Chapter 948: The German Question II

readx; If the United States does not launch a large-scale landing operation against Germany for a day, then Germany cannot be truly defeated. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoIf China insists on supporting Germany to the end, then it is useless for the United States to land in Europe.

Therefore, the current situation in Europe is actually in the hands of China and the United States, and the game between China and the United States has a direct impact on the situation in Europe and the situation in the whole world.

In the past few years, the game between China and the United States has not only been confined to Europe and Asia, but also in the Middle East, Africa, and even South America, where the United States has backyard.

Needless to say, China's support for the war with Germany is not to mention, and in Africa, it has also begun to actively engage with the local natives, trying to win over the local natives. You must know that Africa at that time was almost all colonies, in World War II there was only one reading country, the others were all colonies, even Ethiopia before World War II was annexed by Italy before World War II, and now Ethiopia and Egypt and Libya and other North African regions have become the battlefield of the German-Italian coalition and the allies, the only one who maintained the reading status in World War II is Liberia, and in fact, this country is only superficial. The power of this country is controlled by the descendants of black immigrants in the United States, and earlier there was a governor sent by the American Colonization Association, and now although it is said to be readable, it has a close relationship with the United States, and it is almost the same as a vassal state.

As for the rest, they were all colonies, whether they were South Africa or Egypt.

Since the thirties, Chinese intelligence agents and businessmen have been extensively active in Africa, making contact with local natives, selling weapons, etc., in order to support the local aborigines, and the Americans are also doing these things, which everyone is doing, and when they do it, there will naturally be conflicts with each other, such as some guerrillas supported by China and local black forces supported by the allies to wage small-scale wars and so on.

And in South America, in this place known as the backyard of the United States, China spared no effort to expand China's influence here, at first it was just ordinary business cooperation, and then began to sell arms in South American homes, after all, the arms trade has a very strong political tendency.

Especially in Cuba, Chinese intelligence officers and arms dealers are also very active there, and there is a great deal of planning to put a nail in the door of the United States.

Of course, these disputes, whether in Africa or South America, are not big, that is, small-scale conflicts, and they cannot affect the general situation of the world.

Now that China and the United States have joined forces to clean up the Pacific Ocean, the Americans have suffered a lot here, and China has gained a lot of benefits, which has further aggravated the conflict between China and the United States.

However, although the conflict between China and the United States in the Pacific Ocean is large, both sides still maintain great restraint, after all, neither side has the confidence to start an all-out war with the other side and win the war.

Just after 1944, that is, at the beginning of January 1945, the United States openly announced that its strategic focus had shifted to Europe and that it would devote more forces and resources to the European front in order to completely liberate Europe and restore Europe to a peaceful world.

The United States wasted a lot of resources and sacrificed the lives of many soldiers, naturally not to liberate the European people from Hitler's clutches, but only to defeat Germany and completely control Europe, which not only has military value, but also has tremendous economic value.

The Americans are going to compete for the European region, and Chen Jingyun naturally will not watch the United States take over Europe without caring about anything, and it is certain to interfere, but in what way to interfere is a question, is it to continue to maintain or even increase support for Germany? Or is it to let the United States cede some of its Asian and European interests by giving up aid to Germany? Or is it simply to support Soviet Russia to take Germany ahead of the Americans, to support Soviet Russia as a big European country, and to turn the future world situation into a tripolar struggle for hegemony?

The German question is no longer just a question of the war situation in Europe, but also has a bearing on the trend of the post-war world situation.

At the beginning of the new year, Chen Jingyun, who had just been inaugurated as the fourth president in a row in accordance with the special law on wartime, convened a supreme strategic meeting, which was attended not only by the top military leaders, but also by the top leaders of the political axe, and this was a joint military-government strategic meeting, and there was only one topic for discussion, that is, when the United States was about to launch a large-scale landing attack on Germany, what should China do to protect China's interests to the greatest extent, not only the current interests, but also the post-war interests!

"Now that Germany's defeat has been revealed, according to the information reported back by our intelligence officers in Europe, the large-scale strategic bombing by China and Britain has bombed almost all the large cities in Germany after many years, and even Berlin is now in ruins, and the destruction of a large number of cities has directly led to the decline of Germany's production of various materials to an extremely dangerous level! Today, the Germans' production of airplanes, tanks, and other major weapons has dropped by at least 50 percent compared with last year! ”

"And their various supplies are very scarce, and many cities are no longer able to even achieve the minimum supply of living materials!" Marshal Chen Yi explained the situation in Europe to all the military and political dignitaries present.

"Limited by the continuous decline in the production of various materials in Germany, and the impact of the heavy damage to the Romanian oil fields, it is difficult for the German army on the Eastern Front to resist the attack of the Soviet Russian army!"

"At the same time, according to the information released by the Soviets and Germans and the information collected by our military observers, it is shown that between November and December last year, the Soviets and Germans conducted a large-scale battle in the Kursk direction, although the specific casualties of the two sides did not circulate, but the German army began to fully shrink the defensive line after this battle, and this key battle on the southern front The German army was a complete defeat strategically, and according to our estimates, more than 2,500 tanks of the German army were destroyed or abandoned. Nearly 1,000 aircraft were also lost in the battle, and nearly a quarter of the nearly 2 million troops who participated in the battle were lost.

As for the Soviet army, according to our speculation, they suffered even greater losses, with more than one million casualties, at least 4,000 tanks, at least 6,000 artillery pieces, and at least 3,000 aircraft.

Judging from the comparison of losses between the two sides, it should be the German army that won the victory, but it is worth noting that the gap between the strength of the German army and the Soviet army is very large, and the German army has not invested more troops on the Eastern Front than the Soviet army, and the number of tanks and aircraft is far inferior to the Soviet army. Moreover, considering that Germany could not quickly replenish the loss of equipment because of the strategic bombing at home, but the Soviet and Russian sides could replenish a steady stream of aircraft and tanks, so from this point of view, the German army has lost the ability to continue to launch strategic offensives on the Eastern Front, but the Soviet army can continue to launch strategic offensives.

At the same time, due to the failure of the German offensive in this battle, it also announced that the German army was now forced to enter a state of full defense.

Therefore, we judge that in this battle, the German army suffered a total defeat strategically! ”

Chen Yi said slowly, and as he spoke, he was also amazed at the huge scale and tragedy of the Soviet-German battlefield! As a senior member of the Chinese Army and a veteran army general, Chen Yi knows very well how difficult and tragic these super-large-scale battles involving millions of people should be.

Although the Chinese Army boasted of being the world's largest army, in terms of size, it was actually the same, and when the war against China ended in 1944, the total number of Chinese troops had reached more than 11 million. You know, that's a lot more than the rest of the world's army units.

For example, the Americans now have only more than 6 million army forces, including at least one million army air forces, while Germany claims to have 10 million, but in fact it is barely 5 million, and the Soviet Union and Russia have more, and it is estimated that there can be 7 or 8 million.

However, the more than 11 million people of the Chinese army also have a lot of water, which can be distinguished very simply, that is, China now has more than 130 divisions, and it has not even been able to increase the strength of even one division in China, and it is actually only five or six million troops when it is fully armed, and it is also divided into China's vast territory, Central Asia, Siberia, Northeast Asia, the Indochina Peninsula, the Indonesian Peninsula, the Philippines, and many islands in the Pacific Ocean. But how did these 11 million people come about? This is because the army has also counted a large number of local garrisons in the country, and it has also included many civilian employees of the army, so that the scale of the army has reached 10 million.

When the Americans calculate the number of soldiers, they do not include civilian employees, and they say that 5 million troops is a real 5 million troops, unlike China, although it claims to be 10 million troops, but in fact it is only 5 or 6 million actual troops.

In terms of the number of combatants in the war, China's army fighters were not much more than those of the other major belligerents, a little more than the United States and Germany, and roughly the same as Soviet Russia.