Chapter 825: Iran and the Middle East Situation
readx; In order to be able to smoothly launch the Australian campaign, to cut off the United States' maritime transportation and supplies to Australia, and of course, more importantly, to attract and eliminate the remnants of the US Navy in the Pacific, it is said that "this Navy has carefully planned and even leaked false information to make the Americans think that it was supposed to launch a landing operation against Australia in mid-April." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Prior to this, Ben had basically occupied the islands of the South Pacific, including the Indonesian archipelago, including the Malaysian archipelago, the Philippines, and the island of New Guinea.
He said, "I originally had a colony on the island of New Guinea, and after the war began, I quickly occupied the rest of the island of New Guinea, especially the extremely important Port Moresby, through direct land marching and naval cooperation, so that this navy obtained an extremely important naval base to prevent the United States from shipping reinforcements to Australia."
In order to prevent the U.S. Navy from landing in Australia, the U.S. Navy has already assembled in Australian waters and is preparing to meet the U.S. Navy.
In mid-April, a large-scale naval and air battle broke out between the main fleet of the Navy and the 17th Task Force of the US Pacific Fleet, which attracted the attention of not only the United States but also China.
Even in order to obtain true and accurate information about the US navies, the Chinese Navy once again took the risk of sending observation vessels to observe closely, and a small fleet consisting of four destroyers and two light cruisers was active in this sea area from the beginning to the end of the war, and recorded a large number of battles between the two sides. And recording this process is also extremely dangerous, one of the light cruisers has encountered several aircraft of the United States and the United States, one of which was also attacked by several aircraft of unknown nationality, resulting in the Chinese cruiser was forced to counterattack, the reason why the nationality of these four aircraft is unknown is because there is no obvious national emblem on the plane, and it is not the main fighter in service of Britain and the United States, but it is very strange that China's active aircraft F4 fighter, China's F4 fighter is sold so much, And because the surname can be good, foreign imitations are not from time to time, Spain, Italy and even the United Kingdom have imitation models of F4 fighters.
It is not clear who is attacking, so the Chinese Navy can only suffer such a loss, and then counterattack the incoming aircraft, which is not a loss!
As soon as the Coral Sea War between the United States and the United States ended, the Chinese Admiralty submitted a report on the battle to Chen Jingyun!
"According to the intelligence fed back by our ships in the Coral Sea, this time the Americans lost the battle again, and the two aircraft carriers participating in the battle sank one and the other should have been injured. And said, "This side is also sinking a modified aircraft carrier, but the main force is the loss, according to uncertain news, their Xianghe should be damaged a lot, and it is estimated that it will not be able to participate in other wars in the short term!" ”
Guan Shijie continued: "After this battle, this navy has taken control of the Coral Sea, and at the same time seriously threatens the sea transportation line from the United States to Australia. ”
"After this battle, it was said, 'Ben's landing on Australia should also officially begin!'" Chen Yi on the other side said: "With the strength of the landing force, it is still easy to get on the beachhead, but if you want to completely occupy Australia, it is very difficult!" ”
Chen Yi said that there is a reason, Australia is different from other islands in the South Pacific, although Australia is also an island, it is a continent in itself, and such a vast Australia is not something that any small island can occupy casually. In addition, Australia is very important to Britain and the United States, and it is the first front line against the so-called "Ben", and Britain and the United States will not let Australia fall no matter what, so the United States and Britain must invest more resources and troops in Australia.
The United States will increase its investment in Australia, which means that they will reduce their investment in Europe, and the European theater, especially in Africa, will need to rely more on Britain's own strength, and after the Allies invest less in Europe and Africa, it means that Germany will face less pressure and the time of defeat will be slower.
This is very advantageous for China, which aims to delay the war.
Whether it is the war between Ben and Britain and the United States, or the war between Germany and Soviet Russia and Britain and the United States, Chen Jingyun hopes that they can hold out longer, preferably until the day when the old earth is destroyed.
Of course, with China's usual methods, it will not be possible to directly declare war on foreign countries, and it is unlikely that it will directly send troops. But not declaring war and not sending troops does not mean that China will do nothing.
After the great results of instigating the reading power of various ethnic groups in Southeast Asia have achieved great results, China has again targeted India and the Middle East, and the way it has adopted is still the same as before, that is, to support the cause of reading power of local ethnic groups and provoke them to launch an armed reading power action.
And China is so foolish in India, which naturally makes Britain very unhappy, China's actions in Burma have made Britain very dissatisfied, and once almost caused a war between the two countries, and now the British do not recognize Burma's reading power. However, Britain did not recognize it, and there was no way, and the Republic of Burma had already been recognized by China, Soviet Russia, and Ben, as well as by Germany and Italy.
Although the British army was forced to withdraw from Yangon, an important city in Burma, the British army is currently massing heavy forces in the Bay of Bengal area and is carrying out a counteroffensive against the Burmese People's Army.
In other words, the British army is currently at war with China-backed Burma, and in this case, China continues to make trouble in India, how can this be acceptable to the British?
For a time, Sino-British relations in the Indian Ocean once again became tense.
In the face of growing tensions between China and the UK, Chen Jingyun did not relent, but instead intensified the incident, this time not in Myanmar or India, but in the Middle East, Iran and Iraq.
Iran's position in the whole of World War II was not low, of course, this is not to say how important Iran's political axe was, but how important Iran's geographical location was. In World War II, Iran was only an oil supplier and a peripheral ally of China in the minds of the world.
However, since the German attack on Soviet Russia, the important surname of Iran has suddenly become important, because of the common enemy of Germany, Britain and the United States absolutely provide a large amount of aid to Soviet Russia, and there are three channels that can send supplies to Soviet Russia, one is to go through northern Norway, cross the Arctic Ocean to Soviet Russia, one is to go through the Mediterranean Sea and then enter the Black Sea, and the other is to transport itself to Soviet Russia through Iran's north-south railway.
Among them, Iran's material transportation channel is undoubtedly the most important, but it has to be admitted that such an important channel is actually controlled by China, because everyone knows that Iran has had close cooperative relations with China since the twenties, and in the thirties, if there was no strong opposition from the British, the Chinese Navy would have leased Iran's military bases.
In the early stage of World War II, the competition between Britain, Soviet Russia, and China in Iran intensified, and the Germans in these three countries were also messing around on the other side, so the situation in Iran in recent years has become a bit chaotic.
However, this situation was completely changed after February 1942, because at that time China had completely taken over the entire Central Asian region, that is to say, China and Iran already bordered on land, and in order to further increase China's influence in Iran and the Middle East, the Central Asia branch of the China Railway Company directly invested heavily in the construction of a railway to connect the Central Asian railway with the Iranian railway network. If this can be successful, it basically means that China's military can enter Iran and the Middle East in a big way at any time.
That's not all, China also provoked the Iraqi side, so that the Kingdom of Iraq also took the opportunity of the world war to ask Britain to obtain complete reading power, and this demand was naturally not allowed by Britain, so the world war was still fighting, and Iraq's standing army clashed with Britain.
This world war was a tragedy for Britain, the empire that never fell, and was forced to spend countless money to deal with the German attack, not to mention, almost the entire colonies of the world set off a wave of reading power, especially in Asia, although the British political axe has adopted the procrastination trick, on the one hand, it promises to give reading power after the war, and on the other hand, it is stubbornly grasping the right to rule. And several other powers in the world, including his ally the United States, actually wish that all these British colonies could read.
Now that China has not only returned to Iran in a big way, but also stirred up affairs on the Iraqi side, Sino-British relations have once again become tense!
The most immediate response to the tensions between China and the UK is that the navies of the two countries are frequently facing each other in the Indian Ocean, and the increasing threat in the Indian Ocean has also led China to continue to send additional fleets to the Indian Ocean.
Numerous ships began to depart from the country, pass through the Strait of Malacca and then join the Third Fleet. He was accompanied by a large number of naval officers.
In a huge manor on the outskirts of Nanjing, this manor may not be well known to outsiders, but from the gate outside the manor, there are several armed guards guarding it, and it can be seen that it is inhabited by military and political dignitaries.
Hong Zitai was a high-ranking official in the national army system during the Fuzhou Uprising, and then held important positions in the political axe for many years, until he gradually retired after the twenties, but even after he retired, he still maintained great prestige and power, often in and out of the presidential palace, and Chen Jingyun's personal friendship is very deep.
Although there is a big gap between Chen Jingyun's age and the older generation, in today's China, only these military and political dignitaries who were in the high-level during the Fuzhou Uprising era can intersect with Chen Jingyun's peers, and only those few people can let go of their lofty figure and say some kind words, don't look at the early Chen Jingyun and Zheng Zuyin and other civil officials who fought openly and secretly, but in fact, Chen Jingyun and the older generation of Hong Zitai, An Hualin, Zheng Zuyin and others still have a deep relationship. When it comes to these personal feelings, the vast majority of military and political dignitaries are not comparable to them, and the most obvious example is that even military bigwigs like Shen Gang dare not have a relationship with Chen Jingyun's peers.
Hong Zitai and Chen Jingyun have a close personal relationship, and Hong Zitai has lived long enough, when An Hualin and other leaders of the older generation gradually passed away, only he Hong Zitai is still alive and well, and today in 1941, people who are already over 80 years old are still in good spirits.