An extraordinarily large-scale amphibious landing operation is the most test of an army's ability to organize and coordinate, and the vast ocean is a natural barrier, and if we want to smoothly cross the ocean, we must have sufficient preparations, and in addition to the army, the most important thing is the ships.

All the shipyards along China's coast, starting from Qingdao and extending to Qinzhou, and even Da Nang in Annam, are busy, with all workers working in two shifts, around the clock, to catch up with the work. Thousands of landing craft were quickly equipped into the army like dumplings.

The same is true of the Americans, whose shipbuilding industry is at full capacity, but the Americans have to support the landing in Japan and deal with the Germans, so the concentration of ships is a little smaller than that of the Chinese, but it is also a considerable number.

The bombers of the other two countries also shifted the focus of their attacks, which were originally mainly factory areas and cities, in order to weaken Japan's war potential and disrupt the operation of the military industry. Now, in order to attack the Japanese mainland, the focus of the attack has naturally become road traffic, and all railways and highways must be destroyed, thus limiting Japan's ability to mobilize troops, which plays an important role in landing operations.

For the first time in both China and the United States, which was implementing such a huge landing plan, they attached great importance to it and established a huge command structure, which was directly responsible for the two heads of state, and more and more supplies and troops were concentrated in the south of Korea.

Before the war, there were two governments in Korea, the south was under Japanese control, and the north was under Chinese influence, and now China has swept away the Japanese army in south Korea, and the reunification of Korea is on the agenda. It is also an opportunity that North Korean President Kim Koo has been waiting for.

For many years, he has been a pawn controlled by China, a puppet president without any rights, and can only watch China and Japan use North Korea's territory to fight back and forth, not to look at how many soldiers have died between China and Japan, in fact, the worst is the North Korean people, their homes have been completely destroyed. A large number of North Koreans were also drafted to serve on the front lines.

The Chinese side is helping North Korea achieve reunification. Shouldn't the North Koreans contribute? Japan, on the other hand, claimed to help South Korea resist Chinese aggression. Koreans also have to pay the price in blood.

The greatest sorrow of a small country sandwiched between two great powers is this, the entire peninsula has been torn apart, and North Koreans and wives have been separated. The pain is endless.

Jin Jiu was also depressed, especially when he thought of Ruan Aiguo, who died in vain, he was terrified. But he has been holding on to his body, waiting for this opportunity. The Japanese forces were driven out of Korea, and as one people, Korea and South Korea had to be reunified.

Moreover, North Korea has become an anti-fascist side, that is, it is on the side of the United States and the Soviet Union, so it is natural to be able to get the support of these two countries, and Kim Jiu fantasizes about using the power of the United States to balance China, and then realize the independence and reunification of the entire peninsula.

However, it can only be said that his wishes are good, as for the reality, it is more cruel, where will China let North Korea go beyond its control. Of course, the Chinese government has also had a fierce quarrel over how to deal with North Korea, and the military's opinion is simple. That is, to follow the example of the Nanyang countries and completely annex Korea. It became a province of China.

On the part of the government, however, there is a different view, and the government represented by Yan Xishan advocates the preservation of the DPRK as a state and the tying of the DPRK to China's chariot through economic means.

Yan Xishan's reasons are also very good, first of all, North Korea is relatively barren and does not have many resources that China desperately needs. In addition, after the Japanese colonial rule, Korea was quite disgusted with the colonial power, and the resistance was fierce. During Japan's rule in Korea, there were numerous assassinations and riots. China's forcible annexation of North Korea would have the same result, and China would have to spend a lot of energy to maintain stability in North Korea. Moreover, the United States and the Soviet Union will not want to see China over-expand, and they will definitely do everything they can to restrain it.

Qiao Yu combined the opinions of the two factions, believing that the country of Korea had existed for thousands of years, and it would be absolutely difficult to annex it easily, so Qiao Yu agreed to keep Korea as an independent country. But the territory had to be adjusted to include the northern half of the peninsula, which is about one-third the size of the entire Korean Peninsula, with Wonsan and Sunju as the boundaries.

China's acquisition of this land is mainly to provide a buffer zone for the northeastern industrial region, and the northern part of Korea is also the most resource-rich region on the entire Korean Peninsula, where a large number of factories have been built since the time of Japanese rule, and it has a good economic base.

In addition, China also wants a piece of land is Jeju Island, which is the largest island on the Korean Peninsula and the dividing line between the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea.

In addition to these two sites, the North Korean ports of Incheon and Busan are also to be leased to China as military bases. China's will cannot be changed by anyone, and after Qiao Yu made this decision, he set about expelling the Koreans and naming the newly annexed land Lelang Province.

Of course, China can't be too ugly, and Qiao Yu also proposed compensation to North Korea, that is, to put Japan's Tsushima Island and Kyushu Island under the jurisdiction of North Korea to compensate for North Korea's territorial losses. This proposal looks good, but it is a harbor of evil, as long as the Koreans dare to take over the two Japanese islands, these two countries will become permanent enemies from now on, and there is absolutely no room for détente, only to fight to the death, and China can sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight.

In fact, Qiao Yu also considered whether to annex Japan and Korea, and later Qiao Yu denied this view, it is too difficult to annex a country that has been established for thousands of years. And from a geopolitical point of view, there must be a buffer zone between the great powers. Japan and South Korea are buffer zones between China and the United States in the Pacific Ocean.

Otherwise, China and the United States will directly face each other in the Pacific Ocean, and any move will touch each other's nerves and lead to a strong confrontation. The big countries are like children with excess energy, and the buffer zone is the toy, with which direct conflicts between the big powers can be greatly reduced.

After China's plan was proposed, Jin Jiu saw that the last chance was about to be lost, and immediately fell into despair, he resolutely refused to agree, and hoped to invite the United States to come forward to defend the independence of North Korea.

China is not worried about his attitude at all, without Jin Jiu, there are still others willing to do it, at this time a little-known young man suddenly appeared in the field of vision of the North Koreans, this person is Kim Sung-il, in China's propaganda, this young Korean general who has just established himself is a real hero, and has made great achievements in liberating the whole of South Korea and defeating the Japanese occupation army.

Kim Sung-il's power swelled rapidly with China's support, and the aging Kim Koo had no way to fight the young man, so Kim Sung-il quickly seized power in North Korea and agreed to China's demands without hesitation.

The straightening out of the Korean problem was also a great help for China to launch a campaign to land on Japan, and while China was planning its final offensive, the final decisive battle of the Soviet Union and Germany was also being staged, that is, the Battle of Kursk.

At Stalingrad, the Soviet side wiped out more than a million German troops, completely stabilized the front, and began a local counteroffensive, recapturing the lost territories, forming a huge salient in the Kursk region.

The Germans found that this was an important fighter plane, as long as all the Soviet troops in the salient were wiped out, they would be able to seize the initiative on the battlefield again, so Hitler sent the most trusted Manstein as the commander-in-chief, and the commander of the Soviet side was also the best general Zhukov, which can be described as a war of needle-to-needle.

In order to be able to win this battle, the German side concentrated more than 2,900 tanks and self-propelled guns, and most of the mobile forces on the Eastern Front were mobilized here, while the Soviet army had 5,100 tanks, and in terms of numbers, the Soviet Union had almost twice the advantage.

But this was the smallest gap between the Soviet Union and Germany in armored forces! In fact, people have a misconception that Germany was able to quickly occupy a large amount of Soviet territory and achieve a brilliant victory in the early stage of the war, so it is logical to think that German tanks also had an advantage over the Soviet Union.

In fact, at the beginning of the war, German tanks were far inferior to the Soviet Union in terms of quantity and quality, and tanks No. 3 and No. 4 were no match for the Soviets T34. Germany was able to achieve victory mainly because of the huge gap in the quality of soldiers and the use of tactics on both sides. Moreover, because Germany miscalculated the situation of the war and did not implement the general mobilization order, the number of arms produced was insufficient for a long time, and by the time the Germans realized the cruelty of the war, it was too late.

The Battle of Kursk was the first major battle in which the German military industry was mobilized, and Tiger tanks also participated in a large number of battles, and the gap between the two sides was the smallest.

The war showed a cruel side from the beginning, in the face of the German Tiger tanks, the Soviet tanks did not have much resistance at all, and they were destroyed in pieces, as the supreme commander of the Soviet army, Zhukov could only be glad that he had chosen the right one, and did not blindly launch an attack, but took a defensive posture in the case of superior forces, otherwise the Soviets would definitely suffer heavier losses.

At this time, the most active on the battlefield in Kursk was not the tank troops, but the logistics support troops, the maintenance personnel. In fact, most of the tanks that were damaged on the battlefield can be repaired, and as long as they are repaired, they can once again exert their powerful combat power, so when the tank is fighting, the number of destroyed tanks announced in the battle report far exceeds the total number of tanks on both sides, which is actually the result of some tanks being repaired and re-put into battle.

At the time of the Tehran Conference, due to the heavy loss of human resources in the Soviet Union, Stalin asked Qiao Yu to send some technicians to help the Soviet Union, and Qiao Yu agreed to this proposal and sent more than 3,000 professional maintenance technicians. These skilled and hard-working men quickly earned the respect of the Soviets, and most of them fought on the front line in Kursk, helping the Soviets repair damaged tanks. (To be continued.) )