Chapter 770: Vladivostok
Americans have been busy lately.
The British could no longer stop the Germans from landing, and the battlefield on both sides extended to the land of England in addition to the English Channel and the skies of Great Britain.
By mid-August, 300,000 German troops had set foot on British soil, but the Germans met strong resistance there.
The British excelled not only at the navy, their land forces had not yet fallen under the honor of the First World War.
Their footsteps have traveled the entire planet, conquered countless barbarian tribes on land, challenged many powerful countries that have emerged over the centuries, and accumulated valuable experience in land warfare.
Their limitation lies in the lack of numbers, but the elite still shines in their body as bright as the German tank.
In order to defend their homeland, their combat effectiveness was not inferior to that of the Germans, and they occupied a geographical advantage, stubbornly blocking the German tanks from moving forward.
And on the island of Great Britain, not only the British, but also hundreds of thousands of Belgians, French, and Dutch resistance forces were involved in the battle of the same enemy.
Numerically, or otherwise, the 300,000 German army had no superiority at all.
On the other side of the English Channel, at least nearly a million German troops were gathered, but they could not cross the English Channel quickly, and even the supply of front-line operations was strained.
Two Iowa-class battleships of the Americans have already reached the English Channel.
With the reinforcing of the American fleet, although the Germans still retained part of the access to the opposite shore, it was no longer so easy.
However, the Anglo-American forces could not prevent the Germans from continuing to land support, and the Americans' dispatch of two Iowa-class battleships was already the limit.
Their headaches are not only in Europe, but also in Asia.
MacArthur sent several telegrams a day to Washington asking for help.
The Japanese had already raised the slogans of goodwill and liberation in Australia, tore through the last layer of camouflage and officially landed.
Huaxia's use of troops in the north gave them a chance to relax, but also gave them great pressure.
"Occupy the Australian continent as fast as possible!" Hirohito seemed to want to get a taste of what it was like to rule a continent as soon as possible, and at a banquet, it was rare not to express his will in ventriloquism.
Even the notoriously heroic Australian army in World War I was no match for the frenzied Japanese who kept landing.
The Australian Navy was vulnerable, and even some of the British and American naval forces could not stop the continuous attacks of the Japanese Navy.
The entire Australian continent became a sieve of landfall, and in August the Japanese made landfall in Western Australia and the Greater Australian Bay. By this time, the number of Japanese troops rampaging through Australia had exceeded 300,000.
MacArthur in Melbourne was already feeling a strong crisis.
The Americans also felt the crisis and made a growing call for dealing with Asian affairs, especially after the appropriation of two Iowa-class battleships.
Washington also sensed the need to control the affairs of Asia and Australia, so the huge Pacific Fleet, consisting of two other hastily commissioned Iowa-class battleships and four other battleships, as well as five aircraft carriers, began to sail towards Australia.
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Meng Xiang's entire August was spent in the midst of the noise of the division of power in the country.
But this noise, under Meng Xiang's control, did not affect the vanguard army's journey in the north.
Inch by inch stretches in the north, pointing to the Arctic Ocean and the Bering Strait.
As the August sun drew to a close, Prince Alexei, in the name of the crown prince of Tsarist Russia, apologized to the Chinese and signed an official statement with the vanguard junta abolishing a series of unequal treaties and returning many of the ceded lands.
Although there are many irregularities in this official, and even the identity of Crown Prince Alexei is not recognized by the world, the vanguard army only needs such a fig leaf.
Whether the Russians or the whole world want it or not, they have to take back their former lands. As long as you have enough strength, no one can point fingers.
The current Huaxia is enough to say no to anyone, but with a name, at least it saves a lot of trouble. Moreover, Crown Prince Alexei also generously included Lake Baikal and other lands in the scope of restitution and compensation.
This is no more than Siberia and other regions in the Far East that need multiple fig leafs, and it takes the costly process of representatives of indigenous peoples to jump out and cry out to join the big Chinese family, so that the Chinese can legally become the masters of these lands. With this fig leaf, they can be legitimately drawn directly on the new map of China.
After the hype of the propaganda department of the vanguard army, many Chinese people who may have forgotten the shape of China in the past are suddenly aware of the huge size of the country.
Unconsciously, China has moved towards the largest territory in history.
This also makes many geography textbooks require teachers to blur the outline of the map of China again and again.
But in Meng Xiang's office, a huge map of the world has long marked the outline of the future of China.
"There is still such a scar in the entire Far East, and I think it is better not to leave this regret for later." Meng Xiang pointed to a point.
At this time, the vanguard army had six legions, and nearly a million troops were fighting outside the Outer Khingan Mountains, all the way like a bamboo, and there were not many Soviet Russians in the northernmost part.
In a harsh environment, few people survive. Even if there are troops, the scale is very small. Logistics has become the most troublesome thing restricting their expansion.
And a sub-base along the Lena River made the logistics of the vanguard much easier, and even the airborne troops went directly to capture those fortresses that were only stationed at the company and platoon level.
Nearly a million troops were scattered on the vast land, and little by little, the land under their feet was planted with the five-star battle flag of the vanguard army.
After the First Army Corps was airborne in Magadan in August, with the advantage of airborne, it had already set foot on the Kamchatka Peninsula.
"From here to the east, all the way to the Bering Strait, it will be easy to sweep away the resistance of Soviet Russia!" Wei Lihuang swore solemnly.
I don't know when, the tone of the Chinese army is also so confident and even a little arrogant.
But the situation is true, since the vanguard army and the Americans eyebrows for a while, by the way, blocked the Soviet Russians and even the Americans' aid channels with air defense, the logistics of the Soviet Russian Far Eastern Army has always had problems. The Russians did not have enough troops and weapons, and could only secure key cities.
And the army of the vanguard army can get heavy firepower at any time.
The vanguard army's armored army had swept thousands of miles, and with timely air support, Wei Lihuang was not afraid to face the regular army in Chita, not to mention the resistance of other militia groups. All the way to the easternmost part of the Eurasian continent.
In front of the powerful vanguard army, there was no suspense in the battle outside the Outer Khingan Mountains. Even settlements have been built along the Lena River.
In the Far East region within the Outer Khingan Mountains, there are also more than one million troops in the process of suppressing and suppressing them.
Shuangchengzi, Komsomolskaya and Temple Street were all completely reclaimed in August. But the footsteps of the vanguard army temporarily stopped outside Vladivostok.
Because of the presence of the Russian Pacific Fleet and the threat of the nearby Japanese army stationed in Korea and Korea, the vanguard army confronted the Soviet Russian army outside Vladivostok after conquering Shuangchengzi.
Similarly, the Russian Pacific Fleet was not annihilated, nor was it able to occupy several coastal areas on the eastern side of the Sikhote Mountains.
Russian warships in Sovetskaya Harbor still cruise the coast of the Whale Sea.
Without the support of the navy, it was easy to capture the port of Soviets by relying only on the attack of the army and air force, but against Vladivostok, which was also the strongest fortress in the Far East, I am afraid that the losses would be very large.
The Sea of Whales, that is, the passage of the Sea of Japan in another time and space, was held by the Japanese and the Russians at this time. Especially the Japanese.
Those warships along the coast of the Vanguard Army want to enter the Whale Sea, and the most convenient way to do so is through the Korean Strait.
In addition to the Korean Peninsula, which was occupied by the Japanese, there is also the Japanese island of Kyushu.
Ports such as Nagasaki guard the entrance and exit of the strait. It is also difficult for Hokkaido and other places to escape the surveillance of the Japanese in the passage into the whale sea.
In the northern part of the Whale Sea, the vanguard army had just occupied Miaojie and controlled the entire Heilongjiang River basin, but at the mouth of the Heilongjiang River, there was still Sakhalin Island.
Sakhalin was occupied by the Japanese in the south, because they and the Russians had a common enemy of China, so when the Soviet Russia was losing and retreating, they still did not take advantage of the fire to occupy the northern part of Sakhalin, but strengthened the defense of Sakhalin.
If you want to enter the whale sea, you can't go around the Japanese.
Since the threat of the Vanguard Army, the Japanese have put a lot of effort into the defense of their homeland, especially in the navy, which is their strength.
The blockade of the air and artillery of the Bohai Strait by the vanguard army, as well as the blockade of submarine warships from the Yellow Sea to the Bohai Sea, had long made the Japanese aware of the sacrifice of the navy in Lushun. It was also expected that Lushun would be conquered, but they didn't expect it to be so fast.
In the face of the threat of the vanguard army, even if it is a pretext, the Japanese will not agree with confidence.
If it is a forcible break, I am afraid that it will directly provoke a big war between China and the Japanese.
This is obviously what Meng Xiang does not want to see.
The Pacific Fleet of the Americans is already preparing for a big war with the Japanese. Meng Xiang would not let this opportunity to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and even postponed the opportunity to conquer Vladivostok for this reason. Until there is another better opportunity.