readx; In fact, in Chen Jingyun's heart, the best candidate to be the commander of this expeditionary force is Zuo Yugang, and Zuo Yugang's command style is actually just two words, that is, 'offensive'. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoFrom the civil war era, almost all the battles he commanded were offensive battles, even if it was defense, it was offensive instead of defensive, and he was the leading fierce general in China's military circles today, and he was also a senior veteran general of China's armored forces, as early as the Second Sino-Chinese War, he commanded a huge armored cluster to sweep across the Korean Peninsula. But now Zuo Yugang is also older, at only seventy years old, he is not only old, but also has the rank of marshal, no matter from what point of view, he is no longer suitable to compete with juniors for a position of commander belonging to the rank of general.

If you don't need Zuo Yugang, you have to consider other young generals, Cheng Zixian, one of the three people recommended by Chen Yi, was Zuo Yugang's old subordinate back then, born in the Ninth Division and served as the commander of the Ninth Division, his combat style was greatly influenced by Zuo Yugang, and he was also very good at attacking, but in the Sino-Russian War many years ago, this person performed mediocre and was unanimously condemned by many bigwigs in the army, and was finally transferred out of the sequence of field troops and reappointed as the commander of the garrison, Under normal circumstances, this person's future in this life will come to an end, and he has been in the rank of lieutenant general until he retires. But this man is not reconciled, in Central Asia and Siberia for two or three years, spent a lot of effort, wantonly attacked the local guerrillas, and made a great contribution to the establishment of local stability for China, with this merit he finally broke away from the embarrassing position of garrison commander last year, was retransferred back to the field army, during the Zhongyue Campaign, served as the commander of the 23rd Army, participated in the Singapore Campaign, and landed in Indonesia, and was successfully promoted to army general after the war. Once again, he returned to the core general sequence of the army.

And this person has a lot to do with Zuo Yugang and Chen Yi and other army bigwigs, so there are many reasons why Chen Yi recommended him this time.

As for the last person Chen Yi said, it was Song Junpeng, this is a veritable veteran, during the civil war and during the Sino-German Qingdao, the first Sino-Chinese war, and the second Sino-Chinese war, although this person is not too famous in the hearts of the people, but within the army, he is a veteran general-level personnel. And this person is also good at offensive operations.

Chen Jingyun didn't hesitate for too long, and soon made a decision: "In this way, the commander this time will be Song Junpeng!" In addition, the post of commander of the expeditionary force was held by Du Yanpeng, and Cheng Zixian's words would let him serve as the chief of staff of the coalition headquarters! ”

Song Junpeng went to serve as the headquarters of the coalition forces, which was directly in command of the three alliances, while Du Yanpeng's words were to serve as the commander of the European Expeditionary Force of the Chinese Army, responsible for the specific command of the expeditionary forces sent by China.

"In addition, in terms of the Air Force and Navy, the expeditionary force will also be formed in a short period of time, and will cooperate with you in the battle at that time!" After Chen Jingyun said this, he said so.

Soon after, the Chinese Navy set up the Seventh Mobile Fleet in a very low-key manner, and transferred the aircraft carrier Longhushan, which had just completed the rest period this month, and the sister ship Qingchengshan, which were also the only two light aircraft carriers in the Chinese Navy, which were rebuilt from two heavy cruisers under construction in the late thirties.

After the Sino-Chinese War, although the tonnage of these two aircraft carriers was not large and the number of aircraft they carried was very small, because they were new ships and their speed and other surnames were quite good, although the Chinese Navy turned several old aircraft carriers into training ships, it left these two light aircraft carriers and carried out upgrading and modification work to strengthen their carrier-based aircraft, which are getting heavier and heavier, and to strengthen their radar and anti-aircraft firepower equipment.

In addition to these two light aircraft carriers, there is also a large Xing'an-class air defense cruiser Xinggui, a large cruiser Changjiang, and two Fuguang-class light cruisers, Fuchang and Fubin. In addition, there are nine Youshao-class destroyers and six Zigui-class destroyers.

Thus, the 7th Mobile Fleet consisted of two light aircraft carriers, one large cruiser, one large air defense cruiser, two light cruisers, and fifteen destroyers.

They will cross the Suez Canal at great risk and then reach the coast of Turkey, relying on Turkish ports for supplies and stationing in the Mediterranean.

In the process, there is a possibility of an attack from the Axis powers, as well as an attack from the Allies.

In addition to the Army's European Expeditionary Force and the Navy's Seventh Mobile Fleet, aircraft from the Air Force were naturally indispensable in the European War, and the Third Air Force would be responsible for air support. At present, the tactical aviation force of the Chinese Air Force is still the original five major air forces, and excluding the Fifth Air Force, which is specialized in territorial air defense, China actually has only four air forces that can be used for multi-foreign operations, and basically one air force is responsible for a large theater of operations, such as the First Air Force being responsible for Japan, Korea, and other places. The Second Air Force is responsible for the entire Southeast Asian region, the Third Air Force is responsible for the entire Central Asia and even the Middle East, and the Fourth Air Force is responsible for the entire Siberian region.

Due to the problem of regional arrangement, the air support of the European Expeditionary Force is also responsible for the Third Air Force, and the Air Force is expected to send five fighter wings and two bomber wings, adding up to a total of nearly 2,000 aircraft to participate in the battle, including two wings of about 500 F12A fighters, and the rest are old propeller aircraft, mainly F5E for long-range escort, and then F6D and F5U for ground support. F5U is the ground attack model in the F5 fighter series, which was rarely modified before, because at that time, the F5 fighter of the Chinese Air Force was mainly used for air supremacy, and the ground attack was only part-time, and now with the service of a large number of F12 fighters, the F5 series fighter has the advantage of not only needing to perform large-range missions, but also has the advantage of competing for air supremacy at other times, and the air supremacy task will be handed over to the F12 fighter to perform. The F5 series fighters have been successively modified into ground attack models, that is, F5U, which will serve as China's main front-line ground support mission together with F6D.

In addition, some B16 strategic bombers were also dispatched, but the number was not large, and the Chinese Air Force did not plan to send a large number of strategic bombers to Europe to carry out strategic bombing against Germany, which was not an easy matter. During the war, China said that "there were only a few thousand anti-aircraft guns in its own country, but Germany had more than 100,000 or 200,000 of them."

Anyway, now that there are British and American strategic bomber units carrying out strategic bombing missions against Germany, the Chinese Air Force does not plan to wade into this troubled water, and the task of the Air Force is to support the ground forces in its forward attack, and it mainly performs tactical support tasks.

Chen Jingyun didn't want to lose thousands of strategic bombers in Europe, this B16 is very valuable, one will cost millions of yuan, a hundred will be gone, and a loss of a thousand will be a billion.

In this expedition to Europe, the army is the protagonist, and the navy and air force are only supporting roles!

Moreover, to put it more broadly, China's expeditionary force is only a supporting role in the overall counteroffensive against Germany, the main force is still the Soviet army and the Allied forces, and the Chinese expeditionary force is just to contain a certain number of German troops in the Balkan Peninsula, but Chen Jingyun is an ambitious person, and he even thought of the last moment of Germany's collapse, quickly going north and finally entering Germany proper, in order to consolidate China's post-war interests in Europe.

Therefore, even if there is no need to worry about the early operation, it is enough to contain a certain number of German troops, but in the later stage, the expeditionary force must burst out all its combat effectiveness, and then use this non-stop speed to enter the German mainland and compete for time with the Allies and the Soviet Army.

Only by rushing to the German mainland as soon as possible can we reap a lot of benefits from Germany, such as extremely valuable military technical materials, although some technologies are useless to China, such as missile technology and jet aircraft technology, but being useless to China does not mean that China does not want to snatch them, because if China does not grab them, the Allies and the Soviet Army will get them, and this is not a good thing for China.

Of course, Germany actually has a lot of technology that China needs, and the Germans are world-famous for their high-precision machining, whether it is China or Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union, they all have to sigh inferiorly, and China can be said to have great interest in these basic technical data.

In addition to these technological things, China also wants to obtain some of the benefits of Europe's post-war reconstruction, and this is not something that can be achieved by saying that it wants to, and if China does not put a large army in Europe and does not control a certain area, why should Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union cede these interests.

Although China and the United States have reached a tacit agreement to carve up the post-war market in Europe, this tacit understanding is fragile, and the real basis for implementation is that the two sides will reap benefits in their respective control areas.

No one will spit out what they eat in their mouth!