Chapter 377: Bing Feng 1939 Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou
On August 23, 1939, after reaching a neutrality pact with Nazi, the Soviet Union finally signed a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany after difficult negotiations, and the Soviet-German non-aggression pact included a secret clause, that is, to divide the sphere of influence among the Eastern European countries between the two countries, among which Finland was assigned to the Soviet Union, and then Germany attacked Poland, and the Soviet Union then sent troops to the east, and only a few weeks later, the two countries divided Poland.
However, the situation in Finland was different from that of Poland, which maintained good relations with the Western countries and received military aid from them, and in the three years from 1935 to 1938, Britain supplied Finland with weapons and equipment worth 210 million Finnish marks.
The Luftwaffe built more than 20 field airfields and a complete network of air defense systems for the Finnish Air Force, British and German military instructors have been helping Finland train officers, and with the support of Western experts, Finland has built a strong defensive line named after Mannerheim on the Karelian Isthmus.
As early as the spring of 1939, when the Soviet Union took the initiative to hold secret negotiations with Finland, it began to explore the possibility of realizing its own attempts.
However, Finland pursued a policy of non-intervention in the midst of the conflict between the great powers, declaring that it would never stand on the side of one power against another, so that all the secret negotiations did not yield any results because Finland rejected the demands of the former Soviet Union.
In the end, Stalin's patience ran out, and the Germans achieved great success in successive armed operations against the Rhine demilitarized zone, the Soviet Union, the annexation of the Czech Republic, and the partition of Poland, which deeply stimulated Stalin's territorial ambitions, or rather, the revival of the wild surnames in the bones of the Slavs.
However, the result of the Soviet-Finnish war was for Hitler to see the weakness of the red monster Soviet Union, and the strength of Germany was strong, especially after occupying the world's second largest arms exporter and the world's third industrial power, the strength of the Germans could be said to have skyrocketed, and after taking over the Czech arms factory completely, the Germans had completed the final preparations for war.
Nearly three million young Germans of school-age were encouraged by the Nazi Party to put on military uniforms and serve in the Wehrmacht and the SS.
The war clouds in Europe are getting denser and denser, and the sense of oppression that the Germans have brought to Britain and France and the Soviet Union is also getting stronger and stronger, and the Soviets have begun to secretly express to Zhang Xuewu that they have the possibility of reopening the aid route for the Far East, and the Soviet side has begun to mass-produce new fighters and tanks and equip the Soviet Red Army's Guards and People's Internal Council troops, and on the Asian side, he has also realized the mistake of his entire China strategy, and it has become impossible for him to swallow China before Zhang Xuewu's forces are completely eliminated. With the help of the greed of the Nine-Power Treaty Organization, Nanjing was still turned into an international trusteeship zone, and with the help of Nanjing, it formed a surrounding defensive zone against the Beijing-Shanghai-Hangzhou region, and relied on the three aircraft carriers on the Bund of the Huangpu River and more than 300 combat planes of the army and navy aviation that had been deployed at seven field airfields near Shanghai.
The areas in the Beijing-Shanghai-Hangzhou area that can be used for large-scale operations by the army are divided by vertical and horizontal water networks, which is very unfavorable to the development of large corps, and it is easy to fight the battle into one by one put into use of troops.
On the other hand, the Chinese army has no such concerns, because almost every division and regiment is equipped with a temporary boat and bridge brigade, and there are steamboats and rubber boats to fight in areas with water supply networks, and he is able to quickly mobilize more than 300 armed steamboats and shallow-water patrol boats from within the country.
What I am most worried about with the Nine-Power Convention Organization is that once the Northern Provisional Political Axe, which has just been announced to be established for less than a year, reaches an agreement and reunification with the Wuhan National Political Axe, the two sides will once again coordinate all combat resources under the same name, because according to Ishihara Guaner's analysis, once the negotiations between the North and the South are concluded and the two sides form a joint political axe, then the Imperial Army of 17 divisions and seven brigades in the Beijing-Shanghai-Hangzhou area will face a great test, and being driven into the sea is not an empty word, but Zhang Xuewu has a huge combat power. If the army and navy air forces are unable to gain superiority or even maintain balance in the battle for air supremacy, then it will be a catastrophe for both the Chinese fleet on the sea and the 17 divisions and seven brigades that are firmly on the road.
I can't even accurately estimate Zhang Xuewu's strength now? Because Zhang Xuewu is like a landlord in the countryside of China, who hides the money jar at home so that he can't find it? God knows how many advanced weapons Zhang Xuewu still hid?
The economic crisis in the United States can be said to have swept nearly 700 factories in the United States through European businessmen, so that the American political axe has to publicly come forward to prevent this largest acquisition and merger in history, but Zhang Xuewu has not fulfilled all his wishes, for example, the acquisition of the Amanwin shipyard in New York was prevented by the US Navy and failed.
There is no shortage of people of insight among the Americans, but the strength of these people is still too weak, in the United States, which pursues an isolationist economy, these people can not exert much power, otherwise Zhou Ying's secret operation resistance will be greater, when the Americans realized that in just three years, nearly 27 percent of the grassroots industrial factories in the United States were acquired, demolished, and shipped? Seventeen percent of high-level skilled workers went to the warring East to pan for gold, and many even picked up their families from the United States a year later.
Is there really a piece of paradise on earth in the Far East? Many American businessmen began to seek to register companies in Switzerland and Sweden to do business with Zhang Xuewu, despite the fact that the Soviets cut off military aid, but the greedy polar bears were still allowed to pass through their territory as long as they paid enough fees for goods passing through their territory.
(To be continued)