Chapter 1159: Blitz on Poland
The main fleet of the Pacific Fleet of the Chinese Navy has set off silently from the Sea of Okhotsk and is heading directly at Pearl Harbor, the main base of the US Navy's Pacific Fleet. In order to deal with the threat www.biquge.info of the Chinese Empire. The U.S. Navy has deployed almost all of its capital ships to the Pacific Fleet. This also makes the Pacific Fleet of the U.S. Navy in this time and space more powerful than when the book attacked Pearl Harbor in another time and space. Of course, the size of the fleet dispatched by the Chinese Navy is also more powerful than when the Benzi Navy attacked Pearl Harbor.
When the book first attacked Pearl Harbor, only six aircraft carriers were dispatched, but this time, the Imperial Navy dispatched a full twelve capital aircraft carriers, plus 24 escort carriers. The number of carrier-based aircraft is as high as more than 1,700, which is almost three times that of the carrier-based aircraft of the Benzi Navy when it attacked Pearl Harbor. Such a force, let alone launch a sneak attack, even if it is a strong attack, the US Navy will not be able to parry. Of course, the reason why the Imperial Navy has dispatched so many troops is that its combat intentions are not the same as those of the book navy of another time and space. The book navy just wants to hit the US Navy hard and win a period of advantage for the book navy. The Imperial Navy wanted to completely eliminate the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet and capture the Hawaiian Islands. In order to achieve this strategic goal, the Imperial Navy naturally had to dispatch more aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft. Otherwise, once the strategic goal cannot be achieved, the plan of the Imperial Navy can be said to have not succeeded.
From the Sea of Okhotsk to the Hawaiian Islands, the entire voyage is more than 8,000 kilometers, and even if it follows the warm current of the North Pacific, it will take half a month. Plus you also need to leave enough time to prepare. Therefore, the Imperial Navy's planned time for launching a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor was September 2, 4637 A.D., which happened to be Saturday, the day when the U.S. Navy began its vacation. Of course, if the planning department of the Germans had changed, the Second World War would have officially broken out the day before. The Americans would never have imagined that the Chinese Navy would launch a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor just after the outbreak of the world war, and thus would not be too prepared. And this will undoubtedly create greater opportunities for the Imperial Navy.
Just as the Chinese Empire was preparing to launch a surprise attack on the Pearl Harbor base of the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet, Germany, an ally of the Chinese Empire, was also preparing for war. And the object of their attack is Poland. As a country that was re-established after the First World War, Poland was not strong militarily, but it was very arrogant. At the beginning of its establishment, it waged war against Soviet Russia, intending to snatch the whole of Ukraine and establish a Greater Poland. Of course, in the end they failed. However, in the course of the war, it also inflicted extremely heavy losses on Soviet Russia.
It was not a matter of a day or two that Germany wanted to start a war against Poland. As early as last year, Germany demanded that Poland return the Danzig Corridor so that Germany could connect with East Prussia. However, Poland, with the backing of Britain and France, directly rejected the Germans' demands. This made Führer Adolf Hitler grit his teeth in hatred and made up his mind to get rid of Poland. Even with the support of Britain and France, the Führer was not afraid at all. Especially after signing the "Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact" with Soviet Russia, Britain and France were even more targeted for attack, not to mention Poland. To Adolf Hitler, Poland was nothing more than a test of Germany's military might.
After Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist Party took power in Germany, they reversed the previous friendly relations between Germany and Soviet Russia, put forward the idea of "living space" for Nazism to expand to the East, and declared that they would establish a pan-German state with hegemony on the European continent, and Germany would eventually start a war against Soviet Russia. To achieve this, Hitler would establish its war allies, satellites, or puppet states around Germany. At the beginning of Hitler's rule, relations between Germany and Poland deteriorated rapidly, and in February 4631, Hitler threatened to speak to the reporter of the British "Sunday Express": "Poland is required to return the corridor to Germany, and to do so 'in a short time'." He also instigated anti-Polish demonstrations on the German-Polish border, such as the declaration of the "liberation" of the German minorities in Danzig and the corridor, and the separation of German territory by Danzig as "the ugliest part of the Treaty of Versailles." Polish leader Joseph Pilsudski stationed his armed forces on the border to exert military pressure to get Hitler to stop. The hostile relations between Germany and Soviet Russia instead prompted the improvement of Soviet Russia and Poland, and Hitler changed his course, expressed his willingness to mend relations between the two countries, and stopped the tariff war and offensive propaganda that had been in place since the 20s. In November 4631, Germany and Poland issued a joint communiqué declaring: "The dispute between the two countries will be resolved by diplomatic means." In the year 4632 of the Yellow Emperor, the two countries signed the 10-year German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact. After the Yellow Emperor 4633, General Edward Reiz-Shimigvi, who succeeded Pilsudski, sensed the threat from Germany, which was actively rearmament in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. However, Polish Foreign Minister Josef Bechrel, who was also a member of Pilsudski's cabinet, continued to pursue a pro-German policy, and Poland expressed support for Germany from the "German-Austrian merger" to the "Sudetenland" that dismantled Czechoslovakia. At the same time, Poland also followed Germany's example in threatening other countries with force, sending troops to Lithuania, forcing the latter to recognize Vilno-Polish territory, and pressuring the Czechs to successfully annex the Czech Republic.
After the completion of the annexation of the Czech Republic, Adolf Hitler began to formally draw Poland into the "Anti-Bolshevik International Pact", forming a united front similar to the later kingdoms of Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Finland and Italy, in 4636 A.D., the new foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop met with the Polish ambassador and proposed that their alliance must be based on the premise that Danzig should be transferred to Germany and that a highway should be built in the corridor area to connect German territory, if Poland agreed, Hitler would give Poland the northern territories of Ukraine in the future, and the German-Polish Pact would be extended for 25 years as compensation. However, Poland believed that if it joined the German-led military alliance, it would become a satellite state, and even eventually its statehood would be threatened, just as the Czech Republic was annexed by Germany, so the Polish leader Bechoral rejected his proposal, and the Polish Foreign Ministry and the military leaders also agreed in their views, and the Polish government leaders did not trust Hitler. On 21 March, Becquerel traveled to Berlin to meet with Hitler, who insisted that he accept Germany's terms, but the two sides broke up. Hitler immediately ordered the military to draw up a plan for an invasion of Poland, the "White Plan", which was approved on 3 April.
Britain was also aware of the change in relations between Germany and Poland, and on March 31, 4637, Poland received assurances from Britain that it would maintain the territorial integrity of the former; On 6 April, Bechoral traveled to London to sign the Anglo-Polish Treaty of Security Assurances; On 19 May, Poland signed a similar protocol with France, stating that when Poland was attacked, the French would attack Germany, and similarly, when France and Belgium were attacked by Germany, Poland would attack the latter. On the 28th of the same month, Hitler announced the abrogation of the German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact on the grounds that Poland was under the protection of Britain and France, and ordered the German army to prepare for an attack on the country by August. On the other hand, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain still believed that war could have been avoided if he had reached an agreement with Hitler on Danzig (and perhaps the Polish Corridor). It's just that this is obviously delusional.
In early August, Adolf Hitler summoned the heads of the military, Generals Brauchitsch and Keitel, to inquire about their preparations for war. Both Generals Brauchitsch and Keitel said that the Wehrmacht was ready for war and ready to attack. Luftwaffe Commander Goering also said that the Luftwaffe had prepared 2,000 aircraft that could be used in the war against Poland. Goering assured that once the war began, any flying object over Poland that was not painted with the Iron Cross would be shot down.
Adolf Hitler was very satisfied with the military's answer. In his opinion, there will be a war between Germany and Poland. And the victorious side will inevitably be German.
At the urging of the British, on August 29, 4637 AD, Germany issued its last diplomatic statement. That night, the German government responded by recovering Danzig and the Polish Corridor in addition to protecting the German minority in Poland (Hitler had previously only demanded the construction of a highway in the corridor, but now it was to acquire the entire territory of the corridor). In order to divide relations between Poland and the West, a proviso was proposed: the Polish plenipotentiaries who came had to arrive in Berlin within one day to sign an agreement. Britain's Chamberlain cabinet was still pleased that negotiations could continue, but given the fact that Germany had stipulated that the Polish plenipotentiaries had to arrive within a one-day time limit, this difficult time-limited action meant that it was an ultimatum for Germany. In the early hours of 30 August and 31 August, Ribbentrop read out the 16 German demands to the British ambassador, but when the British ambassador, Neville Henderson, asked for a copy of the document to be forwarded to the Polish government, Ribbentrop refused on the grounds that "the Polish delegates could not arrive before midnight." When the Polish ambassador Joseph Lipski arrived in Berlin at noon and asked to see Ribbentrop, he said that Poland was willing to consider negotiations with Germany, but he also admitted that he did not have full authority to sign any agreement, and Ribbentrop drove him away. Soon German broadcasts announced that Poland had vetoed the German proposal, and therefore the negotiations were terminated.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, Adolf Hitler ordered the attack on Poland to begin at 4:45 a.m. on September 1. (To be continued.) )