Chapter 617: The War Continues
The war continues.
Even Qin Wei, a big-stirring stick, didn't expect that because of his appearance and nonsense, he would actually make the Second World War last longer and more tragically. It is important to know that in the original history, World War II had already taken a turn for the better in 1943, because the Soviets had won on the battlefield, the situation in the European theater had begun to improve, and the defeat of the Axis powers was already a matter of time. And now, because of his intervention, Stalin has been forced to run into the forest to fight guerrillas, and the Soviet Union has not only lost important food and energy sources, but also lost most of its industrial base. In the same way, after getting the Soviet Union, Germany suddenly became unspeakably stronger, to paraphrase a later description, Hitler is now crazy and cool to bomb the sky, not to mention anything else, just standing there is enough to scare many people. And it is true that before the main force of the German army advanced westward, Hitler openly demanded that Britain surrender, and the British Parliament actually seriously discussed it for a long time, if it were not for Churchill, a die-hard element, who shouted and scolded in Parliament for a long time, and finally stirred up the emotions of the John Bulls, Britain would have really admitted defeat. And if that's the case, the Second World War is probably over...... Without Britain as a forward position, the Yankees would not have been stupid enough to hold on alone.
And it was precisely when he saw that the British were starting to weaken a little, Qin Wei also felt that he couldn't hide so much anymore, and he had to give those guys a little confidence. So, he persuaded Lao Jiang. Commanded the Chinese Expeditionary Force to launch the "Burma Campaign"! After the First World War, the expeditionary force successfully cut off the back road of Seishiro Sakagaki, and not only that. Sun Liren's New 1st Army cooperated with Wang Yaowu's airborne troops, commanded the east and west, and conquered Rangoon and Bangkok successively. In other words, the expeditionary force succeeded not only in recovering Burma, but also in capturing Siam.
But the "Burma Campaign" was just the beginning.
Shortly after the recovery of Burma and the capture of Siam, it was around mid-1945. Qin Wei finally waited for a new batch of support from the Americans - a total of 98 B-29 long-range bombers. Originally, these bombers were intended to be used by Roosevelt to support the European theater, but now the European continent has almost completely fallen to the hands of the Germans. Bombing alone is hardly very useful, and the distance between London and Berlin in a straight line is about 1,000 kilometers, and there is no need for such a powerful bomber. So these bombers became the Chinese battlefield. And such a bomb load is up to 9 tons and has a range of up to 6000 km. As soon as the super high school fortress with a ceiling of more than 10,000 meters appeared. gave the Japanese a hard blow...... Qin Wei ordered him to take off in Chengdu, and after sailing thousands of kilometers, he almost blew up the city of Xiongben, the hometown of the Sixth Division, which had done countless evils in Nanjing.
The Japanese were furious at this, but before they could react, Qin Wei made a third move. The gang sent the newly formed "Burmese Independence Army" to attack in the direction of Malaya. As a result, the Malayan Japanese army fought back frantically, and the Burmese Independence Army suffered heavy casualties, and many leaders of the Burmese independence movement, including Aung San and others, were killed in battle. And that's not all. The Malayan Japanese army also took advantage of the situation to launch a counter-offensive against Burma, and in the course of the attack, they carried out large-scale massacres of Burmese towns along the way...... Naturally, the people of Myanmar are extremely resentful of this. More people, instigated, lured, and instigated by the expeditionary force, joined the independent army and embarked on the front line against the Japanese army......
Southeast Asia is in a mess.
And just when the fighting was going on in the south, in the north, the "Russian Corps" hastily organized by Nishio Shouzo finally set off. Soon, this force engaged in an exchange of fire with the troops led by Chen Yi and Li Xiannian on the border between Khalkha Mongolia and Siberia. Chen Yi and Li Xiannian fought and retreated, and soon retreated to the vicinity of Kulun. The Japanese and Russian commanders of the "Russian Corps" were overjoyed, and they felt that they had discovered the weakness of the CCP, that the CCP was wreaking havoc in northeast China, and that the Kulen in the rear must be empty. Therefore, almost without hesitation, a general attack was launched on Cullen. And soon, the almost empty Cullen was occupied by them. For a time, the "Russian Corps" had "brilliant achievements" and even received commendations from Hirohito and Hitler. The two fascist leaders encouraged them to continue their efforts and continue to launch an offensive in northeastern China to completely solve the CCP.
However, before the ink on Hitler's and Hirohito's telegrams had dried, the tide of the war suddenly changed...... This Russian corps, which went south to Khalkha from Siberia, was surrounded before it had time to turn! Moreover, no matter how they attack and break through, they will never be able to break through this huge encirclement. After receiving the news, Nishio Shouzo and Ueda Kenkichi urgently ordered to rush to Harbin along the Trans-Siberian Railway, and another part of the Russian corps that had not had time to rest and recuperate moved westward to support, and part of the Kwantung Army under Ueda Kenkichi also acted together. However, this army was partially blocked by the CCP generals to the east of the Daxing'an Mountains, and it was difficult to advance an inch. In desperation, and at the same time to prevent the CCP's attack in the northeast, Ueda Kenkichi gave up the part of the Russian corps that rescued the Khalkha, so more than a month later, the Battle of Khalkha ended...... There were not many fierce battles in this battle, and the former Soviet soldiers, who had already had the experience of surrender, decisively chose to surrender after learning that they had been abandoned. At this point, Japan was no longer able to mobilize troops from the direction of Siberia to attack Khalkha, and the Chinese Communists could be regarded as solving their worries and began to launch an offensive to the northeast wholeheartedly. Not only that, with the help of the captured former Soviet soldiers, the CCP also rebelled against several units of the "Russian Corps", which caused a panic among the Japanese troops in the northeast, so that Ueda Kenkichi did not dare to let go of this unit anymore, and began to gradually reduce the supply of the troops. And in this way, the situation is even worse. Eventually, a year later, for a number of reasons, the "Russian Corps" in the northeast launched a riot...... This rebellion almost completely destroyed the Japanese rule in Northeast China, making the large tribes of Jilin and Liaoning fall into the hands of the CCP, and Ueda Kenkichi could only lead part of the Kwantung Army to hide in the Heilongjiang area to survive.
It can be said that the Japanese were deflated everywhere on the battlefield in China. However, within the scope of the whole world, they still have a lot of "shining points...... Just when the Russian corps dared to break into Khalkha to find abuse, Nagumo Tadaichi finally started a formal decisive battle with the Americans' Pacific Fleet. Of course, it doesn't seem right to say "decisive battle", because Nagumo Tadaichi is a sneak attack this time. However, the scale of this naval battle was indeed large.
Commander Nagumo, who wielded almost all of Japan's naval might, was guided by accurate military intelligence and first dispatched several submarines to attack the San Diego Naval Harbor in Los Angeles...... Of course, this was not the time to attack Pearl Harbor, so, these submarines were discovered. The problem is that even after being discovered, the submarines managed to block the shipping lanes of the San Diego military port. Then, Commander Nagumo, who was hiding outside the Americans' detection zone, ordered the fleet to attack, and after a day of full speed, rushed to San Diego before the Americans cleared the lane.
And then there was the fierce battle.
Although the Americans had shore defense artillery and a large amount of anti-aircraft firepower, in the end, the main force of the Pacific Fleet, which had been rebuilt by virtue of the powerful industrial strength of the United States, suffered heavy losses, and more than a dozen newly built warships were sunk, making it impossible for them to compete with the Japanese for sea supremacy in the Pacific Ocean for a short time.
Roosevelt heard the battle report and was said to have once again stood up from his wheelchair in anger. And the result of the US president's attack was revenge on Japan...... At the cost of a large amount of military aid, Roosevelt tried to persuade Chiang to agree to a new offensive against the Japanese in the near future. Lao Jiang was anxious at this time. He wants to quickly regain the national territory, and then go to deal with the CCP. But the battle to recover Nanjing made him feel uneasy. Although he finally snatched his nest back as he wished, the loss was extremely heavy, which can be described as nerve-wracking. He really didn't want to risk losing his descendants to fight the Japanese. can't let his descendants do it, and he is reluctant to let those miscellaneous cards play...... The rest of these territories are the essence of China, especially the Yangtze River Delta and Zhejiang, which are the foundation of his Jiang someone. If you let those miscellaneous cards go up, when will they come back? Of course, if he can let the two sides fight for defeat first, it is okay for him to pick up the cheapest, but the problem is that after all these years of anti-Japanese war, those miscellaneous cards have also learned to be smart, and it is not so easy for him to be used as a gunman again. And the most important thing is what happened to Qin Wei last time...... That time, he withdrew Qin Wei's commander-in-chief of the air force and left him idle for the time being, and as a result, many local faction leaders, including Yan Xishan, Li Zongren and others, immediately surrounded him, although Qin Wei did not reach any agreement with these people in the end, but these miscellaneous cards obtained a lot of valuable information in the subsequent battles and won several battles. This means that if he dares to let the miscellaneous cards attack the Japanese army and seize the Yangtze River Delta and other places, then it is possible for Qin Wei to secretly support those people and win the battle before he reacts. If that's the case, he's really lifting a stone and shooting himself in the foot. But if you don't fight, how can you ask the Americans for military aid?
After thinking about it, Lao Jiang accepted the advice of those plotters under him, and simply recruited Qin Wei and asked Qin Wei for advice. And although Qin Wei had a deep estrangement with him, he did not disappoint him, and after some consideration, he made a suggestion to him: temporarily set the target abroad.
About two months after this decision, just after the Spring Festival in 1946, the "Japanese army" that had been sent by Ishihara to North Africa to cause trouble, suddenly turned to India, attacked the west coast of India, and successfully captured the Mumbai area. The soldiers of the "Japanese Expeditionary Force," which accounted for the vast majority of the troops, and most of the actual members were puppet troops, launched a large-scale rebellion because they were dissatisfied with the oppression and restraint of the Japanese officers. The Mumbai area is in shambles. At this time, before the Anglo-Indian troops could react, Pan Wenhua and others of the Sichuan army, who had been assigned by Mountbatten to be stationed near Mumbai, had already launched an offensive...... In this way, about a week later, the Anglo-Indian troops had just reached the periphery of Mumbai, and the Sichuan army had already occupied the city of Mumbai and surrendered hundreds of thousands of puppet troops, and its strength had soared! (To be continued......)