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Chapter 542: Middle East War (Finale)

After six months of painstaking negotiations, World War II finally came to an end. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The Allied forces led by the United States and Britain formally withdrew from the European continent and the Asian Peninsula, and France, Spain, Luxembourg, Belgium, and Turkey were incorporated into the German Confederation as republics.

Russia, under pressure from Germany, signed an armistice with China and Zhukov's "Soviet Russia".

Since then, Russia has been divided for more than 30 years, with Tsarist Russia under the presidency of Molotov controlling the European part of the later Russia, and Soviet Russia under the chairmanship of Zhukov controlling Central Asia and part of the area east of the Ural Mountains.

In addition, *** actually occupied most of Western Lia, east to the Bering Strait.

Throughout World War II, the biggest winner is undoubtedly China, China not only was not knocked down by the war, but even grew stronger in the war, after recovering the territories eroded by Tsarist Russia, such as Yili, Wai***, Wulianghai, and the Far East, China's territory has expanded to more than 15 million square kilometers.

In addition, Burma, Siam, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Singapore, and the Malay Peninsula in Southeast Asia have all established governments dominated by local Chinese, and the Chinese governments have formally submitted a request to the national government to become a member of the "Chinese Federation" as a union republic!

At the beginning of 1948, the Chinese Federation was formally established, with a total of nine republics, including the Republic of China, Burma, Siam, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Singapore, Malaysia, and North Korea, with a territory of more than 24 million square kilometers!

Compared with the newly merged German Confederation, the United States has fallen into a disadvantage in terms of industrial scale, population base and scientific and technological level, and the British Empire, the former world hegemon, has completely become a second-rate country, and the United States can only cooperate with China to jointly confront Germany.

Beginning in the 50s, the United States and Germany began a frenzied arms race, investing extremely large financial resources to expand nuclear weapons and maintaining a large combat force, while China adopted the wisest approach, and after the successful atomic bomb test explosion in the early 50s, it did not expand its nuclear weapons on a large scale, but invested more manpower and material resources in the renewal of military science and technology.

By the end of the 60s, China's cutting-edge military science and technology had gradually caught up with the footsteps of the United States and Germany.

By the end of the seventies, with the progress of science and technology and the rapid expansion of the world's industrial scale, the supply of energy, especially oil, began to become tight, and the United States, the German Union and the Chinese Federation set their sights on the Middle East almost simultaneously, and a proxy war for energy soon broke out.

In July 1979, Saddam Hussein, who had just been elected president of Iraq. Hussein, with the support of the German Confederation, brazenly ordered the invasion of Iran, and in the face of the well-equipped and well-trained Iraqi army, the Iranian National Army, which was not much stronger than the guerrillas, was quickly defeated, and in less than two months, most of the country was lost, and Tehran was also lost.

The United States and the Chinese Federation immediately decided to intervene in the war, and after urgent consultations, the two sides finalized that the United States would provide the navy and air force, and China would provide the army, both in the form of volunteers.

The German Confederation then became fully involved in the Iran-Iraq war, also in the form of volunteers.

Since China, the United States, and Germany are all nuclear states and can ensure the destruction of each other, no one dares to brazenly intervene in the war in the name of their own troops, and they can only send troops to the Middle East in the form of volunteers, and as a result, they have fought a proxy war of unprecedented scale in the Middle East under the guise of Iraq and Iran, which is known in history as the Middle East War!

Although the war in the Middle East was nominally only a proxy war, in reality, all the belligerents did their best!

In addition to the 18th Group Army, the rest of the 15th Group Army and the 43rd Group Army are also elite units retained in the two major disarmaments after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

On the American side, the Pacific Fleet and the Atlantic Fleet are almost out of the nest!

The German Confederation has also dispatched more than 2 million ground troops, and its weapons and equipment are also the most advanced, from the second-generation jet fighters in the sky to the new King Tiger tanks on the ground, from the new self-propelled howitzers to long-range cruise missiles, it can be said that in addition to intercontinental missiles and nuclear warheads, the German Confederation has taken out almost all its belongings.

For the first time, reconnaissance satellites in space also entered the war and played an irreplaceable role in the war.

This is definitely a large-scale war of high intensity and intensity, and the two bitter masters of Iraq and Iran have long since stepped aside, and their only role now is to provide a battlefield.

In essence, the war in the Middle East is a struggle for hegemony!

Whether it is the Chinese Federation, the German Confederation, or the United States, they all have their own considerations.

For the Americans, it is best that China and Germany can fight for both sides in the Middle East, so he can sit back and reap the benefits, so from beginning to end only the navy and air force participate in the war, even when the most strained, the American marines have never planned to enter the ground battle.

For the German Confederation, it was to expand the living space.

If the German Confederation can win the war, it will gain rich oil resources, and the space for national development will be even broader, and it is not impossible to overpower the United States and become the sole hegemon in the borders.

For the Chinese Federation, it is more out of precautionary considerations.

The reason is obvious, once the German Confederation controls the Middle East, then the German army's front will be directed at Central Asia, although India is separated by the middle, but with India's weakness, it is simply not enough to cushion the German army's front, in this case, the Chinese Federation will directly face the German ground threat, and the national environment will deteriorate greatly!

Because for the Chinese Federation, the land threat from the German Confederation is far greater than the maritime threat from the United States!

Although the US Navy and Air Force are powerful, they are separated from China by the vast Pacific Ocean and the peripheral island chain composed of China, Ryukyu and Taiwan, and there is a great buffer, and besides, the Navy and Air Force alone cannot destroy China, but once the ground forces of the German Federal Federation invade on a large scale, the result will be difficult to say.

Taking a step back, even if the Chinese Federation could not win this war, the big deal would be that the Middle East would fall into the hands of the German Federation, and the result would never be worse than not sending troops.

However, the course of the war evolved beyond all expectations.

Before the war, all military scientists, military enthusiasts, and experts and professors from various military academies and universities generally believed that this would be a war of equal strength, and that it would be impossible to distinguish the winner from the loser without fighting for 10 or 8 years, and that China, the United States, and Germany were also mentally prepared for a long-term struggle.

However, the end result was that just six months later, the war in the Middle East was over!

In addition to the first three months of the German army's entry into the war, which caused great passivity to ***, in the middle and late stages, the German army no longer had any chance.

And all this because of one man, a world-class military genius!

This person is General Xu Shaoyun, who was the commander of the 18th Group Army of the National Revolutionary Army and the former commander-in-chief of the enemy!

28 years ago, when the 39th Group Army of the National Revolutionary Army had just recovered Burma, Xu Shaoyun was just a recruit who had just enlisted in the army, and 23 years ago just after the end of the Sino-Japanese War, Xu Shaoyun was still just a small major staff officer, during the Sino-Russian War, Xu Shaoyun was transferred to a group army in Sanye as a lieutenant colonel battalion commander, and was promoted to colonel regiment commander the following year.

After the end of the Sino-Russian War, Xu Shaoyun entered Xi'an Army University for further study, at that time, Yue Weihan was the president of Xi'an Lu University, Su also served as the director of the senior command department, in Xi'an Lu University, Xu Shaoyun won the appreciation of Su and Yue Weihan, Lu Da compared industry, Xu Shaoyun directly entered the 18th Group Army, as the commander of the 57th Heavy Division.

Just five years later, Xu Shaoyun was promoted to general and became commander of the 18th Army.

Facts have proved that Yue Weihan and Su Zong's vision is very insightful, Xu Shaoyun is indeed an unborn military genius, in the Middle East war, under the premise that both sides have almost the same equipment, the same troops, and the same logistical support capabilities, they were stunned to fight a war that should have been evenly matched!

The more than one million German troops that entered Iran were almost completely annihilated, and all the heavy equipment was lost.

At this time, the German Confederation had only two ways to go, either swallow the bitter fruit of defeat and withdraw from the Middle East completely, or carry out a general war mobilization and escalate the Middle East war into a third world war, which was unthinkable under the shadow of a nuclear cloud, and the German Confederation finally chose the former.

On October 5, 1980, the war in the Middle East officially ended, and the German army suffered a crushing defeat!

With his outstanding achievements in the Middle East War, Xu Shaoyun was promoted to marshal more than a decade later.

Marshal is not an official military rank, but after Yue Weihan retired, *** in recognition of Yue Weihan's outstanding contributions in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression was specially set up honorary ranks, the level is half a grade higher than the five-star general, since the establishment of the marshal rank, only Yue Weihan has won this honor, but now, it is necessary to add a Xu Shaoyun.

What people didn't expect was that after the end of the Middle East war, the German Confederation actually collapsed!

Because in the previous arms race with the United States, the German Confederation had exhausted its national strength, and the development of its national economy had become severely deformed, and after the disastrous defeat in the Middle East war, the contradictions between the republics broke out in an all-round way, and the German Führer at that time showed weakness, and the Confederation suddenly disintegrated.

After the disintegration of Germany, the world entered a pattern of two powers, China and the United States, competing for hegemony.