Chapter 969: North Africa

readx; Hitler was a year younger than Chen Jingyun, and at the time of Chen Jingyun's rise, he was still painting portraits on the streets of Vienna for a living. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 InfoWhen Chen Jingyun led China to become a member of the world's great powers, making a name for himself and appearing on the cover of Time magazine, he was still giving speeches in Munich bars to attract people to join the Nazi Party. Even if Hitler was already in charge of Germany in the mid-to-early thirties, his global reputation was far inferior to Chen Jingyun's.

From the period of World War I and the 20s, when people talk about Chinese scholars, they must know that it is Chen Jingyun, and after the thirties, when they talk about scholars, they will definitely think of Chen Jingyun, as for Hitler, Stalin, and Roosevelt, they can only be regarded as Chen Jingyun's descendants in terms of political qualifications.

When Chen Jingyun's fame rose to become widely known to people around the world, they didn't know where to stay.

A large number of contents of Hitler's Nazi Party are accused of referring to the content of the Chinese Socialist Party's Party Constitution, especially the national policy and economic policy, and the relevant Party Constitution of the Nazi Party is almost a copy of the Chinese Socialist Party's Party Constitution.

And Hitler also likes to use gestures to strengthen the tone when he speaks, and this has always been Chen Jingyun's personal habit, and those who know Chen Jingyun a little know that Chen Jingyun has always liked to use gestures to strengthen the tone when he gave speeches since the civil war era.

However, Hitler did more crazy than Chen Jingyun, although Chen Jingyun was also passionate when he spoke, but after all, it was an acquired exercise, and it was really not as good as Hitler's natural speech genius, Hitler's almost crazy speech was enough to make any German crazy.

The talent readers in these years are actually very similar, especially in the aspect of demagogy, which is a skill that almost all talent readers must have!

Hitler didn't care about the face of the head of state in the broadcast, and almost didn't directly treat Chen Jingyun as a mentor of Cheng Rensheng, what did he do?

It is not for China to completely stand on the side of Germany, or even to obtain China's nuclear bomb technology.

Naturally, China did not hesitate to reject the ideas and demands of the Germans. Chen Jingyun did not dare to let Hitler, a madman, also control the nuclear bomb, if Hitler really let Hitler also control the nuclear bomb, then it is not surprising that it will not be long before the world will fall into a dangerous situation of nuclear war, and this situation is not what Chen Jingyun wants. If you really want to plunge the whole world into the danger of nuclear war, you don't need Hitler's help, he Chen Jingyun can also cause such an effect by throwing nuclear bombs himself.

In addition to nuclear bombs, completely siding with Germany is not what China wants and wants!

To put it bluntly, he doesn't care how miserable the fate of the Germans is, but what he wants is interests, and this interest is the interests of Europe.

A Germany that controls the whole of Europe, and this Germany also has a radical national policy and a strong will to expand abroad. Such a Germany and such a Europe are not in the interests of Soviet Russia, not in the interests of Britain and the United States, and likewise not in the interests of China!

Therefore, fascist Germany must be finished, and this is the consensus of China, Soviet Russia, Britain and the United States. But how to deal with it, and how Europe will deal with it after it is over, is the dispute between China and Britain, the United States, and Soviet Russia!

China is not turning its face for Germany and the United States, China is turning its face against the United States for the sake of post-war European interests! These two points are fundamentally different.

Therefore, Hitler's desire for China to go to war with Britain, the United States, and Soviet Russia for the sake of Germany was destined to be impossible.

In fact, the real goal of this series of moves made by China in the first two months of 1945 was not to help Germany, but to use Germany as a bargaining chip to divide interests with Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union. In order to increase its bargaining chips and gain more post-war benefits, China not only made a posture of turning its face for Germany, Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union, but also put on the two weapons of mass destruction, B19 and nuclear bombs.

This series of actions is not to help Germany, but to obtain greater benefits!

When the dispute between China and the United States attracted the attention of the whole world, and when China and the United States seemed to be about to break out at any time, in Europe and North Africa, the soldiers of the Axis and the Allies did not sit down and watch the drama of the Sino-American dispute, but continued to fight to the death with rifles and planes and tanks.

Beginning at the end of 1944, after a large number of U.S. ground forces were transferred from the Pacific War to Europe and North Africa, the local British Commonwealth forces began to launch a large-scale counterattack against the German forces in North Africa in early 1945.

The German Afrika Korps and Italian armies, despite their desperate efforts, were unable to reverse the collapse of the Axis in North Africa. Even Hitler's reassignment of Rommel, known as the Desert Fox, who had shined on the North African battlefield in the previous two years, to command the German-Italian forces in the North African theater did not change the collapse of the Axis powers in North Africa.

This failure has nothing to do with the army's decisive morale and command ability, it is purely a huge gap in numbers!

At the beginning of 1945, the war in North Africa actually included naval battles in the Mediterranean in addition to the land war in North Africa. The Axis [***] team is roughly divided into three parts in the North African battlefield, the largest number of which is naturally the Italian army, although the Italian army combat effectiveness is not good, but the Italian navy in World War II is quite good, with inferior forces against the superior forces of the Allies, although in general continue to lose the war, but by the time of 1944 low can still barely do the North African battlefield transportation and supply, but when in 1944 low said, 'Ben Yi surrendered, the United States' huge naval force was instantly liberated, Although there is a Chinese Navy on the other side that is no less powerful than the US Navy, the US Navy still draws a small number of warships from the Pacific Theater to reinforce the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean.

The Italian Navy was supposed to deal with the British and American forces in the Mediterranean, but in 1945, after the United States and Britain reinforced some warships from the Pacific, it was even more difficult to support, and the only few warships were sunk and damaged one after another, and by March 1945, the Italian Navy was actually in name only, worse than the situation of the Navy when it was said last year, when it was said that "Ben surrendered", and last year it was said that "although Ben surrendered, there were still many capital ships that could be handled. There are still a lot of auxiliary ships and the like, and there is even a Yunlong aircraft carrier that is good to play with, but the Italian Navy has been wiped out cleanly, and not half of the sampan is left.

Without a navy, there would be no supplies at sea, which made the Axis North African forces, which were already struggling to support, even more miserable.

In the North African-Mediterranean theater, the Axis of Combat at sea could only be dominated by the Italian navy, with Germany only having a small number of submarines as a support. In the air battle, the Italian Air Force not only had insufficient aircraft, but also was inferior to the British, American and German aircraft that participated in the war at the same time, so during the entire campaign, the Italian Air Force in addition to sending bombers and fighters to participate in the bombing of Britain in the early days, that is, when attacking Greece, it served as the main force, but after 1941, the Italian Air Force was mainly deployed on the mainland as the local air defense and air support in the Mediterranean, as for the North African battlefield, it could only give the Luftwaffe a hand, Even due to the lack of supply at sea, the Italian Air Force had to give priority to freeing up fuel for the Luftwaffe due to the lack of fuel on the North African battlefield, so the Italian Air Force was mediocre throughout the war and was very easy to be ignored.

In terms of ground combat, in the early stage, the Italian Army served as the main force, but later the Italian Army suffered successive defeats in North Africa, so that Germany had to draw troops from other fronts to form the Afrika Korps to fight in North Africa, and from that time on, although the Italian Army in North Africa has always been much more numerical than the German army, but can only serve as some auxiliary combat missions.

Later, as the Sino-German land trade route through Iran and Turkey became more and more important, the German army also successively reinforced the North African theater, and the number of German troops in this area was as high as more than 200,000 at the peak, in addition to a small number of troops from other members of the Axis powers, such as Hungary, which sent an infantry division to participate in the North African operation.

Interestingly, although at the beginning, the Hungarian division was not better than the Italian Army in terms of equipment, but it played well in a series of battles, and its performance was much better than that of the Italian Army, and it once created a record of cooperating with another armored division of the German Army and severely damaging the British army of more than 100,000 troops, and then the Germans saw that the combat effectiveness of this unit was not weak, so they were also given the same treatment as the German troops in terms of equipment allocation and supply allocation, and in 1945, Except for the fact that the Hungarian Eighth Division was Hungarian, the other weapons and equipment were already all German.

By the beginning of 1945, the Axis ground forces in North Africa were officially called the 'African Army Group', and from January 1945, Field Marshal Rommel returned to command of Army Group, which had the German Fifth Panzer Army and the 90th Army. The 1st Italian Army, the 2nd Italian Army, the 8th Hungarian Division. The main force of it is naturally the German Fifth Panzer Army, the 90th Army and the Hungarian Eighth Division can be regarded as the upper half of the main forces, and the two Italian armies can only be regarded as playing soy sauce.

Among the above troops, there are a total of three armored divisions, five motorized infantry divisions, more than a dozen ordinary infantry divisions, and many other numbers, and the total strength is quite a lot, seven or eight hundred thousand at the peak, of course, most of them are Italians, if you ignore this part, only count the troops that can be regarded as the main force, then at most it is about 150,000, and the rest are negligible to play soy sauce.