The news that Germany and Italy jointly started a war against France and Belgium was like a super hurricane that swept the whole world in just a few hours. From Moscow to London, from Nanjing to Washington, everyone was discussing how many new disasters and changes this war between France, Germany and Italy would bring to this planet that has become a world of blood and fire.

Churchill sat in the conference room of the Admiralty Department on Whitehall Street, smoking a cigar. The British Empire's Navy Minister seemed to be in a good mood now and was talking to the visiting Prime Minister Chamberlain. "This is really good news. Mr. Prime Minister, should we have a drink for the war for France and Germany?"

This is really straightforward and does not meet the standards of British gentlemen, but in reality, it seems like this. Although Britain has "recognized" Germany's hegemony on the European continent and promised not to interfere with the conflict between France and Germany. However, anything that can seriously weaken Germany and bring the European continent back into a balanced pattern is still the dream of the elites of the British Empire. Therefore, although the British great men here try to maintain reserve and indifference, everyone feels the relaxed and cheerful atmosphere in this room.

Moreover, today's good news is not just about the war between France and Germany. Foreign Minister Anthony Aiden then reported another great news, a message from the British Embassy in Nanjing. The Chinese government is willing to provide the UK with a guarantee of Australian security in the form of a formal treaty. If Japan dares to land in Australia, British Guinea, British Bismarck Islands and British Solomon Islands, China will re-open war against Japan! And China's guarantee wants to exchange is just a private commitment from Britain to not interfere with the Japanese-US war. This means that Japan is planning to launch a new round of attack on the United States! The target is likely to be the Hawaiian Islands!

Chamberlain lit his pipe with a smile and took a sip of the cigarette beautifully. Today is such a good day! Not only is the German man going to be in trouble, but even the American man is about to fall into trouble again. It seems that the British Empire is really about to be in operation. The only regret is that the situation of the Chinese seems to be better than expected. Their attacks in Siberia and Central Asia seem to be very smooth. Japan is also devoted to causing trouble for the United States. It seems that they have given up the idea of ​​joining forces with the Soviet Union to deal with China. However, their good days must be over. Once Trotsky's pressure on the Western Front is greatly reduced, the strength of the Eastern Front will definitely be strengthened. At that time, the Chinese will fall into a tough battle in Siberia and Central Asia.

As long as the British Empire took advantage of the Soviet Union's busy fighting against China and Germany on the east and west sides, it seemed that there would be a chance to revive its former glory...

When the senior officials of the British Empire turned their attention to India and were full of how to regain the gem on the crown of the imperial king. The White House in Washington was also full of joy. "We should provide help to France!" President Roosevelt, who was still worried about the next direction of the Japanese attack yesterday, was now depicting the idea of ​​the United States seizing world leadership to his cabinet and generals: "We must put Germany and China in a hard battle, and we can even assist the Soviet Union when necessary! Now China, Britain and Germany have formed an alliance to maintain the old world, and the Soviet Union is a tool to smash the old world... and the best result is that China, Britain, the Soviet Union and Germany both suffered losses in the world war. Then the future belongs to the United States!"

"Mr. President...the United States is now in a huge war!"

Admiral MacArthur, who has always adhered to the anti-Soviet and anti-G stance, said a little dissatisfied: "According to the agreement just reached between China and Britain, Japan will be attacked by China and Britain once it invades Australia. Obviously, the next target of the Japanese attack cannot be Australia."

William Lehi immediately took over the topic and said: "Mr. President, the Navy believes that the Hawaiian Islands are likely to be attacked by Japan in a short period of time... If we lose that advance base, it will probably be difficult to defeat Japan in a short period of time!"

Roosevelt, who was in high spirits, was feeling a little unhappy when he was poured by the heads of the navy and the army. Isn't it just a small Japan? The Pacific Fleet is not really that bad, and it can't even be protected by the Hawaiian Islands, right? He looked at William Lexi and said, "Admiral. Then let's talk about the defense situation of the Hawaiian Islands. The war has been going on for more than five months. I think it must have become a solid maritime fortress there, right?"

"Sadly, Mr. President, the defense situation in the Hawaiian Islands has not improved significantly compared to before the war begins, and is even worse than that...at least at that time there was a huge fleet stationed in Pearl Harbor."

William Lexi's words suddenly made Roosevelt's interest fall to freezing point. Roosevelt, who had served as assistant secretary of the Navy, certainly knew what it means to lose more than the United States in Hawaii! He frowned and looked at William Lexi with dissatisfaction: "What's going on? Mr. Admiral, don't you know the importance of the Hawaiian Islands?"

William Lexi glanced at MacArthur beside him, who coughed and took the topic and explained: "Mr. President, the Shanghai Army has strengthened the defense of the Hawaiian Islands as much as possible, but the Army cannot send enough troops and planes to Hawaii."

"Why?" Roosevelt looked at MacArthur with a bright look. "Why are there no army to send? Hasn't the United States entered the wartime system? The army has also expanded to more than 3 million!"

MacArthur shrugged and spread his hands, saying, "In fact, there are not many available soldiers in the army! Before the war started, the army had only 130,000 people, which was smaller than a group of Chinese troops, and their weapons and equipment were even worse than them. Although the United States has the most powerful industrial strength in the world and can produce weapons quickly, it is not that fast to form an army. Because officers need training and soldiers need training... Although there are 3 million young people in the army's barracks, they are not real soldiers and do not have the necessary qualities to go to battle and kill the enemy!"

"Then are you going to watch Hawaii fall? My Army Chief of Staff!" Roosevelt clenched his fist: "Immediately strengthen Hawaii's defense! The defenders there must be increased to 200,000 by the end of June, no. 300,000!"

Several generals in the office looked at each other. They understood that Roosevelt's military science was based on mathematics. As long as there were too many, they would definitely win a battle. If this was true, the United States would compete for world hegemony? Because who can surpass China in terms of number?

However, Roosevelt and his generals could not have imagined that just when they were worried about strengthening the defense of the Hawaiian Islands, the Wujun Port in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan was already a noisy and busy scene. The port that had been empty after the Japanese-US War was now full of warships and transport ships.

The ammunition supply convoy was lined up in a long queue into the deserted military port a few days ago. The booms on the dock were swinging back and forth, lifting heavy shells onto the warship.

The thick oil pipeline also extends from the underground oil depot to these warships anchored on the edge of the dock. Countless tons of valuable low-imperfections, light-weight, heavy oil into the tank.

The officers who managed the oil depot looked at the rapidly rotating instrument and couldn't help but breathe, claiming to be "a drop of blood and a drop of oil". Now it flows into the belly of these large warships on the sea like no money. The main force of the Japanese Combined Fleet once again gathered at Wu Jun Port, and the scale of the assembly was even larger than the last time. Not only were the main combat ships of the Combined Fleet all arrived, but hundreds of transport ships also appeared here. The huge Wu Jun Port could no longer accommodate all ships. There were also various ships everywhere on the sea outside the port.

The infantry and marine officers and soldiers of the brigade also lined up in teams that could not be seen from the side and drove into the military port. At several docks of the troops transport ships, they were filled with neat rows of Japanese Red Army soldiers wearing yellow military uniforms. These short Japanese soldiers were holding rifles and carrying backpacks, and silently waiting to get on the ship. There were surging muzzles and military caps everywhere.

"It's another war that determines the future and destiny of the Party and the country..."

Hei Takeda muttered to himself, standing in front of the glass window of the conference room of the Wu Jungang Command Headquarters building where you can see the port.

"If we can really take Hawaii, Japan's GCD should be able to escape the danger of destruction... As long as we can defend there, the Chinese will not start a war against the alliance. After all, they don't want to see the United States take the opportunity to take back Hawaii. Then return to the Western Pacific, so that we can find a way out in a seemingly dead end..."

He slowly turned to him and looked at Yamamoto Izuru who was standing respectfully behind him.

"Yamamoto, this time it depends on whether your Red Navy can continue to work hard and make new contributions to the Party and the country."

Yamamoto Izuru stood at attention: "The Red Navy Combined Fleet guarantees completion of the mission!"

Takeda Ikko: "Yamamoto, do you think this war will go smoothly?" Although he was asking, he did not give Yamamoto Izuru a chance to answer. Instead, he talked to himself and continued: "10 aircraft carriers, 9 battleships, 8 heavy cruisers, 21 light cruisers, 68 destroyers, 3 seaplane carriers, 3 submarine carriers, 31 submarines, 18 oil tankers, 122 transport ships and 6 army divisions, and 5,000 Marines... Even if the Hawaiian Islands are iron walls, such powerful troops are enough to capture it, right?"

Yamamoto Iroku was about to agree and said a few compliments, but for some reason he suddenly hesitated.

Takeda's sharp eyes immediately stared at Yamamoto: "Yamamoto, what are you worried about?"

Yamamoto Iroku was silent for a moment, and finally replied: "The current US Navy is not our opponent, and the battle to seize Hawaii is very likely to win. But... Chairman, I am thinking about Japan's next action, China provides security guarantees to the British Australian colony. This will ban Japan's future..."

"Do you think that guarantee is meaningful?" Takeda Yuki asked softly.

"The Chairman means..."

Takeda Yuki smiled coldly: "France and Germany have started war. Now Germany is on two fronts, and the pressure on the Soviet Union's western front has been greatly reduced. In this way, Trotsky can invest more troops into the East. It won't take long to Chang Ruiqing no longer care about his promise to Britain. Yamamoto, let go of the war, and Japan's future will be maintained by the soldiers of the Red Navy!"

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In the early morning of May 10, 1934, at the entrance of the Fergana Basin, in the 18th Army advance command post west of the Kuzhan Fortress, Marshal Bai Chongxi and Yang Xianyi Air Force General who came to inspect were basically not interested in the war between France, Germany and Italy. Because they were already worried about the capture of the Fergana Basin under the control of the Soviet army.

Since March, the large offensive with more than 1 million troops has been stopped here. What blocked the attack of Chinese million troops was the Kuzhan Bulk Area at the entrance of the basin. The core of this Kuzhan Fortress is the Kuzhan Fortress, which is blocking the gate to the basin. On the bare hilly areas on the north and south sides of the fortress, there are fortress groups built by the Soviet army along the mountains and various fortifications.

In order to knock on the gate of the Fergana Basin, the 3 9 divisions and 80,000 Soviet troops of the 18th Army of the National Defense Forces had been strangled here for two weeks. After paying the price of tens of thousands of casualties, there was still no hope of seizing. Moreover, not only here, the 36th Army and the 4th Army who attacked the Fergana Basin from the north and south lines were also blocked in the mountains of the Kyrgyz Mountains and the Gisar Alai Mountains, advancing southward.

Yang Xianyi, the commander of the Air Force who had previously boasted about Haikou in front of Chang Ruiqing, had to come to the front line to see what was going on. This forward command post of the 18th Army was located on a hill more than 300 meters high about 12 kilometers northwest of Kuzhan Fortress. From this position, you can take all the situation on the battlefield into your eyes.

In the past 20 years, Commander Yang of the Air Force, who had been on the front line, took the telescope from his adjutant and looked at the battlefield. The scene that caught his eyes made him gasp. He saw that the building area with a width of more than 20 kilometers and a depth of at least 10 kilometers was like the legendary Avici Hell. There were broken fortifications with black smoke everywhere. Cracks of large and small were spread on the surface, and it looked like they were on the surface of the moon. Fragments of human bodies burned into coke were even seen everywhere. There were even many hunter tank destroyers that had turned into a pile of twisted steel wreckage.

"Why...how is this happening!?"

Resisting the urge to vomit, the general who had been in charge of the Chinese Air Force during Sun Yat-sen turned his head and asked Lieutenant General Wang Shuming, who had been promoted to the commander of the 10th Aviation Division: "What's wrong? Didn't you ask you to use Stuka to destroy the Kuzhan Fortress? Why did you still fight like this?"

Hearing Yang Xianyi's questioning, Wang Shuming shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Tiegong (Yang Xianyi Tie'an), several fortresses on the ground of Kuzhan Fortress have long been blown up by Stuka with a 500-kilogram bomb. But the Soviet army has long been defeated in war. Do you see the bare hills on both sides of Kuzhan Fortress? They asked them to hollow out those mountains, all of which are all lanes and bomb-avoiding bunkers. The Soviet army hid in it like ground rats, and our armor-piercing bombs can't do anything to them at all."

Zhu D, commander of the 18th Army Army, also added: "The Soviets not only hid the infantry underground, but also had special lanes for artillery. According to the captives, since the summer of 1932, the Soviets transferred hundreds of thousands of laborers and laborers to build the Kuzhan building area, hollowing out a large area of ​​hills. The lanes near the entrance of the Fergana Basin were mainly hidden soldiers, and the ones inside were hidden artillery and ammunition. There were bunkers under the Khuzhan Fortress. Even if all the ground buildings in the fortress were destroyed, they could still rely on the ruins and bunkers to continue to resist. Now the 80,000 Soviet troops are almost hiding underground. Our artillery firepower cannot be used to kill them, and the bombs of the Air Force cannot be bombed either."

"In other words, the 18th Army could not open the gate of the Fergana Basin?" Bai Chongxi also put down the telescope in his hand and asked with a frown.

Zhu D shook his head and said, "Even if he can kill, he will have to break a few big teeth... I really didn't expect that Fergana's bone was difficult to gnaw. Stuka's 500-kilogram armor-piercing bomb was useless, let alone 155 cm or 105 cm howitzer. Jianshuai, there is only one way now, that is, he can fill the lives of a mountain of corpses and blood, and slowly gnaw from both sides of the Soviet army's fortification zone. It is estimated that 200,000 or 300,000 brothers will be killed or killed."

Bai Chongxi looked at the Chief of Staff Liu Mingzhao beside him: "Bocheng, what do you think?"

As the saying goes, "A kind-hearted person does not control the army. If you can become a front army, the commander of the army will not cherish human lives. In their opinion, the lives of soldiers are just a number! Whether they want to sacrifice them depends on whether they are worth it or not! Of course, if anyone lives are priceless, don't tell people like them. In their eyes, only victory in war is priceless!

Of course, Liu Mingzhao is also this kind of person, but the victory that was filled with human lives is always imperfect in the eyes of this genius staff. He thought for a while and asked Zhu D: "Brother Yujie, can the Soviet army's military strength in the Fergana Basin be determined?"

"It can be confirmed that there are two armies in total, namely the 41st Army and the 42nd Army. In addition, the headquarters of the Soviet Tianshan Front is also in the Fergana City in the basin, and there may be a small number of guard troops." Zhu D replied.

Liu Mingzhao nodded thoughtfully and pondered: "There will not be many guards in the Front Army Command. The two Soviet army groups added together will have 160,000 people. Now there are 80,000 people here in Kuzhan. The remaining 80,000 should be deployed in the mountainous areas on the north, east and south. The troops in the basin must be empty!" His eyes lit up and he looked at Bai Chongxi and said: "Jianshuai, why not come a surprise soldier from the sky!" (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!