Chapter 202: The Second Half of the First Battle
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Before the outbreak of the Sino-British War in 1922, Britain had always regarded the huge 6th Army of the Sickle Hammer Society as a threat to its colonies, but after the outbreak of the war, the British themselves still underestimated China, and their colonial forces were backward in all aspects. A colony without heavy industry is no match for China, a country covered in steel. During the First World War, Britain and France can be said to use their strongest and hardest local areas to fight Germany hard, and the vast colonies can be said to be the soft meat of Britain, and now Britain's soft meat is being cut by China with a knife, and Britain's hardest local industrial area has just experienced a brutal World War I and has not yet recovered its vitality, and even if it recovers, it is a colony that cannot take care of the soft meat thousands of miles away.
Bombing, bombardment from all over the sky. , the intensity of the bombing of Britain and France by the Chinese Air Force has already passed the European war. After losing air supremacy, if the Sixth Army did not have the absolute will to fight, the war would have been one-sided, and the British and French colonial armies were obviously only modern troops armed with good logistical equipment and strict training, not a thinking army. Lacking logistics and hope for victory, the colonial force, which had no idea what it was fighting for, finally collapsed.
Cheng Pan asked the Southwest Military Region to organize this wave of attacks, like using a sledgehammer to prepare to smash stones, and it is now a plastic foam when it falls. Tanks and armored vehicles have no effect at all, and the degree of breakthrough is not as fast as that of infantry. After the reconquest of North Vietnam, these armored vehicles, which had become almost off-road travel, were stopped by the Southwestern Military District. The reason is that the battle is not needed, but wastes fuel for logistics and transportation.
The Indian troops that had just gathered at the north and south of the border between India and China were also massacred by the Chinese Air Force. Therefore, the Indian colonial army refused to attack Tibet without air supremacy. The British tacitly agreed on a ceasefire on the Tibetan border, and Cheng Pan had no intention of marching from Tibet to India, and the war was not simply a comparison of population and industrial output figures. The climatic conditions of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau are harsh, and it is really not suitable for large-scale warfare here.
The war lasted for a month, and seeing that the colonial armies of Southeast Asia were vulnerable and about to collapse, and the British and French ministers also held secret talks with the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to find out China's current intentions. The British and French ministers understood that this was China's appetite, but China's appetite had crossed the bottom line of Britain and France, and if China could easily rely on force to draw a knife in the huge colonies of Britain and France, Britain and France would have to face wolves in the future. If this opening cannot be opened, the colonial system of the world will collapse as soon as it is opened, and it is meaningless for Britain and France, two old powers, to spend so much money to win the first war.
Of course, Cheng Pan knows how much harm he has done to Britain now, Cheng Pan does not have any thoughts about Britain and France to spare their lives, thinking that Britain and France were also so merciless in smashing China's tributary system in East Asia, and now Cheng Pan wants to say to Britain and France: "What does your life and death have to do with me." Now that China has the ability to rival the Western world, there is no need to be bound by the rules dictated by other weak countries.
The two sides have been unable to compromise, so Britain and France held a ship parade in Europe, the powerful navy that had just finished World War I drove towards the east, it is a pity that there is no rainbow operation in this world, the British Royal Navy suffered far greater losses after World War I than in the original time and space, the British attached great importance to the German surrendered navy, and the German navy was accepted in the port.
Therefore, the British Navy, which suffered huge losses in World War I, still maintained a huge tonnage after being replenished by the German Navy. At this time, the hard-liner Churchill served as Secretary of the Admiralty, and he made his famous speech from the original plane: "We will fight to the end." We will fight in the big 6 in Asia, we will fight in the oceans, we will fight in the air with more and more faith and more and more strength, (omit n) until the new world, when God sees fit, will bring out all its strength to save and liberate this old world. ā
Well, the spiritual inspiration of these orators is still very strong, and the British, who were originally war-averse, surprisingly supported this huge British naval expedition, and for so many years the British have promoted the image of the Chinese Sickle and Hammer Society as extremely ugly and evil. At the same time, the British firmly believed that their rule over the Asian colonies was to bring civilization and hope to Asia, and that it was God's will. And the Chinese Sickle and Hammer Society, a regime that destroyed art and rural idyllic scenery and killed aristocrats, was intolerable.
But in this world, if the truth can be said, what do you need airplanes and artillery for? The role of propaganda and world opinion is to bring the world's other non-domestic industrial population closer to its side, and China, which now accounts for half of the world's industrial population, does not care at all about how bad its reputation abroad is. Swearing in a fight doesn't work.
Britain and France, with a mighty navy of 2 million tons composed of 40 capital ships and other various ships, sailed towards Asia, and the British had already thought that since they could not win victory on the 6th ground, they would suppress the poor Chinese navy and blockade it on the big 6 according to the method of dealing with the Germans, and then slowly deplete it with China, which could not get foreign aid. Consume China. This plan is the only plan that Britain can use now, and as for whether China is exhausted or not, it can still negotiate after a long time.
Another key to this plan is the Strait of Malacca, and Lan Fang is now completely tied to the Chinese chariot. After learning that China and Britain and France were at war, Zhao Hengyu hesitated, but seeing the defeat of Britain in Southeast Asia, Zhao Hengyu's theory of racial superiority dispelled his hesitation, it can be said that China gave Zhao Hengyu a lot of confidence in the early days of the war, and at the same time declared war on Britain and France, ready to completely control the Strait of Malacca, and clean up the group of grandsons on the banana slope on the other side. With the arrival of the Chinese Air Force in Nanyang, Zhao Hengyu Xun obtained the right to control the sea in Malacca, and the vanguard of 20,000 people boarded 6.
The entire Strait of Malacca is at an average distance of fifty kilometers, and the bombers have already plowed the opposite shore. Lan Fang's troops, who probed their brains, had a thrilling climb to 6 and took Kuala Lumpur within a week with the assistance of the Air Force. There are too many people in this land, and the theory of the Sickle Hammer Society can't be eaten, so it will be handed over to the fascist Lan Fang to deal with, as for how to deal with it, Cheng Pan doesn't care. Cheng Pan will only manage that China does not appear racist, and as for the other line of overseas Chinese, they want to kill their enemies and understand the cause and effect in Southeast Asia. Cheng Pan is not a virgin, and he will not take this responsibility for this idle matter.
After Lan Fang completely controlled the Strait of Malacca, he began to build a large number of airports. The crossroads of the oceans, Malacca, have turned on a red light for the British and French fleets. In September 1922, Britain's huge fleet came to a halt on the west coast of India, where the Chinese air force could not control it. Faced with this different South Sea passage, the British began a diplomatic offensive. The Supplementary Treaty of the Entente in the East was dug out of the pile of old papers by the British. Since the gate of Malacca is impassable, then you should find the people inside this door to help push this door open.
The British thought of Japan, which had the 88th Fleet, and from a European point of view, Japan's capital ships at this time had not yet reached the level of dreadnoughts, and the battleships were also very old, but the tonnage was huge and reached 800,000 tons, and it can be said that Japan, which had a steel output of only 720,000 tons in 1921, relied on building ships to drive heavy industry. According to the thinking of people in this era, so many ironclad warships are at least steel, and it should be a lot of pressure in the face of China, which has only 400,000 tons of surface fleet.
After the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1915 ended in a crushing defeat for Japan, China did not completely defeat Japan, leaving Japan with the integrity of its industrial system and a large number of its own 6th Army and navy. This left Japan with the idea of wanting to fight for ten years to take revenge, but unfortunately, Japan is too small and still a chaebol-ruled country, capitalism oppresses internally, and the situation of supporting the upper class is very strict. Don't compare this with the problem of corrupt officials in China in later generations, the wealth that corrupt officials absorb from the people is always in the dark, and once they are exposed, they will die, capitalism can be said to have made the wealth accumulated by the entire country's industrial scissors worse concentrated at the upper level and made it legal, and these capitalists used the wealth accumulated by the country's industrialization exhibition to buy famous watches and wear famous brands, which is aristocratic taste. Japan should have spent all its wealth on expanding production to support the tasteful life of the entire upper class, and the wealth produced by the country's heavy industry absorbed by the capitalist tycoons on the surface was definitely a hundred times more than the wealth secretly absorbed by corrupt officials.
Not to mention the good management of capitalism, self-employed people, and small enterprises such as restaurants, relying on the personal charm and means of the boss will make the business run well out of the market economy. However, heavy industry, which is related to the fortunes of the country, is not competing at home but competing with foreign countries, and only by maintaining the overall development of heavy industry can it be competitive. The management required by the entire huge system of national heavy industry relies on the establishment of various rules and regulations to ensure the continuous funding of scientific and technological research, the rational planning of various upstream and downstream industrial chains, and the reduction of resource consumption in the process of development. The exhibition of heavy industry is absolutely dependent on the rule of law of the state and not the rule of man by the capitalists.
Without the advantages of resources and manpower, and without the advantages of the system, Japan's industrial operations in the past few years have been very bleak. Seeing that China's national strength has made it impossible for Japan to turn around, Japan is filled with despair in a manic manner, which is a manifestation of the great power complex in the hearts of the Japanese people that is on the verge of bankruptcy. So when the British came to find it, the Japanese upper class seemed to grasp a life-saving straw. Yes, Japan is now "stronger" (tonnage) than China in the Navy. This was Japan's only chance to regain its power in East Asia, and Japan did not care that Britain did not fulfill the Supplementary Treaty of the Entente Far East in the Second Sino-Japanese War, but negotiated specific cooperation with Britain.
In order to make the Japanese work hard for themselves, the British offered a good price and decided to let Japan enter South Asia and seize the territory of Lan Fang. British think tanks have analyzed that it is difficult for China to be defeated in East Asia, so it is better to support Japan and maintain the balance of power in East Asia, and Japan will block China's sea route, which will definitely make Japan and China stumble, and Britain can balance its hands offshore.
In recent years, minerals have appeared frequently in China's hands, and rice production has increased year by year. It can be said that the things that are loved by others are always good things, and the Nanyang is definitely a treasure land, the Netherlands' eyes are getting redder and redder after China opened the Nanyang, and many times in European diplomatic occasions sourly claim the sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies. Now, in order to make Japan work hard, Britain and France have taken the small declaration of the Netherlands as a pity.
The Japanese took the bait of the South Seas, and on October 4, 1922, the Japanese Combined Fleet went south. Originally, Japan was preparing to go south, and from Taiwan and the Philippines, it would quietly attack the South Seas at night and engage in an undeclared war. But China's submarines are already all over the East China Sea, and it is really blind that such a large fleet has not appeared. As a result, dozens of Chinese fishing boats floated on the path of the Japanese Navy with searchlights, and seeing that the sneak attack could not be achieved, the Japanese base camp declared war on China on 5 October.
China immediately launched an unrestricted submarine war within 200 kilometers of Japan's coastline. In the face of Japan's rebellion at this time, Cheng Pan comforted himself and said: "Fortunately, I am prepared for a naval war with Britain, otherwise it would be really difficult." "In Sanduao, many destroyers have gone to sea with five big guys in the tonnage of the Chinese Navy estimated by intelligence that are not in the West.
Just three days after Japan declared war on China, news came from the northwest that the Soviet Red Army, which had just won the civil war, began to approach the Ob River. Cheng Pan knew that the Soviet Union was testing, a country whose steel output had just recovered to 2o tons, a country that had just experienced a brutal civil war and went bankrupt after the defeat of the European proletarian revolution in the Battle of Warsaw, and now they were ready to pick up the bargain. Cheng Pan has a bad evaluation of Maozi's temperament. After Maozi withdrew from World War I, he signed a treaty with Germany that sold almost one-third of the core area of the country, but after Germany's defeat, Maozi snatched back this land, and wanted to take advantage of it once and wanted to occupy the second time, fortunately China's accumulated capital is thick, otherwise this embattled scene really can't deal with it, and now there is a real yĆ n mechanized corps composed of five hundred Type 13 tanks, two hundred armored personnel carriers, and 15o self-propelled guns of 1oo millimeter caliber in the northwest. Cheng Pan's words: This army was mobilized along the railway line towards the vicinity of Kazakhstan in the Soviet Union, and Cheng Pan's instructions to the Northwest Military Region were that as long as Mao Zi dared to cross the border, he would directly stab at the important strategic node. You go to the north, I'll fight you to the south. See who hurts more.
The Far East War that broke out in 1922 was called the second half of World War I by later historians, and the victorious Allied powers in World War I seemed to unanimously abide by the Supplementary Treaty of the Allied Powers in the East.
It can be said that Cixi had the courage to declare war on the world in 19oo, and now China has the capital to declare war on the world.