Chapter 158: The Baghdad Negotiations II

readx; The world situation in November and December 1945 was generally in a state of calm and relaxation, and the large-scale military conflicts between the countries had completely ceased, and at the same time, in order to cooperate with the secret negotiations between the countries in November and the first half of December and the Baghdad negotiations that began in the second half of December, the small-scale military conflicts between the countries that had been frequent after July 1945 were also in a state of cease. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info.

After the military coup d'état in Germany in July 1945, China completely changed its foreign policy, stopped the war with Germany and supported Germany and other countries in peace negotiations, and guaranteed Germany's pre-war status, so as to obtain a stable and powerful ally for itself in the European region, so as to share the huge pressure that Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union might bring after the war. Under such circumstances, China and the United States are also frequently engaged in various military conflicts in the European region, the most intensive of which is all kinds of confrontation in the air, for example, the reconnaissance planes of the two countries frequently intrude into the airspace of the other side's controlled areas to conduct all kinds of reconnaissance, which leads to the interception of fighter planes, the appearance of small-scale firefights, and the firing of ground anti-aircraft fire.

In late October, a Chinese S1 missile air defense battalion that had just been deployed to Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, achieved its first actual combat success, shooting down an F8D, a high-altitude reconnaissance plane converted from a P80 jet fighter that took off from Italy, on the morning of October 28. This F8D is also the main high-altitude and high-speed reconnaissance aircraft in the U.S. military after 1945, the U.S. military equipped with F80 relatively late in 1945, and World War II ended in a few months, so the P80 production in history is not high, and there are few modifications, but this time and space has not officially ended since the extension of World War II, and at the same time, due to the huge threat of the two major aviation forces of the Chinese Navy and Air Force, In particular, the F12 fighter of the Chinese Air Force and the F11 fighter of the Chinese Navy are the two great threats of jet fighters, which led to the United States to accelerate the research and development of jet fighters, the P80 was put into service relatively early, and the production is very, the first batch of P80 orders reached as many as 5,000 aircraft, by the end of 1945, the P80 in service in the United States Air Force has reached more than 4,000 aircraft, becoming the core air supremacy fighter of the United States Air Force, widely deployed in North America, the Pacific Theater, European theater of operations and Mediterranean theater of operations. The large number of P80 in service also led to a large number of various modifications of the P80 fighter, and this F8D reconnaissance aircraft is one of them.

It is worth explaining that the aircraft classification number of the US Army Air Corps during World War II was different from that of the US Air Force in later generations, and it was also different from that of the US Navy, and it was also different from the Chinese Air Force. (The words f80-f84-f86 appeared in the previous article, which are clerical errors, and should be p80-p84-p86)

As the P80 jet fighter modified from the F8D reconnaissance aircraft, its flight speed and flight altitude are very high, because the interception time and window are relatively short, so it is more difficult to intercept, the US Air Force is also very fond of using the F8D reconnaissance aircraft for reconnaissance, this is the same as the Chinese Air Force likes to use the F12E reconnaissance aircraft for the same, the times are advancing, technology is advancing, and the specific mode of war is constantly changing.

However, ordinary interception is more difficult, but when the F8D reconnaissance aircraft faced the S1 air defense missile, it could not dodge, although the hit rate of the S1 missile was relatively low at that time, so that it took three S1 missiles to shoot down the F8D, but this time the actual combat effect was to make the S1 air defense missile really get the attention of the military high-brass.

The follow-up caused by the actual combat effect of the S1 anti-aircraft missile is a later story, so I will not mention it for the time being.

The frequent clashes between July and October have subsided in November, leaving the world at a semblance of calm as everyone awaits the outcome of the Baghdad talks.

And this 1945 was spent peacefully in the Baghdad negotiations, and this Christmas in the West was also the first Christmas in Western countries in several years that could not be spent in the flames of war.

With the advent of 1946, all kinds of bargaining Baghdad negotiations are still going on, although everyone no longer wants to fight, but there are still many differences on various issues, such as Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union and other countries demand reparations from Germany, and demand the trial of many generals in Germany, these conditions are unacceptable to China and Germany, first of all, reparations, what is China keeping Germany for, in order to obtain a stable and powerful ally in Europe, and now Germany has been reduced to ruins, If a staggering amount of war reparations were to be made, Germany would be completely abolished, and it would basically repeat the situation of Germany in the twenties and thirties, and there was no guarantee that there would be no second Hitler under the economic and political turmoil. The second question of war criminals is that if they are members of the Nazi Party, it will be forgotten, but most of the people who Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union are high-ranking generals of the German Wehrmacht, and even many of them are now high-ranking officials and generals in important positions in the German political axe, and many of these people are pro-China elements, and Chen Jingyun certainly cannot let them all be tried by Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union.

At the same time, there is also a very crucial issue on the issue of German disarmament, Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union insisted that Germany should not retain a huge army, and only allow Germany to have an army with a size of no more than 100,000 people, a naval force with a tonnage of no more than 100,000 tons, and no more than 500 combat aircraft. The Germans haven't objected to this condition, Gu Weijun just patted the table and objected, joking, if the Germans only have such a small number of troops, then why does China want such an ally, it is not as useful as Finland and Turkey.

In the face of the above problems, it is almost impossible for the negotiations to be negotiated in a short period of time, the negotiators are wasting saliva in Baghdad, and the personal contacts between Chen Jingyun and Truman are also continuing; to a certain extent, the core of the Baghdad negotiations is not the war of words between the representatives of various countries, but the dialogue between Chen Jingyun and Truman.

In other words, whether the war will stop or not, how to stop the war, the decision is in the hands of China and the United States, Britain and Germany have no decision, and Soviet Russia also has no decision, at most it is just a few shouts.

However, although the Baghdad negotiations have not yet ended, the end of the war is certain, and all that remains is all that is left is the conditions of an armistice, and even if an armistice agreement cannot be reached within a few years, to tell the truth, there will be no large-scale war after 1946.

And many years of war have exhausted all countries, not every country is the same as China and the United States, the local area has not been traumatized by the war, the casualties are not large, can continue to maintain a large army, and can still shout that if you make me unhappy, I will make the whole world unhappy. Russia, Germany, Great Britain, France and Italy, which had only been restored for a few months, had been traumatized by the war, and they were now in dire need of peace to heal the wounds of war.

This world war, to be precise, should have started with the German attack on Poland in 1939, that is, by 1946, the war had been going on for seven years. In the past seven years, all the participating countries have suffered losses more or less, needless to say China and the United States, the local losses are almost equal to zero, the losses are mainly military casualties and equipment losses, the United States [***] people died about 300,000, and China is less, from 1939 to include the 1940 Southeast Asian War, 1940 Olaf Sino-Soviet conflict, 1941 Sino-Russian War, 1944 Sino-Chinese War, 1945 European War, and even including China and Britain, France, In the large and small military conflicts between Britain and the United States, about 130,000 soldiers were killed in the above-mentioned wars, of which 40,000 were killed in the Sino-Russian war, about 60,000 were killed in the Sino-Chinese war, about 10,000 were killed in the European war, and about 20,000 were killed in other military conflicts with various countries and anti-guerrilla warfare in the occupied areas. 130,000 people were killed, which would be a lot if it was just a war, but it was actually a very small amount for six years of many wars.

Compared with the smaller losses of China and the United States, the other major participating countries have more dead soldiers, the German army has about 3.5 million dead soldiers, the Soviet army has about 10 million dead soldiers, although the British army has only more than 200,000 native troops, but when it comes to the British army in these years, it actually refers to the British Commonwealth forces, including the British [***] team, the Australian army, the Canadian army, the South African army, New Zealand and the Indian colonial army, these people add up to more, It's about half a million or so.

In the defeated countries, Italy also lost hundreds of thousands, while in the Pacific Ocean, there were more than 1 million, and in addition, the Republic of Russia, which was destroyed by China, also lost more than 200,000 soldiers.

In addition, there are some second-tier countries, such as North Korea, Thailand, Iran, and Turkey in Asia, with a population ranging from a few thousand to tens of thousands. The Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, and Romania in Europe also range from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands

In addition to the direct death, there are actually a large number of wounded, some of these wounded are not disabled, but many soldiers are left with physical disabilities, missing arms and legs, etc., this part of the personnel is widespread in various countries, and the number is relatively large.