The tragedy of the British Empire seems to have just begun.

Britain once adopted a long-term policy of supporting Japan to restrain China, the United States and Russia. This is the British-Japanese alliance policy that is worthy of Britain's pride. Now, they will pay the price for it.

Britain is the creator of warship diplomacy and now it also has to pay for it.

Since the second half of 1940, Gu Weijun's cabinet has obviously adjusted its foreign policy. Through consultation with the military, on the grounds of safeguarding the collective interests of the Asian League, it has sent more troops to the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia in the name of the Asian League, and has made it clear that it has been made in secret.

Support Iran and other Islamic countries in fighting against British colonialism, and Iran, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and other countries proposed the Pakistan and Malaya policy, requiring the UK to completely withdraw from Southeast Asia, the Arabian Peninsula and the Middle East.

While Asian League member states actively opposed Britain, Gu Weijun's cabinet showed a relatively stable foreign policy towards Britain, advocating the gradual guarantee of freedom and autonomy of Asian countries through negotiations.

During this period, the empire's foreign policy was obviously more inclined to be consistent with the member states of the Asian League, and toward political activities within the Asian League, and to expel the power of the British Empire by coordinating and leading the Asian League.

At the same time, the empire also has many two-sided principles.

In the second half of 1940, the Empire passed a parliament bill, which included Ryukyu Islands, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Fiji Islands, Social Islands, Marshall Islands, Palau Islands, Nauru,

The Andaman Islands, Northern Madagascar, and Rose Island were officially confirmed as the territory of the Empire's overseas provinces.

At this point, the territory of the empire officially exceeded 20 million square kilometers. If the merger voting case in Kachin State passed, the empire area will increase to 20.15 million square kilometers, continuing to maintain the throne of the world's largest empire.

In October, in order to concentrate more on dealing with new problems that may arise between the United Kingdom, Japan, and the Soviet Union and Germany, Gu Weijun's cabinet reached a compromise agreement with the United States for exchange and concession, transferring the sovereignty of the Polynesian Islands to the United States in exchange for Guam.

The full ownership of the two sides reached an agreement to have equal ownership of the Pacific Ocean. The two sides demarcate the middle sea line between Wake Island and Midway Island. The western Pacific Ocean on the west belongs to the sphere of influence of the Imperial Navy, and the eastern side belongs to the sphere of influence of the US Navy.

In order to reach this agreement, Gu Weijun's cabinet gave up the disputed demand for the Aleutian Islands and recognized that the United States has sovereignty over the entire Aleutian Islands, while the Cormandor Islands belong to China.

After demarcating the boundaries between the two sides with the United States, Gu Weijun actively maintained his dominant position in the prime minister's election and the ruling party of Congress, while actively promoting the activities of the Asian League organization and forcing the United Kingdom to continue to make concessions through the Asian League.

Regarding the Soviet Union, Gu Weijun's cabinet also adopted a diplomatic strategy with the Asian League as the main body, requiring Kazakhstan as the top Asian country to leave the Soviet Union and join the Asian League to obtain protection from the Asian League.

The Soviet-German War continues.

Joseph Stalin, who failed to reach an agreement with China and stubbornly believed in the Soviet Union's own strength, was forced to face the reality. Although the German army made a wrong decision to divide the troops into two groups, Germany's progress in capturing Stalingrad was extremely smooth.

The Soviet Union was forced to draw the entire line of the Eastern Army in Chelyabinsk and Kazakhstan to reinforce Stalingrad, and took out all the strength to bet, and no longer care about the threat from the Chinese army.

Even so, the Soviet Union failed to resist the invasion of the Nazi German and Polish coalition forces.

The former comrade-in-arms and close friends, Head of Arthur Martos, has become a close comrade-in-arms of the Nazi devil Hitler, and the Polish National Defense Forces under his command are definitely much stronger than the Italian army. With China's long-term aid, Poland's overall

The strength is the strongest among Eastern European countries. Their defense forces are not only well-equipped, but also well-trained.

Among the faction of Head of Artur Martos, many senior commanders had served in the Second Bureau of the Imperial Staff, participated in the Sino-Japanese War, Sino-Soviet War and World War I, and visited the Empire many times afterwards.

While purchasing military equipment from the Imperial Army, the Army also brought back the mechanized ideas and combat theory.

Head of State Arthur Martos' years of operation and efforts were fully demonstrated in the entire Soviet-German War. Many of his elite armies under him had performance that was not inferior to the German army, but he was forced to cooperate with Germany's anti-Semitism position.

And commands will also be destined to be a flaw in the honor of others in life.

Military, Head of State Artur Martos was much wiser than Head of State Hitler. Although he thought that the decision to divide the troops into attacks the north and east sides of the Soviet Union was not wise, he still planned the entire Battle of Stalingrad by himself.

The attack, cooperated with the German army's decisive battle in Moscow on the northern front, and adopted the strategy of besieging the city to attack aid, and restrained the main force of the Soviet Eastern Army.

The country's reputation and diplomacy always rely on military strength to speak. The outstanding military performance made Hitler and Nazi Germany rely more on their alliance with Poland, but did not organize Hitler to further agree with the idea of ​​an alliance between Italy.

According to Hitler's idea, the German-Italy-Polish steel alliance will sweep the entire European continent, Poland will occupy Belarus, Ukraine and the Balkans, and Germany will occupy the vast western continent of the Soviet Union, and Italy will join Germany and Poland to scrape the entire Balkans.

, As a condition, the European Steel Alliance will withdraw from Asia and transfer the Kazakhstan to the Chinese Empire for trusteeship in exchange for the Chinese Empire's external neutrality, allowing the Steel Alliance to attack France and change the pattern of France and the European continent.

Next, if everything goes well, Hitler wants to march into North Africa, occupy French colonies, and work with the Chinese Empire to eliminate Britain and divide the British colonies. The plan to conflict between China and Britain and China and Britain made Hitler even more

The head of state saw the hope of success of his great idea.

He realized that he would establish a great Third Empire, standing on both ends of the Eurasian continent with the Chinese Empire, and shaving the whole world equally. His idea was wonderful, but his only mistake was that he misjudged the empire.

Bottom line.

For the Chinese Empire, the only bottom line is that it is absolutely not allowed to any country to be able to challenge the empire's world hegemony.

Britain cannot, the Soviet Union cannot, the United States cannot, and Germany cannot.

As the German and Polish coalition forces advanced to Moscow and Stalingrad, the two sides quickly entered a cruel stalemate. Strategically, the German and Polish coalition forces failed to effectively cut off Kazan and the upper reaches of the Volga River, leaving the Soviet Red Army still

With a large space for mutual support, the Soviet military industry also transferred to the Kazan region on a large scale, and used the rich resources of Kazakhstan and western Soviet Union to engage in a brutal positional battle with the German-Polish coalition forces.

This long-term war of attrition was definitely more unfavorable to the Soviet Union, because the Soviet Union was isolated internationally at this time, especially after rashly rejecting China's trading conditions, it completely declared that the Soviet Union had lost its last foreign aid.

During this period, China completed a circular blockade of Japan, using North Korea, the Far East and Ryukyu Islands as air force bases to carry out large-scale bombings on Japan. On average, more than 1,000 bombers were executed over Japan's mainland every day.

Bombing mission, during this six months, Japan's modern industrial foundation was almost completely flattened, and Japan's steel plants, power plants, coal mines, shipyards, arsenals, chemical plants, airports, and government agencies were all important bombing targets, even textiles.

The factories were all leveled, Japan's agricultural, water conservancy and transportation facilities were basically destroyed, and the entire country was regressed to the Meiji era. Such policies made Japan enter the most impoverished stage in its entire country's resources. Not only did it have war resources, but the country also faced the

The threat of large-scale famine is exactly what the empire needs to achieve.

In April 1941, the Imperial Central Army decided to launch the Kobe operation to attack Japan's mainland in advance, and to do so, it would invest more than 3.5 million elite army troops and 700,000 marines. The new goal that the Empire hoped was to be in the Soviet Union.

Before the end of the German War, the remnants of the Japanese army were completely eliminated, the Japanese emperor system was overthrown, and a new republican government was established.

At 4 a.m. on April 20, 1941, the Imperial Army and the Marine Corps of 14 divisions set off from Busan, North Korea and carried out landing operations on the northern coast of Xiaguan, Japan.

Half an hour before the Imperial Army and Marines launched an offensive, the Imperial Strategic Forces once again launched more than 3,000 short-range ballistic missiles from more than forty temporary missile bases throughout the Korean Peninsula, and a large number of rockets were launched in Busan.

The shells, the Imperial Air Force and the Navy Air Fleet then carried out a covered air strike on the coast.

Before the Empire launched an attack, China and Japan had been fighting fortifications on the coastal fortifications in Fuku River in Xiaguan fortifications that lasted for half a year. Japan continued to repair fortifications, while the Empire repeatedly bombed to ensure that the Japanese army's defense here was not enough to threaten the entire landing.

Battle.

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Chen Wu is the commander-in-chief of the Xiaguan landing battle.

As one of the few army's titles of senior army general, Chen Wu had the kind of honor that should have belonged to him at this time. Senior army general is an honor, not a military rank, and the highest rank is only an army general.

Chen Wu did not sit on the shore to command. He boarded a Luoyang-class command cruiser. Through the radar communication and command system on the Luoyang-class command cruiser, he instantly collected various battlefield information and commanded the entire army on the ship.

As an army general, this is the first time Chen Wu commands operations on a naval ship.

Luoyang-class command cruiser represents an extreme direction of the Imperial Armored Cruiser. This class of armored cruisers has relatively balanced configurations in armor, maneuverability, and artillery, and is equipped with the highest level of high-power large-scale carrier-based radars in China and air defense.

It has a complete anti-submarine system and has the ability to command the coordinated combat of surrounding aircraft, submarines and ships, and is usually the central force of small-scale fleets.

The construction scale of this class of cruisers is probably the largest in the world. It serves in several member states of the Asian League at the same time, and Iran alone has three ships installed.

In the past two days, Chen Wu has been living on this Luoyang-class command cruiser, and has adapted to the life characteristics of navy personnel. Every day, whether it is eating or sleeping, he always shakes slightly.

Feeling in the feeling.

Several of the more than ten army staff officers accompanying him were vomiting very badly, but Chen Wu did not react too strongly.

On this cruiser, Chen Wu can communicate closely with Admiral Yan Hau-wah, who is coordinating the battle, and Air Force General Chen Renqi, at any time, and coordinate the combat planning. The Navy assumes the most important task in this landing operation.

The Imperial Navy dispatched 11 battleships and 7 aircraft carriers to participate in the battle, plus 24 cruisers, to implement large-scale artillery cover before the Marine amphibious forces landed. The Navy Air Force was responsible for seizing air supremacy and suppressing the other side, while the Air Force

Responsible for large-scale deep and high-detonation bombing.

During the entire landing operation, the Marine Corps was also the main force. Chen Wu's Northeast Defense Forces first and the Fourth Army then landed in. This battle also used helicopters on a large scale. The helicopters in this battle were the first time.

It is officially equipped with a rocket launcher, which can launch rocket attacks on targets within three kilometers and covers ground troops to land.

The Imperial Navy invested about 1,400 amphibious tanks PT30 and more than 2,000 amphibious tracked armored infantry fighting vehicles at one time, and as many as 5,000 large-scale landing ships. The first batch went to the Japanese Fukujiang and Chuanpan coast.

7 divisions were invested.

Under the cover of naval artillery and air force, coupled with previous missile attacks, the Japanese front-line positions have been damaged for many rounds, and the coastal fortifications have been generally destroyed. The Imperial Marines easily broke through the coastal defense line.

At 10 a.m., two amphibious armored divisions of the Marine Corps seized control of the Xiaguan coastal defense zone. At 10:30, the first and fourth airborne divisions of the Air Force arrived in the northwest of Xiaguan one after another, cutting off the Japanese headquarters' advance to support Xiaguan.

Route, organize fortifications on site, and occupy multiple highlands of the Japanese army.

After confirming the news, Chen Wucai continued to arrange the First Army Army to land in Xiaguan.

The goal of the Xiaguan operation was not to directly occupy the entire Japan, but to seize a fulcrum for the empire to attack Japan, establish the first large-scale supply center in Xiaguan Port, provide supplies to the expeditionary forces, and cut off the Japanese local path to support Kyushu Island.

After occupying the entire Kyushu Island, the Empire continued to plan a landing battle in Shirayama Prefecture, Japan, and bypassed the Nagoya area, and put everything in the entire Japanese land into two, and adopted a combat plan to cut off one part and sweep one part, gradually level Japan, and finally

Nagoya sent troops to occupy Tokyo as the foundation and eliminated the entire Japanese army.

This plan for erosion was formulated by Liu Gengyun. His usual style is to seek stability but not urgent. Even if the Central Military Department hopes to end the war within two years, he still plans according to his own ideas. His goal is to be at the lowest price.

, defeating the entire Japan's resistance step by step.

Chen Wu has always been very supportive of Liu Gengyun's plan. After all, the two have been old partners for decades.

After confirming that the Marine Corps had controlled the coastal defense zone on the command cruiser of the Xiangyang, Chen Wu breathed a sigh of relief. He knew that this was a good start. Later, with the combat level and scale of the Northeast National Defense Force, he won the entire battle.

Japan is not a difficult task.

With an old partner like Liu Gengyun continuing to serve as the Chief of Staff, General Chen Wu always needs to be much more relaxed. He can sit opposite Liu Gengyun's desk, drink tea calmly, and enjoy the moment of success when he touches.

Unlike middle-aged generals like Fu Zuoyi, Chen Wu has already been full of honors. As long as he restores the honor of a senior army general, he will be really satisfied, so he has no anxiety, which is also his strong desire to be Liu Gengyun.

It is recommended that the Central Military Department not set too many reasons for the date of the war to be completely over. He and Liu Gengyun knew too much about Japan's national character and the characteristics of the Japanese army, and knew very well that this would be a very cruel occupation war.

The general attacked the plot.

Chen Wu can still remember that when he was studying in the first session of the Far East Military Non-commissioned Officer School, Liu Gengyun, who was a lecturer, explained the "War Discussion", and once said that the goal of the military was to eliminate the opponent's will to resist, not just military forces.

That's so simple.

Only such victory is the real victory, the final victory.
To be continued...