At the beginning of September, Beijing was still scorching hot.

The fact that the four frontier fields were in a war situation almost at the same time made the air a little more restless and uneasy. In the office of the presidential palace, the ceiling fan rotated, but it could not dispel the heat of the British ambassador, Sir Clark Carr, and the American ambassador next to him, Jensen, also quietly unbuttoned his collar so that he could breathe a sigh of relief from the news he brought. Even Song Ziqing, who had just arrived, had a gloomy face and was indescribably dignified, constantly looking at Gu Weijun at each other.

Because Carl brought very bad news.

It happened that on the third day after the Republic of China launched a surprise attack on the Japanese navy from the sea and air, Churchill believed that the experience of China should be learned and put forward a proposal to bomb Berlin and Bremen. However, the British Parliament did not agree, fearing that the Germans would retaliate, but the next day there was an accident when Germany sent 170 bombers to attack the Rochester aircraft factory outside London. I don't know if Churchill was lucky, two HE111s got lost by accident and came to the skies over the city of London. Fearing British fighters, two German pilots casually dropped bombs, resulting in the destruction of a bar and the death of eight people. The incident gave Churchill an excuse for "revenge", and the Royal Air Force and the Chinese Air Service Regiment for Britain dispatched 110 fighter jets, 500 H-6s and the latest Stirling bombers the next day to drop 1,200 tons of bombs over Berlin.

You must know that in history, when Britain bombed Berlin, it only dispatched more than 100 bombers, and now the Republic of China has delivered the first batch of 1,000 bombers ordered last year, two-thirds of which are deployed in the United Kingdom. Churchill's intentions were good, because there had been a lot of calls for surrender in Britain recently, and politically he needed to stimulate the people to continue the war, so he used the excuse that the German plane had accidentally injured the city of London. The "bombing" of the city of London and the death of civilians did stimulate the will to resist in Britain. The retaliatory action greatly boosted morale, but the problem was that the international situation at this time was different from that of the parallel world. Hitler was at odds with Stalin, trying to get his hands on dozens of warships, but before they could get them, Berlin suffered the worst losses since the war began, with more than a thousand German civilians killed.

Originally, Hitler was ready to apologize for the accidental bombing of London, and even asked Goering to severely punish the two perpetrators. But his opponent was Churchill, a big fat man who smoked cigars unscrupulously! After receiving the support of the people, this man obviously left the so-called "revenge" directly behind. For three nights in a row, the city of Berlin was bombed. A full 4,000 tons of explosives directly overturned half of Berlin! The most recent bomb is said to have exploded less than 300 meters from the presidential palace in Berlin. Hitler's anger can be imagined, and he scolded Goering that night, realizing that he could no longer drag on with the Soviet Union, and he must concentrate on defeating Britain first.

By the fourth day. The 220 German bombers that frequented the city of London led to an escalation of the British air war, and Goering demanded the production of more new bombers, including the Ju88. Ribbentrop was also ordered to go to Moscow again, and promised to immediately deliver 500 BF109C fighters and 300 captured French fighters to the Soviet Union if Stalin agreed to deliver the warships immediately, and promised to deliver the remaining aircraft and supplies within a year, and finally promised to sign an agreement of friendship and cooperation between the two countries immediately. Although it is not yet a formal alliance. Stalin, however, was satisfied, and ordered the warships to be sold that afternoon to be sent to the port of Danzig to be delivered to Raeder and the German navy, who were waiting there. Dozens of warships were obtained at once, and the strength of the German Navy, which was already sluggish, skyrocketed in an instant. Churchill was even more angry and slapped the table. Even let MiG5 send agents to assassinate Stalin. But unexpectedly, the bad news of the sudden increase in the strength of the German navy has not passed, and His Excellency Mussolini, the little overlord of the Mediterranean, heard that London was bombed, and he also happily took advantage of the heavy losses of the British navy. Fleets were dispatched to shell the coast of North Africa, and hundreds of thousands of army troops swept across North Africa. And in one fell swoop advanced to the Egyptian border.

It's going to be fatal!

"Mr. Karl." Song Ziqing interrupted the narration and wondered very much: "Didn't General Wavell's Middle East Army enter Egypt and Jordan?" "After Britain exchanged hundreds of tons of gold with Iran's Anglo-Iranian oil, Chagos Archipelago, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and other places in exchange for a thousand H-6s and a large number of weapons and equipment, Wavell, who had been stationed in Kuwait to defend against the Soviet Union, led the Middle East Army into Iraq, Jordan and Egypt, plus the Free France controlled Syria, which should be able to be blocked, why was it so quickly attacked by Italy to break through the defense line and threaten Egypt?

Even Yang Qiu is puzzled, in history, Egypt will not be threatened until the beginning of 41, why is it so much advanced?

Carl's face was a little strange, staring at Yang Qiu, as if he wanted to scold his mother. made Gu Yuwen, who was standing next to him, secretly wonder if he wanted to call the guards in. After a long time, his face turned cloudy and he spat out one word: "India." ”

"India? What's the matter with India? Gu Weijun continued to chase.

"Ahem." Karl saw that Yang Qiu was still confused, and couldn't help coughing twice, and said in an accentuated tone: "Mr. President, the main force of the Anglo-Indian division is still in India. This sentence made Yang Qiu suddenly understand why Carl wanted to scold himself.

India, because of its geographical location, did not excel in World War II in the parallel world, but now it is different. Gandhi's unexpected death led Nehru to lead the Congress Party into a radical path at an early stage, calling on all India to boycott Britain from the outset. He sent people to see Yang Qiu, but Yang Qiu did not want to clash with the British, because India (referring to the Hindu region, the area controlled by the Muslim League at that time was definitely not a bird to) was one of the core interests of the United Kingdom, so he was very cold to the cooperation proposed by the Indian National Congress, but instead hooked up with the Muslim League, and also supported Chandra and the Democrat Party of India. Seeing this, Nehru simply turned to the Soviet Union and Japan for help, and it happened that Stalin also wanted to export the revolution through the Indian channel at that time, so he gave strong support and also donated a lot of weapons, including tanks. After the outbreak of the Sino-Soviet War, more than 100,000 troops defeated in Afghanistan also fled into India, and even after the defeat of the Battle of Samarkand, tens of thousands of scattered Soviet troops and local Soviet immigrants fled over the mountains and mountains to the areas controlled by the Congress Party, making the total strength of the PKI more than 300,000, and seventy percent of them were experienced Soviet veterans and international fighters. After half a year of running-in, a month ago the Congress Party and the CPI reached an agreement to overthrow colonial rule with the Congress Party as the leader. Then we will discuss the status of the two parties.

As a result, because of the need to guard against the Congress Party and the Indian Communist Alliance, the British army had to leave the Anglo-Indian division formed after the war in India, and also left one-third of the Soviet-made weapons sold by Yang Qiu in India. Originally, Britain was not worried, because India lacked industrial capacity and was not a problem, but Japan's intervention complicated the matter. According to intelligence, before the start of the Sino-Japanese war, Japan delivered a total of 300,000 guns of various types to the Congress party. 5,000 machine guns, as well as 20,000 grenadiers (all captured in Southeast Asia, grenadiers were sold by China to the Philippines and Siam and other countries in the early days), more than 500 cannons of various types, and 100 tanks. A total of 150 American P36s, F2A Buffalo fighters, Hurricanes and 10 B-10 bombers captured in the Philippines and Malaya were also handed over to Nehru. The USSR before losing Afghanistan. About 30 IL2s and I-16s also entered India, and Nehru and the Soviet government also purchased a large amount of machinery and equipment from Japan at that time for the production of their own weapons and ammunition. To make matters worse, Britain miscalculated the capabilities of the GC International, and even Yang Qiu did not expect that Stalin would use the GC International for most of the half year after the Sino-Soviet war. A total of at least 50,000 tons of various equipment and a large amount of weapons and ammunition were transported to the PKI, of which the largest assistance came from the GC international organizations in South America and the Balkans, bringing at least $30 million worth of machinery and equipment and medicines. As a neutral country, it has sent weapons and ammunition to India on a large scale. Due to the fact that Britain and France were already at war with Germany at that time, and because of the negligence of intelligence, it was not known until recently.

Of course. These machines and equipment would not have made India an industrial country, but India itself has an abundance of resources such as iron ore. There were also several small oil fields in the territory, and the British colonial rulers also left some basic industrial foundations. Coupled with the early aid of the Soviet Union, more than 2,000 international fighters from GC International, and at least 3,000 Japanese "volunteers", it was already possible to manufacture light weapons such as guns and ammunition. In addition, in order to absorb India's gold and hard currency, Zhang Zhidan and Fang Rui also smuggled Soviet-made weapons to Nehru through a third party, and so far they have recovered 120 tons of yellow and hundreds of tons of silver from India, and the weapons and equipment delivered can also arm three or four infantry divisions.

In this way, Nehru's waist was of course stiffened, and after the Soviet army entered, he announced a total boycott of the war, called on the Indian people not to join the British ** team, not to serve the imperialist war, and also declared that he would take the opportunity to become independent. Don't underestimate the British Indian Division, although the combat effectiveness is poor, but it is the most important human resource of the British army. Historically, they have done most of the logistical work, with at least millions of Indians serving Britain in World War II. Moreover, Britain is also experienced in the use of Anglo-Indian divisions, as long as Australian, New Zealand and Canadian soldiers are included, the combat effectiveness is still very good. The North African battles in history were basically fought again by the Anglo-Indian division and the Australian and New Zealand armies. But herein lies the problem! Due to Nehru's non-cooperation and active pursuit of independence, the Anglo-Indian division faced a panic, and the Indian soldiers who could have been used in the battlefields of North Africa and the Middle East were suddenly gone. This was not the end, the Anglo-Indian division itself was insufficient and difficult to organize, and Japan continued to threaten from the direction of Burma, invaded Bengal and occupied Calcutta, where tens of thousands of marines were deployed, and garrison brigades recruited from Japanese in Nanyang and other places. In order to make up for the lack of troops, two servant divisions from Indonesia and Malaya have recently been sent to Calcutta, with 50,000 troops in Bengal and Kolkata alone, and 80,000 in Burma behind, and a small fleet operating in the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Islands.

In the face of 600,000 to 800,000 Indian-Soviet-Japanese allied troops, all the 15 Anglo-Indian divisions that Britain had managed to form after the war were left in India for emergency purposes, and they could not be transferred to North Africa at all. Because of their lack of strength, Muslim League and Chandra have problems in self-preservation, so they cannot send troops.

Just yesterday evening, when the powerful Nehru declared India's independence in Delhi, 10 infantry divisions of the Congress Party and 7 infantry divisions of the Communist Party of India suddenly launched an all-out offensive, swept through the north in the middle of the night, and quickly captured the Jamshepurtata Iron Works, which had been controlled by Chandra. The Tata Steel Works is arguably one of India's few heavy industrial bases, with three million tonnes of crude steel per year being an important addition to the UK's steel, as well as the ability to manufacture cars, trains and tractors. If it is used in the military, it cannot be said to be powerful, but it is absolutely no problem to cobble together dozens of artillery pieces and tanks or something every month. Due to the sudden and rapid attack, the backbone members were all Soviet veterans, and a British and Indian division stationed there surrendered almost without a fight, and gave dozens of T26 tanks and hundreds of artillery pieces delivered by China to the Soviet army in vain.

Worse. Just yesterday afternoon, four infantry divisions of the Soviet army suddenly departed from Armenia and entered the Kirkuk Kurdish region of Iraq through Tabriz. At the same time, the pro-German Iraqi Golden Phalanx group also stepped up its activities, and even the Germans intervened to expand their espionage activities in Iraq.

Taking advantage of the mountainous terrain of Iran, and Bai Chongxi had to wait for the Central Asian Railway to extend to northern Iran before attacking from the north to the south, the Soviet army was temporarily deadlocked in the Iranian war. Still, Mossadegh's work has been fruitful, and most of the charges for leading the Soviet invasion have been imposed on the Kurds. This trick helped him gradually improve his relationship with Pahlavi. The two men began to discuss the formation of a constitutional coalition government, but it also gave the Soviets an excuse to strengthen relations with the Kurds. Eventually, the Soviets entered Kirkuk, protected the Tabriz and Caucasian flanks, and loomed into Baghdad as far away.

And all of these have something to do with Yang Qiu! Even if there is no direct evidence. The British can also guess a little, so it is already polite that Karl does not directly curse.

North Africa is already seriously underarmed, India is plunged into a full-scale war, and even the Soviet army is in a posture of attacking the Middle East, no wonder Karl is in a hurry to call for help as soon as he arrives, and Whitehall even uses the words "If China does not come to the rescue, India and Iraq will be lost in three weeks" in his telegram. Originally, this was a question of military support. It should be discussed at the Allied Command, but firstly, the Sino-British alliance has not been in place for a long time, many of the institutions are not yet perfect, and secondly, the India/Persia Theater Joint Command in Riyadh is also unfavorable due to the domestic situation in the United Kingdom. is basically a Chinese family singing a one-man show, so he came to Yang Qiu in person.

Save must be saved, it is no longer the pre-war period, and how to dig into the corners of the wall after the Sino-British alliance. Victory must also be guaranteed first. However, how to save it needs to be considered, because the Republic of China itself will also face both sides of the Japanese and Soviet attacks. For this reason, Bai Chongxi had to be put on the defensive. Moreover, there is no news of the Battle of Guam, and it is unknown whether the key point of Mariana can be completely opened. Even if he wins, he will have to send at least ten divisions to Mariana to control the nearby strategic islands as quickly as possible, which is another big expense.

No money!

Yang Qiu quietly squinted at Jensen, secretly wondering if it would be better to talk to Roosevelt and kill Halsey and blame Japan, and give him an excuse to participate in the war to support his billions.

Jensen definitely didn't know that the supreme leader of the Republic of China would be so black that he wanted to frame him, but there was also a hint of gloom on his face. The situation is clearly starting to deteriorate, and China is still on the offensive, at least for now, but will Britain be able to hold on? Such important news must be reported to China as soon as possible. Thinking of this, he couldn't sit still and prepared to leave, at this time Carl also knew the time Yang Qiu needed to consider, and after repeatedly asking for support as soon as possible, he got up and prepared for him to go with him. But just as the two of them walked to the door, the office door was suddenly pushed open.

Before everyone could react, the secretary had already rushed into the office like a whirlwind: "Great victory!" President, great victory! Guam is. Halfway through the shouting, the clever secretary found that the US ambassador was also there, and forcibly held back the sentence "Guam is ours" and said happily: "The chief of staff called, and the navy sank three Japanese aircraft carriers (the Xiangfeng had not been sunk by submarines at this time), three heavy cruisers, and three light cruisers near Guam last night and this morning. ”

"Win?!" Yang Qiuhuo suddenly got up, didn't even care about Jensen's presence, and waved his fist fiercely. Gu Weijun and Song Ziqing laughed even more, and even Gu Yuwen came to the secretary to inquire about the battle situation in detail. Karl didn't care who won or lost, on the contrary, he was happy to win, so that there would be less pressure on China's coast and support India. Only the corners of Jensen's mouth are bent down, and his cheeks are difficult to see. Eventually, however, he decided to come back later, as it was not appropriate to talk about Guam's status at this time, and he needed to report the news to Roosevelt immediately.

So he congratulated him and left in a hurry with Carl.

After the two left, Song Ziqing flashed out from behind: "President, India's business?" ”

"Don't worry, Britain is not serious as it says. Besides, wasn't Jensen there just now? Yang Qiu is in a very good mood now, with Guam, he can radiate the Ogasawara Islands, Palau and the whole of Micronesia, and completely cut off the main sea transportation route of the Japanese army. Therefore, the most urgent task now is to immediately and completely seize Guam and build it into a naval and air base radiating the Philippine Sea as soon as possible. On the contrary, Gu Weijun was more anxious and asked: "Ziqing, after the battle on Guam is over, North Korea is dragging it anyway, can you let the navy attack Andaman immediately and relieve the pressure on Britain?" ”

Song Ziqing was so frightened that he hurriedly shook his head: "No, don't." ”

"What's wrong?" Gu Weijun saw that he looked strange and asked.

Yang Qiu smiled: "Shaochuan, it's a good thing to attack with victory, but Andaman is too far away." Nearly 6,000 kilometers from the Red Sea, and the Indian Ocean enters the monsoon season in October, the slightest mistake can wipe it out. Song Ziqing also said beside him: "The president is right, although we won, the casualties of the Second Fleet will definitely be not small, and it will take at least two to three months to recover." Truk and Palau will definitely not be able to hold it, so the Japanese Fourth and Fifth Fleets are likely to go south to the Philippines to join the Third Fleet, and the Second Fleet needs to attack Micronesia first and can only contain it for the time being, so they will easily drill through Malacca to support Andaman . ”

"Hehe, it seems that I was surrounded by the British, and I was too anxious for a while." Gu Weijun said with a smile.

"It can't be said that Britain is an ally, and India still has to make a show." After Yang Qiu finished speaking, he looked at Song Ziqing: "Ziqing, who do you say is the most appropriate to send?" ”

Song Ziqing thought about it for a moment and said, "Li Zongren." He is also one of the nine heroes of the army. And when you go to India, you must contact Bai Chongxi, the two of them have a good relationship and should be able to get along well. "The Nine Heroes of the Army refers to the nine outstanding second-generation senior commanders in the Army, including Xue Yue, Chu Nan, Zhu Peide, Long Yun, Liu Mingzhao, Bai Chongxi, Li Zongren, Sun Chuanfang, and Chen Meng. They all have a lot in common, all of them joined the Wehrmacht at a young age, fought in wars, and excelled in European wars. Except for Xue Yue and Chen Meng, who have already devoted themselves to teaching, the rest are all front-line senior generals, and they are considered to be the second-generation generals who actually support the army. Therefore, if there are good deeds, the nine people will be tied as the nine heroes of the army, and it will spread over time.

"Let him come back as soon as possible." Yang Qiu nodded, picked up the bag and handed it to Gu Yuwen, and said with a smile: "Let's go, go to the Admiralty." Last time, I scolded Chen Shaokuan, and this time I won, I should also go to congratulate him