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In this plane, because the Japanese were beaten continuously by China and the Soviet Union in April 1937, they desperately needed allies and rushed to the doctor, but they were very enthusiastic about drawing Hitler to sign a similar treaty as soon as possible.

But during this period, Hitler’s Germany was extremely weak, and in the process of negotiating, the Japanese were defeated by China and the Soviet Union in the Far East, which made Hitler also wait and see. After all, Germany in this period still urgently needs China. Tungsten ore does not want to turn against China too early.Moreover, the last time Japan and Germany secretly signed the "Anti-Communist Agreement", just a few days after signing, the Soviets knew about it, and even the content of the agreement was clear. It is because he does not want to express his position too early at this sensitive time before he annexed Austria.

Then the two sides dragged on from last year to this year. In the end, Hitler also saw that Japan, an unreliable ally, was defeated by the Chinese and Soviet forces in the Far East.After the Battle of Nanjing, the German military attache in China sent a report to Hitler. They predicted that by October 1938 at the latest, the Japanese would be driven out of China by the joint efforts of China and the Soviet Union, and even North Korea might be lost by the end of the year—— In this case, it does not make much sense whether the treaty is signed or not.

Hitler also sent people to pay special attention to the four-month Nanjing Defense War that took place inside and outside Nanjing.After Chang Kaishen's defeat, none of the German advisers stationed in the Nationalist Government in Nanjing left. After taking advantage of the situation to support Chen Jitang, they were also "retained" by Chen Jitang.A few months later, the Japanese army attacked Songhu, Chen Jitang abandoned the city, and when the Red Army took over the city defense of Nanjing, Peng Shichuan did not order the Germans to be driven out because of the need to deter Germany in the future.

The Germans in Nanjing witnessed the entire defense of Nanjing from the perspective of bystanders.The last adviser, Alexander von Falkenhausen, was transferred back to Berlin by Hitler after the Nanking campaign and reported the battle to him in person.

(Note: Alexander von Falkenhausen is a man with little integrity among German soldiers. Historically, members of the German advisory group headed by Falkenhausen were unwilling to leave China when China needed them. Falkenhausen There was an idea of ​​giving up German citizenship and staying in China. But under the pressure of Nazi Germany, on July 1938, 7, von Falkenhausen and other consultants boarded the ship in Guangzhou in tears. He promised that he would never disclose it to the Japanese side. Any military secrets about China.)

In the report handed to Hitler by the German advisory group headed by Falkenhausen, the combat effectiveness and combat will of the CCP army were highly evaluated.But this evaluation also made Hitler's scalp tingle, and he became more panicked.

Why?

In the past year, Stalin crazily spoiled history to the whole world. The biggest victim was Roosevelt, but the person he feared the most was Hitler, who was running a small business.There are not many cards in the hole, and Hitler, who is relying entirely on the "divine operation" (not irony, it is indeed a divine operation) of "spoofing and bluffing" to achieve his strategic goals, meets this kind of "divine opponent" who sees through him. It would be a lie to say that you are not guilty.

The whole world now knows why Stalin spared no effort to support the CCP in beating Japan in 1937?Its purpose is twofold: one is to solve the Soviet Union's security problems in the Far East once and for all.The second point is to obtain an extremely powerful Eastern ally for the Soviet Union.

In the eyes of arrogant Westerners in the past, the military power of the yellow race and the Chinese was negligible.However, the war in the past year, especially after the four-month defense of Nanjing, made Westerners all over the world look at China with a "small" new look.

Although most Westerners still maintain the old arrogance and refuse to change, a considerable number of high-level elites feel the crisis.

The one who touched me the most was Falkenhausen in the German embassy in Nanjing.During the Battle of Nanjing, according to the instructions of their superiors, the Red Army allowed the German military advisory group to move on the front line with restrictions, and even allowed their officers and reporters to interview Chinese soldiers and examine the food and combat effectiveness of the Chinese Communist Army.

"The CCP's soldiers, fighting capacity and fighting will are much stronger than we imagined. Two years ago, this army was driven out of the southern base area by Chang Kaishen, and was forced to carry out what they later propagated, which lasted for 1 year. A long march of more than [-] kilometers."

Regarding the Long March, the Germans are of course very clear. The Battle of Songpan and the Battle of Baozuo, where the CCP wiped out Chang Kaishen’s Northwest Front Army. It took only a year and a half to win, and the Chang Kaishen regime was overthrown.

In Berlin, Falkenhausen handed Hitler a box, and Hitler opened it to see a small cloth bag full of grain.

"Before I left Nanjing to return to China, it was given to me by Peng Shichuan, the CCP general who commanded the battle."

Hitler opened the cloth bag and found that it contained extremely coarse grain.

"This kind of thing is called highland barley. I asked someone to boil it a bit and tasted it. It was very unpalatable. The taste reminded me of the two hungry winters in 1916 and 1917." (Winter of Turnips)

Hitler also starved—the collapse of Germany in the last two years of World War I also began with starvation.Due to insufficient food supplies, German civilians were forced to eat turnips (a vine crop) as a food substitute during those two terrible winters.

"The CCP's army ate this kind of food and completed the march of more than 1 kilometers. From a military point of view, if I hadn't experienced it myself, I would never have imagined that there is an army that can go without logistics. The troops with more than 1 kilometers have not yet collapsed, and they can fight back and win, but they did it, just eating this kind of food. According to General Peng, sometimes they can’t even eat these things.”

The German military officers who followed Falkenhausen to personally experience the Battle of Nanjing brought out a detailed list at this time: the food supply list of the Chinese Communist Party's Nanjing Defense Forces collected by them in four months.The rigor of the Germans made the food information he collected even accurate to every day.

"According to our calculations, the average monthly food expenses of the CCP's soldiers participating in the Nanjing Campaign is less than six dollars!"

"Six dollars? So cheap?"

Hitler was stunned. He snatched the list from Falkenhausen's men and read it carefully.

"Just eat these?"

"Yes!"

"It reminds me of the last year of the last war...."

Hitler made a comparison. The food standard of the soldiers in the CCP’s Nanjing Defense War was about the same as the food level of the German western field troops in the last year. The food at that level had already forced the German front-line troops to rebel. Well, Hitler couldn't have imagined that there really was an army that could endure such poor food and win battles.

"I was also shocked when I saw this. This kind of food is probably slightly better than the gray cattle of Tsarist Russia, but these are all true. The CCP's army is definitely the most cost-effective army in the world! The CCP really With only six dollars, a unit with such a high will to fight..."

The result of Falkenhausen's constant praise was that Hitler ordered someone to boil the bag of barley noodles and deliver it to his table after he left. Then he frowned and ate it all abruptly. go down.

Afterwards, for three consecutive days, Mustache didn't sleep well.

The bad news that Mustache heard from Falkenhausen was not only that the Soviet Union was about to gain a powerful ally, but another bad news was his report that the CCP had an unlimited supply of "Ome Pills" during the war ” and plenty of transistor radios.

"They even had the luxury of giving Ome Pills to every captured Japanese wounded."

In the eyes of the Germans, these two things were "generously" provided by the Soviet Union, and according to the news from Spain, the number of penicillium pills in the hands of the Republican Army is also extremely sufficient.

For Hitler, who was always thinking about attacking the Soviet Union in the future, this was another big bad news.

"Stalin is so rich?"

So far, the Germans can produce antibiotics, but only sulfa powder, but it is still a bit worse than the famous green plum pills. A German chemist has analyzed that the most important active ingredient of green plum pills should be It's penicillin.But the Germans have not yet solved the problem of mass production.

As for the transistor, this is a good thing that has made the entire German electronics industry jealous. This thing was invented by Huang Ke, but given the relationship between the CCP and the Soviet Union, it also belongs to the Soviet Union.

So, Hitler lost sleep...

While Hitler was worrying about the huge changes in the Far East, Mussolini in southern Italy was rejoicing at a piece of good news he had just received.

The joint drilling team of the Soviet Union and Italy successfully drilled a high-yielding oil well in Libya, a colony in North Africa!

The coordinates of this oil well were given by the Soviets last January.The cause of the incident was that the Soviets came to the door on their own initiative, claiming that they had obtained secret information from Britain, and obtained a very detailed map of the distribution of oil reserves in various places in North Africa.

The Italians didn't take it seriously at first. They had looked for oil in Libya before this, but found nothing, thinking that what the Soviets got was false information.However, the Soviet special envoy was very insistent on this matter, and proposed to Mussolini a joint development and a request for sharing benefits.

The conditions proposed by the Soviets were very loose: Italy allowed them to send drilling teams to extract oil in Libya, and the Soviets fully borne the cost.

At first, Mussolini regarded the Soviets as fools: the exploration of oil production was long and gambled with some luck.As for the "crazy" and gambler-style excavation behavior of the Soviets, in the eyes of the Italians, the Soviets' approach is simply child's play.

However, it was such a child's play, but more than a year later, they really drilled a high-yielding oil well in Libya...

For a time, the whole of Italy was stunned by this pie that fell from the sky...

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Chapter 280 Battle of Shandong

The relationship between the Soviet Union and Italy in 1938 was just like in history.

In Spain, the "Volunteer Air Force" of Italy and the Soviet Union drove the planes of their respective countries to kill the blue sky with blood.On the ground, the T26 tanks and T60 tanks that the Soviet Union aided the Republican Army are also educating the Italian CV33. If they have no anti-tank capabilities, they should not come here to make a fool of themselves.

But elsewhere, in Rome, the procurement team from the Soviet Union to Italy kept talking and laughing with Mussolini.In Libya, oil workers from the Soviet Union and Italy sweated profusely together in the desert.

Stalin was a realistic "communist" who knew what he wanted.

For the Soviet-German war that will break out in three years, the general direction set by Stalin is:

"The primary goal of everything is to weaken Germany's war potential! Everything is to enhance the combat effectiveness of the Soviets as the primary choice."

For this purpose, nothing is untradable.One of his strategies is to help the Italians tap oil ahead of schedule in North Africa.

There are two purposes: through this investment in oil exploration, make a wave of quick money from the Italians, and exchange industrial equipment and technology that the Soviet Union urgently needs with the Italians.The distribution of Libya's mineral resources obtained from Huang Ke, if handled well, can scrape a lot of oil and water from Mussolini.

The second is to win over Italy and increase its political and military influence on Italy.As long as the Italians can refrain from joining Germany, the Soviet Union will have one less opponent in the future Soviet-German war—Italy has been hacked too much in history. On the Soviet-German battlefield, their performance in the first year was still good, and Italy’s The Air Force is not bad either.

In addition, Italy's oil extraction in Libya will itself have a major change in the strategic structure of the entire Europe.Oil is the lifeblood of Germany. Seeing that there are oil fields in North Africa, the Germans will devote more energy to the protection here.In disguise, it also reduced the pressure on the Soviet army on the Soviet-German battlefield.

As for the Italians, as in history, they joined Germany and allowed Hitler to get more oil problems.

On this point, Stalin thought about it.

First of all, although Libya has produced oil, in fact, the oil field was completely provided by the Soviets with the coordinates provided by Huang Ke, without any infrastructure or preliminary preparations. "I found a random spot", transported the drilling equipment to the site, excavated for nearly a year, and then produced oil like winning a lottery.

Road facilities?No!

Oil pipeline?No!

Related supporting ports?nor!

The oil is extracted, how to transport it out?For Italy, this is not a small problem, but a big one.If this country were the Soviet Union or China, the leaders ordered the three armed forces to work overtime. In a year or even half a year or less, the relevant facilities would be built at lightning speed, but the inefficient Italians—according to their history Netizens of later generations optimistically estimate that it will take two to three years to complete the supporting facilities, and pessimistically estimate that it will take five years!Of course, it is not ruled out that the Germans, who are crazy about oil, will send engineering teams to help Italy to shorten this cycle.

In addition, Italy has oil and joins Germany, and the British will definitely not give up.Oil fields are easy targets to blow up.The British can blow him up in a wave of air strikes. This possibility is quite high!Hitler and Mussolini were busy for a long time, and a batch of B24 and other eggs flew from the sky, and they were blown up.

In addition, the Italians do not have the command of the sea in the Mediterranean Sea, and it is not so easy to send oil back to the mainland after producing oil.

After carefully calculating the gains and losses, Stalin felt that it would be in his best interest to let Libya produce fuel earlier.

But history has been changed. Stalin now fully believes that the mobilization started four years in advance and sufficient targeted preparations were made.In the first year of the war between the Soviet Union and Germany, even if Germany had the upper hand, it would be good if it could penetrate the Soviet Union as far as half of the distance in history—that is, Germany’s oil consumption would also decrease during this year. One-third to one-half.Stalin estimated that in this case, Germany would not encounter an oil shortage in the short term without Italy.Another reason is the American factor.

Historically, the United Kingdom and the United States "enthusiastically" supported the Soviet Union during World War II, on the premise that they hoped that the Soviet Union would consume Germany's elite soldiers as their cannon fodder.If the Soviet Union fought too well at the beginning of the Soviet-German War, Stalin could almost imagine that the disgusting shit-stirring cousins ​​would definitely try to stab the Soviet Union in the back in a different way: such as relaxing the shipping blockade against Germany , Even the British may reach a "tacit" truce compromise with Germany-this is very likely.

And in this plane, history has been played by Huang Ke to such an extent that there is a big question mark whether the so-called three-nation axis of Germany, Japan and Italy can be established. Will Mustache declare war on the United States after Pearl Harbor as in history? Can't be sure.

History has been severely altered beyond recognition, and new variables have been added too much and too powerfully.

Three years later, standing next to the Soviet Union was a China with a population of [-] million (the real number), and this Chinese comrade was still very good at fighting, and sent a large number of troops to join the Soviet-German battlefield...

Huang Ke also deduced future historical variables with Stalin.

"Imagine, a volunteer army whose combat strength is equivalent to that of the Korean battlefield joins the Soviet-German battlefield, and can continuously provide an endless source of soldiers. With Roosevelt's shrewdness, he will soon see what a terrible threat this is! They will soon You will realize that the greatest enemy of capitalist countries is no longer Nazi Germany with a population of only 600 million, but the combination of the Soviet Union with a population of 8000 million and China with a population of [-] million..."

As long as the future Roosevelt and Fatty Qiu realize this, their attitude towards Nazi Germany will change immediately.Needless to say Roosevelt, the insidious behind-the-scenes conspirator, Fatty Qiu, a heroic traitor, has no other skills, but is extremely fanatical in anti-communism and anti-socialism. No one knows how many things this pair will do at that time. .

Moreover, Stalin and Lee Yun-seok had a secret meeting in Moscow. The two reached a consensus on one thing: take advantage of the opportunity of World War II to smash the British and French colonial systems while at the same time setting off a new wave of socialism as broad as possible.

The organization of the Communist International will definitely not be like it was in history, because the Soviet-German War was forced to disband. Instead, it must intensify its efforts and increase the output of revolutionary forces.

On the European side, the plan of the Chinese and Soviet armies is to fight westward as much as possible and dye as many European countries as possible.

On the Asian side, China will also send troops to the south at an appropriate time—"At the end of the war, we must see the Indian Ocean and Malacca" is China's strategic goal.

Because New China has stood on the international stage 12 years ahead of schedule, it is no longer a set-up, no longer a chessboard, but a chess piece that has great influence and is becoming a chess player.

Under such a major premise, whether it is Li Runshi or Stalin, it can be concluded that in future wars, Britain and the United States will secretly compromise with Germany, deliberately release water, and even be more active than in history. . (Before the Pearl Harbor incident, Germany still obtained a large amount of oil through the neutral country Spain in history)

The news of Libya's oil output was temporarily overshadowed by the big news of the German-Austrian merger.And after this major incident spread to Asia, it immediately caused a small shock in the Japanese high-level.

"Is Europe really going to fight another big war?"

Whether it was the Chichibu Palace or the military department, they all remembered what Huang Ke said in Chichibu Palace when he came to Japan two years ago.At that time, Huang Ke specifically reminded Yongren, who was still the prince, that a new round of war in Europe was about to begin. If Japan got stuck in the quagmire of China at this point in time, it would miss the opportunity to make a fortune and seize Nanyang by means of the war. Chance.

Both Yong Ren and Kenji Doihara who were present at the time believed that Huang Ke had ulterior motives and was obviously trying to provoke Japan and Britain and the United States to become enemies, playing a very clumsy strategy of "pushing the disaster to the south".

Two years later, Kenji Doihara, who was at the scene at the time, shot himself in the head with a Nambu Fourteen pistol. Another protagonist, Prince Yongren, became the Emperor of Japan. The third important figure, Nishihara Temple Gongwang, on the other hand, made what Huang Ke said in Chichibu Palace at that time into "Chichibu Palace's Opposition", which was widely circulated in the military.

Huang Ke two years ago, in the hearts of many Japanese, he was just a soft meal with Elena, "with the cow dung of the golden princess."

But now, two years later, so many things have happened, when the red deer in the military department mentioned them at this time, their comments were basically:

"Huang Ke Huang Yuanxing? You work hard, but your conscience is even worse!"

Even Yongren, who had a bad impression of him, deeply regretted killing him without being in Tokyo at the time when he mentioned Huang Ke, and let the tiger go back to the mountain.

In the Chichibu Palace, Jinghe Emperor Yongren held the Chichibu Palace Duo two years ago in his hand, read it carefully repeatedly, chewing the words on it, wishing to chew something out of it.

It is now March 22, and the Tokyo headquarters finally made up their minds, and the withdrawal order for Tada Hayao has been issued, but Tada Hayao's call back made Yong Ren almost go crazy.

Jun Tada had just received the "hope-for-seeing" retreat instruction and was about to leave. Two days later, at this time, Lin Husan's troops launched a fierce assault on Tai'an at all costs with the armored troops as the spearhead.

During this period, the main force of the Japanese army in Shandong was lined up along the coast of the Yellow Sea in Weihai, Yantai, Qingdao, Weifang, Rizhao, Linyi, and Zaozhuang. in the hands of the Japanese army.

However, shortly after the end of the Battle of Nanjing, the Red Army in Shandong received a large amount of Soviet aid and squeezed all the way from Hebei to Shandong. Knowing that he had spread too much in the early stage, Tada Jun voluntarily abandoned Jinan and began to shrink in spite of the chaos of the base camp.His opinion at the time was that it would be best to shrink all the troops to the front line of Qingdao, like Songhu, and only keep Weihai, Yantai, and Qingdao, the "sharp corners" of Shandong.

However, during this period, the Japanese were still negotiating with China and the Soviet Union in Washington. Yongren was afraid that Hayao Tada’s early withdrawal would make him less costly on the negotiating table. Hayao Tada has sadly discovered that the troops he placed in Jining and Zaozhuang have been bitten and entangled by the coalition forces of the CCP, the Northeast Army, and the Northwest Army. An assault is likely to be the result of a total collapse.

When Jin Tianjun was still having a headache on how to retreat steadily, his opponent had already forced him to make a decision.