[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 626: Cash Cow (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

After receiving the information that the air force had reconnoitred the troops, the North China Front Army Headquarters immediately made a decision and ordered the troops on the Shanxi front to stop military operations against the Second War Zone and other units of the Eighth Route Army and go all out to deal with the battle in the Xinkou direction. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Immediately after that, the headquarters of the First Army stationed in Shanxi made a decision to order the independent mixed second brigade to go north to reinforce Xinkou, and with the puppet army that cooperated with the operation, more than 100,000 Chinese and Japanese troops gathered in a short period of time on the periphery of Yuanping Town, a small Chinese town, which was quite a strategic decisive battle.

The East Asian theater is under heavy artillery fire, and Eastern Europe is not at peace. Under the lightning frenzied attack of the German army, the Polish army completely fell into a situation of passive beating. Since the start of the war on September 18, the German army has been overwhelming, and the speed of the advance is beyond imagination. First, Guderian's 19th Panzer Corps surrounded Brest-Litovsk, and his 3rd Panzer Division and 2nd Motorized Division continued to advance south in order to complete the final deep encirclement with Liszt's 14th Corps, the right flank of Army Group South.

At the same time, the vanguard of the 14th Army, Kleist's 22nd Panzer Corps, encircled Lviv and continued its northward advance, and joined Army Group North in the Vhuodava area to encircle the Polish forces that had retreated in the triangle of the Bug, San and Vistula rivers.

On 17 October, the Germans ordered the Warsaw authorities to surrender within 12 hours after completing the siege of Warsaw, while the Polish government and the Polish high command had fled across the border to Romania on the 16th.

What shocked the British, French, and Polish governments the most was that not only Germany launched an attack on Poland, but the Soviet Union, which had already negotiated with Germany to partition Poland, was also brazenly attacking at this time. The Soviet government declared that the Soviet-Polish non-aggression pact was no longer in force since the Polish government ceased to exist. At the same time, in order to protect the interests of Ukrainian and Belarusian minorities, the USSR decided to move into the eastern regions of Poland.

In the early morning of October 17, the Soviet Belorussian Front and the Ukrainian Front, led by General Kovalev and General Timoshenko, respectively, crossed the eastern border of Poland and advanced westward.

The next day, the German and Soviet armies met at Brest-Litovsk. Hitler wanted to take Warsaw quickly, and ordered that the Germans must take Warsaw by the end of October. Subsequently, the Germans began shelling forts, strongholds and important supply centers around Warsaw. On the 20th, the commander of the defenders of Warsaw formally signed the instrument of surrender to the commander of the German 8th Army Corps, General Blaskovitz. By 22 October, Gdynia, the last city to resist, had ceased to resist.

At this point, this war of aggression initiated by the German conspiracy lasted only one month and came to an end, with 200,000 Polish casualties and more than 400,000 prisoners. The German army suffered 43,600 casualties and 3,400 missing, creating a miracle in military history!

Poland surrendered, and the Eastern European military power, which had dared to go to war with Germany and the Soviet Union ten years earlier, perished, and only a month before the German attack on Poland was launched.

But it is incredible that although Britain and France were well aware of the German threat, they did not stand still on the Western Front when Poland was attacked by Germany, especially France, which had the most powerful army in the world at that time, and millions of troops quietly watched the 26 German divisions facing it.

With such a huge advantage, instead of seizing the opportunity, the French army hid behind the reinforced concrete fortifications and sat quietly, watching a Don. The Quijote valiant allies were thus wiped out by the Germans.

The inaction of Britain and France made the countries of Eastern Europe extremely alarmed, their national strength was not as good as Poland, and the army was less pitiful, if Germany did something to them, then it was foreseeable what the result would be, so before Germany had any new moves, some small countries in Eastern Europe and southern Europe threw olive branches to Germany.

In fact, not only those small countries in Eastern Europe are panicking, but Britain and France are also scared now, don't look at them at this time They seem to be very powerful, but in fact, they know the situation of their own families, especially France, which claims to have the world's first army.

Prior to this, the French government had explicitly assured the Polish government in the Franco-Polish military agreement that in the event of an attack on Poland by Germany and other countries, the French side would gradually launch an offensive against limited targets within three days after the general ****** was issued. The treaty further stipulated: "In the event of an attack on Poland by Germany with its main forces, France will launch an offensive against Germany with its main forces from the 15th day after the commencement of the general mobilization of France".

When Colonel Jacquelinz, the Polish Deputy Chief of Staff, asked how many troops France could send to participate in such a massive offensive, General Gammelin of France told him that France would be able to send about 35 to 38 divisions by then.

But in fact, France was not prepared for war at all. Or that Britain and France, and especially France, were militarily unprepared. This is not unfounded, first of all when Germany launched an attack on Poland. As an ally of Poland, the French military industry simply did not keep up with the pace of the times, and even economically did not go to the wartime track, materially unprepared.

At that time, France could only produce 38 aircraft per month, while Germany produced more than 1,000 aircraft per month. Anti-tank guns on the French front line at the time of the start of the war. Anti-aircraft guns, light machine guns were scarce, and even pistols worn by generals were difficult to buy.

At the moment of the great enemy, many skilled workers in munitions factories were transferred out of the factories to clean gardens or peel potatoes and do some handymanship. In the factories, work was carried out at the pace of peacetime, and production was carried out without overtime, and all arms orders and new factories were carried out according to the plan for the war in 1942.

But the war finally broke out early instead of according to their subjective wishes, and the soldiers and civilians were reluctantly drawn into the war, but they lacked the passion to fight. Some people didn't even know where Danzig was, and felt the need to "die for Danzig." To a certain extent, these chaotic circumstances reflect the reality that France was both entering the war and lacking material and spiritual preparation.

However, Germany's clean capture of Poland created a big opportunity for Ma Zheng. The rise of Germany frightened Britain and France, and Britain hurriedly sent troops to its colonies and federal member states back to Europe, and at the same time drew money and goods to prepare for war. Everyone knows that world war is inevitable, so penicillin drugs that can treat knife wounds will become a war resource that countries are vying for, so the price of penicillin drugs has been raised again.

Although Huaxia's pharmaceutical factory in San Francisco is working overtime to produce a variety of penicillin drugs, and new plants are being built, it still can't satisfy the frenzied buyers.

Britain, France, the United States and the Soviet Union are all rushing orders, no matter how much Huaxia Company's production capacity is increased, there will be agents from various countries to take over at the first time, so that it is difficult to buy penicillin in the market, and even if it can be bought, the price is also outrageous.

It has only been four months since Li Lanqing arrived in the United States, and at this time, Huaxia's revenue has reached $160 million, while a brand-new Ford car is only $450, and even the annual tax revenue of the US government is only $100 billion.

In other words, Huaxia's operating income reached 0.16% of the annual revenue of the U.S. government in a few months, which shows how great the potential of this company is. If this momentum continues, Huaxia will become one of the most powerful business giants in the world in a few years at most. Therefore, it is no exaggeration to say that Li Lanqing planted a cash cow.

With huge operating income and huge profits, Li Lanqing vigorously expanded the company's production scale at the same time, hired a large number of well-known medical researchers to work in Huaxia Company, and began to study streptomycin drugs, and also acquired a large hospital in San Francisco, to treat the people at a low price, to gather prestige and popular support, in short, to do a good job. (To be continued.) )