What's more important is that the Soviets, who were almost beaten to the Urals by the German army, not only gained a chance to breathe, but also regained millions of square kilometers of lost land without exerting any effort.
Due to the adjustment, even after retreating to the front line of Ukraine-Belarus-Baltic States, the Soviet army still lacked troops, which actually made it possible for the Soviet army to launch a counterattack again. This threat to Germany was even greater than the Allied landing...
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At the same time, it is worth mentioning that Mustache's madness is indeed a double-edged sword. The successful annihilation of nearly a million Allied troops is certainly a brilliant victory, but due to the large number of defections to the Vichy French army, it was unable to suppress it.
The French Communist Party's poor performance in guerrilla warfare and Mustache's decisive dissolution of this puppet government was considered by later generations to be one of its biggest mistakes during World War II.
Although the Vichy French government is incompetent, and many of its people are fence-sitters on both ends of the spectrum, its navy and air force can to some extent share some of the pressure on the German army. Although most of the time they are ineffective, they are at least better than nothing.
, the Vichy French government was dissolved
Later, its navy and air force blew up planes and sunk warships one after another for their last bit of honor, and even a small number of them fled the country to join the "Free France" that persisted in the war against Germany. This undoubtedly further increased the number of enemies.
The gap in power between the Axis Powers and the Allies.
Not only the military, but all strata of France have completely abandoned their luck mentality and illusions about the Germans with the dissolution of the Vichy French government. The French Communist Party and "Free France" that persisted in resisting German aggression have developed rapidly.
By the end of 1946, despite the frenzied encirclement and suppression by the German army, the total number of French Communist guerrillas in France had swelled to more than 400,000, and the total number of "Free French" troops overseas also exceeded 100,000 for the first time.
In other words, Mustache's ambitious move not only caused Germany to lose a lot of support, but also created more enemies for itself. At the same time, in order to suppress the resistance activities of the French Communist Party and prevent the Allied forces from landing again, Mustache had to
The number of German troops stationed in France continued to increase, and by the end of 1946 it had reached more than 500,000 men. This undoubtedly made matters worse for Germany, which was already seriously short of troops.
In desperation, the German government had to recruit a large number of young people and women. Although it temporarily relieved the urgent need, it had a huge impact on Germany's industrial production and seriously overdrawn Germany's development potential. At the same time, the quality of the soldiers declined rapidly.
.The advantage of the German army's combat effectiveness also began to disappear rapidly...
However, it was the French who suffered the most. Since Mustache changed his policy towards France, the number of French people who were massacred and arrested increased rapidly. In 1946 alone, more than one million French people died from direct suppression by the German army or were in concentration camps.
He died inexplicably. The German army
The brutality inspired more fierce resistance from the French, which in turn led to more brutal suppression by the Germans. In the end, France in this time and space did not retain its vitality because of its early surrender as it had in history. Instead, it became the country with the most casualties during World War II.
One of several countries…
Although the Normandy landings were first won and then defeated, and hundreds of thousands of elite troops were lost in the end, the US military achieved considerable results on several other fronts. Although Roosevelt's support rate dropped for a time, it was not yet
As for being impeached and removed from office.
In the Pacific, the U.S. military continued its massive counterattack, first seizing the Fiji Islands, Tonga and Samoa from the Japanese. Then Nimitz took advantage of the Japanese's concerns about homeland security and planned to attack the Gilbert Islands and Marshall Islands in the north.
archipelago, and then pounced directly on the four Japanese islands, forcing the Japanese army to focus on fortification in the north, but at this time the U.S. Army
However, the US military turned to attack the Melanesian Islands to the west, and successively captured New Caledonia, the New Hebrides and other places. From this, the US military could attack the Micronesian Islands to the north and move towards
It can attack Australia from the west and New Zealand from the south, completely seizing the strategic initiative in the Pacific battlefield, but the Japanese army is unable to defend against it.
In 1946, the U.S. military suffered only more than 400,000 casualties in the Pacific, of which less than 60,000 were killed or missing. However, the number of permanent attrition of the Japanese army exceeded 300,000, and no less than 300,000 were injured. As for the ships,
and the loss of aircraft, the gap between the two sides is even greater.
Although the 1,500 J-1 fighter jets purchased from China by the Japanese government spent a lot of money to perform much better than the Zero fighter, due to the rapid decline in the average quality of Japanese pilots, and compared with the two main fighter jets of the US military, the J-1
In terms of overall performance, actually
There was no advantage, and the number was really small, so these Chinese aircraft were not able to turn the tide of the war after being put on the battlefield. When the F-80 jet fighters were put into the Pacific battlefield, the Japanese Air Force and Hainan Airlines aircraft
It is even more powerless to compete.
Seeing that it would inevitably fail if this continued, the Japanese government reluctantly sent a secret envoy to visit the United States, hoping to reach a peace agreement with the United States on the condition that the Japanese army voluntarily give up New Zealand. However, the United States government flatly refused. Although the casualties and injuries have far exceeded expectations so far,
Military spending has increased anti-war voices in the United States, making Roosevelt no longer insist on the axis.
Japan surrendered unconditionally, but his psychological bottom line was to return to the situation before the outbreak of the Pacific War. At most, he could only agree to Japan continuing to retain the islands that were originally owned by it but were extorted by the United States in the years before the war.
The psychological bottom line gap between the two sides is so huge that there is obviously no hope of negotiating a peace. No matter how great the losses are, the two governments can only continue to fight...
At this time, seeing that Japan was clearly unable to hold on, the Chinese government agreed to sell Japan some sharp weapons that could change the situation of the war in order to prevent the allies from winning prematurely. The two most important ones were the J-2 jet fighter, with a unit price of
500,000 US dollars, delivered in three batches in 1947, a total of 600, of which the first batch is 150, and the second is a drop-shaped submarine, a total of 23, which will also be built in the future.
Delivered in batches within one year, the total amount is as high as more than 150 million US dollars. In addition to weapons, there is also a huge transaction in agricultural machinery, of which there are more than 200,000 walking tractors alone. The import of these agricultural machinery is of equal significance to Japan.
It is important. If agricultural mechanization in recent years had not liberated a large number of young rural people, Japan would have exhausted its military resources. How could it still persist until now? (To be continued...)