October 24th

Europe.

Mustache again sent 2,500 heavy bombers to bomb the British mainland.

Due to the losses in the last engagement, the US Ninth Air Force, which was responsible for the air of the homeland, and the British Imperial Air Force were almost unable to take to the air to intercept them, and even if the German bomber group lacked escort planes this time, only the airspace of Anerlan and other areas where the US military base was located was not bombed, and the rest of the states were dropped a large number of butterfly mines and a large number of 50-kilogram aerial bombs.

Yes, all of them carried fifty kilograms of bombs and butterfly mines this time, because after dropping ten million tons of bombs, there really were no more targets worth bombing on the surface of the British mainland.

According to statistics from the Prime Minister's Office, as of today, nearly six figures have been injured due to butterfly fatigue, including some U.S. soldiers who came out to have fun.

Qiu Fatzi became more determined in his heart to betray the Yankee's father, and wholeheartedly reported the idea of the other side's thighs.

After this decision, Qiu Fatzi even came up with some very evil ideas.

Asia.

After the two ro-ro ships that had previously transported two brigades to Zhili came to the Far East Port again, the two newly selected Devil brigades boarded the ship and prepared to go to Agenting under the escort of a large cruiser.

Dailian.

The port is expanding rapidly, and the port with the goal of becoming a world-class port is now close to berthing several 50,000-ton ships at one time, at this time, two 50,000-ton ro-ro ships are loading, two 30,000-ton bulk ships are loading goods, and it is now nearly ninety percent of the cargo, and it is expected to depart tomorrow and gather with the ro-ro fleet to go to Agenting.

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October 25th.

Early morning.

Eastern Front, outside Mosco.

The first heavy snow of the year fell last night due to the raging cold snap from the Arctic Ocean, and there was no sign of stopping until this time, when the ground was covered with a thick layer of snow, the temperature quickly dropped below freezing, and the originally slippery road was frozen again.

This winter is even colder than the winter of '42.

The bearded man urgently contacted the rear and asked for a large amount of warm clothing and heating fuel.

In order to maximize the expansion of the army, the bearded man not only recruited a large number of female soldiers, but also stopped all non-essential factory production, and all workers were called into the army.

Naturally, a number of refineries are among them.

The bearded man has a clear heart.

Although their own oil resources are abundant, but the refining technology is very poor, a lot of the extracted oil, are directly refined and directly used for power generation and heating, resulting in a great waste, hesitation lack of high-quality aviation fuel, at the beginning of the war even had to buy from the Germans, after the Germans attacked, also begged the Americans to provide high-quality aviation fuel.

Nowadays, there are imported fuels, high-octane aviation gasoline, high-freeze resistant diesel, which are provided in sufficient quantities, and after the successful laying of the Mosco fuel pipeline in Central Asia, even the amount of freeze-resistant diesel can be more than enough to be used for heating, and the quality is good, there is no need to produce it yourself for the time being, and it is not too late to recover after the victory of the war, this is the idea of the beard.

In stark contrast, the mustache is very laid-back.

Although he did not expect this year's winter to be even colder than a few years ago, thanks to the lessons learned last time and the plan for this winter attack, he was very well prepared with equipment and materials for the winter.

All troops are equipped with diesel heaters, and the massive amount of minus 50 diesel can not only meet the use of all mechanized vehicles, but even enough for all troops to warm up.

At the same time, in order to make up for the transportation problem, while doubling down on the preparation of transport trains, he also prepared 50,000 special materials for five-ton half-track transport vehicles, which made the bearded man really envious.

As a result, with a wave of his beard, he once again purchased materials and machinery and equipment on a large scale, a large number of half-track transport vehicles, ten-wheeled trucks were continuously transported from the rear, and expensive negative 35 and negative 50 diesel fuel were also purchased at one time for tens of thousands of tons, and directly distributed to the troops for heating, striving to maximize morale.

But the bearded man saw the disappearance of pieces of territory, and his heart was extremely distressed.

He knew very well that the contract had been signed, and even if he wanted to break the contract, it would be impossible, and the other party would have enough strength to ignore him to enforce the contract, and no one in the world would be able to help him.

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October 26.

After more than half a month of offensive, a part of the 358th Division, attacking all the way along the Austrian-central line road, had already occupied the rattan basket Creek, which was only two-thirds of the way from the east coast.

But calculated that the troops actually advanced only about ten kilometers per day.

For a well-supplied semi-mechanized force, this rate is abnormal.

The reason is that the 358th Regiment mainly spread westward, as well as expanding its troops, gathering local miners and Chinese, as well as people from other regions who came here to make a living, military families from China, and clearing out the remnants of the militants, which involved most of the energy.

But because of this, the troops have achieved full control of the territory along the way, established villages, and occupied the west coast simultaneously, with both Adland and Pydamara.

In other words, the 358th Division has occupied more than 1 million square kilometers of territory.

In addition, the unit also deployed shore-based aviation units equipped with 100 'second-generation bomb trucks' in the port of Exmouth, successfully repelled the Austrian Navy's counterattack, sank one of the heavy cruisers, and lost only five planes and three pilots.

By the way.

The 358th Division also gathered armored troops, suddenly and quickly maneuvered, and raided the rear of Vine Basket Creek, forming an encirclement, forming an encirclement with the follow-up troops, annihilating the 10,000-strong army in Austria, killing 5,000 people, and capturing 5,000 of them.

After learning the news, the current prime minister of Austria passed out directly.

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October 27.

Qiu Fatzi summoned the country's finance minister and several of his economic advisers to Downing Palace for a meeting to plot a major event.

However, something went wrong during the period.

On the way to Downing Palace, a top economic expert who graduated from Oxford University accidentally stepped on a butterfly mine dropped by the Germans three days ago, broke his leg, and was not rushed to the hospital for treatment.

Fortunately, the others were lucky enough to arrive at the underground Prime Minister's House in Downing Street.

"Prime Minister..."

The secretary reported on the expert's misery.

Hearing the report, the corners of Qiu Fatzi's eyes suddenly jumped.

Recently, he has deeply felt the horror of this so-called 'butterfly thunder'.

This thing doesn't look very powerful, a harder armored car, as long as it is equipped with deflated tires, can easily pass, and there is a high probability that it will not be injured, and even its power, it is difficult for people to die if they step on it.

But it is here that makes Qiu Fatzi feel the disgusting and terrifying nature of this weapon.

The body of the bullet is camouflaged and integrated with the surrounding environment, falling on the ground, difficult to find, and it is easy for people to step on it and get hit, and then most of the people who are shot will not die, but are injured and disabled.

Even, the vast majority of people are not fatal injuries.

At present, the British Empire has sufficient medical supplies, and it is easy to recover, even if it is very serious, bandaged, and then injected into serum freeze-dried, most of them can always be saved.

But here's the thing.

The dead can inspire hatred of the enemy, the British Empire has become accustomed to death, and is not afraid of death, especially after the Germans have vowed to blow up their homeland, and the resistance has gradually hardened, and no one has proposed surrender anymore, because they know that it is useless.

With the arrival of abundant resources from the mainland on the other side, the continuous bombing by the Germans only strengthened the confidence of the people to resist.

Listening to the wails of the wounded can continuously drain people's spirit and perseverance, and even weaken the morale of the troops and induce anti-war psychology.

That's the trickiest part.

Recently, a large number of technicians have even applied to go to the mainland on the other side.

Even if he knows where he is being exploited, more than 80% of his salary has to be handed over to the government, even if he has to learn difficult Chinese, and even after he has increased the amount of payment to 90%, there is still an endless stream of applicants.

There were also a large number of soldiers who passively avoided the station, and the population refused to be drafted.

The main reason is the butterfly thunder that keeps falling.

If the Germans could not stop the bombing, there was no solution to this problem.

The Ninth Air Force, equipped with jet fighters, did not achieve much success, and only lost both sides with the escort formations of the Germans, who, although inferior in size to the Ninth Air Force, were significantly superior in performance.

After the war, the casualties of the German bombers were negligible, and they continued to bomb in a steady stream.

At this moment, an idea suddenly popped up in Qiu Fatzi's heart.

After getting the German bombers, he also had to drop a large number of butterfly mines on the German territory, so that they could also taste the feeling of this kind of mines, no, not only the German territory, but the entire territory of Europe had to be dropped on a large scale.

"I'm here to ask you about something."

Retracting his thoughts, Qiu Fatzi looked around at the domestic economic bigwigs and went directly to the topic:

"With the current international situation, what will be the post-war economic situation of the Americans?"

"Will it fall into the Great Recession that we did fifteen years ago?"

As the prime minister, Qiu Fatzi is naturally very capable, although he is not an economic expert, but he has controlled the British Empire for so long, and he also knows that the foundation of a country lies in the economy.

Why are the Yankees dancing so happily now?

It is not yet a strong economy and a strong industry, which can produce countless weapons and equipment, mobilize a large number of personnel, participate in the war, and quickly replenish the lost equipment.

But he also saw that although the Americans have a strong industrial foundation and economy, the Germans are not like it, and the current pressure on the Americans is also extremely great, and the recent large-scale money printing, resulting in a series of large-scale depreciation of the dollar against gold is the best proof.

This made him think that if the American economy declined after the war, at that time, the dollar would inevitably depreciate sharply, five, ten, or even more.

That.

When the time comes, wouldn't it be beautiful to repay the foreign debt, which has already amounted to more than $50 billion?

Several economics bigwigs suddenly fell into deep thought.

After ten minutes of thinking, several people then had a whispered discussion, and finally after a full hour, several people finally agreed on their opinions, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer said to Qiu Fatzi:

"With the current international situation."

"The continent on the other side of the strait is eyeing the world, they have controlled the entire Asia-Pacific region, Southeast Asia, and are now beginning to get involved in the Austrian state, the subcontinent, and even the Americas in the back garden of the United States have also begun to provoke, although the Americans are very strong, considering the military strength on the other side, the speed of industrial development, the number of population, and technological superiority, it is difficult to say who will win and who will lose."

"And the Americans have gambled everything for this war, although the deformed and inflated military industry can provide a large number of weapons and equipment during the war, but these will inevitably become a burden after the war."

"The Americans have to have enough market to withstand these factory transformations, there has to be a market to accommodate the dollars that they issued in large quantities during the war."

"There is a continent on the other side of the Asia-Pacific region, and even if the Americans can hold the Americas, they can't accommodate it anywhere, and the only way is Europe."

"After the war, Europe was also very badly damaged, and as one of the world's industrial centers, the reconstruction of Europe requires huge funds and equipment, and there is also a large market with a gap of more than ten years."

"When the time comes, the United States will inevitably lend large amounts of dollars to Europe, and then sign an agreement that these dollars can only buy American machinery and equipment, as well as industrial products, in order to promote the transformation of American companies and ease the pressure of the continued depreciation of the dollar."

"So, whether the United States will decline or not depends on the situation in the Americas and Europe."

After listening to the analysis of the expert group, Qiu Fatzi's eyes lit up slightly again.

He understood.

It all depends on who can control more territory and control more markets after defeating the Germans.

If the Americans control the entire European market, plus the backyard America, then, during the war, the rapidly expanding American industry will have enough market transformation to survive, and even because of the war, further technological upgrades.

The huge increase in the dollar will also be diluted, and there will be no inflation, and there will be no significant currency depreciation, and industry will shrink with it.

The United States is still the world's number one industrial country, the United States.

But the mainland on the other side is also a superpower.

The other side has technology, equipment, and talents, and it has its own market that is huge to the extreme, and it also controls Southeast Asia, and even the subcontinent has become the control area of the other side, and as long as it is given a little time, it can develop into a superpower.

No one can stop it.

But if the United States does not control the whole of Europe, or even loses its back garden, then there will be no place to sell the products produced by the huge American industry, and the huge dollar will not be diluted, and in the end, the entire United States will begin to decline, and the dollar will depreciate dozens of times rapidly.

If the United States falls, its huge internal capital will inevitably flee, and the other side of the strait is not suitable, and not too many people will dare to run anywhere.

so

The opportunity for the British Empire has come!

As long as it swallows up the fleeing capital of the United States, and then uses the European market and the goods of the other continent as an intermediary, then the British Empire can be resurrected.

It's hard to get back to its former glory, but it's still possible to become the world's top power again.

So...

Waving his hand to drive away the expert group, Qiu Fatzi took a deep breath and found the secretary:

"Go and ask Mr. Ambassador."