At 11 o'clock in the afternoon of September 20, 1941, Emperor Song Biao officially approved the approval of the declaration of war on Italy submitted by Gu Weijun, the prime minister of the Imperial Cabinet, and yesterday, and at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the vice chairman of the Central National Defense Commission and the chief of the general staff of the Central Military Department officially announced this resolution in the National Assembly.

The following day, officials of the embassies of the Axis powers in China, including Germany, Poland, and Italy, received orders from the Reich's Foreign Affairs Department one after another, declaring that the Reich would sever its formal diplomatic relations with the Axis powers and the client powers, that the diplomats of the Axis powers in China should leave Chinese territory within a 48-hour period, and that the Foreign Ministry had arranged a number of special planes to send them and their families to the United States in batches.

The Second World War was at its peak and the Allied counteroffensive began.

Two days after the Chinese Empire officially declared war, the Council of the Asian League voted on a resolution in Yanjing, and the Asian League collectively declared war on the Axis powers, and together with Britain, France and other countries, held an international conference in Shanghai, signed the "Shanghai Anti-Aggression International Military Alliance Entente", and started World War II with the Axis powers with the Allies camp, so that the Axis powers accepted unconditional surrender.

The international power and influence of the Chinese Empire are unprecedented, second only to the British Empire at the beginning of the 20th century, and its economic, industrial, scientific and technological and military strength far exceeds that of the British Empire at that time, and it is also the most powerful world hegemon in the history of the world.

Once the Reich decided to enter World War II, it had actually decided the final direction of the war, and the naval strength of the Reich and Britain was enough to ensure the monopoly of the Allied bloc on the world's sea power, ending the maritime space of Germany and the Axis powers, which also meant that in addition to the existing domestic and client resources of the Axis powers, the international resources in other parts of the world would basically belong to the Allied camp.

Outside of the European continent, any country joining the Axis Steel Alliance would be self-defeating.

The Empire's Central Naval Air Combined Fleet is also the strongest navy ever built, with more than 14 aircraft carriers and more than 200 escort and anti-submarine warships.

The Imperial Air Force has 63,000 military aircraft, more than 35,000 tanks, and more than 80,000 self-propelled guns and towed guns, which is already equivalent to the entire Axis power combined, and once the size of the force is expanded to the expected 15 million, the number of its aircraft, tanks and other major equipment will be doubled, enough to drown the entire Axis power in a flood of steel.

Among the Axis powers, Germany and Poland alone have the strength to exceed 15 million troops, but the total number of air force pilots approaching 70,000, as well as the drivers and gunners of tanks and armored vehicles, and the command officers at all levels of the relevant services are not something that can be cultivated by various countries in a few years, which is the war strength cultivated by the empire on the basis of 400 million people accumulated in 30 years.

Therefore, military powers are not so easy to mess with.

The gap between Nazi Germany and the Chinese Empire, the gap between the world's second military power and the world's first military power is here.

Compared with the Luftwaffe that has just stepped into the jet age, the Reich has completely stepped into the jet age, the J-6 \ 606 series of jet fighters are in full service, the air forces of China and Germany are completely in different generations, and in the naval competition, Germany is too far away from China, and the closest between China and Germany is the army.

China is not easy to provoke, and if it wants to challenge China's world hegemony under immature conditions, it will inevitably pay a heavy price.

Before and after China officially declared war on Italy, the Imperial Wehrmacht had launched a large-scale offensive in North Africa, with a total of 2.7 million troops from the four army groups and the Allies invested in the North African theater, and in the Northern Theater, the Reich sent three additional army groups to the Northwest Allied Army within a week, and four additional army groups will be dispatched in the next month to contain the German Central Army Group and the Northern Army Group in the northern theater, reduce the military pressure on the southern European theater, and buy time for the British Army to intervene in the southern European theater on a large scale.

The total number of troops sent by the empire in the northern theater will reach 15 army groups, close to 4.3 million troops, accounting for 2/5 of the total strength of the empire, which is the main battlefield of the empire, while the southern European theater is mainly responsible for Britain, France, Spain and other allies [***], and the empire only sent three army groups and air forces to fight together.

After China officially declared war, the whole world was shocked, and Germany, Poland and Italy were even more shocked, especially for Poland, because Poland was actually the most pro-China and the most aware of China's military strength among the three major Axis powers.

Before 1940, the number of officers trained in Poland each year was only 1/4 of that of Germany, and even more so 1/12 of that of China, and this was the main gap between the two sides.

China entered the war, and World War II became a real world war.

…… Wars are fought by men.

Emperor Song Biao knew this very well, because he had fought too many wars in his life, and he was also the one who knew the essence of war best, and on the afternoon of the day when he signed the declaration of war, in order to let the people truly understand the challenges facing the country, he was ready to deliver the holy teachings to the people of the whole country through the China Radio Radio, and his voice would be transmitted to the whole world through the radio waves.

At 3 p.m., Emperor Song Biao arrived at the Reichstag in the central square, where more than 100,000 people had gathered, all waiting for His Majesty to appear.

In the Prime Minister's Lounge in the Reichstag, Emperor Song Biao spent his last moments reviewing the speech, which had already been changed three times, and most of the content was still written by him himself, because only he knew what he wanted to say.

Regardless of whether they supported the war or not, all 355 members of the Diet were waiting in the hall, some of them were extremely expectant, some were apprehensive, but everyone knew very well that no matter what kind of attitude they had before, after the emperor made it clear, they had to fully and unconditionally support the emperor's decision.

This is the political ecology of the empire.

No one could challenge the authority of the emperor.

The empire did not have a Senate and House of Representatives, and the members of Congress themselves were a combination of members of the upper and lower Senate and House of Representatives, and after successive reshuffles, the current members of the House of Parliament were elected by each government, and each government ran for one member of Congress, plus 30 additional members of Congress from the central non-constituency to form this huge Congress.

Despite the large number of MPs, the Liberation Party and the SPD still make up the vast majority, with the two-party coalition holding nearly two-thirds of the seats in parliament, and the ** party and other right-wing parties combined for more than one-third.

The expansion of the number of parliamentarians has actually weakened the political influence of individual members of the National Assembly, and it is basically a situation in which the political party decides everything.

Although there are factional disputes within the political parties, the political stability of the country is basically guaranteed through the dual role mechanism of the central committee and the central cabinet of the political parties, and in this case, as long as the party leaders are in line with the emperor, it will only take a short time for the entire political circle to turn around.

Sometimes it's just a matter of the emperor's words.

After the final silent reading of the speech, Emperor Song Biao, accompanied by Prime Minister Gu Weijun, Chairman of the Liberation Party Yang Zhaolin, and more than 20 other leading members of the Parliament, went to the north pavilion of the National Assembly Building, where everything was ready, and below the pavilion were nearly 100,000 citizens who had come to listen to the Emperor's hadiths.

Before walking to the pavilion, Emperor Song Biao looked at the people in front of him, knowing in his heart that the fate of the empire depended in his speech.

This is the speech of the real emperor.

It will determine the fate of a people and the history of the world.

The teleprompter prepared by the inner court one meter in front of the microphone arranged the speech separately to help the emperor deliver his speech smoothly and fluently.

Emperor Song Biao was already very familiar with this speech, and his memory was not so bad that he couldn't recite the content of a speech of a few thousand words in a week, but he still glanced at the teleprompter carefully, and looked at the tens of thousands of people in the central square in front of him again.

Song Biao looked at everyone silently, waited quietly in the cheers of the people, and waited for more than ten seconds before he raised his finger and pointed to the sky, and said: "50,000 compatriots and people, we live in this great country, the glory and greatness of the empire today is the result of our hard work in the past 30 years, this is a real miracle in the history of the world, we have become the richest and most powerful country in the world from a poor and weak country, today, we have a wide range of interests all over the worldThese national interests are the foundation for maintaining the special status of the Chinese empire in the world, and this foundation, our interests, and the aspirations of the Chinese nation for world peace are being severely challenged by the fascism of the Axis powers. ”

The survival of the country is the responsibility of the husband.

The honor and disgrace of the country is also the responsibility of the husband.

The state does not belong to the political party, nor to the emperor, but to the 50,000,000 compatriots and the people.

China can only be the first in the world, it is impossible to accept the second, and it is still less possible to tolerate the challenge of fascist Germany, even if it wants to go through war, China must sternly counterattack its opponents, defend China's national interests, defend the dignity of the Chinese nation, and defend world peace and order.

This is the theme of Song Biao's speech.

China is facing a challenge, and if it continues to pursue a policy of appeasement and give fascist Germany ten years, even China will eventually be invaded by fascist Germany and the Axis powers.

China has reached the moment when it must directly overthrow the fascists with war, and there is no way back.

China can no longer tolerate it, and there is no need to endure it.

…… Emperor Song Biao was not a very famous orator, so in the past thirty years, he has always given only a handful of public speeches, but every time he makes a public speech, it will have an amazing impact on the whole empire and the world, this is his authority, this is his status.

The 50,000,000 citizens of the Chinese nation were extremely loyal and willing to accept the leadership of the Chinese Emperor, and this time, Emperor Song Biao once again led them into a new war, and as in previous cases, he promised to bring more honor and more benefits to the country and the nation.

That's enough.

China must enter the war and achieve final victory at all costs, because this is the dignity of the world hegemon of the Chinese nation and the Chinese Empire.

In the face of the 100,000 people in the square, Emperor Song Biao stood on the pavilion of the Reichstag with his aging body, shouting his views to the whole world, and finally directing the entire public opinion to the final victory.

People's enthusiasm was ignited in an instant, the voices of the people in the square were boiled over the radio to all corners of the country, and public opinion in the country was reversed almost instantly; yesterday, people were still debating whether the declaration of war on the Axis powers was beneficial to the interests of the country, whether it was in line with the peace-loving tradition of the Chinese nation, and so on.

Emperor Song Biao's statement had a strong driving surname, and all the media quickly turned around, actively promoting the necessary surname of war, denouncing the anti-human atrocities of fascist Nazism, and preaching that the empire must maintain the hegemonic spirit of being the first in the world.

Controversy will only waste human time, and now it is necessary to take action to defend the interests of the empire and the Chinese nation with war.

The empire set sail again in such a wave, and everything seemed to return to the time when the third Sino-Japanese war broke out, everyone actively sought war, and the authority and appeal of the Song Emperor had an extremely strong effect at the first time, and almost in the afternoon of the same day, the conscription offices in all counties across the country ushered in an unprecedented sea of callers.

In this era, the Chinese Empire is the most powerful war machine in the world, there is no one, with the roar of this war machine, the war potential of the whole country has finally burst out, the scale of the country's recruitment of new recruits has expanded, in order to make up for the lack of officers, the Central Military Department has temporarily set up a crash course for non-commissioned officers in various military academies.

Overseas Chinese also actively responded to the call to join the army, and the sales of national war bonds exceeded 4 billion yuan in a few days.

With the official declaration of war by the Empire, the Central Defense Committee replaced the Central Cabinet and launched a new wartime cabinet political axe, although most of the cabinet ministers were still former cabinet members, but the powers and institutions have changed significantly, more enterprises were included in the production system of the imperial [***] industry, and in the future, the scale of the empire's military industrial production will continue to more than double.

The establishment of a larger air force training base in the empire will further accelerate the training of more air force pilots, and sweep the entire Eurasian continent with a larger air force.

The Imperial Navy's four new Northwest-class aircraft carriers will also be put into service within a year, making the J-605 jet carrier-based aircraft begin to appear on the big stage of world war history, and it is expected that eight Northwest-class aircraft carriers will be built with a super displacement of 75,000 tons and the second-generation steam catapult device developed by Northeast Heavy Industry, this new class of aircraft carriers will successively replace the Empire's original Novosibirsk-class, Northeast-class aircraft carriers.

Taking advantage of the God-given opportunity of World War II, the Empire will establish six large naval bases around the world, so that the Empire's air fleet can effectively cover the entire world's oceans and reduce the influence space of other competitors through sea power.

Thirty years ago, the empire could only be regarded as a traditional land power, but today, the empire's territory has expanded to the Arctic Ocean in the north, the Java Sea in the south, the South Pacific in the east, and the Indian Ocean in the west.

The vast empire would expand further, which was why the empire was determined to enter the Second World War.

…… The peak moment of the Second World War finally arrived, it was already a real Sino-German war, before the Reich officially declared war, the Reich armored forces swept across Libya with the cooperation of the Air Force, almost expelling the entire Italian army from the Libyan colony, Italy could not die the opponent of the Reich at all, this is a clear thing.

The Reich swept everything in North Africa, in the Russian theater, the main forces of China and Germany continued to gather, an unprecedented scale of the Volga battle was coming, the next day after the declaration of war, the Imperial Air Force launched an uninterrupted patrol on the entire west coast of the Volga, and small-scale air battles broke out one after another, but this was not the moment when the large-scale battle of the Reich began, this was just a mutual test of the air forces of the two sides, and various reconnaissance work of the Imperial Air Force trying to further determine the location of the enemy's main air bases.

At high altitudes, the C2 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft developed by the Imperial Northeast Aviation Industry Company has appeared, and at a high altitude flight above 24,000 meters that German fighters cannot effectively reach, it conducts comprehensive scanning spy photos of the German ground deployment through high-altitude cameras.

The sudden appearance of C2 after the declaration of war had a very big impact on Nazi Germany, even if it was to create a fighter that could counterattack at the fastest speed, it would take half a year, even if Germany could barely effectively intercept it, due to the development cycle of the relevant synthetic aperture radar, high-definition resolution combined shooting system, and high-power engine system, it was enough for Germany to obtain the same high-altitude reconnaissance capability before the end of World War II.

In fact, the C2 entered service in 1940, but under strict secrecy it was never exposed and was not used for high-altitude reconnaissance of Germany and other Axis powers.

In North Africa, the 2902nd High-Altitude Reconnaissance Regiment of the Imperial Air Force has arrived in Cairo, and in the United Kingdom, the 2904th High-altitude Reconnaissance Regiment of the Imperial Air Force has also arrived at Reading Airport, which will carry out comprehensive reconnaissance of the entire Mediterranean coast, North Africa, and Western Europe, to ensure that the Allies can grasp the movements of the main forces of the Axis countries at the first time, and will also ensure that the Imperial Strategic Missile Forces can carry out effective and accurate strikes on important military bases of the Axis countries.

The establishment system and equipment research and development of the Imperial Air Force, as well as the training of personnel, tactical training and other aspects have emphasized large-scale air operations since 20 years ago, which is completely different from the aristocratic knightly air force system of Britain and Germany, and the Soviet Air Force system is basically developed with reference to the Empire, even if the level of equipment and tactical training is far inferior to that of the Imperial Air Force, during the Soviet-German War, the aviation units can still maintain a certain degree of superiority over the Nazi Air Force in large-scale air battles, and with the strength of the Imperial Air Force, it is indeed at the level of ravaging the Nazi Air Force.

It can be said that in the past 30 years, the Reichswehr has gradually developed into a world naval and air force hegemon from an army power during the Second Sino-Chinese War and the Sino-Soviet War, while Germany's blitzkrieg system is certainly powerful, but its actual military system is still at the stage of an army superpower, and has not reached the current stage of air-ground joint operations of the Chinese Imperial Wehrmacht.

The theory of air-ground integration of the Empire, the balanced mechanization of the army, and the theory of the maritime aviation system of the Navy are the three major theoretical foundations of the Imperial Wehrmacht.

The "balanced mechanization" of the army is essentially a compromise between the Suvorov war theory and the armored blitzkrieg, and its fundamental internal reason is that the land territory of the empire is too vast, and the terrain structure is complex, not only in extremely cold areas, but also in tropical rainforests, plateaus, mountains and other local terrain types, and it is difficult for purely armored troops to effectively cover and ensure the security of the entire empire's land power, which eventually produces a balanced mechanization theory, which is still characterized by ensuring the speed, fierceness, and mobility of the army units. Mechanization is developed according to different terrain conditions.

Due to the poor accuracy of guided weapons, the empire's air-ground integration is still in its infancy, and the operational theory at this stage is a typical "air-ground joint operation", with the air force in the front and the army in the rear, and more emphasis is placed on air supremacy, and the navy's aviation theory is the same, which is also emphasizing the priority of air supremacy, and only with air supremacy can there be land and sea supremacy.

The Nazi German army still lacked a good means of dealing with this kind of "air-ground joint operation" in the Reich at this stage, and in terms of actual command and tactical planning, there was also a lack of practical and effective links between the Nazi air force and the army, just like the performance in the Soviet-German war, the Nazi air force purely took the number of shots down as the main indicator of combat performance.

The air force of the Chinese Empire has long since departed from such a low-level stage, and the Imperial Air Force will first wait for the strategic missile forces to give priority to their efforts, and then launch a group joint operation of fighter planes and attack planes to destroy the enemy's air force, airfields, and radar systems, followed by the enemy's air defense system, and finally attack planes and bombers will be the mainstay, and the army will cooperate with the army to destroy the opponent's tank and armored group army, destroy the opponent's supplies, and destroy the opponent's communications and communications.

After that, it was the Panzer Army and the Light Mechanized Army of the Imperial Army that rushed forward to encircle and annihilate the opponent in an integrated manner.

No matter what aspect it is, whether it is the level and number of fighters, the quality and number of air force pilots, the tactical system, deployment capability, and logistics maintenance level of the Imperial Air Force, the Imperial Air Force has absolute superiority, which is enough to ravage the Nazi Air Force.

In just one week, the empire originally stationed a large number of main air force units in the northeast, central and northern, central China, northwest and Korean regions were deployed to the western theater of operations, after the empire took control of Kazakhstan, around the Soviet Union left a railway and highway system in Kazakhstan, a large number of more than 10 spare airfields, at this time were basically used, the air force units under the command of the Northwest Theater Front Headquarters from the original 22 air divisions to 37 air divisions, The total number of aircraft also reached 14,500, more than twice the number of Nazi air forces deployed on the battlefield in Russia.

At this time, the Imperial Air Force had basically entered a period of great replacement of jet fighters, and 22 of the 37 air divisions belonged to fighter divisions, and exactly half of these 22 air divisions had completed the replacement of jet fighters, and the Empire's first-generation jet bombers and reconnaissance planes were also put into large-scale service in this year.

In contrast, the Me262 jet fighter currently equipped by the Nazi Air Force is a generation behind the J6, with a significant gap in engines and aerodynamic design, and a serious shortage in numbers.

During this period, we can see the gap between China and Germany in the scale and level of the aviation industry, and if the scale and level of the army industry of the two sides are basically equal, the gap between the air forces is indeed very large.

By 1940, the J-6 fighters produced by the Reich were not only more advanced, but also exceeded 10,000 in total, of which about 2,700 were leased to Britain, France, Spain and other allies, while Nazi Germany produced only 3,300 Me262 jet fighters.

There are more gaps behind the numbers, for example, the engine first repair time of the German ME262 jet fighter is only 50 hours, while the first repair time of the P-series engine of the Reich J-6 series fighter is usually maintained at more than 100 hours, and the early production models before the massive expansion can even reach a total life of 400 hours.

…… While one of the largest air battles in the world's military history is brewing, a real tragedy is also brewing.

The assertion that the German army believed that the military strength of China and Germany was roughly equal would turn into an unprecedented miscalculation after this air battle, and the fuse of the war had already been lit and was not controlled by either side at all.

Seven days after the official declaration of war by the Reich, the Reich Strategic Missile Forces launched a surprise attack on the Luftwaffe airfields at 7 a.m. from various bases in the Novosibirsk province and the Republic of Kazakhstan, into which thousands of ballistic and medium-range cruise missiles fell, and at 7:15 a.m., the Reich Air Force mobilized most of the air divisions in the theater of operations to carry out a secondary attack on the Luftwaffe.

Missiles and long-range rocket attacks at any cost caused the Nazi German air bases at all stages before and after the theater of operations, and in the face of the second attack of the Reich Air Force, only nearly one-third of the fighters could effectively take off and fight.

The Imperial Air Force did not adopt the air battles of the past, especially the harassing air battles of Britain and Germany, and still less did it follow the chivalric air duel tactics of the European style, victory was the only pursuit, and the goal of the Imperial Air Force was to seize air supremacy at one time.

With its powerful superiority in speed, maneuverability, and numbers, the Reich Air Force adopted a large-scale 2-to-1 or even 3-to-1 approach to eliminate the fighters of the Nazi Air Force, and the Nazi German army was basically reduced to the extent that it could only rely on anti-aircraft guns on the ground to confront it.

Under the existing circumstances, it is still unrealistic to use attack aircraft to directly attack the tank units stationed in the garrison, and the main targets of attack aircraft at this time are the remaining fighters in the airfield, as well as the destruction of other facilities and runways at the Luftwaffe base, especially by using the J5 series fighter-bombers with sufficient range, the Reichsair Force can effectively attack the bridges, airfields, ammunition and supply sites in the German rear, and even the front-line command center.

At 9:20 a.m., when the Air Force was ready for the third attack, the Northwest Coalition launched a full-scale offensive with Kazan as the main breakthrough point, and through the erection of large-scale temporary bridges, the 5th Army gave priority to breaking through the defensive line and launching a fierce attack under the offensive of the Air Force and rocket artillery units.

(To be continued)