As the Wyvern sank to the bottom of the sea with Yamaguchi Duowen, the magnificent Battle of Midway finally came to an end. In this naval battle, the Japanese Combined Fleet suffered heavy losses, six aircraft carriers, two battleships, and several cruisers and destroyers were sunk, and the loss of personnel was more than 5,000 people. It can be said that the First World War depleted most of the elite stored before the war, especially the heavy loss of pilots, and quite the old birds who participated in the Pearl Harbor attack have already died in the belly of the fish. This would dramatically change the situation in the Pacific theater and allow the Allies to move from strategic defense to strategic offensive.

Of course, these meant little for the USSR. The greatest gain of the Russians through this naval battle was to win the respect of Britain and the United States. In the past, even if the Red Navy retained relatively strong strength, in the eyes of Britain and the United States, especially the British, the Red Navy was still just a showmanship, and it was not ranked among the world's advanced levels in terms of equipment and personnel.

Why did the British look down on the Red Navy so much? In addition to the centuries-old naval pride, the most important thing is that the Russian navy has never won against a decent opponent. During the Crimean War, the Black Sea Fleet carefully built by Tsarist Russia was almost completely annihilated, and the Battle of Tsushima was shaved by the newly rising Japanese devils. It's easy to catch your breath, the Navy has just begun to rebuild, and a great revolution has almost brought the Russian Navy back to square one.

Especially in the twenties and thirties, although the tonnage of the Red Navy's capital ships was regarded as the world's naval power, the time for training at sea every year was very small. Such a navy may seem like a showman and a paper tiger in the eyes of the world. It's okay to scare people, but if you really move, you have to show your original form.

However, through the Battle of Midway, after a tragic naval and air battle and night fighting, the Americans deeply felt that the Red Navy was not a showmanship and was quite capable of fighting. Even the Americans found out that the Red Navy had gone ahead in the direction of future naval construction. Not to mention aviation, even two aircraft carriers converted from old battle cruisers. They are quite sharp, and their operation methods and aviation equipment are considered to be the world's first-class level. There are quite a few places that even the US Navy has to learn from and learn from.

In addition to aviation, other surface ships also performed quite well, and the technical level was especially high. The American liaison officers were deeply impressed by the high-efficiency air defense cruisers and destroyers, and the Red Navy's air defense network was more efficient and advanced than the air defense circle of the American task force.

To the surprise of the Americans, in particular. Every Red Navy ship involved in the war had a complete radar, sonar, and command and control system. It can be discovered and attacked by the enemy first. Even if there is a certain flaw in reliability, even Americans must admit that this represents the direction of the future.

In addition to these hardware facilities, what makes Americans even more awe-inspiring is the fighting will and military quality of the officers and men of the Red Navy. Needless to say, in the tragic night battle, every warship of the Red Navy held out to the end, not a single warship took the initiative to evacuate or escape, and not a single officer and soldier regarded death as if they were at home and stuck to their battle positions, fighting to the end with extremely strong will and fighting spirit.

For example, Nimitz after inspecting the ships of the Red Navy returning to Pearl Harbor. It means that the Red Navy is definitely a team that can fight tough battles and is a real soldier.

Don't underestimate these external evaluations, because they will have a huge impact on the international standing. In the past, for example, during the Spanish Civil War, even the Red Navy sent a fleet, but to tell the truth, did Britain and France feel that the Red Navy was a threat? I'm afraid not!

But after this war, when the Red Navy performs a similar mission, will anyone still despise their existence? Force is deterrence. And this kind of deterrence is not something that can be obtained by hiding it, it can only be revealed. Show strength to earn respect.

To put it mildly, after the Battle of Midway, in the future, the USSR will have a much stronger say on the issue of interests in the oceans of Asia and even the world. It's no longer a force that can be turned a blind eye on.

Of course, this is only the beginning, and there is no end to the build-up of armaments. As long as there is such a violent apparatus as the state, military spending will have to keep up. Once the chain is dropped, it may be quite expensive to catch up.

With that out of the way, let's look at the form of the Pacific theater. With the disastrous defeat at Midway, the Japanese Navy basically lost the ability to conduct a full-scale attack. Its claws reaching out to the eastern Pacific Ocean have been severed. At this time, the only thing they can do is to go south and develop in the direction of Australia, if they can cut off the connection between Australia and the United States, or even occupy Australia, it can still be regarded as keeping "half of the country" in the western Pacific.

It's just that the Americans won't watch the Japanese do whatever they want, and they have already fought a vicious battle with the Japanese in the Coral Sea before, and that one is a draw. And then there's a tough fight to come in Guadalcanal.

However, this fierce battle has nothing to do with the Red Navy task force for the time being, and after the vicious battle at Midway, the fleet has a chance to rest. The Americans sent a task force with the aircraft carriers USS Essex and USS Saratoga to Guadalcanal. Including the USS Hornet and USS Enterprise stayed at Pearl Harbor to recuperate. Of course, it's not that the Americans don't want to send more aircraft carriers over, it's that the pilots and planes can't keep up. During the Battle of Midway, the carrier-based aircraft on the Hornet and the Enterprise were depleted, and the pilots were in urgent need of replenishment, so they could not go for the time being.

As for why they didn't send the Kyiv and Minsk, the official rhetoric of the Americans is that the allies should rest first after working hard, and in addition, the Minsk needs to be repaired. Of course, the real reason was that the Americans felt a little faceless, and in the Battle of Midway, the Red Navy was able to deal with two aircraft carriers, two battleships, and several cruisers and destroyers on its own. The results obtained are greater and more brilliant than those of the American task force, and if the Russians continue to be in the limelight, where will Uncle Sam's face go?

Anyway, with the USS Essex and the USS Saratoga, plus two South Dakota-class battleships and a light and heavy cruiser, the strength in the direction of Kuah Island is already strong enough, so don't let the Russians take credit again.

The Americans were a little unconvinced at the time, thinking that they could definitely do better than their Russian friends, and that was to prepare a copy of Kuah Island. However, those of us who are familiar with history know very well that Japan at this time was not an ATM, and we could use it casually. From August 1943, the sea and air battles around Kuah Island, although the Americans had the last laugh, but the losses were really quite heavy.

In addition to the US imperialism in the Pacific theater. Another large piece is in China, the frontal battlefield is still not powerful, anyway, it is difficult to recover the lost territory, but the land is easier than drinking water. On the whole, the scraping army is more focused on the soil. A republic and not a devil. In the frontal battlefield, because the devils temporarily gave up the offensive and continued to attack, they were able to maintain a stalemate.

As for the soil. On the other hand, it is much more active. Because of a reliable source of arms, there is no longer a need to count bullets to fight devils. The people's war in North China and Northeast China was in full swing. The Japanese army and the puppet army could only retreat in the city, while the vast countryside was a paradise for the anti-Japanese army and civilians.

This situation made two people feel sad, one was naturally a devil, for the devil, Huaxia was a large-scale resource gathering field, and the valuable industrial raw materials and food supplies needed by the Japanese war machine depended on Huaxia. With the turmoil in North China, a major grain-producing region, the Imperial Army starved in isolated islands in the Pacific Ocean and the rainforests of Southeast Asia.

This situation will not change, and this battle will become more and more difficult to fight. Of course, that's not the most important thing. What's even worse is that a large number of troops are trapped in North China and East China and cannot move, which makes the devils seem to be a little stretched in other directions. How to get out of the mud pit of the security war as soon as possible, but without hindering the acquisition of Huaxia's resources, this is the key consideration of the devil's high-level management.

At this time, the high-level of the devil still has the idea of luring the army, if he can persuade Lao Jiang to surrender, everything will be easy, and Lao Jiang will go to suppress it at that time. Common. When the imperial army went to fight the beautiful animals, wouldn't everyone be happy?

Lao Jiang also felt that everyone was really happy about this matter. It's just that now that he has said it, it is impossible for the American father and the British godfather to agree. Even these two Lao Tzu strongly asked him to show his courage to attract more devils to share the pressure for his fathers, as for your desire to surrender, you believe it or not!

So for Lao Jiang, surrender is absolutely impossible, but he is still willing to maintain the status quo. If you can reach a tacit understanding with the Japanese. Isn't it beautiful for both sides to tacitly take what they need? That's anti. The great cause can be continued. Yes, the one mentioned earlier is the second to the earth. It was Chairman Chiang who was highly dissatisfied with the development of the Communist Party in North China.

I have to say that our Chairman Jiang really occupies the pit and does not, and he passively resists the war and does not let other people with lofty ideals who want to fight devils develop. Really domineering and stupid. Therefore, at the end of June 1943, President Chiang secretly conducted a new round of contact with the devils, and the venue of the meeting was in Macao.

As mentioned earlier, there is an activity in Guangzhou codenamed Nanyue. The underground organization, its main intelligence officers, Manlong and Jiaofeng, quickly sensed this underground undercurrent.

"Headmaster, what is this going to do!"

When the brute dragon learned of the news, it was simply a tear. Although added soil. Communist, but Manlong believes that the main problem of the Scraping People's Party is corruption in the middle and lower classes, and thinks that Lao Chiang is still good. But this last psychological pillar also burst like a soap bubble, and Jiang told him with practical actions that the problem of scraping the Kuomintang was that there were problems from top to bottom, especially the person who took the lead did not set a correct example.

This blow was too big for the brute dragon, but fortunately at that time, he had not put all his hopes on the side of the Scraping People. The anti-Japanese movement vigorously carried out behind enemy lines on the communist side achieved quite good results. How to sabotage the secret peace between the Kuomintang and Japan has become the issue that the brute dragon is most concerned about.

In his words: "This insidious and despicable behind-the-scenes deal must be exposed!" ”

On July 2, 1943, a very clear photograph suddenly appeared in the American press, which at first did not attract the attention of the American public, but soon the following notes and explanations revealed the ugly truth that the high-ranking representatives of the most important allies of the East were secretly talking with the Japanese. As for what was discussed, does this still need to be explained?

This photo was quickly transmitted back to China, and major newspapers rushed to reprint it, and for a time the Kuomintang was pointed out by thousands of people. So who is the person in that photo who has a secret meeting with the devil? Why can he cause an uproar in public opinion?

One of them is called Du Shishan, who is a member of the Blue Coat Society, that is, the famous Fuxing Society, as for what the Fuxing Society does, the comrades search for it on their own.

******As early as March 17, 1940, Liu Yunlong, Du Shishan, and Xuanye Changzhi had negotiated in room 350 of the Hong Kong Hotel. But at that time, the devil was in full swing, and the conditions could not be negotiated.

In addition to the main character of Du Shishan in the photo, another key figure is also worth paying attention to, that is, Miao Bin. This is a real traitor. In history, he betrayed the country and defected to the enemy with Wang Jingwei, and after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he was once praised by Lao Jiang because of the secret passage song that provided a communication channel between Lao Jiang and the devil. Later, with Dai Li's hanging, he was a dead dog without a backstage. Later, when the U.S. occupation forces in Japan received the archives of the Japanese wartime cabinet, Miao Bin's identity as an intermediary was discovered. At the strong request of the Soviet Union, he demanded that Miao Bin be extradited to testify at the Far East Military Tribunal. Seeing that the scandal of secretly making peace with the allies behind his back during the Anti-Japanese War was about to be exposed, Lao Jiang hurriedly killed Miao Bin and killed him.

One can imagine what kind of shock it would cause when the American newspaper published the news that the members of the Blue Coat Society of Lao Chiang's henchmen had met with Miao Bin and the Japanese in Macao. The whole country was really shocked, and they strongly demanded that the Kuomintang give an explanation.

The result? The result is similar to that in history, Lao Jiang is particularly good at abandoning the car to protect the handsome, and slaughtered Du Shishan on the charge of treason and defection to the enemy, which calmed down the public outcry. However, this matter was not easy for Dai Li, the old benefactor of the barbarian dragon, after all, Du Shishan was also his person, and this meeting was also arranged by him Dai Li. Who would have thought that it would be exposed, and it would be exposed to the newspapers of friendly countries. This was a great blow to the national government and Lao Chiang's international prestige, and made Jiang quite embarrassed.

Naturally, Dai Li was inevitably beaten by Lao Jiang again afterwards, and it is said that the beating was not ordinarily miserable. If it weren't for Dai Li's considerable ability and usefulness, Lao Jiang would have the heart to kill him. It is said that it is only said that after Dai Li's return to the military command. But it was miserable to put a cadre down. Of course, the most important thing is that Dai Ka also wants to figure it out. How did this news leak out? There are not many people who know that Du Shishan has contact with Japan, and even fewer in the military command, is there an internal ghost?

At that time, Dai Li did not make a big fanfare, because he knew very well that such an investigation would not lead to results. He thought that this matter could only be done in secret, so he commissioned a few henchmen to investigate the matter on a small scale, but it was interesting. Dai Li's henchman, who is responsible for reconnoitring the ghosts, happens to be a brute dragon, and it is conceivable that this inventory operation cannot be effective.

The brute dragon continues to lurk, and Lao Jiang is furious, this is the impact of the Battle of Midway on Huaxia. However, while the members of the People's Party were busy making a fortune in the country, the anti-fascist movement in other countries of the world was in full swing.

In mid-July 1943, after half a year of fierce fighting, the form of the Soviet-German battlefield changed dramatically. The front moved an average of six hundred kilometers to the west. The front line moved from near the Russian border to near the western borders of Romania, Ukraine and Belarus. Let's put it this way, the German and Red armies basically returned to the situation they had around November 1941.

After six months of fierce fighting, the Red Army not only recovered a large amount of territory, but more importantly, killed and wounded a large number of living forces of the Axis powers. Preliminary estimates put the number of German troops annihilated, captured and wounded at more than 500,000, and the armies of other client states also lost about 300,000 men. Of particular importance was the defection of Romania, with more than 300,000 Romanian troops choosing to lay down their arms or switch to the Red Army, which forced Germany to draw troops from other fronts to fill the gap.

It can be said that in July 1943, Germany had basically lost the ability to go on a strategic offensive and could only switch to passive defense. The Red Army, on the other hand, needed to make great strides forward, to recover Poland as quickly as possible and to invade Germany proper—the time was basically ripe for a great strategic counteroffensive.

In other words, the allies now need to coordinate and once again argue over the strategic counteroffensive and the distribution of benefits after the war. In this context, there is a strong need for an integrated approach - the Cairo Conference is imperative.

However, there were many troubles in this meeting, first of all, the problems of the Soviet Union. Because it was a co-ordination meeting for the entire Axis powers. And the Soviet Union had not yet declared war on Japan at this time, so the Soviet Union probably could not sign a possible agreement. Even the USSR would not have gone to this conference in the open.

If the Soviet Union is unable to attend the conference, then the significance of this meeting will probably be reduced, and neither Roosevelt nor Churchill hopes to invite the top leaders of the Soviet Union to participate in this conference as much as possible and continue to do the work of the Soviet Union.

The second problem is what Lao Jiang brought, because of the soil. The problem of the Communist Party, the contradictions between him and the Soviet Union are not ordinarily large. Lao Chiang hoped that China, the United States, and Britain would hold talks, and that the three countries would talk to the Soviet Union after the talks were completed, and he felt that this would be more appropriate.

Let's put it this way, Lao Chiang actually wanted to ********, hoping to make a deal with his father and godfather first, and then use this to put pressure on the Soviet Union to force the Soviet Union to make concessions to the government of the people. However, his wishful thinking did not work at all, if it was in history, Britain and the United States might agree, after all, the Soviet Union was not so important to Japan at that time, and it was okay to give Lao Chiang a face.

However, the situation is completely different now, and the Soviet Union has made a great contribution to the war against Japan, and its influence is extensive, and it is reasonable to ignore the Soviet Union for a small meeting. What's more, both Roosevelt and Churchill wanted to use the meeting to urge the Soviet Union to declare war on Japan, so naturally the Soviet Union could not be left aside...... (To be continued.) )

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