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In May 1942, the international situation continued to move in favor of the Axis powers. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The East African theater has been fighting since the end of last year.

Due to the loss of US aid, the Allied forces in East Africa, with the British Commonwealth army as the main body, suffered heavy losses after continuous battles, and the supply of soldiers and materials became increasingly tight, and could only be supported by hard work.

Rommel the "Desert Fox" was unforgiving and intensified his attacks, and the Germans' war materials were continuously delivered by rail, road and sea, while the Allies became more and more passive, and in the end there was a situation where each soldier was fired five rounds in a battle.

In desperation, the commander of the Allied East African Army, the one-eyed marshal Wavell who had broken free from the shadow of losing India, had to order the entire army to withdraw from Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya and Tanzania, and some of them crossed the Red Sea with the help of the navy, retreated to Yemen in the south of the Arabian Peninsula, and relied on the protection of the Anjia Army to survive, while the other part quickly withdrew to Northern Rhodesia (present-day Zambia), where they were resupplied through Southwest Africa and South Africa, and confronted the German army along the East African Plateau, the Great Rift Valley and the Azander Plateau.

On the Soviet-German battlefield, in order to eliminate the threat to Rostov-on-Don, the energy and transportation hub, the German army opened a passage to the upper Volga River and the Urals, outflanked Moscow from behind, and Army Group South and the Caucasus launched the Battle of Stalingrad in early April.

Under the command of Marshal Lyuschenkov, the Soviet army rose up to resist, although the current battle situation is unclear, but the two major combat clusters of the German army, which have sufficient soldiers and sufficient ammunition and fuel supplies, have an absolute advantage, plus the "volunteer army" in Ukraine and the Caucasus to help the war, Stalingrad is in danger.

On 22 May, Hitler concentrated 120 infantry divisions, 45 mechanized divisions, 29 armored divisions, 60 armored brigades, plus 16 Finnish divisions, 15 Romanian divisions, 8 Norwegian divisions, 4 Hungarian divisions, 3 French volunteer divisions, 1 Spanish volunteer division, and 1 Portuguese volunteer division, with a total strength of 5.48 million, and launched a fierce attack on the city of Moscow.

Faced with the imminent threat of Nazi Germany, Stalin refused to leave Moscow, and he entrusted the responsibility of defending the city to Marshal Zhukov, who had grown up after repeated defeats.

In the past year or so, the Soviet army obtained a large number of weapons and equipment produced in South China through the Lend-Lease Act, and at the same time formed a huge number of troops, which were not weaker than the German army in terms of the quality of weapons and equipment or the number of officers and men.

The only thing that the Soviet army was inferior to was that a large number of recruits who were temporarily conscripted only received simple military training, and their quality was not as good as that of the battle-hardened German army, but the Soviet Red Army had the support of spiritual beliefs, coupled with the belief of defending the homeland and defending the country, and belonged to the side defending the city with geographical advantages and other factors.

In North America, when the advance of the Japanese Left Route Army and the Central Route Army was blocked in February, the Japanese base camp resolutely sent 12 additional divisions to the front line again, including the six main divisions that were reorganized after the defeat in the Burma-India battlefield.

After the Japanese army decisively increased its troops, the total strength of the left and center flanks involved in the offensive was as high as 40 divisions, 18 independent infantry brigades, and 20 divisions of servant troops.

The U.S. Sixth and Third Armies and the Twelfth and Thirteenth Armies that had arrived from Central America to reinforce them built defensive lines in the border areas of California, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado to stabilize their positions and then seek a counterattack

While the four western states were being ravaged by the Japanese army, the central states of North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, and William Consin were also being hit by the Japanese mechanized clusters.

The industrial center of the Great Lakes is of great significance to the United States, so the US Army General Staff had to make a decision to transfer troops to Honduras and Belize to initiate the Fourth Army and the Tenth Army to encircle and suppress the Japanese 19th Army, and at the same time send many new units that are being formed to the front line to gather heavy troops to guard the Milwaukee-Chicago-St. Louis-Kansas City-Denver line to train troops in battle, and the situation in the whole of North America is in chaos.

Roosevelt, who had always been calm and composed, seemed to be unable to overcome all difficulties, and could no longer bear the pain of losing his homeland after being re-elected president for three consecutive terms, so he urgently met with Churchill in the Azores, and finally jointly sent a telegram to An Yi asking for help from the Republic of South China to immediately send troops to cut off the supply routes of the Japanese army in North America.

After An Yi received the telegram, he deliberated again and again, and convened three joint military-political meetings to discuss the current situation.

The participants unanimously agreed that the current strategic posture has been seriously tilted in favor of the Axis powers. South China's basic national policy was to maintain the balance of power between the Allies and the Axis powers, and if the Soviet Union was defeated by Germany, the United States was forced to sue for peace under the Japanese attack, and the war ended prematurely, the interests of South China would be greatly harmed.

Under these circumstances, An Yi finally made up his mind to launch a comprehensive counterattack against the Japanese invaders in the summer and autumn of this year, striving to recover the northeast and the Far East before winter came.

Subsequently, the Central Military Commission and the General Staff Headquarters began to issue a series of orders, and the various units of the Anjia Army began to move intensively.

According to the unified deployment of the Military Commission, Anjin has jurisdiction over the First Army and the Second Army of the Guards Cluster of the Capital Garrison to defend the Red River Plain, the Mekong River Plain and the Chao Phraya River Plain;

Fang Pengxiang led the 3rd Guards Army to the south of the Malay Peninsula;

The Northern Burma Front was renamed the Burma-India Front to defend Burma and the subcontinent;

The Middle East Front left Yang Jiuxiao's cluster and the Third and Fourth Tank Armies, and the First and Second Tank Armies went north under the command of Ye Cheng and converged with the four tank armies of the Central Asian Military Region to form two mechanized assault groups, all of which were engaged in operations in the northeast region;

Zhang Chengzhu's Indian Front, Gu Changfeng's Central and Southern Front, and Jiao Guangxu's mountain clusters must arrive at their designated positions in Mongolia and Lake Baikal at the end of July and make all preparations for an attack.

The 34th Group Army of Tao Qi, formerly the Southern Cluster of the Mongolian Military Region, is responsible for the defense of Mongolia's border areas with Xinjiang, Gansu, Ningxia, and Suiyuan, strictly preventing spies from Japanese intelligence organizations and the local forces they have bribed to disguise themselves as Chinese businessmen to spy on military intelligence, and at the same time to be vigilant against possible friction provoked by reactionary warlords at the instigation of Japanese spies; The 35th and 36th Group Armies entered a state of combat readiness, strengthened the detection of the movements of the Japanese troops in the Chahar and Rehe areas, and if necessary, could replace defense with offense, so as to completely break the dream of the Japanese army to encircle Wei and save Zhao.

Dong Jinming's 31st Group Army, Jin Hongmo's 32nd Group Army, and Pei Yannian's 33rd Group Army, which were under the jurisdiction of the Central Cluster of the Mongolian Military Region, moved to Maimaicheng and Tchiptu (now Chulun Haoraote), and after the war began, they would cooperate with the 37th, 38th, 39th, and 40th Group Armies of the Baikal Cluster under the command of Hu Jiyang, as well as the four group armies of the Mountain Cluster, to launch an attack on Ulan-Uda and Chita to divert the attention of the Japanese army.

The Northeast Operations Cluster under the command of Lieutenant General Han Xianzhi, who is the head snake of the land, has a very heavy task.

After the battle began, it was necessary to control Aihui City as soon as possible, strictly prevent the enemy in the northern part of Heilongjiang from crossing the river to participate in the battle, and ensure the safe operation of the Binhei Railway (Harbin to Aihui) and the Qihei Railway (Qiqihar to Aihui);

Xie Yizhi's 43rd Group Army, attacking from the West Xing'an Mountains, after taking the Xing'an Mountains Tunnel and the Guandi Temple, ignored the enemy on the Western Front, and went south to Qiqihar, directly threatening Harbin and disrupting the Japanese defense;

Huang Bangqiang's 42nd Group Army, which now has its back to Mongolia and is stationed on the front line of Laotou Mountain in the upper reaches of the Guiliu River, divided its troops into two routes, all the way north, and ambushed the northern section of the Middle East Railway.

On the other hand, they went south, hiding between the Changtong River and the Taoer River, and as soon as the time came, they immediately captured Zhendong (now Baicheng) and Tao'an, and captured the hubs of the Taoang Railway, Taosuo Railway, and Sitao Railway, disrupting the movement of the Kwantung Army and gaining valuable time for the main attack.

The crux of this operation lies in the word "fast," and it is necessary to rush before the Kwantung Army and the Japanese government can react, and the major main combat clusters have already entered the northeast, and all units will rush straight to Tieling, Fengtian (Shenyang), the most prosperous and prosperous area in the northeast, to Dalian and Lushun in southern Liaoning, so that the Japanese will not have time to organize manpower to demolish and relocate the factories and enterprises in the northeast, so that this largest industrial base in China will be taken over intact.

On June 4, An Yi secretly arrived at Jin'ou Port to personally witness the commissioning of the first nuclear submarine of the South China Navy.

After three years of continuous testing and construction, the first batch of four nuclear submarines in South China was outfitted at the beginning of the year, and the four nuclear submarines built according to different ideas, "Xia," "Shang," "Zhou," and "Qin," were launched and tested separately.

After comprehensive performance comparison, the No. 1 "Xia" class nuclear submarine designed by the Xufu Military Factory has excellent performance, and the "Shang" class submarine designed by the Luzhou Plant has too large a nuclear furnace volume, resulting in a narrow internal space of the submarine, but its excellent power and stability seem to be more suitable for large surface ships, while the No. 3 boat "Zhou" class and the No. 4 boat "Qin" class designed by the Yunnan Electric Company and Taiyuan Heavy Machinery Factory have many problems such as excessive launch line materials, insufficient pressure resistance during diving, and water seepage.

The "Xia" class nuclear submarine has a full underwater displacement of 5,750 tons, and is equipped with a specially developed "zirconium" alloy small pressurized water reactor for power generation, which is used to drive an electric motor with an output of 30,000 horsepower, single-shaft propulsion, and an underwater speed of up to 35 knots, which also means that if it wants to run, there are basically not many destroyers that can catch up.

The "Xia" class nuclear submarine is not just a submarine that has been sailing at high speed underwater for a long time, it almost concentrates the essence of Nanhua science and technology, such as snorkels, sea-to-air search radars and integrated electronic support systems, buoy antennas, etc., and also installs "Falcon" I anti-ship missiles and quadruple "Houyi" I lifting air defense missile launch towers, which can be said to be armed to the teeth.

In addition, the "Xia" class nuclear submarine also has the bow cylindrical active sonar, hull passive sonar array, towed sonar, audio bait and other equipment that integrates the technical essence of the acoustic laboratory of the Syrian Research Institute for many years.

In addition to being equipped with anti-ship missiles and anti-aircraft missiles, the armament of the "Xia" class nuclear submarine is six 650mm heavy torpedo tubes arranged on both sides of the central section, of which the computer research institute provides a multi-unit tactical, fire control, voiceprint analysis, processing, and navigation computer composed of eight integrated circuits, and the degree of automation is quite high.

In addition to the extreme diving depth steel plate performance limit of only 300 meters, the "Xia" class nuclear submarine has been regarded as an invincible existence in this era.

At present, the expert group of the General Logistics Department and the Ship Research Institute of the Syrian Prefecture Research Institute is conducting a comprehensive inspection of the "Shang," "Zhou," and "Qin" three-pole nuclear submarines, summing up the gains and losses in the development of the "Zhou," and "Qin" nuclear submarines, and whether there is a need to continue the development; once it is proved that the performance cannot surpass that of the "Xia" class, the three submarines will be dismantled after the data is sealed, and the submarine officers and men who accompanied the nuclear submarines throughout the whole process will have to wait for another two years for the new nuclear submarines to be completed and put into service.

"How does it feel?"

An Yi took the radiation detector, walked around the nuclear submarine inside and out, and finally returned to the deck and asked Colonel Gao Wenyu, the captain of the "Xia" class Xi nuclear submarine in front of the queue.

"Excellent"

Gao Wenyu's face was excited: "After the outfitting was completed in February, we drove the submarine, and according to the hydrological data collected by our submarine fleet for three years, the South China Sea, the East China Sea, the Yellow Sea, the Philippine Sea, the Sulawesi Sea, and the Java Sea, we cruised around these sea areas, and lived under the sea for up to a month, which was a wonderful feeling

"We are now equipped with advanced radar and weapons systems, and we are fully confident that we will be able to take out ships, including battleships, before the enemy detects us. As long as the chairman gives an order, our naval submarine fleet can cut off the supply lines of the Japanese army at any time."

"Just have faith"

An Yi smiled and nodded: "As for when to repay the blood debt of the First Sino-Japanese Naval War from the Japanese Navy, this is something that the Central Committee and the Military Commission need to consider, what you need to do now is to fully familiarize yourself with your ship, and when the war comes, you can exert its power as much as possible, understand?" ”

"Yes"

Gao Wenyu stood up and saluted, and replied loudly: "Use me in the first battle, use me to win" The queue behind him also neatly shouted the slogan of every admiral and colonel, so that the generals such as Lu Guang and Yan Kaitai who accompanied An Yi on the tour all showed satisfied looks.

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