Chapter 675: The Storm Changes

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However, during this period, the Allied garrison in Australia and New Zealand was also greatly strengthened compared with the Coral Sea Campaign, of which the number of Allied combat aircraft stationed in New Zealand alone exceeded 500, and the total strength also exceeded 100,000, and because the two main islands of New Zealand were seven or eight hundred kilometers away from the small islands in the north, which exceeded the combat radius of land-based aircraft, the Japanese army could only rely on carrier-based aircraft to attack, and the difficulty can be imagined. But at least the performance advantage of the Japanese fighters is quite obvious, and although the quality of the pilots has declined significantly, it is still slightly stronger than the Allies for the time being, so the air supremacy is not completely hopeless; On the contrary, the Japanese ground forces were insufficient, so Yamaguchi Tawen could not make up his mind to attack New Zealand

The failure of the invasion of China caused Japan to permanently lose 2 million young people, and even after three years of recuperation, Japan was far from fully recovering; In addition, after the war, the Chinese government has been importing Jishu talents and skilled workers from Japan, and they have not been released by the Chinese government (the reason is very good, with the numerous crimes committed by Japan during the invasion of China, it is already cheap not to kill). By June 1942, the total number of Japanese prisoners of war was no less than one million, and most of these people were also young and middle-aged, which made the shortage of young and strong labor in Japan even worse.

As a result of these unfavorable factors, even though Japan's industrial labor productivity has more than doubled in the past few years due to the rapid progress of science and management, it is difficult for Japan's young and strong population to be mobilized into the army more than 1 million. This is the result of including the Koreans and Taiwanesees who chose to join Japan during the armistice between China and Japan

Long before the Pearl Harbor incident, the Japanese government had secretly begun war mobilization, and immediately after the Pearl Harbor incident, the general mobilization of the whole people began, but even so, in June 1942, Japan's newly rebuilt new army had only 11 divisions and regiments, with a total strength of about 300,000 troops, plus the expansion of the navy to 200,000 marines, a total of only 500,000 ground troops. And with the successive victories of the Japanese army in the Pacific theater, the territory they need to defend is getting bigger and bigger, and this alone requires at least two or three hundred thousand people. And then the mainland and North Korea must also keep troops, right? Even at the moment, Japan-China relations are not bad. The Japanese government also did not dare to leave China without defense, so it had to leave more than 100,000 people behind, so that the total number of ground troops that Japan could now use for the offensive would not exceed 100,000.

And a mere 100,000 ground troops, even if they can barely take New Zealand. There must have been more than half of the casualties. What will Japan do to attack Australia at that time? You must know that the total number of allied troops in Australia has reached 300,000. Even if it is not sufficient because the sea route is not very smooth (only relatively insufficient, but not absolutely insufficient. The supply of tens of thousands of remnants of the Japanese army can never be defeated

Ultimately. The root cause of Yamaguchi's distress was the depletion of Japan's human resources, and if Japan had been able to expand its army by several million without difficulty, as the United States had done, none of the problems would have existed. To Yamaguchi's surprise, however, the major Allied victory on another front had instead solved Japan's predicament

On June 21, 1942, a city under the control of the Communist Party of India was conquered by the British and Indian forces, and the "urban center theory" insisted by the pro-Soviet faction of the Communist Party of India was completely bankrupt. Some of the radical policies at the beginning caused them to lose almost all the support of high-caste intellectuals, which was also an important reason why the CPI(M) could not become a climate.

Of course, if there is the support of the big powers behind them, they may still be able to make some waves, but the Soviet Union cannot be the leader of the injustice and support, even if it succeeds, it will only become the second in the Chinese Red Party (Maoist), and the current focus of the Chinese government's work is domestic construction, not to mention the restrictions of the Sino-British peace treaty, it will not needlessly offend the allies and bear the notoriety of not keeping its word, so although the Communist Party of India (Mao) fought bloodily, it has never seen the dawn of victory

First of all, they can regain India's abundant resources and manpower, even if India has been devastated by years of war, but after all, more than 300 million people are placed there, even if they are only used as cannon fodder, they can solve a little bit of the urgent needs of the allies now.

More importantly, the failure of the Indian Revolution made Stalin realize that it was no longer possible to redden India, and the Soviet army was increasingly overwhelmed by the Afghan quagmire, so Stalin finally had no choice but to order the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. The withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan not only provided an opportunity for the Soviet Union to bridge relations with the United States and British allies, but also freed up the Soviet Union's huge military liliang, which alone was enough to make the Germans, who had previously adhered to the strategy of "defending the east and attacking the west" and achieved great success, restless.

Roosevelt, of course, could not fail to see this, and immediately sent a secret envoy to visit the Soviet Union, not only making a lot of wonderful promises, but also directly transferring some advanced jishu that the Soviet Union had long been keen on, hoping to pull them into the chariot of the allies and attack Germany from behind. Stalin, on the other hand, had long been interested in turning the European continent red, and was even more jealous of Germany's growing strength, and even if the United States and Britain did not give benefits, his "thunderstorm jihua" had already begun to be prepared for implementation, and the two immediately hit it off. But in order to catch Germany off guard, the two sides did not openly form an alliance, but only secretly reached a tacit understanding.

Although the Soviet Union's accession to the European Union was kept secret for the time being, in China in the East, after learning of the Soviet Union's withdrawal from Afghanistan, the great man had already learned of the possible changes in the international situation that it would trigger. After discussions among the central leaders, it was generally believed that if the Soviet Union really joined the alliance, the balance of war would inevitably tip completely to the side of the allies, and if Germany was not well prepared and was suddenly crushed by the terrible steel torrent of the Soviet army, World War II was likely to end unexpectedly ahead of schedule. In fact, even if the Soviet Union did not join the Union, the Allies would still have a much better chance of winning than the Axis powers, because although they were still passive on the battlefield, the terrifying industrial power and mobilization capacity of the United States had gradually revealed the tip of the iceberg (to be continued......