And more importantly, the Soviets, who were almost beaten to the Urals by the Germans, not only won a chance to breathe, but also took back millions of square kilometers of lost territory with almost no effort, and at the same time, because of the westward transfer of the main force of the German army, even after retreating to the front line of the three Ukrainian-Belarusian-Baltic countries, the Soviet army actually had the possibility of launching a counteroffensive again, which was even greater than the landing of the Allied forces

At the same time, it is worth mentioning that the madness of the mustache is indeed a double-edged sword, and the successful annihilation of nearly a million Allied troops was certainly a brilliant victory, but because of the clumsy performance of the Vichy French army defecting and the inability to suppress the French communist guerrilla warfare, the mustache categorically dissolved this puppet government, which was considered by later generations to be one of its biggest mistakes during World War II.

Although the Vichy French government is incompetent, and many of them are wall-riding factions at both ends of the snake and mouse, but its navy and air force can share a little bit of the pressure of the German army, although most of the time it is not able to work, it is at least better than nothing, after the Vichy French government was dissolved, its navy and air force for their last bit of honor, have bombed planes, sunk warships, and even a small number of people fled abroad to join the "Free France" that insisted on fighting against Germany. This undoubtedly further widened the power gap between the Axis powers and the Allies.

Not only the military, but also all strata of France completely abandoned their luck and illusions about the Germans with the dissolution of the Vichy French government, and the French Republic, "Free France", which persisted in resisting German aggression, developed rapidly by the end of 1946. The total number of French communist guerrillas in France swelled to more than 400,000 despite the frenzied encirclement and suppression of the German army, and the total number of "Free French" troops overseas exceeded 100,000 for the first time.

At the same time, in order to suppress the resistance of the French Communist Party and prevent the Allies from landing again, the mustache had to continue to increase the strength of the German army in France, which had reached more than 500,000 by the end of 1946, which was undoubtedly worse for Germany, which was already seriously understaffed.

In desperation. The German government had to recruit large numbers of young people and women. Although it temporarily relieved the urgent need, it greatly affected Germany's industrial production and seriously overdrew Germany's development potential, and at the same time with the rapid decline in the quality of soldiers. The superiority in the combat effectiveness of the German army also began to quickly disappear

But. Therefore, the biggest losses were ultimately the French. Since the change of policy towards France by the mustache, the number of French people who have been slaughtered and arrested has increased rapidly, and in 1946 alone, millions of French people died in direct German repression or in concentration camps. The brutality of the Germans provoked an even more fierce resistance from the French, which in turn provoked even more brutal repression by the Germans. In the end, France in this time and space did not survive by surrendering early, as it has historically done, but became one of the countries with the most casualties during World War II

Although the Normandy landings were won first and then defeated, and finally lost hundreds of thousands of elite troops, the US military has achieved considerable results on several other fronts, so that although Roosevelt's approval rating has dropped for a time, it is not enough to be impeached and removed from office.

In the Pacific, the U.S. military continued its large-scale counteroffensive, first seizing the Fiji Islands, Tonga and Samoa from the Japanese army, and then Nimitz took advantage of the Japanese concern for the security of the homeland to attack the Gilbert Islands and the Marshall Islands in the north, and then directly pounced on the four Japanese islands, forcing the Japanese army to focus on fortification in the north, but at this time, the U.S. military turned to the Melanesian Islands in the west, and successively captured New Caledonia, the New Hebrides and other places. As a result, the U.S. military could attack the Micronesian Islands to the north, Australia to the west, and New Zealand to the south, completely seizing the strategic initiative in the Pacific theater, while the Japanese army was unable to defend against it.

In 1946, the U.S. military suffered only a total of just over 400,000 casualties in the Pacific, of which less than 60,000 were killed or missing, while the permanent attrition of the Japanese army exceeded 300,000, and no less than 300,000 were wounded.

Although the 1,500 J-1 fighters purchased by the Japanese government from China at a great expense were much better than those of the Zero fighters, due to the rapid decline in the average quality of Japanese pilots, and the J-1 did not have any advantages in comprehensive performance compared with the two main fighters of the US military, and the number was really a little less, so these Chinese planes were not able to turn the tide of the war after they were put on the battlefield. And when the F-80 jet fighter was put into the Pacific theater, the Japanese Air Force and Navy aircraft were even more powerless.

Seeing that it would inevitably lose if it continued like this, the Japanese Government had no choice but to send a secret envoy to visit the United States, hoping to reach a peace agreement with the United States on the condition that the Japanese army would take the initiative to cede New Zealand, but the US Government categorically refused. Although the number of casualties and military spending, which had so far exceeded expectations, led to a growing anti-war cry in the United States, and Roosevelt no longer insisted on the unconditional surrender of the Axis powers, his psychological bottom line was to return to the situation before the outbreak of the Pacific War, and at best he could only agree that Japan would continue to hold on to the islands that had been owned by him but had been extorted by the United States in the years before the war. With such a big gap between the psychological bottom lines of the two sides, it is obvious that there is no hope for peace talks, and even if the losses are great, the two governments can only continue to fight

At this time, the Chinese government, which saw that Japan was obviously unable to hold on, agreed to sell Japan some sharp weapons that could change the tide of the war in order to avoid a premature victory for the allies. Among the two most important things, one is the J-2 jet fighter, the unit price is 500,000 US dollars, which was delivered in three batches in 1947, a total of 600 units, of which the first batch is 150 units, and the second is the teardrop-shaped submarine, a total of 23 units, which will also be delivered in batches in the next year, with a total amount of more than 150 million US dollars. In addition to weapons, there is also a huge deal is agricultural machinery, including more than 200,000 walk-behind tractors alone, the import of these agricultural machinery is also of great significance to Japan, if there is no agricultural mechanization in the past few years to liberate a large number of rural youth, Japan has long been exhausted, where can it hold on to the present? (To be continued......)