Although China belongs to the "Northern Hemisphere" from a geographical point of view, China does not seem to have the courage of a country in the Northern Hemisphere. In later generations of "North-South Dialogue", China can only live in the "South", and later generations called for "South-South Cooperation", which actually meant
Developing countries must cooperate with each other.
Until the time when Wu Aihua crossed over, China had not gotten rid of this "role positioning". Coupled with the influence of China's traditional farming culture, therefore, a large country that accounts for a quarter of the world's population basically has no "maritime strategy".
Speaking of riding the wind and waves in the ocean, even the several inland seas and islands in the inland seas at my doorstep are often bullied.
It can be said that although Chinese people in later generations, including ordinary people, all think that their country is a "big country", no one thinks of it as a "citizen of a big country" because as long as Chinese people go abroad, they will be subject to various restrictions.
Let’s not talk about some factors, but the most important factor is that China is a relatively closed country. On its own one-third of an acre, its strength is pretty good, for example, the army is relatively good; but on the world’s shared stage, such as several
On the ocean, it is almost impossible to see the power of China.
The emergence of this situation is related to the weak national strength at the time; but it is more related to the country's "strategy". If the whole world came to besiege China because of some doctrine issue, then, as for Soviet Russia, why did others dare to
Challenge in the world?
In fact, in addition to the great strength of Soviet Russia, it may be related to "strategy". The Soviet Russians not only attach great importance to occupying land, but also like to cross the ocean. As long as you carefully study the history of Russia's expansion, you will know that this Moscow hundreds of years ago
After hundreds of years of hard work, the small inland principality managed to gain access to the Arctic Ocean, the Black Sea, and the Pacific Ocean.
It is also because of these ideas and concepts that after Wu Aihua began to take shape, he did not like to use troops domestically, but considered military strategy on a global scale. The "Northern Lights Project" is just one aspect of Wu Aihua's global strategy.
That's all.
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After the "Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Assistance" was signed with Finland, in just three days, the first 10,000-ton merchant ship loaded with military supplies departed from Guangzhou and headed straight for Helsinki.
When Finland received these military equipment, Wu Aihua believed that in the upcoming "Winter War", Soviet Russia's life would be worse than in history.
In October 1939, after Germany and Soviet Russia jointly carved up Poland, the world situation fell into a strange state of calm. Although Britain, France and other countries had declared war on Germany, they actually declared no war.
It was not that Germany did not want to attack again, but that it wanted to digest Poland before attacking; but Soviet Russia, regardless of whether it had digested Poland, hurriedly aimed its guns at Finland.
Although Finland is a small country, its President Mannerheim is an extremely wise leader. From the day when Soviet Russia requested an exchange of territory, Mannerheim knew that a war between Finland and Soviet Russia was inevitable.
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While Mannerheim stepped up the recruitment of soldiers at home to prepare for war, he also sought assistance from the international community. However, Germany could not openly support Soviet Russia because it had signed a secret agreement with Soviet Russia. Britain and France had many other ideas. Although
There was some assistance, but this assistance arrived in February 1940, by which time Finland had run out of ammunition and food and was unable to fight anymore.
Although Eastern China's aid also has certain conditions, it is generally much gentler than that of Britain and France, and is completely within the scope of the Finnish government.
On November 12, 1939, Soviet-Finnish negotiations broke down.
On the same day, China's 10,000-ton merchant ship "Ping An" arrived in Helsinki.
On November 30, 1939, 23 Soviet divisions with a total of 450,000 troops suddenly invaded Finland from three directions and quickly reached Finland's famous defense line, the Mannerheim Line.
The start of this war was exactly the same as in history. The Soviet Russian army encountered stubborn resistance from the Finnish army and caused its losses to be more heavy than in history.
In the first week of the Winter War, perhaps because commanders on all fronts did not like unfamiliar weapons, the Finnish army did not use equipment from China.
When time passed to late December, after the two sides actually harassed the enemy, a Finnish reconnaissance battalion, which had received emergency training from Chinese Lightning Special Forces instructors, began to go deep into the front lines to harass Soviet and Russian supply lines, military battles, and soldier camps.
And just three days later, the battle reports sent back by the reconnaissance battalion made these proud Finnish officers lower their proud heads. The 750-person reconnaissance battalion fought continuously for 72 hours, killing more than 4,700 Soviet soldiers, blowing up or burning them.
The Soviet army had 75 tanks and 1,200 tons of ammunition and supplies. It also killed 1 Soviet deputy corps commander and 1 division commander. The Finnish reconnaissance battalion only sacrificed 17 lives.
Because the time is short, it is impossible for instructors from China to train these big guys from Northern Europe like they train Chinese special forces. Basic military techniques cannot be taught. They are more taught some concealment, makeup, assault, lurking, and retreat.
, covering, sniping and other tactics. The entire training only lasted three weeks. But the effect was obviously very obvious.
In these three days, the "Eagle Dragon 1" purchased from China began to take off for combat. Facing a strong team of 96 Soviet bombers and 48 fighter jets, the Finnish Air Force scrambled to take off and controlled 48 "Eagle Dragons"
1" approached the Soviet Air Force. At that time, the Finnish Air Force was already the most advanced air force in the world from a tactical perspective. The four-aircraft formation tactics they adopted were much ahead of the three-aircraft formation, and later became the World War II Air Force.
main tactical formations.
This air battle that broke out over Helsinki later became a classic example in the history of World War II air combat. Due to the perfect combination of Finnish pilots and Chinese fighter jets, they not only blocked all invading aircraft outside Helsinki, but also lost 10 aircraft.
At the cost of 4 pilots, all 144 invading Soviet aircraft were shot down, and one-third of them were shot up and exploded in the air!
At this point, the President of Finland and Supreme Commander of the Army Mannerheim issued an order: all troops will be equipped with Chinese equipment; at the same time, reconnaissance troops at all levels must take turns receiving training from Chinese instructors.
Although the winter in Northern Europe is severely cold, this winter is not too cold. Not only is the fight between Soviet Russia and Finland in full swing, but other small European countries are also busy "preparing for war" because no one knows when Germany's iron heel will come.
He set foot on his own country.
Germany's blitzkrieg against Poland and the Soviet-Finnish war started made China busy this winter.
This "busyness" was first caused by Germany. For humanitarian or other reasons, when Germany attacked Poland, it urgently ordered a batch of medicines and medical equipment worth 5 million US dollars from China; it also ordered a batch of preserved
Military canned food that lasts up to 2 years.
Immediately afterwards, Finland signed a large-scale arms and material order with China.
Closely behind Finland are orders for medicine and food from Soviet Russia. Regarding the orders from Soviet Russia, the top brass of the National Defense Forces still have disputes. Some people say that since the future strategic goal of the National Defense Forces is Soviet Russia, why should they export materials to them?
Wu Aihua’s decision is: medicines, medical equipment, food, textiles and other industrial products can be exported to Soviet Russia, but raw materials, fuel, arms and technology are refused to be exported. The reason is very simple. The former can make money and has a humanitarian flavor;
The latter's exit may enrich the enemy and cause trouble for itself.
If there is a country in the world that faced the disaster of national subjugation during World War II, Wu Aihua might sympathize with it and might lend a helping hand, that country must be Germany. As for the Soviet Union or other great powers, if they were really destroyed by Germany,
Not only would Wu Aihua not save him, but he would definitely add insult to injury.
In addition to the suddenly busy export business to Europe, China's import business has also become busy. Since 1937, China has ordered large quantities of steel, oil, ore and other materials from the United States, Britain, South America, Australia and other countries.
When the "delivery date" comes, these bulk industrial products and raw materials are continuously transported to Chinese ports, and then transported by rail and road to their respective destinations.
At the same time, China continued to place orders with major exporters around the world, most of which were delivered in 1940-1941.
This is the last opportunity to make money. Europe has not yet been hit hard, and although prices have increased, the increase is very small. Once Germany starts sending troops to Western European countries such as Denmark, prices will definitely rise like a rocket.
Although Germany sold Finland to Soviet Russia in the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact, the relationship between Germany and Finland has always been relatively friendly. However, Germany cannot openly support Finland due to its own interests.
Wu Aihua extended an olive branch to Finland, which made Hitler very happy, because Wu Aihua did what he wanted to do but could not do. To this end, Hitler asked Ribbentrop to both congratulate and explain to the Finns, and to release a bigger message to Wu Aihua.
He even told Wu Aihua that he was prepared to further solve the problems in Europe at some point in 1940.
For these reasons, the results of the Finnish reconnaissance battalion, which had been trained by Chinese special forces instructors, were reported to the German high command.
"Quickly investigate to see if this is true?" Hitler was made a little nervous by the huge battle loss ratio.
Although Hitler was a paranoid, when he was sober, he understood very well that Germany only had 66 million people. If it wanted to challenge Soviet Russia and the entire Europe, its military strength was very insufficient. This is also the deep-seated reason why Germany adopted blitzkrieg. What if
It would be very unfavorable for Germany to make such a battle a protracted one, because Germany's reserve troops are ultimately limited.
The battle report was of course clear, and even the military attache of the German Embassy in Finland saw the original report materials (copies).
As a result, Hitler excitedly sent a telegram directly to Wu Aihua, as if he had won a five-million-dollar prize, requesting Chinese special forces instructors to teach their German counterparts.
"Haha, I knew this day would come." Wu Aihua smiled happily after receiving the telegram.
ps: I finally finished this chapter, and the king feels at ease, hehe.