The effects of the events on Red Square are finally being felt. The shadow of defeat hung over the heads of the Soviet Russian troops.

On the contrary, the Germans were demoralized and broke through the third line of defense of Moscow in one fell swoop.

Since then, the three defensive fronts of the 300 kilometers west of Moscow have been lost, and the 1.8 million German army has entered Moscow in early December.

But this was only the beginning, and the brutal Moscow street fighting was just beginning.

Lao Xi was very optimistic, he had already attacked the core of Soviet Russia, his confidence was extremely inflated, and he gave an order to transfer out the tank units that played a small role in street fighting.

Guderian continued to advance to the south with armored forces, participating in the conquest of the Caucasus in the queue. The army in Moscow was quickly reduced to 1.2 million, which correspondingly reduced the logistical pressure. However, when the Germans invaded the periphery of Moscow, they were dragged to death by the Soviet and Russian soldiers who kept shouting for Ulla to rush out from the ruins.

Faced with bitter cold and a steady stream of Russian reinforcements from elsewhere, the Germans were at a stalemate in Moscow.

The Japanese offensive on the other hand continued to advance all the way. Entering Java in early December, the 7th captured Bandung.

On the same day, the Japanese 55th Division defeated the British 7th Panzer Brigade at Bago. In desperation, Alexander, the British commander in Burma, ordered the troops to withdraw from Rangoon. More than 3,000 British and Indian troops withdrew to Donghu, and at this time, Dai Anlan's 200th Division had successively arrived at Donghu, that is, Tonggu or Donggua, and launched a defense nearby.

Alexander was always worried about the troops on the Chongqing side, and did not want to rush them to participate in the defense of Rangoon, and only when Rangoon was already facing defeat did he remember that there were such reinforcements to be used as cannon fodder. The 200th Division had more than 16,000 men. Moreover, there is also a 100,000-strong expeditionary force from the Chongqing side in the rear, which has entered Burma and is marching towards Myitkyina and Mandalay. This emboldened the British.

On the 9th, the Japanese army easily received Rangoon, which the British had abandoned, and began to divide their troops into three routes. Continue your advance to the west and north.

It was not that they were unaware of the entry of the Chinese army into the war, but after hearing that it was not the vanguard army but the Chongqing side, the Japanese base camp breathed a sigh of relief and ordered a direct attack.

The Japanese at least knew that the vanguard army and the Chongqing side were not dealing with each other, and now they went directly from friction to the war step.

When the eyes of the world were fixed on Soviet Russia and Southeast Asia in December, a war was also set off in the south of China.

December 1. The vanguard army of the Anning area, which had been clearing out bandits in Guizhou, suddenly dispatched and divided into three routes from Shuicheng, Panxian, and Xingyi to the Xuanwei, Qujing, and Luoping areas of Yunnan.

In addition, there were also two vanguard armies from Guangxi from Baise and Napo, directly attacking Pao Pass and Funing.

The vanguard army guarding the area around Mangkang also sent troops to march towards Dekan and other places.

Everywhere the vanguard army passed, the Central Army, the Yunnan Army, or the spontaneously organized militia groups all surrendered to the wind.

Originally, Meng Xiang had set up a sub-base in the area of Wumeng Mountain in eastern Yunnan.

Whether it is Liupanshui in the east, Zhaotong in the north, and Qujing in the south. All of them are coal-rich areas in the southern region, which are suitable for resettlement sub-bases. However, the layout of the sub-base this time did not make much use, and there was no need for internal and external echoes at all.

Whether it is the army of Yunnan or the people of Yunnan, they are already looking forward to the vanguard army coming to liberate them.

Not to mention the various good policies publicized on the radio, just looking at the changes in Guangxi and Guizhou, the people of Yunnan have long been unable to hold their breath. Even in the army, if it weren't for the suppression of the superior officers, they would have gone to the vanguard army as a soldier long ago. But even so. There were also many soldiers who fled, and a large number of civilians often stormed the checkpoints and defected to the territory of the vanguard army with their families.

They had been waiting for the vanguard to come. Give them land, tax-free clothing, and let compulsory education and cheap medical care fall on their heads. It is a pity that the vanguard army was busy digesting and absorbing the recovered territory, and the balance of forces on all sides, and never continued to march southwest.

After all, the local forces in various localities are too huge, and all kinds of policies also need huge funds and sufficient policy personnel to implement them in place, so as not to become another kind of formalism. And the Chongqing government erected there, there has always been a contrast. became the target of the release of various contradictions.

And now, it is time for the Chongqing government to dedicate itself.

The vanguard army of the Sixth Route Army went out together and directly opened the gates on the east and west sides of Yunnan.

The vanguard army did not have time to advance slowly, and the airborne troops once again put on a show over Dali and Kunming, and guerrilla units infiltrated from all over the country also emerged together. While Long Yun and Lao Jiang were surprised that the border was lost, they took the county towns and important places in various places under control.

"Obviously, the people in the information came in empty-handed. But now they even got tanks out. After all, you can't prevent it! Long Yun looked at the umbrella flowers falling outside the headquarters, which had already aimed at the five Sherman tanks at the door, sighed, and gave the order to give up resistance.

The vanguard army had already been in contact with him, but the vanguard army would never allow the continued existence of local independent warlords, which made Long Yun, who was born in the Yi nationality, have a lot of scruples. In addition, in order to win him over, Chongqing promised to give him more freedom, so that he has been leaning towards Chongqing and maintaining a somewhat transcendent position.

But now everything is gone, and in the radio station of the headquarters, there are continuous urgent telegrams from all over the country, but except for a few requests for help, almost all of them are in despair.

"There are hundreds of planes in the sky, obscuring the clouds and the sun, and there are more tanks outside the city than all our artillery, and the city gate is blasted open with one shot, how can this be fought?"

"As soon as the umbrella flowers fell over there, the militia and the people here opened the city gate first, and the brothers refused to shoot inside, what can we do?"

The generals of the defending army in various places were also full of complaints, and when they heard the reprimand of the headquarters, they also complained one after another.

After joining the Vanguard Army, the interests of middle and lower officers will be further enhanced, and the greater impact will be on the privileges of senior officers. Long Yun and the others may have lost a lot of ground, but the officers below have little to do with it, where would they take the risk of shooting at the vanguard army?

"People have more machine guns than our rifles, shoot a bird?" A battalion commander directly kicked down a company commander who had come to ask for instructions to return fire, and before the guerrillas of the vanguard army that had emerged from the mountains and forests outside the city rushed to the city gate, they first raised the flag and revolted.

Directly joined the vanguard army, with good treatment and high honor, and both sides know how to choose. If you don't surrender, you will be killed as a reactionary and in vain. Even if the surrender is over, maybe he will be targeted by his guns, and he will be a wronged ghost in vain.

In just one week, most of Yunnan has been controlled by the vanguard army, and the speed of recovery also makes Meng Xiangdu feel a little surprised.

In fact, as long as he saw the place where the vanguard army passed, and the people greeted him, he knew that his various preferential policies had finally played a big role.

The vanguard army's subsistence allowance and various policies are directly in front of everyone's eyes, which is clear at a glance and very simple, but neither the central army, local warlords, nor other forces such as the Red Party are able to do so, nor can they be replaced by more preferential policies.

The key to this is only one word, money! Two words, lack of money!

It turns out that in history, the Chinese army faced the pressure of the Japanese invaders, and they couldn't even afford to raise the army, so where could they take care of the people's livelihood? Relying on the huge profits of the base, Meng Xiang first eliminated the bulk of military spending, and then used arms and foreign plundering to complete the primitive accumulation of the domestic industrial base, so as to avoid the embarrassment of the people's livelihood and benefit the people with various benefits.

This should have been the next generation of Huaxia, and even the next generation could only enjoy the benefits after completing the original accumulation of two or three generations, but it was benefited by Meng Xiang in advance.

This is Chi Guoguo's conspiracy, placed there, everyone knows it, but no one can imitate it.

It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice.

But Meng Xiang directly used his absolute strength and a lot of money to slowly squeeze the opponent to death. No matter which force in the country, whether red or blue, you don't have to rely on the army, and it is enough to drown them with the will of the people.

Now the details of all the forces in the country are placed in the archives of the vanguard army, but Meng Xiang did not clean it up in one fell swoop. In addition to some limitations, the way to deal with the enemy is not to destroy it directly, it is good to be able to set up a chess game, let the hostile forces jump in, become their own chess pieces, use them for their own use, and slowly consume them, which is a higher level of dealing with the enemy.

Besides, no matter which force in the country it is, it is no longer in the eyes of Meng Xiang, and it cannot be called his great enemy at all.

"The chess game in the south has begun, it's time for us to get in!" Meng Xiang no longer cared about the situation in Yunnan, with Lu Han's uprising and surrender, Long Yun gave up resistance, and Yunnan was already controlled by the vanguard army. Even the vanguard army directly landed in Xichang, Sichuan, and took Panzhihua and other areas south of Xichang into its pocket.

A complete set of smelting equipment from the Germans in exchange for military coats and other supplies has been shipped from Europe, and the final destination will be Panzhihua, which is still desolate at this time.

Roads there are difficult, infrastructure is poor, and transportation from the Yangtze River requires passing through the Three Gorges region, which is controlled by the Central Army. In order to block the possible attack of the vanguard army, Xue Yue led a heavy army to guard the banks of the Yangtze River.

Similarly, Hu Zongnan guarded Guangyuan, and many well-known generals of the Republic of China in later generations were still in the Central Army. Meng Xiang, who was unwilling to meet directly with them and hoped to direct their attack power abroad, was not in a hurry to attack Sichuan, and continued to boil toads in warm water, squeezing Lao Jiang to death little by little.

As soon as Yunnan was captured by the vanguard army, the agreement between the Chongqing government and the British, which was trapped around the vanguard army, was already half annulled. (To be continued)