Chapter 601: The Wind Rises and the Clouds Fly
When the war starts, all the industrial zones of each country must be used to support the war, and giving the industrial zones on the western continent to the two countries can allow them to contribute money to support most of the logistical supplies, and can leave a lot of money for their own countries. When the Chinese Empire was defeated, the Boston Empire was the only most powerful country in the world, and it was not easy to want any places at that time, and maybe I would not be able to look down on these places at that time, because they were really nothing compared to the major industrial areas of the Chinese Empire.
The Boston Empire thinks so, but the Saar Empire and the Nantes Empire have another idea, after all, these two industrial areas have strengthened their national strength, as long as they get these practical benefits, they will ensure that their country will basically not lose money in the war, anyway, the Boston Empire is also the main force in the war, they are happy to add fuel to the fire, and the Boston Empire will be consumed with the Chinese Empire, so that they can profit from it.
Since the Boston Empire had made such a big concession, Chamberlain and Daladier naturally agreed to the plan of attacking NATO, but they asked for another two years of preparations, but Bauer insisted on compressing their preparation time to one year on the grounds that the Chinese Empire had begun to expand its navy and that the gap in military strength would be much narrower in two years.
As for the one-year preparation time, the representatives of the two countries also gladly accepted. The three giants of the Axis countries all agreed to go to war, and several other small countries naturally could not object, so the time for the war against NATO was set, and what they didn't expect was that this time was then transmitted back to China by Lecheng.
After Fang Ruijun received the final date of the invasion from the Axis powers, the entire NATO system accelerated the pace of preparations. Now that the Guards have just completed the refitting of the army and the air force, and the refitting of the Wehrmacht is underway, a large number of tractor and automobile factories, as well as civilian aircraft factories, have switched to the production of military weapons in order to speed up the manufacture of new equipment.
The ammunition factory also began to work in three shifts to keep stocking up on the necessary ammunition for the troops, while the naval shipyard was even busier all night; although large warships such as aircraft carriers could not be launched for a while, a large number of small missile boats and light destroyers began to be built one after another, striving to increase their military strength in the shortest possible time.
The St. Martin Empire, the Cossack Empire, and the Istanbul Empire all deployed elite troops to the border fortifications for the first time, and intensified the training of reserve troops at home to prepare for war.
The Habfsburg and Sardinia Restoration Army, which had been training for a year, were immediately sent to their homeland to carry out guerrilla warfare in the mountains before the Axis could start, delaying the progress of the other side's preparations. The entire interior of NATO is effectively mobilized, and everything is being prepared for war.
The NATO alliance is preparing, the Axis bloc is also preparing, because earlier than NATO prepared, the Axis countries have completely transferred to the wartime economy, the reserves of various countries have basically been conscripted, what they have to do now is to hoard a large number of weapons and ammunition, and at the same time gather troops at various offensive points, especially Boston, which is far away in the New World, soldiers and advanced equipment to the Western Continent and the Southern Subcontinent, in addition, the Boston Empire began to desperately expand the grain planting area in the Southern Subcontinent and its own country.
If NATO and the Axis powers go to war once they start, then the NATO alliance will completely cut off the already gradually shrinking food supply to the Axis bloc, and it will naturally not be enough to rely on the national food reserves that have been carried out over the years.
The grain production area of the Chinese Empire is far away from the Boston Empire, and it is impossible to occupy it quickly, because of this situation, the Boston Empire has to rely on itself, but fortunately, in recent years, the Boston Empire has also invested a lot of money in increasing grain production, and now it has also seen a lot of results, if the cultivated area is expanded enough, there is no problem in supplying the grain of the Axis countries, after all, there is a large amount of fertile land in the Boston Empire and the colonies of the southern subcontinent that can be used for farming.
Both NATO and the Axis powers were burying their heads in military preparations, and although the whole world seemed to have calmed down during this time, and even small-scale local wars had not occurred, the intelligent people could see from the-for-tat propaganda of newspapers, radio and television on all sides that the clouds of war were near. Once this war breaks out, it will be an unprecedented world war that will affect the entire world.
Fang Ruijun is step-by-step to transfer the state apparatus to the wartime track, and at the same time desperately expand the army, but the plan is not as good as the change, after discovering that the entire NATO quickly began to mobilize, the Boston Empire knows that if the plan is sent a year later, the NATO alliance is likely to complete the domestic mobilization. In order to disrupt the mobilization of the NATO alliance, after communicating with the other two major powers, the Axis group decided to start a war in advance while the wheat had just been harvested and there was plenty of food.
On May 17, 926, the government forces of the Kingdom of Moss, which had regained the Primorsky Autonomous Region, were the first to declare the Southern Region illegal, and the government would declare war on all separatist groups for the complete unification of the country. As soon as this announcement came out, Fang Ruijun knew that the other party planned to launch it in advance, although NATO was not ready, but the conspiracy of the Axis powers could not be avoided, and in order not to lose the momentum before the war started, the response of the Chinese Empire was also necessary.
Immediately after the declaration of war issued by the Moss Kingdom, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Imperial Chinese Government immediately expressed its concern about the statement of the Moss royal family. Chen Fucheng, spokesman of the Imperial Foreign Ministry, said at a regular press conference that the parties had signed an agreement that year, and the government of the Kingdom of Moss had also expressed its recognition of the existence of the Southern Special Administrative Region, and that the government announcement was irresponsible and an act of tearing up the agreement, and that if the Kingdom of Moss did not correct its wrong actions, other righteous countries had the right to uphold justice for the Southern Special Administrative Region.
On the same day, however, the Imperial Government of Boston also held a press conference to express its support for the decision of the Moss Kingdom Government. Such a stark confrontation between the two powers of the world made everyone feel the tension in the air, and a few days later, the Moss government army began to launch a ground offensive against the southern SAR.
In the face of the government army with superior forces, the commander of the border guards, Caljes, was well prepared, relying on strong defense fortifications, and the border guards of the southern SAR dealt a blow to the government army. The border guards had already completed their rearmament, and now they were using semi-automatic rifles and large-caliber towed artillery brought to them by the St. Martin Empire, and they were escorted by lightning fighters in the sky.
Under the heavy fire of the air and ground, the poorly equipped government troops, although superior in numbers, were constantly pressed and beaten by the border guards, and the government officers also planned to use the tactics of the original civil war to take advantage of the numerical superiority to desperately charge, which brought disastrous consequences to the Moss government army.
The artillery of the border guards stationed at various points launched a fierce artillery attack on the charging government troops with groups of 203 mm heavy guns and 155 mm howitzers, while the border guards in the positions also desperately slaughtered the oncoming government soldiers with various rapid-fire weapons in their hands. On May 21 alone, government forces lost more than 80,000 soldiers, most of them killed by large-caliber artillery and machine guns, and a few from the ensuing aircraft bombardment.
Caljes was definitely a capable general, he seized the opportunity accurately, led the border guards to carry out a full-scale counterattack, completely routed the government offensive force, and captured more than 30,000 prisoners of war, but Karjes also knew that his own forces were weak, so he did not occupy the land controlled by the government army, but retracted his forces back into the fortifications.
On the morning of May 22, the news of the victory of the battle was announced in the Southern Special Administrative Region, and at the same time, the television station showed a picture of a group of captured soldiers on the news, which surprised the Axis countries as soon as this news came out. After this battle, the government army lost more than a third of its troops, and it was no longer able to fight again.
Annoyed, Washington III immediately announced his intervention in the civil war in the kingdom of Moss to help the government forces quell the rebellion. What Fang Ruijun wants is this advantage in public opinion, as long as the Boston Empire can't help but intervene in the civil war first, the Chinese Empire will occupy the moral height.
Fang Ruijun had already obtained control of the military and the right to declare war from Congress for less than ten years, so he immediately issued an edict declaring that the Boston Empire had been charged with breaking the armistice, endangering the peace of the world, and interfering in the internal affairs of other countries. As a responsible and responsible power, the Chinese Empire has the responsibility to destroy the evil Boston Imperial government in order to maintain the peace of the world and its allies, so from now on, all the navy, land, air force and all military forces of the Chinese Empire will declare war on the Boston Empire and the royal family of the Moss Kingdom.
The issuance of Fang Ruijun's edict declaring war also hit the heart of Washington III, who also issued an edict to declare war on the Chinese Empire, and at the same time ordered the navy to immediately prepare for the expedition and launch an attack on the various naval bases of the Chinese Empire in the eastern ocean.
The two empires thought they had a plan, and they all began to mobilize troops according to their own established plans, and those other countries within the alliance saw that since the boss had declared war, then the younger brothers of the two sides naturally had to follow the pace of the boss, and for a while, the sky was covered with electricity for the declaration of war between countries, and the beacon fire of the Second World War was fully ignited.
As soon as war was declared, Washington III issued an order to confiscate all property of the Chinese Empire in the Boston Empire. The Boston gendarmerie, which had been prepared for a long time, immediately surrounded the various stations of the Chinese Consortium in its own country, and at the same time in the countries of the Western Continent, they were doing the same.
To the surprise of these people, when the gendarmes broke into the trading companies under the Chinese consortium, they were already empty, not even a single piece of paper was left, and everyone was nowhere to be seen, apparently they had been prepared, and what was even more strange was that there was no record of the transit of these Chinese people in any country.