Chapter 150

The clouds of war swept across the European continent, and the two countries of Asia were also unstable. The Chinese government, which bombed the Soviet Union because of the Soviet-Finnish war, took the lead in announcing a new round of military expansion. The Ministry of National Defense announced that the discharge of veterans has been postponed, the recruitment of new recruits has been advanced, and the army has added 60 infantry divisions and 30 heavy artillery brigades to the existing 100 divisions.

The Navy announced that it would place orders for two more aircraft carriers with a displacement of 35,000 tons, and correspondingly increase orders for the manufacture of one heavy, light, cruiser, and destroyer. In this way, the total tonnage of the Navy's aircraft carriers will reach 210,000 tons, a total of eight aircraft carriers.

If it is said that the army is going to the Soviet Union, the navy is not good. It is still in the stage of Sino-Japanese friendship, and the ink on the non-aggression treaty has not yet dried. For such a thing as tearing up the treaty, the great powers are all skilled workers.

Not to be outdone, Japan followed China and organized 20 more divisions on the basis of the original 20 divisions, and the navy's plan to add two aircraft carriers also followed.

China and Japan are so nervous, it is not these two countries that are nervous, but the 20 Britain, France, and the Soviet Union. Britain and France had the largest number of colonies in Asia, and Japan and Germany had entered into an agreement on the so-called joint counteroffensive, and although there was no explicit alliance, it was already a foregone conclusion, and everyone could see it. Japan, which has a powerful navy, will be unable to take care of the South Seas and other places once it goes south, and Britain and France, which are struggling to cope with the situation in Europe, will not be able to take care of the South Seas and other places, and it will inevitably be a disaster at that time.

If Japan is to be restrained, it is necessary to hope for China. Britain's efforts to win over China diplomatically began, and Ambassador Johnson urgently asked to see President Fang Da, hoping that China would make its due contribution to Asia's stability.

For the paper tiger of the British Empire, President Fang Da said that he did not give face, as the president of the Republic of China. His duty is to maintain the security and interests of the country. Only on the premise of hurting the interests of the Republic of China will the Chinese government react accordingly.

To say that this backward country in Asia, which has not been bullied by Britain? Fang Someone owes the slightest favor to Britain, and actually wants to fool China to work for the British Empire, and the beauty will not kill you. Now Britain still stands in the most important strait in Asia. There was still India, the richest colony, and during the First World War, the Indian National Congress Party was fooled, saying that it would give people independence, but when the war ended, it was still the nephew who lit the lantern -- as usual.

So no matter what the British say, if they don't see the benefits, Fang Jianxiong will not let go lightly. The benefits are not enough. I won't be stupid enough to go to Japan. Not to mention going to war, even if trade with Japan is stopped, China will not agree. At this time, Japan has no resources to be plundered by China's looting, and it spends a lot of foreign exchange every year to import various materials from China. Many of these foreign currencies are sold for money by Japanese women in China. In big cities like Tianjin and Shanghai, the number of "runaway women" in Japan is as high as more than 100,000. Sino-Japanese trade is really not easy to do. Japan has been forced to this role, and has to prepare for war, so it can only export a large number of women to make up for the gap in trade. Don't say it, Japanese women are still very popular in China, well-behaved and obedient, and some rich people are willing to patronize them. There are also many Japanese women who are directly placed in the outer room.

At this time, the British Empire had not yet reached the point of exhaustion, so diplomatic efforts were not very willing to spend money. After asking for a meeting to no avail, you can only give up. Seeing that China continues to sell ores and other strategic materials to Germany, it does not dare to stop it. Japan has not been idle, intensifying its efforts to import strategic resources, and most of the ships entering and leaving the Strait of Malacca are Chinese and Japanese ships.

When the country began to mobilize for war, the greatest benefits were naturally those capitalists engaged in the military industry. However, this is not popular, heavy industry is not better than light industry, and the characteristics of large investment and slow results determine that this kind of industry is not something that everyone can play. Heavy industry in the Republic of China. It is mainly engaged in several large groups such as Eurasia. The Eurasian Group in the Yangtze River Basin, the Zhou Northern Group in the Northeast, and the Zhang Group in the Northeast after leaving the military and political circles. Zhang Zuolin don't look down on the warlord, he can also engage in industry, starting from the original train locomotive and three jumpers, and now there are hundreds of enterprises under Zhang's name. Of course. The rapid development of these industrial groups is mainly due to the support of the state.

Beijing, the General Staff, the Chinese side that is always concerned about the war situation in Europe, is analyzing the war situation every day according to the news sent back by the forward observers. At this moment, far away in France, there is an observation group of the squadron, led by Yang Zui, who fought in France that year, and now Yang Zui, the commander of an infantry army in China, is already a lieutenant general.

"Here, here, here. Finland was defeated, and Britain and France lost the opportunity to intervene in Norway. Now the entire French army did not have the slightest aggressiveness, and every day they basked in the sun behind the Maginot Line. I don't understand, how did the French Army, which fought hard against the Germans in Europe, become like this? Xu Chongzhi, deputy chief of general staff, who had fought in France, shook his head at the huge sand table. The Wehrmacht, which advocates attack, has always refused to give up the opportunity to strike at its opponents. The main force of the German army was in the east, and there were only so many troops on the Franco-German border, that they dared to miss such a fighter.

A group of young staff officers gathered around the sand table and continued to deduce, repeatedly arguing about the direction of the war. Britain and France had already declared war on Germany, and it would be foolish to expect Germany to continue eastward under the premise that a major war was inevitable.

Now Britain and France have woken up, but the French army still holds on to the experience of the First World War, and its purpose is to use the Maginot Line to consume the German army. But then again, it's okay to brake with static in this way. Xu Shuzheng was very objective, looked around the sand table for a long time, touched his chin and muttered to himself.

At this time, a voice came from the door: "Judging from the terrain, this tactic is still the opposite." But the French forgot the lessons of the First World War, how was the Schlieffen plan executed? This time the Germans will repeat their old tricks, and France is doomed to end this time. ”

When everyone looked over, the young staff officers immediately stood up and saluted and greeted: "Hello President!" Fang Jianxiong returned the salute casually, stepped forward and pointed to Belgium on the sand table and said: "Here, the Ardennes Forest, the French think that mechanized troops cannot pass through here, it is simply wishful thinking." In terms of tactics, the Germans were already very skilled in Poland, and once the war against France began, it would be interesting to see. German tanks that burst out of the forest will sweep through France like a steel tsunami. Telegraphed to Yang Zui and asked him to remind the French to pay attention to the defense in the direction of the Ardennes Forest. ”

Xu Shuzheng was stunned; "Why remind the French?" Fang Jianxiong said with a smile: "Even if you remind the French, you may not be able to believe it, you might as well sell one." In any case, we now have more interests with Britain, France, and the United States, and the possibility of cooperation with these three countries will be greater. If Germany really gave up on fighting France first, then it would be better for each to fight against the Soviet Union on the premise of non-alignment. ”

"The General Staff must get a good grasp of drawing up operational plans, and we must make preparations for war in the Far East and Central Asia. In the early stages of the war, the aim was to eliminate the approximately 800,000 troops deployed by the Soviet Army on the border. The Soviet Union likes to deploy its troops on the front line, and this kind of military thinking is still World War I, and sooner or later it will suffer a big loss. Now that we've seen it, we might as well take advantage of it. Jiang Fangzhen, who came in later, interjected with a smile, Xu Shuzheng looked at this formation, everything that should have come came, it was the rhythm of the meeting.

"Winter has come, and the troops of the Far East and Central Asia are resting and preparing. We still have to guard against the Japanese in the northeast, so we have hoarded heavy military groups in the northeast and sent troops forward at any time according to the war situation. Here, here, Heilongjiang, at the latest, in three months at the latest, thirty infantry divisions formed from reserves from various places will all be in place. Together with the existing troops in the northeast, we have hoarded 60 infantry divisions, 2 mechanized corps, 30 heavy artillery brigades, 10 independent heavy artillery regiments, and more than 2,000 aircraft in the northeast. In Central Asia, the current strength of the Northwest Military Region is 25 infantry divisions, one national independent cavalry corps, and two mechanized corps. In the Far East, a total of six mechanized corps and fifteen infantry divisions were deployed in Chita, Ulan-Ude, Kulen, Irkutsk and other places. Xu Chongzhi knew the situation well, and he came as soon as he opened his mouth.

Fang Jianxiong stood in front of the huge map, looked up with his chin in one hand, and said with a smile after listening: "This deployment is very good, that place in Central Asia, now it is to give Liu Mingzhao ten mechanized armies, and he can't put it down." However, a mechanized army is still a little weaker, our mechanized divisions are all with mechanized infantry brigades, there is only one tank brigade, and there are only three tank brigades in Liu Mingzhao's hands. It adds up to less than four hundred tanks, less. ”

"Liu Mingzhao is a rare handsome talent, in fact, it is better for him to sit in the Far East, but unfortunately his qualifications are a little tender, and there is already a lot of gossip when he takes over the Northwest Military Region." Jiang Fangzhen also had a headache, there are many people with old qualifications in the National Defense Army, and many of those in the first and second phases of the teaching team are still in the position of division commander.

"Taking advantage of the winter, the newly formed mechanized army transferred two to Liu Mingzhao. Once Tashkent is taken, it is faced with an open field, and the power of mechanized troops is great. Feng Hua, add five fighter wings and five bomber wings to the Central Asian region, and equip them with the latest ones. Also, send the ten rocket artillery battalions in Xinyang to Liu Mingzhao. This thing is in Central Asia, and there is more room to play. Even if there is no air supremacy, it is convenient to hide when it is hit. Fang Jianxiong adjusted, and no one objected.

"Okay, I will do my best to arrange it, and urge Liu Mingzhao and Gao Sheng, and report the preliminary battle plan as much as possible."

As soon as he entered the conference room, a staff officer rushed in from outside and said loudly: "Report, French emergency telegram." Ignoring Norway's obstruction, the British Navy rushed into Norwegian territorial waters and captured two German ships. ”

Fang Jianxiong couldn't help laughing when he heard this, Churchill, a madman, was forcing Hitler to do something to Norway, and he was dragged into the water again. Thinking of this, Fang Jianxiong couldn't help but secretly wonder, after the defeat of France, in order to pull the United States into the water, would Churchill do something to send submarines to attack American ships and frame Germany?

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