Although the northern battlefield is still covered with ice and snow, it is already mid-March, and at least spring on the calendar has arrived.
In the Siberian battlefield, after a winter of small-scale tug-of-war, the battle line was still basically maintained east of Chita and west of the Greater Khingan Mountains. In an environment where temperatures were often minus 40 to 50 degrees and snow was more than one meter deep, no one was able to launch a large-scale attack.
Now, both sides are gathering strength to prepare for the summer offensive the following year. Nanjing's strategic goal is to advance westward at least to Lake Baikal before the winter of 1938 returns.
However, after an offensive in the autumn of 1937, the Ming army realized that they had made a mistake. The original plan was to support the Belarusian regime as much as possible and let them expand their troops in the areas they conquered so that they could become the main force in the war against the Soviet Union in the future. But now it seems
Since then, the pace of military expansion has seriously lagged behind the plan. Of course, the Russian people in the vast occupied areas are very enthusiastic about joining the army, and the Soviet prisoners are generally willing to join the White Russian army, especially those lower-class soldiers with peasant origins. But the problem is that in the Far East,
The population in the area is too small, only a few million people in total. Even if all those who can serve as soldiers become soldiers, there will only be a few hundred thousand people.
Before a new round of summer war comes, the military and political leaders of the Ming Dynasty have to reconsider who should be the main force in advancing this war.
Obviously, with the Ming army as the main force, it can only be done temporarily and cannot be long-term. The Ming army can at most recover its lost territory, and then the long road to Europe will still have to be handed over to the locals. Otherwise, the Ming Dynasty can really
We are stuck in the quagmire of war. Russia, this big quagmire, is no ordinary quagmire.
After several days of debate and discussion in the cabinet, they finally came to a relatively consistent conclusion: the idea of Russians from the Far East forming the main force should be abandoned, and the focus should instead be placed on Central Asia, with Russians and Muslims forming the main anti-Soviet force. Central Asia
The region is densely populated and has developed agriculture. The people here and the Soviet government have sharp conflicts not only on land, but also on religion. Central Asia has all the conditions that the Russian Far East does not have. A real "spark" can
This is the area where "a prairie fire started", the area where "after the land reform, the people enthusiastically sent their children to the battlefield".
On the contrary, the military role of the Belarusian regime that has been established is far less than its political role. The "Russian Federal Republic" is used more as a banner of justice and legality. With this flag
Big banner, this war is in the nature of a civil war. But the real source of troops must be from Central Asia. Moreover, the people here are fierce and bloody, and the soldiers they produce must be fierce and tenacious and not afraid of death. From now on, the resistance will be
I can see it.
As for whether to establish a separate regime in Central Asia, or whether to include Central Asia (excluding Xinjiang) under the banner of the Belarusian Federation, this also took a lot of discussion. In the end, we came to the conclusion that it is better not to establish another regime first.
After the Ming army regained the northern and southern territories, the next offensive will be carried out in the name of the "Russian Federation Army". Of course, local Muslim soldiers must be recruited on the spot and trained to become the "White Army" and Denikin's
His subordinates used "Free Russia" as their signboard and Muslim fighters as their main force, fighting all the way from Central Asia to the west, directly from Kazakhstan into Europe. In this way, they followed the southern route all the way, without having to cross the vast Siberia in the north.
Fortunately, there were more fights.
After the grand strategic adjustment, the Ming Army Headquarters also made a series of adjustments to prepare for an all-out attack on Hami after the beginning of spring. Now, the Central Asian battlefield has become the main direction of attack.
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On the eastern sea, Japan's domestic situation has become increasingly difficult. Several months of blockade, especially the high-intensity blockade in the last three months, have made it difficult for Japan to breathe. Especially in the past month, Japan has not even a drop of oil.
It can be successfully transported. Now the whole country of Japan has put forward a slogan: Fuel is blood, and wasting fuel is suicide!
Many private car owners - those chaebols and senior officials - have begun to set an example and no longer take cars. They either walk to work, take trams, rickshaws, or ride bicycles... Citizens across Japan have also launched a vigorous "
"Save every drop of oil, start with me" movement... Not only oil, but also steel is difficult to transport. Japanese primary and secondary school students gather in small groups on the streets to raise funds, but the donations are not money, but all kinds of
Metal utensils, iron utensils, copper utensils, aluminum utensils... Steel is used to produce weapons, copper is used to produce bullets, and aluminum is used to produce aircraft... Many housewives gritted their teeth and donated their iron pots and kettles.
,lunch box……
At present, of course, Japan has not yet reached the point where it wants to "sell the pot and sell iron". This is largely symbolic rather than practical, and it is just an explosion of the Japanese people's patriotic sentiment. Japan still has a large amount of reserves in the country, and now the Japanese military
There are no more land battles with the Ming Army, and the Japanese Army no longer consumes much fuel. It only needs to maintain the Navy. But even so, the Japanese Navy has begun to "strip down on food and clothes," cancel unnecessary exercises, cancel redundant training, and make every effort to ensure
There will be no fuel difficulties in frontline battles.
For Japan, the prospect is very scary. Now that Vladivostok has surrendered, the entire Russian Far East has also fallen into the control of the Ming army. This means that the Ming army no longer needs to fight in the Sea of Japan and Okhotsk.
Kehaili sent submarines, and the submarines in the two theaters were suddenly freed up. The Ming army could push all the submarines to the east and south of the Japanese archipelago, directly cutting off Japan's main import and export routes.
And at the same time, the Ming army's submarine fleet is still increasing at a rate of twenty to thirty ships per month.
In late March, the construction of submarine bases in Vladivostok and Sakhalin Island began. The main submarine base on Sakhalin Island is located at Korsakov Military Port. Now "Yozhno-Sakhalinsk" has been renamed "South Sakhalin City".
Korsakov" was renamed "Sakhalin Port". Sakhalin Port was originally damaged when the Soviet army retreated, but now it has been almost cleaned up and can be used normally. But whether it is Sakhalin Port or Vladivostok,
Although they are all good military ports, the Ming army cannot send fleets to station them yet. The same reason is that it is difficult for surface fleets to pass through Japanese controlled sea areas. Therefore, they can only be used as submarine bases first.
Such two excellent deep-water military ports are more than enough to be used as submarine bases, and they are even a bit wasteful. But there is nothing we can do. Other facilities are already available. The most important thing is to set aside a submarine parking area and build anti-bombing facilities on it.
Cement caverns. Even now, it is not necessary to build cement caverns in Vladivostok. A warship slipway can be used directly. Vladivostok is located in the Ming army’s air control area, so the requirement for bomb-proof caverns is not very urgent. The Port of Kurenai is very close to Hokkaido, Japan.
It's so far away, but it's necessary.
On Saturday, March 26, the wedding of Ye Ziyu and Bai Xiaoman was held in Nanjing. This time it was not as simple as Xiang Xiaoqiang's wedding. This was a world-class conglomerate boss marrying his daughter, and all he spent was his own money.
It was a grand event. The grand occasion in Nanjing was unprecedented, almost like Zhu Yourong's coronation ceremony.
At the wedding, Bradbury used this "informal occasion" to announce that Ford would increase investment in Daming and would soon launch ten automobile assembly lines in Daming.