Chapter 683? Raga forever

What Lin Jun feared did not happen, and while preparations for the autumn operation were massively preparable, the wars in the Pacific and North Africa distracted Stalin and others. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The Battle of Midway "started as scheduled" last month, but the problem arose: this time the good luck did not take care of the Americans, and the aircraft carrier battle was fought 3 to 2!

The Wyvern escaped, and the Hornet was finished!

However, even so, Yamamoto canceled the plan to land and occupy Midway -- if the Japanese navy achieved the set goal, the US West Coast would be directly threatened by the Japanese navy.

Since a large part of the U.S. naval forces are currently deployed in the North Atlantic, if the Japanese occupy Midway, the U.S. will not be able to effectively counterattack the Japanese Navy in the Pacific in the short term.

Japan is well aware of the military potential of the United States: once the enormous industrial production capacity of the United States is fully brought into the orbit of the war, Japan has little hope of victory.

Therefore, Japan hopes that before such a situation arises, it will be able to force the United States to sit down at the negotiating table and quickly end the war with the United States.

If it were not for the appearance of Lin Jun, if the Japanese Navy threatened or really attacked the West Coast of the United States, it was really possible to force the United States to transfer the military equipment that was urgently needed to be sent to the front line in Europe to the West Coast of the United States!

This will not only cause a shortage of military supplies in the European theater, but may even cause the European theater to lose again, and in the most extreme case, it may even allow Nazi Germany to win the final victory in the European theater!

Fortunately, Lin Jun is here, and now the situation facing the Soviet Union is much better than the original history!

Even if this would lose most of the US aid, the Soviet Union would still be able to withstand it!

But even so, it still scared some strategic thinkers in the Kremlin: fortunately, Yamamoto didn't have the courage to survive on the spot, and missed the last chance that might delay the war or even withdraw from the Pacific War with dignity!

And this will be in the North African theater, and the situation of the Allies will be extremely bad in the eyes of most people in the Kremlin!

Having received supplies and reinforcements from Tripoli, the Axis went on the offensive again: in June the Allied forces were defeated at Gachala and Tobruk was captured, and the Axis forces even drove the British 8th Army across the Egyptian border!

Following the defeat at the Battle of Gachala in June 1942, the British 8th Army retreated from Mersa-Matroux to the El Alamein Line, about 40 kilometers long, between the city of El Alamein on the Mediterranean coast of northern Egypt and the Katara depression in the south.

The First Battle of El Alamein began.

July 31, Kremlin conference room.

A colonel of the Red Army's Main Directorate of Military Intelligence, who is updating the Supreme High Command on the latest North African war situation.

“… The British Eighth Army attacked the Rouvist Ridge in the center twice, on 14 July and 21 July, both of which failed, and according to the British, the 8th Army was now at a huge cost of supplies......"

After listening to the report, Stalin said: "If the British and American armies lose Egypt and the whole of North Africa, it will be a joke to open up a second battlefield in Europe!" ”

"Comrade Stalin, I'm not worried about North Africa, the British are in trouble, in fact, Rommel is in an even more disadvantageous position! His logistics have not been able to keep up, plus the combat effectiveness of the Italian army is almost negligible..."

You have already lost the war when your comrades-in-arms are Italians!

When your enemies are Arabs, you have won the war!

When you fight alongside the Italians against the Arabs, you will find that you end up taking out all the enemies and losing the war!

What hope can Rommel have for such a comrade-in-arms from Italy?!

In the First Battle of El Alamein, the British Commonwealth army had 150,000 men, 1,114 tanks, 1,000 artillery pieces and 1,500 aircraft!

Rommel had only 96,000 men, of which the Italian army accounted for 56,000, with only 585 tanks and 500 planes!

Relying on such a small strength, Rommel desperately advanced to Alexandria, and was able to beat the British army into a passive position and had to go on the defensive.

Those German troops are at most second-rate troops, and the British can't stand it!

At this time, Hitler pressed almost seventy-five percent of his troops on the Eastern Front!

But even so, the British still had a strategic advantage in the North African theater, and although Rommel forced the British army to go on the defensive in the battle situation, the gap in strength between him and the British army was widening!

"As long as the British and American armies don't twitch, Rommel is now a grasshopper after the autumn, and it's almost over!"

Lin Jun then systematically analyzed the North African war situation, and finally convinced others in the command that the North African war situation could now be completely ignored!

"As for the second battlefield in Europe after that, the Anglo-American coalition will land in Sicily at most, and then attack Italy mainland as early as next summer and autumn.

But we better not expect the Allies to make much progress in Italy, even if it weren't for the Alps, the Germans would have been able to drag the British and Americans there! ”

Speaking of this, Lin Jun added: "Now that the Communist Party in Italy is developing rapidly, I think we need to provide them with some necessary help in the future. ”

The Italian battlefield began at the beginning of September 43 and was intermittently consumed until May 2, 45, when the German army in Italy surrendered!

That's because Hitler had committed suicide by then, and Berlin was finished!

On that very day, the commander of the Berlin city defense, Helmut Otto Ludwig Weidling, led his troops to surrender.

And the surrender of the German troops in Italy to the Allies was not only because Berlin was finished, but for many more reasons!

And it's all about the Communists!

The Battle of Berlin was fought by the Soviet Red Army, and in Italy, until May 1944, the German army was able to beat the American army to the bone!

It was not until April 1945, when the Red Army was about to launch the Battle of Berlin, that the Allies in Italy moved again: by this time the German army in Italy had lost much morale!

The German troops began to withdraw from Italy on the night of April 20, 45: it was already the fifth day of the Battle of Berlin!

If you don't withdraw, you can't do it, the nest will be gone!

While pursuing the Germans, the British and American forces advanced to the right bank of the lower Po River on the night of 22 April.

Although the Germans did not resist at the time, the Allies crossed to the other side after two days and nights.

At that time, everyone could see that the fall of Berlin was a foregone conclusion!

By the night of April 24, on the territory of Italy, occupied by German troops, a general uprising began, with the Italian Communist Party as its main organizer and inspirer!

The Italian patriots liberated almost all of northern Italy and the cities of Milan, Turin, and ******, and disarmed a large number of German troops.

The Allies then took advantage of the victory of the insurgents and accepted the surrender of the remnants of German Army Group "C" in Italy on 2 May 1945.

The contribution made by the Italian Communist Party turned out to be that Britain and the United States picked peaches!

"Only when the Communist Party in Italy is strong enough can it take advantage of a period of calm wait-and-see in the Italian war situation to effectively expand its influence in Italy during the period from mid-to-late 44 to the spring of 45, so as not to take advantage of Britain and the United States!"

Lin Jun knew this very well in his heart!

Towards the end of the meeting, Stalin said to Lin Jun: "Andrey, you are going to return to Kiev tomorrow?"

"Yes, Comrade Stalin."

(To be continued.) )