() After discovering that Japan was overwhelmed, the United States, Britain and France quickly placed their hopes on Mustache again. In order to induce Germany to go to war with the Soviet Union, they did not hesitate to completely betray the Czech Republic. Mustache completely annexed the Czech Republic without any effort.
With the Czech Republic, an advanced industrial country that ranks among the top three in the world in terms of industrialization, Germany's total industrial output has finally
With great difficulty, the Soviet Union overtook the Soviet Union and became the second largest country in the world. But even so, Mustache still did not want to take chestnuts from the fire for the West and challenge the behemoth of the Soviet Union alone. Facing Germany, which was stronger than before, without the righteous reason of debt collection,
, the United States suddenly became even more helpless against it. It is really an unsolvable problem for a world power to act rogue.
During this period of time, Japan, which had been abandoned by the West, had also realized the foolishness of being cannon fodder for others, and knew that it could not fight against two powerful enemies on its own, so it decided to stabilize one first and then concentrate on dealing with the other.
A strategy. Unless Japan gives up all the Chinese territory it has seized since the Sino-Japanese War of 1884-1894, otherwise
The contradiction between China and Japan is irreconcilable, so Japan can only choose to negotiate peace with the Soviet Union and concentrate all its forces to deal with China. In order to increase the bargaining chips, Japan's navy was ordered to concentrate most of its ships to form a
A powerful task force went north to bombard Vladivostok, the largest seaport in the Soviet Far East.
Since the main force of the Soviet Pacific Fleet originally stationed here has been destroyed in Weihaiwei, the Soviets can only rely on their aviation forces. However, unlike the Soviet aid aviation fleet that has withstood the test and grown rapidly, the pilots in the Soviet Union generally lack actual combat capabilities.
experience, and was deeply affected by the Great Purge, the overall standard is very questionable
It is completely unable to compete with the rigorously trained and battle-experienced Japanese pilots. In addition, even though the technical support received from the United States is far inferior to that of the Navy, the performance of the new aircraft Type 99 fighter jets that the Japanese Army Aviation has begun mass production is still
There has been a significant improvement. Overall, it has surpassed that of the Soviet Union, even the latest model.
The i16 fighter jet is a cut above (other characteristics are almost the same. However, the horizontal maneuverability of the Type 99 fighter jet is obviously superior, which makes it difficult for the Soviet aircraft to fight, catch up, and escape). In addition, the Soviet aircraft in the Far East also have
A large part of it must be provided for the Soviet Army who is still storming the Japanese Kwantung Army's eastern fortress group.
Air support. As a result, the troops were naturally dispersed, making the disadvantage more obvious. Therefore, in the air battles between the Soviet Union and the Puppet Manchukuo and North Korea border areas, the Soviets suffered heavy losses, and the exchange ratio exceeded 3:1. If it were not for the Japanese Army and Army at this time,
The number of Type 99 fighter aircraft equipped with aviation equipment is not too large, and the Soviet aviation force will definitely have to pay a greater price.
The navy was gone, and the air was at a disadvantage. The result of the Battle of Vladivostok can be imagined. The Japanese army destroyed all the defense forces in Vladivostok without losing even a single true combat ship. If they had to leave room for negotiations,
The Japanese could even send troops ashore to occupy Vladivostok.
The outcome of the Vladivostok War caused Stalin to quickly regain his composure as a politician. However, as the West became increasingly aware of the Soviet Union's terrifying power and increasingly tightened its technological and material blockade, Stalin was even more alert. Stalin regained his clarity of mind.
After taking stock of the Soviet Union's gains and losses since the war against Japan, I found that the Soviet Union had gained nothing except showing its own strength. It even paid a considerable price, and it was also recognized internationally.
As a result, he became increasingly isolated. On the contrary, the Chinese Red Party got a lot of advantages from this, and because the Soviet Union took the initiative to start a war with Japan, they did not even have to pay for it. This made him almost hurt internally. In any case, this incident
For the Soviet Union, there was no need to continue fighting a war that was worthless. And since neither side wanted to fight, the progress of the peace talks was naturally very fast. But before the peace agreement was signed, the "Chinese comrades" got another big advantage.
Due to the complicated tasks during this period, even the Japanese Navy, known as the third largest in the world, felt that it had insufficient ships. At this time, Hu Weidong, whom the Japanese feared most, returned to Qingdao, probably to recapture Weihaiwei. The Japanese Navy considered
By this time, most of the ships that could be salvaged and towed away had been taken away.
It was not cost-effective to have Weihaiwei, which now had little value, to fight with China's strongest 15th Army Group, so they quickly evacuated all of them. Although Weihaiwei's strategic position is still very important, there are currently no capable people in the East Asian waters.
A maritime force that rivals the Japanese Navy, so the Japanese do not have to do this at all
Worry, but deliberately used this as bait to consume the squadron again and again. In addition, the Japanese Navy Military Command believes that since China’s strongest 15th Group Army has returned to Shandong, it will continue to deploy too many troops along the Yangtze River estuary.
There is no longer much need for large battleships. It is better to deploy them and join the task force.
In addition to the artillery attack on Vladivostok, after all, although the main force of the Soviet Pacific Fleet was annihilated, Vladivostok has been Russia's most important naval base in the Far East since the Tsarist Russia period, with numerous coastal defense forts. If the Japanese Navy cannot invest enough
With strength, it is not impossible to capsize in a ditch.
However, the Japanese did not expect that although Hu Weidong himself did return to Shandong, the main force of the 15th Army in the Huaihe and Huaihe areas did not return with him at all. Instead, they began to secretly move south in batches, and the Japanese fleet began to bombard Vladivostok.
At that time, Su Yu, the deputy commander-in-chief of the 15th Army Group who was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the enemy before the Battle of Crossing the River, already had more than 400,000 troops under his command. After receiving the observation data sent back by the reconnaissance aircraft
, following an order from the former enemy headquarters, 72 152mm cannon howitzers from the heavy artillery brigade directly under the 15th Army Headquarters roared loudly for hundreds of miles. Several Japanese light cruisers and destroyers on the river had thin armor.
It simply could not withstand the blow of the 152mm caliber armor-piercing explosive shells. In less than an hour, the Japanese warships sank or fled, and soon the Japanese warships disappeared from the river.
At least 200,000 elite infantrymen of the 15th Group Army boarded the ships (mainly small boats, most of which were wooden boats) that had been prepared long ago. This was to avoid arousing the vigilance of the Japanese army. Secondly,
It is true that time is running out.), with our powerful artillery and air force (the North China Air Force now basically only has
Fighters are available, and the bomb load is not enough to cause much damage to warships, but it is still possible to blow up the Japanese army.) Forced to cross the Yangtze River under the cover of
Load heavy machine guns, because the artillery and air force brothers will help them open the way to attack (To be continued.)