With Wang Jingwei's escape, the domestic situation is likely to undergo earth-shaking changes.
Under this situation, An Yi did not hesitate at all and immediately summoned Hu Jialin, Yang Bin, Gu Changfeng, Xia Jian, Zhao Rui, Deng Bin, Zhao Dongquan, Yang Fei, Zhan Dao, Ding Zhicheng, Chang Baofang, Zhang Yang, Wu Liheng, Lu Yi
Xuan, Dai Zhengliang and other generals gathered in Xufu and held meetings at the Cuiping Mountain base camp for more than ten consecutive days.
The day after Zhao Rui returned to Syria, the Nanjing government issued a notice that due to overlapping business, the Fourth Department of the Nationalist Government's Military Commission would be abolished with immediate effect. All relevant documents, certificates, license plates, etc. previously issued were invalidated, and relevant staff were appointed elsewhere.
The offices of the Fourth Department in various places were merged into the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics of the Military Commission of the National Government.
Just two hours after Nanjing issued the announcement, the hourly news of the Xufu Radio Station broadcast the presidential order issued by An Yi, Chairman of the South China Government - in order to strengthen the intelligence work of South China and prevent the infiltration of hostile countries, a special establishment was established
South China Central Intelligence Agency. General Zhao Rui, the former director of the Fourth Department of the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government, took up the post of director of the newly established Central Intelligence Agency in South China and was promoted to the rank of general (previously, he was a lieutenant general plus the rank of general). Staff of the Fourth Department
, and were transferred to the Central Intelligence Agency.
This was obviously a tit-for-tat personnel appointment, which immediately revealed the contradiction between the Anyi Group and the Nanjing government. Many people panicked and regarded this as a precursor to a possible war between the Southwest Warlord Group and the central government. They rushed to buy and hoard food supplies and make
Be prepared to run away at any time.
But people with a clear mind understand that the current relationship between the two parties is complicated and there are many entanglements of interests. It is not easy to fall out, and there are many concerns. In a word, do whatever you have to do!
In fact, An Yi also knew very well that Chiang Kai-shek's handling of the fourth hall was actually nothing more than releasing a test signal to see if he could continue to tolerate it, and then pressing harder in other places in order to obtain more benefits.
It is estimated that Chiang Kai-shek did not expect that his counterattack would be so sharp. An Yi also knows the truth of taking a step back to open up the world. At present, Nanhua's tungsten, antimony, tin, rare earths, bauxite, titanium, nickel and other rare metals still need domestic supply. At the same time,
Pig iron from Lugang, Xuegang and other steel groups,
The demand for coal and blister copper is also huge, but An Yi knows better that unlimited concessions will only increase the opponent's arrogance. Once the development continues and forces him to retreat, the next step will be to fight against each other. Instead of this,
In this case, it is better to sound the alarm first and let the other party rein in the situation.
An Yi is confident that Chiang Kai-shek does not dare to do anything to him. After all, millions of troops in South China are there. If a war really breaks out, Chiang Kai-shek also knows what the consequences will be. According to the current situation, Nanjing will only continue to maintain business as usual on the surface, but
They were secretly preparing for defense, secretly deploying troops and generals to actively defend themselves, and at the same time making small moves against Nan Hua's many domestic industries.
The troops will come to block the water and the soil will cover it. Now that Nanhua's strategic layout has been initially completed, An Yi is confident to face all challenges and does not pay attention to those little tricks. After all, in the end, true strength will speak for itself.
At this military meeting, An Yi first consulted Yang Bin and Lu Yixuan for their opinions. The two expressed their willingness to continue to negotiate with Chiang Kai-shek and firmly nail North China and Southern Shaanxi.
The meeting then discussed the issue of military expansion.
At present, all main group armies have expanded Category B troops, but to cope with the current war situation, the number of troops is far from enough. An Yi has a vague impression that during World War II, the United States, the Soviet Union, and Germany mobilized more than 10 million troops.
, Nanhua should at least expand its troops to five million, so that they will not be in a hurry in a sudden war.
According to the decision of the meeting, the reserve corps that Ding Zhicheng is in charge of was officially upgraded to the main front army, which is under the direct jurisdiction of the guard army and three group armies. Its main stations are Zunyi, Tongzi, Qijiang and other places between Xiangxi, southern Sichuan, eastern Sichuan and northern Guizhou, and can be deployed at any time.
To deal with attacks that hostile forces may launch from the direction of Hunan and Jiangxi.
Wu Liheng's wife has been married for many years. This senior general who was the commander of the independent division a year before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War was an old man who had been with An Yi since the engineering company. In terms of seniority in An's army, he was far away from Zhao Rui and Lu.
Above are Yixuan, Ye Cheng, Yang Jiuxiao and other generals.
This time, An Yi did not hesitate. He formally approved Wu Liheng's formation of three main group armies and a directly affiliated guard force in Yichang. Each group army has three infantry divisions and one teaching division, which will be coordinated by the group army headquarters and the front army headquarters.
Artillery, engineering, air defense, tanks, armor and other professional arms are unified into brigade-level establishments. After the troops are organized, Wu Liheng will serve as the commander of the front army, mainly to deal with threats from southern Henan and western Hubei.
In this way, the two domestic front armies, plus Yang Bin's Hanzhong camp troops and Lu Yixuan's 30th Group Army of the National Revolutionary Army, such a huge strategic force, can already deter all those who dare to extend their claws to the southwest. Think carefully about it
The dire consequences of going to war.
In addition, Lieutenant General Qin Shanyue, the former head of the General Staff Mobilization Department, was transferred to the position of commander of the reserve corps. The reserve corps is established for the front army. From its establishment, it is configured according to the main force. The necessary commanders and political cadres are transferred from the deputy positions of each front army and the main group army.
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After the Fourth Department was renamed the Central Intelligence Agency and the relationship was straightened out, Zhao Rui will step down as Director of the Intelligence Bureau and be replaced by Chen Yu, the former General Affairs Director of the Fourth Department. Zhao Rui himself attended the National Defense University for half a year, during which he temporarily served as deputy director.
The position of chief of staff. Once the war develops and the need arises, Zhao Rui will go out into battle and command a brand-new front army formed by the reserve corps. According to the plan, this newly formed front army will be mainly used in Central Asia and the Urals.
While the meeting was ongoing, wars in Europe and Asia were raging.
In the Middle East, General Wavell, the former commander-in-chief of the British-Indian Army who failed to command the Burma-India war and had been idle since returning to the UK, was once again enabled by Churchill. After Wavell flew to the Middle East, he inspected combat readiness in Damascus in southern Syria and trained soldiers
He made a brief and powerful mobilization. He said
: “Although we are outnumbered by the enemy, we are highly trained, receive assistance from the United States, are well equipped, are accustomed to desert warfare, have a great glorious and sacred tradition, and are full of perseverance. This will
It is the guarantee of our invincible victory."
On February 19, the Allied forces, composed of the British Army, the Greek Army, the Anglo-Indian Army and the Arab Army, ambushed the southward German advance troops and Japanese and Turkish troops in the Maloula Mountains in northern and central Syria leading to the south.
The Axis Army formed by the Allied Forces. After a burst of fierce artillery fire, the Allies launched an offensive. Within just a few minutes, more than twenty tanks of the Axis Army were paralyzed.
The Turkish commander Lieutenant General Kahraman Mashra, who commanded this force, immediately commanded the troops to resist. However, due to the hasty response of the troops, they could not be connected from end to end, and the resistance was gradually broken down by the Allies. After more than four hours of fierce fighting
, Lieutenant General Kahraman Mashra was killed, and more than 11,000 Axis *** troops were wiped out.
This was the first victory achieved by the Allied forces in the Middle East, and it was especially praised by the British Prime Minister. Unfortunately, the partial victory could not cover up the overall failure.
At the same time as the great victory was achieved in Maloula Mountain, another Axis coalition led by the Japanese army moved south along the Mediterranean coastal highway. Tripoli and Beirut, the important port cities in Lebanon, successively fell under the control of the Axis powers.
On the 24th, the German 12th Army arrived at the Homs front line via the Asia-Europe Railway. The 13th Army, with three infantry divisions and two motorized infantry divisions, was engaged in the attack on Damascus. At the same time, Turkey
The army dispatched six infantry brigades, plus the Japanese Lanyin 15th and 18th Divisions, a total of 300,000 troops, to fight south along the railway line.
As the German army invested more than 200 fighter planes to cover the army's advance attack, the ambush planned by General Wavell at Sheik Mountain failed. Instead, more than 20,000 Allied officers and soldiers fell into the encirclement of the Axis coalition forces.
On the 26th, after the Allied forces in the encirclement circle ran out of ammunition and food, the remaining more than 6,000 officers and soldiers surrendered to the Axis Army.
In the early morning of the 27th, the Axis *** troops entered Damascus.
The day before, Wavell had led his army to retreat to the Golan Heights in southern Lebanon. The Axis coalition forces on the east route did not follow the Allied forces into the western mountains at the junction of Jordan and Syria. Instead, they went all the way south, occupying successively
Daraa, Suweida and other places, and captured Amman, the capital of Transjordan, on March 4.
In the North African battlefield, Rommel's regiment, reinforced by Hitler's troops, carried out a major strategic detour.
Rommel saw that the attack on Tobruk could not be succeeded, so he sent a geological exploration team to detect and dig hundreds of wells along the way from the oil-producing area of Djalu Oasis, through the Jagboub Oasis to the Siwa Oasis in Egypt.
A partial division was sent westward from the port of Brega to Jagbubu, and then crossed the borders of Libya and Egypt and approached the city of Siwa.
After capturing this city built in a desert oasis, the German-Italian allied forces suddenly appeared outside Alexandria on the 28th after half a month of arduous march along the Getarai Depression.
The British army in North Africa was caught off guard, and Alexandria quickly fell into the hands of the German-Italian coalition. Rommel immediately transported troops to the largest port city in North Africa via sea route.
Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, commander of the British North African Forces, urgently mobilized troops from Cairo and the Suez Canal Zone to rush to the rescue. There was a fierce exchange of fire between the two sides and the losses were heavy. But so far, Alexandria is still firmly
It was controlled by the German and Italian forces.
However, with the Italian Navy's two battleships and four heavy cruisers stationed in Alexandria, the balance of the war has begun to tilt towards the German-Italian coalition. Italian naval guns pose a great threat to the attacking British army, and the British army is already in a position of being unable to advance or retreat.
An embarrassing situation.
At the same time, the German and British air forces were engaged in fierce battles day and night in the airspace of the triangle area of Alexandria, Port Said and the Egyptian capital Cairo. With the fall of Alexandria, the Royal Navy fleet had been forced to withdraw to the Suez Canal and the Red Sea.
It is conceivable that once the Germans control the air superiority in this area, the Royal Navy will suffer disaster.
Under this situation, the British Air Force was constantly deployed to fight in North Africa, and the situation was chaotic.
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