"Self, suicide plane!? Comrade Yasuda, you're not kidding, are you? ”

Yasuo Yasuda's proposal surprised Lu Yi, and he built a pilot of the Indian Red Air Force to fly a plane loaded with bombs to ram the British Indian Ocean Fleet anchored in Ceylon! Lu Yi Asan scolded in his heart, this style of play is enough to lack a heart, which pilot is willing to do this?

Yasuda introduced: "The Japanese Red Navy Air Force has set up a 'kamikaze special attack team', and this unit is carrying out suicide attack missions! By the end of July, more than 3,500 Red Army soldiers had signed up for the special assault team, and the daredevils were now training at the Japanese Navy's aviation school. High-quality updates just think that Indian GCD members and Komsomol members are not more afraid of death than Japanese Red Army soldiers, right? As long as Comrade Lu Yi gives an order, thousands of comrades will definitely come to sign up. ”

There are so many Japanese people who lack heart! Lu Yi and Trotsky exchanged glances, and then said helplessly: "Of course, there must be many such Indian comrades, but there are very few pilots in our air force, and none of them are trained to attack surface ships, I am afraid that they will not be able to accomplish such a difficult task." ”

Yasuo Yasuda waved his hand and said: "Comrade Lu Yi, training special attack team members is actually very simple, there is no need to recruit from experienced active pilots at all, just ordinary Red Army soldiers. In this way, as long as you can recruit daredevils, we will help solve the training matters, and in addition, we can also provide samples and drawings of special attack aircraft, which should be able to be manufactured quickly at the level of the Soviet aviation industry. ”

"But this lack of heart...... Well, is it a heroic and fearless way of playing, in case it does not play a role in destroying the British Indian Ocean Fleet? Lu Yi asked with a frown.

Yasuo Yasuda looked at Trotsky, whose face was gloomy. Gritted his teeth and said: "If it doesn't work, then the Japanese Red Navy will send a fleet into the Indian Ocean." In addition, Japan can supply India with 10 destroyers, 5 submarines and 2 cruisers. and to help India train naval officers and soldiers. ”

"So can Japan send an expeditionary force to the Middle East?" Trotsky asked again.

In the face of Trotsky's aggressiveness, Yasuo Yasuda was bitter in his heart, and he barely managed to squeeze out a smile and explained to Trotsky: "The dispatch of the army must first obtain control of the sea in the Indian Ocean, and as long as the special attack tactics of the Indian Red Air Force are effective, the Japanese army can be immediately sent to the Middle East, and this is no problem." Until then, Japan could only send a small number of troops to the Middle East or India. ”

Trotsky was satisfied with this result, and in fact he did not expect Japan to agree to send troops to the Indian Ocean. He was aware of the tacit understanding between China and Japan, and he acquiesced, but Lu Yi made such a request, and he could not refute the face of this newly released secretary of the GC International Asia Bureau. I had no choice but to put pressure on Japan.

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At this moment. Chang Ruiqing was having dinner with US President Franklin D. Roosevelt in a luxurious restaurant at the Kaiserhof Hotel, eating a French meal with a long string of fish, soup, game, steak, chicken, vegetable salad and roast lamb printed in Chinese and English characters on thick yellow paper with the official U.S. coat of arms emblem. The high-quality update begins with the blonde waiters serving the dishes one by one, and more waiters pour wine, champagne or whiskey for the guests. Although the morning meeting with Hopkins was not very pleasant, it was a pleasant atmosphere for the guests and hosts.

A long dining table in a palatial dining room is filled with powerful people, and today's banquet is spent on American taxpayers' money. So President Roosevelt sat at the head of the table, flanked by Hitler and Mussolini. The three of them seemed to talk very speculatively, especially the Italian leader in the blue Italian naval uniform, who seemed to never finish his words, and the appearance of the leader of one of the five great powers of the world in this restaurant obviously excited Mr. Mussolini.

Chang Ruiqing sat next to Hitler, and across from him was British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who sat next to Mussolini, and the two of them began to talk about India in a low voice from the beginning of the banquet. The founding ceremony of the People's Republic of India is just a few days away, and this news is undoubtedly very bad for Chamberlain, which shows that the 350 million Indian A-3 have united under the red flag of the Indian GCD and officially got rid of the colonial rule of the British Empire. To Chamberlain's dismay, there were two views in Britain on the establishment of the People's Republic of India, one was to recognize India's independence, and perhaps it was time to get rid of the British Empire after the 10 years of war in India. Another opinion, of course, was a counter-offensive against India, represented by the British Admiral Winston Churchill.

He was also present at today's banquet, sitting next to Chamberlain, listening to the conversation between Chang Ruiqing and Chamberlain with his ears pricked up, and when he heard Chang Ruiqing say that China had helped India's M-Ryling Alliance and Allah to recruit a million troops and was ready to divide into east and west to counterattack India after completing training, he immediately asked: "May I ask Your Excellency, what role do you plan for the British Empire to play in the war against India?" If those Muslins succeeded in gaining control of India, how would their relationship with the British Empire be placed? ”

Chang Ruiqing coughed, and a wry smile appeared on the corner of his lips: "It seems that these two questions shouldn't be answered by me, right?" The question now is, what role are you prepared to play in the counter-offensive of the British Empire? If you are still going to maintain colonial rule in India after the war, then you should take on the corresponding obligations now, otherwise it is unlikely that you will be made to submit those mas to the command of London, right? After all, now that the weapons, funds, and instructors of the M's army are all provided by us, where is the enthusiasm of the British Empire to counterattack India? I don't think I saw it, but I heard some rumors that the British Empire was ready to abandon India. ”

Churchill looked at Chang Ruiqing coldly: "The British Empire will never give up India!" But everyone knows that the center of gravity of this world war is not in South Asia, but in Europe! So we have to put the main forces in Europe, and wait until the Soviet Union is defeated to deal with India. ”

Chang Ruiqing looked at Chamberlain. The British Prime Minister nodded slightly, as if to approve of Churchill's words: "...... The British Empire, of course, will not abandon its obligation to help the people of India, the question of the present. High-quality updates are just a matter of some of the details of military deployments. We have also considered that it is not a good idea to launch a counterattack from Central Asia and East Bengal at this time, and the total strength of the Indian Red Army is as high as 10 million, and it seems that a 1 million Sling army is not enough to defeat them. So we believe that the counteroffensive against India should be put after the settlement of the Soviet Union, and now we have only two priorities, one is Europe. The second is the Middle East. We hope that China will also focus on these two points and carry out military deployments. ”

"Of course, of course. Our deployment has always been to defeat the Soviet Union first as the core, as long as the Soviet Union is defeated, the two Soviet states of Japan and India will not be worried, so defeating the Soviet Union is defeating India and Japan! ”

Chang Ruiqing's words seem to be for Roosevelt. The President of the United States is multitasking. While talking happily with Hitler and Mussolini, the two historical counter-revolutionaries, he also stretched out his ears to pay attention to the conversation between Chang Ruiqing and Chamberlain. So when Chang Ruiqing's words fell, he coughed lightly and said with a smile: "Everyone, I think that solving the Soviet Union first should become the consensus of our five countries. Mr. Hitler, Mr. Mussolini, you are of the same opinion, right? ”

Hitler nodded slightly at Roosevelt when he heard this, and then spoke: "Judging from the map, the only countries that can directly attack the Soviet Union at present are our Germany and China in the east. For more than two years, China and Germany have been fighting bitterly with the Soviet Union. Although it achieved a great victory, it was still far from destroying the evil axis of the Soviet Union. Because the USSR was a very, very powerful country, and according to the exact intelligence we have, the total strength of the Soviet Red Army has already exceeded 20 million! Regardless of the armament of these armies, this sheer number alone is not something that can be wiped out in the short term. Therefore, we need more friends to join us in the war against the Soviet Union, and at the same time to be prepared for a protracted war and the opening of a third theater of war. ”

The concept of the "third battlefield" was proposed by the German Chief of the General Staff Ludendorff, who called the frontal theater on the Western Front, including the Northern European theater and the Balkan theater, the "first battlefield"; The Sino-Soviet battlefield on the Eastern Front was called the "second battlefield"; The "third battlefield" refers to the Middle East theater.

Ludendorff also claimed that due to the offensives launched by the Chinese and German armies on the eastern and western fronts, the main forces of the Soviet army have been reduced to the first and second battlefields, and their forces in the Middle East are very weak, so it is a good opportunity to open up a third battlefield in the Middle East. Moreover, as long as the Middle East is seized, the anti-Soviet Allies can deploy medium- and long-range bombers in Persia and northern Iraq to bomb the Soviet oil towns of Baku and Grozny indiscriminately, and as long as the Soviet oil bases are destroyed, the Soviet heavy industry can be paralyzed and the 20 million Red Army will be deprived of necessary weapons and equipment. Therefore, the opening of a third battlefield was a necessary means of defeating the Soviet enemy, and it should be carried out immediately.

Hitler's statement seemed to play into the hands of the British, and Chamberlain immediately took over the topic and announced: "The task of opening up a third battlefield can be completed by the British Empire, and we are currently concentrating heavy forces in Egypt, and we will start a counteroffensive in the Middle East from the beginning of December this year at the latest!" Of course, the Empire also wants to get help from its allies. ”

Roosevelt glanced at Chang Ruiqing out of the corner of his eye, and immediately spoke: "The United States is preparing to send an expeditionary force to Egypt after declaring war on the Soviet Union to cooperate with the British counteroffensive. However, while we declared war on the Soviet Union, we also hoped that all the signatories to the Anti-Soviet Pact would declare war on Japan. ”

The US president's speech was clearly directed at China, and among the five countries of China, the United States, Britain, Germany, and Italy, only China did not declare war on Japan. All the eyes and pressure were focused on Chang Ruiqing, but Chang Ruiqing didn't care at all, took a sip of a glass of wine, and said with a smile: "Everyone, there are more than two great Soviet countries in this world, the Soviet Union and Japan!" There is also the People's Republic of India with a population of 350 million and at least 10 million Red Army, although everyone here does not recognize this country, but that does not mean that it does not exist! Now we have 500,000 expeditionary forces fighting India in East Bengal, our Central Asian Front fighting the Indian Red Army in the upper reaches of the Amu Darya River, and with our help, we have formed an army of 1 million to fight the Indian GCD. Suffice it to say, the pressure of fighting India as the third largest Soviet country in the world is borne entirely by us, China, and at the same time we are responsible for the pressure of going to war with at least 30 percent of the Soviet Union's military power. And Japan is our neighbor. The declaration of war between China and Japan is not just an empty statement! Do you think that China should take on the task of fighting most of the Soviet armies in the world? We do not seem to be the strongest country in the international anti-Soviet camp! ”

The banquet hall fell silent, everyone was silent, Chang Ruiqing's words were very reasonable. Now, the United States, Britain, Germany, and Italy have all declared war on Japan. However, Germany and Italy did not actually fight the Japanese, but only verbally declared it, while the British also hid far away in Australia and the Indian Ocean, and were in a state of declaring no war with Japan, and only the United States really started a war with Japan. And the pressure on the United States is actually not great, because even if they start a war against the Soviet Union, they will not really send heavy troops to the first and second battlefields. At most, it is just sending a small number of land forces to the Middle East, the third battlefield, and the only enemy that the United States really has to deal with is Japan. On the contrary, China is a close neighbor of the Soviet Union, Japan and India. Once war is declared, it must be really fought! Now that China has borne almost all of the military pressure of India and a third of the Soviet Union, it seems that it is too much for them to bear half of Japan's military strength. In case the Chinese, in order to cope with the pressure from Japan, the main forces of the army were transferred from Siberia and Central Asia to the east. The pressure on Germany on the Western Front is too great!

Moreover, the joint efforts of China and the United States will inevitably lead Japan to a quick defeat. The United States, which has emerged from the Pacific, will inevitably throw its main forces into Europe...... So Hitler was the first to break the silence after snorting in a low voice: "Gentlemen, I think it is clear to everyone that Japan is not the main enemy, the main enemy is the Soviet Union!" Now the main forces of the squadron are attacking the USSR, and if they at this time transfer their forces from the USSR to Japan, I think it will prolong the war and not shorten the time to defeat the Soviet enemy. ”

Mussolini immediately chimed in: "I agree with Chancellor Hitler that now it is time to concentrate on the USSR and not only to intensify the offensive on the first and second battlefields. It is also necessary to seize the time to open up a third battlefield. ”

Before he could speak, Churchill immediately interjected: "The task of opening up the third battlefield will be entrusted to us." Germany and Italy only need to take care of the first battlefield. China should focus on the second battlefield, the United States should focus on Japan, and the Middle East has always been the sphere of influence of our British Empire, and it is up to us to recover it now. ”

"But what if, ah, I mean if the British Empire's counteroffensive in the Middle East fails?" Hitler followed Churchill's words and suddenly asked.

Churchill cursed in his heart, this insatiable German, he reluctantly nodded to Hitler, and replied: "Such a thing cannot happen!" The British Empire is ready to send 1 million troops to Egypt, and the United States will provide 300,000 troops. At the same time, we will send 300,000 troops to Ceylon, plus the original Anglo-Indian troops in Mumbai and Ceylon, a total of 1.9 million troops will be used for counteroffensive in the Middle East! So it's absolutely impossible to fail! ”

Hitler and Chang Ruiqing's faces changed at the same time, they did not expect that the British and Americans were so determined to counterattack the Middle East, let alone that the British would not allow the army of Caliph Hussein to participate in the counteroffensive! This means that the post-war Middle East will most likely be co-ruled by Britain and the United States, without China and Germany!

In the face of the pressure of Britain and the United States to join forces, Hitler and Chang Ruiqing exchanged glances, and then said helplessly: "Okay, then we are here to wish Britain and the United States a victory in the Middle East!" ”

At this point in the banquet, all the guests had no interest in the food, and the rest of the banquet continued to discuss the issues that should have been discussed in the next few days.

Chamberlain, who had already prepared a counteroffensive army of 1.9 million, still seemed to be a little lacking in confidence, and proposed to China and Germany to launch an offensive on the first and second battlefields to cooperate with the British counteroffensive. Chang Ruiqing and Hitler both looked embarrassed, and in the end, after Chamberlain repeatedly assured that the interests of the Zhongke Oil Company and Germany's right to exploit oil in Iraq would be protected, the two reluctantly agreed to launch a feint attack on Ukraine and Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan under the control of Soviet forces before the end of 1934, so as to contain the Soviet Union's forces.

This result still satisfied the British, because their 1.6 million troops were very large, and the actual number was less than 1.3 million, including more than 100,000 officers and men serving in the Mediterranean Fleet, the Indian Ocean Fleet, and the British naval bases in the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean regions. In addition, more than 200,000 Sikhs and Gurkha mercenaries brought out of India by the British are also counted. There are only more than 900,000 officers and men of the British Army and Royal Air Force who are actually capable of going to war. Moreover, the level of equipment and training of the army units in these armies is not satisfactory, there are no armored vehicles with such combat effectiveness as the Stalker, only the Matilda tank and cruiser tank produced by the United Kingdom, and the infantry anti-tank weapons are also insufficient. Therefore, it can only be hoped that China and Germany can attract the main forces of the Soviet army and let them pick up cheap in the Middle East.

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