Chapter 757: Tito
Under the premise of not strong foreign aid, in any country, if the lower class people want to succeed in the uprising, they must meet a necessary condition, that is, there must be some government troops who defect to the side of the rebel army, and their own strength is second, the key is to play a role in guiding the entry, especially in training, and the veterans can make the new recruits of the rebel army grow rapidly, without the help of these people, In the era of breech-loading guns, due to the widening gap between the strength of the regular army and the civilian armed forces and the increase of the government's control over the local grassroots, the difficulty of the uprising has greatly increased
However, the army is the most important violent machine controlled by the ruling class of a country, and in principle it is the most difficult to deviate from the government, and it is often only centrifuged when the internal contradictions are extremely acute, and although the government of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was corrupt and incompetent, it has not yet reached the level where the people are generally unable to survive, so no matter how capable Tito is, it will be difficult to open up the situation for a while. However, the invasion of the Italians and the surrender of the royal government changed all this, and tens of thousands of Yugoslav patriotic officers and soldiers were unwilling to submit to Italy, and threw themselves into the banner of resistance held high by Tito.
Although this time and space did not have the support of weapons and ammunition from the allies, the development of the Yugoslav guerrillas was much more difficult than in history. But there was no problem in dealing with the Italian army, which was much stronger in combat but still far inferior to the German army. Yugoslavia's industrial base was much stronger than that of China during the war, so basic military industries such as ammunition production could barely be guaranteed, and after more and more Italian weapons were obtained through seizure, the strength of the Yugoslav guerrillas increased like a snowball.
More than 50,000 people were killed or captured by the Yugoslav guerrillas, and more than 100,000 were wounded.
Seeing that Sarajevo was in danger, but he was unable to increase his troops at all, Mussolini could only ask for help from the mustache. The mustache in order to prevent Yugoslavia from becoming a problem of elbows and armpits. More than 200,000 elite German troops, including mountain divisions, were immediately sent into Yugoslavia. Helping Mussolini suppress the guerrillas of the Yugoslav Communist Party, he thought that he could quickly solve the problem and transfer these troops back to the Soviet-German battlefield when the time came, but he never thought of it. It's called Josep. Broz. Tito's general secretary of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia would be so difficult to deal with
It is especially worth mentioning. Tito's diplomatic prowess was even better than his military prowess. He even seized the opportunity of the Soviet Union being cornered by the aggressive German offensive and succeeded in asking Moscow for the leadership of the communist parties of Bulgaria, Greece, Albania, Romania, and Hungary. Moreover, the Yugoslav partisans were able to go abroad to fight in the most difficult period to break the enemy's attempt to strangle and unify the anti-fascist activities in the entire Balkan region, which could not be suppressed by a mere 200,000 German troops
Later, although the Axis powers managed to control the situation by increasing their troops, it was not easy to extinguish the flames of the Balkans. The fact that more than 1 million Axis troops, including 300,000 elite German troops, were held back by guerrilla warfare in the Balkans, which naturally had a huge impact on the situation of World War II, especially the Soviet-German war. In this respect, Stalin's resolute decentralization of power was indispensable, but it contributed to the rise of the "Balkan Federation" after the war, which was one of the greatest hates of his life
Just when the two camps were inseparable, China in the East continued to enjoy peace, the new Chinese government and the people did not waste this once-in-a-lifetime historical opportunity, after surviving the difficulties of the previous year, in 1943 China's industry ushered in explosive growth, the annual total industrial output value increased by more than 30% year-on-year, according to the official exchange rate converted into US dollars, the total value is close to 15 billion US dollars, this figure has been almost the same as the occupation of a large area of land and the national strength of Japan, On par with the Soviet Union, which had fallen to a large part of the country, and surpassed the battered United Kingdom, it became one of the top five industrial powers in Shijie (but the total industrial output value has not exceeded the total agricultural output, so China is still not an industrial country). The increase in the output of major industrial products is even more staggering
Under the favorable conditions of the climax of road and bridge construction in the country, China's iron and steel industry, which was no longer forced to limit production due to water shortage in 1943, released a large amount of production capacity, and the annual crude steel output increased by more than 50% year-on-year, breaking through the 9 million ton mark for the first time, continuing to rank sixth in Shijie steel output, and greatly narrowing the gap with the previous five countries.
The reason why the production has increased so rapidly is even far from being comparable to that of China in history, which is mainly due to the maturity and promotion of the oxygen top blowing converter Jishu. For the first 30 years of history, because the Soviet Union did not transfer this critical jishu, China's steel production has long relied on inefficient open-hearth furnaces, and the production capacity obtained with the same investment is only 1/3 to 1/5 of that of oxygen top blowing converters.
After China completely mastered this jishu and began to promote it in large quantities, China's steel output at that time was already tens of millions of tons a year, and the base was large, and the growth rate was naturally unlikely to be so exaggerated, and the elimination of backward production capacity also made the data inevitably shrink.
In contrast, the base of China's iron and steel industry today is not large, and at the same time, because of the special environment of the Shijie war, the backward production capacity has not been eliminated, so the advantages of converter investment province and fast factory construction have become particularly obvious, plus a lot of production capacity was actually in 1942, but at that time the lack of water was forced to limit production and failed to become output, these were all concentrated in 1943 to break out, and the growth rate of the figure is understandable to exaggerate (to be continued......