Chapter XXVII
The withdrawal of Thunder did not have much impact on the war in Shanxi, and Taiyuan City, which was recaptured by Thunder and handed over to the Jin Sui Army and the National Army, did not usher in the counterattack of the Japanese puppet army, and the Japanese army in Shanxi seemed to have acquiesced to the fact that Taiyuan no longer belonged to them. The extremely lively Hebei battlefield that was stirred up by the tinder also calmed down immediately, and the only lively thing was the junction of Shanxi and Shandong provinces, where Yao Laoyu also brought the green forest heroes he summoned to fight the Japanese army.
Compared with the calm of the domestic battlefield, the international battlefield can be described as turbulent, just when Zhao Zhi returned to Kunming, and the mercenaries under Yu Dazhi helped test the new equipment, at this moment history has completely departed from the original track. The Soviet army's strategy of relying on defense and exchanging space for time made a slight deviation in the implementation, causing the German army to abandon the struggle for major cities as strategic support points and turn to strategic depth and detour, which directly led to the ineffectiveness of the Soviet army's stubborn delay tactics.
Due to the appearance of Zhao Zhi in the fierce battle between the German army and the Anglo-French coalition in the early stage, the desperate Germany avoided the situation of fighting on two fronts, and after the Soviet Union suddenly sent troops to cross the Polish security line, Hitler put all the strategic reserves into the Eastern Front, easily repelled the Soviet army and then began to launch a counteroffensive, and the defeated Soviet Red Army had to use space life for time to resist the German offensive. In the midst of the great crisis facing the Soviet Union, Stalin sent messengers everywhere to seek support from the international community, and on the other hand, tried to concentrate all his forces on the European theater.
Stalin's first choice for help was the United States, but the reversal of the international situation directly affected the attitude of the United States towards the Soviet-German issue, and the sudden attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese army caused heavy losses to the US Navy. At present, there is no conflict of interest between the United States and Germany, and in particular, in order to prevent the United States from intervening in the conflict between them and the Soviet Union, Germany does not hesitate to spend a large amount of money and goods to order daily necessities from the United States, and the United States and Germany have been linked together by the chain of interests.
However, the armored forces of the German army, which had already assaulted the city of Stalingrad, began to break through the Soviet army's Volga defense line in a roundabout way, and this roundabout tactic of the German army made the Soviet troops trapped in Stalingrad completely lose their support and replenishment, and for a time the situation in Stalingrad, which had been stabilized, took a sharp turn for the worse. Field Marshal Paulus, who had been fast forward to the Soviet prisoner of war camp in history, was now leaping on the Russian land, and the German army's two-wing breakthrough and roundabout tactics made Stalingrad's stubbornness meaningless, if it were not for the torrential rain for more than half a month that temporarily blocked the German offensive, otherwise the Soviet army would face annihilation.
The victory of the German army in the Eastern Front at the knot encouraged the Aryan madman at the same time, but Stalin, who was cowering in Moscow, was going crazy, the current war was extremely unfavorable to the Soviet army, after the German army broke through the Volga defense line, the German army ignored the Soviet troops in front of them and the Soviet troops on the flank, directly waved troops to occupy the North Caucasus region, in an attempt to cut off the North Caucasus oil fields to the Soviet army. The oil route was cut off by the German army, which would have cost Stalin's life, and the current Soviet army was purely supported by crowd tactics and armored troops, once the armored troops lay down, the existing advantages of the Soviet army would no longer exist, and perhaps the Slavs would end up like the Jews.
The Second Panzer Division of the Wehrmacht and the 15th Tactical Corps of the Air Force, which were supposed to be on the battlefield of the Soviet Union, were allocated by him to Rommel in North Africa, and supplemented the three divisions of the Afrika Korps with 280 new Type IV tanks and two battalions of Tiger tanks.
The transfer of a large number of armored units made Rommel feel like an injection of a booster, and Rommel, who had always counted the tanks to fight, had a sense of explosiveness. Although the newly arrived troops needed 3-6 months to adapt to the desert, he now finally had armored units that surpassed the British in North Africa in terms of quantity and quality.
The historical desert fox has not yet shown its hideousness in North Africa, but the remnants of the British troops in the North African colonies have been frightened, especially on the periphery of Port Tobruk, the British 4th Reinforced Tank Brigade and the 7th Tank Brigade were ambushed by the German 88mm cannons, and the fierce fighting lasted from midnight to dawn, and the German artillery who fired frantically until the cannon was overheated and could not fire suddenly found that the British had retreated? Nearly 200 tanks became a burning bonfire, and the Alagoa Gang became a sad ridge for the British armored forces, and for a time the panicked British government-in-exile made the whole world feel that they had lost North Africa.
The great victory of the British army in the North African battlefield made Hitler crazy and wiped the tsundere empire of the sun from the face of the earth, which was second only to the desire of the Jews in Hitler's heart. Rommel's great victory made Hitler increase his troops in North Africa again, but it was his decision that made the United States feel threatened by Germany, and the lack of German front-line troops also made Stalin, who was cowering in Moscow, breathe a sigh of relief.
The great victory of the German army in North Africa made the Japanese army in the Asian theater start to move again, and the British exiled to Australia were obviously not good allies, and if the Japanese army could get the support of Germany, defeating the United States would no longer be a dream. In response to the German offensive in North Africa, the Japanese army carried out large-scale sweeps in the occupied areas on the one hand, and on the other hand, began to gather troops in a planned manner, forming a pincer posture against Changsha and Changde, which made the originally hot Shanxi battlefield temporarily calm.
The Japanese troops stationed in Burma were ready to move again after receiving much-needed heavy artillery and tank brigades, but this time they were targeting Imphal in India. The defeat of the Japanese army across the Nu River a month earlier was a blow to the Japanese army. The tenacity of the Chinese troops shocked the Japanese army, especially the counterattack of the all-American equipment unit, which until now often wakes the Japanese soldiers from nightmares, and the impermeable bullet nets and dense artillery fire have penetrated into the minds of the Japanese soldiers.
The strength of the Japanese army in Burma made Zhao Zhi see an opportunity, those Burmese natives are all guys who have milk and mothers, Zhao Zhi knows the nature of the Burmese when he formed the Jewish Legion in Burma. Like the Indians, the Burmese have an inexplicable fear of the big-nosed Westerners from the bones, no matter how strong the Japanese army is, they are only yellow-skinned Asians, and the Burmese can allow the British to rule them and sell their compatriots for profit, but this does not mean that they allow the Japanese soldiers with turnip-headed bodies to ride on their necks and.
World War II was the war that involved the most countries, and Zhao Zhi, who had a bloodthirsty character in his bones, did not intend to be just a spectator, while ensuring that the Thunder obtained the greatest benefits, he also wanted to leave his name in the history of World War II. The strength of the Japanese army in Burma and the division of troops close to India, this is a good opportunity for Zhao Zhi, most of the big customers of the Jewish United Bank, which has been renamed the Burma Investment Bank, are the Tusi heads in Myanmar, Zhao Zhi is not afraid that they will cooperate with the Japanese army, if so, all the money deposited in the bank by the Tusi heads will belong to Zhao Zhi.
There will be brave men under the heavy reward, even if all the Burmese natives have thrown themselves to the Japanese army, as long as Zhao Zhi scatters a lot of money, I believe that the Burmese will flock to Zhao Zhi's camp. Interests are always the best blade, not to mention anti-Japanese, as long as the benefits given by Zhao Zhi are big enough, I believe that the Burmese will willingly tie up their royal family and give it to Zhao Zhi. Mo Lun, who was left in Kunming, was not busy eating and drinking all day long, and some of the big toast leaders in Myanmar were placed undercover agents by him, just when the time came, the undercover agents who received the code would instigate the Burmese to oppose Japan, and Burma was in chaos, and the time for Thunder to march into Myanmar would naturally come.
Just after August, the people of Kunming smelled nervousness, the Jewish gathering places in the suburbs began to close the road connecting Kunming, and the big-nosed Jewish soldiers who used to often take cars in and out of Kunming City also disappeared, but the Jewish merchants who opened shops and trading houses in Kunming City began to buy medicines and some war necessities, all of which made the people in Kunming City aware of the abnormality, this is about to fight.
Luo Lin, who hurried back from Chongqing, naturally noticed this change, although she was annoyed that Zhao Zhi was busy all day long when she returned to Kunming, and she didn't even have time to eat with her. But Rowling also knows that now is a very important moment for Thunder, fortunately, she can still see Zhao Zhi every day, whether they can eat together, Rowling doesn't care too much. I have to say that Mo Lun organized a very good set of logistics, before the Shanxi battlefield began the Taiyuan operation, Mo Lun was slowly hoarding supplies and ammunition, and by the time Zhao Zhi and them returned to Kunming, the reserve warehouse was already full of materials and ammunition needed to attack Burma.
Soldiers and horses go first before the grain and grass are moved, this is the eternal code of war, especially Zhao Zhi, who has the memory of his previous life, understands that fighting a war is the truth of fighting logistics. The return of the front-line troops in Jinzhong made Zhao Zhi hoard daily necessities a little faster, and the daily outflow of funds frightened the managers in charge of the Bank of Myanmar.
The defenders of Kunming, who had already received a secret order from the Ministry of Military Affairs, also began to strengthen their vigilance, and all kinds of people entering and leaving Kunming were closely checked, and the clouds of war began to envelop the entire Kunming. The same is true in the Jewish ghetto, where the armed militia units lay down their weapons and pick up tools, and begin to maintain vehicles and equipment according to Zhao Zhi's plan, and once the plan to attack Burma is launched, they will become a large logistics force to provide logistical support for the smooth operation of the war in Burma.