stonecrandall Chapter 404
Chapter 404
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“General, there is a fight between China and the Foot Basin in the Far East!”
When the Liutiaohu incident happened, it was around 7pm local time. Since Berlin was six hours behind China, when it was evening in China, it was still noon in Hans’s side. At
3pm, about 2 hours after the Liutiaohu incident, the latest news from the Far East had been delivered to Mainz!
“How many troops did the Foot Basin people dispatch?”
Mainz was not surprised at all that the Foot Basin people would launch a surprise attack on the Celestial Empire, because the Foot Basin people had already planned this attack. It is almost impossible to control the young army members to act independently, unless all of them are replaced. However, this is impossible. In a country like the Foot Basin that is blindly aggressive, no matter who is replaced, they will probably make the mistake of acting alone!
In the final analysis, it is because Foot Basin has been going too smoothly since the Meiji Restoration. From the Restoration Era fifty years ago to the present, they have won several wars and achieved extremely fruitful results.
These victories have greatly stimulated the national self-confidence of the Foot Basin people and made them feel a mysterious sense of superiority. They believe that Foot Basin is a nation favored by Amaterasu. Otherwise, how could they defeat those nations that are stronger than them again and again? What about enemies that are stronger than themselves?
Under the influence of this growing national self-confidence and mysterious sense of superiority, the people of Jiaoben look down on the Celestial Empire in the west and the people of other surrounding countries from the bottom of their hearts!
They believe that the Jiaoben nation is a superior nation, and the people around them are inferior nations, all uncivilized barbarians!
And they can even beat those old European powers, let alone these backward barbarians.
Therefore, the young army members sent to the Kwantung Army believed that as long as they provoked a war, they would definitely win this war and annex the northeastern region of the Celestial Empire. As heroes who provoked the war, when the war was over, they would definitely receive generous rewards and promotions.
In an era when social classes were becoming increasingly solidified and it was difficult to get promotions through ordinary means, relying on military merit to quickly gain Promotion is the fastest and most efficient way for young people in China, especially those in the army!
So, when they look down on the Celestial Empire and think that China’s national strength can crush it, and they can win by provoking a war, and they establish the idea that they can be promoted after winning, then war is inevitable, and these guys will definitely take military adventures!
Not to mention the backward and divided Celestial Empire, even the Russian Bear, which has completed industrialization after unification, is advancing by leaps and bounds and has highly inflated national self-confidence, the Russians dare not provoke them. If Zhukov had not defeated them in the Battle of Nomonhan, once they tasted the sweetness, they would definitely continue to intensify their invasion of the Russian Bear in the future!
So from this point of view, Starlin’s understanding of the Russian Bear is indeed deep-rooted. He saw at a glance Wearing the mentality of bullying the weak and fearing the strong, and respecting the strong, so only one battle made the foot basin completely lose the courage to confront the bear, ensuring that the Far East had no worries in World War II, so that all the troops could be concentrated on dealing with the Hans in the east!
If the foot basin did not sneak attack the Eagle Sauce during World War II, but chose to cooperate with the German army in the Far East to attack the bear from both ends, the bear might not have so many troops to mobilize in the Soviet-German War, and the outcome of the war might be different!
For Mainz, he did not want the foot basin to eat up the northeastern region of the Celestial Empire, especially not to let the foot basin complete the expansion so smoothly.
However, Mainz really had no confidence in the Celestial Empire’s army. The strength comparison between the two sides was a bit disparate. If the Celestial Empire relied on itself, it might not be able to deal with the foot basin people!
So as long as the foot basin people sent heavy troops to attack the northeastern region of the Celestial Empire, they would definitely be able to conquer it!
As for how to judge the attack of the foot basin, it depends on how many troops they dispatched!
“The current intelligence is not very accurate, but the preliminary judgment is that there are two divisions, the 1st Division and the 9th Division!”
The Kwantung Army currently has a total of five divisions, and sending two divisions to attack is not going all out.
“Well, continue to monitor over there. By the way, if Marshal Zhang comes later, let him come to see me directly!”
Mainz explained to Himmler that such a war broke out in the Far East, and Marshal Zhang naturally could not have no action. Even if he didn’t know what to do, his father would tell him what to do!
“Yes, President, we will send you the intelligence as soon as we have it!”
Himmler perked up. Although it was afternoon, once the war started, it might take a long time. He would be very busy these days!
After Himmler left, Mainz called Ribbentrop and asked him to go to the Russian Bear.
“Remember, when you arrive in Russia, tell Starlin directly that if the foot basin occupies the northeastern region of the Celestial Empire, then what Hans loses is only some economic benefits, while the Russians will be under real threat.
If they cannot completely abandon the millions of square kilometers of the Far East, then they should not stand idly by and watch the tiger’s troubles!
” After receiving the order from Mainz, Ribbentrop immediately took the airship and set off directly to Moscow, the capital of the Russians.
The straight-line distance from Berlin to Moscow is more than 1,500 kilometers, which has exceeded the flight distance of the longest-range passenger plane at present.
If you take the train, the journey is as long as 2,200 kilometers, and the speed is far slower than the airship.
Therefore, the most convenient way of transportation is to take the airship. The speed of the Zeppelin airship can reach 130 kilometers per hour. If nothing goes wrong, about 12 hours later, that is, at three or four o’clock in the morning, Ribbentrop will be able to arrive at the capital of the Russians!
If everything goes well, then the two countries should be able to reach an agreement at noon the next day!
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Moscow, the capital of the Russian Bear.
The news of the Liutiaohu Incident also reached the Russian Bear. There was one thing Mainz said was right. For Hans, the Celestial Empire and the Foot Basin were not adjacent to them, so they would not pose a direct threat to their national security. But for the Russian Bear, it was completely different!
Once the Foot Basin took over the northeastern region of the Celestial Empire, they would be directly threatened!
So Starlin was no less concerned about the situation in the Far East than Mainz!
“The Chinese fought very tenaciously. Our intelligence personnel said that the Chinese army on the front line suffered heavy casualties under the fierce attack of the Japanese army, but they swore to fight to the death and firmly defended the frontier positions in the Liutiaohu area, preventing the Japanese army from attacking Fengtian!”
Fengtian is the current base camp of the Fengtian warlords. There are a large number of factories and relatives of the Fengtian warlords. If this place is captured, it will be a great blow to the Fengtian warlords, and even make them lose their confidence in fighting!
“Very good, let’s continue exploring!”
Starlin’s face was full of excitement. Although this war was not fought by the Russians themselves, he was extremely concerned about it. He even put himself in the perspective of the Celestial Empire and the Foot Basin, thinking about what the two countries could do to gain the greatest benefits.
“Chairman, the Foot Basin side transferred the Eighth Division at eight o’clock in the evening. Now the number of Kwantung Army on the front line has exceeded 80,000. I don’t think the Celestial Empire’s army can defend the Manchuria-Mongolia Railway. Once this railway is lost, the safety of Fengtian may not be guaranteed!”
As a senior general of the Soviet Army, General Timoshenko was pessimistic about the situation in the Far East. He felt that the Celestial Empire was no match for the Foot Basin.
Although more than 20 years have passed since the Russo-Japanese War, the painful lessons and shadows that this war brought to the Russians have always been entrenched in their hearts, making it difficult for them to let go!
It is precisely because they had a direct fight with the Foot Basin 20 years ago that the Russians were full of fear of the Japanese army’s combat effectiveness. At that time, the Japanese army was not leading in equipment. The Russians even had new weapons such as mortars, searchlights, and shrapnel.
Relying on these weapons, the Russian army brought huge casualties to the Japanese army in battle. Often after a battle, the corpses of the Japanese army would cover the entire battlefield. It looked extremely shocking!
However, even though so many people died, the Japanese army seemed to be blind, and they still rushed forward with their rifles, as if they didn’t care whether they would die or not!
This momentum of desperate charge really scared the Russian army at that time!
It was after this battle that the evaluation of the foot basin within the Mao Bear rose to a higher level, and it was considered a strong opponent!
Twenty years have passed, and the foot basin is now stronger than before, while the strength of the Mao Bear has not increased much, so in the eyes of the Mao Bear, the current strength of the Japanese army is probably far beyond that of the year!