Chapter 701 702 Accession of the DPRK
The 2 million Red Guard Corps roaming around Europe has made the whole world aware that the United States will not be able to win. This awareness soon influenced those who did not genuinely remain neutral, but who wished to have a place in the world during or after the war, and to gain greater benefits.
The changes in the battlefield situation have changed the minds of many such countries, and even some countries within NATO have begun to debate whether to continue to stay in NATO, because the dark cloud of defeat has begun to envelop the entire NATO, and the weakness of the United States has been recognized. The sentiment of defeatism is pervading.
Especially like some small countries, which do not have a deep relationship with China, at most they are helping the United States to wave the flag, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Portugal and other countries have begun to swing. China's iron horse is already approaching, and if it fails to withdraw from NATO and declare neutrality, or directly change its court, the consequences may be extremely miserable. Powerful countries such as Turkey, Greece, Hungary, Austria, and even Germany and Italy have been devastated by the war, and these countries may have to go through more than a decade of post-war reconstruction before they can recover, and if China deliberately does this, these countries may even collapse completely.
As for countries such as Sweden and Finland in Northern Europe, they have strengthened their determination not to get involved in this world war. They are in a relatively remote place, it is difficult for the war to spread there, and the Nordic countries still hold their own value, and feel that in the establishment of the world order in the future, they are also not negligible to exist, and others can only treat them politely, without excessive currying favor with China.
This kind of sentiment is basically based on a long-term sense of superiority over the countries of the Far East, the condescension of capitalist civilization and even racial prejudice, and geographically they do not know enough about China, so they do not feel the need to care much. But some countries are different, they have a completely deep understanding of China's power, and China's every move has a huge impact on them, at this time, they can only choose to join China's side, share weal and woe with China, and hope to get greater benefits from China's development.
A typical example of this is the Korean Federation, which has not been established for many years. This country is under the impetus of Qi Yiming and China to reunify, after several years of transformation, the two divided societies have not been completely integrated, there are not a lot of contradictions between the north and the south, but there is also a very clear consensus between the north and the south, that is, they North Korea lies on the side of China, must rely on the nose of others, North Korea absolutely cannot completely break away from China's influence, or even work against China.
This is why North Korea was so decisive in mobilizing its ordinary residents to besiege the US military base in South Korea, and finally caused the Americans to withdraw their troops from the Korean Peninsula in a disgraced manner. When China is the little brother, it is not necessarily that the United States can beat itself; But when the United States is the little brother, it will definitely let China clean up well. North Korea has a clear understanding of its own capabilities, and it is not as ignorant as the legendary Great Universe Country, and with China's assistance, they can resist the landing of the United States and resist the attack of Japan. However, no matter how much the United States tries to help defend North Korea, it is completely unable to resist China's black hand.
At the beginning of the war, there was a certain discussion in the Korean Federation about the choice of camp, and of course this camp choice was mostly between joining the SCO and maintaining neutrality, and no one would have the brains to propose joining the NATO side. Many people from the North are more inclined to join the SCO to enhance their military capabilities, improve the combat capability of the Korean Federal Army, and gain glory. Many South Koreans, especially those who are more inclined to the United States and universal values, feel that it is best to remain neutral, after all, no one knows what the war will take, and if they choose the wrong side, it will be North Korea itself that suffers in the end.
However, at this point, North Korea believes that it is time to abandon its neutrality policy and join the SCO side to seize the benefits to its heart's content. In particular, many South Koreans who thought that they were neutral before believed that they would take advantage of China's big wave to directly overturn Japan, and repay the hatred of being colonized and invaded in those years, and make the Japanese pay the price tenfold and hundredfold.
Underpinned by this idea, North Korean President Kim Jun-hyun sent a special envoy to China to consult with the Chinese government and the SCO Council in Shanghai to discuss joining the SCO and to propose some favorable conditions in North Korea.
An important condition put forward by the special envoy of the President of the DPRK is that the DPRK will participate in the strategic operation against Japan, of course, such a written document will not mention why the DPRK has such a request, but everyone knows the DPRK's choice. In addition, the DPRK also hopes to maintain its relative economic independence, and the DPRK won will not be abolished as the official currency of the DPRK, and at the same time enjoy a variety of preferential economic policies within the SCO.
The SCO Council, especially the SCO Economic and Economic Council, which is in charge of the economic sector, has certain doubts about this, and many economic issues can be put on hold for the time being, starting with a military alliance. Since the establishment of the Korean Federation, the DPRK Ministry of Defense has been committed to military reform, imported a large number of Chinese-made weapons from China, and received a lot of military training and assistance from China.
After only five days of negotiations, the DPRK side eagerly announced that the negotiations with the SCO had achieved important interim results, and that the DPRK had initially joined the SCO and became a new SCO member. At the same time, due to the accession of the DPRK, a new move by the SCO in the Pacific theater was also put on the agenda -- the capture of Japan.
As the most important part of the first island chain, the Japanese archipelago and the Okinawa archipelago have always been the bridgehead of the United States to contain China, and Japan has also become a pawn in the US Pacific strategy. Although Japan's local power is no longer favored by China at this moment, this fly is still quite annoying.
At the beginning, Qi Yiming advocated strengthening the power of North Korea, but in fact, a considerable intention was to make North Korea a dog that bites each other with North Korea, and China's power can be relatively liberated and concentrate on dealing with the Americans.
Naturally, it is unrealistic to leave North Korea to deal with Japan on its own, and North Korea does not even have the ability to send a large army to the Japanese mainland. But the landing fleet of the Chinese Navy was more than capable of such a job, so the capture of Japan was done by both sides.
In addition, the Far Eastern Army of the Far Eastern Republic will also join the war against Japan, and relatively speaking, China's ground forces to attack Japan will be limited, and the General Staff has initially decided to use a newly formed Chinese Army plus three or four Red Guard Brigades as the core, and the other landing forces and occupation forces will be led by the Korean and Far Eastern Army.
Although the Korean Federation had just joined the SCO, it had actually been preparing for war since the beginning of the war, and even if it was neutral, it needed to preserve its own capabilities in a dangerous world war, so the DPRK also mobilized the whole country and raised more troops.
North Korea dispatched 350,000 troops to prepare for an offensive against Japan, plus the Far East Army sent 200,000 troops, and China sent 150,000 people, the first wave of the SCO coalition to capture Japan will involve 700,000 ground troops. This number is more than that of the U.S. military stationed in Japan and the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, and Japan may continue to mobilize and arm more troops, and of course, the SCO coalition will continue to send troops to Japan until this country that should not exist in the first place is trampled to the ground.
The landing campaign against Japan began in Tsushima, and the Japanese Self-Defense Forces on Tsushima Island were relatively inadequate, at least not compared to the deliberately captured North Korean forces. The DPRK army was assisted by a large number of rapids ACV of the Chinese Navy, and at the same time dispatched the landing fleet of the DPRK Navy, and the DPRK Air Force also launched a suppressive air attack on Tsushima Island.
With Tsushima Island in place, the Japanese side suddenly felt full of malice from the mainland on the other side of the ocean. On the one hand, they began to carry out larger-scale mobilization and vigilance, distributing weapons to the people, and preparing to enter the all-people war of resistance, and on the other hand, they begged the US military for help, hoping that the US military could pull them along.
The United States is still very sincere in its assistance to Japan, and this is of course related to Japan's unique and important position, and the US military has sent a fleet of ships to send troops to Japan despite the danger of Chinese submarines everywhere in the western Pacific. Although the US military has dropped a large number of anti-submarine planes to carry out anti-submarine operations for the transport fleet, it is basically impossible to transport all of them to Japan without any damage. In the end, it was confirmed that at least three of the ten ships bound for Japan failed to arrive. However, this was a loss that the US military had to bear, and it could only stubbornly increase its troops to Japan.
After the start of the war against Japan, the air battle over the East China Sea also advanced in the direction of Japan with the strength of the Chinese Air Force and the Navy, and soon Chinese bombers appeared in the sky over Japan, and a large number of bombs baptized this calamitous island, and at the same time, it was also to clear the obstacles to the arrival of its own follow-up friendly ground forces.
All of Japan's defensive facilities were bombed by the Chinese Air Force and the Chinese Air Force, especially radar stations, air defense positions, and coastal fortifications, and some Japanese airfields were also warmly treated by Chinese bombers. Although the Japanese Air Force and the U.S. Air Force are trying their best to resist, there are too many Chinese military planes.
At the peak of the air war in the East China Sea, the ratio of the number of fighters between the two sides was 2:1, and China had a double advantage, but now when the air attack on Japan is carried out, the ratio of the number of fighters has increased to 3:1 or even 4:1, and the United States and Japan have been completely suppressed.