Chapter 509: Target: Australia

The Tehran meeting lasted for a long time, and it will last for so long, probably mainly because this meeting is the sum of the Casablanca, Cairo and Tehran meetings, so it will take a lot more time.

For example, the Tehran Conference was held for only three days from November 28 to December 1, 1943.

Historically, Casablanca focused on the European theater, the Cairo Conference focused on the Asian theater and post-war issues, and the Tehran Conference dealt with the fatal blow to Nazi Germany.

As for the Yalta Conference and the Potsdam Conference, these two extremely important conferences, in the previous life, China did not participate in them at all because of its lack of strength...

However, this is not surprising, because the Yalta conference itself involves China, especially Russia wants to encroach on some interests that originally belonged to China, so it is strange to invite China in.

The Yalta Conference was a key summit meeting between the leaders of the United States, Great Britain and Russia at the Yaltarivadian Palace on the Crimean Peninsula from February 4 to February 11, 1945. This conference formulated the new post-war world order and the guidelines for the distribution of interests among the great powers, and formed the "Yalta system," which had a far-reaching impact on the world situation after World War II.

This conference was the second Allied summit after the Tehran Conference in 1943. The conclusions of this conference were disputed at the Potsdam Conference in July-August 1945. Many criticized the conference for enabling the Soviet Union and other countries to take control of many countries in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as in Asia, because neither US President Franklin D. Roosevelt nor British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had demanded that the countries "liberated" by the Soviet Union after the war be placed under the care of the United Nations, as the occupied countries had hoped at the time. In addition, in order to win the Soviet Union's declaration of war on Japan, some of the contents of the meeting violated China's rights very much. Other countries did not know about the meeting, so its conclusions were also called the "Yalta Treaty".

On July 19, 1944, Roosevelt sent a letter to Stalin. It is hoped that the summit of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union will be held again. Stalin replied that he would personally command the Soviet army to fight against Germany and could not be separated. In October 1944, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill went to Moscow to meet with Stalin, and Britain and the Soviet Union discussed Europe and the Balkans separately. U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union Harriman attended the talks between Churchill and Stalin as an observer (known as the Fourth Moscow Conference). In December 1944, Harriman was ordered to visit Stalin and ask the Soviet Union about its participation in the war against Japan and its conditions.

From February 4 to 11, 1945, the Big Three, Franklin ? Draenau? Roosevelt, Winston? Churchill and Stalin gathered in Yalta on the Crimean peninsula for a meeting at the Livadia Palace, the residence of the former Tsar Nicholas II. This was during World War II, following the Tehran Conference in 1943. The second important meeting of the leaders of the Allied countries. After Roosevelt's death, the Potsdam Conference was held.

The meeting took place on the territory of the Soviet Union because Stalin refused to hold a meeting outside the Yalta Palace on the Black Sea. As a result, Churchill and Roosevelt had to travel far again.

Chiang Kai-shek, the Supreme Commander of the Allied Chinese Theater of Operations, was not invited to the conference. On the one hand, Stalin had always hated Chiang Kai-shek; On the other hand, some scholars believe that Roosevelt lost confidence in Chiang Kai-shek at this time.

However, in this era, China is likely to be the strongest of the five countries, both industrially, economically and resource-wise, so China has a big say at the Tehran conference.

On the contrary, it is France, a former world power. Because of the vassal status at this time, although Britain and the United States strongly supported France's participation in this conference in order to contain Russia and China, de Gaulle actually had no say in this meeting.

In fact, it was not only De Gaulle, but even Churchill.

After all, after losing most of its colonies, Britain's current strength was no longer enough to maintain the glory of the British Empire in the past......

However, Yan Guang did not ask for much at this meeting, only to ensure China's existing interests.

Yan Guang knows very well that all this has begun to touch the bottom line of various countries, if it is really going to continue to make inches. After the elimination of the Axis powers, I am afraid that it will not be a few years before the existing five countries will be back to fight, and I am afraid it will be a 4V1 situation.

Although with China's current strength, it doesn't matter if all the remaining four are on it―――――― only Russia and the United States are the ones who really have combat effectiveness.

The key is when this war will end, even though China only got involved in the middle of the war. But to be honest, although the war had only just begun for more than a year, it had already taken a heavy toll on the national government.

This can be seen in Britain during the First World War, before which the United States owed almost 400 million pounds of foreign debt. But by the end of the war, Britain owed the United States almost Β£800 million.

Eight hundred million pounds?

At the time of World War I, 800 million pounds sterling was almost more than 8 billion silver dollars according to the exchange rate, and the Qing government's annual fiscal revenue was only more than 400 million silver dollars. In other words, the war, which lasted for 4 years, went into the Qing government's financial revenue for 20 years...

Although China's burden is not as great as that of the United Kingdom, it has been a year. The government's finances have also become deficits.

China today is not like in the past, and even with oil funding, the financial burden is still very large.

Not to mention the free education that had already been thoroughly implemented throughout the country, the Government had to take responsibility for the care of a large number of disabled soldiers in the past series of wars and conflicts. After all, you can't leave it alone if it's useless.

After closing all the Invalides farms across the country―――――― there was no way to leave them unclosed, after all, twenty years had passed since the last great war. The Invalids Farm was also of little use.

So after the closure of the Invalids Farms across the country, those disabled soldiers can receive a guarantee every month, and ordinary civilians, as long as they are unable to work normally, can also receive it, but only half of the soldiers, after all, those soldiers are exchanged for their own lives...

On the other hand, the government also needs to reimburse at least half of the soldiers and their immediate family members to go to the hospital, which is a significant expense.

Plus other zero-sum total, various welfare policies.

At the same time as making China the country with the best welfare in this era. It also puts a lot of burden on the government, which is why Yan Guang has always been opposed to the country's parliamentarians' demands for the removal of oil and other resources from the state ownership system.

On the one hand, Yan Guang does not want his country to become a country controlled by oil merchants, and on the other hand, it is also because the government does not want to subsidize the government without oil.

But the financial problem is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that the United States also has nuclear weapons ...

At the current pace, the Nationalist government is likely to get the first atomic bomb by the end of '44, but the problem is that the United States will only be able to do so in 45 years at the latest.

There is certainly a great advantage to having such a little time in advance, but the atomic bomb is not something that can be easily made, especially when the refining technology is not yet mature. At the time of the first birth of the atomic bomb. With the exception of the two dropped on the heads of the Japanese, the number of atomic bombs in the United States remained in the single digits for the first few years ...

In this case, what if China is a year ahead of the United States?

The atomic bomb is useful, but it does not work absolutely, especially if it is only in the single digits. And when the production of the atomic bomb comes up, it is estimated that the other side will be about the same.

At that time, will atomic bombs be dropped on each other? …,

If that's the case, it is estimated that the world has already been destroyed, and if it really comes to that point, what are you going to do with the war?

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During the meeting in Tehran. As Yan Guang expected, the Germans did send spies to assassinate the German leader who was meeting in Tehran.

Fortunately, the security work during this period was very tight, so not only was not a single person attacked in the end, but also the more than 20 German spies in charge of the assassination mission in Tehran were all caught.

Congratulations, congratulations...

However, if the assassination is successful, as the Germans thought, I am afraid that the Allies will really be in chaos, after all, the heads of state of the five most important countries of the Allies have arrived at this meeting, and it is impossible to think about it if all of them are dead.

Until that time. Even if Germany and Japan can't take advantage of the situation, they will be able to hold out for at least a few more years.

On the other hand, the situation for the Allies was also very good.

On the battlefield in Hawaii, although Japan and the United States are still fighting each other, the situation has begun to reverse in the direction of the United States. This is normal. After all, Japan's industrial strength is not comparable to that of the United States, not to mention that many of the colonies occupied by Japan at the beginning of the war have now been lost, and now only Korea, Australia and New Zealand are still in Japan's hands.

At this time, coupled with the fact that new warships from the American side were constantly launched. Especially aircraft carriers of new models.

Although the Japanese side is also constantly building Yunlong-class aircraft carriers, the Yunlong-class cannot be compared with the Essex class of the United States after all, not to mention that it is completely incomparable in terms of both the number of construction and the number of construction.

You must know that the Essex-class aircraft carrier is the largest number of large aircraft carriers built in the history of the United States, and played the main role in the Pacific War and the Korean War, and a few Essex-class even participated in the Vietnam War.

Historically, the United States originally planned to build 32 Essex-class. In fact, 24 ships were completed, and another 8 were cancelled.

As for the Yunryu class, during World War II, the Imperial Japanese Navy had many aircraft carrier types, and many times the parts were not common to each other, causing a lot of inconvenience, on the contrary, the US Navy built 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers and 9 Independence-class light aircraft carriers in one go. Not only did it overwhelm Japan in terms of numbers, but it was also possible to build a standardized number of ships. Parts can be universal, not only easy to use, even if the war is so damaged that it can be scrapped, the useful parts can be dismantled and used for other aircraft carriers, so after the Battle of Midway in 1942, Japan proposed to build 16 standardized Yunryu-class aircraft carriers.

However, the Yunlong class cannot be compared with the Essex class in the United States at all, both in terms of quantity and quality...

Add to this the fact that the industry in the United States is far more efficient than in Japan, so the situation arises...

At present, although Japan is struggling to support itself in the Hawaiian Islands by relying on the army's air force, anyone with a discerning eye can see that the Japanese can no longer hold out for long.

In the European theater, with the passage of time, the Russian team under Zhukov's command has now been restored to a certain extent, especially under Zhukov's idea of honing his troops with actual combat, many immature new units have now gained a lot of actual combat experience.

By now, these former rabble have a certain amount of combat effectiveness and can also play some role in some secondary battlefields.

On the frontal battlefield, it is mainly the responsibility of Cai Yi's Wehrmacht, and in this case, the coalition forces are naturally invincible.

Especially when the coalition forces have begun to gain superiority, both in numbers and in other respects.

Although under Manstein's command, the Germans have not suffered any major casualties so far, at least not the series of casualties suffered by the Russians at the beginning of the Barbarossa Plan. …,

Gradually, however, the German front began to extend into German territory, and the nearest one was less than 100 miles from the German border.

In Germany, because of Manstein's record, there has also been a discussion about whether to transfer Manstein back. However, due to Manstein's extremely important position in the German team, and the fact that he has not yet had a major conflict with Helem and others, this is still just a voice.

But if this continues, maybe this kind of voice may become a reality―――――― if it does, it will be really good for the coalition forces.

And while the Allies and Coalitions were making good progress in Europe and the Pacific, so did the Wehrmacht in Southeast Asia.

Especially on the Nanyang Islands, with a large number of chemical weapons, it was extremely troublesome for the Wehrmacht, and the Japanese troops hiding in the jungle of the islands became much easier.

After discovering which jungle had Japanese troops in the rout, the Wehrmacht did not go in to clear it and directly called the air force to throw a few poison gas bombs into it, and then it was enough to go in and collect the corpses in a few days.

And on the battlefield outside the jungle, the Japanese army was no match for the Wehrmacht at all.

Therefore, not long after the Tehran Conference, the Wehrmacht had completely occupied the entire Nanyang Islands, and although there was still sporadic resistance from the Japanese army on the islands, it was no longer in the way of the overall situation. Now the next goal of the Defence Forces is only one, and that is the only two countries in Oceania, Australia and New Zealand...

As long as the Americans take Australia one step ahead, then this war will be over for China...

Next, even if the Russians are really allowed to enter Berlin first, it will not matter, because China can already have no desires...