readx; October is destined to be an unusual time, not only the Soviet-German war has reached the most critical moment, but more importantly, it is said that "Ben and China and the United States have joined the war one after another, saying" Ben declared war on Britain and the United States, which directly led to the outbreak of the Pacific War, and also pulled the United States into this world war, and China, to the surprise of other countries, did not declare war on Soviet Russia but declared war on the Russian Republic, and the impact was even greater than that of the United States entering the war, because China declared war on the Russian Republic, and to support Soviet Russia and form a paramilitary alliance. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, it is also very important to note that China's attitude towards the outside world is very complex, and it cannot simply be regarded as an alliance with Britain and the United States or hostile to Germany.

Not only did it declare war on the Russian Republic and support Soviet Russia against Germany, but at the same time China continued to provide Germany with a lot of resources.

In addition, China has also provided all-round resource support to the "Ben" in order to prolong the war continuity, even though Britain and the United States seriously oppose it, and even after Britain returned Hong Kong to China, China has not stopped supporting the "Ben", and in this respect, China has indirectly confronted Britain and the United States.

It can be said that China's current strategic direction is vague to outsiders. But in Chen Jingyun's mind, and even in the hearts of several other China's core decision-makers, there is a very clear strategic purpose. First of all, the first point was to guarantee the absolute security of the northern regions, and for this purpose it led to the declaration of war against the Russian Republic and the support of Soviet Russia. The second point is to weaken the war capabilities of Britain and the United States to the greatest extent and expand China's interests in the Pacific and Southeast Asia, and this has led to China's support.

"Now it is said that 'my offensive is very fast, their fleet in the Pacific has been mobilized to the east, and is ready to strike at the British Far East Fleet and the Indian Ocean Fleet, once they control the sea in the South China Sea, then their operations in Southeast Asia, Malaysia, and the Philippines will be smoother!'"

Guan Shijie pointed to a huge map of China and neighboring countries and said: "And in terms of the strength of this navy in the Battle of Pearl Harbor, they should not have much problem defeating the British fleet in Asia!" ”

Chen Jingyun nodded after hearing this: "I said, 'Although I said that we were disrupted by our attack on the Russian Republic, they have no way to retreat, and they can only strengthen and speed up their actions to obtain the benefits they need!" ”

Gu Weijun said: "There is one thing that needs to be noted, and now it is said that 'this side has begun to test the US side and seek peace with the United States!'" ”

After hearing this, Chen Jingyun said with a smile: "This said, 'My own calculations are good, but their ideas are doomed to fail, and Roosevelt of the United States finally found an excuse to persuade the American people to join the war, unless he said, 'Ben is an unconditional surrender, otherwise don't think that the United States will agree to Ben's request for peace!'" ”

The United States has long begun to prepare for war, otherwise last year and this year would not have spent a huge amount of military expenditure to expand its troops, the Essex-class aircraft carrier alone has already started construction of more than a dozen, and the battleships are also a large vote, such a large-scale military expansion is clearly to participate in the war!

Now that Ben took the initiative to declare war on the United States, this gave Roosevelt the best excuse to enter the war.

However, then again, the situation of the United States in the Pacific Ocean is very uneasy, two aircraft carriers were sunk, so that the United States has only one aircraft carrier left in the Pacific, although the United States has begun to transfer the Atlantic Fleet back to the Pacific Ocean, and at the same time has begun to urgently modify the hulls of some cruisers into aircraft carriers to increase the strength of the Navy's carrier-based aviation, but the role that the US Navy can play in the Pacific Ocean in the short term will not be too large.

The weakening of the U.S. Navy's presence in the Pacific region also enabled the U.S. Navy to free up its hands to carry out a series of operations against the British Asian Fleet, and without the Battle of Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy would not have been able to free up its hands so quickly.'

According to the Navy's expectations and the secret agreement between the Navy in September and October, the British Navy was originally dealt with by the Chinese Navy, and Chen Jingyun also believed that China would take action against the British, not only deploying a large number of army and air forces in Southeast Asia, but also transferring most of the main fleet of the Chinese Navy to the South China Sea.

Chen Jingyun's original strategy was that the Chinese Navy would blockade the eastern part of the Strait of Malacca, forcing the British Navy to be unable to cooperate with the US Navy, so that the Navy could have enough strength to deal with the US Navy, but after the Battle of Pearl Harbor, the US Navy's power in the Pacific Ocean was greatly weakened, so Chen Jingyun also relaxed the blockade of the eastern waters of Malacca, and reduced the activities of the Navy in the Gulf of Thailand and the southern part of the South China Sea, thus showing a very obvious signal. That is, now we don't stop the British, you and say, 'I'm fighting, so if you want to fight, hurry up!'

In the second half of October, countries are implementing their own strategic plans in a step-by-step manner, and the most important thing for China at present is nothing more than the rapid strategy of the entire territory of the Russian Republic.

Since the Seventh Army conquered Ulan-Ude, the Seventh Army took Ulan-Ude as the general logistics base and quickly attacked the strongholds in the central region of Russia, but due to the fact that Russia's military strength in the domestic region is not strong, whether it is the actions of the Seventh Army or the Eighth Army, the scale of the campaigns they conducted is relatively small, and these two major armies occupy an absolute superiority in strength and equipment, so the progress is still very rapid.

However, in the direction of Siberia and Central Asia, the advance speed of China's army and air force is relatively slow, after all, the Russian Republic has deployed almost all the main forces in Siberia and Central Asia because of the factor of attacking Soviet Russia, and when China attacked the Russian Republic, a large number of the main forces of the Russian Defense Forces began to be transferred from the Soviet Russian front to the eastern front to resist China's attack.

Due to the transfer of a large number of the main forces of the Russian Defense Forces from the Western Front, the momentum of the rout of Soviet Russia on the Eastern Front has finally stopped, you must know that if the Russian Republic of China declares war, it is estimated that the Russian Defense Forces will reach the Volga River. However, although the Russian Defense Forces mobilized a strong main force to return to the Eastern Front, the Soviet Russian Eastern Front still did not have the ability to counterattack in a short period of time.

Even Soviet Russia did not plan to counterattack, but instead drew a large number of troops from the eastern front to reinforce the western front, because the eastern front has the existence of China, it is doomed that the Russian Republic is bound to lose, and even without the need for Soviet Russia to vigorously counterattack, China will be able to clean up the Russian Republic, now for Soviet Russia, the most important thing is the western front, the Germans have hit the outskirts of Moscow, and now Soviet Russia and the German army are engaged in a tragic offensive and defensive war around Moscow, can Soviet Russia survive this difficulty, It depends on whether Soviet Russia can hold Moscow, and if it does, then it will be able to prevent the situation of Soviet Russia from being defeated on the Western Front, and turn into a situation of strategic stalemate, so that Soviet Russia can win the most important time!

As long as Soviet Russia can hold on, then a large amount of aid from China, Britain and the United States can be continuously imported into Soviet Russia for Soviet Russia to recover.

Not only did China need Soviet Russia to block the pace of German expansion, but Britain and the United States needed Soviet Russia even more to hold back Germany's energy.

Therefore, although there are many differences between China and Britain and the United States on the situation in the Pacific and Southeast Asia, there is still a lot of agreement on the support of Soviet Russia. It can also be seen from this that the relations between countries in 1941 were very complicated, especially China's diplomatic strategy, and outsiders could not judge China's cards according to common sense.

With the support of China, Britain and the United States, even if Soviet Russia lost a large part of the territory and various resources in Eastern Europe, Soviet Russia was still able to hold on, but it was only barely persistent, and there were not enough troops for the offensive on the Eastern Front.

In Siberia and Central Asia, the Chinese Army and Air Force are mainly responsible for the operation of the Russian Republic, and the actions of the Chinese Army and Air Force in the area east of Lake Baikal can be described as smooth, but in the direction of Siberia and Central Asia, the Chinese Army has encountered stubborn resistance from the Russian Defense Forces, which far exceeded the advance of the General Staff, especially the two extremely important cities of Astana and Barnaul, which have been stubbornly resisted by the Russian Defense Forces. Even in the south of Central Asia, that is, along the Central Asian Railway, the offensive was not smooth, after conquering Shymkent and encircling a division of the Russian Defense Forces, I originally thought that I would soon be able to take Ares and advance all the way west, but what I didn't expect was that the encircled division of the Russian Defense Forces, under the response of another division of the Russian Defense Forces, actually broke through the layers of interception of the Fifth Army of the Fourth Army and jumped out of the encirclement of the Fifth Army.

Even though the Fifth Army also inflicted heavy losses on this Russian division, killing and wounding thousands of Russian troops, it was a complete failure from a strategic point of view, the important thing is not that it could not destroy many Russian troops, but that after these two Russian divisions converged, it became extremely difficult for Ares to gnaw.

No matter from what point of view, this result can be regarded as a serious tactical mistake, it is impossible to take Ares in a short time, it is impossible to quickly break through to the Caspian Sea along the Central Asian Railway, and with the support of the Central Asian Railway, the Fourth Army will simply not be able to mobilize too many troops to carry out the predetermined strategy in the entire Central Asian region, after all, after leaving the railway, the logistics of the troops will become much more difficult, this is not an attack by a division of several thousand people, but an attack by the Fourth Army with more than 200,000 troops, and the logistical pressure is extremely huge. The delay in the capture of Ares brought great delay to the actions of the Fourth Army, and it can be said that it directly challenged the Central Asia strategy formulated by the General Staff to realize

In the event of such a mistake, Chen Jingyun directly sent a telegram to General Li Lianyang, commander of the Fourth Group Army, of course, there will be no criticism on the surface, on the contrary, there are words of comfort and encouragement, but the meaning behind this is already very obvious, Chen Jingyun is seriously dissatisfied with the slow action of the Fourth Group Army.

Li Lianyang is a veteran in the Chinese Army, as a general from the second battalion, he is the first generation of generals in the Chinese Army, and he has been with Chen Jingyun for so long, where he still doesn't understand what Chen Jingyun means, and he himself doesn't want to meet the iron plate in the little Ares.

This made Li Lianyang feel a deep sense of crisis, he didn't want his reputation to be ruined in this little Ares, if he caused major problems in the army's strategy in Central Asia because of his improper command, then what was waiting for him was definitely not a good end, maybe he would be forced to retire from active service.

Chen Jingyun has almost zero tolerance for the mistakes of his generals, as long as Li Lianyang cannot save this crisis, then Chen Jingyun will definitely not hesitate to change generals, this situation has happened many times in history, and most of these temporarily removed generals are unlikely to be reused, and this stain cannot be washed away for a lifetime.

Just like Chen Weihua, the defeat of Zhenjiang decades ago has dealt a great blow to his military career, when the four officers of the old second battalion have been promoted to general except for him, but Chen Weihua has not been promoted, and after the mid-thirties, he has already launched the ranks of first-line generals, and in 1936, he became the commander of the South China garrison and almost announced that he could not go further.

In order to save the situation, in addition to sending troops to reinforce the direction of Ares, Li Lianyang also began to bypass Ares to directly attack other areas of the Central Asian Railway, so that although he left the logistical support of the railway, with the mobility of some mechanized troops under the Fourth Army and the air supremacy controlled by the Chinese Air Force in this airspace, Li Lianyang was sure to ensure the logistics supply of mechanized troops.

The mechanized unit that went out of the mobile is the third division, the third division, as the first division of the Chinese Army to establish a division-level number of troops, and several other troops are the trump card units of the Chinese Army, although the reputation of the third division in the army is not comparable to the ninth division, but the reason for this is because the ninth division was too strong during the civil war when Zuo Yugang was the division commander, and the great exploits of the ninth division obscured the names of several other ace troops, but after decades, The construction of the 3rd Division is not in any way behind the 9th Division. The equipment and training were no worse than those of the Ninth Division, and even in an exercise in the thirties, the Third and Ninth Divisions, the two ace divisions, usually competed, and the Third Division achieved the record of completely defeating the Ninth Division.

The 3rd Division, like the 9th Division, was the first unit in China to be converted into a motorized infantry division, and later a mechanized infantry division at the same time.

The current commander of the Third Division is Major General Li Yuting, who is also an old general, if it weren't for the fact that there are too many generals with outstanding combat achievements in the Chinese Army, the competition for promotion is too great, and Li Yuting's age is relatively young, otherwise he would have been promoted to lieutenant general a long time ago.

Li Yuting, who was sitting in the jeep, looked at the long queue of cars in front of him, and remembered General Li Lianyang's personal instructions to him before departure: "This operation is related to whether our army can quickly advance to the Caspian Sea and establish strategic superiority in the entire Central Asian region. ”

Li Yuting's task was to lead the Third Division to attack Turkestan for a long time, cut off the connection between the two divisions of the Russian army in the Ares area and the Russian army in the west, and block the Russian army's reinforcement of Ares, so as to create an opportunity for the Fifth Army's attack on Ares.

After the Russian army transferred a large number of main forces from the Western Front to reinforce, there were troops returning to the Eastern Front from the Western Front every day, and the strength of the Russian army in Ares was also increasing day by day, once Ares's strength reached more than three or four divisions, then it would be difficult to take it down in a short time with the Fifth Army alone, and the Fourth Army on top looked like a lot of troops

The mechanized unit that went out of the mobile is the third division, the third division, as the first division of the Chinese Army to establish a division-level number of troops, and several other troops are the trump card units of the Chinese Army, although the reputation of the third division in the army is not comparable to the ninth division, but the reason for this is because the ninth division was too strong during the civil war when Zuo Yugang was the division commander, and the great exploits of the ninth division obscured the names of several other ace troops, but after decades, The construction of the 3rd Division is not in any way behind the 9th Division. The equipment and training were no worse than those of the Ninth Division, and even in an exercise in the thirties, the Third and Ninth Divisions, the two ace divisions, usually competed, and the Third Division achieved the record of completely defeating the Ninth Division.

The 3rd Division, like the 9th Division, was the first unit in China to be converted into a motorized infantry division, and later a mechanized infantry division at the same time.

The current commander of the Third Division is Major General Li Yuting, who is also an old general, if it weren't for the fact that there are too many generals with outstanding combat achievements in the Chinese Army, the competition for promotion is too great, and Li Yuting's age is relatively young, otherwise he would have been promoted to lieutenant general a long time ago.

Li Yuting, who was sitting in the jeep, looked at the long queue of cars in front of him, and remembered General Li Lianyang's personal instructions to him before departure: "This operation is related to whether our army can quickly advance to the Caspian Sea and establish strategic superiority in the entire Central Asian region. ”

Li Yuting's task was to lead the Third Division to attack Turkestan for a long time, cut off the connection between the two divisions of the Russian army in the Ares area and the Russian army in the west, and block the Russian army's reinforcement of Ares, so as to create an opportunity for the Fifth Army's attack on Ares.

Li Yuting's task was to lead the Third Division to attack Turkestan for a long time, cut off the connection between the two divisions of the Russian army in the Ares area and the Russian army in the west, and block the Russian army's reinforcement of Ares, so as to create an opportunity for the Fifth Army's attack on Ares.