Chapter 377: Soldier 1939 Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou

On August 23, 1939, after reaching a neutral treaty with Japan, the Soviet Union finally signed a non-aggression treaty with Nazi Germany after difficult negotiations. The Soviet-German non-aggression treaty included a secret clause, which was to divide the sphere of influence among the Eastern European countries between the two countries, including Finland to the Soviet Union, and then Germany attacked Poland. The Soviet Union then sent troops to the east. In just a few weeks, the two countries divided Poland.

However, the situation in Finland is different from that of Poland. Finland maintains good relations with Western countries and accepts their military aid. During the three years from 1935 to 1938, Britain provided Finland with weapons and equipment worth 210 million Finnish marks.

The Luftwaffe has built more than 20 field airports and a complete air defense system network for the Finnish Air Force. Military instructors from Britain and Germany have always helped Finland train officers. With the support of Western experts, Finland built a solid defense line named after Mannheim in the Isthmus of Karelia.

This movement in Finland often aroused the vigilance of the Soviet Union, which it thought it was surrounded by capitalism. As early as the spring of 1939, when the Soviet Union took the initiative to hold secret negotiations with Finland, it began to test the possibility of realizing its above-mentioned attempts. During the negotiations, the Soviet representatives directly proposed that the Soviet Union use Finnish territory to face the invading enemy when a third country may invade the east and invade the Soviet Union through Finland. They also stated that the former Soviet Union wanted to obtain the right to fortify on certain islands in the Gulf of Finland.

But Finland implemented a policy of non-intervention in the cracks of conflicts between major powers, claiming that it would never stand on the side of one major power against another. Therefore, all secret negotiations have not achieved any results because Finland rejected the former Soviet Union's request.

In the end, Stalin's patience was exhausted. The Germans achieved great success in the continuous armed operations of the Rhine-de-Germany Zone, the Soviet-German-Taiwan, the Czech Republic, and the capture and partition of Poland. This success deeply stimulated Stalin's ambitions for territory, or the wild recovery in the Slavs' bones.

However, the result of the Soviet-Finn War allowed Hitler to see the weakness of the red beast Soviets. German power was becoming increasingly powerful, especially after occupying the world's second largest exporter of arms and weapons and the world's third industrial power, the Germans' strength increased dramatically. After taking over the Czech arms factory in full, the Germans had completed the final preparations for the war. Just like the last World War, a large number of German youths began to enter reserve training bases in various places and receive professional military skills training.

Nearly three million German young men of appropriate age, under the advocacy of the Nazi Party, put on military uniforms and entered the National Welfare Army and served in the SS. The Germans followed a typical elite military policy. This was also the fact that Germany's weapons and equipment did not have an advantage at the beginning of World War II, but they were able to win every battle because of the overall quality of German officers and soldiers.

The war clouds in Europe are becoming increasingly dense, and the Germans have already brought the British and French sense of oppression to Britain and France. In order to achieve stability in the Far East, the Soviets began to secretly tell Zhang Xuewu that there is a possibility of reopening the Dingyuan Camp aid route. The Soviet side began mass production of new fighter jets and tanks and equipped the Soviet Red Army's guards and the People's Internal Committee troops. In Asia, the Japanese also realized the mistakes of their entire Chinese strategy. Before completely eliminating Zhang Xuewu's forces, it was no longer possible to swallow China. Japan used the greed of the Nine-National Treaty Organization to turn Nanjing into an international trusteeship area, and formed a rounded defense zone against the Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou area. Relying on its three aircraft carriers on the Bund of the Huangpu River, more than 300 combat aircraft of the army and naval aviation that had been deployed at seven field airports near Shanghai, it formed a favorable support.

The areas in Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou that can be used for large-scale combat in the army were divided by water networks, which was very unfavorable to the development of the large corps. It was easy to turn the battle into sequential use of troops. During the Battle of Shanghai, the Chinese team had this situation, and the elite troops were exhausted by the fierce ground-air firepower of the Japanese army.

On the contrary, the Japanese army had no such concerns, because almost every Japanese division was equipped with a temporary craft bridge brigade, with steamboats and rubber boats in the area to fight. The Japanese were able to quickly mobilize more than 300 armed steamboats and shallow water patrol boats from the country. This was the advantage of the Japanese army, so the situation that was unfavorable to the Japanese army became beneficial to the Japanese army and unfavorable to our army.

What the Japanese and the Nine-Country Treaty Organization is most worried about is that the Northern Provisional Political Department, which has just been announced to be established for less than a year, once reached an agreement with the Wuhan National Civil Affairs Bureau, the two sides will reorganize all combat resources in the same name. Because according to Ishihara Kanr's analysis, once the North-South Civil Affairs Bureau negotiations are over and the two sides form a joint political department, the Imperial Army, which has seventeen divisions and seven brigades in the Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou area, will face great tests. Being driven into the sea is not empty talk, but Zhang Xuewu has huge combat power. If the army, navy and aviation cannot gain an advantage or even maintain balance in the battle for air supremacy, then whether it is a disaster for the Chinese dispatched fleet on the sea or the seventeen divisions and seven brigades that are defending on the road.

The Japanese cannot even accurately estimate Zhang Xuewu's strength now? Because Zhang Xuewu is like a stingy landlord in the countryside of China, hiding his family's piggy bank so that he can't find it? God knows how many advanced weapons Zhang Xuewu has hidden?

What worries the Japanese the most is that Zhang Xuewu has a huge industrial foundation, and the large number of equipment he purchased from the United States is not something that several youth cities in the west can accommodate. The economic crisis in the United States can be said to have swept nearly 700 factories in the United States through European merchants, so that American politics has to publicly prevent the largest acquisition, demolition and merger in history. However, Zhang Xuewu did not fulfill all his wishes. For example, the acquisition of the Emmanwen Shipyard in New York was blocked by the US Navy and failed.

There are also many knowledgeable people among the Americans, but these people are still too weak. In the United States, which pursues an isolationist economy, these people can exert great power. Otherwise, Zhou Ying's secret operation resistance would be greater. When the Americans realized that in just three years, nearly 27% of the grassroots industrial factories in the United States were acquired and demolished and transported? Seventeen% of the senior technical industrial workers went to the warring East to hunt gold, and many even picked up their families from the United States a year later.

Is there really a paradise on earth in the distant East? Many American businessmen began to seek business in Switzerland despite the political ban. Sweden registered a company to start business with Zhang Xuewu. Although the Soviets interrupted military aid, they still paid enough fees for goods passing through their territory.

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