In 1942, throughout the summer, the entire Eurasian continent was in constant flames. Due to the absence of the harsh weather conditions in winter, whether it was the Soviet-German battlefield on the Eastern Front of the Soviet Union, the Soviet-Japanese battlefield in the Far East, and even the Southeast Asian battlefield, all fought a truly monstrous war.

Since the fall of Leningrad, in order to ensure the security of Moscow and Stalingrad, the Soviets have stubbornly held these two huge obstacles in the way of the German army's advance, and have continuously mobilized one Red Army division after another to support these two strategic points day and night.

Although Stalin left Moscow, he still attached great importance to the location of the national capital of the Soviet Union, not only deployed two-thirds of the existing poison gas stockpiles here, ready to fight the Germans at any time, and even began to build permanent fortifications on the outskirts of Moscow, which were repaired day and night, and at the same time issued the 'non-domestic Mosin Nagant rifles' produced or bought from China to the militia units composed of the citizens of the city, putting on a posture of fighting the Germans under the city.

On the other hand, the Americans' military aid merchant ships began to pass through the Atlantic Ocean and reach the Soviet Union in a steady stream, but the Germans' wolf packs had already spread densely along the coast of Europe, and in addition to sending countless British merchant ships to the bottom of the sea, they had never shown mercy to the American merchant ships. However, the Germans never took the last step to launch an attack on all American merchant ships, which can be regarded as not touching the bottom line of the Sino-US joint trade agreement.

However, the progress of military aid to the Soviet Union was not very smooth, because Turkey and other countries completely fell to the Axis powers, not only the Mediterranean Sea and other places have become dangerous sea areas, and even the Strait of Gibraltar has German submarines infested, and several old Turkish battleships have also repeatedly sent American military aid ships to the bottom of the sea.

In order to avoid the Axis powers as much as possible, the Americans began to choose a detour from the Arctic Ocean.

However, what disturbed the Americans was that the next new move of the Axis powers, in addition to the Middle East-India direction, was to completely solve the Nordic problem, and at that time, the Arctic Ocean would also become a new battlefield.

Since the 'April Fools' Offensive, the Soviets have been able to call up more than 2.2 million troops on the Soviet-German battlefield, although they have wiped out about 1.2 million Red Army. On the Soviet-German battlefield, the strength of the Soviets was not weakened, but was greatly strengthened, and they began to focus on the offensive and defensive battles in key cities. From time to time, large-scale tank battles and decisive battles between large air groups broke out between the Soviet Union and Germany. Despite their own heavy losses and the displacement of their population, the Soviets held Moscow and Stalingrad and successfully launched two surprise counterattacks, capturing almost all of the German army group that had not had time to retreat.

On the battlefield in the Far East, an equally fierce battle broke out between Su and Yue around Komsomolsk. Under the joint command of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, Marshal Modell, and the Supreme Commander of the Allied Army, Senior General Yamashita Fumi, the Japanese Army waged a fierce battle with the Far Eastern Front of the Soviet Red Army commanded by Zhukov.

Although he once launched a landing battle from behind, relying on a relatively strong defensive line, Zhukov finally held Komsomolsk. However, it is worth mentioning that although the two sides are only fighting for an inconspicuous city, they have paid a huge price for each other.

During the period from the launch of the April Fool's Day Offensive to the summer offensive, the Soviet Red Army suffered 750,000 casualties, of which less than 200,000 were slightly wounded and could return to the battlefield in a short period of time, which shows the fierceness of the battle. On the other hand, the army paid the price of as many as 550,000 casualties.

However, due to the fact that the Yue army was a pure attacker, during this period of the campaign, although the overall number of casualties was lower than that of the Soviet army, the mortality rate of soldiers was very high. The combined number of casualties on both sides exceeded 1.3 million, which was the worst fighting in the world in the whole of 1942, except for the Soviet-German battlefield, which was not much worse than the Soviet-German battlefield.

The Komsomolsk in the Far East of the Soviet Union has become the new famous 'meat grinder' in Asia.

Although he has once again drawn up a new plan to increase troops, and is about to formulate a key plan aimed at quickly taking over the Far East, it is foreseeable that the entire Far East will continue to maintain the form of a huge meat grinder, devouring the soldiers of both sides of the Soviet Union, and unless there is a huge turning point in the Soviet-German battlefield, it will be difficult for him to achieve a decisive victory in the Far Eastern battlefield in a short period of time. Both sides are urgently deploying troops to support the front line, and all kinds of supplies are being sent to the battlefield day and night.

Even China, every day there are as many as a dozen arms trains, to the northeast, or to the Sino-Soviet border, and then loaded with a huge amount of resources and even gold back to the country, a lot of war money, and the Soviet-German battlefield, the Far East battlefield, the proportion of Chinese-made weapons in the hands of both sides is increasing rapidly, China even on behalf of the manufacture of Mosin Nagant rifles and 38 rifles, the two sides in the Far East frantically fighting, but in their hands with Chinese-made weapons, to shoot each other.

Unlike the Soviet-German battlefield and the Far Eastern battlefield, in the Southeast Asian battlefield, the British once again lost.

Even after completing a huge emergency arms deal with China and waiting for emergency military aid from the Americans, the British still withdrew from Thailand and entered Burma to set up a defensive line after paying the price of about 300,000 Anglo-French-Indian casualties.

The entire Anglo-French-Indian coalition had fully retreated to Rangoon, Burma, and it was expected that by the end of the year at the latest, the British might lose all of Southeast Asia and retreat to South Asia on the Indian border. The British, who had already foreseen a possible defeat, had even begun to use a large number of Indian laborers to build a defensive line.

With the complete defeat in the Southeast Asian battlefield, the million-strong army firmly controlled the Southeast Asian region, and even the entire Strait of Malacca fell into the dead control of the Yue himself.

"Chairman, this is urgent information that I have just received. Something happened in the Indian peninsula. ”

Luo Feng stood in front of Zhang Shusheng with a solemn face, and handed over a copy of the information that had just been sorted out.

"Huh?" Zhang Shusheng put down the progress report on the 'Yellow Sparrow' battle plan in his hand, and was thinking about an important matter, when he received a report that General Luo Feng, director of the Intelligence Department, had urgent information.

Zhang Shusheng took over the information, and as soon as he opened it, Luo Feng explained, "According to the verification of our agents, the Americans secretly carried at least one division of infantry to India, and just late yesterday, our agents personally reconnoitred and found a large number of US troops landing on the shore in the port of Calcutta, which was urgently closed.

Earlier, our agents discovered that there was an unusual movement of U.S. troops, but at that time it was thought that this group of troops was being transferred to Hawaii in the Pacific region to prevent further activities in the Pacific region, but they did not expect to end up in India.

In addition, the recent radio wave ties between Britain and the United States are very close, although their latest code has not yet been completely cracked, but it is believed to be related to the increase of troops in India.

Judging from the intelligence of the three aspects, the Americans began to deploy troops to intervene in World War II. ”

Zhang Shusheng nodded, then silently flipped through the whole information, for a long time, picked up the cigarette case on the table, lit a cigarette, and spit out a puff of smoke, before he said lightly, "I didn't expect the Americans to work so hard to help the British, and the time for them to send troops was still a little earlier than I expected." In the United States, is there a final conclusion on the question of entering the war? ”

"Not yet, according to the analysis, the Americans may be carrying out the trick of repairing the plank road in the open and secretly displaying the cang, while not declaring war on the one hand, but on the other hand, they will deploy their troops to India in advance, so that before the situation deteriorates to the point that it is difficult to clean up, they can immediately participate in the war and put out fires."

The Americans secretly sent troops to India in an attempt to turn the tide before the situation deteriorated to the British. This kind of strategic consideration for the sake of the overall situation, Zhang Shusheng also agrees.

In later generations, Britain and the United States and other Western countries colluded to rush to the top even against a small country, and at that time, the Americans brought a group of British and French brothers to set fire to the whole world.

Unexpectedly, this time, it turned out to be an American to put out the fire.

After all, the Americans are a big business, and a country's industrial production capacity is even stronger than that of Britain, France, and Germany combined, and it is far away from the battlefield, and its domestic factories can be far away from the flames of war and produce all kinds of weapons and equipment needed for war in an all-round way.

This is a natural advantage for the Americans.

Since the official rise of the United States at the end of the 19th century, after the accumulation of World War I and the early stage of World War II, the wealth of the United States has reached a frightening point, and the domestic contradictions have also reached the point where more serious domestic contradictions can erupt at any time.

Therefore, Zhang Shusheng believes that the Americans are fully capable of standing up to fight fires, and they must stand up to put out fires. A war not only diverts the attention of the people at home, but also stimulates wartime productivity, and has a chance to compete for the huge fruits after World War II.

"It was only a matter of time before the Americans went to war. I've heard that many Americans are naturally resistant to going to war, but others believe that if the war is lost, the United States will be fine. Once victorious, it can share the largest share of the fruits of World War II, and lay the foundation of a strong country for a hundred or even hundreds of years in one fell swoop. It's just that now ......" Zhang Shusheng's eyes, in the smoke, looked a little ethereal, what Luo Feng on the other side didn't know was that the chairman at this time, his thoughts had flown back to the 21st century in the original history, the huge American empire that was rampant all over the world, no one could stop it, no one could govern it, and the technology and economy surpassed China for decades. "Only this time, we can't give up this biggest fruit to the Americans."

"The essence of war is nothing more than that. The rise of giants has always stood on the corpse of a dwarf. Luo Feng couldn't help but sigh with emotion, a few decades ago, Britain, France and the United States stood on the corpse of China without exception, ushering in the rapid development of the early 20th century, especially the capital, which used huge war reparations to develop a modern industrial system.

Zhang Shusheng smiled and said, "Yes, hehe, this time, we finally don't have to fall to the ground and let them trample on it." Sort out this information and disclose it to me and the Germans. I think that the Americans' secret increase in troops in India will certainly provoke a frenzied counterattack by Hitler and the military headquarters. ”

"What do you mean, Chairman?" Luo Feng wondered.

Zhang Shusheng said with a smile, "The plan to attack Pearl Harbor will not be affected, but will be implemented more thoroughly." However, the flames of war in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans are likely to burn out in advance. ”

In the previous life, the Americans played a game of cat and mouse with themselves on various islands in the Pacific Ocean, but this time, with the Germans in check, the Americans will be sandwiched between these two opponents on both sides of the ocean and stage an exciting three-person hand-to-hand fight.

In South Asia, it is foreseeable that he will speed up the settlement of the entire southern part of Burma, and in the next step, if he can get the Axis allies to attack India from the western front, they may immediately start the Indian campaign.

Hitler, who occupied the Middle East and raised the Middle East Army, will order his confidant Rommel, with his armored corps, to push from the desert all the way along the Iraqi-Iranian direction to India.

Zhang Shusheng couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "The war is getting more and more exciting, the Americans have done it, and I and the Germans will also do it in the Pacific, so the starring role of China will not be far away." ”

After Luo Feng left, Zhang Shusheng opened the intelligence and analysis materials about the joint attack on Pearl Harbor by the Germans.

Judging from the latest information, in order to maximize the success of this sneak attack, the Germans even did not hesitate to create the illusion that they would attack some islands near the Americas in the Atlantic, and a huge group of warships would also be assembled, so that they could avoid the main forces of the British at sea at all times, and at the beginning of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, they would make the illusion of sailing in the direction of the Americas, so as to paralyze the Americans.

On the other hand, the huge group of sneak attack ships has simulated many dawn sneak attacks on the small island near Yuben, and they have achieved good results.

The only thing that worried Germany and China about the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor was the radar deployed by the Americans in the vicinity of Hawaii and the permanent presence at Pearl Harbor, as well as the US aircraft carrier group patrolling nearby.

However, the German side was very determined to fight, and Admiral Yamamoto, the supreme head of the Pacific Joint Operations Command of the German Pacific Joint Operations Command, even declared that even if he lost many aircraft carriers, he would inflict a heavy defeat on the main force of the Americans' Pacific Fleet.

China's 'Yellow Sparrow' program has also been drilled in Hainan many times, imitating saturation air strikes on ports and large ship groups at dawn, and although some problems have inevitably arisen, they have basically been solved.

In order to ensure the success of this sneak attack, Zhang Shusheng devoted a lot of effort to the entire plan, checking the details of the combat plan, considering the choice of weapons and equipment for the sneak attack fleet, and considering how to deal with the sudden situations that may be encountered.

However, as autumn approached and the plan was further refined, he had another issue in mind.

Regarding the upcoming sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, Zhang Shusheng actually has a great interest. However, as the Führer, he really didn't have the opportunity to rush to Pearl Harbor with the sneak attack fleet, and it was quite troublesome to even use the secret private mecha that belonged to him to rush to the battlefield.

After thinking about it, he found a very simple solution.

"Dreamer, help me redeem a remote surveillance system that can be mounted on a fighter." ――

(To be continued)