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Chapter 1726: You chase me

On 19 March 1939, the Fifth Airborne Division of the Anjia Air Force, which was responsible for mobile combat missions in Central Asia, successfully landed in the Kabul area. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Because the original airfield in the north of the city had been destroyed by the Soviet army, the choice of the landing site of the airship was quite sad, and finally, according to the aerial photographs, a flat dam in a river valley composed of thousands of acres of barren fields was selected for landing, and it took 20 large airships a full day to send all the 5th Airborne Division assembled in Termez to Kabul.

The Soviets have completely destroyed Kabul, the prosperous city has been reduced to rubble, and hundreds of villages around Kabul have been left uninhabited and in a dilapidated state. Due to the war and heavy snowfall, people from outside could not enter, resulting in the area becoming almost a dead land.

The Fifth Airborne Division, the 15th and 16th Divisions of the Armed Police Force, and the 20th Division of the Engineer Corps, which arrived at the end of the day, brought a large amount of quicklime and disinfectant water, and it took two weeks to complete the incineration of more than 50,000 corpses scattered throughout Kabul and the valleys of more than 80 kilometers from north to south, to successfully repair the airport north of Kabul, and to carry out centralized disinfection of buildings and water sources in the cities and villages.

On 24 March, Li Jinlong's Eighth Army of Sun Desheng approached the town of Maiwande, more than 60 kilometers west of Kandahar.

"Overlooking the loess, the devastated rivers and mountains, it is easy to see when it is difficult to see at other times...... The desolate people will go and change the ...... of the world."

Sheng Shicai, surrounded by four henchmen, stood on the roof of a low two-story adobe building in Kandahar City, looking at the yellow-gray adobe house that made people feel desolate and sad, and couldn't help but shake his head and drop the crepe bookbag.

Although Afghanistan has been full of grievances and the people are struggling to make a living, Sheng Shicai's position has been unprecedentedly consolidated.

Because the wallets were bulging and the food was concentrated, the army grew from more than 100,000 people under its control to 800,000 now, and of course most of the recruits were poor farmers and herdsmen who had just joined the army, and most of them had no hot weapons, but only a Turkish scimitar, which was used when charging into battle.

Sheng Shicai has a very bad feeling about Kandahar, the second largest city in Afghanistan, located in the northeast end of the Lezistan Desert in the south, an oasis at an altitude of 1,000 meters, with Kabul in the northeast, Herat, the third largest city in Afghanistan in the northwest, and only 100 kilometers from the Pakistani border in the east.

But who would have imagined that a city that looks so good on paper doesn't even have a decent landmark? The adobe buildings are all the same, and sometimes they are mixed with the same dilapidated mosques, which makes Sheng Shicai, who has become more and more luxurious after serving as the king of *** and has many beautiful expectations for Kandahar, is greatly disappointed.

Fortunately, Sheng Shicai's wife Qiu Shufang is empathetic, and every time she goes, she fills the harem with Zhang Luo beauties, and after entering Afghanistan, more than 1,100 girls are received by Sheng Shicai's side, so that Sheng Shicai is happy every night. Qiu Shufang also acted as a matchmaker for Sheng Shicai's cronies and Soviet generals, and gave them many good-looking Afghan girls to make them small, consolidating Sheng Shicai's outstanding position in the group.

After living in Kandahar for more than two months, seeing the arrival of spring, Sheng Shi felt that it was time to move the nest, even if An Jiajun did not come to the door, he was ready to leave this awkward city.

In October last year, when the Japanese army launched an attack on the British colonies in Southeast Asia, the British army was losing ground one after another, and it was only after thinking hard about the way out that the exhausted British should have no time to take care of the deserts, the Gobi, the mountains and hills of western India and Persia.

Later, India and Pakistan were partitioned, and the West Indies established an independent state of Pakistan, which incorporated part of the territory belonging to Afghanistan into the territory of Pakistan, which is the federal-administered tribal area close to the border of Afghanistan. In the thirties, the West Indies consisted of Balochistan, the North-West Frontier Province, Sindh and the Great Punjab, of which the population was mainly concentrated in the northern Punjab, and the southern Balochistan and Sindh provinces were only expected to pass through this prosperous era, with a population of only more than 5 million.

Just after the New Year, Sheng Shicai successively sent troops to Balochistan in batches, quietly occupied the area around Quetta, imitated the policy in Afghanistan, banned the privileges of mosques and mullahs, cracked down on landlords and usury, returned land to farmers, and canceled high land taxes and usury debts, quickly winning the support of the grassroots people.

The Indo-Buenos Party had been instructed by the Comintern to fully cooperate with the Shengshicai Ministry in its southward movement. By mid-March, the Soviet army had advanced to Sukkur in Sindh province, directly threatening the security of Karachi, the largest city in the West Indies.

"The chairman of the committee is a poet through the ages, and every word is beautiful, which is impressive!" Sheng Shicai's chief of staff, Wang Hongzao, praised a few words, and then got to the point: "Brother-in-law, the army and the people have been evacuated in large numbers, and now there are only the 1st Cavalry Division, the 2nd Cavalry Division and the Mechanized Brigade left in Kandahar, and the defense is empty, so let's evacuate first and talk about it in India!" ”

"It's okay!"

Sheng Shicai raised his hand and shook it: "The enemy is more than sixty kilometers away from Kandahar, and our wives, children, children and dependent relatives have also set off in advance.

Speaking of this, he turned around and faced the four people behind him: "Hongzao, Ji Shu, Yingqi, Pu Lin, you are all old men who have followed me for many years, and you are loyal to me, tell me, why do we go to India, not to Persia according to Moscow's wishes?" ”

"Persia can't go, the conditions there are too difficult!"

Li Yingqi, the Minister of Intelligence and Security, who is in charge of the operation of the secret service system of the Sheng Shicai Department, said: "According to cavalry reconnaissance, most of the southeastern Persia region is desert land, only the oasis area around Zaheedan has a relatively sound water conservancy and irrigation system, and the rest of the mountains and hills are barren. Therefore, even if you want to go to Persia, you can only use a small force to slowly infiltrate it and establish a relatively complete supply system before you can dispatch a large army.

"The march into India was different, although the southwest of India is also desert and hilly, but with the irrigation of the Indus River, coupled with the irrigation system invested by the British, food production can basically meet the demand! At the same time, unlike Persia, which has nothing but oil, India has a relatively complete industrial system, and after we enter, we can get a large number of industrial products to replenish it, and if we can wait for the opportunity to occupy a few steel plants, our weapons and equipment will also be found.

"In addition, the region is full of religions, Zoroastrianism, Hinduism and Islam, as well as the fierce struggle between Shiites and Sunnis within Islam. In terms of class contradictions, in the past two years, business owners in Europe and India have continued to dismiss workers and cut their wages with so-called measures to rationalize production, and the workers' discontent has long reached a critical point, and the peasants have complained about the rapid deterioration of their living conditions! Coupled with the uprising against British colonial rule that began in India the year before, we intervened at this time and achieved twice the result with half the effort! ”

"Good!"

Sheng Shicai praised encouragingly, and continued: "Yingqi said it very well, but this is only one of the reasons for our entry into India, who will say it?" Even if you say it, don't be afraid to say it wrong! ”

Li Pulin, the godson of Sheng Shicai's father-in-law, Qiu Zongjun, now serves as Sheng Shicai's minister of civil affairs and president of the court, and is one of Sheng Shicai's think tanks. He looked around vigilantly, and said in a low voice: "I'd rather be a chicken than a cow, let's go to Persia, there are many superiors, and their actions are assigned everywhere, just like a wronged little daughter-in-law, there is no freedom at all." On the other hand, if we go to India, we can develop on our own and do whatever we want, and it is not necessary to say that the army may be able to continue to develop and grow, and then it will be self-contained. ”

Sheng Shicai said: "Very good, Pu Lin is quite discerning, which is the main reason why we went to India." Another point is that now the British army is mainly concentrated in the eastern part of India, resisting the attack of the Japanese army, and its western defense is extremely empty. Mumbai has a large number of factories and enterprises, steel mills, textile mills, printing and dyeing factories, chemical plants, oil refineries, this alone is richer than the whole of Afghanistan, once we control the place, the Germans and *** people will naturally come to the door, we are really out of the blue! ”

Finance Minister Peng Jixuan is Sheng Shicai's brother-in-law, and his eyes flashed with greed: "The southwest region of India has always been the territory of the kings of various princely states in India. In this world, only with money can we pay the army and buy guns and ammunition, we left our homeland and came to Afghanistan from ***, isn't it because the economy is not autonomous, and the Soviets took advantage of the gap to enter, and the troops were controlled by others everywhere?

"Now, we not only have sufficient development funds, after continuous battles, those Soviets who control the grassroots troops are either killed in battle or bought by us, although we still have the name of the Soviet army on our heads, but basically we have completed the control of the army. After waiting in India, they will fight a few battles with the army of the princely states, so that the new recruits, under the leadership of the veterans, will gradually adapt to the life of killing people and setting fires, and the combat effectiveness will come out.

"What we have in our pockets is money, robbing all the way to Mumbai, at least doubling our wealth, plus we still control such a division of a hundred battles, where in the world can we not go?"

"That being said, I'm still worried that An Jiajun won't play his cards according to common sense and chase after us to fight behind our butts!" Chief of Staff Wang Hongzao glanced back at the West with some fear, felt a chill in his heart, and couldn't help but tighten his collar: "That army is a crazy man from top to bottom, one by one they are not afraid of death, and their weapons and equipment are super strong, even the Japanese army, the British army and Mao Zibing can't beat them, and we can't solve it if we meet." I'm not afraid of a few jokes, I don't know the bottom of my heart! ”

"Hongzao's concern is not unreasonable!"

Sheng Shicai was furious by Wang Hongzao's words, and he was coldly choked, and after a while, he forced a smile and said: "So let's have a red heart and prepare with both hands." There is a railway across the Indo-Afghan border, and in the last European war, the British took great pains to open a land bridge, and from Bengal in eastern India, they could take a train all the way to the Mediterranean.

"From Quetta in Balochistan, there is a direct railway to Zahedan and Sulgaz in Persia, let's first send troops over to occupy there, contact Chuikov and them, get some armed equipment supplies, and then send a force all the way south to occupy Sistan-Baluchistan and Hormuzgan, control the Strait of Hormuz where the Persian Gulf connects with the Gulf of Oman, and it is best to intercept a few fleets at Bandar Abbas, and if necessary, we can flee to the Arabian Peninsula.

"As long as we have money, even if we lose the army, we can go to England, France, Germany or the United States to be a rich man and live a chic life."

Wang Hongzao and the others all nodded. Walking around from Afghanistan, sweeping away the mullahs of the tribe and the mosque, now it is not an exaggeration to describe the Sheng Shicai Group as a rich and rival country, with money and courage, it will become smaller, and it will seek stability in everything, leaving a way out for yourself is naturally a necessary choice.

Sheng Shicai looked at his watch, turned around and walked towards the staircase, and said as he walked: "It's not early, let's leave." It's really cheap to settle down this time, there are mud houses everywhere, even if you want to set fire, you can't do it, but I didn't even leave a single one for them, seeing that they don't know what's going on, they can only be in a hurry, haha! ”

The four henchmen behind Sheng Shicai glanced at each other and laughed knowingly.

At four o'clock in the morning of the next day, Li Li's 22nd Motorized Infantry Division of the Eighth Army occupied the deserted Kandahar, and 32 hours later, Li Dinglu's 24th Motorized Infantry Division occupied the Indo-Afghan border town of Spin Burdak southeast of Kandahar.

After that, it was not until mid-May that the Anjia Army was completely stationed in all cities and towns in Afghanistan and exercised effective rule over the entire territory of Afghanistan.

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At a time when the Anjia Army seized the time to liberate Afghanistan in order to pave the way for the next move, the German Führer Hitler, who was stimulated by the victory of the Navy in the Indian Ocean naval battle, also could not wait to issue an order to the Wehrmacht to start the implementation of the "Wiesel Exercise" plan ahead of schedule.

On the night of 23 March, in front of the "Plaza Hotel" in the central city of northern Germany, cars were crowded, and Air Force officers walked into the hotel one after another.

Since a few weeks ago, it has been home to the Air Force's Forward Command, commanding all of the Air Force units in charge of the imminent Wiesel exercise. Air Force Commander Goering personally summoned the commanders to the site, explained their tasks, and gave them the order to attack the "Wiesel Exercise," which was drawn up in great detail.

In the early morning of the 25th, Germany launched a surprise attack on neutral Denmark in the name of preventing the invasion of Britain and France and ensuring the security and stability of the Baltic Sea.

At half past five in the morning, the Junker-52 transport plane of the 8th Squadron of the 1st Special Mission Bombing Aviation Regiment, carrying the 4th Company of the 1st Airborne Regiment, took off from the Yuttesen airfield and flew towards Denmark.

Under the surprise attack of German paratroopers, the Danish troops stationed at the airfield did not put up any resistance, so the Germans easily captured these two important airfields without using more troops.

Immediately afterward, the 159th Infantry Regiment, which followed the 4th Company of the 1st Regiment, landed smoothly, and the two airfields became military bases for the German army.

Other Junkers of the 8th squadron, crossing the Baltic Sea, flew all the way to the Waldingburg Bridge.

The Wördingburg Bridge connects the Danish islands of Zealand and Falster with a total length of 3.5 kilometres and is the only access road to Copenhagen from the islands of Gesai and Zealand further south.

It was also a quarter past six when a white parachute fluttered down near the Wördingburg Bridge. When the paratroopers landed, there were no guns on the ground, and there were no sirens, as if the area was still sleeping in a peaceful dream.

The commander of the 4th Company, Lieutenant Glick, who led the assault, landed on the embankment leading to the iron bridge, and he mounted his machine gun on the embankment, from which he could both strafe the Danish coastal positions and cover the safe landing of his subordinates. However, from beginning to end, the Danish position was silent.

Therefore, after jumping quickly from the ground, the paratroopers rushed into the Danish position with only the pistols they carried with them, and they passed in front of the frightened sentry who raised their hands in fright, penetrated into depth, and disarmed the well-armed bridge garrison in a matter of minutes.

A squad of paratroopers, riding captured bicycles, quickly ran to the bridge, and the bridge guards, armed with light and heavy machine guns and mortars, also chose to surrender without firing a shot.

At this time, to the surprise of the paratroopers, a German infantry rushed from the opposite side of the bridge, which turned out to be the advance force of the 305th Infantry Regiment, which had arrived here by sampan from Warnemünde to Gesai Island as planned, and encountered little resistance along the way.

In this way, the Germans took full control of the geographically important bridge without much effort.

The advance force of paratroopers and infantry marched into the town of Wördingburg, and then occupied a bridge connecting the islands of Masnard and Zealand, and the whole operation was successfully completed in less than an hour. At the same time, the German landing force landed on the islands of Zealand, Funen and Falster.

The ground forces that invaded Denmark by land across the Dande border met no resistance, and as if they were on vacation, the Germans quickly advanced into the interior of Denmark and into the capital, Copenhagen.

It turned out that at half past six in the morning, King Christian X of Denmark was woken up in his sleep to personally accept the war letter handed over by the German ambassador to Denmark.

After seeing the war letter, Christian X broke out in a cold sweat and urgently summoned the Danish cabinet members to a meeting, and after a brief discussion, Christian X made a wise decision - to give up resistance.

This decision of Christian X saved the Danes, the Danish army who gave up resistance, obediently handed over their weapons to the Germans, the whole battle lasted only four hours, and the Germans easily occupied the entire territory of Denmark without anyone killed, and this was only the beginning of a series of battle plans - Europe is about to change!

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At 12 o'clock at noon on the 25th, Oslo, the capital of Norway, across the Strait from Cape Grenen, Denmark, across the Strait of Skagerlag.

The chamberlain, Golding, hurriedly walked into the palace study and respectfully reported: "Your Majesty, Defense Minister Quisling has asked to see you. ”

"What is Ghisling doing here?" King Haakon VII of Norway, who was listening to the radio, waved his hand in a very bad mood: "Call him in......"

After a while, Quisling, led by the attendant, entered the palace reception room.

Quisling's face was a little pale, and there was a hint of tiredness in his eyes, and after bowing to Haakon VII, he asked solemnly: "Your Majesty, do you know about the surrender of the Danish royal family and government to the Germans?"

"I've just heard the news...... I wonder what my Minister of Defense thinks about this? "Haakon VII stared at Gisling with blazing eyes, and he knew very well that Guixling, a right-winger in the cabinet, the notorious leader of the Norwegian Nazi Party, had come to see him this time, and it was very likely that he had come to be a lobbyist for the Germans." Don't want me to surrender without a fight! Haakon VII thought indignantly.

"Your Majesty, it's incredible, it took less than four hours for the German *** team to fully occupy Denmark, their next target is very likely to be our Norway, we must prepare in advance." As he spoke, Gisling frowned, looking worried.

Haakon VII smiled coldly: "Mr. Minister, what do you say we should do?" Surrender or Struggle? ”

"Surrender? How could His Majesty have thought of surrendering? Shouldn't we be armed for an active struggle? ”

Quisling asked with some doubts: "Your Majesty, although Denmark has failed, our Norway is not comparable to a small country like Denmark, we have a huge territory of 390,000 square kilometers, while the Danes only have 40,000 square kilometers, only one-tenth of our land area. The Danes have failed, but that doesn't mean we're going to fail. Your Majesty, we cannot afford to be inactive like the Danes, and we must be well prepared to deal with all difficulties. As long as the Germans dare to set foot on Norwegian territory, we will drive them back without hesitation. ”

Haakon VII was dumbfounded, and thought to himself, how could the hardcore pro-German element Quisling take the initiative to resist German aggression? You're not dreaming, are you?

Seeing Haakon VII in a daze, Gisling said urgently: "My Majesty, what time is it?" Don't hesitate! Up to now, we in Norway had only six infantry divisions that were not fully manned, and in the event of a surprise attack by the Germans, they would not be able to resist them. War is imminent, we must strengthen our combat readiness, Your Majesty, I need your personal authorization! ”。

Haakon VII thought for a moment and asked, "Mr. Minister, how long do you think our Norwegian Wehrmacht will be able to resist if the Germans take the initiative to attack us?" ”

"I don't know!"

Gisling shook his head solemnly: "But I can assure Your Majesty that I will try my best to buy time for His Majesty and his family to evacuate safely, whether it is to Sweden, or to the United Kingdom or the United States, as long as Your Majesty is in one day, our Norway will never perish!" ”

Listening to Quisling's answer, Haakon VII had more doubts in his heart, and he couldn't think of the main point, so he simply asked: "Mr. Minister, don't you have a good impression of the Germans, how can you ......?"

"It's different!"

Quisling shook his head and replied solemnly: "I like Germany, but that is on the premise that Germany has not invaded Norway." Your Majesty, do not forget that I am not only a native of Norway, but also the Minister of Defense of Norway, and I cannot watch my compatriots live under the coercion of the invaders, and whoever dares to invade Norway, even if it is Germany, which I admire, I will fight to the end! ”

"I'm sorry, Mr. Quisling, you are a noble patriot, I misunderstood you before!"

Haakon VII was greatly moved, stood up and held Quisling's hand tightly: "I agree to your request, my minister, I will issue an order for combat readiness now, and I must fight the invaders to the end...... However, the order must be issued in secret, and we cannot give the Germans any excuse to start a war......"

With that, Haakon VII took Quisling to his study and wrote an order in his own hand, asking Quisling to prepare for war in the name of the king.

"My most respected majesty, time is urgent, I will take my leave first." Seeing that his goal had been achieved, Gisling saluted Haakon VII respectfully and strode away. The moment he left the palace gate, a smug smile appeared on his face.

According to Hitler and Heydrich's newly developed plan for the annexation of Norway, everything was carried out in an orderly manner. The Norwegian chariot was destined to take the Germanic tracks.

Immediately after sending Quisling away, Haakon VII summoned his attendants and ordered all the gold and silver from the Norwegian National Bank to be loaded into a truck to the palace, and ordered that the jewelry, paintings, and antiques in the palace be loaded into a truck as soon as possible, waiting for the order to escape.

......

3 p.m. on the same day, 10 Downing Street, London, England.

"The bad news has been coming one after another...... Yesterday we just promised the Muslims in India that the end of the war would give the Muslims a chance at independence, and today the cowardly Danes chose to surrender without firing a shot, and Hitler is one step closer to Norway, what should we do now? British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain asked, looking at the crowd in the room.

"Prime Minister, we must preemptively occupy Norway before the Germans, cut off Germany's iron ore passages, and if possible, we must occupy Sweden's iron ore producing areas and completely cut off the Germans' main source of iron ore." The pot-bellied Admiral Winston Churchill replied in a deep voice.

Chamberlain nodded, turned to the Secretary of War Hall, and asked the Secretary of War Hall. Belisha: "Sir, are the two divisions of the expeditionary force formed together with the French ready?" ”

Hall. "You can get on the ship and set off at any time, but now the French are a little hesitant, according to the information obtained by the intelligence department, the Germans are very likely to attack France next month, and the French seem very hesitant!" ”

Coordinating Secretary for Defence Charter. Lord Field said: "Let them rest assured, the coalition forces landed in Norway, the Germans will naturally send troops to Norway, they will not watch their iron ore passage cut off, then the Germans will inevitably move north, and the pressure on the French mainland will be much less." ”

At this time, the director of the sixth division of the British *** intelligence department was closed. General Sinclair walked into the conference room, an urgent report in his hand.

Secretary of War Hall. Belisha took the telegram and read it, and hurriedly stood up and reported to Chamberlain: "Your Excellency, Bletchley Garden has successfully cracked a few telegrams sent by the German High Command to its northern garrison. Matheson. Dr. Turing deciphered that several telegrams contained the specific word 'Norway', which proved that the German team was ready to enter Norway at any time, and we could not hesitate any longer! ”

"But—"

Chamberlain shook his head with a wry smile: "Actually, I have long known the importance of entering Norway, but Norway is a neutral country, what is the difference between us attacking a neutral country like this and the Germans?" In the event of an invasion of Norway without a declaration of war, we will be under tremendous pressure in international public opinion. ”

"Please do not forget, Prime Minister, that we have lost the Eastern Fleet, Sarawak, Burma, and the Straits Settlements, and are in danger of losing India, Persia, and the whole of the Middle East...... If we don't take the initiative and allow Norway to be occupied by Germany, the patience of the people of the Reich will reach its limit......"

Churchill stood up with a big belly and said solemnly: "In the worst-case scenario, after we defeat Germany, we will compensate the Norwegians with some war reparations, and this money will be paid by the Germans at that time, and we do not need to issue a shilling at all. When Germany occupied Denmark this morning, did you think about the pressure of public opinion? ”

Chamberlain finally made up his mind: "Alright, Winston, as you wish, go and make a battle plan at once, the sooner the better!" ”

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: Explain, the reason why the Germans' strategy of Denmark and Norway is written here is because history has changed, and the next step will be the British and French invasion of Norway, and the Germans will send troops to rescue them, so that the Norwegians can be tied to their chariots, and the historical enslavement of the Norwegians has become two different concepts! Add to this the neutrality of the Netherlands, and Germany will be in a much better position in Europe than it is in history!

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