Emperor Song Biao's visit to Europe was strangely and deliberately delayed until the end of August, when he visited Spain and Portugal for nearly a month, beyond people's imagination, before flying to Sweden and meeting with British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and French Prime Minister Paul Biao in Gothenburg. President Reynaud held an open meeting and, without specifying his criticism of Germany, demanded that Europe maintain the existing peace, respect each other, and strictly limit Sweden's status as a neutral state to prevent Germany from attacking Sweden again.

During the Gothenburg meeting, China and Britain also reached a final agreement on the question of Asian colonies, in which Britain recognized Pakistan and Malaya as having the assistance and protection of the Asian League, and at the same time promised to withdraw its troops stationed in the Arabian Peninsula and in Southeast Asia, and promised to work with the Asian League to gradually resolve the issue of autonomy of the British colonies in Asia in the next 10 years.

China and Britain also made a final negotiation settlement on the Singapore issue, and Britain agreed that the local residents of Singapore would vote through a referendum on whether to remain in the British Commonwealth, read power, or be incorporated into the Chinese Empire.

At this point, the main contradiction between China and Britain was basically swept away, and there was no war, and Britain took the initiative to withdraw from its Asian colonies in a dignified way, gradually ending its colonial rule in Asia.

For Britain, this must have been more fortunate, if China and Britain could not reach an agreement and went to war, not only France would suffer together, but Britain would lose not only its Asian colonies, but also its African colonies.

China has a springboard like Ethiopia and North Madagascar in Africa, and it is not difficult for it to fight Africa on a large scale, and then whether it is fighting for population, resources, national strength, or military, Britain is not China's opponent, and it is even more challenged by Britain in Europe at the same time.

The signing of the Gothenburg Entente officially declared that the new hegemon of the world was the Chinese Empire, and that this new empire would be more willing to rule the world in a cooperative way.

…… On September 4, Emperor Song Biao left Sweden on the super-dreadnought high-speed battleship of the Eastern Emperor and embarked on his way home under the escort of the Central Air Combined Fleet.

This was Emperor Song Biao's third visit to Europe, but unlike the previous two times, the ensuing Imperial Central Air Combined Fleet proved undisputed China's position as the world's new naval hegemon.

Even if there was no naval war between China and Britain, Britain's comprehensive concession in Gothenburg was enough to prove it, and the empire perfectly showed its new strength all over the world, so that the whole world must be aware of the birth of a new empire and a new overlord.

In this book, the Northeast National Defense Force has also continuously exterminated the many times in the country, and has repeatedly launched a large-scale search and encirclement and suppression of the right-wing elements in the country, and with the efforts of Wang Zhaoming and the Capital Affairs Committee, it has gradually entered a relatively stable new stage, including the issue of Hokkaido and war claims, there is no longer any controversy, and the only dispute is whether to end the emperor system, but on this issue, the country is no longer one-sided, and the media's defection has played a very key role.

Emperor Song Biao successfully completed his delayed task, buying enough time for the Central Cabinet and the Northeast Command to deal with two thorny issues, and it was under this premise that Emperor Song Biao returned to Asia.

In the fourth round of Sino-British colonial negotiations, the empire and Britain reached an effective agreement to formally incorporate the entire Kashmir region and the Chin and Kachin regions in the Sino-Burmese dispute into the imperial territory, and set up Kashmir Autonomous Province and Kachin Autonomous Province in turn, in the Assam disputed area, and finally bounded by the previously agreed Dingsujiya.

At this point, the expansionism of the empire in the entire western and southwestern regions also came to an end, and entered a new stage of more stability, and the policy of continued expansion thereafter was unreasonable, more complex and difficult, and the empire was more willing to firmly stabilize the territory here and establish a strong enough southwestern foundation than unreasonable expansion.

Rather than continue to waste energy on expansion in this region, the empire also has all the more reason to reorient the momentum of expansion to the north, and make a fuss in the current Soviet occupation zone, where the vast no-man's land is the next direction for the empire to expand.

Once the final borders were finally drawn on the Ob River, which the empire wanted, the empire's territory would also exceed 23 million square kilometers, making it the largest empire in history.

The empire was supposed to be such a huge country.

However, shortly after Emperor Song Biao returned to Yenjing from his visit to Europe, Nazi Germany suddenly demanded that Belgium be annexed to Germany on September 15, 1941, and sent troops to attack Belgium and the Netherlands within 24 hours.

Although France repaired the Maginot Line to the Lille area, the Belgian region was still the best springboard for attacking France from the perspective of the movement of the entire strategic force, and France and Britain urgently sent troops to reinforce Belgium and the Netherlands without declaring war on Germany in an attempt to prevent Germany from occupying this area.

On September 19, the Germans defeated the British and French reinforcements and the Belgian Wehrmacht and occupied all of Belgium and the Netherlands, and the British and French were forced to declare war on Germany at the same time.

After the signing of the Gothenburg Entente, Britain had effectively lost control of its Asian colonies, but the Reich also secretly signed a secret treaty with Britain and France, determining that if Britain and France declared war on Germany, the Reich would give Britain and France all necessary assistance, and would break off all cooperation with Germany, and if the German-Italian alliance attacked Africa and the Balkans, the Reich would also declare war on Germany, Italy and Poland.

This secret treaty was the real result of Emperor Song Biao's visit to Europe, and this achievement also greatly encouraged Britain and France, so that they dared to fight against such a powerful Germany, at least Britain and France understood that Emperor Song Biao and the Chinese Empire would not sit idly by and watch Germany unify Europe.

At 7 a.m. on September 20, 1941, Britain and France simultaneously declared war on Germany.

World War II officially broke out.

Four hours after Britain and France declared war on Germany, the French ambassador plenipotentiary to China, Gothmer, went to the Central Palace to meet with Emperor Song Biao, presented his French credentials, and demanded that the Chinese Empire fulfill its commitments under the Sino-French Comprehensive Strategic Cooperation Agreement, provide France with all necessary assistance, and suspend all exchanges with Germany in the military-related fields.

Emperor Song Biao did not make things difficult for France, he kept his previous promises and signed and approved the letter request of the French political axe.

After sending the French ambassador Gothmer away, Emperor Song Biao connected the phone to the General Staff and asked the Chief of General Staff Jiang Fangzhen to come to meet him, and Jiang Fangzhen was already on the way to the Central Palace at this time, and a few minutes later, the Chief of General Staff Jiang Fangzhen entered the office of the Central Palace in advance to meet Emperor Song Biao.

Emperor Song Biao was not surprised that Jiang Fangzhen came so quickly, he asked Jiang Fangzhen to sit across the desk, pushed the newly signed national strategic cooperation order to Jiang Fangzhen on the table, and took off the reading glasses on the bridge of his nose.

Emperor Song couldn't help but sigh at the difficulty of the situation, and said to Jiang Fangzhen: "The current situation is already very complicated, what kind of thoughts do you have?" ”

Jiang Fangzhen pondered carefully for a moment, and replied: "Returning to Your Majesty, it is time to send a special envoy to Europe to coordinate the negotiations between the three countries, and at the same time warn Germany that if the situation threatens the interests of the Reich, the Reich does not rule out military action, especially in view of Italy's habitual aggression against Africa and the Balkans, the Reich will strengthen its garrison in Ethiopia, and once Italy invades Africa, the Reich must give a severe military blow at the first time, and formally declare war on the German-Italian-Polish alliance on the grounds of Italy." In other words, the principle of the empire was that the war must be confined to its existing scope, and that it should not spread to Spain, Sweden, let alone Africa and Asia, otherwise it would seriously threaten the national interests of the empire. ”

Song Biao knew that Jiang Fangzhen's thinking on this issue was also very in-depth and long-term, so he immediately agreed with this opinion and said: "After a while, you will report your ideas to the Central Cabinet as the opinion of the military department, and send Vice Foreign Minister Jiang Zuobin as a special envoy." ”

Jiang Fangzhen nodded silently and reminded: "I am afraid that the cabinet is very reluctant to be involved in this war, especially in terms of military spending, the cabinet is probably not very willing to continue to maintain the scale of expenditure last year, and this year I barely want to take a breath, and now it seems unrealistic." ”

Song Biao sighed: "This kind of thing is not up to the cabinet, it has happened, we can't help but solve it, dodging is not the way, if Germany rules Europe, we will definitely suffer in the end." ”

Jiang Fangzhen nodded again.

Song Biao instructed: "The military department still needs to speed up preparations, how much basic expenditure budget do you need to estimate?" ”

Jiang Fangzhen pondered for a moment and replied: "If it is a war with a normal Germany, five million to six million troops are enough, but to start a war with Germany, which has occupied half of the Soviet Union and the whole of Eastern Europe, it will require at least 14 million troops, or even close to 20 million. If we were determined to defeat Germany at all costs, we would inevitably have to fight the largest war in the history of China. Maybe we need to gradually eliminate the German army through a few key battles, but in the process, we have to send millions of troops each time, and if in the first decisive battle, we can annihilate the main German army with absolute strength, that may be the best option. ”

Song Biao silently pondered such thoughts in his heart.

He also conceived this war many times, and it was generally consistent with Jiang Fangzhen's judgment, if the Sino-German war did not want to become a long and distant war of attrition, it was necessary to invest the absolute main force and absolute superiority of troops at the first time, and destroy or severely damage the main force of Germany through a truly large-scale decisive battle of the absolute main force, and lay a huge advantage that was difficult to be reversed, only in this way could the Reich defeat the German army as soon as possible.

It's a difficult thing to do.

The Sino-British colonial dispute provided an excellent opportunity for Nazi Germany, and half of the main forces of the Reich, originally concentrated in the occupied area east of the Volga, went south to threaten the British army, although in exchange for the result of the Sino-British negotiations that the Reich wanted, but the deterrent effect on Germany was also greatly reduced, and Germany took this opportunity to sign a secret treaty with the Reich, peacefully partitioned the Soviet Union, and avoided the biggest reason for conflict between China and Germany.

It is impossible to ignore the German threat, after all, the Reich has spent too much strength and military expenditure in the process of defeating the Reich, and no matter how the situation in Europe develops, it is a threat in Europe after all, and the Reich is a direct threat to the Reich in Asia and Beyond.

Emperor Song Biao pondered carefully for a long time, and said to Jiang Fangzhen: "There is no need for us to organize such a large army force, because it will require too much military expenditure and resources to rearm, and the whole army will continue to maintain its current size. After all, it is to this extent, either you don't play, and if you want to play, you should take out all your hole cards to solve the opponent at once. ”

After a pause, he added without any doubts: "Let the nuclear strategic department speed up the production and assembly of nuclear warheads, and further optimize and expand the means of striking nuclear weapons." ”

Jiang Fangzhen had already understood the emperor's decision, and immediately nodded and said, "The emperor is sage." ”

Yes, this is the best way to prove the supremacy of the empire without spending more on military spending.

In addition to nuclear weapons, the Reich would also send jet fighters to join the war, and provide such warplanes to Britain and France to contain the advance of the German army, and buy the Reich more time to solve all worries, especially the problem of the Ben.

…… The outbreak of World War II caused an unprecedented uproar in China, and the question of whether the empire would enter the war was hotly debated.

The emperor had already made a decision, once the empire entered the war, he would use all his strength to punish Germany with the most severe punishment, the central defense army began to enter a new round of readiness in an all-round way, the main forces of the imperial army and air force were constantly transferred to the east of the Volga River and northern Iran, and the permanent headquarters of the General Headquarters of the Asian Alliance was established, with its headquarters set up in Dusapin in the Tajik Autonomous Province.

People are talking about a new world war, fearing it, and trembling at it, and the whole world is like this, and the United States and China, which are on the sidelines, are also concerned about the development of the war, and neither China nor the United States can accept a new Europe that is united by military affairs, and both support Britain and France more.

For the 500 million Chinese people, their position in this war is more neutral, in the eyes of the Chinese, Germany and France are very important friends, Germany and France have had a lot of help to China, in the face of the expansion of the Franco-German war, most of the people are unwilling to support the empire to enter the war, and hope that the empire can mediate the Franco-German contradictions, so that the two countries can restore peace.

Driven by strong public opinion, Imperial Vice Foreign Minister Jiang Zuobin flew to Europe again to try to mediate between the two sides and find a peaceful solution for both sides, but all this was in vain, and Jiang Zuobin himself knew very well that the best way now was to eliminate Nazi Germany, not the so-called peace talks.

The Imperial Navy constantly sent new fleets into the Indian Ocean to contain the Italian and German armies from entering Asia and Africa, so as to prevent the war from spreading to the Empire's sphere of influence, or rather, the Empire was deliberately using this war to change the situation in Africa and squeeze out the British and French influence in Africa.

Unlike World War I, the Empire already had Ethiopia as the best fulcrum in East Africa and enough naval bases in the Indian Ocean, and once it intervened in Africa, it would not withdraw from Africa.

Black.

Which world hegemon is not black.

The Central Military Department, through the Joint Military Industry Commission, has coordinated with more than 4,000 enterprises across the country that have the qualifications to verify the national military industry standards to comprehensively speed up the sale of all new weapons such as MBT35\40 tanks, MBV3 infantry fighting vehicles, and HP120 rocket launchers, and sell them to Britain and France without any restrictions, and even sell short-range ballistic missiles D2/4 to Britain, France, Sweden, and Spain.

The outbreak of World War II will further stimulate the demand of the international military market, which is already at a historical high, in addition to the large-scale orders of Britain and France, other countries must also order the most advanced military equipment in order to ensure their own security, and the empire is willing to supply the most advanced equipment to all countries in the world.

In order to ensure that Britain and France will continue to purchase a large number of propeller fighters of the Empire's J3\4\5 and G2\3 series, the Empire not only sold J6 early models of jet fighters to Britain and France, but also limited the number of sales on the grounds of engine production capacity limitations, and also faced the replacement of retired old fighters to sell off, while the Imperial Air Force simultaneously expanded the pace of replacing the new J6 fighters with propeller fighters.

In addition to high-tech military equipment, in the assault rifle, explosives, ammunition, artillery, trucks and other arms market areas, the empire has enough production capacity, the empire's M35 assault rifle, as the most common advanced weapon, large-scale sales to Britain and France, including the corresponding CMR47 medium power rifle cartridge.

Throughout the month of October, all stocks related to the military industry in the Imperial stock market soared across the board, signaling a real war boom for the Empire.

Britain and France, which had just recovered from the Great Depression of 1933, were once again facing a major loss of blood, but they had no choice, and the Imperial Central Axe was willing to hold a larger national debt for Britain and France to ensure their ability to pay in this war, and their gold reserves would gradually become Chinese dollar foreign exchange reserves, completely losing the international hard currency status of the franc and the pound.

Almost every day, the British ambassador to China had to engage in various business negotiations with the Imperial Foreign Office and the four major political axe trust companies, and borrowed on a large scale from the Imperial Bank and other financial institutions against British overseas assets.

No one but the Germans believed that this would be a war that would end in two or three months, and what choice did the British have but to borrow from China and buy China's advanced weapons on a large scale?

They had to build up a larger armament and have a more advanced air force and army to win the war.

The Reich controlled the course of the war in this way, sold and leased a large number of fighters to the French army, and even sent volunteer air force pilots to participate in the war, ensuring that the French army had air superiority, curbing the advance speed of the German mechanical forces, and further buying time for the Reich, Britain and France.

The U.S. firearms dealers were pleasantly surprised to find that in this long-prepared carnival feast, in addition to selling shells and explosives, they could not even sell a rifle, which made the United States embarrassed.

Of course, selling explosives, shells, bullets is also a good business, at least in large quantities.

The Americans fanatically demanded the principle of neutrality, and the arms dealers did not have any principle to supply weapons to Germany, Italy and Poland, which could not buy Chinese weapons, and among these well-known American [***] fire companies, in fact, many of them were controlled by Northeast Heavy Industry, Jiangnan Foundation, and Nanyang Foundation, or were holding shares in the company.

There is no shame in the capitalists.

The Swedish-controlled enterprises of the Reich capital were more neutral and continued to supply Germany with everything they needed as long as they could, so much so that German bombers continued to use aluminum alloys and engines from the Reich.

If His Majesty has lost control of his family business, then the fact that Volvo, which is controlled by the Far Eastern consortium, has become the third largest supplier of tanks and trucks to Nazi Germany is probably worth investigating.

In other words, from the moment His Majesty decided to solve the problem with nuclear weapons, all the capitalists of the empire could plunge into the shameless wave of bottomless and make huge profits together with American businessmen, while all politicians, whether it was the central cabinet of the empire or the American political axe, turned a blind eye to this.

The national interest is always so realistic and unforgiving.

It is true that the Reich will not allow Nazi Germany to unify Europe, but it will also not continue to allow Britain and France to dominate Africa and other regions.

After the customs data in October this year came out, Prime Minister Gu Weijun hoped that the war would continue without limit, and the Central Military Department also cleverly used the war to speed up the service of new equipment, especially in the field of the air force.

The J-6 jet fighter officially appeared on the European battlefield in early October of this year, because France did not have a suitable pilot to control this kind of fighter, through coordination, in the name of the Volunteer Army, more than 40 experienced pilots were invited from the Empire to form the first French Black Falcon Volunteer Aviation Group, which was under the direct command of the French Air Force Command.

Through technical cooperation with the Chinese Air Force, the development of the ME262 jet fighter in Nazi Germany has also advanced very quickly, and the first test flight was achieved in October last year, and before that, Germany also accumulated a wealth of experience in the development of the HE280 jet.

Shortly after the Nazi Air Force's ME262 jet fighters entered the battle, Reich J-6 fighter jets also arrived in France at the same time, but the two sides did not encounter head-on at the first time.

Like Germany, the Reich J-6 fighter was a second-generation jet combat aircraft, with the prototype P-3 and the J-6A being the P-3DX.

Thanks to the superior and thrust turbojet 5 engine, the Black Falcon J-6 has a speed advantage over all opponents from the start, which gives the Black Falcon fighter more design space to focus on other key combat statistics such as combat, take-off, payload and range.

In the design of the air intake and aerodynamics, due to the use of the early shock cone air inlet and the structure of the side strip wing with a small aspect ratio and a low single wing, the fighting ability of the Black Falcon fighter with twin-engine configuration has an absolute advantage over the jet fighters being developed by Britain and Germany, and the data such as speed, range, load, and electronic equipment also occupy a greater advantage.

Compared with the British Meteor fighter and the American P-80 jet test aircraft, as well as the German HE280 jet aircraft, the Black Falcon fighter is a very unique twin-engine medium fighter, its empty weight data is an astonishing 6800/7280kg, while the German ME262, which is also a twin-engine jet fighter, has an empty weight of only 4000/4400KG and a combat radius of 750 kilometers.

In the same period of fighters, whether it is a propeller or a jet, the surname of the Black Falcon J-6 fighter can be called the absolute first in the world, in the German and French battlefields, the first batch of Black Falcon fighters to participate in the war created brilliant results, with zero damage to shoot down 27 German BF-109.

As the Anglo-French and German-Polish armies fought on the Maginot Line on an unprecedented scale, the scale of ammunition loss on both sides reached a sensational level, and the widespread use of assault rifles was the main cause of this, which in turn brought more lucrative profits and unprecedented prosperity to the military industries of China and the United States and Sweden.

The amount of ammunition consumed by both sides in a month was actually more than the amount consumed in the entire Sino-Chinese war, but the personnel losses on both sides were not intense, and it was far less than the scale of the losses incurred by the Chinese and Chinese sides on the Korean battlefield.

In late November, the German army finally broke through the Maginot Line with a large number of railway heavy artillery attacks in Mons, Belgium, and in the subsequent large-scale offensive, the German army drove all the way straight in, detoured and reversed the Lille area where the two sides were heavily concentrated, in order to save the Anglo-French forces in the Lille area, the French army gathered all the reserve forces to counterattack Cambrai.

In the history of World War II, the most fierce first large-scale battle - the Battle of Cambrai began, and both sides gathered heavy troops, but the large-scale regression and stagnation of the French army in the mechanization reform during the period of President Lelumbus eventually led to the lack of sufficient armored forces of the French army in this campaign, and although the armored vehicles and tanks urgently purchased from China were advanced, the French army itself still lacked the required tactical command experience.

Before the German attack, the Chinese military chief adviser General Liu Gengyun had suggested that the French army should deploy the reserve forces as close to the Maginot Line as possible, but General Wigan refused, before the outbreak of the Battle of Cambrai, General Liu Gengyun also suggested that the French army strategically shrink the defensive line, and the front line to gain more time to build a second layer of defense in the rear, which was also shelved by the French General Staff.

In France, Admiral Liu Gung-yun and the Chinese military advisory group were mainly responsible for providing combat training for the French army's mechanized troops, and before the Battle of Cambrai, Admiral Liu Gung-yun sent a telegram back to the Reich's Central Military Headquarters, believing that France might fall before the end of the year.

His point was that France's problem was not a lack of mechanized combat equipment, not a lack of good command officers, but a lack of a great leader, and in his opinion, neither General Wigan nor President Reynaud lacked the courage to lead France to the end.

In a telegram he sent to Emperor Song Biao, he said: "Your Majesty, I do not think that the future of France is bleak and hopeless, and they may not be able to defeat Germany, but they can bow their heads and ask for help from us and England, and truly respect us." What really brought France to this point, I think it all started with the Napoleonic Emperor, who was always dwelling on the glory of the past, which had made the French not have the courage to face up to their weakness and powerlessness at this stage of the moment. They are arrogant and inferior, and if the war does not reach Paris, they will be full of fighting spirit, and as soon as they get to Paris, they will admit defeat, and this is what we fear. ”

(To be continued)