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On July 11, 1939, the German Empire suddenly launched a small-scale attack on the Lorraine area, trying to forcibly regain the Lorraine area, and after attracting the main French force to Lorraine, the main force of the German Army began to storm Belgium, and the British and American garrisons in Belgium had to urgently withdraw to France.

At this point, World War II broke out.

This day may be very special for Hu Chuyuan, the Second World War that he single-handedly created finally broke out.

The same battlefield is defined differently by each country.

In China, it's a war of nations and races; In Germany, in Ben, in Russia, in Spain, it was a war of revenge; In Belgium, the United States, Great Britain, France, it was a just war against aggression; In the Ottoman Empire, in Persia, in Egypt, it was a holy war about faith; In the Yugoslav Confederation, it was a war about the final reading power......!

In Italy, it was a war in which the fascists ruled and conquered everything...... That's a lot of fun.

This war has long since lost the distinction between good and evil, and it is in fact a war for the right to determine the world's finance, trade, and resources, and the victorious side will establish a new order according to its own will, redistributing all power in the world according to its own needs.

If the Americans win, the Pacific and South America will be Americans.

The starting point of the real split between China and the United States was the Hawaii incident, and after Hawaii was finally incorporated into the territory of the Federal Republic of Mingzhu and became an autonomous province, and the United States Navy was forced to withdraw from Pearl Harbor, there was already a certain war between China and the United States.

War was destined when China expelled Italy, Spain, and Portugal from its sphere of influence in Africa and appropriated their former overseas provinces.

As the Chinese dollar gradually replaces the pound sterling and may eventually become the new world currency, China and the UK will no longer be able to negotiate cooperation as they have in the past.

As for the Sino-Russian war, it was even sooner or later, and not a single Russian was willing to give up so much territory.

With the world's major powers still gathering in Europe and still hoping that the British, American, and French blocs will dominate the world order, China can only become a world hegemon through war.

Regarding this, Hu Chuyuan had thought about it before World War I, so he began to prepare for this inevitable war very early.

The world has fallen into the final madness, everyone is roaring, people in the war are crying in grief, and more people have turned their grief into a strength, picked up guns and walked to a new battlefield ......!

The State Military Council in Yingtai, Yenching, is busy holding various meetings, and Li Kaiye is still making a final effort, warning Britain, the United States, France, and the Atlantic Alliance that they must exercise restraint on this matter, that China is willing to hold new coordinated talks with the Atlantic Alliance and Germany on the Belgian issue, and that if the Atlantic Alliance chooses to declare war on Germany regardless of the serious consequences, China and the Eurasian Alliance must also declare war on the Atlantic Alliance.

Under the control of the committee, the tone of the media has always been crazy, and they have begun to preach the war, Sino-German friendship, China's dominant position in the Asia-Europe Union and the responsibilities that must be assumed, explaining that Germany has to make this decision only in order to recover the Lorraine region, and the ultimate responsibility is still on France, as long as the French are willing to return the areas seized from Germany, Germany will withdraw from Belgium.

In the midst of this chaos and noise, Hu Chuyuan, chairman of the Ecumenical Party and honorary speaker of the National Assembly, did not attend the meeting of the State Military Commission.

The National Military Commission has a total of 33 formal members, seven of whom are the most powerful members of the Standing Committee, Premier Hu Weizhong is a member of the Standing Committee, 208 President of the Engineering Yuan Hu Weitang and Speaker of the House of Representatives Hu Weirong are all full members, and they are all meeting in the conference room, which will ultimately decide whether China will enter the war or not.

Hu Chuyuan was the general counsel and had the right to attend the meeting, but he did not go.

Others held meetings there, and he summoned his nephews Hu Weizong, Hu Weikang, Hu Weichen, Hu Weiqing, and his son Hu Weixin, all of whom were the elite of the third generation of the Hu family, whose job was to run the Fukang Consortium, into his office.

Hu Chuyuan was so old, with gray hair and wrinkles, he just sat silently in a chair on crutches and listened to Hu Weizong's report.

Since 1927, the Fukang consortium has been making preventive adjustments to the possible world war, and in the past ten years, the Fukang consortium has been retreating from the markets of the United States and other Atlantic countries, and the huge profits cashed out from it have been used to strengthen the BASF Group, Standard International and Anglo-Dutch Fortis Group, and control Siemens Group, Opple Group, Thyssen Steel Group, Krupp Mechanical Heavy Industries, Mercedes-Benz AG, Philips AG, Allianz Insurance Group, and Lufthansa through cross-shareholding within the sub-consortium.

At present, the major military industries of Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Greece are almost all in the holding and joint holding of the Fukang Consortium.

Among these countries, China and the Fukang consortium focus on supporting Germany, Czechoslovakia and Greece, and the Czech Republic and Greece as two particularly important machinery industry bases, for the Fukang consortium, the real safest investment is to transfer back to the country, a large number of funds have been withdrawn from the country, continue to invest in mining and industry, through the financial pillar to support the development of domestic agriculture and light industry, and then in the heavy industry investment to collect rich returns, this is the most important way of survival of the Fukang consortium.

In terms of overseas investment, the Fukang consortium has also gradually avoided areas where war may break out, especially in the two countries where investment was more concentrated in the early stage, except for part of the capital through Switzerland's status as a neutral country, most of the investment has been cashed out, although a complete set of industrial systems have been established for Spain and Portugal, making the economies of Spain and Portugal among the top 20 seats in the world, but also large-scale arbitrage of rich returns.

At present, the total asset market value of the Fukang consortium is equivalent to six times of China's total annual GDP, and a large number of gold and silver assets are held, and the total treasury bonds of the Eurasian Union countries, including China and Germany, held by the Fukang consortium, have reached 147 billion yuan, accounting for 1/5 of the total assets.

These assets are re-invested in the second round of commercial investment in the Asia-Europe Union through the pledge of government bonds.

The war will inevitably cause the entire stock market to fall in a large area, but the stocks of resources and heavy industries will inevitably rise against the trend, which is a doomed result, and the Fukang consortium still has enough channels for investment and hedging.

It took Hu Weizong half an hour to briefly report the current situation of the Fukang Consortium to Hu Chuyuan, and Hu Chuyuan listened quietly.

It wasn't until Hu Weizong stopped talking and stood quietly in place that Hu Chuyuan gently raised his hand and said, "Weizong, sit down!" ”

"Thank you, uncle!"

Hu Weizong sat down respectfully and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

No matter who it is now, he will be under indescribable pressure in front of Hu Chuyuan, even if it is a family member like Hu Weizong.

Hu Chuyuan sighed silently and said, "Weizong, you have done a very good job over the years, and your father's training in the early years was indeed effective. It's a pity that your father is no longer there, and I and your third uncle are left at home, and we are also old and can't help you. ”

Hu Weizong said: "Uncle, you don't have to mind so much, you are now also full of children and grandchildren, and you have worked hard for the country and our Hu family for so many years, it is time to enjoy Qingfu!" ”

"yes!"

Hu Weiqing, the eldest son of the Hu Shiyuan family, also sighed, but he is not an old man with a full house of children and grandchildren, with four sons, six grandsons and two granddaughters, and he is the most blessed person in the Hu family of Qingyutang.

Hu Chuyuan sighed and laughed.

In life, when it is time to recognize the old, he has to recognize the old, he is already such an age, the children and grandchildren are full, the sons are all successful in their careers, and his eldest grandson, Hu Weiting's sons, are already in their sophomore year at Aurora University, does he still want to disobey the old?

He turned to Hu Weizong and said: "Let you come over this time, one is to get together and take a look at the younger generations of your generation, and the other is to explain that the money will not be made after all." The war in front of us is already inevitable, if we lose, the price to be paid by the Fukang Consortium is huge, you have to understand in your hearts, so ah...... At this time, don't care about making money, and find a way to raise more materials to donate to the country. ”

Hu Weizong said: "These things, I just talked to Weizhong a few days ago, if nothing else, our brothers of this generation will make more efforts, donate at least ten aircraft carriers and 6,000 tanks, and we also want to set up a separate charity fund to take care of the war disabled soldiers, and the total amount is estimated to be no less than 2 billion yuan." ”

"Hmm!"

Hu Chuyuan nodded with satisfaction, but said again: "These are all small money, if it's just for this little thing, I can't call you all over to discuss together!" ”

Hu Weizong was quiet, and immediately said: "Uncle, there is no need to discuss this matter, but if you feel that there is something that you must contribute, let Weitang inform me and others, and I will wait for my nephews to do it." ”

Hu Chuyuan hummed and said, "You have to understand this account and understand the truth in it." I'll tell you an old story, when the French attacked Vietnam and endangered our country, at that time, our family only had more than 60 million taels of silver, and I secretly paid more than 30 million taels of silver to all the soldiers and horses of the imperial court. If it weren't for those things back then, how could we get to China today and Fukang today. If you want me to see, even if we invest 100 billion yuan, it is not too much, at least it is better than defeat, waiting for those people in Britain, France and the United States to copy our investment in Germany and Greece. In case Germany is defeated, and others hit our homeland in one go, our losses will be more than just this money! ”

Hu Weizong is not only a little smacked.

100 billion yuan.

According to the current exchange price between the Chinese dollar, gold and silver, 100 billion yuan is equivalent to 194,000 tons of silver, or 9,700 tons of gold.

What a huge asset.

However, Hu Weizong did not dare to object, but sighed: "Uncle, I don't think there seems to be so much need in the country, and according to the current domestic economic situation, the problem of military spending is not so big!" Of course, since the uncle said so, we will definitely do it! ”

Hu Chuyuan said: "What you said is not wrong, so this payment is mainly based on the German side." Vizon, you should hurry up and go to Germany, and at the same time negotiate a war donation, finalize the subscription of a German government bond, it doesn't matter if the amount is larger, of course, there is still something in return. As for other uses, you and Wei Tang talk about it, I heard that the army is asking for a larger tonnage of transport aircraft, the technical problem is not big, the key is the high cost, if you can build a thousand, the cost may be reduced, but unfortunately, our military spending is still a little tight after all, and it is not possible to buy thousands of planes at a time. ”

Hu Chuyuan wants to say that this transport aircraft can theoretically be regarded as a tactical transport aircraft, using a new type of turboprop engine, with a carrying capacity of 20 tons, the same model of the military transport aircraft is a new type of civilian transport aircraft JN-10 developed by the Jiangnan Heavy Industry Group, and the number of the military transport aircraft is A-10.

On the basis of this transport aircraft, there are new AWACS models, which are designated EA-10.

The army decided to purchase more than 600 planes after comprehensive consideration, and Hu Weitang's actual analysis was that it should be equipped with about 3,000 planes, which should be equipped not only for China, but also for other countries in the Eurasian Alliance, especially in the southern front group army and the Pacific theater, the role of the A-10 will be very large.

The main constraint now is indeed the problem of funding, especially under the premise of a great expansion of the navy, the army and the air force have to cut some of the requirements, this problem was originally caused by Hu Chuyuan, and he naturally has to solve it.

The domestic advantage in the field of engines is obvious, whether it is turbojet or turboprop engine, at present it has matured in technology and production, and in the case that the engine is not an obstacle, the A-10 is easier to put into production as a transport aircraft than an epoch-making jet fighter.

Since Hu Chuyuan had made this decision, it was inconvenient for Hu Weizong and others to oppose it, so they could only contact the Military Commission as soon as possible according to his request, and were willing to increase military spending and direct donations by purchasing national bonds, so that the army could install 1,200 A-10 series transport planes at a time.

Hu Chuyuan's goal in doing this is also obvious, once the A-10 series transport aircraft is put into large-scale service, it will be a great supplement to the pressure of railway transportation during the entire war.

The number of 1200 is not even enough.

Hu Chuyuan's suggestion is to try to increase the production capacity of several factories and jointly produce them in China, and there is no advantage in quantity, and the advantages of this kind of transport aircraft are not enough to worry about.

…… For this coming war, no one dares to ignore it, dare not make a single small mistake.

Since 1933, the Atlantic Alliance has begun to prepare for war, and the situation in the Asia-Europe Alliance is similar, except that China's preparation period is slightly earlier than ten years, and the degree of investment is more resolute.

The arms race between the two sides is being waged simultaneously in the three fields of land, sea and air.

In terms of the army, automatic rifles have become the mainstream choice, Britain, the United States and France have their own automatic rifles and semi-automatic rifles, and tanks are the common focus of the two camps, Britain has 7 new tanks in service, and there are many more under development, France has 4 types, the United States has 6 types, and Britain, France, the United States and Russia have also jointly developed two types.

The competition in the navy is concentrated on battleships, and the idea of winning by tonnage and artillery is still clear, but the competition for aircraft carriers has also begun to heat up, and the two camps are constantly competing in various fields such as cruisers and destroyers.

In the naval competition, China is indeed stronger than any other country, but if we calculate according to the two camps, the strength of Germany and France is roughly equal, the strength of China and the United States is roughly equal, and the Atlantic camp has one more British navy than the Asian-European camp out of thin air.

Whether it is Poland, Greece, Yugoslavia, Ottomans, Persia...... These are all weak countries in terms of naval strength, and in the Atlantic camp, the United States, Britain, France, Italy, Russia, and West can be regarded as relatively powerful countries in the world's navies.

The reason why Li Kaiye is reluctant to invest too many resources in the navy is obvious, and it is difficult for China alone to reverse the disadvantage of the Eurasian alliance in terms of naval strength.

In the competition of the air force, China is still the dominant power, the United States is close behind, Germany and Britain are in the same class, France is relatively weak, but the strength of Italy and Russia in the air force is by no means comparable to Poland and Greece.

It is not enough to just look at China as strong, there are some internal disputes within the National Military Council at this time, and the main problem of this dispute is that the strength of the allies is not enough to challenge the Atlantic Alliance.

The current situation of this war is already obvious, basically China and Germany vs the United States, Britain, Russia and France, Italy, Ben, Spain...... These second-rate powers were pitted against more second-rate countries such as Poland, Yugoslavia, Ottomans, and Persia.

In addition, Ukraine, Hungary, Romania, and Greece are in the Eurasian Alliance, and their actual subjective willingness to fight is very low.

If World War II finally starts, what the final outcome will look like is indeed unpredictable for Hu Chuyuan and the vast majority of people in the world.

China's only chance of victory may be that the superiority of the army is indeed obvious, and according to the current state of the reserves, it is not too much of a problem to eventually expand to 30 million troops, and the equipment can still be maintained at the world's first-class level.

From this point of view, the First World War and the Second World War are completely incomparable in terms of the overall situation, and they are two world wars in the same concept, and the scale is completely different.

…… Belgium was so critical that the Atlantic Alliance quickly rejected the proposal made by the Chinese State Military Council, demanding in the most severe ultimatum that Germany must withdraw Belgium within three days.

The answer given by Germany was simple, go on the offensive.

Due to the insufficient number of troops stationed in Belgium by Britain, the United States and France, and the inadequate preparation of Belgium, under the lightning offensive of the two German armies, the Atlantic Coalition had to withdraw to France in a comprehensive and urgent manner.

On July 14, 1939, the two sides finally declared all-out war.

Li Kaiye is not an old man younger than Hu Chuyuan, but the times have pushed him to this position, if the war breaks out a few years later, he will smoothly transfer the position of president to Cai Ye as originally discussed with Hu Chuyuan, and let Cai Ye face World War II.

On this quiet night, after the final general mobilization order and the emergency front adjustment and appointment were issued, Li Kaiye sat silently in the office of the presidential palace, and there were too many thoughts tumbling in his heart.

He wished he could be twenty years younger, and if that was the case, he would be able to step onto the battlefield himself.

In order to cope with this battlefield, in the past few months, China's military forces have made a major and comprehensive adjustment, and seven main battlefields have been established: the northern, western, southwestern, far eastern, southern, African, and Pacific fronts.

Undoubtedly, the two main battlefields of the Northern Front and the Pacific are the two main battlefields where China must win.

Lin Qiaochun, deputy chief of the Navy's General Staff, served as the commander-in-chief of the Pacific Theater, Vice Admiral Zhang Zhepei and Vice Admiral Wei Lihuang served as the deputy commander-in-chief of the theater, and the three were also urgently promoted to generals.

Zhang Zhepei, who is known as the "naval philosopher," is the commander-in-chief of the Pacific Combined Fleet, and his mission is to fight a decisive battle with the United States, and in the early stage, it is necessary to try to prevent the United States from aiding Australia, so as to facilitate the capture of Australia by the Pacific Theater and the Southern Front Group Army.

Zheng Dalian, who was brave and courageous, served as the commander-in-chief of the Indian Ocean Combined Fleet, and his mission was to prevent the British and French navies from aiding India and Burma, blockading the Indian Ocean, prohibiting the transportation of Australian and Indian resources to the European continent, and implementing a maritime blockade of India and Burma, assisting the Southwest Front Army to fully occupy Burma, Assam and Bengal, and finally annihilate the British garrison in India.

Chen Yuzhang, who is relatively more stable, serves as the commander of the Combined Fleet in the Mediterranean, and his combat mission is to ensure the security of Yugoslavia, Egypt, Ottomans, Greece and other countries, as well as ensure Black Sea transportation to help the army support Ukraine in a timely manner.

Lin Chuanming was the commander of the Atlantic Combined Fleet, and his temporary task was to prevent the Atlantic Alliance from attacking the German Navy with all its might, and at the same time to prevent the Atlantic Alliance Navy from crushing the coastal defenses of West Africa, to ensure that African resources were supplied to Greece through the Mediterranean, and then to complete the supply to Germany.

This time, the forces of the Central Affairs basically attacked on two fronts at the same time, mainly on the northern front and the southern front, with the northern front quickly launching a full-scale attack on Russia and the southern front attacking Australia. The strategic task of the former is to oppress Russia, prevent Russia from attacking Ukraine and Poland with all its might, and avoid Germany fighting on two fronts, while the latter's task is to directly capture Australia and complete the occupation of Australian resources.

This is Li Kaiye's overall warfare, and his theory of overall warfare is like this, the more such a world war, the more important resources are, and the first thing is to ensure the superiority of resources.

In almost the shortest possible time, Germany expanded its army to 4.8 million men, and ostensibly planned to continue attacking France through Belgium, but in reality it was implementing the Manstein Plan, rushing out of the Ardennes Pass and attacking the central part of France.

The Atlantic Alliance was caught off guard by such a battle plan, and most of its forces were concentrated on the defense of the entire line between Lille and Saint-Quentin. In fact, when the plan was first proposed, German Field Marshal August von Mackensen had discussed some rough possible surnames with Lee Kai-yee.

Li Kaiye's answer to him at that time was that it was completely feasible, and the key was the level of tanks and armored vehicles, and it was best to design tanks, combat vehicles, and transport vehicles in accordance with this requirement, and strengthen the engineering attack on this area in the shortest possible time after that, so as to ensure the subsequent transportation and supply capacity, and it would be better if it could be transported by air.

The luck of the Germans is very good, the T-20 and T-25 series tanks can meet this requirement, the PZ1 tank developed on the basis of the T-20 is also the first class in the light tanks in the whole Europe, the PZ2 is a medium and heavy tank developed on the basis of the T-25 tank, combined with many of Germany's own ideas and advantages, compared with the T-25 tank has a very big progress.

The combat effectiveness of the German army and the power of the Chinese military equipment were amazing, and in just a few days, the steel torrent of the PZ series quickly destroyed the weak defenses of the French army in the center, and the German army penetrated and then approached Paris from the center.

The Atlantic Coalition defenses in the Lille region quickly contracted and retreated, trying to rescue Paris, while the large German forces gathered in Belgium broke through the defenses.

Under the attack from the north and south on both sides, the Allied army was in a dilemma and could only retreat to the Rouen area, and the French army did not even have time to mobilize the whole country, Paris was broken by the German army in the shortest possible time, and the French political axe was forced to withdraw to Rennes.

The first person to get this news was Yang Zhenlin, at this time he was mobilizing the Northern Front Army to prepare for an attack from Yabinsk, and the army pressed up, forcing the Russian army to mobilize a large number of troops on the Eastern Front to defend him, giving him a chance to annihilate the main force of the Russian army on the whole front.

Yang Zhenlin and Cai Ye are classmates of the Central Army Academy and the Central Military University, and they also participated in the war against Russia in World War I together, and their fate is always so peculiar.

For this war and the lightning raid, he secretly prepared for several years, like the Germans, and immediately after the official start of the war, he led his army to the Volga, 22 expanded divisions divided into six armies, a total of 1.27 million troops, a total of more than 12,000 tanks and armored vehicles.

The surprise attack of such a large large-scale mechanized corps is already a very common tactic for China, and the only countermeasure of the Russian army is to resist it with mechanized troops of the same size.

The Russians, who had repeatedly suffered losses in the battle against China, had learned wisely, and this time, instead of letting the army rush quickly, they steadily expanded the defensive line and expanded the total strength of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd armies in the Far East to 2.44 million men in the shortest possible time, using huge tank groups to counter them.

Until the superiority of the new Chinese tanks could not be determined, the Russian army resorted to such a strategy of steady defense that was the most correct.

Yang Zhenlin was not surprised, as he added new troops and more mechanized troops to the country, while slowing down his progress and switching to defensive operations in Orenburg and Ufa, and waiting for opportunities to find flaws in his opponents.

His task is not complicated, the focus is to attract most of the strength of the Russian army, and strive to fight a decisive battle of unprecedented scale in an area favorable to China, if the final decisive battle must be carried out deep into the interior of Russia, especially in the Moscow region, it will be more than worth the loss.

The northern front is the center of China's two major theaters, and with the rapid expansion of armament mobilization in China, at the end of September 1939, the strength of troops on the northern front has expanded to 4.72 million, and the Russian army is also expanding its forces on a large scale.

This battle is destined to be an extremely tragic battle, whether it is the Chinese or the Russians, no one can afford to retreat and lose, especially the Russians, who have lost to an unbearable limit.

At this time, all Russians are willing to give up everything in order to win the war and regain everything they have lost.

At such a time, no amount of weapon superiority can hardly have the desired effect.

China's State Military Commission has long expected this, and in China's art of war, everyone has always said that the time and place are favorable, and that harmony is the best, and that the Russians are at the top of the people at this time, so how can they be easily defeated?

Almost the best weapons and equipment have been sent to the army group on the Northern Front, which is preparing to quickly defeat the opponent with large-scale military equipment while attracting the main forces of the Russian army to deploy in the Volga River valley with large-scale forces.

However, the Russians were also extremely jealous of this, and they held firmly on the west bank of the Volga, using the wide river to try to stop the onslaught of the armored group of the Chinese Northern Front Army.

The army could not fight, the air force was already in full battle, the Russian army suffered very heavy losses in the air force, and large-scale bombing continued to extend towards the belly of the Russian front.

Almost at the same time, the Germans had captured most of France, the main forces of the Atlantic Coalition were forced to retreat to Spain, and the United States finally realized that they had to take full action and had to send troops to Spain on a large scale.

The engagement of the American and German armies on the European continent was already an inevitable result.

For the Germans, their best news is that the main force of the Russian army is completely pinned down by China, they only need to fight on a single front, and even Poland and Ukraine have not been attacked too much by the Russian army.

On September 23, 1939, the Southern Front Army finally began a full-scale attack on Australia, and in the joint offensive, in addition to the Southern Front Army, there were also the Nanyang Coalition Army, the Nanyang Combined Fleet, and the Pacific Combined Fleet.

This attack had been planned for a long time, but for the Atlantic Alliance, it was indeed a very unexpected one.

No one would have thought that China would attack Australia, but who would have thought that it would be at this stage, and that the first wave of the offensive would be so huge that the US Pacific Fleet would not be able to cross the blockade of China's Pacific Combined Fleet, nor would it dare to engage in a final decisive battle with China in the navy.

Since neither Britain nor the United States dared to cross the blockade line of the CCP Navy to support Australia, there were 1.7 million Chinese in Australia, which was not much worse than the number of whites...... One of the goals that Britain particularly wanted to achieve in this war was to expel these Chinese who had entered Australia illegally, but this was very difficult, in fact, China quickly occupied the entire western and northern regions of Australia, and sent a steady stream of land forces to attack Australia.

In February 1940, the entire territory of Australia was occupied, and the re-established Provisional Political Axe broke off all relations with Britain and the Atlantic Alliance, joined the Asia-Europe Alliance, and promulgated the new "Provisional Management of War Resources Act", which allowed the exemption of mining taxes during the war period and the full supply of materials to China and the Eurasian Union.

In March, Li Jishen led the Western Front Army to formally intervene in the European theater, mainly attacking Italy, and sending more than 200,000 troops to support the Persian and Ottoman Empires in their attack on India.

On 17 March, Yang Zhenlin launched the world's largest army decisive battle to date -- the decisive battle of Volga, in which more than 10 million troops from both sides gathered in Saratov for a decisive battle.

Prior to this, the Air Force and artillery units had been carrying out continuous bombardment of Saratov for more than two months.

In this battle, both sides used large-scale rocket artillery forces almost simultaneously, but China's research and investment in rocket artillery is amazing, the overall scale is more than 20 times that of the Russian army, and the continuous attack of more than 6,000 rocket artillery vehicles has caused the Russian army to lose most of its positional barrier within 60 kilometers.

The two sides fought repeatedly around the Volga River, and the Russian army paid heavy casualties, losing Saratov several times and retaking it, which is very tragic in the case of the loss of air supremacy of the Air Force.

The concentration of the army put greater pressure on transportation and supply, and the air force was transferred from Central Asia and Xinjiang Province to Yabinsk at the fastest speed, and the large-scale appearance of jet fighters also caused the Russian air force to pay heavy casualties, and in the battle of Saratov, the Chinese army also used missile forces for the first time, and it was a large-scale attack on the opponent's airfield and other key facilities, and a large number of Russian air forces were forced to withdraw to the Moscow region.

On April 14, 1940, Jiang Guangnai took the lead in breaking through the defensive line in the Kazan area and bypassing the Volga River to attack the rear front of the Russian Eastern Front Army, which was the first large-scale appearance of T-30 and T-35 series tanks, and the Russian army also sent elite TK-34 series heavy tanks during this period.

The massive qualitative and quantitative disparity between the two sides allowed the TK-34 tank group to be quickly routed, and the massive mechanized corps of the Army Group on the Northern Front quickly maneuvered through the opponent's defensive line, dividing the opponent, and finally allowing the main forces to break through the Volga line.

After the loss of the Volga Line, the Russian army quickly and massively retreated, abandoning a large amount of land and concentrating on the outskirts of Moscow to organize a larger defensive line.

In the European theater, the first large-scale battle between the main forces of the German army and the American army also began, and the German tank army group led by Guderian finally collided with Eisenhower and Bradley.

With the fall of Australia, the massive rout of the Russian army on the Eastern Front, and the full shift to contraction defense, the entire Second World War did not usher in the turning point that Auguste von Mackensen and Lee Kaiye hoped for, but completely inspired the power of the United States.

The U.S. military began to enter the war in full force, millions of troops landed in the African and European theaters, Britain and the United States really joined forces, and began to give greater aid to Russia.

The war is destined to enter an even more frantic phase.

As Hu Chuyuan initially predicted, this was only a war between China and Germany and Britain, the United States and Russia, and everyone else was just a supporting role. In order to maintain naval superiority in the Pacific waters, China did not send its main fleet to attack Britain as originally promised, which in fact would have been an impossible promise.

China has firmly blocked the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, and the main focus of Britain and the United States at this time is to concentrate their fleets in the Atlantic, trying to capture Africa and Europe.

In the case of the suppression of the Russian army, Germany has always been very stable and only needs to face its own front, with the resources of Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Balkans and the assistance of other industrial countries, Germany does not have a major crisis problem at all.

Chinese Army General Li Jishen also led the Western Front Army into Italy.

Ma Jijiang was transferred from the Western Front Army Group to serve as the commander-in-chief of the African Army, and cooperated with the German army Rommel to jointly attack the French and British colonies in Africa, and quickly captured Algeria.

…… This is destined to be an era of famous generals emerging in an endless stream.

When you look at the Brothers, you will sigh that a company officer has such good qualities, in fact, such a situation is more common in Germany and China.

In the long-term diversion of state resources to industry and military education, a large number of non-commissioned officers trained by the mid-affairs education system have filled the entire army, and a large number of high-quality grassroots officers have ensured the combat effectiveness of the entire military force.

This is especially true in the Army and mechanized units.

Beginning in May 1940, the Second World War was completely out of control, and there was no turning back for both sides, and the large-scale landing of the US military in Europe and the appearance of the German submarine wolf pack tactics came almost at the same time, and in just a few months, the British and American armies lost more than 600 transport ships and cargo ships, and more than 40,000 soldiers died directly in shipwreck.

Even so, the United States and Britain did not stop sending troops to the Iberian Peninsula and repeatedly fought with Germany for French territory on the European continent.

During this period, although Russia lost the Volga Line, its troops on the Western Front continued to regain control of Belarus, Lithuania and other regions with the support of Britain and the United States, and tried to press on Poland.

Although Ukraine is a member of the Eurasian Alliance and is economically controlled by the Fukang consortium on a large scale, they did not really send troops to support Poland, but secretly reached some kind of special agreement with Russia, only providing resources and military products to Poland, and not sending troops to the war, and at the same time not prohibiting the export of non-military materials to Russia.

Ukraine is struggling, and as a country with limited strength, it is certainly not willing to go to war directly with Russia, but it is not willing to give up the Kursk iron ore mine that it accidentally acquired in World War I.

It was not until July 1940 that the Russian army suddenly sent troops to capture the entire Kursk iron ore mine and the surrounding heavy industrial area, that Ukraine finally sent troops to the Russian army and stopped supplying any supplies to Russia.

At the end of July 1940, as Ukraine officially entered the war, China's Northern Front Army began a large-scale second round of offensive against Russia.

At the end of October, Yang Zhenlin was only 30 kilometers away from Moscow, and finally considered supply and other issues, Yang Zhenlin was forced to withdraw his troops and re-occupy Kursk and Tambov, completing the basic task of providing protection for Germany on the Eastern Front.

The order to withdraw troops and reoccupy Kursk was given by Cai Yi, and as the chief of the army's general staff, why he did this is a question that many people cannot say.

Many of these decisions seem to be clear to only the Army General Staff Headquarters and Li Kaiye.

Hu Chuyuan was also surprised when he learned the news, but he didn't rush to ask.

At this point in the war, it is no longer possible to settle the situation in the first war, and as for what Cai Ye and Li Kaiye are thinking, he can't say clearly.

(To be continued)