Chapter 144: The Outbreak of World War

A lot of history cannot be reversed, and in 1939, Fang Jianxiong felt more clearly the butterfly wings of Asia, and he couldn't help the general trend of European history. The strength of the German navy was so embarrassing that Hitler, after failing in his attempt to form an alliance with China, wishful thinking that China would join the alliance as long as Britain and France were defeated in Europe. As everyone knows, if he does not form an alliance with Japan, and if he does not fight Poland first and does not partner with the Soviet Union, Fang Jianxiong is really likely to maintain a tacit understanding with Germany and join forces to attack the Soviet Union. But now, in order to get the power of the Japanese navy, Germany and Japan are getting closer. The last possibility of Sino-German cooperation against the Soviet Union is gone, which also means that the pattern of this world war has become elusive from the beginning.

"Prime Minister, there's a call from the President, please come to the Ministry of Defense for a meeting. At the same time, he asked for Minister of the Interior Yang Yongtai and Minister of Finance Song Ziwen to attend the meeting together. The secretary whispered in Gu Weijun's ear, and Gu Weijun, who was presiding over a temporary cabinet meeting, immediately stood up, not caring at all what the cabinet ministers thought of him, the prime minister who obeyed the president's words, and immediately said to everyone: "Something big happened, Changqing, Ziwen, come with me to the Ministry of National Defense for a meeting, and Liangchou will also go with him." ”

The cabinet meeting was suspended, and the four cabinet compounds hurried to the Ministry of National Defense, and when they got off the place, they saw Vice President Lin Sen's car. Lin Sen is a veteran of the League, who quit the Kuomintang after the second revolution in time and space, participated in the election as a non-party person, and was elected speaker for one term. In the last general election, he was nominated by Fang Jianxiong for vice president.

"Vice President Lin is here too." Gu Weijun secretly thought in his heart, usually this vice president is just a decoration, and there are irrelevant departments such as culture and education, health, emergency rescue and disaster relief, and the Yellow River Engineering Department. I actually attended this meeting today. It can be seen that things are going to be big.

The four of them stepped in, Fang Jianxiong and Lin Sen were waiting for them on the steps, and the two of them were still whispering something. Lin Sen nodded frequently, looking very approving. Gu Weijun was about to step forward to speak, when the voice of Speaker of the National Assembly Tang Shaoyi came from behind him: "Fuguo, what's wrong, such a big battle?" Tang Shaoyi thinks very highly of herself. For Gu Weijun, the young reserve ex-son-in-law, and others are in high positions, and they are very dissatisfied. So he usually puts out such an old qualification, and Gu Weijun doesn't care about him. Instead, they stood aside to make way for him. Seeing this, Fang Jianxiong smiled at him and said, "Everyone is here, let's all go in and sit down." ”

"Germany and the USSR have merged, Poland is finished. Destined to be divided between these two countries. Lost again. In the large conference room of the Ministry of National Defense, Defense Minister Jiang Fangzhen, Vice Ministers Zhang Xiaohuai, Qi Zhenghong, Leng Yu, Chief of the General Staff Xu Shuzheng, Deputy Chief of General Staff Wu Peifu, Director of the General Logistics Department Duan Feng, Director of the General Reserve Executive Division Sun Chuanfang, Navy and Army Commanders Chen Shaokuan and Feng Hua, Vice President Lin Sen, Premier of the Cabinet, Minister of the Interior, Minister of Finance, and Minister of Foreign Affairs gathered together. Fang Jianxiong's opening remarks were slightly sarcastic, and he stared ahead with his hands on his hips.

"After the annexation of Austria and the Czech Republic, Germany's industrial capacity was greatly increased. The Czech Republic, in particular, has a strong military-industrial capacity. Some time ago, Germany was in secret contact with the Soviet Union, and Germany, in order to avoid fighting on two fronts, would certainly make huge concessions on the Polish issue. The significance of the Soviet-German non-aggression pact was that the two countries were about to join forces to partition Poland. There is no other possibility. The intelligence services were able to grasp the "White Plan" for the German invasion of Poland in the Soviet-German contacts, which was completed in April. Now I can tell you very accurately. Due to the tiger breeding of Britain and France, Germany has become a climate, and world war is inevitable. It will be a protracted war! Now that you've got the situation, let's talk about it. After Fang Jianxiong finished speaking, he sat down and waited patiently for everyone to speak.

Many people were stunned by these words, such as Tang Shaoyi and Lin Sen, these two didn't know much about these aspects before, and when they suddenly heard this, they were a little dizzy.

"President, if the Soviet Union and Germany join forces to carve up Poland, how can you be sure that Britain and France will take a wait-and-see attitude?" Tang Shaoyi raised his hand to speak, and at this time he must show a sense of existence. If it weren't for the Constitution, this kind of meeting that would decide the country to enter a state of war readiness would have to be attended by the vice president and the speaker, and Fang Jianxiong really didn't want him to attend the meeting. This kind of Beiyang old age has long been outdated.

In normal times, Fang Jianxiong would not have bothered with him, but today he must make it clear. It was the military that accelerated war preparations before, but now the economic policy of the entire country has begun to shift to the war economy, and the matter is too big.

"Combining intelligence from all sides, plus my personal and the overall judgment of the Ministry of Defense." Fang Jianxiong gave him an answer casually, Tang Shaoyi didn't come to find fault, he sat still when he had the answer, and never spoke again, worthy of being an old politician.

"Now that the military has made such a judgment, and the president means the same, the cabinet should take immediate action." Lin Sen also spoke, showing that he stopped speaking after saving zài.

Gu Weijun immediately stood up and said: "Since everyone means this, what the cabinet can do immediately is to increase the military budget." Fortunately, there is no large-scale national investment plan this year, and the specific amount of additional investment depends on the Ministry of Finance. ”

Everyone looked at Song Ziwen, and the Treasury secretary, who had a strong American taste, stood up and said with a smile: "Thanks to the effective government in these years, the country's economic development is good, and the treasury is abundant. At present, the country's foreign exchange reserves are 10 billion US dollars, and at the time of the silver crisis, the national treasury increased its gold reserves according to the instructions of the president. If we want to increase the military budget, I propose to take a covert approach. In the name of supporting the development of enterprises, funds can be allocated to relevant enterprises, requiring them to increase the purchase of raw materials from abroad. For example, the Eurasia Group, the North Group, the Northeast Brothers Heavy Industry Group, the Zhang's Group in Jiangsu, the Song's Group in Wuhan, and so on, let them come forward to take advantage of the fact that the prices in the international raw material market are not too high, and get a good grasp of the purchase of strategic resources such as copper, iron, rubber, and petroleum from abroad. The Ministry of Finance can immediately come up with $3 billion in foreign exchange reserves for this strategic procurement. ”

"Ziwen's construction is very good, after all, it has not officially started fighting, and it is impossible to convince Congress to enter the wartime economy. However, the army and the cabinet can move first. As soon as war breaks out in Europe, President Honda immediately submits an application to the Diet, and the country's economy enters a state of war, and the all-out preparation for the battlefield is bound to be a protracted world war. Fang Jianxiong stood up, and waved his right hand vigorously, full of momentum and unstoppable. It seems to be trying to drive away some of the things that stand in front of you.

The meeting lasted for a whole day, during which detailed discussions were held on economic, military, diplomatic, propaganda, and other preparations, and the final preparations before the war were carried out entirely around a world war. After this meeting, Fang Jianxiong sat on the chair and was silent for a long time, everything that should have been done has been done, this long-awaited but absolutely damned war, what will it become, I really don't have any confidence in my heart.

On the night of August 31, 1939, the Germans, dressed in Polish uniforms, approached a small town in Grewitz on the Polish border. After successfully capturing the town, the Germans deliberately smashed the town's radio station and fired shots into the air. Later, the German public, who was listening to the radio program, heard a voice with a Polish accent announce: "Polish people! The war between Poland and Germany is about to start, unite, bring down the German devils, and bring down all the Germans who oppose our war! "The person who spoke was a prisoner who had been forced by the Nazis to wear a Polish military uniform. He was subsequently killed by the SS. This was a conspiracy to "invade Poland" of Germany, directed by the head of the Gestapo Heidri himself.

In the early hours of September 1, with the support of more than 2,000 aircraft, the Germans crossed the border and the torrent of steel rolled forward.

But at 10 a.m., Hitler announced to Germany that Germany had been invaded by Poland, and Germany was forced to return fire. In fact, before Hitler's announcement, Germany had already launched a blitzkrieg against Poland. Subsequently, Britain and France were forced to declare war on Germany, and World War II broke out in full swing. Polish resistance was not indestructible, but within two days of the outbreak of the war, the Polish air force was gone. The Polish army, which was completely backward in tactical thinking, staged the tragic bravery of the heroic cavalry against the tanks with sabers.

Two million Polish troops were defeated in the face of the onslaught of the German army, and in just one week, the Germans formed a pincer attack on Warsaw. After the declaration of war, Britain and France had the strange phenomenon of the so-called "sit-down war", and the French army, which witnessed the heroic resistance of the Polish army, only sent a small number of troops, which symbolically meant something.

At the critical moment of Poland's life and death, the Soviet government handed over a statement to the Polish ambassador to the Soviet Union on September 17: the Polish government had collapsed without any signs of declaration, that is, in fact, the Polish state and government had ceased to exist zài .......

The Soviet Union played a disgraceful role in Poland's demise, taking advantage of the fire to recover Western Ukraine and Western Belarus, west of the Curzon Line, which Poland had invaded in 1921. On September 27, the Germans occupied Warsaw. Once again, Poland was partitioned. Twenty years after its restoration, Poland disappeared again.

Although the Soviet Union was not condemned by the international community after World War II, the Polish people will not forget that when Poland was attacked, the Soviet Union was betrayed by Britain and France at the same time, and was attacked by the Soviet Union.

The day after Poland's demise, Fang Jianxiong wrote in the newspaper: "This is our neighbor, and this is why we must always remind ourselves to guard against this and its absurd reason to invade a neighbor of weak Poland." At the same time, Fang Jianxiong made a speech on the radio: In view of the fate of Poland, in order to prevent a possible attack on the country for inexplicable reasons, I declare that the Wehrmacht has entered the state of combat readiness at the second level ......)