from the north, west, and southwest, and the 900,000 German troops, under the cover of more than 2,000 tanks, more than 1,000 aircraft, and more than 10,000 artillery pieces, crushed the million Polish troops in just a few days, forcing Poland to move its capital to Warsaw.

The Germans launched a blitzkrieg, based on a huge number of combat aircraft and assault tanks, so that the Polish army could not react before it could be defeated, and most of these steel weapons supporting the German army came from the Tang Imperial Arsenal. The main fighters and main battle tanks of the German army were designed by the Tang Empire, and most of them were directly produced and manufactured by the Datang Arsenal and then delivered to the German army, otherwise the production capacity of the German arsenal would not be able to produce such a huge number of aircraft and tanks within a few years of Hitler's coming to power.

At the same time, judging from the scale of weapons and equipment that Datang Military Industry can produce more than 2,000 aircraft, more than 2,000 tanks and enough equipment to equip 12 German armored divisions, 17 light armored divisions and 20 motorized infantry divisions for the German army in just a few years, Datang Military Industry is very strong in terms of weapons and equipment production capacity.

Such a huge production capacity, in addition to making huge profits for the sale of arms, is also because of the war between Tang and Japan. The large-scale expansion of the Tang Army, the stockpiling of weapons and repair parts, was also prepared for the Second Shijie War.

Now the Tang Dynasty has officially declared war on Britain and France. In fact, all the war mobilization has already been completed, all kinds of weapons and equipment have been put in place, and the strategic materials have been stored in an astronomical amount during the Shijie economic crisis, which is enough for the Tang Army to consume at a high intensity for five years without any replenishment.

With the Tang Empire's official participation in the Second Shijie War, the military strength that was originally hidden in the war against Japan had to be exposed in advance.

The Datang Ministry of Defense was busy. After repeated war games over and over again, the Tang Army decided to attack both the French Pacific colonies and Australia.

France and Japan have long been aligned. As a result, in each colony of the French Pacific, both French and Japanese armies built strong fortifications and even airfields. It's just that France has been hesitant to officially start a war with Datang before, so it has been carried out secretly and secretly. Now the two sides have officially torn their faces and started a war. The French and Japanese armies openly built various military fortifications on each island. Increase the garrison, a pair of jiashi who want to fight the Tang army.

Looking at the entire Pacific region, the Tang Empire confronted Japan, France, and Britain at the same time, like a grasshopper shaking a tree. But in fact, on the contrary, around the Pacific Ocean, the Tang Empire has never taken Britain, France and Japan into account, and the only thing that is feared is the United States from the east coast of the Pacific Ocean.

There were many generals in the military of the Tang Empire who put forward military intentions and ideas for fighting against the United States, and some even proposed to take the initiative to attack Pearl Harbor and eliminate the US Pacific Fleet. Their view is that the relationship between Britain and the United States is extraordinary, and that sooner or later the United States will side with Britain. Therefore, since Datang chose to start a war with Britain and France, sooner or later it will face the United States. Rather than waiting for the US war machine to operate, it is better to nip it in the bud as soon as possible, once the US Pacific Fleet is destroyed, the entire Pacific region will be completely under the control of the Tang Empire, even if the United States mobilizes Liliang from the east to replenish the losses in the Pacific region, it can at least win a strategic buffer period of two to three years for the Tang Empire, and go all out to develop military strength to fight a decisive battle with the United States.

This point of view is supported by a considerable theoretical and practical basis, and is completely in line with the national strategy, but it was finally suppressed by Zhang Meng, because Zhang Meng knew very well that the war potential of the Tang Dynasty was many times stronger than Japan, and the strategic material reserves were more than 20 times more than the domestic reserves when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, but it was the most unwise to start a war with the huge war giant of the United States, and even if he wanted to fight, he had to wait until the three countries of Britain, France and Japan were wiped out before he started.

Zhang Meng knows very well how strong isolationism is in the United States, and as long as it does not take the initiative to provoke the United States, it will be difficult for the US government to enter the war. This is also the real purpose of Weishenme when Zhang Meng supported Hoover to come to power and signed a non-aggression pact with the United States, as long as Datang does not take the initiative to attack the United States, the United States will not be able to take the initiative to declare war on Datang.

Zhang Meng suppressed a group of generals within the military who regarded the United States as an imaginary enemy, and guided them to focus on the conquest of Britain, France, and Japan first.

In terms of operations against Japan, the Tang Army has taken control of the entire island of Taiwan and is launching an attack on the Ryukyu Islands in Jihua, and in the North Pacific, the Northern Islands of the Tang Dynasty continue to maintain a large-scale bombing campaign against the Japanese mainland, pinning down the Japanese air Liliang to reinforce the Ryukyus. On the battlefield in North China, the Chinese army pinned down more than 1 million main forces of Japan, dragging the Japanese army to the death on the battlefield in North China, and indirectly instigated the Tang Army's attack on the Ryukyu Islands.

With regard to the French islands in the central and South Pacific, the Tang Army transferred back the Chiyou aircraft carrier and four destroyers from the Datang Second Aircraft Carrier Battle Group, and transferred six escort aircraft carriers from the mainland to form the Third Aircraft Carrier Battle Group to fight in the Central and South Pacific.

On the one hand, the Tang Empire exerted pressure on Australia through diplomatic means, demanding that Australia take the initiative to break away from the Commonwealth and become completely independent, and the Tang Empire will not invade Australia and provide military protection to Australia. On the other hand, the Fifth and Seventh Marine Divisions of the Tang Army are actively preparing for combat operations against Australia, and the Tang Army Aviation has assembled at the major airports in the Fiji Islands to be on standby to carry out military air strikes against Australia.

The opinions within the Australian government are also not unified, some officials resolutely support the British Empire's preparation for war against the Tang Dynasty, and the other part of the British Empire's sense of belonging is no longer strong, they consider from the actual situation, thinking that the British Empire is thousands of miles away, and it will take three months to reinforce Australia at the earliest. The Tang Empire is close at hand, the Tang Army's strong combat effectiveness far exceeds that of the Australian Army, the number of aircraft on both sides is 3500:76, the number of tanks is 1200:144, the number of artillery is 6000:800, the number of warships is 420:54, and the army strength ratio is 5:2.4 (10,000). Once the war starts, it will take less than three months for Australia to fall.

As a result of the fierce debate within the Australian government, the Australian military did not know whether to fight or make peace, and when the Tang army was fully prepared, they were still hesitating. (To be continued......)