PS: The New Year is over, and the double shift ^_^ resumes on the weekend

It didn't take long for the total number of Japanese troops to land in northwestern Australia to exceed 50,000, and MacArthur knew that the tide was turning, so he had no choice but to order the remnants of the Allied forces in northwest Australia to retreat south or east on their own to avoid meaningless sacrifices. MacArthur was not unaware of what it meant for the Pilbara iron ore to fall into Japanese hands, but he insisted that it would be extremely unwise and pointless to fight to the death with the Japanese in supply-difficult areas until the Navy had made a comeback.

Although Roosevelt was not a soldier, he also understood that MacArthur's opinion was correct, but he still couldn't suppress his anger and immediately dismissed MacArthur, which caused great dissatisfaction among the military for a time. The reason why Roosevelt lost his cool on a rare occasion was mainly because although the Soviets, whom he had high hopes for, had declared war on the Germans, the performance of the Soviet army was too bad, and in a sense, the entry of the Soviet army into the war made the situation of the allies more difficult, which undoubtedly disappointed Roosevelt

Due to the potential conflict of national interests and the extreme opposition of ideologies, although the Soviet government once signed a non-aggression pact with Germany because of the needs of short-term interests, Stalin was ready to stab the Germans in the back at the right time, so that the socialist Soviet Union would become the biggest winner in this European war. It's just that the German army was too strong in the early days of the European War, so Stalin couldn't make up his mind to do it immediately, and the result was that the U.S. government, which was worried about Britain's surrender, couldn't help but declare war on the Germans first, so Stalin was happy to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight. The attack on Germany was put on hold, but even so, the Soviet government never stopped preparing for war.

By the middle of 1942, the total number of Soviet standing troops had exceeded 5.5 million, the number of tanks and planes exceeded 20,000, and the Soviet Union's reserve construction was the first, the number of people in the country who had received more than three months of military training reached more than 20 million, and the number of amateur pilots was more than the same period in history, exceeding the 200,000 mark, more than double that of Germany. Plus the unparalleled mobilization capabilities of the USSR. It is enough to make any land country on Shijie that adjoins it fearful. It is precisely because of this, coupled with the fact that the Chinese Red Party learned about the terrible shadow troop system of the Soviet Union, although the German army in this time and space was stronger than in history, the mustache that was ruthless to the Soviet Union in his heart never dared to take the initiative to start a war against the Soviet Union

But at the same time that the mustache was deeply jealous of the strong strength of the Soviet army. The bearded man was also secretly frightened by the increasing excellence of the German army in various battlefields. It can really be described as "a hemp rod beating a wolf". Stalin was a leader with a strong personality. He would not pin his hopes for peace on the Germans to abide by the treaty, so he nevertheless made up his mind to go to war with Germany.

If according to Stalin's original plan, the time for the Soviet army to launch a full-scale attack. The German army was engaged in a fierce battle with the American and British allies, and if the torrent of Soviet steel was to be slaughtered from behind to Germany at this time, the Third Reich could indeed collapse quickly.

However, just when a large number of Soviet troops began to be secretly transferred to the Soviet-German border, Roosevelt and Churchill, who were anxious because of the unfavorable war situation, begged to come to the door, in order to take the opportunity to knock a little more bamboo poles, Stalin naturally had to hide his intentions, otherwise if people knew that you were going to fight Germany, where could they give the Soviet Union much benefit? Moreover, Roosevelt's plan to send the Soviet army and the United States and Britain to supply weapons and equipment and ammunition could not satisfy Stalin in the first place, and now the Soviet Union is not short of money, all he wants is jishu and process formulas

The ensuing bargaining between the three countries took no less than two months, and although Stalin forced the United States and Britain to transfer to the Soviet Union his long-coveted aero engines, electronic jishu and some material processes, he missed the best opportunity to attack Germany. With the repair of Germany's two Bismarck-class battleships and the completion of another batch of teardrop-shaped submarines, the German Navy has become more and more active in the North Atlantic, although it has not been able to defeat the powerful American and British navies to seize sea supremacy in the North Atlantic, but at least the Allies do not want to counterattack the Western European continent, which makes the mustache can rest assured that a large number of planes from the Western Front will secretly return to the homeland to be prepared, as for the army, most of them are still defending against the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front.

In addition, Hu Weidong had already warned him, so when the Soviets finally launched the "thunderstorm jihua", the German army was already prepared for a possible attack by the Soviet army, and it is said that after learning about the terrible war potential of the Soviet Union, the mustache actually hoped to avoid war with the Soviet Union as much as possible after defeating the United States and Britain, or at least the British government, after surrendering. In order to avoid giving the Soviets the pretext of tearing up the treaty, the garrisons near the border line were reduced, and permanent fortifications were not built. Therefore, Stalin was very confident at first, believing that the Germans, who had insufficient troops and no strong fortifications to rely on, would not be able to withstand the onslaught of the Soviet army, but the Germans' strategy of coping with it was completely unexpected

In order to defeat Germany as soon as possible, so that it can rely on a unified European continent to resist the United States and British governments, which are likely to turn their faces and disown people after the end of the Soviet-German war, the Soviet High Command has invested an unprecedented number of troops and a terrifying number of jishu weapons in human history, including more than 200 divisions of ground troops on the front line alone, more than 30,000 artillery pieces and mortars, more than 11,000 tanks/armored vehicles/self-propelled guns, and more than 7,000 aircraft of all kinds (if it were not for the short range of Soviet-style aircraft, More than 10,000 are possible. ), with a total strength of more than 3 million troops.

Behind them there were no less than 1 million second-line troops, and at the same time, from the beginning of the offensive, the shadow force system in the Soviet Union was immediately activated, and the 5.5 million new troops were organized and trained in less than two weeks, ready to be put into battle at any time

Perhaps on the surface, it seems that it is a taboo for more than 3 million Soviet troops to launch a full-scale offensive from a front of more than 1,000 kilometers, but as everyone knows, this is really the great thing about the Soviet army's tactics. It may be that the armored forces of the Soviet army are not as good as the German army, but the speed of recovery after the battle, the Soviet army is much faster than the German army, so unlike the German army, which was unstoppable during the offensive but needed to recover for a long time after the first war, the Soviet army only needed a little repair after the war to launch a large-scale attack again. Therefore, once the German army meets it head-on, the Soviet armored torrent of the Soviet army, which has an absolute superiority in numbers and an incomparably large reserve, will launch a continuous and repeated attack on the enemy like a tidal wave, and the outcome is almost unsuspenseful (to be continued......