Chapter 385: The Rise of Brilliant Revival (Finale)
Before the invasion of France, the German Chief of the General Staff, Keitel, asked the Wartime Economic and Armaments Bureau to draw up a plan to equip 200 army divisions. As a result, the production of German [***] fire increased by nearly 60% in half a year, including a 100% increase in ammunition, a 25% increase in tank production, and the steel production of Germany and its occupied territories reached 31.8 million tons, and there were 4,876 factories in the whole of Western Europe that produced arms for Germany.
If we look at the production figures of the military industry alone, then there is no sign of failure or collapse in Germany until the winter of 1944. However, Germany never had enough fuel to fully put this considerable equipment into the battlefield, and the strategic bombing of the Allies and the loss of foreign fuel sources eventually made German military production almost meaningless in the later stages of the war. Thousands of planes, thousands of tanks, and numerous submarines produced from munitions factories were left on the ground or moored in harbor like scrap metal, because there was no fuel for them to go to the battlefield.
Zhang Xuewu knew that the Germans would obviously not repeat the mistakes of the past, because judging from the size of the North African Corps formed by the Germans, the Germans had already made a strategic deployment to attack Cairo and Chen Bing in the Middle East alone, leaving Italy.
In addition to a large number of new fighters in the Hurricane Zero Battle, the Kwantung Army, which was being reorganized in the northeast, was also equipped with a large number of Type 4 and Type 5 tanks, and had a huge number of troops, including 70 divisions, 25 mixed brigades, and 9 field heavy artillery brigades.
At a time when it was not yet a threat to Southeast Asia, in order to save the crumbling Britain, the Americans rolled up their sleeves and jumped into the circle of war, while the Germans suddenly killed the whole world when he was preparing to land in Britain, and Hitler issued Directive No. 21, officially issuing a plan to invade the Soviet Union codenamed Barbarossa. In the face of the aggressive momentum of the German coles, the Soviet Union was not without vigilance. However, considering that its own contingency measures were not sufficient, the Soviet Union hoped to avoid or delay the rupture of Soviet-German relations as much as possible in order to gain more time to prepare for war. To this end, the Soviet side is still vigorously professing its sincerity for peace, continuing to deliver goods in accordance with the trade agreement between the two countries, and refuting in the press and radio the prophecies of an imminent war between the Soviet Union and Germany.
In order to fully adapt to the cold weather in Russia, the German Army was issued a large number of cold-proof equipment, and the tanks were replaced with low-temperature diesel engines and antifreeze engine oil, and the troops carried out a lot of training to adapt to the surname in the cold zone of Norway, and at dawn on December 25, 1940, Germany mobilized 200 divisions, 5,500 tanks, and more than 10,000 aircraft to attack the Soviet Union on a 1,800-kilometer-long front from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea.
According to Hitler's deployment, the German army attacked in three directions, the northern route was directed at Leningrad, the central route was aimed at Moscow, the capital of the Soviet Union, and the southern route was pounced on Kiev, Kharkov and Donbass, which were rich in grain, coal and oil. Most of these middle- and high-ranking officers are excellent commanders who have gone through the baptism of fire in the civil war and have rich combat experience. A large number of officers and men at the grassroots level have been promoted because of their political skills, but they have almost no experience and are still more lacking in command ability. The orders above are all mechanically executed, and in addition, they must ask for instructions before doing things, and they dare not be good at moving without orders, and the cadres who are full of grassroots are rookies who have just left the campus.
When the war lasted until the beginning of March 1941, the Soviet army lost more than 10 million soldiers, the oil fields of the North Caucasus were seized by the Germans, and the Soviet Union fell into an unprecedented crisis.
Since then, the entire World War II has completely deviated from the historical trajectory that Zhang Xuewu is familiar with, but it has moved forward in the direction that Zhang Xuewu had expected! While the Americans were doing their best to help the British in North Africa against the German menacing African Corps, the country also began to enter a state of war, because under this kind of international fighting, no one could be left alone! As a result, the U.S. Pacific Fleet and the Combined Fleet began to cooperate with the British Far East Fleet and the French Far East Fleet on the waves of the Pacific Ocean, and engaged in a series of fierce battles with Yue himself.
The Americans and the Soviets at the same time set their sights on the Chinese political axe that was preparing for war, so the representatives of the Soviet Union and the Americans held several rounds of talks with the United Political Axe in Nanjing, during which the British Far East Fleet was completely annihilated, the French Far East Fleet surrendered and was captured by the Chinese army, and the local forces carried out a leap attack with Taiwan as the fulcrum, capturing the entire Southeast Asia, and strategically Hong Kong, Macao, Burma, Vietnam and other countries.
The situation in the Soviet Union is even more urgent, perhaps in a few months, the powerful red beast will fall under the attack of himself and the Germans, the Soviet political axe finally agreed to return the "Aihui Treaty" since the Soviet Russia invaded all Chinese territory, and recognized Mongolia as an inseparable part of China, in exchange for China to send troops to attack the Northeast, attack Korea, enter the Far East, and send no less than 50 divisions, including five armored divisions, to support the Soviet Union in the war with Germany, the United States and the Soviet Union bear the military expenses of China's troops, And one-third of the supplies provided by the United States to the Soviet Union were allocated to the [***] regiment, which was used as a strategic cluster to accept the strategic deployment of the Soviet army, but the command was a condition.
The Americans, on the other hand, promised to provide China with no less than 700,000 tons of surface warship formations and 200,000 tons of war supplies every month after defeating the combined fleet, Britain promised to return Hong Kong and abolish all unequal treaties, and the French government in exile recognized Annan as a historical vassal state of China and its legitimate territory! After the war, the British will return the cultural relics looted from China since 1840, and the political axe officially formed the Chinese Expeditionary Force, which will go on an expedition to a foreign land to restore the country!
Through many rounds of difficult negotiations, with the successive victories of Germany and Italy, the United States, Britain, France and other countries are not insisting, because the Americans need a strong Chinese army, and the British need to defend India, because in history, the British used North Africa and India to defend the troops were basically the expeditionary force retreating from Dunkirk, but the British expeditionary force was wiped out by the Germans first, so Britain's India seems to have become the fat on his lips! As a result, the United States, Britain, France, and the United States agreed to the conditions that China insisted on in uniting the political axe, and the United States planned to provide China with no less than 120 divisions of weapons and equipment within two years, including 20 heavy divisions and 10 light divisions of new tanks manufactured according to the drawings provided by the Chinese side, and 12,000 combat aircraft of various types.
On the other hand, China's United Political Axe has formed more than 200 integrated divisions, and 3 million field troops out of the original 3.7 million political axe army are fully prepared.
At this point, China has officially entered the tragic World War II! By the end of 1944, the Allies defeated the Combined Fleet in the Pacific, and the five armies of the Chinese Marine Corps cooperated with the U.S.-aided fleet and the U.S. Pacific Fleet to begin to jump over the island to attack the absolute defensive circle of the U.S. Marine, and in North Africa, the Chinese Expeditionary Force repelled the German counterattack, and in Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union and Germany maintained the front in Poland, and it can be said that all the countries participating in the war were exhausted, and even China, which has always had sufficient human resources, began to have a shortage of young and middle-aged people, with more than 10 million of them [***] People fight all over the world.
What Zhang Xuewu expected most was the Germans' understanding of new technologies and the amazing speed of research and development, he provided the Germans' technology to surpass the Germans in a blink of an eye, the Germans' new weapons emerged one after another, due to the four years of continuous war, the economy of the United States, which could not see the hope of victory, also experienced a big decline, so some masters and factions believed that countries should return to the negotiating table again, but the arrogant Hitler resolutely opposed this proposal, and in Asia Zhang Xuewu also resolutely resisted this proposal, because he must surrender unconditionally, Accept the supervision of the Chinese garrison for 99 years, not to have any armed forces, and to compensate China for war losses!
Nagasaki, Kokura, Kobe, Hiroshima, and Osaka were attacked by atomic bombs, and the world was in an uproar for a while! How can China hide such a powerful superweapon? Even Hitler, a war maniac, was shocked.
Under a strong deterrent, the countries participating in the war sat back at the negotiating table!
What is even more shocking is that Hitler actually died in that assassination attempt that obviously failed in history? Hitler's death made Germany seem to have come to its senses, in the face of the still strong German army, under the ensuing difficult negotiations, the interests of Finland and Poland were divided between the great powers, the Germans withdrew from France, Belgium, Norway, Denmark, but still occupied the annexed Czech Republic and the Soviet Union and other areas, the Soviets lost the land in the Far East in Eastern Europe to get back, to achieve land replacement, China, the United States, Britain in the Middle East after the partition, China monopolized the Indochina Peninsula, And from it, ironclad evidence was found that the Indochina Peninsula belonged to Chinese territory since ancient times.
However, it is not without losers, for example, the indemnity set by Zhang Xuewu to Yue himself is ten times the total amount of China's previous indemnities, and he forcibly demolished the Yasukuni Shrine, and the economic plunder in Yueben and the Chinese language plan was hindered by the United States, in Zhang Xuewu's words, it is to make Yue himself poor for at least 100 years.
The moment Zhang Xuewu signed the unconditional surrender, he realized that the Chinese people had paid the price of 36 million people, of which 450,000 were soldiers (during the period of the United Political Axe)!
As a prosperous new nation and a new country, China has once again regained the opportunity to stand on the top of the world's nations, and the price of its rise is too great! Zhang Xuewu suddenly remembered that he seemed to have an ideal that had not been realized, and the Yasukuni Shrine after the forced demolition was changed to a shrine toilet that was open to the public for free, and the tablets of the war criminals stood behind the pit! However, the Tokyo Massacre, which Zhang Xuewu wanted to do the most, lost the opportunity.
Because of the many large-scale executions of prisoners during the war and other issues, Zhang Xuewu was awarded the rank of generalissimo for life after the complete victory, the scepter, the sword, and the gun were relegated to the second line, and the constitution stipulates that the generalissimo for life still has the power to veto the president's proposal not to directly mobilize the national defense forces through the parliament when the country and the nation are in danger, but no one treats this as the same thing, after all, the world is peaceful, the war is over, and the rise of a nation is laid on the blood and tears of countless nations, and natural selection is the way to survive! The benevolent and righteous should go to hell first, so as not to bring disaster to the country and the people, and China has enough living space and resources!
With the United States and the Soviet Union forming the three major post-war forces, and a few years after the war with the German political axe formal alliance, the world is still not peaceful, like a volcanic eruption, the Second World War did not complete the mission of catharsis at all!
However, Zhang Xuewu is already old, and he knows that he can't wait for the Third World War, and the old brothers who followed him are also gone one after another!
In 1972, when violent anti-Chinese broke out in Indonesia, Zhang Xuewu picked up the forgotten scepter for the last time, and the Chinese task force gave the Indonesian authorities and the rioters a comprehensive suppression, and supported a new Chinese political axe, which reminded the world of the old man known for his iron will! Ten years later, the Chinese regime announced that it would be incorporated into the Central Government and become a special administrative region!
(To be continued)