Chapter 583: Germany Blitzes the Soviet Union
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On July 23, the U.S. 3rd Armored Division captured Alberton and captured the entire Canadian government. www.biquge.info The next day, Canadian President Baker surrendered to the United States, and Canada was incorporated into the United States. However, the remnants of the Canadian army, led by Edward, were reduced to pieces and entered the cold and uninhabited areas, where they continued to conduct guerrilla warfare and attack the American army in all directions.
Edward's ministry also received military help and economic support from the Chinese Empire, and continued to send arms and supplies from Alaska into the Canadian hinterland to provide Edward's guerrillas.
Politically, the Chinese Empire refused to recognize Canada's annexation to the United States, and convened a League of Nations conference to discuss a proposal to restore Canada. Soon, the United States took the initiative to withdraw from the League of Nations, so that the League of Nations had no right to dictate to the United States.
But what Roosevelt never expected was that when the United States withdrew from the League of Nations, it just provided an excuse for the Chinese Empire to organize a joint intervention in the American War.
After the U.S. occupation of Canada, the U.S. Army deployed 200,000 troops in the District of Columbia to guard north against the Chinese Emperor in Alaska**, and at the same time guard against the attacks of Edward's guerrillas from the Yukon.
After stabilizing Canada, the U.S. military began to concentrate on dealing with Mexico on the southern front. With the current strength of the US air force and land forces, it is fully capable of repelling the attack of the Mexican army. But when Roosevelt convened a military conference, the think tank's strategy was to maintain a standoff with the Mexican military for the time being.
Roosevelt's think tank had been studying the political landscape of the Americas, and Mexico had been the number one enemy of the United States at the moment, because it blocked the passage of American troops south to Central and South America. ββ at the same time. When the United States formulated its strategy to move south, it had to take into account the attitude of the Chinese empire on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean.
After years of research, Roosevelt's think tank believed that the basic national policy of the Chinese Empire was to maintain its hegemonic position in the world. The Chinese Empire centered on economic construction, sought a balance of military power in the surrounding areas, and aimed to make money by exporting arms.
This was affirmed by the Roosevelt administration. Because it is an open secret that the Chinese Empire did have this policy in World War I and World War II.
But. The think tank believes that once the Chinese empire realizes that a certain country threatens its world hegemony, it will not hesitate to act against it, which is why the Chinese empire suddenly went to war with the United States decades ago without any reason.
Roosevelt knew this, but he couldn't avoid it. Because the United States and the Chinese Empire are neighbors, no matter how the United States rises, it will threaten the absolute hegemony of the Chinese Empire in the region.
Roosevelt's think tank finally came up with the idea that since the United States was bound to rise. The Chinese Empire will certainly do its best to stop it, so the United States must be fully prepared before it rises. Roosevelt was already doing this, and he and the Nazis had built the U.S. Army and Air Force very strong enough to compete with the Chinese Empire. But if the Chinese Empire is to be truly deterred from interfering in the rise of the United States, the power of the U.S. Navy must be restored. Roosevelt could not find a reasonable way to do this.
The think tank quickly came up with a strategy, which was to take advantage of the opportunity of the Fourth Mexican-American War. ββExpand U.S. Naval Forces. But the premise is that the Mexican army cannot be defeated immediately, otherwise it is very likely that the Chinese Empire will enter the war halfway, which has already been learned in the Third Mexican-American War.
Subsequently, Roosevelt sent a special envoy to the Chinese Empire, pointing out that the U.S. government had no intention of going to war with Mexico. I hope that the Chinese Empire will come forward**. The failure of the US military to carry out counteroffensive operations is to give face to the Chinese Empire.
The Chinese Empire was very satisfied with the attitude of the United States, and although it was not clear what the Americans really meant, the facts were already clear, and the American military was indeed tolerating.
But for the Chinese Empire, it was beneficial for the Chinese Empire to maintain the stalemate between the United States and Mexico, because in this way the Chinese Empire could continue to sell arms and various materials to Mexico and make a fortune from the war.
Therefore, the Chinese Empire understood the distress of the United States and would urge Mexico to cease fire. In fact, the Chinese Empire had no intention of stopping the Mexican army and continued to support Mexico in its war against the United States.
The U.S. government had long expected that the Chinese Empire would not easily give up this good opportunity to make a fortune, so it made a calculation, declaring that the Mexican Navy was too strong and the U.S. Maritime Self-Defense Force was not an opponent, and the Roosevelt administration ordered the expansion of the U.S. Navy and the construction of a large number of capital ships to resist the attack of the Mexican Navy.
At first, the Chinese Empire was opposed to the expansion of the U.S. navy, but soon the Mexican naval fleet attacked the cities on the eastern coast of the United States, killing and wounding a large number of innocent civilians. ββThe U.S. government seized the opportunity to make a big deal of propaganda in the Chinese Empire and win the sympathy of the Chinese Empire people. Mexico, on the other hand, has no such diplomatic tricks, which makes them suddenly passive.
Under pressure from domestic public opinion, the Chinese Empire had to publicly condemn the Mexican Navy's massacre of innocent civilians, and thus acquiesced in the fact that the United States was expanding its navy. However, the expansion of the U.S. Maritime Self-Defense Force and the construction of large capital ships must be notified to the Imperial Chinese Navy.
The Roosevelt administration immediately agreed to the demands of the Chinese Empire, but in fact, the US Maritime Self-Defense Force naturally did not tell the truth about the Chinese Empire, and covered up its true strength in various ways to secretly develop the US naval forces.
First of all, the U.S. Navy resumed the construction of Montana-class battleships, and the displacement of the five Montana-class battleships reached 80,000 tons, but it was only 60,000 tons announced to the public, and the caliber of the main gun also reached 19 inches (the 20-inch main gun could not be developed in a short time), and 18 inches was announced to the public. The speed reached 30 knots, and the external claim was only 28 knots, and the armor protection was as high as 460 mm (after the Sino-American Atlantic naval battle, the US military remembered it), but it was only 380 mm announced to the public. In addition, the U.S. Maritime Self-Defense Force used almost all the technology they could acquire on the Montana-class battleships, with the aim of no longer targeting the Mexican-class battleships of the Mexican Navy alone, but targeting the Ming-class battleships of the Imperial Chinese Navy and the ultimate battleship Guanghua Emperor.
Secondly, the US Navy builds Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carriers. It adopts a conventional power system, with a design displacement of 45,000 tons and a speed of 30 knots, which can carry the TBF-C Avenger carrier-based fighter, SBD-5 dreadnought carrier-based attack aircraft, and A-26 Intruder carrier-based bomber. ββ and A20 Havoc medium bombers, etc., with 90 aircraft, belong to medium-sized aircraft carriers.
In terms of the shape design of the Kitty Hawk class aircraft carrier. It is still an all-through flight deck with a rectangular layout, and aircraft carriers cannot take off and land at the same time. This has become the biggest weakness of the US Maritime Self-Defense Force Air Force.
The Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carriers are planned to be built in six units, and the construction period is less than 12 months, and the Americans are developing their navy entirely in the mode of war industry.
"Is the aircraft carrier battle group really useless?"
The American think tank believes that the development of aircraft carriers by the Chinese Empire is definitely not a matter of having money and nowhere to spend it. The political deception of the Chinese Empire has always been unfathomable, and almost all countries in the world have suffered from this. Therefore, Roosevelt's think tank believed that the development of aircraft carrier battle groups by the Chinese Empire was absolutely purposeful, and no matter what the purpose, the US Navy should follow in the footsteps of the Chinese Imperial Navy to develop.
Although Roosevelt did not know why the Chinese empire kept so many aircraft carrier battle groups. As Lin Jianzhang said at the press conference, the Chinese Empire's aircraft carrier battle group is only used to deter second- and third-rate countries, and Roosevelt is becoming more and more unconvinced, because first-class countries dare not argue with the Chinese Empire, not to mention second- and third-rate countries, countries that can be leveled by a few super battleships, do not need so many aircraft carrier battle groups at all.
Thus, Roosevelt believed the inferences of his think tank. ββ It is absolutely purposeful for the Chinese Empire to retain a powerful aircraft carrier battle group. Perhaps, the Chinese Empire has been misleading other countries politically.
Roosevelt was convinced that the Chinese Empire had a problem with aircraft carriers, so he approved the development of an aircraft carrier battle group by the U.S. Maritime Self-Defense Force.
In order to build battleship battle groups and aircraft carrier battle groups, the US Navy has successively started construction of more than 40 escort heavy cruisers and light cruisers. These ships are all built in a war industry mode and are extremely fast. The completion of the fastest light cruiser in less than six months, and the heavy cruiser in no more than ten months, underscores the rapid recovery of American industrial capacity, while also demonstrating the superiority of the American economy under Roosevelt's model of national Nazism.
In addition, the U.S. Maritime Self-Defense Force is extremely enthusiastic about developing submarines, almost to the point of being as fanatical as Hitler.
Under the opportunity of the Chinese Empire to relax, the US Navy built more than 200 German UA-766 submarines in one go in nine months, the submarine has a displacement of about 1,200 tons and an underwater speed of 17 knots. It was not until the US submarine force encountered the powerful anti-submarine forces of the Chinese Empire that it stopped copycat Tang-class submarines and instead developed other types of submarines.
Of course, when the U.S. Navy vigorously developed its navy, it once aroused strong dissatisfaction among the Chinese Empire, but Roosevelt survived, and this was all due to Nazi Germany, an ally of the United States on the other side of the Atlantic.
On July 22, 1941, June 28, the 41st year of Guanghua, in the early morning of that day, Hitler tore up the Soviet-German non-aggression pact and dispatched 210 divisions, 6,700 tanks, 7,200 combat aircraft, 57,000 artillery pieces and 390 warships of various types with a pre-drawn battle plan codenamed "Barbarosha". The army, navy, and air force carried out joint operations, and the large army attacked the Soviet Union in a blitzkrieg operation in three ways, and the Second World War was further expanded, and the Soviet-German war broke out.
It was precisely because of Germany's sudden blitzkrieg attack on the Soviet Union that the Chinese Empire was suddenly shocked and focused all its energy on the Soviet-German battlefield, which relaxed its attention to the United States and gave Roosevelt time to vigorously develop the US Navy.
Hitler's Barbarossa plan was to concentrate a large number of troops, use a "blitzkrieg" to carry out a rapid and far-reaching assault from several directions, occupy the capital of the Soviet Union, Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev, the second and third largest cities of the Soviet Union, and destroy the main force of the Soviet Red Army in the western part of the Soviet Union, and then drive straight into the hinterland of the Soviet Union, reach the Arkhangelsk, Volga, and Astrakhan lines, and destroy the Ural industrial region with the air force, so as to defeat the Soviet Union.
On May 1, 1941, a military parade was held on Red Square in Moscow to commemorate International Labor Day, although Britain, France and other countries and Soviet spies repeatedly reported to Stalin that Germany would attack the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941, Stalin believed that Germany was not capable of invading the Soviet Union before the war between Britain, France and Germany was clear. He even suspected that this was fabricated by the Entente spies in order to draw the Soviet Union into the trap of war against Germany, because the Allied camp was joined by the United States, making the Entente's strength too weak, and it was very possible to win over the Soviet Union to start a war against Germany.
Of course, when the Germans were formulating the Barbarossa Plan, the Soviet Union was also formulating a "big thunderstorm plan" to attack Germany, which was introduced earlier than the Barbarossa Plan, but because the Soviet Union's war preparations had not yet met the requirements of attacking Germany and defeating Germany at one time, it was not launched.
Whether it is Germany or the Soviet Union, they obviously have their own evil intentions and bad intentions, and the intention to annex each other is known to everyone in Sima Zhao's heart, but the difference is who will do it first.
It was precisely because Stalin was bent on annexing Germany that he lost his calm judgment and did not find out that the Germans were also preparing to attack the Soviet Union's conspiracy, and at the same time, Stalin concentrated a huge army and military equipment on the Soviet-German border in order to attack Germany, apparently in order to give Germany a fatal blow at the first time, but Stalin was unlucky and let the Germans do it first, and as a result, a large number of troops and equipment on the border were fatally attacked by the German army at the first time and suffered heavy losses.
Of course, Stalin also wanted to attack Germany early, because he found that Mexico had declared war on the United States, which showed that the attitude of the Chinese Empire was tilting towards the side of the Entente, and Stalin knew very well which side the Soviet Union should stand on, and it must be in the same direction as the Chinese Empire, otherwise it would be devastating to the Chinese Empire.
Based on this idea, Stalin paid more attention to his plans for a large thunderstorm. However, at this critical juncture, there was a change within the Soviet leadership, and a group of people who opposed Stalin's dictatorship stood up again.
Stalin regarded his rights above all else, and absolutely could not tolerate anyone within the Soviet Union who opposed him, not even a single scolding him.
So, in order to consolidate power, Stalin suspended the Great Thunderstorm plan and began a second purge within the Soviet Union to completely eliminate any opposition to him.
During the Second Purge, Stalin's Red Guards captured more than 30,000 people, including more than 200 Soviet military and political leaders, all of whom were secretly executed on various charges, and a considerable number of them were high-ranking military officers involved in the plan of the Great Thunderstorm, and their deaths caused a wave of discontent in the Soviet army.
According to the report of the OKW Intelligence Bureau, Hitler believed that the Soviet Union was in civil strife and that the Soviet Union's thunderstorm plan had leaked due to the turmoil in the army, and Hitler was so surprised that he decided to launch the Barbarossa plan ahead of schedule. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )