readx; There are always foreign politicians who believe that China has become a world economic power because of its population as large as locusts, and that if war were to break out, the yellow race could not be a match for the white race, and the defeat of the Soviet Union in 1920 and the defeat of Italy in Ethiopia were just two special cases. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

There is no shortage of market for this kind of rhetoric in Europe and the United States, and many politicians and racists will say so.

Believe in the fact that in the 1940s, racists were the mainstream of the world, and broadly speaking, until the 70s of the 20th century, the United States was still under the rule of racists.

The Chinese Empire still had a lot to do in order to rise to become a true world hegemon during this period, and it might be a good way to defeat the German nation, the Caucasian race, which thought it was the most capable of fighting wars.

Of course, it doesn't make much sense, as long as they want to commit racial discrimination, racial discrimination will be everywhere.

Therefore, the only good way is to truly rule the world, economically, militarily, or otherwise, like the whip of God, and put the whole world under the rule of the Chinese Empire.

That's the best outcome.

The Chinese may lack the special strict discipline of the German nation, but the Chinese have a spirit of dedication and hardship that other nations do not have.

The Chinese are brave.

The Chinese also have a strong desire for victory.

Both China and Germany were trying to transfer all their resources to the battlefields of the Volga campaign, and the advantages of the Chinese Empire were more obvious, with more troops and supplies, and more powerful tactics and equipment.

Volgograd has long since become a devil's city, broken arms and ruins, in disarray, heavy and sturdy steel tanks crushed the ruins of the city, making a strange clattering sound, the soldiers of the 14th Panzer Infantry Division followed the tanks and infantry armored vehicles in the ruins, and the snipers of the two armies maneuvered around the ruins of the city, from time to time there were cold gunfire sounds, or bursts of machine gun fire broke out in succession.

The German infantry usually used the universal machine gun MG34 as the main fire point, built a simple machine gun barrier, and seized high points and important control points, while the Imperial infantry mainly relied on special new weapons such as bazookas at the company level.

In tactical training, the difference between the two sides is here, around the different superior weapons for attack and defense, the imperial infantry in the training is always required to accompany the tank and armored vehicles forward, although the empire also has a similar MG34 TG35 \ 40 type general purpose machine gun, but in the actual tactical offensive, more rely on the infantry fighting vehicle on the 12mm caliber M20 heavy machine gun to play the main counterattack firepower, infantry needs to be the first time to cooperate with the tank and armored vehicle artillery, the use of rocket launcher \ howitzer \ Mortar way to quickly eliminate the opponent's point of fire.

The squad level is mainly matched with a gun-mounted 30mm grenade launcher, with an effective range of 300m, which is the most important stronghold attack firepower of the Imperial Army at the squad level, and it is matched with the M35 assault rifle with more powerful firepower, but at the platoon level, the Imperial Army has been matched with HT33 45mm rocket launchers and 60mm mortars, which can effectively carry out three-dimensional positional attacks.

In the large-scale mechanized blitzkrieg operation, the Nazi German army overemphasized the core position of the tank, for the sake of speed and maneuverability, most of the infantry in the squad and platoon level firepower, the German soldier in the squad level of the grenadier is light, but it can not compete with the more accurate grenade launcher, at the platoon level, only relying on the M34 general machine gun fire interception ability, can not effectively resist the Imperial Army's three-dimensional attack at the platoon level, especially in the face of the M20 heavy machine gun, The caliber of the universal machine gun still does not guarantee sufficient counter-force.

The two sides have been engaged in a two-week tug-of-war in Volgograd, and the result is that the Germans are constantly pushed out of the city, and the casualties are more serious, although the German 30mm caliber anti-tank guns are light, but in terms of combat effectiveness, it is usually difficult to effectively attack the MBT series tanks within 400m, and the MBV infantry fighting vehicles of the Imperial Army can only be effectively attacked at a distance of 750m.

The length of modern military equipment is always mutually restrictive, MBV2 \ 3 series of infantry fighting vehicles are equipped with M20 heavy machine guns, in the range of 1300M have a very strong anti-infantry gun and infantry machine gun stronghold capabilities, in order to effectively attack in urban street fighting, the Imperial Army in the MBT35 tank on the basis of the improvement of the front-line engineering combat vehicle, the installation of heavier power engine and huge bulldozer device, or pressure demining device, can effectively clear the battlefield, This allows tanks and armored vehicles to advance quickly, while well-trained soldiers are more dispersed during the advance, effectively restraining enemy counterattacks through infantry coordination.

The Germans kept a large number of tanks in the battlefield for street fighting, this tactic avoided the shortcomings of the No. 4 tank compared with the MBT35\40 tank, but on the premise of abandoning mobile large-scale operations, the threat that the No. 4 tank could pose to the Reichsian Army was also greatly reduced.

The two sides are constantly involved in each other in the tactical environment, constantly attacking and fighting repeatedly, and the overall Imperial Army occupies a more obvious advantageous position, Admiral Wei Lihuang tried to use the addition of helicopters to solve this street battle as soon as possible, but the effect was not good, and he continued to use helicopter formations, detours to carry out surprise attacks on the enemy's artillery positions and supply lines, and still had extremely high combat value for the German army. At least in the Battle of Volgograd, the Germans were still helpless in the face of the helicopter gunship formations of the Imperial Army Aviation Regiment.

In order to contain the advance of the Reich Army, the Nazi German army also began to mobilize missiles to return fire, but the shortcomings in effective range and accuracy made the German missile units not enough to threaten the important military units of the Reich, and the Reich Air Force could also effectively prevent the German missile forces from playing a role by intercepting missiles by fighters.

On the British battlefield in World War II, Britain was able to intercept a large number of German cruise missiles with Meteor fighters, which shows that Germany's cruise missiles have many serious deficiencies in overload maneuvering and speed, and in fact, the speed of its cruise missiles is far inferior to that of jet fighters.

The tug-of-war between the Chinese and German armies in Volgograd had been going on for two weeks, and the main forces of the German Army Group Center had suffered heavy losses, and the strongholds and defensive lines it had maintained in the city had been largely cleared.

On October 14, 1941, the Second Panzer Corps led by Lieutenant General Su Bin suddenly penetrated into Kharkov, Ukraine, behind enemy lines, and the Polish Kharkiv Front stationed in this area collapsed without a fight, and the large force of 370,000 people was shattered overnight, and about half of the army officers and soldiers were captured.

Su Bin's advance was not fast, but he spent a lot of time camouflage tactics to make a posture of annihilating the German garrison in the North Caucasus and attacking the defensive line on the south side of the German Army Group Center.

This situation surprised both Nazi Germany and Poland, and once Su Bin's Second Panzer Corps was allowed to defeat the main forces in Ukraine and make Ukraine lose ground, the main forces of the two major German army groups would be blocked on the Russian battlefield and would not be able to retreat south.

The German Army Group North, which was seeking urgent reinforcements of Army Group Center, hastily moved south, and the Imperial Northwest Army simultaneously sent the main army group as the 1st Panzer Army to attack Tambov and carry out a diversionary attack on Army Group North.

Because of the sudden insertion of Su Bin's Second Panzer Corps, the entire Russian battlefield became a mess, and the two army groups of Nazi Germany in the Russian theater were cut a defensive line more than 300 kilometers wide, unable to effectively support each other, and the central army group deployed in the North Caucasus and the west bank of the Volga River also suffered heavy losses in succession, losing many main forces, only Heinz. Guderian's 2nd Panzer Group was able to maintain the situation of the main forces undamaged and still had strong combat effectiveness.

At this time, Wei Lihuang, who had failed several attempts to encircle and annihilate the Nazi 2nd Panzer Group, had already made up his mind to organize the 14th and 15th armies and the two newly arrived Panzer Army groups into the new Third Panzer Corps, mobilize more than 13,000 armored and tank troops, and encircle and annihilate the 2nd Panzer Group with twice the strength of the opponent, and must completely annihilate the entire Nazi Central Army Group on the Russian battlefield.

War is like this, there are only two ways to win, one is to implement your own tactics and achieve your goals; The second is to disrupt the enemy's tactics.

Su Bin's sudden insertion was an effective way to disrupt the tactics of the German army, so that the Nazi German army was completely in all kinds of confusion, and the original battle plan was completely scrapped, and before the German General Staff issued a new battle plan, it used this gap to effectively divide and encircle and annihilate the German army, so that it would be annihilated one by one in a situation of fighting separately.

Now is the best time to annihilate the 2nd Panzer Group, the main ace of the German ace, all the operations of the Northwest Army are carried out around this, Su Bin's 1st Panzer Corps went south to Kiev to contain the main force of the German Army Group North and the Polish Front, Xue Yue's 1st Panzer Corps was responsible for attacking the Germans head-on, cutting Army Group Center into three sections, and cooperating with the 3rd Panzer Corps and a number of mechanized infantry corps to annihilate the 2nd Panzer Group in the Mikhailovka area.

On October 17, 1941, after the Northwest Army basically won the victory in the Battle of Volgograd and inflicted heavy losses on the German Army Group Center, Crown Prince Yuhua arrived at the front line by special plane to inspect the commanders and soldiers at all levels.

Compared with the aging Song Emperor, the Yuhua Crown Prince is obviously younger and energetic, and with the prestige of his father, he also has a high degree of support in the country, and is deeply loved by the military and the people.

In a way, Crown Prince Yuhua is more of a dove than a hawk like the emperor.

Crown Prince Yuhua refused to solve the problem with war from the bottom of his heart, but he also knew that the problems of Nazi Germany could only be solved by war, and even though he had received a good military education and held important positions in the Central Military Department, Crown Prince Yuhua still lacked the understanding and cognition of modern warfare.

Until he arrived at the front.

The front line in Volgograd was very different from what he had imagined, the city was divided in two by the wide river, and the outskirts on the east bank still had some gray cement buildings and factories, while the city on the west bank had become a real place of ruins, and countless factories had long since collapsed.

Once upon a time, in the days of the former Soviet Union, how prosperous and prosperous was Stalingrad, known as Stalingrad?

Countless refugees gathered in refugee camps on the east bank to do what they could in exchange for some food rations, as required by the Army Refugee Administration, while the rest of the refugees who had nothing to do were left to receive extremely pitiful relief food.

Crown Prince Yuhua really wanted to say something for these Russian refugees, so that the Northwest Army would give more effort and attention to ensure the survival of these refugees, but he couldn't open his mouth, it was not easy to win this battle, and the army did not have much spare power to take care of the refugees.

Crown Prince Yuhua is not very tall, he seems to be a little shorter than his father, and he has shown some signs of fortune in the past few years, but he is still very handsome, and he is not a very dignified person like his father, he seems to be approachable and easy to talk to.

To put it simply, he is actually a very kind person, but sometimes he has to endure the kindness in his heart.

After arriving at the front line, Crown Prince Yuhua personally went to the front line to inspect the officers and soldiers fighting on the front line, shook hands with them, talked with them, and dined with the officers and soldiers on the front line. At this stage, the empire has two princes serving on the front line, and even if they are not on the battlefield in Russia, the royal family's support for the imperial war can be described as all-round.

Crown Prince Yuhua spent a whole day inspecting the front line, bringing hundreds of tons of canned bacon to the soldiers, and it was not until the evening that he had the opportunity to calm down and meet with Admiral Wei Lihuang, who was actually in charge of the battle.

Admiral Wei Lihuang is a middle-aged general who has stood out over the years, and before that, Crown Prince Yuhua and this general were not only unfamiliar, but even met each other for the first time.

After meeting Crown Prince Yuhua, General Wei Lihuang led more than a dozen staff officers and front-line commanders under his command to bow down and salute together, and Crown Prince Yuhua calmly asked them all to get up, thanked them for their hard work and bloody battles on the front line, and then invited them to dine together.

Since the founding of the country, the Imperial Wehrmacht has laid down the iron law of equal treatment of officers and soldiers, although the implementation in the past few years has not been so strict, but compared with the armies of other countries, the situation is always much better, and the materials on the front line are also relatively tight.

It should be said that this was a banquet given by the emperor, so the crown prince Yuhua was specially invited to preside over the celebration banquet, and wished them better results in the following time.

Because the military situation on the front line was still in a state of emergency, the generals who attended the banquet this time were not very complete, and everyone's time was also urgent, and the entire state banquet was hastily ended after only half an hour.

After Crown Prince Yuhua personally sent them out of the banquet hall, he still left General Wei Lihuang alone, and asked General Wei Lihuang: "General Wei, how long do you think it will take for our army to destroy the German army in the Russian battlefield?" ”

Admiral Wei Lihuang was a little surprised, he felt that this question should not be answered by him, but considering that the object of the inquiry was His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, he still replied very cautiously: "Theoretically, the main German army on the Russian battlefield can be eliminated before the end of this year, but there are still many variables in this, I expect that Germany will still strengthen the deployment of troops from other client countries to support the Ukrainian region and contain the main force of our army, so many things are difficult to explain clearly, but it is expected before May next year, Unless Germany continues to expand the reinforcements of the main forces, it will completely put an end to this Russian war, and the Imperial Wehrmacht will also smoothly advance Ukraine and Poland, threatening the German mainland, but the combat effectiveness of the Polish army should not be underestimated, and perhaps Poland will still encounter very stubborn resistance. ”

Crown Prince Yuhua agreed: "Yes, you are very thoughtful, and I very much agree with you. ”

Even as the crown prince, Crown Prince Yuhua did not ask too much about General Wei Lihuang's decisive intentions and combat strategies, and how to carry out the final decisive battle, which is now only clear to Wei Lihuang and the Central National Defense Commission.

Crown Prince Yuhua stayed on the front line for a long time, went to the front line to reward the officers and men of the three armies, encourage morale, and went to the front line to meet those generals who were on the front line of the war and could not attend the state banquet.

It was not until Wei Lihuang led the Northwest Army to prepare for an all-out attack on Poland and a larger-scale all-out offensive campaign was about to begin, that Crown Prince Yuhua left the front line and took a special plane to Washington, where he met with US President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

Emperor Song did not personally attend such a meeting of magnates, and although he knew that the United States had plans to further enter the war, there was still great public resistance in the United States.

With China officially declaring war, the United States sees the war as a winner, even if it takes a few years, and when the war ends, the world will re-establish a new order.

In any case, the United States hopes to establish such a new order together with China, Britain, and France, at least by participating in the entire process of establishing the order, making decisions together, and working to preserve more American interests.

The United States needed an excuse, for example, for example, for Germany to attack American merchant ships again, but Germany would not do so, because American merchant ships transported supplies to Britain and France, as well as sold supplies to neutral countries, and a large part of these supplies would go to the Nazi camp.

Moreover, at this time, Germany did not have the ability to cross the blockade line of the Chinese and British fleets in the Atlantic, and Germany built its own aircraft carriers, but after China's Central Combined Air Fleet entered the Atlantic, it established naval bases in Lisbon and the British Port of Milford, and formed a huge naval defense line together with the British Navy.

Unlike Britain, China's Central Combined Air Fleet has an unprecedented number of aircraft carriers and a formidable anti-submarine force, with more than 140 destroyers attached to this formation, which is enough to blockade the entire western Atlantic, the Norwegian Sea, and the North Sea, making it impossible for German submarine tactics to be used......

China's complete withdrawal from the battlefield has led to the deployment of more than 6,000 J5 series attack bombers in Britain by the Chinese Air Force and Navy, and more than 2,000 to assist the United Kingdom, which is large enough to establish a comprehensive surveillance network in the entire sea area.

With the large-scale involvement of the Chinese Air Force, the Anglo-German air battle has basically lost its suspense, the Chinese Air Force not only has the world's best jet fighter, but also quickly developed a faster P-50 jet fighter with deep technical accumulation, this type of fighter is faster in China.

Large-scale rapid production makes the service life of the P50 fighter only 150 hours, but it is enough to cope with the expenses in the war, the key is that the war does not need those too delicate aircraft, many aircraft do not even have a life of 30 hours, and the average can be used for 30 hours seems to be a limit.

War is like that, according to statistics, on average, each plane crashes in 5 takeoffs and landings.

A combat aircraft can usually only be used 5 times.

For the Luftwaffe in particular, the planes they now produce are similarly even more clumsy, and in World War II, the production of tens of thousands of combat aircraft was pieced together.

Of course, long-lived combat aircraft like the J-5 still exist, and the J-5 Tiger Shark fighter has a load and space that surpasses that of its contemporaries, which allows it to install a more powerful radar, have larger fuel tanks, and can cruise thousands of kilometers.

It has two pilots and a flight attendant, and the flight attendant can take on different tasks depending on the situation, such as monitoring the sea for long periods of time and dropping depth charges.

This allowed the Tiger Shark fighter to survive like a monster in this new era of war, turning from a front-line bomber into a reconnaissance aircraft, a patrol aircraft, a warning aircraft, and an anti-submarine aircraft.

They remained the giants and de facto rulers of the seas, and the result of the massive Tiger Shark fighter jets combined with the Central Combined Air Fleet was to blockade the entire German Navy in harbor and not be able to penetrate the Atlantic.

In the Eastern European theater, a large number of new air force and new models of P50 fighters that had just completed training began to appear on the battlefield, and the number was huge, making up for the shortage of elite pilots and J-6 jet fighters.

When a war is really fought, it is always used for what is there.

Wei Lihuang also wanted more MBT40 tanks, an elite main battle tank that not only had the surname of the German army's medium and light tanks, but also had the defense and more powerful artillery of the German heavy tank, as well as better armor-piercing shells.

However, such tanks are more complex and easier to produce than MBT35, and they are produced in large quantities, although there are some differences in the MBT35 produced by each factory, but the number is their biggest advantage.

The number of rocket launchers, which were easier to produce, far exceeded those of tanks and other armored vehicles.

Wei Lihuang only has rocket artillery, no matter what other equipment he needs, only the number of rocket artillery can be distributed to him several times over, he wants 10,000 vehicles, and the Central Military Department can give him 20,000 vehicles.

Because this kind of thing is really easy to produce, much easier than the production of artillery.

What Wei Lihuang could do was to lead the Northwest Army to change the original tactical system, using the JP30\50\70 rocket artillery that was so large that the German army could not face it as the core force of the tactics, using a large-scale rocket attack to break the enemy's defense in depth, and then using a large-scale armored corps to penetrate the opponent's defensive line.

However, Wei's main target for the next attack was Poland.

He concentrated the main forces of the armored forces in his hands into three armored corps and began to concentrate armored forces, the first armored corps was deployed in Tambov to threaten the German Army Group North, and the main force was concentrated in the Ukrainian theater of operations.

He abandoned his plan to attack Romania and concentrated his military forces on Poland, isolating German Army Group North in Moscow and the surrounding area, and finally destroying German Army Group North there.

After annihilating the main forces of the two major army groups of the German army, he will divide his troops into two routes, one way south to the Balkans, to eliminate Romania and Bulgaria, the other Nazi client states, and the other way to attack the Czech Republic and Austria, to launch a large-scale peripheral annihilation war against Germany, to attract the main military strength of the German army, and complete the annihilation of the German army's vital forces on the battlefields of Hungary and the Czech Republic, rather than the final decisive battle with the German army in Germany itself.

Of all the client states of Nazi Germany, Poland was the strongest, because it was originally supported by the Reich, and today it is going to destroy it with the Reich.

On December 5, 1941, shortly after Crown Prince Yuhua left the frontline battlefield, General Wei Lihuang issued an operational order in the name of the chief of staff of the Northwest Army, and launched an all-round rapid attack on Poland in accordance with the operational plan formulated by the Northwest Military Headquarters and the Central Military Department through consultation.

In Lublin, a large-scale frontal battle took place between the armored corps of both sides.

Battle of Lublin.

Thus erupted.

The German army drew a large number of troops from its headquarters and the Western Theater, plus the troops of Hungary and other client states, and launched an even more unprecedented Armageddon in Lublin with the more than 3.4 million troops of the Northwest Army.

The Germans, Poland and the client states invested a total of 4.2 million troops, 14,000 aircraft, 23,000 artillery pieces and 15,000 tanks, which was the all-out counterattack of the German army and Poland on the entire Western Front, which was the great will of Hitler's Führer.

It was not the Polish Führer or the Polish generals who commanded the campaign, but the German Field Marshal Hans. Feng. Kruger, it is difficult to say who is more clever between Marshal Kruger and General Wei Lihuang, but in terms of strength, the two sides are actually not equal.

The Northwest Military Department already has amassed nearly half of the empire's military strength, with 45,000 aircraft, 27,000 artillery pieces, and 23,000 tanks on the battlefield.

It was a battle of unprecedented proportions.

Wei Lihuang is one of the very few military commanders in this era who has been fully aware of air supremacy, and in his preparations for this decisive battle, his first requirement is to have air supremacy with absolute dominance, and the decisive battle of the air force must be carried out first over the army, and only by seizing air supremacy can a large-scale land war be launched.

Field Marshal Kruger had a congenital disadvantage in this regard, he lacked the command authority of the air force, he could not mobilize more air force to fight a decisive battle, in the Anglo-German air battle, the number of aircraft lost by the German army was difficult to make up, and the greater loss came from the loss of flight personnel.

After the start of the campaign, the German army quickly lost air supremacy, and the Luftwaffe, which was too scattered and could not be effectively integrated with the army's air defense, was quickly swept away, losing most of its airfields, so that the Luftwaffe needed to take off from the German mainland and the Czech Republic in order to effectively support the operation.

The Luftwaffe did not even cooperate with the army, nor did it have the strategic intention to protect the German army, and the mere chivalry and military thinking of trying to shoot down more Chinese fighters on their own were completely unsuitable for the changes in this modern war.

The Reich Air Force began its first inroads into mainland Germany and the Czech Republic, attacking airfields in eastern Germany, and the Luftwaffe suffered heavy losses and had already lost its ability to fight in Poland by January 1942.

Before the onset of a more severe winter, the Northwest Army finally launched a large-scale offensive, with two Panzer Corps attacking the Polish and German lines head-on, tearing apart the positions of Army Group Eastern Poland.

Growing and changing in the midst of war.

In order to adapt to this large-scale corps operation, Wei Lihuang and other generals have made a lot of attempts and reforms, concentrating the main tank forces into three armored corps, with the main battle tank as the core, establishing a tactical system around the main battle tank, and building three truly most powerful armored corps through a large number and complex system of infantry armored vehicles, light tanks, and tank destroyers.

In addition to these three large-scale armored corps, the Northwest Army restructured 11 of the 14 group armies under its jurisdiction into mechanized group armies, mainly infantry armored vehicles, so that the troops could read large-scale mobile operations in the form of group armies, and retained three group armies to maintain light mechanized formations for decisive battles in mountainous and urban positions.

In terms of reserve forces, the Northwest Army also has 45 new infantry divisions under its jurisdiction, some of which are mechanized armored divisions, and most of them are light mechanized units with relatively low establishment and a large number of soldiers.

On the 7.62mm rifle cartridge, the Imperial Army's small arms system has been developed to the extreme.

The Imperial Army has been fully equipped with 7.62mm caliber M35\35B\40 assault rifles, in the large-scale battle of millions of military forces, soldiers are still the most important force to kill the enemy, in the actual battle, about 70% of the enemy soldiers are still killed by the soldiers on the position, only less than 20% of the number is killed by the air force bombing and strafing, this series of M35 assault rifles can play a huge role on the battlefield.

Compared with the Polish troops, which were still dominated by semi-automatic rifles, and the German army, which used submachine guns to compensate for the front-line firepower, the land operations of the Imperial Army had a stronger lethal efficiency, especially in the parallel advance of the position, and the soldier assault units around the main battle tanks, infantry armored vehicles, and light tanks could quickly occupy the enemy's positions.

The qualitative excellence of the tank and the numerous advantages in quantity allowed the Imperial Army to concentrate tank forces to penetrate the defense, and also to deploy a large number of MBT33\35 tanks in various mechanized armored armies as the main force of the front-line shock, tearing apart the defensive lines of the German and Polish troops.

On January 20, 1942, after a month-long competition, the Northwest Army easily smashed the combined forces of Poland and Germany with a huge advantage, and annihilated the main Polish force of more than 3 million on the battlefield of Lublin.

It was a fundamentally asymmetrical campaign.

Behind the superficial similarity in strength, in fact, there is a gap between the two sides that is difficult to make up, except for the equal strength in artillery and the superiority in the army commander, there is a huge gap between the two sides in all aspects.

On January 27, 1942, the Northwest Army captured Warsaw.

The Polish political axe announced its unconditional surrender.

Hitler's Führer immediately established a new Polish puppet axe in the Poznan region, but it was of little significance, the Polish military power had been largely crushed, and the remaining troops could not pose any threat to the North-Western Army.

The German army suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Lublin and completely lost the initiative in the war, leaving only Army Group North to defend Moscow and St. Petersburg, and the German Army Group South was cut by the Northwest Army, and Army Group North was completely isolated and surrounded.

The disastrous defeat in the Battle of Lublin made it difficult for the Nazi German army to stop a large-scale offensive in a short period of six months, and it was unable to effectively counterattack the Northwest Army to avoid the annihilation of Army Group North.

The bitterly cold weather gave the Nazi Germans a temporary respite.

The two sides died down in February and did not launch a major offensive, even in Western Europe, where the Empire's coalition forces in Spain and the Iberian Peninsula had formed.

Marshal Montgomery was in charge of the Allied forces, while Liu Gungyun left the Western European theater and went south to command the operations of the Imperial African Army, expelling the Italian army from North Africa.

By this time of the Second World War, the situation was already very unfavorable for Germany.

There was a violent conflict between the Führer Hitler and the German Ministry of Defense, and in the end it was the commander-in-chief of the German Army, Field Marshal Brauchitsch, who was ordered to remove himself from his post and take all responsibility for the defeat, and Hitler was in charge of the German Army, but such an outcome could not really change the crisis on the battlefield.

The Chinese Empire was running frantically at a very high speed, and the collection and production of all war materials were placed at the highest level of the country, and with the Empire's dominance over Asia and the binding of the Asian League's Security Alliance Entente, the Empire could continuously and justifiably draw all materials from Asia in large quantities.

Nearly 65 percent of the Empire's urbanized population, about 17 percent of the population actually belonged to workers, but those 80 million workers were enough to change the world, and during the First Industrial Revolution, Britain had only 2 million to 3 million workers, but the goods produced could change the whole world and meet the needs of the world.

More than 80 million workers in peacetime are a challenge and a threat to the entire world, and they need huge markets to meet their production, their livelihoods and the functioning of this industrialized society.

In times of war, such a large number of workers is enough to determine the form of war.

All rail, air, and sea routes were overloaded, large quantities of military supplies were delivered to the front, and the role of money was to facilitate the circulation of commodities, which must be consumed in order to continue to generate markets.

The most beautiful thing about war is the endless supply of consumable goods.

This is the war boom.

The prerequisite for the prosperity of war is the maintenance of money, as well as sufficient industrial resources.

Although the empire had lost its de facto colonies, it controlled the exploitation of resources throughout Asia and was able to seek additional resources from Australia, South America, and Africa.

Behind the more than 12 million troops of the army, navy and air force, there is an average production capacity of seven workers per soldier.

In fact, the Empire's industrial production capacity was almost enough to sustain the military supplies of the entire Allied bloc, and industrial powers such as Britain also drew more labor to fight on the battlefield and relied heavily on war bonds to purchase supplies from China.

After the end of the war, it was impossible for the Song Emperor and the central government of the empire to pardon the British national debt, and even if the war was over, the debts to European countries would be enough for the empire to firmly control the economic lifeline of Europe.

After the end of the war, it would take at least fifty years for Europe to break away from the economic control of the Empire.

The empire did not further increase the size of its total forces, except for the 100,000 garrisons that were retained in the name of the people, the empire was to withdraw a large number of garrisons in the city, and the Korean army was responsible for maintaining the occupation in the city.

The empire concentrated most of its elite forces in the Eastern European theater, pinned down Nazi Germany in the Western European theater by supporting Britain, France, and Spain, and sent the main force in the Balkans to unite with Seville to resist the attack of Germany, Italy and their client states.

In addition to the Yugoslav theater, which was mired in bitter fighting due to insufficient military strength, and gradually lost most of the defense line of the Kingdom of Seville, in the Eastern European theater, the empire was almost on the verge of seeing the hope of victory.

From the very beginning, the Song Emperor had no plan to support the British and French forces from the Western Front to threaten Germany proper, and their mission was only to recover France, while the Empire would advance all the way west from the Eastern Front, and eventually occupy and control Germany on its own.

By firmly controlling Germany, it constantly vetoed the possible coalition posture in Europe.

Winter is coming.

The empire ushered in the Chinese New Year of the year.

The super-issuance of money caused a relatively severe round of inflation and rising prices in the empire, but at the same time, the empire was in a period of obvious war prosperity.

Higher employment rates and gradually higher wages, combined with the fact that the Chinese yuan completely replaced other currencies as the world's currency, the empire began to suppress this round of inflation before the arrival of the new year.

The empire's economy is growing twice the size of the United States, that is, in the next five years, the increase in per capita income has further expanded the size of the internal market, and the empire has replaced Europe and the United States as the largest market in the world.

This is a special good thing in this period.

It was this special condition that enabled the empire to maintain an industrialized society of more than 80 million workers.

On average, there are 3 workers for every 20 people.

With the free trade treaty of the Asian Union, the empire has become the most feared industrial country in the world, and the expansion of the industrial scale has led to higher incomes and the ability of citizens to support their own education.

As the saying goes, step by step, step by step.

That's the way it is.

In terms of the level and capacity of industrial production, the empire has surpassed Britain and the United States, and in terms of scientific research strength and the scale of national scientific research, the empire has also surpassed Britain and the United States, and in the scale of the country's modern education and market, industry, the empire far exceeds the United Kingdom and the United States.

According to the estimates of the central government, in about 20 years, the per capita income of the empire will gradually reach the same standard line as that of the United States, and the strength of the empire will truly reach the highest peak in history, and the gross national product will exceed that of the United States by three times.

At the same time, the empire will truly be half of Asia, if not more.

(To be continued)