168. New Goals

With the exception of the Korean Peninsula in the Far East, the entire Soviet Russian battlefield spent 1942 in silence, and with the ringing of the New Year's bell, the time crossed into 1943.

Vienna's New Year's Concert was still extravagant, and it seemed that the war had little impact on daily life in the entire Austro-Hungarian capital.

Behind the apparent calm, there is actually a turbulent undercurrent.

The Americans were ready for a counteroffensive, and in the first half of 1943, they would have eight Essex-class aircraft carriers in service, and the U.S. Navy would add one capital aircraft carrier in less than a month on average.

"Hehe, they demand that we return Gibraltar, Egypt, South Africa, Burma, Malaya, the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies, and only the colonies in the German Pacific? What do you think? Since they do not want to use the existing occupied areas as a boundary for a truce, then continue to fight and see who has more to lose in the end. In the Aufburg Palace, Lee Hayton threw aside a document handed by Foreign Secretary Shüschniger, and his face became unpleasant.

The strategy developed by Germany and Austria was to temporarily halt the pace of the offensive after the Far East forced Japan to surrender, and in fact the German-Austrian axis, including Italy, had already gained far more from the war than originally expected. This only shows that the decline of the British Empire was too fast, and almost a third of their colonial heritage was divided between Germany and Austria.

In terms of the current strategic situation, Germany and Austria are satisfied, but the problem is that the sun never sets on the empire, but they are not willing to lose a large number of colonies in the past so easily, and they are still immersed in the glory of the past and have not come to their senses. The Americans, who hoped to make enough money and water in this war, and became the new hegemon, fully supported the British to continue the war behind their backs.

It was not in the fundamental interests of Germany and Austria to land in the British Isles at great cost, and the preservation of Soviet Russia, which at one moment posed a great threat to the surrounding countries, would also help Finland, the Baltic states, Belarus, Ukraine, the Don Federation, the Caucasus Federation, and the nascent states of Central Asia to become more dependent on the Axis allies.

For example, give Gibraltar to Spain. In this way, there will always be a gap between Britain and Spain, and if the Falkland Islands are handed over to Argentina, the Argentines will always look to the Axis allies to support them on this issue. As for the arrangement in the Far East, Malaya and the Western Illian Islands were transferred to Germany, and Austria-Hungary received Sumatra and Eastern Ilian Islands. The Italians will get Java and Timor, and the Chinese will have Kalimantan. As for the Philippines, under the mediation of Austria-Hungary, it will be returned to the Kingdom of Spain.

Japan, for its part, was required to return all the colonies it had annexed and cede the Tsushima Islands, which were planned to be handed over to the newly independent Koreans and the Ryukyu Islands to China.

In this way, the Axis allies, who had gained enormously in this war, tried to preserve the gains of this war. It will inevitably stand on the same front in post-war international issues and become the main formulator and enforcer of the new world rules of the game. All countries that oppose the Axis bloc will be suppressed and sanctioned, isolated from the economic circle of the whole world, unable to obtain normal trade benefits, thus affecting their economic and technological development.

If you challenge the new rules of the world, you will be challenging the entire group of countries with vested interests at the same time, unless you have enough strength to reshuffle the world. Otherwise, it is simply impossible to succeed.

In this way, the whole world would be in the hands of the Axis bloc headed by Germany and Austria. The formulation of the rules of the world as a whole must also conform to the fundamental interests of the major powers within the Axis bloc.

"Our original strategic assumption was to take half of the colonial interests from the British, and since they were still dissatisfied, let them lose more. Now, the Australian Operational Plan can be implemented. The German Navy will be fully responsible for the combat mission in the Atlantic theater, while we, including the Italian Navy and the Chinese Navy. It will be primarily responsible for combat operations in the Pacific region. From now on, the outcome of the entire war will depend on our performance in the war at sea, mainly on the efforts of the navy and air force, and the focus of domestic production will also be tilted towards shipbuilding and aircraft manufacturing. The Americans plan to build 12 million ships for 2.6 million ships in the current year's naval construction plan. And we need to reach at least 70 percent of the tonnage it builds, including at least 8 aircraft carriers.

In terms of aircraft manufacturing, the number of aircraft produced by the Americans this year is expected to be 65,000, including 7,000 heavy bombers and 6,000 large transport aircraft, and the scale of production in our aircraft manufacturing industry also needs to reach 70 percent of that of the American aircraft industry, that is, at least 42,000 aircraft, of which the number of heavy bombers and large transport planes is not less than 10,000.

The outcome of this war depends on our industrial production, on our slipways, on the production lines in our machine tools and factories, and on domestic energy, electricity, and raw materials, and we must give priority to ensuring military production.

Even if they don't want to end the war now, then we will let them lose even more! ”

In accordance with the emperor's suggestion, the navy abandoned the plan of cutting off the entire Australian maritime connection from the coral overseas line, and instead chose the plan of fighting on the inner line of direct land on the Australian mainland from the East Indies.

In another world, because the navy and the army did not cooperate with each other, the army refused to adopt the operational plan drawn up by the navy for landing on the Australian mainland, which eventually forced the Combined Fleet to choose an external battle plan gradually southward from the Central Pacific Islands, and eventually led to the United Fleet being defeated by the Americans, taking advantage of its geographical superiority and with the cooperation of land-based air forces, to win two naval battles in the Coral Sea and Midway Island one after another, thus completely turning the tide of the war in the Pacific Theater.

If the Army had been willing to cooperate with the Navy and choose to land from Australia, thus forcing the American fleet into the Arafura Sea and the Timor Sea to prevent the Japanese from landing, the outcome of the naval battle would never have been like this. In fact, it was precisely because of the dispute between the army and the navy and the army's failure to cooperate in the operation that the entire combined fleet was killed.

Of course, in terms of the huge gap in industrial capacity, in the Pacific theater, the Americans could eventually smash Japan to death, but they would never be able to turn the tide of the war on the entire battlefield so easily.

Helton's advice to the Admiralty was to advance steadily and thus force the U.S. Navy to fight a decisive battle in the waters controlled by the Axis land-based air forces. If the Americans abandon the defense of Australia's western seas, then the Axis powers will take advantage of the Chinese's military superiority to engage in a protracted war of attrition with the United States on the Australian mainland.

As far as the long-term war of attrition is concerned, most of the military supplies can be supplied by Chinese mainland, while the Axis powers only need to send heavy equipment such as tanks, aircraft, and artillery from Europe, and the Axis powers have an advantage over the United States, which is thousands of miles away.

In another world, the Japanese could not wage a long-term war of attrition with the United States, while in this world, the Axis coalition forces, dominated by Germany and Austria and China, had enough strength to fight a long-term war of attrition with the Americans here. It is almost impossible to swallow the whole of Australia in one go, but it is not very difficult to land on the Australian continent, which has only 270,000 troops and weak defenses, and take the whole of Western Australia.

The German-Austrian "two German brothers" teamed up with the Chinese to beat the fourth of the "Anglo-Saxon Five Brothers"; now the British are half-crippled and are taking care of themselves; only the Yankees, who have been promoted from the second oldest to the boss for less than 30 years, are willing to help; the fifth New Zealand is too weak, and it is estimated that everyone is half a pound and eight taels, and no one can beat the opponent at once for the time being.

But after a long time, it is estimated that the Americans will not be able to bear it,

The Chinese can provide tens of millions of soldiers, and the Americans can do it?

There are so many Chinese, so many that even a kitchen knife for one person is terrifying,

If we want to weaken China fundamentally, we can only start by reducing the number of people in China, otherwise this country will never be conquered, and even if it becomes a conqueror, it will only be assimilated by itself. The Chinese have not been strong for thousands of years, but they have not died out, because of the huge population base, which forces all foreign rulers to adapt to the language and culture of the Han people, and finally be assimilated.

In the other world, on the Korean Peninsula after the war, even the US military, armed to the teeth, could not engage in a long-term war of attrition of 1:10 with the Chinese, who were absolutely backward in equipment, and now, with Germany and Austria behind the money and equipment, the equipment level of the Chinese Army is not much worse than that of the US Army.

The Americans, who can deploy at most 150 troops in the Australian battlefield, have basically zero chance of winning in the end.

When everyone is tired, you can sit down and have a good chat. (To be continued.) )