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The world is in full swing in August.

In order to stabilize the southeast as soon as possible and take it as a large rear, the Japanese army adopted a simple and crude but effective policy of slaughtering cities, and 220,000 people were killed in July alone, and there were frequent massacres in Malaya, western Burma, and Bangladesh. Although there was no supply from the Northeast in history, and the overall strength dropped by a notch, the previous support of Britain and the United States, coupled with the absence of the attrition of the Chinese battlefield, the Japanese army that was wholeheartedly moving south was more fierce and faster. The increase in shipping capacity to 7.8 million tons (including seizures) can basically ensure the delivery of the most valuable and most urgently needed resources back to China, but as the world vortex gradually expands, the weakness of too long routes is becoming more and more obvious.

In addition to Japan, Thailand, which colluded with Japan, also officially went to war with the French colonizers in Cambodia, and the Japanese army also sent brigades to infiltrate the Thai army in an attempt to seize Cam Ranh Bay. The Philippines, which is separated by a body of water, is also in a state of panic, sending several groups of special envoys to the United States in just one month, and also seeking help from China.

The all-out flames have caused more and more Southeast Asians to become dissatisfied with the tyranny and take up arms against the invasion. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Yang Qiu first solicited the opinions of various countries and partners, officially changed the name of the United Front for the Liberation of Asia to the Asian Alliance (hereinafter referred to as the Asian League), and then dispatched elite officers to implement the formation of the Asian Alliance. According to the agreement reached at the Lushan Conference, before the end of the war, the Allied forces will be under the command and dispatch of China's Ministry of National Defense, military equipment will be provided by China, and military expenses and logistics will be shared proportionally among various countries.

The emergence of the Asian League is of far-reaching significance, representing the mentality of the Asian people who yearn for freedom and independence and end colonization. But whether this alliance can be stable in the long term still depends on how strong the Chinese tree is. Whether it's Kim Jiu or Chandra, or even Pahlavi is thinking about it. When the news of the end of the Battle of Ahvaz arrived, the whole world was burned by the battle report released by Beijing! All doubts and worries vanished. Beijing has not only truly become the big tree of the Asian League, but also the most eye-catching place in the world!

Compared with the later large-scale battles, the Battle of Ahvaz can only be regarded as moderate, with a total of more than 150,000 troops invested by the Soviet Army, and seven divisions, two mixed aviation wings and a fleet by the Wehrmacht, totaling 140,000. But its meaning is shocking! Every government and every military strategist, after learning the war report, threw the original assessment report on China's strength and the combat capability of the National Defense Forces into the trash.

Words such as "four days", "blitzkrieg", "150,000". Frequent newspapers.

Time is the best amnestic, when the Battle of Qingdao and the Battle of Rainiwell gradually faded, the whole world gradually forgot the Chinese Wehrmacht that broke through the Siegfried Line, which is known as the world's most difficult to break through the defense line, and surrounded and annihilated hundreds of thousands of elite German troops under German artillery fire. Although later there was also the Second Sino-Japanese War. There are also local conflicts in Afghanistan, and even the surprise of Saudi Arabia's founding and raid on the Balikpapan oil fields, but what European and American military experts are still talking about is the complete logistics supply of Britain and the United States in the Battle of Rainyvale, the cooperation of the French army, and the list of providing a large number of military equipment to the Wehrmacht, as if they were the feat of annihilating the elite of the German army.

There is no explanation or dissatisfaction with this deliberate belittling or even rumor of the Republic of China government or the National Defense Forces. Because they know that the world pattern of white supremacy has not fundamentally changed, no matter how fierce the domestic media refutation, it is fortunate that these grievances can be taken advantage of in European and American newspapers. Even most of the news about China's progress and changing people's livelihood rarely appears in the mainstream media in Europe and the United States. But the more they deliberately ignored and belittled, the more important the outcome of the Battle of Ahvaz became. China's defense forces have told the world in the simplest and most straightforward way, at least on the land of Asia. They are still the strongest! There are only two options left for the white world, either admit me. Either come and beat me!

But just when military strategists all over the world were holding Ahvaz battle reports and opening their mouths wide, Yang Qiu, who was in Beijing, had already begun to sum up the gains and losses of the battle.

First of all, the area of operation of the Battle of Ahvaz was all on the seaside, and even the farthest Ahvaz was only more than 90 kilometers from the coastline. You know, the range of the 210-mm naval guns on the heavy cruiser alone is up to 27 km! Moreover, the Soviet army did not have any coastal defense and air supremacy at all. Under the condition of overall superiority in technology, equipment, tactics, and personnel quality, the actual daily advance is less than 30 kilometers. Considering that there is a landing link, it is basically comparable to the average advance speed of 50 to 60 kilometers per day in the blitzkrieg, and it cannot be said to be exceeded.

The key to this problem lies in logistical constraints!

Because of the abundant oil guarantee, the Persian Gulf Army is currently the group army with the highest rate of automobile equipment among the armies, with 15,000 trucks and half-tracks, an average of one vehicle for every 14 people. But with problems such as the need for roads across the Persian Gulf and Iran, the envisaged all-mechanized logistics is a pipe dream. Therefore, judging from the overall data, the Wehrmacht already has the ability of a German-style blitzkrieg, but it is not immediately possible to draw conclusions about the exceedance. Logistical support in expeditionary operations still determines how far the Wehrmacht can go. After analyzing the entire battle report in detail, Yue Peng immediately dispatched 100,000 additional animals to the northwest for use, and promised to leave all the captured 13,000 war horses to Bai Chongxi, and instructed him to buy more camels and horses for later use.

The only thing that really shines and surpasses the world level is still air power. In the 107 hours of major battles alone, the Air Force and the Navy Air Force made 11,829 sorties, dropped 14,194 tons of ammunition, and the total number of Soviet troops who died in various bombings alone exceeded 21,000. Ordinary people definitely don't understand the meaning of this string of numbers, and even the current military strategists don't understand it, only Yang Qiu knows that this string of numbers means that in the case of a total of 954 fighters, each plane has to make an average of 3.1 sorties per day, throwing 1.2 tons of ammunition each time. The frequency of sorties is three times higher than during the European war, and the amount of ammunition thrown is twelve times greater! The intensity is 1.7 times greater than the first two weeks of Operation Barbarossa in history!

This is the result of Yang Qiu's 20 years of laying a solid foundation for the industry and relying on data machines to focus on aviation! But this achievement can only say that China has reached the world's first-class, and it is not guaranteed to be dominant, because at this moment in history, the United States has completed the test run of the famous R2800 twin wasp engine, this 2000-horsepower air-cooled engine, which is the main force of the United States to dominate the sky in World War II. It is believed that after analyzing the Battle of Ahvaz. The United States will definitely seize the time to combine engines and aircraft.

Finally, there is logistics. 140,000 people, a total of 63,000 tons of materials, including ammunition and fuel, were consumed in four days of combat! If it weren't for the fact that the oil fields and refineries were in Hofuf, just the 22 fleet would have been refueled once, and it would have been enough for the logistics department to go crazy en masse. As for the seizures, with the exception of food and petrol, the vast majority of ammunition did not correspond to the Wehrmacht's system.

However, this solved the problem of helping Iran to form 5 army divisions and equipment for the Asian Alliance.

The Battle of Ahvaz not only allowed the Chinese Defense Forces to gain a foothold in Iran, but also attracted the attention of the world, but just when Jiang Fangzhen laughed and was about to be put under the microscope from now on. Another blitzkrieg on the Europa continent, several times larger than Ahvaz, stole all the eyeballs.

After the Soviet army was held back by China, and Britain was caught in Southeast Asia and then deep in the Persian Gulf, Hitler keenly seized on this international political breakthrough and gave Ribbentrop an ultimatum to the British government on August 11 on the Polish question. Ribbentrop's sixteen demands caught the British ambassador, Neville Henderson, off guard. When he reported to Downing Street and asked for a copy of the document to be forwarded to the Polish government, Ribbentrop refused. Although the Polish ambassador to Germany tried his best to prevent the outbreak of war, all efforts were finally destroyed the next day.

In the early morning of August 12, the German Army Group South and Army Group North had a total of 44 divisions, including 7 armored divisions and 4 light armored divisions. Four motorized infantry divisions, with a total of 88 soldiers and more than 1,900 fighters and 2,800 tanks, crossed the border under the official leadership of Rundstedt and von Bock. Although the Polish army had already made a defensive plan, it was the same as the Battle of Ahvaz. In the face of the brand-new air-ground coordination tactics, the Polish army, which has a rigid tactical thinking, has no power to fight back. By the morning of the next day, the German armored group had penetrated a hundred kilometers deep into Poland under the protection of warplanes.

Guderian's 19th Motorized Infantry Division even appeared, because he did not expect it to go so smoothly, so the mechanized troops ran out of fuel. Jokes about having to take oil from an ordinary Polish car. Although the division only robbed a dozen cars, and was quickly replenished with fuel. But it can be reflected from one side how fast the German army was.

By the next day, the arrows of the two German armies had penetrated 129 kilometers into the territory of Poland!

In the face of the sudden invasion of the German army, not only Poland was shocked, but even Britain and France were at a loss. However, Chamberlain, who had long since lost popularity, still insisted on a political mediation solution to Poland, and France even invited Mussolini, who was close friends with Hitler, to mediate. In the end, it was Churchill who led the parliament to argue with reason, so that Chamberlain, who was under pressure, issued an ultimatum to Germany!

On the afternoon of August 13, Britain issued an ultimatum: "If military operations are not immediately ceased and the withdrawal of troops begins at 10 a.m. on the 14th, the British government will declare war on Germany." On the same day, France also issued an ultimatum to Germany after Britain, demanding that German troops withdraw from Poland in the early morning of the 14th, otherwise the French Republic would declare war on Germany!

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"Erupted, erupted!"

In the corridor of the National Hospital in Kyoto, Okamura Ninji was running loudly like a child, but as soon as he arrived at the door of the convalescent ward, he was stopped by Kenji Dohihara, pointing to Nagata Tetsuyama, who was carefully reading the Ahvaz war report inside: "Okamura-kun, what broke out?" The general is reading the battle report. ”

As the planner and greatest hero of the southward expansion, after the capture of Singapore, Nagata Tetsuyama was promoted to army general and was transferred back to Tokyo. However, his return caused turmoil within the army and the Konoe cabinet, and both Binyama and Tojo Hideki were hostile to him, for fear that their power would be taken away, and even Hirohito was worried about his high merits, so he had to simply send him here in the name of recuperation.

A generation of heroes succumbed to the sickbed, which made Okamura Ninji and other Nagata factions very dissatisfied. But Nagata Tieshan didn't seem to care, and at this moment, he was holding the Ahvaz battle report released by Beijing and reading it carefully, his face was indescribably solemn. "Three lieutenant generals and seven major generals were captured. 35,411 people were killed and 113241 prisoners. 297 combat vehicles and 255 aircraft were destroyed, 95 combat vehicles, 1,073 trucks, 37 aircraft, 2,344 cannons/mortars, 1,761 machine guns, 13,000 horses, 145114 guns, and 112,000 tons of ammunition were captured. It lost 1,171 killed, 2,855 wounded, 57 vehicles, 37 aircraft, and a frigate stranded. ”

"Tu Fei Yuan-kun, is this battle report true? Okamura, when did you arrive? ”

Ahvaz's battle report made Nagata Tetsuyama feel a huge pressure, and he didn't pay attention to Okamura Ninji's arrival. But his attention at the moment was all on the battle report, so after nodding slightly, he was anxious to ask for the truth.

"Maybe the casualty figures are fake. Everything else should be true. "Tooka Village Ninji also doubts the authenticity of the casualty figures, because the battle report is rarely true. For example, the Japanese people still do not know the news of the destruction of the Balikpapan and Palembang oil fields, and in order to hide the truth, the navy has also brought back the British reserves seized in Singapore and other places and the oil obtained from the Sarawak oil fields to display, in fact, this pitiful production is not enough to meet the demand. If it weren't for China's initiative to extend the contract for Sakhalin for one year, the domestic oil supply would have been stopped by now.

But the victory in the Battle of Ahvaz was certain, because the 110,000 captured Soviet troops were now working as coolies in Abadan and other places, and a small number were sent to the island of Gashm.

Nagata Tetsuyama's face became more solemn, he had been to the Soviet Union and had a deeper understanding of the Soviet army. Although the defections of Mir Ivan and Kuibyshev led to the wounding of the Soviet industrial system. It also led to the Great Purge, but Stalin never relaxed on the military industry, on the contrary, as the Chinese threat grew, he prepared for many years, as Japan did. Especially in the army, the latest tanks and artillery, not to mention Japan, even Europe and the United States are covetous. How can it be so vulnerable? If the Soviet Union is unable to effectively contain China, where will Japan go from here?

Thinking of this, Nagata felt depressed and asked casually, "Okamura-kun, what is it that asked you to come to Kyoto in person?" ”

Okamura Ningji remembered the big news he had just received, and immediately regained his excitement: "General, it's broken!" War broke out in Europe! ”

"What's going on!" Sudden news. Nagata Tetsuyama and Kenji Dohihara were both shocked. Okamura Ninji immediately told the news of the German attack on Poland and the ultimatum issued by Britain and France.

But to the surprise of Okamura Ninji and Kenji Dohihara, the joy on Nagata Tetsuyama's face only lasted less than a few seconds before it was cold enough to scrape off several layers of frost again. Okamura was puzzled, and gently pulled Tu Hihara: "General, this is?" ”

Kenji Dohihara had already vaguely guessed Nagata Tetsuyama's thoughts. Said: "Okamura-kun, the outbreak of war in Europe is good news for us, but it is also a big crisis! The outbreak of war made Britain and France unable to control Asia anymore. Coupled with Ahvaz's brilliant results this time, they will definitely win over the Chinese like last time. So I should soon agree to the request of the Chinese people! At present, Tojo and Binshan Mototo of the military department have always wanted to seize the Mariana Islands and the Philippines immediately, and the navy also supports this plan, but if Shina joins the British and French sides as they did last time and intervenes to stop our country, I am afraid that the empire will have to face a full-scale war with Shina early! ”

Kenji Dohihara is right, Nagata Tetsuyama really regrets it very much in his heart. The southward expansion plan was operated by him, but at that time, he really didn't expect that his neighbors around him were so powerful! If he could choose again, he would definitely not go south. This is already evident from the current situation. In the past 20 years, Yang Qiufen had clearly deliberately suppressed the army, especially the navy, and then concentrated on developing aviation technology and practicing new tactics of the army. This led him to make an error in his judgment that he could rely on naval superiority to quickly swallow the South Seas, and then use the resources of the South Seas to buffer for three to four years.

But now that the idea has become a joke, people can fight like this in faraway Persia, and it would be worse to fight on their doorstep? But now it's too late to regret it, and the Chinese have a saying that "take it in advance, you must give it first." After the southward advance began, Yang Qiu deliberately retreated sharply to make room, and not long ago, he took the initiative to extend the Huatai Island agreement for one year, which shows that he is actually preparing for the third war. So even if the empire doesn't want to fight, he will definitely look for an opportunity to make a move.

What's more, even if he is willing to stop, the entire Japanese society has been fascinated by the wealth obtained after the southward expansion, the military department deliberately concealed it, and the chaebol continued to promote the attack on the Philippines for the sake of interests, and other behaviors, not only did not let the southward advance cool down, but became more and more turbulent and sinister. "In that case, go and stop the military department. As long as the Philippines is a buffer, China will not intervene until the Soviet Union is resolved. Okamura Ninji said.

"It's late! Now that the atmosphere in the country was out of control, Tojo and Binshan Motomasa were desperately trying to promote the benefits of the southward advance, and the people hoped for a greater victory. Kenji Tsuchihara smiled bitterly. He said it lightly, because the government and the military department deliberately concealed it and wantonly exaggerated the benefits and wealth of the southward advance, and the whole of Japan had already fallen into a frenzy. Whoever says to give up the Philippines at this time. It is estimated that he will become a traitor to the empire immediately, and if it is serious, he will have a few more 510 nights!

"A few days ago, two Peking-class battleships of the Beiyang Fleet in China were suddenly transferred to the south, and Admiral Nagano Shusei thought that this was a warning to us, so he had already suggested to the Prime Minister and the Emperor that the opening of Malacca and the sacrifice of part of the interests of the Philippines be exchanged for non-interference by the Shina people. I heard that His Majesty the Emperor had agreed to this matter, and had sent Foreign Minister Hirota Hiroki to Beijing. Kenji Dohihara continued: "The day before yesterday, Yamamoto of the Combined Fleet called me. After the last time the Aviation Headquarters failed to purchase American radio detection technology, their own development progress was very slow, so I hope that I can get the radio detection of the people of China and the intelligence of the new aircraft. ”

Ninji Okamura had heard about radar. It is said that because the aviation headquarters felt that this thing was worthless at first, it refused to buy it back for $300,000. When something similar appeared on the ship of the China Navy, he turned back to look for the American, but he didn't expect that the American had disappeared, and it was said that he was secretly hidden by the American ** team.

For 300,000 US dollars, missing the opportunity to catch up with China and the world's advanced technology, even Nagata Tieshan unconsciously blurted out: "What a stupid!" ”

Okamura Ninji didn't care about the radar. He asked, "General! What should I do now? Inoue Narumi's fleet has been on set off for more than ten days, and it will be too late if it is not stopped. ”

Nagata Tetsuyama sat down and tapped the battle report lightly with his fingers: "Okamura doesn't need to be too excited, the military department and the navy also have a certain reason. We need time. Need to build up your strength! But it was too far to take a detour to Rabaul each time, which was not conducive to the Empire gaining more reserves. Therefore, it is imperative for the Philippines and Guam to open up this route! The great changes in Europa will only make the United States more cautious. So the key now is the USSR! If the Soviets continue to fight such a small war with China in Persia. Then after we take the Philippines, the war with China will be uncontrollable. But if China and the USSR went to full-scale war. Then China must be avoided in the south in the short term, which can give us a certain amount of time! ”

"The key now is whether China and the Soviet Union will fight or not!" Nagata's gaze finally fell on Kenji Dohihara's face. That meaning was clearly to ask him to find a way to provoke an all-out war between China and the Soviet Union.

This is not a simple matter, Kenji Dohihara thought about it and said, "Your Excellency, General, you don't think this will work. We can draw up an offensive plan with the ideas of the Chinese and then secretly hand it over to the Soviets, as long as we paint a picture of the Chinese wanting to seize Kazakhstan and the Caspian Sea, and cooperate with some other actions, the Soviets who are now in a lot of noise should be more vigilant. ”

Nagata thought about it, China and the Soviet Union were fighting for Central Asia and Northwest China, and there were really not many ways for Japan to intervene, so he nodded and said, "This method is very good, let's do it as soon as possible." Also, the Soviets had some anti-China-like people and civilian police in the Siberian tundra, all of whom could be exploited. If you can, you go to India once! It is possible to contact the Soviets and secretly arrange for some troops to attack northeastern China from the Sea of Okhotsk controlled by our country. ”

"It's a great way to start a conflict! Tu Fei Yuan-kun, should be as soon as possible. Okamura also thought that the solution was good, and if the Soviet partisans with regular troops could be supported in the Siberian region, with the complicated terrain and the secret help of Japan, there would still be a lot to be done. So Kenji Dohihara nodded, and immediately pulled Okamura Ninji back to draft a fake military plan, and bowed deliberately before going out: "Your Excellency General, we will come to see you often." Please take care of your health, the Empire needs you to step up and lead us down. ”

"I'll lead?"

Looking at the backs of the two, the corners of Nagata Tieshan's mouth were bitter. Since he was injured in the last incident, his body has been in the following condition, and how long he can live can only depend on whether God favors him or not. Continuing to pick up the heavy Ahvaz battle report and walking to the window, he sighed softly in his heart as he looked at the long queue of fanatical young people in front of the recruiting station outside.

If it weren't for this war report, what a wonderful thing it would be now