On January 7, 1941, the day of the opening of the House of Commons, Winston. Winston Churchill delivered a powerful speech, "To Our Fatherland."

"Today, I think it's necessary for the House of Commons to meet at this time to discuss it, because Britain is being challenged by the darkest time in history, and those who think that praying to God will lead to peace are not aware of it, this is a tragedy in England, but it should not happen, God gives us the strength and determination to defend our own faith and does not give us everything, we in the UK should recognise this, in fact everyone knows about it, and it is important."

Winston. Churchill's speeches were always powerful, and in his speeches he once again harshly criticized Chamberlain's weakness and appeasement.

…… Britain is now in a very strange state.

After the end of the First World War, the British were no longer willing to accept any war, and for the sake of peace, they were even willing to let Ireland go to the Reading Power of Peace, willing to make Australia and Canada the official Reading Power countries.

The British were particularly united around New Year's Day that year, with almost all of them vowing to defend the British Empire, largely not to defend the most dazzling diamond in the king's crown, as politicians claim, but to accept the threat of a group of Asians.

Winston. Churchill said: Britain wants to defend not only the colonies of the British Empire, but also the order of the world.

The order he speaks of may have two meanings, one is the colonial order in which the British Empire dominates the world, and the other may be Eurocentrism and Caucasian superiority.

…… After all, there are not only Britain and China in this world, nor only Europe and Asia, China, Britain, the United States and France are the main formulators and foundations of the current world order, and the outbreak of war between China and Britain is something that the United States and France do not want to see, when His Majesty the Emperor arrived in West Asia to visit and inspected the military institutions in the border areas, the United States and France finally realized that China and Britain are really going to war this time, at least China must intervene militarily in Pakistan under the pressure of other members of the Asian League, Both the United States and France quickly intervened in the event to coordinate between China and the United Kingdom.

The result made Britain very disappointed, whether it was France or the United States, the basic views were similar to those of the Asian League, hoping that the British colonial army would withdraw from Pakistan, at least recognize Pakistan's autonomy first, and as for when to let Pakistan read the power, we will discuss it later.

It would be a good thing for Britain to take advantage of this step and agree to the terms of the Asian League, but the situation facing Britain is indeed very complicated, and the British Empire is currently facing fierce uprisings against colonial rule in Malaya, Burma, Assam, Pakistan, and India.

Many Britons, such as Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, realized that the colonial system maintained by the British Empire was bound to collapse, and that the British Empire could have maintained it without the challenge of China, and that the problem was precisely that of China.

Where does the UK go from here?

Discontent with Prime Minister Chamberlain's appeasement pervades the contradictory British world, with Chamberlain deposed in the House of Commons and a new wartime cabinet, Winston. Churchill became the new prime minister of the wartime coalition cabinet, and he faced the threat of a Sino-Soviet-German war, a large-scale and widespread colonial uprising, and the great possibility of war with the Asian Union and China.

After Prime Minister Churchill came to power, he sent Foreign Minister Sir Halifax to visit China again, and decided to negotiate with China, but Gu Weijun arranged for Sir Halifax to negotiate directly with the Council of the Asian League.

Compared with Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who is quite old, Gu Weijun is obviously an experienced veteran prime minister, and he still adheres to his foreign policy, and absolutely does not take the lead on the Asian colonial issue, but pushes the Asian League to the front of this issue, so that the British Foreign Secretary Sir Halifax directly faces the anger and roar of the foreign ministers of more than a dozen Asian Union member states.

Until March 1941, China and Britain were still in this extremely dangerous situation, and it seemed possible to reach an unprecedented entente, and there was also a greater possibility of a large-scale war between world hegemons breaking out directly.

The world as a whole looks particularly dangerous this month, with the final step away from world war, and the United States and France are actively involved in coordinating efforts to persuade British and Prime Minister Winston Churchill to accept the Asian League's demand to allow Pakistan and other Asian countries autonomy.

The United States and France are equally aware that their colonies in Asia are not safe, and that the reading power of the Philippines and Vietnam may be the next step, but for the United States and France, this loss is not large, and it is not worth a large-scale military conflict with a military alliance as large as the Asian League.

On the other hand, it would be very bad if the United States and France joined the camp in support of Britain and went to war against the Asian League to defend their own interests in Asia, because in this particular case, China would certainly use nuclear weapons directly on a large scale.

The history of mankind has been fortunate for many times that the United States and France did not support Britain, especially France, which has actually withdrawn from Asia for a long time, and if China had mainly offered bargaining chips in those days, France would have completely transferred the suzerainty of Vietnam to China as well.

Taking 10,000 steps back, with the 30-year-long special alliance between China and France, and the Anglo-French rivalry in African and European affairs, it is impossible for France to support Britain.

So, human beings are really lucky.

Unfortunately, the Sino-British war broke out eventually, although not on the same scale as initially feared.

…… On March 25, 1941, after the Imperial Defense Forces successively occupied the Kyushu Islands, Shikoku Islands, and Shimonoseki areas, as the final battle of the Sino-Chinese War, the Imperial Northeast Defense Force and the Central Navy's aircraft carrier joint fleet launched an unprecedented Ishikawa landing battle in Ishikawa Prefecture.

According to the plan of the command headquarters of the Tohoku Defense Force, after the success of this landing battle, the main force of the Tohoku Defense Force will occupy Nagano Prefecture at all costs and make final preparations for the attack on Tokyo.

The Imperial Defense Forces would not consider dividing their forces to attack Nagoya, but would directly occupy Nagano and seize the Tokyo Plains area, essentially eliminating the will to resist by Nagamoto.

As the international situation became more complicated, the empire must end the Sino-Chinese war as soon as possible, which meant that Emperor Song Biao basically gave up the opportunity to use nuclear weapons against Yuben.

Following Emperor Song Biao's edict, the Northeast Defense Forces were required to end the Sino-Japanese War by December 1941, forcing him to renounce the imperial system and ownership of Hokkaido, the Kuril Islands, Sakhalin, Tsushima, the Ryukyu Islands, the Iwo Islands, and other Pacific islands.

In order to achieve this goal, the Northeast Defense Force will have access to all the necessary materials and conditions.

At the same time, on March 27, 1941, after the successful Ishikawa landing launched by the Northeast Defense Army, Wei Lihuang commanded the Northern Coalition Army to carry out the final all-out offensive against the Soviet Ural Front.

Rokossovsky's Ural Front is mainly stationed in Yekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk, with a total strength of 711,000 people, 11,000 artillery pieces and mortars, 1,785 tanks and armored vehicles, self-propelled guns, mainly equipped with T-34/85 tanks and infantry armored vehicles of the imitation MBV2 series, with about 400 rocket launchers, and its overall strength is dominated by artillery.

In order to annihilate the most powerful front army of the Soviet Union at the present stage, Commander-in-Chief Zhao Tingzhu and Chief of Staff Wei Lihuang made a great deal of preparations, first eliminating the Soviet air force in the east, and then bypassing the front army to capture Kazan and Orenburg, cutting off the front army from the Soviet headquarters, and making the front army in a state of serious lack of supplies for the past six months.

Beginning in January 1941, with the arrival of the Air Force's bombardment divisions, the Northern Coalition carried out an average of more than 1,000 sorties of large-scale bombardment of the Ural Front every day, using high-explosive and gasoline bombs against those large and hard fortresses, and using rocket artillery and short-range missiles to strike at its main air defense positions.

By the end of March, convinced that the morale of the front army was already extremely low, Wei Lihuang personally commanded the Novosibirsk Army, the Eighth Army, and the Kyzyl Army to launch a general attack on the Ural defense line, with a total strength of 1,074,000 troops, 23,000 artillery pieces and mortars, 4,430 tanks, and 7,370 armored vehicles.

After a week of intensive bombardment, the Eighth Army, as the main force, attacked Chelyabinsk under the lead of a large number of tank troops, and during this period, the G2/3 attack aircraft drawn from the interior of the empire arrived at the front line one after another, compared with the semi-professional J-5 fighters, the G2/3 series attack aircraft were more suitable for attacking ground fortresses, tanks and artillery units, and under the cover of a large number of J-3/4 series fighters, the Air Force once again concentrated all its forces to give heavy blows to the ground units of the Soviet Red Army, The Army, on the other hand, launched a strong attack on the ground with the latest models of MBT35/35B tanks and some MBT33 tanks.

400 helicopters were also deployed in this campaign, some of which were equipped with rocket artillery for long-range strikes, and were mainly responsible for attacking forward fortifications and tanks.

Never underestimate the ambition of the Soviet Red Army to defend the Motherland, especially the ambitions of the Soviet officers.

After such a long period of large-scale suppression, the Ural Front was still unusually brave to launch a fierce offensive and defensive battle with the Imperial Army and Air Force in Chelyabinsk, and the strategy adopted by Commander Rokossovsky was "not to seize the positions that have been lost, but never to give up a position easily", so there were no fierce repeated battles throughout the campaign, but the Soviet Red Army's will to resist on each position was also shocking.

The Soviet Union was attacked by the two military powers of China and Germany and Poland at the same time, and the Ural Front was surrounded by layers and blockaded for half a year without any foreign aid, and there was a serious shortage of supplies and reserves.

As counter-aggressors, they are the bravest and most resilient soldiers in the world.

It is undeniable that many of them were forced to choose to be soldiers, to pick up guns to defend their homeland, and even in the rear positions of their battle fronts, the gendarmerie units held machine guns to prevent them from retreating, and let them defend a regime that they did not like at all costs, but they did a very good job.

They are brave and fearless.

Strength is everything, after all.

After three days of fierce fighting, Wei Lihuang led the Northern Coalition to occupy Chelyabinsk and Yekaterinburg, annihilating 230,000 Soviet officers and men, capturing 450,000 prisoners, and destroying all the main forces of the Soviet Red Army on the eastern side of the Volga River.

The Soviet Union had three main forces during this period, namely the Central Front, the Voronezhan Front, and the Steppe Front of the Vatutin Division in Moscow, the Don Front, the Stalingrad Front, and the Southwestern Front of Zhukov's Department in Stalingrad, and the Ural Front, Kazan Front, and Kazakh Front of Rokossovsky and Konev's Division.

With the annihilation of the three major fronts on the Eastern Front by the Empire, the Soviet Union lost its industrial base in the Central and Eastern regions and the mineral resources of the Caucasus and Kazakhstan, and it was almost impossible to compete with the German-Polish coalition forces in the future.

The Soviet Union will certainly fight to the end, as it did with the Paris Commune.

Death is not terrible for them.

Although there were still serious disputes with Germany and Poland over the division of the Soviet occupation zone, this did not affect the empire's occupation of the area east of the Volga River basin, everything went according to the reich's plan, the Kazan-Orenburg region was to form the Republic of Tatarstan, the area east of the Ural Mountains to the west of the Ob River was temporarily included in the Siberian ** Republic, the capital was set up in Yekaterinburg, and the area east of the Ob River was directly included in the territory of the empire.

The territory of Kazakhstan remained unchanged, and it was temporarily self-governing under the trusteeship of the empire, and a new provisional government of self-government was prepared to prepare for further reading and joining the Asian League.

In order to ensure that the Russian population of the Republic of Tatarstan would not exceed half, the empire kept the area south of Samara to the east of Stalingrad and east to the Ural River separately, and continued to be garrisoned and entrusted by the Sixth Army to wait for the subsequent progress of the Soviet-German war.

Even if an agreement with Germany was not reached, the Sino-Soviet war was over for the Reich, and the Reich would not continue to attack the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union would not be able to hold out for much longer, even if Britain and the United States were now willing to give the Soviet Union more military aid to contain the Reich and Germany, it would be too late.

In the past two decades, the scale of the Soviet Union's investment in Kazakhstan is not much, but it is not small, which makes the Kazakhstan itself still have a good mining industry base and a certain scale of machinery industry, and the level of infrastructure is relatively good.

When Kazakhstan is fully integrated into the Asian League, the strength of the Asian League will be further improved.

Obviously, the Kazakh region was also a very good base for industrial resources for the empire, especially since Kazakhstan held part of the Siberian oil region.

The early end of the Sino-Soviet War left a large amount of military power spared for the empire, and the Eighth Army immediately moved south after annihilating the Ural Front and transferred to the Southern Coalition Army of Xue Yue and Liu Yazhao.

…… With the end of the Sino-Soviet War, China could send more than 4 million troops southward, and in the Sino-Chinese War, the Chinese navy basically completed its mission, and could go south in large numbers at any time to launch a general offensive against many British colonies in Southeast Asia.

At this time, it is a very stupid thing to go to war with China and the Asian League, but the conditions offered by the Asian Union do not give the British Empire the slightest affection, this situation is very similar to the Philippines These small countries rely on the support of the United States to warn China to be careful, these members of the Asian League are basically poor and weak countries, without China's support behind the scenes, the combined strength of these member countries is not the opponent of half of the British Empire.

So when these small countries gather together and say that they want the British Empire to be careful, and it is better to get out of Asia quickly, how can the British Empire be embarrassed?

Britain is indeed in pain and trouble right now.

The British are now making concessions not in a place like the South China Sea, but in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Burma, Malaya, and Singapore, and this series of large-scale concessions is unacceptable to the British.

The attitude of these small countries in the Asian League is indeed very arrogant and tough, they actually want Britain to unconditionally withdraw from Asia and all Islamic countries, including Egypt, Qatar, Dubai, Oman, if Britain does not retreat, they will go to war, they really can't beat Britain, they can't beat it together, but China can fight behind them.

If Britain and Iran go to war at sea, will China come to Iran's aid in fighting Britain?

The Asian Cooperation Alliance is a very close all-round alliance, the most important of which is the military alliance, any member country is invaded by a foreign country, or civil strife occurs, the other member countries must give full support.

Similarly, if other countries or regions are to be attacked, they must also obtain the collective authorization and consent of the Council of the Asian Union, or at least the understanding of the other members of the Council of the Asian Union.

To put it simply, the meaning of "authorization" is to support you to fight with all your might, and everyone to fight together; "Agree" means that we will help you within the rules of the alliance treaty, but we will not go to war; "Understanding" means that you fight you, and we only give the lowest level of alliance support, such as not selling military resources and weapons to the other side, prohibiting the other side's military ships and special ships from passing through my territorial waters, and our airspace and territorial waters are open to you.

The current level for Britain is "authorizing the Southern Coalition and other major armies in the Asian Union Governing Treaty", which means that in addition to the Southern Alliance, the Central Defense Force, the Iranian Defense Force, and the Thai Defense Force of the Chinese Empire all have the right to fight against Britain.

The once glorious British Empire is now so embarrassed!

In fact, Britain has not yet figured out the rules of operation of the Council of the Asian Union at this stage, whether it is the previous Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain or the wartime cabinet Winston. Prime Minister Churchill is seizing the time to reach a mutually acceptable treaty with China, but the problem is that Prime Minister Gu Weijun's leading policy on this matter is to hide behind the scenes and indict other Asian League member states to provoke Britain.

China's attitude is relatively neutral on the surface, but in fact, it is very eager and happy to fight the UK, as long as there are enough excuses and reasons to fight, and it is okay not to fight, then you Britain will have to meet all kinds of strange requirements of these small countries.

Gu Weijun is indeed a prime minister who is really good at controlling diplomatic work, and in this matter, his leading policy is very shrewd and beautiful, and he takes 10,000 steps back and says that even if China and Britain really go to war, China still has a moral and organizational advantage.

Britain also does not have the so-called spirit of enduring humiliation, so it is very crazy.

Just when Britain was in a dilemma, the Iranian Navy found an opportunity to launch an attack on the British Navy in Oman, and the result was, of course, that the Iranian Navy was sunk a cruiser, although the British Navy ended the Iranian Navy's provocation beautifully and taught the Iranians a hard lesson, but Prime Minister Churchill knew very well that this hornet's nest was really bigger.

…… When the news of the sinking of the cruiser Rasht by the British Navy reached China, Emperor Song Biao happened to be inspecting the port of Vladivostok.

The Russians really don't know how to develop the Far East.

For the empire, the Far East has a very good foundation for development, especially in the development of fisheries, animal husbandry, minerals, and forestry, Vladivostok is currently the largest fishing port in the Sea region, and with the establishment of the Far Eastern Fleet, Vladivostok has also become the military center of the Imperial Navy in the Far East.

After the development of mineral resources in the Far East and North Korea reached the current scale, Vladivostok has clearly transformed into a new industrial city in recent years, and the local Vladivostok steel plant has been able to rank among the top 30 steel plants in the country, providing basic materials for Vladivostok's machinery and shipbuilding industries.

Overall, Vladivostok is a calm new city.

On the coast of Vladivostok, the Inner Court purchased a beach and a port area to prepare for the construction of a new royal resort, and this time in Vladivostok, Emperor Song Biao himself had plans to stop by and rest for a week.

After the Central Palace, the Lushan Summer Palace and the Chengde Summer Resort, the imperial royal family in principle did not add new palaces, nor set up new palaces, the inner court set up a Chinese royal hotel management company, using the funds of the inner court and the royal family to purchase industries to build some royal hotels, even the number of these hotels is relatively limited, usually in large regions such as East China and South China, and this one in the Far East is located in Vladivostok.

If you want to spend a seaside holiday, this is definitely a good choice, regardless of whether the royal family chooses to vacation here, the hotel will always be used for normal business, and in principle, it is not considered a palace.

Standing on this side of the beach and looking into the distance, with an endless blue sea in front of him, Emperor Song Biao saw the country of this country and the war that was going on in Ishikawa County.

The landing operation of the Northeast Defense Force was successful, and in a very short time it occupied the surrounding Fukui, Gifu and Nagano prefectures, and the heavy troops were gathered in Nagano Prefecture, and they could attack Tokyo beyond Kumagaya, and the Emperor and the Imperial Family had been forced to move to Miyagi Prefecture, while the former Qing Emperor Puyi and the Joseon Emperor were abandoned in a corner of Tokyo.

Facts have proved that even if it really hits the local area, it is not a terrible thing, the so-called 100 million jade fragments have been proven to be just the crazy clamor of the base camp of the Yue army, in the process of conquering Ishikawa and Nagano, the resistance of the Yue army is indeed extremely crazy, but what can that bring?

It is true that the scene of tens of thousands of officers and soldiers rushing up with the 30 rifles and Murata rifles of the last century and attacking tanks and infantry armored vehicles with bayonets is very shocking, but what is the point?

Did the base camp really think that their soldiers would be cheaper than machine gun ammunition, and that they would deter the Empire with the insane casualties of hundreds of thousands of infantry officers and soldiers?

To put it mildly, when the hatred between the two nations accumulates to the point where it is today, no matter how many deaths they have, the empire will have enough bullets to satisfy them.

During the Ishikawa landing, the Japanese army tried to defeat the Imperial Marines and prevent the Imperial landing with the tactics of bayonets in the sea of people, but the result was only to leave the corpses of 600,000 officers and soldiers on the long beach.

They rushed up like locusts, not caring about the machine guns on the other side, but the flamethrowers, and whether the sky was airplanes or rocket artillery.

They did not even make any requirements for basic army tactics, and the vast majority of the officers and men were not professional soldiers at all, or even semi-professional, and many soldiers did not even have rifles, only crude and cheap katanas.

What are they proving?

Do [***] people care?

Does His Majesty the Emperor Hua care?

The answer is no.

When they rushed to the tank regiments and armored brigades of the Northeast Defense Army in batches of more than 100,000 people, and when they were strafed by hot and red machine guns in a pool of blood, His Majesty Emperor Hua was spending his cool vacation in a resort hotel in Vladivostok accompanied by Concubine Ning and Princess An Xian.

There's nothing to be afraid of.

It wasn't a quagmire of war at all, most of the soldiers just committed suicide by charging without any tactics, much easier than during the Korean battlefield, and most of them themselves had basically accepted the reality.

In the face of the steel torrent of the empire, any resistance made by the Yue army was nothing more than a mantis arm blocking the car.

Of course, the Empire sometimes excites itself about destroying an MBT33\35 tank, but in the face of the average casualties of 13,000 before an MBT series tank is destroyed, the data that the empire produces more than 200 MBT series main battle tanks per day is more likely to make him miserable.

At the current pace, perhaps in a month's time, the Imperial Wehrmacht will occupy Tokyo, and before October, the Reich will completely raze the entire city.

Song Biao stood in the pavilion by the beach, looking at the distant Yue Benhai, with a lot of emotion in his heart, he thought of the old things of decades ago, thought of Aoki Xuanchun, thought of Akiyama Mayuki, countless past events and old grievances and hatreds will end in this year.

Inadvertently, 35 years passed in a hurry.

It's really time to come to an end.

Let's just let it all be true history and past.

Song Biao is actually very satisfied with the current trend of forceful pushing, sweeping through with conventional military strength, ruthlessly crushing the so-called Great Yue Empire into pieces, this is a good way, really speak with strength.

In the face of real strength, the self-proclaimed Great Empire is nothing more than that, and in retrospect many years later, it would be hellish if he could still find something worthy of their pride.

In the face of the Chinese Empire, what is the difference between the Philippines and the Philippines at this time?

Therefore, this kind of conventional land warfare and tough conquest that only uses 1/4 of the military force is a very meaningful thing.

In Vladivostok, Song Biao just calmly enjoyed this moment, which meant everything he had paid for the past thirty-five years.

At this time, Jiang Shoulin, a first-class chamberlain, submitted an urgent telegram from the Central Military Department to Emperor Song Biao, and the emperor opened it and looked at it, but did not feel any surprise, nor did he make any special approval, but simply replied with a "read".

It's a word worth playing.

(To be continued)