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Chapter 41: The Nature of War


In Europe, Germany attacked Denmark and Norway in April, attacked Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg in May, and broke through the Belgian Ardennes to launch an offensive from the Dutch coast to the Maginot Line. ~~~ Chamberlain, who had always pursued a policy of appeasement, stepped down, and Churchill became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

But by this time Germany had already occupied the Belgian capital, Brussels.

The Anglo-French forces could only retreat in large numbers.

Because of the urgent need to solve the security problems on the eastern and western fronts, the Soviet Union directly sent troops into the three Baltic states, took Romanian Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, and merged most of Bessarabia with the Moldavian Autonomous Republic to establish the Moldavian Soviet Republic; The southern coastal region of Bessarabia and a small part of the north are assigned to Ukraine.

Because these places had some ties with Russia before, Stalin learned the lessons of the Polish war and adopted a more moderate policy, and the actual shock was not great.

The Soviets adopted a sub-depth configuration on the Western Front.

Large numbers of Soviet troops began to cross the Ural Mountains and enter northern Kazakhstan, where more than seventy percent were Russians, and the powerful Soviet tank corps soon occupied northern Kazakhstan and went down the Caspian Sea into Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

Regain control of the borders of Persia agreed between Britain and Russia during World War I.

The front of the army was directed at the Pamir.

He Yingqin's Fourth Army advanced into the Kazakh hills, forming a Chinese occupation of the mountainous areas without giving an inch, while the Soviet army occupied the Turan lowlands, and the Chinese and Soviet armies formed a confrontation in the Turgai depression, the Aral Sea, and the Turan lowlands.

Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan were divided.

The Soviet Union recognized this division.

Because this division has long begun to form, the road construction and migration of Chinese in the mountainous areas have never stopped, and the Tianshan Mountains and Kazakh hills have long been covered with Chinese.

Now it's just a formal military dispatch.

The Soviet Union was also not in the mood for a war with a large country like China at this time.

The Soviets only left a certain amount of defensive forces between the Aral and Caspian Seas and began to increase their forces to the Line of Actual Control (LAC) on the Tunguska and Central Siberian plateaus.

But this increase did not exceed Bai Chongxi's expectations.

After all, the German threat was real, and in order to cope with the possibility of simultaneous fighting on both sides of the East and West, the Soviet Union adopted such a rather conservative force arrangement, with sufficient reserves on both sides of the Ural Mountains.

At the same time, the Ural Mountains were rapidly becoming the industrial and agricultural core of the Soviet Union.

The assault on the Siberian plateau was an illusion, and the defense of Germany was the real goal.

The USSR also needed time to strengthen itself.

At the end of May, the layout of the USSR was largely completed.

This had a direct impact on Germany's military strategy.

Germany believed that under the pressure of China and Japan, the Soviet Union would not pose a threat to Germany for a short time.

Normandy.

The Germans completely abandoned the mentality of making peace with the British, and the Panzer Corps fought fiercely with the Anglo-French forces, which had been cornered.

Although Britain and France mobilized all their ships for a major retreat, the actual withdrawal of the Allies was less than 120,000.

More than 200,000 Allied troops were killed and captured, while the German Panzer Corps suffered heavy losses.

It was with the support of the Air Force that the Armored Corps barely achieved such results.

So much so that Germany temporarily lost the ability to wage a blitzkrieg.

Nevertheless.

The losses of more than 200,000 Allied troops were unbearable for the Allies in any case.

The French military spirit completely collapsed.

In this campaign, Germany summed up the experience of the coordination of the air force and the army, and also knew the decisive role of advanced communication technology in the war.

Britain, France, the United States and Germany all knew that China had used an electromagnetic bomb.

It is possible to cut off battlefield communications.

But after all, China is too far away and very conservative, so Europe has no scruples about developing electronic communications.

It's just that both sides were dragged down by electronic shielding at the beginning.

A large number of scientists disappeared, resulting in a lack of theoretical innovation ability, and did not continue to conduct research on transistors, while the technical talents and engineers trained in the later period made achievements in the manufacturing process of electron tubes.

And the technical problems of electronic countermeasures and shielding were successfully solved.

This allows the whole of European technology to continue to go further and further down the cul-de-sac of the tube.

Due to the civil strife in the United States at this time, the maritime dispute between China and the United States has been going on tepidly.

The decline of the US Navy has become obvious, which has rendered what could have been a weight that could have changed the pattern of European warfare useless.

Roosevelt's administration was greatly challenged.

Roosevelt took the initiative to propose national reconciliation and give equal rights to the Indians in order to quell the ** ideology in the North.

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I want to get out of the civil strife.

On 12 June, U.S. troops in Seattle voluntarily withdrew.

The state of Washington was declared to be Seattle Indian Autonomous State, allowing Indians to travel freely to Seattle, provided that Seattle did not secede from the United States.

Roosevelt's policies played a role in easing national contradictions in the United States.

The new Seattle Autonomous State is bounded by the Columbia River and the Snake River to the east, all the way to the watershed of the Rocky Mountains.

The Provisional Presbyterian Church in Seattle did not issue any declaration or negotiate with the United States Government, although the attacks stopped.

The Guardians emerged from the forest and demanded that all the farmers, factory owners, and miners of the Lumbian and Snake Plains withdraw from Seattle.

Farmers can stay, but they can only be allocated fixed land like everyone else.

Land sales are not allowed.

Forests, pastures, mountains, and mines are all under public ownership.

Of course, the whites refused, and in some places there were still battles between the militias and the defenders.

Indian-controlled areas did not expand beyond the boundaries agreed upon by the United States, and the Indians of Montana began to migrate on a large scale and were driven to Seattle by the U.S. government.

Roosevelt did this on the grounds that the whites who had been kicked out of Seattle had to be compensated.

Although the Indians gained a self-governing state, they lost all the land elsewhere.

This seems to be an option acceptable to all parties.

This gave Roosevelt great prestige, and the US election was approaching, and no other presidential candidate could compare with it.

In June, Roosevelt announced the dissolution of the Japan-US alliance and the recognition of Chinese sovereignty east of the North Mountains.

At the same time, it declared that the United States would never participate in foreign wars, would never send its army and navy to fight in territories other than the United States unless attacked, put an end to Sino-US maritime disputes, improve relations with China, and strive to improve the domestic economy.

The war in Europe was in fact a huge arms market, and Britain would go into decline regardless of the situation of the war between Germany and Great Britain.

The United States can stop meddling in the Far East.

British interests in Asia, Australia and Africa could be carved up with China at the appropriate time.

At this time, Chinese Indian policy is extremely unwise.

"The Indians are our people, and they must have a stable place to live, not be confined to a prisoner of war camp," Mao said.

China understands the United States, but please also understand China.

China doesn't want much, and it doesn't want to be threatened on its own doorstep, like the Japan-US alliance and the Philippines.

The Chinese will not cross to the southern hemisphere. ” Little Rockefeller went back with a smile.

This is in fact a tacit acquiescence to China's lead to Canada on the Indian issue.

The removal of Indian reservations by the Americans in other states also strengthened the stability of the United States at home and completely freed the United States from the danger of secession.

If we really want to fight, the United States will not shrink back as it does now.

Americans' eyes were already on Britain's vast colony.

Of course, Mao Shishan will not be polite.

In mid-June, the US Pacific Fleet was withdrawn from Kamchatka and Chukotka to Alaska.

The U.S. military base in the Philippines was also withdrawn to Hawaii, and the Philippines announced**.

Ye Jianying's Second Army entered French Indochina.

And the French army withdrew to Africa.

China restored the province of Annam, and Siam was declared to be incorporated into China.

At the same time, a fleet of the Republic of China directly landed in the Philippines, and with the support of the local Chinese, the Philippines was incorporated into the Republic of China in less than 30 days.

Several major American conglomerates started arms business with Britain, France, Germany, and the Soviet Union.

American merchants entered Persia and supported Persia**.

Freed from British influence, American oil companies entered the Middle East in a big way to build oil fields.

At the same time, several major oil fields in China are also producing at full capacity.

You can't fight a war without oil, without food, without steel.