I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

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"However, we cannot rule out that the United States, Britain and France find an excuse to participate in the war!" He Yingqin said, "During the last world war, the United States originally stayed out of it, but eventually joined the war. Colluding with Mexico and inciting Mexico to attack the mainland of the United States is still hard to say. Many historians believe that this is a British trick to lure the United States into the war. The United States knows that the matter was framed by the United Kingdom to frame Germany, but because it participated in the war at that time It is very beneficial to the United States, so the United States pretended to be insane, pretended to be confused, and then declared war on Germany.

Guys, we have to learn our lesson.

Fabricating excuses to participate in wars is a common method used by major powers. Isn't that the case when the Soviets launched the Far East War?Isn't it the same when the Japanese launched the September [-]th Incident and the July [-]th Incident? "

"What Mr. He said is true!" Jiang Weiguo said, "However, today is not what it used to be.

The last world war decimated both Britain and France. Both feared war, were content with the status quo, and did not think about making progress. The French spent huge sums of money to build the Maginot Line, a purely defensive national fortification, which is the best proof.

Germany tore up the "Treaty of Versailles", occupied the Rhineland, completed the merger of Germany and Austria, dismembered Czechoslovakia, and expanded its army in an all-round way... None of these actions were taken by Britain and France to take substantive measures to prevent them, which is a strong proof.

Therefore, as long as Germany does not take the initiative to attack Britain and France, Britain and France will not participate in the war.

As for the United States, the situation is even worse.

When Germany launched a war against the Soviet Union, the stimulus to Britain and France was stronger than that of the United States, and the United States had no reason to forcefully intervene.

Neither Germany nor us will let the Americans find a strong excuse to join the war!" Jiang Weiguo knew that in the past, when Poland, an ally of Britain and France, was attacked by Germany, Britain and France would not save them. The same is true for the United States, unless the Japanese short-circuited and launched the Pearl Harbor incident in advance.

He Yingqin said: “The Soviet Union has roughly three external channels. One is the Far East, but the Far East is currently in the hands of China and Japan. There is only the Bering Strait between them, but the Soviet-American territory on both sides of the Bering Strait is no man’s land, and there is no railway passage, so the Soviet Union’s Far East channel has been lost; the second is the Norwegian Sea in the northwest of Eastern Europe, but there It is already an area of ​​the Arctic Ocean, with harsh conditions and narrow passages. In addition, Finland has already surrendered to Germany. Therefore, after the outbreak of war, Germany only needs to capture or surround Leningrad, and it can also cut off the Soviet Union’s access to aid from the United States, Britain and France through the Norwegian Sea; The third is Central Asia. The Soviet Union and the British colonies have a large border in Central Asia. Although Iran is pro-German, it cannot be ruled out that the United States, Britain and France will provide assistance to the Soviet Union in Central Asia through British India!"

"Then, it is a very important measure for our army to enter Central Asia after the outbreak of the Soviet Union war!" There is a third reason!"

"Inappropriate!" He Yingqin retorted, "If the United States, Britain, and France are already aiding the Soviet Union, but we deliberately cut off the channels for the Soviet Union to receive aid from the United States, Britain, and France, wouldn't that be tantamount to direct hostilities with the United States, Britain, and France? The biggest hidden danger of the Soviet war is that the Soviet Union is too strong. , The Soviet Union has a vast land, abundant resources, a large population and has basically achieved industrialization. In my opinion, it is difficult to end this war in a relatively short period of time. Once it drags on, for example, two years, we will be very disadvantaged.

Firstly, a long war will consume a lot of our national strength and military strength, and the resources and wealth plundered from the territory of the Soviet Union may not be able to make up for the cost we have invested in the war itself. The United States, Britain, and France just benefit from each other!"

"That's true!" Bai Chongxi nodded, "There is a Japan behind us with malicious intentions.

According to the plan, Japan did not need to send troops to participate in the war with the Soviet Union. At that time, we will be inseparable from the Soviet Union. Will the Japanese stab us in the back?It's hard to say! "

Chen Cheng said displeasedly: "The former was afraid of wolves and the latter was afraid of tigers. How can we fight like this? We can't overestimate ourselves, nor can we overestimate the enemy! The Soviet army's fighting power is strong, but it was clearly revealed during the Far East War! Why should we be afraid?" ?The Soviet Union is big, but it has nothing to do with its appearance! It is just a giant with mud feet! Both North Asia and Central Asia of the Soviet Union are "symbolic territories" and cannot become the depth of its grand strategy. Once the German army conquers Eastern Europe, will Stalin take The government moved to the wasteland of Siberia? The agriculture and industry in North Asia and Central Asia are very weak. As long as the Soviet Union loses Eastern Europe, it will be tantamount to doom! Let us slaughter it! Besides, we all know that Germany is the only one to fight against the Soviet Union. The main force, we are only auxiliary forces, so our risk is very small, so advantageous, how can we be afraid?"

"Minister Chen, we can't overestimate the enemy, but we can't underestimate the enemy!" Xu Yongchang said, "According to the intelligence..." He looked very solemn, "After the end of the Far East War, the Soviet authorities deeply felt that their national defense security had deteriorated dramatically. As a result, a large-scale military expansion has been launched. It is conservatively estimated that the current strength of the Soviet army has soared to more than 400 million, and this number is still increasing. The Soviet Union has a population of 1.9 million. Such a large population should not be underestimated! In a real fight, it would not be a problem for the Soviet Union to form 1000 million regular troops and militias!"

Chen Cheng didn't take it seriously: "Although there are many people, they are just making up for the number! How many elites are there? In the battle of Feishui, the 80 elite soldiers of the Eastern Jin Dynasty defeated the [-] troops of the former Qin Dynasty who were known as throwing whips to cut off the flow! Speaking of which, our country The population is more than twice that of the Soviet Union, plus the population of Germany, Italy, Hungary, Romania and other countries, no less than [-] million, three times that of the Soviet Union! Comparing people? A joke, we are the most Chinese in the world! Why should we be afraid?"

Xu Yongchang shook his head: "Yes, the population of us and the allied countries is indeed much larger than that of the Soviet Union, but our situation at this time is the same as that of Japan during the Sino-Japanese War. At the beginning, we went bankrupt and resisted Japan at all costs. As an aggressor, Japan, there is no need to go bankrupt and spare no expense. Right now, the Soviet Union will go bankrupt and spare no expense to resist us. Are we going to go bankrupt and invade the Soviet Union without hesitation? The Soviet authorities are in a hurry and can let the Soviet people use knives, guns and sticks On the battlefield, can we do it? We can build more troops than the Soviet Union, but we can't afford it.

Our country's industry and economy are far inferior to those of the Soviet Union.

We have already calculated that if we participate in the Soviet War and our country dispatches 100 million troops, if there is no accident, with the current capabilities of our military industry and our hard-earned wealth, the ammunition needed by the 100 million troops can only be supplied by the rear. For about four months, food is not a problem, and gasoline is so scarce that it can only be supplied for about two months.

We are so poor!In the first three or four months, the troops could fight freely, but after that, the troops were in a state of 'half hungry and half full' in terms of logistical supplies.

Weak foundation and weak stamina are the biggest weakness of our army, which is determined by our country's industry and economy!"

Chen Cheng stopped talking immediately.

Jiang Weiguo was very emotional when he heard it. Yes, this is the plight of the Chinese army. After the war, it can be fierce at first because there are a lot of supplies in the warehouse, but after a while, it will lose its strength immediately, because the supplies in the warehouse After the consumption is exhausted, the rear production cannot keep up, it's as simple as that.

Jiang Weiguo remembered the original historical "Guan Special Performance Plan", that is, the "Extraordinary Kwantung Army Exercise". After the outbreak of the German-Soviet War, the Japanese army was eager to participate in the war. The German army had to invest at least 25 divisions and 60 million troops to fight the Soviet Union together, but the Japanese army could not afford this wealth at all, because in terms of strategic materials, the Kwantung Army had only enough ammunition for these troops to consume for two months, and food was only enough Gasoline was consumed in four months, and gasoline was only enough for three months. If the Japanese army forcibly attacked the Soviet Union, it would have to withdraw a large number of troops and supplies from the Japanese mainland and the Chinese battlefield. At that time, the Japanese army was unable to completely defeat China by force. There was no result in the inducement to surrender, and they also turned against the United States, Britain and France, and were economically sanctioned by the United States, Britain and France. Therefore, if the Japanese army really participated in the Soviet war, it would be caught in a two-front battle. The army would fight both China and the Soviet Union, and its military strength was obviously insufficient. , it is necessary to draw troops from the Chinese battlefield, which may lead to the counterattack of the Chinese army, which has been beaten by the Japanese army and can only parry. It was completely exhausted, and the Soviet Union could not allow Japan to quickly obtain a large amount of oil (the oil fields exploited by the Soviet Union at that time were mainly in the Caucasus and the western edge of Siberia, which were very far away from Northeast China, and the Japanese army's oil reserves were difficult to maintain. All the way to the Ural Mountains, which is almost [-] kilometers away), so the Japanese army chose to go south instead of going north. Therefore, there is an inevitable reason why the Japanese army did not go north to fight the Soviet Union with Germany but went south to provoke the United States. It was not the Japanese army in the battle of Nomonhan He was "terrified of being beaten" by the Soviet army, so he did not dare to attack the Soviet Union.

"Is it going to be the same as the volunteer army on the Korean battlefield in the original history?" Jiang Weiguo thought to himself.

In the Korean War, although the United States made great efforts to participate in the war, it did not use its full strength, and the new China, which did not participate in the war in the name of the country, participated in the war "with all its life and money". As a result, North Korea Volunteers on the battlefield are still suffering from severe shortages of ammunition, food, medicine, and clothing due to serious lack of logistical support.

This is the huge gap in national strength.

Bai Chongxi said: "To fight against the Soviet Union, we have two very different lines.

One is to attack with heavy soldiers, and the other is to attack with elite soldiers.

Heavy troops means investing the most troops we can, that is, 100 million troops, and strive to quickly obtain a large area of ​​​​occupied areas in the war, and we can get more in this war; In this way, the "continuous combat time" of the troops will be doubled, but they cannot form a strong offensive. They can only quickly capture several important places at the beginning of the war, and then hastily switch to defense.

The former has a lot of benefits, but the risk is high. If the war becomes protracted, we will be completely passive. The latter is safe, but the benefits are halved, and it is also a bit petty. It cannot go deep into the Soviet Union's hinterland to attack the city, and can only win some places on the Sino-Soviet border. At that time, the war will be won, and the Germans will definitely not give us too many benefits, because our contributions are small, so naturally we have no confidence to ask for benefits!"

"More than that!" Jiang Weiguo added, "We need Soviet industrial equipment and Soviet machines. The Soviet Union's industrial areas are mainly in Eastern Europe. After Germany took action, the Soviet Union will definitely move its industrial areas to the east, but it is impossible to move their industrial areas to the north." The hinterland of Asia will only be moved to the Ural Mountains. If we don't go deep into the hinterland of the Soviet Union, we won't be able to plunder the Soviet Union's industrial equipment.

The Soviet Union is a big industrial country, and if our country wants to develop our industry rapidly, it is necessary to plunder the Soviet Union's industry!"

"There is a third difference!" Xu Yongchang said, "If the Soviet authorities really succumbed to our diplomatic 'blackmail' and ceded a large area of ​​land to us in exchange for us not joining forces with Germany to attack them back and forth, then we Do we really want to continue participating in the war? What is the fundamental purpose of our participation in the war? Isn’t it to plunder a large area of ​​​​the Soviet Union? Since the goal was achieved at the negotiating table without bloodshed, why bother to go to war? insufficient.

If the Soviet Union really ceded land for peace, and ceded a huge amount of land to feed us thoroughly, why should we go into this troubled water?Wouldn't it be wise to get out of the quagmire of the Soviet war as soon as possible?As for Germany's reaction, it is actually not to be feared.

If in the middle and late stages of the war, Germany is about to win, and we take advantage of the fire to rob the Soviet Union, on the one hand, we can get more, and on the other hand, we will perfunctory Germany and fulfill our duties, and we will not "break our promises" to Germany. Although Germany I know it well, but after all, we won the war, and we won't be "too fussy" with us. If the war ends in Germany's defeat, then Germany's revenge against us will be even more impossible to talk about. We have to continue to rely on us to try to make a comeback. For the Soviet Union, even if the Soviet Union wins the war, it will inevitably be severely damaged. It is a dream to settle accounts with us after the fall. The Soviet Union is busy fighting wars, but we are working hard and have the strength to fight a self-defense war Well, the Soviet Union had to be afraid of us. After the Soviet war, the Soviet Union’s national strength was greatly damaged, and our national strength was greatly increased. Why should we be afraid of the Soviet Union? He paused, and said meaningfully, "If you do this, there is an additional benefit, that is, to take the opportunity to launch a full-scale counterattack against Japan."

The Japanese army has already disarmed for the second time, and its strength is not as good as that of our army. It is a good time to start at this time!Although we will not be able to fight the Japanese mainland, and it will be difficult to recover Taiwan, it is very possible to recover all the occupied areas outside of Taiwan and to win the Korean Peninsula.

In the final analysis, even if we go down the same path as Germany, we cannot retaliate against Japan, after all, Germany does not have a strong surface fleet to allow us to land on the Japanese mainland!"

"According to the report sent by Yang Jie from Moscow!" Bai Chongxi said, "The high level of the Soviet Union has a tough attitude and flatly rejected our request of 'China and the Soviet Union to divide North Asia and Central Asia equally'!"

Chen Cheng retorted: "That's because they haven't seen the coffin yet.

Once Germany attacks the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union cannot hold on, it will naturally see the coffin shed tears. At that time, the Soviet authorities are likely to meet our requirements and cede a large piece of land to us!"

Jiang Weiguo was silent.

Starting from his own heart, Jiang Weiguo has a good impression of Hitler and is very close to Germany, but in the face of national interests, let alone betraying Hitler, he can do anything to betray Chiang Kai-shek, because national interests come first.

Bai Chongxi looked at the crowd: "According to the Treaty of the Allied Powers, within three months after Germany attacked the Soviet Union, our country will also launch a full-scale attack on the Soviet Union.

These three months are actually very precious and important. On the one hand, we can blackmail and paralyze the Soviet Union diplomatically. On the other hand, we can watch the battle quietly.

If the German army is making rapid progress and the chances of winning are great, we have no reason not to join the war with Germany; if the German army is making slow progress and the odds of winning are uncertain, we have to think long term!"

Except for Jiang Weiguo, everyone else nodded in agreement, and Chiang Kai-shek also nodded slightly.

Jiang Weiguo knew well that World War II at this time was completely different from the original World War II. In the original history of World War II, the German army's first war stage was the Polish battlefield. In the current World War II, the German army's first war stage was the Soviet Union.

So, what is the combat effectiveness of the German army that has not yet fought in the Soviet Union before the war broke out?Chiang Kai-shek and others actually didn't know, and even felt that they had no idea. They had no idea whether the German army was invincible or stagnant after the outbreak of the German-Soviet War.

Jiang Weiguo is very clear. In the original history, the German army destroyed Poland in one month, took Denmark in one day, occupied Norway in two months, made an emergency landing in the Netherlands in five days, defeated Belgium in two weeks, and defeated France in two and a half months. Within a few months, it was even more powerful and invincible, and the blitzkrieg shocked the world.

But right now, the German war machine has not really "saw blood", and the German army has not really fought its first battle. Therefore, including Chiang Kai-shek, high-level officials in various countries have great doubts about the combat effectiveness of the German army, and basically underestimated it.

As for the blitzkrieg, the Nanjing army has already fought it, but the largest scale is a "small and medium-sized blitzkrieg" with hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles. Therefore, blitzkrieg is still a "tactical means" at this time, not a "strategic means".

Chiang Kai-shek and others are not particularly confident in the combat effectiveness of the German army at this time. They don't think that once Germany goes to war with the Soviet Union, it will be destroyed and destroyed. Even Hitler does not know the strength of his army at this time. degree.

At this time, the Chinese high-level officials, through the Far East War, have seen clearly the true strength of the Soviet army (there is a certain underestimation and prejudice), and at the same time they also admit that the German army is powerful, so they think that once Germany attacks the Soviet Union, the German army will gain a lot. However, it is hard to think that the German army will "grab thousands of miles of land and be as powerful as a broken bamboo". After all, the German army has not yet proved itself through actual combat, proving how fast and powerful the large-scale blitzkrieg is. Of course, the war concepts of He Yingqin, Chen Cheng and others are not enough. advanced.

He Yingqin and others believe that once the German army attacks the Soviet Union, it will achieve a lot of results, but nine times out of ten it will fall into a tug-of-war, protracted war, and war of attrition with the Soviet army in Eastern Europe, and it is impossible to quickly defeat the Soviet Union.

Therefore, they had great unease and concern about China's participation in the Soviet war.

After all, during the last World War, millions of German troops and millions of British and French allied forces fought on the battlefields of Western Europe for several years, and it was indistinguishable. Therefore, most of the high-level powers, including China's top leaders, subtly believe that the next World War II The war mode of China is likely to remain the same.

If Jiang Weiguo told them that the German army had the strength to capture hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops at once (Battle of Kiev), they would definitely not believe it.

Many high-level military officials believe that the German-Soviet War will be a replica of the Sino-Japanese War. The Japanese army invaded China aggressively at first, but soon languished. The same is true after the German army invaded the Soviet Union. After all, the Soviet Union is very similar to China, and so is Germany. Japan.

Since the Japanese army will become the last of its strength on the Chinese battlefield, the German army may naturally fall into a bitter battle on the Soviet battlefield.

At the meeting, the giants of the national army expressed their opinions and insisted on their own opinions, and had a heated discussion.

The national army's war strategy against the Soviet Union seems simple, but in fact it is very complicated. There are two major prerequisites that affect the national army. One is the performance of the German army in the early stages of the war, and the other is whether the Soviet Union will spend money to feed China.

Therefore, if the German army is not fighting well and the Soviet Union spends its money to feed China, then there is no need for the national army to participate in the war; If the German army did not fight well and the Soviet Union was unwilling to cede territory to China for peace, or if the German army fought well and the Soviet Union was willing to cede territory to China for peace, the question would arise: should the national army still participate in the war?If you participate in the war, how hard will you participate in the war?

Of course, Jiang Weiguo did not intend to carve up the world (mainly the East) with the Japanese from the beginning to the end. If he could bite the Japanese back, he would not mind being a "scumbag". , the problem is more complicated.

"There are also many problems with the national army on the route of dispatching troops!" Bai Chongxi opened a map of Asia and pointed, "In the two directions of North Asia and Central Asia, our army's strength is limited, and we cannot attack on two fronts. We can only concentrate our forces on one Everywhere, one is true and the other is false.

Attacking from North Asia would be at a great disadvantage.

Although North Asia is large, more than [-]% of the area is an uninhabited area without railways and roads. The route that can be marched is the Siberian Railway. At present, the national army has occupied Anbei (Irkutsk). Fighting to the west is full of tough battles, because all the way to the west, there are many towns on the railway line, and there are nine relatively large cities, Krasnoyarsk, Novokuznetsk, Novosibirsk, Tomsk , Omsk, Tyumen, Kurgan, Yekaterinburg, and Chelyabinsk, the national army really fought west along the railway line, which was extremely difficult. First, the logistics line was thousands of miles long and it was difficult to supply. In the past, a series of battles were all urban battles. The heavy firepower of the national army was far inferior to that of the Soviet army. The heavy artillery and shells were only a fraction of the Soviet army. It is conceivable that if a few cities cannot be attacked, the national army will be exhausted.

The heavy firepower of the Soviet army greatly exceeds that of the national army. Under such circumstances, the Soviet army defends the city and the national army attacks the city. He lit a cigarette with a dignified expression, "During the Far East War, the reason why the national army was able to take Anbei (Irkutsk) was by running long distances, which caught the Soviet army by surprise, but now, the Soviet army The defense of our country has been strengthened, and the nine cities I just mentioned are heavily defended by the Soviet army.

Hitting one of them will not only be difficult to move, but will also attract Soviet troops from other areas to rush to help, causing the national army to fall into a passive position when attacking the first city.

We all know that although North Asia is large, there is no room for maneuver. Only the narrow strip in the south of North Asia is the effective territory of the Soviet Union. The central and northern parts are no-man's land, like a corridor with walls on both sides.

The national army should hit the snake seven inches, instead of hitting the snake all the way from the tail to the head.

Take this Novosibirsk for example. If the national army attacks from Xinjiang and takes Novosibirsk at once, Tomsk, Krasnoyarsk, and Novokuznetsk to the east of Novosibirsk are still in the hands of the Soviet army. But it is water without source and tree without roots. Our army is in the east and west, our territory is in the south, and the vast but desolate and bitterly cold North Asia is in the north. The Soviet army in the city has no other choice but to wait for death or take the initiative to attack and seek death. road.

Therefore, if the national army launched an attack from Mongolia and Beihai Province, it would be equivalent to attacking the snake from the end of the snake all the way to the head of the snake. The worst strategy is that the national army must attack from Xinjiang, hit Central Asia, and attack the important hub cities in the west of North Asia through Central Asia. Lose the head of the snake!Drain from the bottom of a series of cities occupied by the Soviet army on the main line of the Siberian Railway!However, the top Soviet leaders are not fools, if we massively increase our troops to Xinjiang, they will see through our intentions, I am very worried about this!"

"President Bai, don't worry!" Jiang Weiguo smiled, "I have a way to cross the river in white clothes against the Soviets!"

"Oh?" Bai Chongxi looked at Jiang Weiguo in surprise, then nodded, "That's the best!"

The war is imminent, and the national army still has some vacillations in its strategic countermeasures. This is not because the high-level national army is indecisive, but because China has limited capital. The Soviet war is a huge war. If it wins, China will inevitably gain national strength. Doubling and skyrocketing, if you lose or have any accidents, China will go bankrupt, so you have to be cautious.

However, the war was already imminent. More than 250 million German troops were assembled in an orderly manner under the precise deployment of the German High Command. It is divided into three parts, one part enters Romania and prepares to directly attack the Soviet Union, the other part gathers in Hungary and the former Austrian territory in Germany, and prepares to enter the war as the second echelon, and the other part gathers at the German-Polish border in eastern Germany, preparing to After the war broke out, it entered the Soviet Union through Poland. In addition, about 100 million German troops were tightly guarded in western Germany, guarding against France, the Netherlands, Belgium and the United Kingdom. These troops were basically second-rate troops or reserve troops of the German army. .

It is worth mentioning that Hungary, Romania, Italy, and Spain, which have become slave states of Germany, and Finland and Poland, which have either decided to join or have not yet formally joined the German camp, have also prepared a large number of troops, ranging from 30 to [-] to tens of thousands , but will not be invested in the early stages of the war.

The plans of these countries are different. Hungary and Romania prepared their troops, but they did not participate in the war at the beginning of the war, in order to prevent the German army from "fighting badly" or losing the war. If so, their troops would not participate in the war. In this way, They can protect themselves wisely. In the future, the Soviet Union or the United States, Britain and France will settle their accounts against them. They can argue that "because Germany dispatched millions of troops to threaten them, they were forced to open the way and let the German troops pass through their own territory." If the German army fights smoothly, They naturally joined the war together and followed Germany to rob the Soviet Union. Germany acquiesced to the speculative psychology of Hungary and Romania.

At the same time, in the east, the Chinese army (Nanjing Army) is also preparing for battle.

南京军此时共有37个师，包括36个野战师和1个生化兵师，36个野战师里有26个是蒋纬国的嫡系部队，还有10个则是蒋介石派来的“监军”。

According to the war plan, Jiang Weiguo's 27 divisions are likely to be involved in the Soviet war, with a total force of about 100 million. Chiang Kai-shek's 10 divisions and 30 million troops will be responsible for "defending the rear of northern China" during the war.

During the Spring Festival, the Nanjing Army collectively took turns to take vacations. Almost every officer and soldier got a vacation to go home to visit relatives and reunite with their families for the New Year. In March, the whole army vacation was over and fully mobilized. In the four provinces of Chahar and Rehe, a small number of troops are stationed in Xinjiang, Shandong, Shanxi, Hebei, Heilongjiang (Heixi), and Liaoning (Southern Liaoning). They converge towards the north like entering the sea. On railways, highways, rivers, and oceans, trains, automobiles, ships, and more rickshaws flow continuously day and night, transporting a huge amount of materials to the north. Henan and Anhui, which do not belong to the north , Sichuan, Jiangsu, Hunan, Yunnan, Hubei and other major grain provinces are continuously transported to the north like the flood of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River. "; Factories, workshops, and workshops all over the country are also working overtime to produce, and the huge quantities of quilts, shoes, hats, and medicines produced are also transported to the north 24 hours a day. The whole of China is immersed in unprecedented tension and tension. In the midst of the bustle, sirens blared on the railway, sand and rocks flew on the highway, spray splashed on the waterway, and the noise of the vehicles and boats was loud; the northern provinces where the army gathered were full of a dignified atmosphere, a large number of military vehicles, Chariots, tractor trucks towing artillery, and more horse-drawn carts and ox-carts travel back and forth on the roads inside and outside the city like wind. Soldiers lined up in a dense and neat team and rushed to the troop assembly amidst the sonorous and loud slogans of "rumbling" and loud slogans, forming long winding dragons all over the mountains and plains, with white bayonets and shiny guns. Steel helmets shone like stars under the sunlight; field hospitals marked with the Red Cross and shooting ranges marked with rifles sprung up all over the suburbs of cities and towns; The plane roared through the clouds and fog, covered the sky and sun, and pierced the rainbow, all from south to north.

In Chongqing, Wuhan, Fuzhou, Qingdao, Taiyuan, Jinan, and Shenyang, the seven major military industrial bases even fell to the ground in three shifts at full speed. The arsenals, ammunition depots, and weapons and equipment of the southern national army in various parts of the south were transferred to the north in large quantities. The warehouses and ammunition depots were searched, and even most of the bullets in the hands of the officers and soldiers of the Southern National Army were taken away.

Many generals of the national army in the south complained unceasingly, because "the average brother has less than [-] rounds of ammunition, let alone fighting, and even the daily target training cannot be carried out, and the bullets are all sent to the north." "Most of the troops in the army Mortars were also sent to the North".

The Northern National Army (Nanjing Army) has sufficient ammunition, while the Southern National Army is short of guns and ammunition. This is inevitable.

China is poor and weak, but it is huge. The power of the mobilization of the world's second largest country with the world's largest population is undoubtedly earth-shattering.

The war is imminent, and the moods of high-level leaders in various countries are different.

In fact, it is already a semi-open international secret that the Allied Powers are preparing to attack the Soviet Union. Germany has a "friendly relationship" with Britain and France. Institutions naturally acquire a wealth of direct and indirect evidence.

In this regard, Stalin was very anxious. On the one hand, he prepared for the war tit for tat, and on the other hand, he tried hard to obtain aid from Britain and France, and formed an alliance with Britain and France. Substantial aid or alliance guarantees to the USSR.

Hitler was nervous at this time, and the reason was simple. He didn't know whether the Soviet Union was going to fight well or not, and he wasn't too sure about the combat effectiveness of his German army. After all, the German army had never fought against the Soviet Union before the war. A battle had to make Hitler think wildly on the occasion of the battle.

Jiang Weiguo was also very nervous at this time. Hitler was nervous because he knew too little, and Jiang Weiguo was nervous because he knew too much.

德国时间1940年5月1日凌晨3时55分，中国时间1940年5月1日上午10时55分，蒋纬国在北平行营里接到了希特勒的越洋电报，电报内容言简意赅：

Mr. Jiang, I am about to start, and Germany is about to start.

Your true friend, Adolf Hitler

After closing the telegram, Jiang Weiguo stood up and walked to the office window, the sun was dazzling outside.

A poem from later generations appeared in Jiang Weiguo's mind, and he couldn't help but read it softly with a surge of enthusiasm and pride:

"I hate

I hate that I was not born a century earlier,

so that I can stand in the eye with you