Chapter 20: The profit is in vain

Unless it is strong enough and has overwhelming advantages in many aspects, it has always been a taboo for military strategists to actively seek to fight on two or even multiple lines. This can be seen from the strategic principle of "winning two wars at the same time" due to the heavy burden of the United States, which became the only superpower in the future, has to give up the strategic principle of "winning two wars at the same time". As for those passive responders, they should try their best to avoid the unfavorable state of dispersing troops and combat materials in multiple places.

However, after Japan made excuses to declare war on the Soviet Union on August 16, some knowledgeable people at home and abroad discovered that the former military taboos were being left behind by the relevant combatants.

Germany has been in a state of fighting on both sides since the beginning of sending troops to Poland, but at that time, Britain and France's "sitting in peace" on the Western Front achieved Hitler's ambitions, allowing it to calmly deal with Poland and other small European countries. When Britain was in danger after France surrendered, Germany once again put a taboo on military strategists. After the Greek Battle, when the North African war was not over, it brazenly launched an attack on the Soviet Union.

This is related to factors such as Germany's lack of control over Britain for the time being and not wanting to give the Soviet Union more time to prepare, and the People's Party armed forces in Central Asia, Outer Mongolia in advance, and other factors. It is also related to Germany's full preparations for the Soviet Union's war and successfully made Stalin misjudgment that the German army would launch in 1942 through various means. Of course, it also has a lot to do with Hitler's personal arrogance. However, with the advantages of preparedness and unpreparation, coupled with the advantages of military strength and equipment, the German army has been progressing relatively smoothly since the outbreak of the Soviet-German War. This also made Hitler believe that "the two-line or multi-line combat is nothing great, and the taboo is for being broken."

After sweeping over half of Europe, Germany has indeed had the strength to launch two-line and even multi-line combat with the population it controls and plunders. However, it is shocking that Japan tore up the Soviet-Japan Neutral Treaty, which has not yet dried up.

The difficulties on China's battlefield, especially the threat from the armed forces of the People's Party, have not yet been resolved. Japan was strongly opposed by Britain, the United States, the Netherlands and other countries during its advance march to French Indochina. Now it launches an attack on the Soviet Far East! A small island country, with many strategic resources relying on external imports and being controlled by others, also launched two or even three-line battles. Its ambition to rule is no less than Hitler. It is really arrogant!

In addition to the two Axis Group of Germany and Japan, the two core members of the Axis Group, are also British, Italian, Soviet and other countries as well as the Chinese People's Party armed forces.

In addition to continuing to fight with German air and naval forces in their local and surrounding waters, Britain also fought in North Africa, Greece and Italy, and Germany successively, and was hostile to the People's Party in the India-Myanmar area. Its relations with Japan were tense due to the Japanese army's march into Southeast Asia.

Although Britain is an old empire and has the support of other countries and regions in the Commonwealth system, it has been more than a year since Germany launched an attack on Britain and France. In particular, Churchill took over the mess left by Chamberlain. In addition, India and the Myanmar colony are quite unstable and endangered the entire Commonwealth system. It is extremely difficult for Churchill to survive until now. In order to gain support from the United States and then bring the United States to his own side, Churchill even rented a series of British naval bases in the West Indies to the United States last year in exchange for the urgently needed fifty old destroyers to break the maritime blockade of German submarines against Britain.

After the defeat in the Greek Battle and North Africa in the first half of this year, Britain's situation became increasingly difficult. Although Germany's attack on the Soviet Union made the British, who had relieved the pressure, the threat of war issued by the People's Party on the territorial issues of Shannan and Yunnan-Burma made Churchill's heart tense again. After comprehensive consideration, he had to use the word "drag" method to seek respite.

As for Italy, although Mussolini wanted to restore the glory of the ancient Roman Empire, the Italian army was really not good, and was hit hard by the British in North Africa and Greece almost at the same time. In the defeat, Mussolini urgently asked Germany to save the situation. It was not until the Germans came forward that they defeated the British team and eased the situation. But as a result, the two Italians originally expected in Greece and North Africa were interfered by the Germans, which made Mussolini complain.

As a member of the two and even the third line of combat, the Soviet Union's life was even more sad. First, the People's Party's attack on Central Asia and Outer Mongolia cut off the Siberian Railway, dividing the Soviet Union into two parts, east and west. Then the Germans launched a large-scale attack on the Western Front and headed straight to Leningrad, Moscow and other important places, and then Japan's current attack on the Far East.

Although the Soviet Union had a vast territory and numerous soldiers, it was still unbearable to attack in the three strategic directions of China, West and East. Stalin did not take the armed forces of the People's Party seriously, but he did not dare to underestimate the national war initiated by Germany and Japan. As soon as the Far East war broke out, he realized clearly that this was an unprecedented huge crisis that the Soviet Union suffered since the Soviet Union's Civil War!

With the interruption of the Siberian Railway, the Soviet Union would have to go to the Western Front, the Central Front and the Eastern Front to fall into a state of war.

In the central part, the People's Army has occupied a large area of ​​Central Asia and Outer Mongolia, annihilated more than 500,000 Soviet troops, and has not stopped bombing Central Asia, Siberia, Outer Baikal and other places.

On the western front, the German troops in the northwest were approaching the periphery of Leningrad, while the German troops in the middle and southwest launched fierce attacks on Smolensk and Kiev respectively, while the Luftwaffe had begun bombing Moscow.

In comparison, the situation on the Eastern Front is the best among the Soviet third lines at present, but in the long run, the future situation on the Eastern Front is the most dangerous. Although the Far Eastern Front commanded by Apaneseko was very brave, because the People's Party's armed forces cut off the east-west connection, the ministry could not obtain the supplementary supply of fighter jets, tanks and other equipment and personnel, and was at a disadvantage in terms of force, it is likely to lose to the Japanese army, including key areas such as northern Sakhalin Island, Vladivostok, and Boli.

Regarding the current dilemma of the Soviet Union, after the outbreak of the Soviet War in Japan, Zhao Zhenzhong made a very accurate analysis at the meeting of the Military Commission of the People's Party: "The Soviet Union has a vast territory, and the European part is its foundation, while Siberia and Central Asia, and the Far East are its branches extending eastward. After winning the civil war in the Soviet Union, while strengthening the European foundation, it also strengthened its control over the above three regions through the Siberian Railway and the Turkish-Sichuan Railway.

In terms of military deployment, the Soviet Union focused on the European part, with Central Asia and Siberia as the auxiliary, and the Far East as the sub-focused. It was intentionally or unintentionally arranged along the Siberian Railway and the Turkish-Xi Railway as the super-large one-line snake array with its head in the west and its tail in the east.

Although the long snake formation cannot be tactical in response to the beginning and the end due to the large regional span, the Soviet army was distributed in the west, middle and east directions, but several major groups in the three directions can achieve this strategically through railway maneuver.

Our army took the lead in sending troops to Su and Meng, which was equivalent to stabbing the long snake in the soft abdomen. Without waiting for the Soviet Union to concentrate its forces to counterattack our army, the German army, which was ready on the western front, gave a blow to the head of the long snake with huge forces. In addition, the Japanese were grabbing their tails and hitting the Soviet Far East, and the Soviet Union's long snake basically turned into a dead snake!

With the current strength of the Soviet Union, if he wanted to take into account both the three lines, the result would be that it would be difficult to take into account the beginning and end, which would lead to the final failure. However, part of Europe had a great relationship with the Soviet Union, and Stalin would definitely not give up. However, no matter where Stalin wanted to give up, he could not avoid our People's Army that had entered Central Asia and Outer Mongolia.

It would be best if we could regain our territory occupied by the Soviet Union through negotiations! If we can't, we don't mind adding fire to the Soviet Union in the future and killing it ourselves!"

Zhang Mingrui, Yang Tianming and others also raised the question of "why not take the opportunity to take down all Outer Mongolia or continue to expand the results in Central Asia and Siberia", while Zhao Zhenzhong considered it separately.

First, the People's Party and the Japanese army are mortal enemies and are also hostile to Germany. When the two countries launch a large-scale attack on the Soviet Union, the People's Party's armed forces should not continue to expand the offensive against the Soviet Union. Otherwise, it will inevitably make people mistakenly believe that the People's Party and Germany have secret agreements or tacit understandings between Japan, which will lead to passiveness in domestic and foreign politics.

Of course, the People's Party has declared war on the Soviet Union and has regained Central Asia and Outer Mongolia's large areas of lost land. In this case, the People's Army has not stopped attacking the Soviet Union, but it can only limit the attack strength to a certain degree of air bombing.

Second, there is Germany. Japan and Japan come to consume the strength of the Soviet Union. There is no need for the People's Party to arm these two sharp blades without using them. The Soviet Union is the enemy, but Germany and Japan are also the enemy. Since the Russians and the Japanese have fought hard, the People's Party can completely suspend large-scale military operations and concentrate on accumulating strength to wait for the future to reap the benefits of the fisherman.

Moreover, the fight against the Soviet Union now will only give the beard and the Japanese will take advantage of it. It will give Stalin a chance to breathe a sigh of relief and let the three sides fight hard first. Even if the Soviet War is really defeated in the future, the German and Japanese armies will advance east and west, and the People's Party armies can still wait for their work and take the lead.

Third, considering that hasteness is not achieved. The large area of ​​lost land recovered by the People's Army in Central Asia and Outer Mongolia requires a stable and digestive process, especially the preparations for this year's winter, and then consider other things. When the new control area is completely stable, with the convenience of transportation such as airports, railways, roads, etc., the People's Army can launch attacks on the surrounding Soviet-controlled areas at any time after they are fully prepared for troops and materials. Moreover, with the increase of new equipment such as long-range bombers, the People's Army's strike range can be further expanded.

Fourth, the Soviet Union has not completed the transfer of its industrial base to the east of the Ural Mountains. It is not only not very effective, but will also alarm the enemy. Once the Soviet Union finds out the maximum combat radius of the People's Army bombers, it will definitely make targeted deployments in advance, thereby reducing the results of the People's Army's air strikes against the Soviet Union in the future.

It is not as good as it is now. The People's Army Air Force only conducts tactical bombings on the surrounding areas of Central Asia and Outer Mongolia. If the Soviet Union can still gain the advantage of combat on the Western Front in the future, the People's Party will raise territorial issues in a timely manner. If Stalin still disagrees, then the results of strategic bombing will be much greater.

Zhao Zhenzhong's analysis, especially his forward-looking grasp of the overall strategic situation, moved all the senior generals of the People's Party and military, including Zhou Mingyuan. Everyone seemed to have seen the results faced by the Soviet, Germany and Japan after each weakened each other. They were obviously much brighter and their expressions were excited.

"This is just a strategic deduction possibility that we hope to achieve. Now it is far from time to rest assured!" Zhao Zhenzhong warned, "There are still various variables, and each of us must not be careless! The orders issued by the headquarters on related issues must be implemented without any discount!"

After more than 20 years of study and training, Zhang Mingrui, Yang Tianming and others have grown into independent leaders of the People's Party armed forces. They are naturally clear about the interests of the relevant issues. They responded to Zhao Zhenzhong's warning.

In fact, the People's Party also made enemies from multiple sides, fighting on two or even three sides. However, the People's Party has the ability to choose the enemy or grasp the overall strategic situation, such as Zhao Zhenzhong and Zhou Mingyuan who have insight into the historical development trends, but they are at ease in the face of the enemy.

From 36 years to the present, the People's Party has successively waged war against the Soviet Union, Britain and Japan in the name of "fighting aggression and regaining lost territory". In 37 and 41 years, it declared war against Japan and the Soviet Union, and seized the opportunity to fight and defeated it, regaining a large area of ​​territory lost by China since the late Qing Dynasty.

Although the People's Party is now a mortal enemy with Japan and threatens war to Britain before the war against the Soviet Union is over, it is shocking to its crazy actions, but it is not difficult for those with insight to carefully savor it. The Soviet Union, Japan, and Britain are now involved in the war, and the main enemies of the three countries are not armed by the People's Party!

Among them, Japan and the Soviet Union belong to two camps, and are now fighting fiercely in the Far East. Although Britain is close to the Soviet Union, it is to deal with Germany together. It is still hard to say whether it is an enemy or a friend in the future.

In this way, the Soviet, British and Japanese countries will continue to consume their own strength in the war, but the People's Party can take the opportunity to grow and grow, and the longer the time will be, the more beneficial it will be to the People's Party. When the war is really over in the future, it will probably be difficult to unite against the People's Party with the grievances and entanglements between the Three Kingdoms!

Taking advantage of the situation and leveraging the power, the People's Party has maximized the benefits that multi-line combat can bring! This is also a model for multi-line combat under limited strength!

The People's Party armed forces have now basically suspended large-scale military operations, in addition to the People's Army Air Force still launching irregular air strikes on Soviet Central Asia, Siberia, Baikal and other places, and the Shannan People's Army Navy is still carrying out "exercise blockade" tasks at sea. While watching the development of the domestic and foreign situation, they have stepped up the transportation of materials and trained troops to prepare for new combat operations.

As for the escorts, they are carrying out drought relief activities under the organization of the Shandong Bureau, and they have no time to take action against the surrounding Japanese troops. From the beginning of spring to the present, in addition to the two rainfalls in the peninsula after entering the summer, most of Shandong has been drought, causing water shortages in the rivers and drying up. The riverbeds of many rivers near Jinan have become thoroughfares. In order to resist drought relief, the Shandong Bureau organized manpower and material resources to carry out large-scale well construction activities in the fields to cooperate with diesel engines and pumps to irrigate farmland. Although summer grain production has been reduced, fortunately, the Shandong Bureau has also reduced the field tax for one year in the disaster area, ensuring that the daily life needs of the people in the district are not a problem.

Although Chongqing has complained about the trends of the People's Party's armed forces, it has taken considerable restraints in consideration of the reality and future and has not criticized it.

As for Chiang Kai-shek, the People's Party is no longer affordable to the National Government, and Zhao Zhenzhong's targeting the Soviet Union is exactly what he is happy to see. Moreover, the People's Party's move not only eased the pressure from the northwest that Chongqing was under, but also prompted the Japanese army to attack the Soviet Union. This is a good thing no matter what!

For example, although the People's Party sent troops to Suzhou and Meng to emotionally unacceptable some of its internal members, the recovery of lost land is the country and national justice. In addition, Mao Zedong suppressed the "international faction", and the power displayed by the People's Party is really amazing, and it once again resisted the intention of the Communist International to attack the People's Party.

Of course, both the State and the Communist Party have also issued public statements on the declaration of war against the Soviet Union, expressing their "strong condemnation" of Japan and sympathize with the Soviet Union. As for the true thoughts of the top leaders of the two parties, it cannot be put on the surface.

Unlike the unpainful and even gloating Chinese domestic attack on Japan's Soviet Union, Britain and the United States have both responded in a targeted manner. After all, no matter what, Britain and the United States have just announced the Atlantic Charter, and Japan ignored Roosevelt's warning in early June and tore up Qiannuo to declare war on the Soviet Union. This is simply a slap in the face!

For Churchill, Britain finally found the Soviet Union, an ally that could jointly deal with Germany after the outbreak of the Soviet-German War, and signed a military agreement in July. However, Japan's current actions will undoubtedly weaken the Soviet Union's strength and thus increase the pressure the UK has undertaken. This is untolerable!

Subsequently, US President Roosevelt announced on the 17th that he would freeze Japanese assets in the United States and embargo on Japan, and that U.S. and Japan trade were completely suspended. Churchill announced on the same day that he would freeze Japanese assets in the United Kingdom and abolish the British and Japanese business contract.

In history, the United States and Britain responded fiercely when the Japanese army marched into southern French Indochina in late July. But now, because the Japanese base decided to first resolve the Soviet Far East issue, the southward movement was suspended, and the sanctions measures of the United States and Britain were delayed until now. This also gave Japan a reserve time of more than 20 days.

However, with the outbreak of sanctions between the United States and Britain, Japan continued to attack the Soviet Far East, while also stepped up preparations for the southward journey. The Japanese Navy even transported troops and materials from Hainan Island to Saigon.

Saigon, which is the later Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, has a dimension of only more than ten degrees north latitude. The sea and air forces starting from here can directly threaten the Philippines, Singapore, Malaya, Brunei and other places. This is equivalent to breaking into the backyard of the British and American spheres of influence in Southeast Asia!

In order to obtain strategic resources, Japan began to take steps to move south even as the war against the Soviet Union had not yet ended!

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