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January 26, 41 is the traditional Chinese Lunar New Year, plus February 1 is the South China National Day, this month the party, government, and military meetings are held one after another, and most of the time An Yi is spent in the mountains and seas. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, An Yi's eyes have never reduced his attention to the international situation, and he is always ready to seek benefits for Nanhua from the complicated chaos.

In Europe, although the Soviet Union won the Battle of Moscow, in the subsequent counterattack, the Soviet army encountered the iron wall carefully constructed by the German army, and could not attack repeatedly, so it had to shrink the defense line to defend, and the Soviet-German battlefield fell into a strange silence.

The defeat at the Battle of Moscow, Nazi Germany's first large-scale defeat after crossing the border to attack Bolan three years earlier, was of great political and military significance, and meant the myth of German invincibility shattered. For the allies, it has a positive symbolic meaning, heralding a good start to the new year.

Therefore, Britain and the United States, while they were still in great difficulty, stepped up their assistance to the Soviet Union, and a naval battle of supply and counter-supply fought vigorously in the vast Arctic Ocean.

The Atlantic war is in turmoil.

Due to the rapid increase in the number of German submarines, and the fact that the German Navy received Japanese oxygen torpedoes and the most advanced shipborne radar technology, the German Navy began to use the "wolf pack" tactic to block the Atlantic route at the beginning of last year, and expanded the entire blockade area to the south and west of Iceland in one fell swoop.

The so-called wolf pack tactic is to use several submarines to form a small detachment and launch an underwater attack on enemy warships and transport ships in turn like a wolf pack. The German Navy used the "wolf pack tactic" to concentrate the forces of several submarines to attack a sea target and the attack power of several submarines to destroy heavy ships. ，

On April 3 last year, in the waters southwest of Iceland, the "wolf pack" attacked a convoy protected by as many as eight destroyers, sinking 26 of the 38 transports, causing great panic among the allies. The British Admiralty had to decide to organize a base of escort ships in Iceland and to move the convoy northward as much as possible in order to be protected by the British Coastal Air Force in Iceland.

In order to improve the search for the convoy, Dönitz, commander of the German Navy's submarines, began to abandon the original fixed submarine patrol line and began to practice a large-scale search tactic from May last year, dispersing the submarines in a vast sea area along the line between Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, the southern tip of Greenland, Newfoundland, the Azores, and the Spanish coast. By the end of January this year, more than 4,000 Allied and neutral transport ships with a tonnage of 17 million tons had sunk to the bottom of the sea, which was an important reason for the increasing difficulty of supplying Britain.

After Germany attacked the Soviet Union in June last year, in order to cooperate with the Soviet Union's operations on the battlefield, the German Navy began to transfer some submarines to strengthen the defense of the sea zone in the Boluo Sea and intercept the escort convoy sailing to the north of the Soviet Union in the Arctic sea area. As the Battle of Moscow progressed, the Allies increased their supplies to the Soviet Union, but during the harsh winter months these supplies could only be delivered to Arkhangelsk or Murmansk, in the northern regions of the Soviet Union.

Because the Allied convoys had to pass through the German-controlled Norwegian coast, they were very vulnerable to German "wolf packs" and shore-based aircraft, and the Allied navy's transport ships suffered heavy losses, in the previous months, the Allies had lost a total of 190 transport ships, 1,927 aircraft transported, 1,600 3,641 tanks, 3,106 tanks, and 26,430 non-combat vehicles

vehicles, and three-quarters of other supplies were also lost. It is hard to imagine how heavy the losses of the German army would have been if all these supplies had been handed over to the Soviet army.

Although the Arctic route was extremely dangerous, due to the fact that at this time the Japanese Navy controlled the Pacific and Indian Ocean sea areas, Germany occupied the Caucasus region of the Soviet Union, and the supply of the Soviet Union through the Arctic route has become the only channel at present, so Britain and the United States gritted their teeth and suffered such great losses, continued to resupply the Soviet Union, and began to further strengthen the escort efforts.

In the empty space of the Atlantic, the Allied navies installed catapults and aircraft on almost all transport ships, used carrier-based aircraft to counter German long-range reconnaissance aircraft, and converted some large transport ships into escort aircraft carriers with flight decks, and used carrier-based aircraft to counter submarines, forcing German submarines to be unable to track and difficult to approach escort convoys.

At the same time, the British improved their naval radar technology and used umbrella "snow huā" flares to illuminate the surroundings of the convoy in a matter of minutes, making it difficult for German submarines to carry out surface night attacks, which in turn forced the German Navy to improve the way submarines attacked.

The "spear and shield" contest between the German navy and the Allied navies stretched from the coast of Europe to the coast of the Americas.

Long before Germany and the United States declared war on each other, the U.S. Navy was actually in a posture of sabre-rattling with the German Navy, and after Japan launched the Pearl Harbor Incident, Germany and the United States declared war on each other, and Roosevelt ordered the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy and the Chief of Naval Operations to merge and send a powerful destroyer fleet and cruiser fleet to form an escort formation, which was under the responsibility of Admiral Ingersoll, commander of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet.

Hitler immediately decided to launch a "drumming" campaign and sent a large number of ocean-going submarines to attack the US coast, forcing the US Navy to disperse its escort ships and planes along the US coast.

In the Atlantic theater, due to the number of capital ships and surface ships, far inferior to the British and American navies, Germany has always avoided a decisive battle with the navies of the two countries like the last European war "Battle of Jutland", capital ships, cruisers and destroyers formed a small fleet, distributed in the main port cities on the coast of Western Europe, as a strategic deterrent, and used submarine warfare to destroy the British sea transportation routes, trying to cut off British supplies, forcing Britain to surrender, and taking down the British vaunted navy without bloodshed. And then sweep the world.

The change in the German Navy was the significant strengthening of its naval aviation.

After Reinhard Heydrich became commander of the German naval aviation, he single-handedly presided over the recruitment and training of air forces, and modified the "Zeppelin" aircraft carrier to increase the number of carrier-based aircraft it could carry from 40 to 81, which is equivalent to the number of carrier-based aircraft of the Japanese "Shozuru" class aircraft carrier with the same displacement.

At the same time, the "Seydlitz" aircraft carrier was launched in September last year and is currently being outfitted with flight deck, anti-aircraft weapons, machinery, electronics, and other aspects, and the number of carrier-based aircraft that can be carried on board the ship is somewhat smaller than that of the "Zeppelin" aircraft carrier, with only 75 aircraft.

In addition, naval aviation is also carrying out a program to convert aircraft carriers into carriers, including the "Europe", "Elbe", "Gnexenau" and other escort aircraft carriers are being renovated, and by the time the entire project is completed in August this year, the German Navy will have an unprecedented number of five aircraft carriers.

Such a huge naval air fleet, combined with the two "Scharnhorst-class" battlecruisers, two "German"-class pocket battleships, three "Admiral Hipper"-class heavy cruisers, the battleship "Bismarck" commissioned in August last year, and the battleship "Tirpitz," which will be commissioned in February this year, will have a record-breaking 14 capital ships.

While Nazi Germany was at war on land and at sea with the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom, which had the first, second, and fourth largest industrial production rates before the war, the "Free France" movement led by General de Gaulle finally began its expansion.

Due to the large amount of financial assistance from Nanhua, under the current French thinking of "milk is mother", de Gaulle quickly cleared the internal opposition and regained the right to speak. At the beginning of December last year, the first batch of guns and ammunition arrived in England by transport planes in the "Free France...... The armament has finally taken on a new look.

On December 8, General de Gaulle personally led more than 4,000 "Free French" officers and soldiers to land in the port of Douala, Cameroon, in the Equatorial African region, and the Action Committee set up by the French and local natives, under the leadership of Méng Kral, the director of the Ministry of Affairs, overthrew the rule of Bruno, the governor of the territory, and declared that he had joined the "Free France" movement.

In Chad, a landlocked country in Central Africa adjacent to Cameroon, Governor Félicos Aboue saw that de Gaulle was determined and indomitable, and on the third day of Cameroon's separation from the Vichy government in France, he also sent Secretary-General Laurenti to Douala to contact de Gaulle, and announced a "change of flag" on 12 July.

On the Congolese side, the situation was initially unclear, with the governor of the territory, General Huzon, an old-fashioned soldier who was unwilling to renounce his allegiance to the legitimate Vichy government, as was the case in Gabon and Ubangi.

However, de Gaulle was no longer ready to bargain with these colonies.

As early as a week after de Gaulle led his troops to land in the port of Douala, the first batch of weapons and equipment had been airlifted to Douala, during which time de Gaulle recruited 10,000 recruits from Cameroon, plus more than 4,000 of his own officers and soldiers, and began to march into the three colonies.

On 19 December the "Free French" army captured Libreville and Gabon capitulated.

On December 31, the first day of the new year, Brazzaville, the capital of French Equatorial Africa and the symbol of authority, was attacked by Charles de Gaulle's army.

As soon as the governor of Ubangi, St. Marte, heard of the overthrow of Brazzaville's regime, he sent a telegram to de Gaulle expressing his surrender. On January 10 this year, the Lorraine cross flag was hoisted throughout Ubangi.

In just one month, all equatorial Africa regions joined the "Free France"

For the first time, de Gaulle had his own territory for development, and the entire international situation had new changes.

January 20, 1941, the second and third days of the lunar month, the small year.

Xiaonanhai Governance Hall Qinzheng Building, An Yi's office.

At nine o'clock in the morning, Colonel Ang, the confidential secretary, pushed open the door and walked in, and saw An Yi burying his head in reviewing the official documents, so he didn't dare to disturb and stood aside respectfully, until An Yi finished reading the document in front of him, attached his comments and signed his name, and then stepped forward and reported in a low voice: "Chairman, just now the Ministry of Foreign Affairs called, and the guest list of West Asia and the subcontinent that they have drawn up after consultation with the intelligence department to invite us to participate in our National Day Celebration on February 1 has been determined. ”

"Oh!?"

An Yi raised his head and looked at Android, but his mind began to think about the origin of this matter.

In late May last year, Britain and the United States asked South China to rescue the allied forces on the Sinai Peninsula, and after An Yi painstakingly staged a big drama of "no-fly zone", the An Jiajun, who had the name of righteousness, immediately stepped up its offensive in the Arabian Peninsula.

In order to ensure the safety of the lives of the more than 100,000 allied troops retreating to Yemen, Britain and the United States secretly signed an agreement with South China, demanding that South China send troops to occupy the entire territory of the Arabian Peninsula as soon as possible, and the most important thing was to completely isolate the forces of the allied forces from the German army.

Under such circumstances, when the summer was the hottest in the Bay Area, the An Jiajun was not afraid of hard work and launched a summer offensive in the face of high temperatures of forty or fifty degrees.

At that time, Ye Chengbu and Yang Jiuxiao's troops, which had not yet been reorganized into the Middle East Front, respectively transferred a tank army and a motorized infantry army to form the Peninsula Corps, and launched an extremely brutal campaign in the vast peninsula desert and Gobi region.

The Eighth Air Force Division, deployed in West Asia, sent a total of more than 2,000 fighters to participate in this military operation throughout the whole process, and did a good job in ensuring the army's supply of drinking water, food, and ammunition; by the beginning of last autumn, the Anjia Army had taken all areas of the peninsula except for British Yemen and German Hejaz (including today's Saudi Tayshik and Medina) at the cost of nearly 10,000 soldiers dying due to high temperatures and heat.

The two forces were successfully separated before the weather cooled down in autumn and the Germans were ready to resume their offensive against the British and French allies.

Although Rommel was ready to take tough measures against South China, Hitler's whole body and mind were on the Soviet-German battlefield, and Rommel was required to exercise restraint.

In desperation, Rommel had no choice but to take advantage of the Allied forces in East Africa, and with the cooperation of Italian troops, he occupied the entire territory of Abyssinia in January this year, and is currently engaged in battles in Somalia, Eritrea and Kenya.

The Allies had already sent six U.S. and twelve indigenous divisions from South Africa into Tanzania from Rhodesia (present-day Zambia and Zimbabwe) to reinforce the Allied forces in East Africa.

As the focus of the Axis and Allied rivalries focused on East Africa, the entire Middle East became a forgotten place. The British-backed tribal and colonial governments, which had previously been brutally attacked by the Japanese and Germans, and the religious and secular authorities were in a state of disarray, creating favorable conditions for South China to reshuffle its cards in the region.

After more than a year of investigation by the intelligence department, the list of tribal and religious leaders in the Gulf region that can be supported has been officially delineated, and the intention of consolidating the rule of South China in the coastal area of Bosi Bay has been truly realized.

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After dozens of chapters, the time span will be very fast, and when the time comes, it will counterattack on all fronts, and the mixed battle of land, sea and air will be so cool that it will explode!

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