Chapter 186: World War I
By 1914, under the development of Wang Jundao sparing no effort, following the 08th Group Army, the 01st Group Army, the 02nd Group Army, the 03rd Group Army, the 04th Group Army, the 05th Group Army, the 06th Group Army, the 07th Group Army, the 09th Group Army, and the 10th Group Army had all formed a motorized infantry division, a mechanized infantry division, a fully automatic weapon division, a tank armored regiment, and an army aviation regiment.
However, to Wang Jundao's surprise, until June 28, 1914, the Sosaurjevo incident, the trigger of the First World War, did not break out.
Wang Jundao can only be attributed to the change in history caused by the strong rise of the Chinese Empire, and he is not sure whether a world war will break out in this world, if a world war does not break out, then his preparations for the First World War in the past ten years will not be wasted?
However, under the influence of China in recent years, coupled with various local crises in Europe, two major military blocs have been formed in the European region, and Britain, France, the United States, Russia, Germany, Italy, Austria, and other countries are vigorously developing their militaries and engaging in arms competition.
In terms of land forces, Germany has expanded its standing army to a full 900,000, France to 800,000, Austria-Hungary to 800,000, Britain to 600,000, Italy to 500,000, Russia has been seriously threatened by China, and has expanded its army to a staggering 1.5 million, of which 500,000 are Cossack cavalry, while Japan has always retained a standing army of 800,000.
Affected by the situation in Europe and the military threat from China, the United States has struggled to expand its standing army from less than 100,000 to 400,000. This is more than double the less than 200,000 at the same time in history, but although the number is large, it is mixed, because the Americans are too war-weary and too militarily incompetent.
However, none of this is as terrible as the Chinese Army, because the Chinese Army has always retained 1.8 million regular combat readiness troops from 29 group armies, as well as 600,000 garrison troops in various provinces and 100,000 reserve troops, not including the Chinese Navy, which has jumped to the first place in the world in terms of both the number of warships and the number of soldiers.
Besides. After more than 10 years of development of the martial arts regiment system. Until the abolition of the martial arts regiment system, the land of China has completely restored the style of martial arts, and the whole country is a martial army, and more than 20 million Chinese warriors between the ages of 18 and 22 serve in the military. There are also more than 60 million Chinese athletes between the ages of 22 and 35 serving in the reserves.
Originally, Wang Jundao thought that the world war would probably not break out in a short period of time. But what Wang Jundao didn't expect was this. On July 28, 1914, which was supposed to be the time of the outbreak of world war, the Sarajevo incident broke out.
In Wang Jundao's expectation. On August 28, 1914, the First World War broke out, a full month later than the history of Wang Jundao's previous life!
However, Wang Jundao finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the outbreak of the world war finally did not exceed his prediction too much.
Within half a year of the World War, because Germany was connected with Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria, and Italy, because of its concentration of troops, excellent equipment, fast logistics, and convenient command, Germany won victories one after another, and the armies of France, Russia, Serbia, Belgium, and other Allied countries were powerless, and Serbia, Belgium, and other countries were even directly annihilated.
However, because the Allied Powers were geographically surrounded by the strategic encirclement of the Entente Powers, and because their navies were completely blockaded by the navies of Britain, France, Russia, and other countries, it was almost equivalent to losing contact with the outside world, and the strategic offensive of the Allied Powers gradually turned into a strategic confrontation after March 1915.
In the short months that followed, there were countless tragic battles, and the strategic resources of the Allied countries were gradually unable to support such a huge war, and they could not be supplied with resources from the outside world.
Under such circumstances, the Allies led by Germany were anxious to find a strong foreign aid, and the first thing that Germany thought of was that the army was strong and that of China, which was not compatible with Russia and Britain, so as early as the beginning of 1915, the Allies led by Germany asked the Allied ambassadors to China to negotiate with China, and at the same time sent diplomatic missions from their own countries to China in an attempt to persuade China to join the Allies.
Britain, France and other countries reacted in the same way, trying to persuade China to join the Entente.
However, of course, Wang Jundao will not agree, since the outbreak of the Great War, he has been making a lot of war money, constantly selling a large number of weapons that have been eliminated by the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire to both the Allied and Allied Powers, and also selling weapons to many colonies of the Allied and Allied Countries, so that those colonized in the colonies will rebel.
All of a sudden, Wang Jundao made a lot of money!
As for participating in the world war, of course Wang Jundao would not agree to it in a short period of time, so he adopted a procrastination trick!
He will not join until both the Central Powers and the Entente are seriously weakened, and he will only join the Allied Powers, because there are too many Entente countries, such as Britain, France and Russia, which have large colonies in the world, and only by defeating the Entente can they share more practical benefits!
Wang Jundao's delay is a whole year.
It was not until 1916 that the Allied Powers led by Germany were about to hold on, promising that as long as the Entente was defeated, the Allied Powers would give up the interests of the Pacific region and the eastern Indian Ocean and be owned by the Chinese Empire.
After deciding to participate in the war, Wang Jundao immediately decided to form an army of 100 more armies within a year, and mobilize the whole country to join the whole Chinese people in this war.
In March 1916, in just three months, the Chinese Empire formed an army of 1.2 million troops in 40 armies, which made China's field army swell to more than 3 million in a short period of time, and Wang Jundao declared war on the Entente!
Almost at the same time. Both the United States and Japan joined the Entente and declared war on the Allies!
In April 1916, the combined fleet of more than 600 ships of various types composed of the North Sea Fleet and the Bohai Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy defeated the combined fleet composed of the US Pacific Fleet and the Pacific Fleet, which Japan had developed over a period of more than 10 days, sank more than 150 US and Japanese ships, and captured more than 60 US and Japanese ships.
In May 1916, the East China Sea Fleet of the Chinese Navy attacked Pearl Harbor in the United States. Almost total annihilation of the U.S. Pearl Harbor fleet. After the Marine Corps landed in Hawaii, the 09th Army and the 19th Army of the Chinese Army captured Hawaii under the personal command of Marshal Qin Xiao and others. Within 10 days, 30,000 U.S. troops entrenched in Hawaii were wiped out. Subsequently, ten of the newly formed army of the Chinese Empire arrived in Hawaii by ship. As a result, more than 400,000 troops and more than 50,000 navies have been stationed in the Hawaiian Islands, and thousands of naval support vessels and temporarily hired transport ships have joined the logistics and transportation.
In the same month, the 02nd Group Army and the 12th Group Army of the Chinese Army were under the command of Marshal Xu Jian and others. Entering Burma, it swept through the northern part of Burma within half a month, and the Anglo-Burmese coalition forces in Burma learned for the first time the advanced weapons of the Chinese Empire, such as bombers, attack planes, armored tanks, and self-propelled artillery, and suffered heavy losses.
In the same month, the 06th Group Army of the Chinese Army invaded Hong Kong and Macao in two ways, completely annihilating the 5,000 British troops stationed in Hong Kong and the 500 Portuguese troops stationed in Macao, and recovering Hong Kong and Macao.
In June, the 06th Army and the 16th Army, under the command of Marshal Tang Jian and others, invaded Vietnam, won ten battles and won ten victories, occupied northern Vietnam, and almost completely disabled the British troops in Vietnam.
In the same month, the 22nd Army entered Burma with the newly organized five armies with a total of 200,000 troops, and the 26th Army also entered Vietnam with the newly organized five armies with a total of 200,000 troops.
In July, the 700,000-strong Chinese Army, consisting of the 02nd Group Army, the 06th Group Army, the 12th Group Army, the 16th Group Army, the 22nd Group Army, the 26th Group Army, and the newly organized 10 armies, swept away the main resistance forces in the Indochina Peninsula and completely incorporated the Indochina Peninsula into the Chinese territory.
Subsequently, the 02nd Army, the 12th Army, and the 22nd Army, under the command of Xu Jian, marched west into India and occupied the Bengal region in eastern India.
In August, in the South China Sea, more than 350 ships of various types of the South China Sea Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire defeated more than 200 ships of the Allied Far East Combined Fleet composed of Britain and France in the South China Sea, sank more than 100 ships, captured more than 40 ships, and more than 60 ships escaped.
In September, the South China Sea Fleet defeated the Allied Navy again in the Java Sea, after which the Chinese Navy controlled the Strait of Malacca, and more than 40 ships of the remnant fleet of the Far East of the Entente fled to the Indian Ocean, and then, the 04th Army, the 06th Army, the 16th Army, the 26th Army, and the newly formed 10 armies, a total of 560,000 land forces and 30,000 marines, under the command of Tang Jian, Xu Zhengrong and others, began to sweep through the Allied resistance forces organized by Britain, France and other countries in Southeast Asia, and occupied the islands of Southeast Asia along the way. Wherever there is resistance, they will be destroyed.
In India, the 02nd Army, the 12th Army, and the 22nd Army of the Chinese Army, under the command of Xu Jian, once again defeated 200,000 Anglo-Indian troops, and after a lapse of four years, they once again invaded India.
In the same month, the American Fleet, dominated by the US East Pacific Fleet, fought fiercely with the East China Sea Fleet, and in just four hours, under the serious disparity in strength, the US Pacific Fleet was almost destroyed, and in the end only 11 ships were left to flee in a hurry.
On 18 September, China's air force contingent composed of more than 1,000 bombers and attack planes took off from the Korean Peninsula to bomb Japan's major cities such as Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Nagoya, Kobe, Osaka, and Tokyo.
In October, the 03rd Group Army, the 28th Group Army, and the 29th Group Army of the Chinese Army, 10 of the newly formed 20 armies, of which 10 were formed in the Korean Autonomous Region, plus 40,000 marines, a full 800,000 army, under the command of Marshal Nie Yuanzheng and General Sun Chuanfang, landed in Japan, and more than 300,000 Korean soldiers launched a war of revenge against Japan! (To be continued......)