Two months passed in a blink of an eye, and the time came to the end of June of the thirtieth year of the Republic of China (1941).

After Hata Shunroku arrived as the commander of the North China Front, he immediately suspended Okamura Ningji's battle plan, and the 500,000 puppet troops gathered near Shimen withdrew one after another, and began to move towards Datong, an important town in northern Shanxi.

However, Shunroku Hata still left 5 divisions in Shimen, including the 5th and 18th veteran divisions.

Just half a month ago, the base camp of the Yue Army was mobilized again on the mainland, and it was newly organized into 30 divisions and regiments, and the number has been arranged to the 70th Division, and these 30 newly formed divisions and regiments are all three-unit divisions and regiments, and there are no longer infantry brigades and regiments, but three infantry wings directly under the jurisdiction of the division and regiment headquarters.

Obviously, these 30 divisions were prepared for the "southward plan," and he was about to start it.

His wolf ambition has been clearly revealed, because the political axe has just passed through Germany, forcing France to surrender and recognize the right of the army to garrison in the Indochina Peninsula (Indochina), and with the Indochina Peninsula as a springboard, the army can launch an attack on the surrounding Siam (Thailand), the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), Malaysia, and the Philippines at any time.

The Americans had apparently heightened their vigilance against their own ambitions, and had suspended trade with him.

In addition, the US "Concession Act" has been officially put into effect in March, and in May, President Roosevelt announced that the Concession Act would apply to China.

If it weren't for the distance, I am afraid that the air force would have been dispatched to bomb the Yunnan-Burma Highway indiscriminately.

However, Chairman Chiang was still very vigilant about this, and specially sent people to recruit retired pilot Captain Chennault from the United States, and then Mrs. Chiang personally came forward to lobby the US political axe, and the American political axe provided retired pilots and fighters to form the American Volunteer Brigade of the Chinese Air Force, which is also known as the "Flying Tigers."

These events are basically not different from history.

However, what happened next was completely contrary to the direction of history.

Soon after Okamura Ninji was transferred to the post of commander of the Central China Front, a military exchange was held between Germany and Tsubato, and Okamura Ninji was named by Hitler to go to Berlin because of his outstanding performance in the war of law and order in North China.

At this time, Germany had occupied almost all of Europe, but the situation faced by the German army was similar to that faced by the Chinese army, especially in Eastern Europe, the Yugoslav partisans never gave up resistance, so Hitler wanted to learn from Okamura Ninji in order to quickly and effectively stabilize the political situation in Europe.

Okamura Ninji unreservedly provided all the experience of the war in North China, and personally proposed to Hitler that the conquest of the Soviet Union should not be carried out by military means alone, but more by political means, first of all, to disintegrate the Soviet Union from within, and then to carry out military conquest.

Okamura's suggestion had a major impact on Hitler's decision-making.

The Soviet-German war, which was supposed to break out on June 22 of that year, was postponed!

However, it was replaced by a German political offensive against the Soviet Union, and under the strong German political propaganda, rebellions broke out in the republics of Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, and other union republics, which were already extremely dissatisfied with Stalin's high-pressure rule, and the Soviet Red Army also appeared to a limited extent.

Almost overnight, the seemingly mighty Soviet Union was on the verge of splitting.

The rapidly deteriorating political situation in the Soviet Union quickly attracted the attention of the international community, most concerned about the two close neighbors of the Far East, Ben and China! When Yue Weihan, who was hiding in the Taihang Mountains to recuperate, heard the news, he was immediately shocked, and his little butterfly that crossed over finally induced a drastic change in history!

Due to the appearance of Yue Weihan, it directly led to Okamura Ningji's ascension to the throne three years earlier than in history.

Okamura Ninji became the commander of the North China Front three years earlier than in history, and the great success he achieved in the war of law and order in North China actually attracted the attention of the German Führer Hitler, and the rigorous and serious German scholars originally wanted to conquer the Soviet Union by force, but because of Okamura Ninji's suggestion, they suddenly changed course!

Later generations have done in-depth and detailed analysis of many historians, believing that the most likely military adventure success of the three Axis countries during World War II is none other than Germany, the Italians are completely muddy and unable to support the wall, saying that although he is also pragmatic, but the congenital defect is obvious, how can it be impossible to overthrow the United States, but Germany has several opportunities to destroy the Soviet Union!

One of the most common views is that the Germans should not resort to purely military means, but to political ones!

During World War II, Stalin adopted an extremely high-pressure policy against the Soviet republics, and the party and the army also launched a large-scale purge and rebellion, and the political situation was full of crises.

Now, the contest between the Soviet Union and Germany is developing in the direction that Yue Weihan least wants to see, what kind of impact will this have on the entire World War II, as well as China's war of resistance? If the Soviet Union really splits, if Germany really destroys the Soviet Union, if the German army and the Chinese army really meet in Siberia, where will World War II and China go?

For a while, Yue Weihan only felt that his hands and feet were cold, and history had become unrecognizable.

The sharp deterioration of the situation in the Soviet Union also had a huge impact on [***], although [***] at this time had completely gotten rid of the control of the Comintern, but it was still greatly influenced by the CPSU, except for [***], Mr. Zhu and Zhou Gong, almost all the important figures in the party and the army had a Soviet background, and they also had almost blind trust in the Soviet Union.

………… History continues to change.

Germany's attack on the Soviet Union was delayed, but Ben's military adventure against the United States was brought forward.

On July 12, the thirtieth year of the Republic of China (1941), the Combined Fleet of the Navy's Navy attacked Pearl Harbor, and the US Pacific Fleet, which was resting in the military port, was completely wiped out, and the losses were even worse than in history.

The surprise attack of the Navy was unexpected by everyone, including the Americans themselves.

The decision of the base camp of the Yue army seems stupid, but in fact it is the only choice, because it is an island country, which determines that the focus of the army building can always only be the navy, and if the army is determined to go north to attack the Soviet Union with the German army, then it is necessary to adjust the focus of military construction, and spend a lot of manpower, material resources, and financial resources to build large-scale artillery and large-scale tank clusters, which is obviously not in line with the national conditions of the army, and it is too late in time.

After four years of war of aggression against China, the strength of the army has increased greatly, and it will definitely be able to wipe out the entire Southeast Asia and the islands of the western Pacific in a short period of time, and the navy is not inferior to the US Navy in terms of overall strength, and the quality of the naval aviation is far superior to that of the US naval aviation.

At least on the surface, it seems that it is possible for Ben's military adventure to succeed.

In the early days of the war, as expected by the base camp of the Chinese army, the Japanese army, with the cooperation of the navy, quickly swept through the entire Southeast Asia and the islands of the western Pacific, and the British army in Southeast Asia and the American army in the Philippines appeared vulnerable under the powerful offensive of the Japanese army, and soon, the British Empire lost the confidence and courage to compete with the Chinese army for Southeast Asia.

At this time, the United States had directly entered the war, but the strategic center of gravity was obviously inclined to Europe, the situation in the Soviet Union was still chaotic and unclear, the pressure of the US-British coalition forces in the European and African theaters was extremely great, and the Americans no longer had much energy to take care of the Asian theater, so President Roosevelt proposed that China send troops, the United States would provide money, and Britain would provide equipment to jointly resist the attack of the Japanese army in Burma.

In Europe and Africa, the battlefield was losing and retreating, and Britain, which was already in turmoil, quickly agreed, for Britain, Burma is just an insignificant colony, and it is not a pity to give up, but if the Chinese are willing to be the head of the injustice and help the British army hold this colony, the British Empire is still happy.

Chairman Chiang, despite repeated "pleas" from the US envoy, "reluctantly" agreed to send troops.

In fact, at this time, Chairman Chiang was already anxious, and even if the Americans did not invite him, he decided to send troops to Burma.

However, the purpose of Chairman Chiang's troops was not to help the British, but to hold the last lifeline of the Yunnan-Burma Highway, because at that time, most of the war materials and daily necessities of the Kuomintang Army had to rely on this lifeline to enter the rear of the southwest.

In early August of the thirtieth year of the Republic of China (1941), the National Political Axe formed the Chinese Expeditionary Force with extremely high efficiency, which was composed of the New Fifth Army, the Sixth Army and the Sixty-sixth Army, with a total strength of about 100,000 people.

The commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force is General Du Yuming, a tiger general from Whampoa!

All of this is no different from the Chinese Expeditionary Force in history, and even the subsequent trend of the war is basically similar.

However, with regard to the formation of the expeditionary force and the selection of commander-in-chief, President Roosevelt had made it very clear to Chairman Chiang that he hoped that the 39th Army could be incorporated into the Indo-Burma Expeditionary Force, and Yue Weihan was the best candidate for commander-in-chief of the Indo-Burma Expeditionary Force, but the Americans' suggestion was rejected by Chairman Chiang without hesitation.

Although Yue Weihan's party membership has not yet been revealed, the Military Unification Bureau is not an ornament, and the many close cooperation between the 39th Group Army and the Eighth Route Army, as well as Yue Weihan's obvious friendly attitude towards the [***] people, are enough to explain many problems, and Chairman Jiang has already classified Yue Weihan into the camp of "dissidents".

At this time, Chairman Chiang did not know that the Chinese Expeditionary Force would suffer an unprecedented defeat on the Burma battlefield, and he wishfully believed that with the full support of the United States and Britain, coupled with the fact that the Chinese Expeditionary Force had sufficient troops and was well-equipped, it would not have been defeated by the Yue Army in the Burma battlefield.

The expedition to India and Burma did not go well at the beginning, in early August, the Chinese expeditionary force has been formed, and opened to the town of Wan on the border of China and Burma to assemble and standby, but the British still fantasized that they would accept it when they meet well, and they were reluctant to enter Burma until late August, when the army invaded Mawlamyine from Siam, and then captured the port of Yangon in early September with lightning speed.

At the beginning of September, the Chinese [***] team stepped out of the country for the first time since the Opium War, and the Chinese people gathered on the Yunnan-Burma Highway to bid farewell.

On 10 September, the 200th Division of the Expeditionary Force advanced to Tonggu, encountered the Yue army, fought fiercely for several days, and the two armies won and lost each other, and on 16 September, the reinforcements of the Yue army continued to drive to Tonggu, forming a joint encirclement posture for the 200th Division, and General Dai Anlan, the commander of the 200th Division, led his troops to break through after consulting General Du Yuming.

In the end, the 200th Division suffered heavy losses on the way to break out, and the Chinese Expeditionary Force suffered a crushing defeat in the first battle.

However, General Sun Liren's new 38th Division unexpectedly won a battle in Ren'anqiang, and rescued more than 7,000 British troops besieged by the Yue army.

Speaking of this battle, it is really lucky, more than 7,000 British troops retreated to the vicinity of Ren'anqiang, and were surrounded by the 213th Infantry Wing of the Yue Army, which was quickly interspersed, but the 213th Infantry Wing of the Yue Army interspersed with Ringanqiang was actually left with more than 1,000 people after many battles of attrition and division of troops.

However, it was these more than 1,000 troops that surrounded more than 7,000 British troops.

At this time, the British army had been frightened by the army, and after several failed breakthroughs, the British commander decided to surrender.

But just before the British surrendered, the new 38th Division led by General Sun Liren arrived, and the new 38th Division at this time was also dissatisfied, and the two main regiments were forcibly transferred away by General Du Yuming.

Soon after the victory of Ringanqiang, General Stilwell, chief of the general staff of the China-Burma-India Theater of the Allied Forces, decided to organize the Battle of Mandalay, gathering about 200,000 Chinese, British, and American allied troops to gather and annihilate the main force of the Chinese army attacking Burma near Mandalay, first winning the victory in the Burma battlefield, and then counterattacking Siam and Indochina.

(To be continued)