I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

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Chiang Kai-shek then launched the "Qinghai-Tibet War", with the goal of eradicating Ma Bufang who was entrenched in Qinghai Province and Tibet, which was in an independent state under the control of the British.

This battle was fought by Chiang Kai-shek's Central Army, not by Chiang Weiguo's Nanjing Army. It lasted for more than four months, and Ma Bufang and Ma Buqing's forces were devastated. A division set off from the west of Xikang Province, crossed mountains and ridges, ate and slept in the open, entered Tibetan areas, entered Lhasa and southern Tibet, and announced that Tibet had been recovered.

As of the summer of 1940, only the Guangxi faction remained in the country, and there was no second warlord—if Jiang Weiguo was not counted as a warlord.

The whole of China presents a peculiar situation of "two Jiangs in the north and south, two capitals in the north and the south", "the old Jiang in the south, and the young Jiang in the north", "the old Jiang is in Nanjing, and the young Chiang is in Beijing" and "the father and son divide the north and the south with the Yellow River as the boundary" (Jiang Weiguo here At that time, the territory was basically located in the north of the Yellow River).

The territory of Jiang Weiguo's "Ning Family" has been completely expanded from North China to the whole of North China. In the spring of 1940, Jiang Weiguo controlled 13 special cities/special districts in 18 provinces in northern China. In addition to the original six provinces and one city in North China, Liaoning Province (Southern Liaoning), Heilongjiang Province (Heixi), Mongolia Province, and Xinjiang Province were added. Province, Beihai Province, Gansu Province, Ningxia Province, and 17 special cities/special districts in the Northeast, the land area has increased from about 125 million square kilometers to about 580 million square kilometers, and the total population has expanded from about 9000 million to about 1.25 million.

At this time, Jiang Weiguo was already the out-and-out "King of the North".

The son opened up territory in the north, and the old man did not give up much in the south.

In the entire south of the Yellow River, apart from the Guangxi province of Guangxi, Chiang Kai-shek has completely controlled the entire south, holding 16 provinces and 2 special cities: Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Shaanxi, and Sichuan , Guizhou, Yunnan, Xikang, Qinghai, Tibet, and Nanjing, Chongqing.

In the whole of China, only Taiwan, Shanghai, Tianjin, Jilin Province, the eastern part of Heilongjiang Province, the northern part of Liaoning Province, and most of the outer eastern part are still occupied by the Japanese.

Because of the major changes in the territory and territory again, the Wuhan Military Commission reorganized the "military region" delineation of the national army, and established ten military regions in total, namely:

First Military Region: Sichuan Province, Guizhou Province, Yunnan Province, Chongqing City;

Second Military Region: Suiyuan Province, Gansu Province, Ningxia Province, Xinjiang Province;

The Third Military Region: Jiangsu Province, Zhejiang Province, Anhui Province, Nanjing City;

Fourth Military Region: Fujian Province, Jiangxi Province;

Fifth Military Region: Shandong Province, Shanxi Province, Hebei Province, Beiping City;

Sixth Military Region: Henan Province, Shaanxi Province, Hubei Province, Hunan Province;

Seventh Military Region: Xikang Province, Qinghai Province, Tibet Province;

Eighth Military Region: Liaoning Province, Rehe Province, Chahar Province, Heilongjiang Province;

Ninth Military Region: Guangdong Province, Guangxi Province;

Tenth Military Region: Mongolia Province, Beihai Province, and 17 special cities/regions in the Northeast.

After this major rectification, China's national defense posture can be said to be orderly and completely new.

The Nanjing Army fought bloody battles in the Far East War and made great achievements. In addition, the territory, population, and power have all expanded by leaps and bounds. The expansion of the army is naturally a matter of course.

Before the war, the Nanjing Army had a total of 27 divisions, including 26 field divisions and 1 biochemical division. After the war, Chiang Kai-shek added the designation and organization of 7 new divisions to the Nanjing Army (still all three brigades and nine regiments), The Nanjing Army expanded to 34 divisions, including 33 field divisions and 1 biochemical division. If all the above units are completed, the total strength of the regular army of the Nanjing Army will be about 125 million.

Jiang Weiguo's "north" has a population of about 1.25 million, which can fully support so many troops.

February 1940th was the Spring Festival in [-] (the year of Gengchen), but Jiang Weiguo had no time to celebrate the New Year at all, because he was too busy digesting the newly acquired land, implementing land reform, developing industry and commerce, building people's livelihood, developing resources, operating the economy, Expansion of the army, etc. All kinds of imminent major events kept him busy almost to the point of "not entering the house three times". The Daqing Oilfield needs to be exploited, the Karamay Oilfield needs to be exploited, the iron mines in Anshan and Benxi need to be exploited, and the iron mines in Liaoning Province need to be exploited. The heavy industry needs to be expanded, and the Shenyang arsenal also needs to be expanded... Jiang Weiguo has obtained a huge amount of resources after obtaining Heixi and Liaonan. The Japanese have built a large-scale and systematic heavy industry, especially the Shenyang arsenal. A super-large military industrial base, with it, Jiang Weiguo and Jiang Weiguo's Nanjing Army will be even more powerful.

Jiang Weiguo had to be busy. His time was really tight, because the Second World War was just a few months away.

Chapter 452

Stepping on the bones of Han Fuju, Yan Xishan, Fu Zuoyi, Song Zheyuan, Zhang Xueliang, Ma Hongbin, Ma Hongkui, Sheng Shicai, Qiaobashan and many other separatist warlords or separatist forces, as well as countless Japanese and Soviets, Jiang Weiguo finally completed his rise.

Beginning in the summer of 1936, Jiang Weiguo worked hard for four years, worked hard for four years, exhausted himself for four years, and went through life and death for four years. By the summer of 1940, he was already "below one person and above 5000 million people." , and the only person above him was his father.

Jiang Weiguo's Ning family has to be said to be in full swing, with as many as 13 provinces in its territory, with a land area of ​​about 580 million square kilometers, accounting for 46% of the total area of ​​China (after the Far East War, all areas temporarily occupied by Japan include In addition, the total land area of ​​China at this time is about 1260 million square kilometers), and the total population is as high as 1.23 million, accounting for 27% of the total population of China (the total population of China includes the population of the Japanese occupation area, the total is about 4.55 million), Jiang Weiguo himself can It is called "monstrous power".

The most important thing is that Jiang Weiguo's territory was not obtained by Chiang Kai-shek's "enfeoffment", but was recovered from domestic warlords and foreign powers, which is politically justified.

With such a strong and abundant capital, Jiang Weiguo can really let go of his hands and feet and do a big job vigorously.

The Sino-Japanese War, the Far East War, and the Civil War were all just "small stages." Jiang Weiguo was about to embark on the Second World War, an unprecedented "big stage" in the history of human warfare.

War is the highest form and violent means of conflicting fighting spirit. War is undoubtedly extremely cruel, bloody, and fearful. At this time, Jiang Weiguo, as a "big man" who can directly determine national policy, has no extra energy to care about the effects of war on individuals. Influenced, he pays more attention to the group, the impact that the next World War II will have on China and the Chinese nation.

The world war was a major reshuffle of the global structure and the order of human civilization. In the original history, Britain, France, Germany, Japan, and Italy all declined in an all-round way because of this, and later became only regional powers and developed countries. There was no longer any chance to become a global power or a superpower. As a result, the Soviet Union and the United States rose in an all-round way and became the two superpowers dominating the East and the West after the war.

Jiang Weiguo is not reconciled. He knows that no Chinese will be reconciled. In this global reshuffle, China should also take advantage of the renaissance. China, which has missed the industrial revolution and the age of great voyages, should not miss the world war again.

China should not just play a supporting role in World War II. China should be one of the substantive protagonists of the world war and one of the protagonists of the world, and should have the power to dominate the world.

In the first half of 1940, the whole world was calm. Although there were undercurrents under the calm waves, the surface still maintained a peaceful environment.

The Spanish Civil War ended long ago, Italy did not cause trouble because of Germany's "control", China and Japan had already negotiated a peace and armistice, and the Far East War between China, Japan and the Soviet Union had also ended. Because of the influence of the Far East War, the Soviet-Finnish War did not break out. The Soviet Union was also unable to annex the three Baltic countries, and even, the entire Second World War was greatly delayed.

Jiang Weiguo can be said to be "the busiest person in the country". He is as busy as ever, working hard for the country, and he is short of "death before himself".

In fact, Jiang Weiguo has never been idle. Before the war, he was very busy. During the war, he was still very busy. After the war, he was still very busy, because he knew very well that the "peace" after the war was just the next war. It was just the preparation time before the war, and there was no time for him to relax at all.

In the next all-out war against the Soviet Union by the Allied Powers, there is no doubt that the Chinese army must be dominated by the Nanjing Army.

War requires capital, and what Jiang Weiguo is doing now is to save capital desperately.

At the beginning of the year, the Northern General Administration, which had been reorganized from the "Northern China Political Affairs Commission" to the "Northern Political Affairs Commission", conducted a comprehensive investigation and statistics, and sent Jiang Weiguo the most detailed military, political, people's livelihood, economy, industry and many other issues. According to the reports from various departments, Jiang Weiguo is both happy and worried. The happy thing is: great progress, which can be described as changing with each passing day;

However, Jiang Weiguo knew that the development of national power should not be rushed and encouraged. It must be done step by step and step by step. In any case, great progress is always very gratifying and something to be proud of.

In terms of the military, the total strength of the regular army of China's army, navy and air force has reached more than 400 million, and the number of reserve soldiers who have undergone formal military training has also reached more than 400 million. The real "800 million national army", among which the strength of the Nanjing Army The proportion of the number of people accounted for is more than 125 million, and the proportion of the number of reserve soldiers of the Nanjing Army is more than 150 million.

After the Far East War, the Nanjing Army was expanded to 34 divisions (33 field divisions and 1 biochemical division). The Nanjing Army owned more than 13 counties in 600 northern provinces and other places, and militias were established in each county. Formal military training has increased the number of militiamen to more than 150 million, military police to 15, police to 80, and armed police to 15, so that the total number of armed and quasi-armed personnel in Jiang Weiguo's hands reached 385. More than ten thousand.

The Nanjing Army is the essence and elite of the entire Chinese army (army), and has priority. Most of the good guns and cannons are concentrated in the Nanjing Army, and most of the veterans are also concentrated in the Nanjing Army (the Nanjing Army fought many battles. , In the process, he himself has been continuously tempered, so that a large number of officers and soldiers in the Nanjing Army have actual combat experience), as for senior officers and generals, they must first enter Jiang Weiguo's "eyes" before they can enter the Nanjing Army (Jiang Weiguo certainly does not want those who have his father The so-called "Students of the Son of Heaven" who are loved but have no real skills at all).

It is worth mentioning that the Chinese Army is divided into four types of troops at this time: German Armor, Japanese Armor, Central Armor and Soviet Armor (the Nanjing Army seized a large number of Soviet-made weapons and equipment during the Far East War). It is the first elite, the Japanese and middle armorers rank second, and the Soviet armorers are not very prominent, because those Soviet-made weapons lack Soviet-made ammunition to effectively supplement them.

The Nanjing Army seized the Soviet Army's guns and a small amount of bullets and shells, but did not seize the Soviet Army's arsenal.

The Chinese Army is thriving, and the Chinese Air Force is also thriving. Self-produced and outsourced (mainly purchased from Germany), the Chinese Air Force has more than 1940 aircraft in early 2000, and the Airborne Forces and Air Defense Forces are also improving day by day. Among the three armed forces, only the Chinese navy is still standing still. Submarines, gunboats, gunboats, torpedo boats and other "gadgets" have increased a lot, but the large warships basically remain the same.

Jiang Weiguo's development of the army and air force is already a waste of money. There is no money to develop the most expensive navy. In addition, the navy of the Allied countries mainly relies on the Japanese navy and the Italian navy. The Chinese and German navies do not need to develop large warships, so the Chinese navy is still only one "A lean coastal and inland river defense navy", the Marine Corps, mine-laying team, and air force have been developed to a certain extent, but that's all.

One of the sources of military combat effectiveness is strong logistics, which is the military industry. The importance of the military industry is self-evident.

Before the Far East War, through Jiang Weiguo's painstaking efforts, painstaking efforts, and the assistance and support of Germany, China had a total of six military industrial bases, located in Chongqing, Wuhan, Fuzhou, Qingdao, Taiyuan, and Jinan. Now the seventh largest military industrial base has been added. That is, the Shenyang Arsenal (Shenyang Military Industrial Base) recovered by Jiang Weiguo.

The foundation of the Shenyang Arsenal was originally the strongest in China and Asia. At the time of the September [-]th Incident, even Japan did not have a comprehensive arsenal as large as the Shenyang Arsenal. After eight years, because of the Japanese "helping to build", Shenyang The arsenal has improved in terms of scale, productivity, modernization, and systematization, and is even better than the largest Chongqing military industrial base in Jiang Weiguo's hands.

With the acquisition of the Shenyang Arsenal, China's military industry has been greatly improved, and its productivity can be called flowers blooming and fire cooking oil.

In terms of aircraft, China has reached a monthly production level of 150 at this time (it is expected to reach a monthly production level of 250 in the second half of the year, and most of the self-produced aircraft are wooden aircraft); in terms of tanks, it has reached a monthly production level of 60 at this time. level (it is expected to reach the level of monthly production of 90 vehicles in the second half of the year); the monthly production of cars has also reached the level of more than 500 vehicles at this time (it is expected to reach the level of monthly production of more than 800 vehicles in the second half of the year, this figure includes those of all kinds Charcoal vehicles, tung oil vehicles, alcohol vehicles, gas vehicles, etc.); as for conventional weapons and ammunition, the output is also very large, of which bullets alone can produce more than 8 million rounds per year, and grenades can produce more than 2000 million per year.

In terms of vertical comparison, these data are more than five times the output of China's military industry during the War of Resistance in history. In horizontal comparison, the output of the military industry is even larger than that of the Japanese Army at this time, which is 5% to 75% higher (the military industry of the Chinese and Japanese Army The scale and output of China's military industry are actually in a trade-off relationship. China's military industry has received great assistance from Germany, and the country is also doing its best to develop. Japan is now mainly focusing on the development of its navy. The army has been weakened a lot, and the Shenyang arsenal was robbed by Jiang Weiguo Going away led to a further reduction in the scale and output of the Japanese Army's military industry, and a further increase in the scale and output of the Chinese Army's military industry.

Compared with the army, China has surpassed Japan, but compared with the navy, China is still ten blocks away from Japan), compared with the German army, the scale and output of the Chinese army's military industry in light weapons are a quarter to five of the former One-third (the German army can produce more than 40 billion rounds of bullets a year; as for the most productive United States, it produced almost 200 billion rounds of bullets a year at its peak during World War II.

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"Time is too tight!" Jiang Weiguo sighed with emotion, "If you give me another five years... even three years, the situation will be even better! It's a pity... I hope to defeat the Soviet Union in one fell swoop, and then rob the Soviet Union. Industrial machines, this is also the only way to develop China's industry and military industry!"

After the most important military, military, and military industries, Jiang Weiguo looked at the data on the economy, industry, and people's livelihood. There is no need to worry about agriculture. China has a large population, no natural disasters, no war damage, and the hard work of hundreds of millions of working people Cultivation, food is completely self-sufficient and there is still a lot of surplus, the most important thing is industry.

China and Japan first negotiated a peace and armistice in the autumn of 1938. Since then, China’s domestic industry, which had been developing in a tortuous way, has truly been comprehensively built. Although the winter counterattack and the Far East War broke out later, the fighting All happened externally and did not affect domestic development.

After more than a year of painstaking efforts and hard work, the achievements in industrial construction are naturally very gratifying.

China's light industry at this time can be said to be spread all over the country. Before the July [-]th Incident, China's light industry was mainly concentrated in the eastern coast, and Shanghai was the core. On the way to the west, flowers are blooming all over the country. Although they can move back to the east after the war, those entrepreneurs who have opened up vast new markets in the central and western regions will definitely not "marry their wives and forget their mothers". Moving eastward, on the one hand, continued to operate the central and western markets. This Sino-Japanese war actually promoted the "comprehensive popularization and comprehensive development" of China's industry and commerce; as for China's heavy industry at this time, it was mainly concentrated in three places. North China (Shanxi, Shandong, Hebei), the second is the southwest (Sichuan-Yunnan border, Sichuan-Guizhou border, etc.), and the third is the northeast (Liaonan, Heixi). Some targeted and concentrated developments (such as tungsten mines in southern Jiangxi, iron mines in southeastern Anhui, etc.).

The industrial achievements are still most eye-catching in numbers. In 1939, China’s steel output was more than 200 million tons, which was 40 times the previous historical figure. For comparison, in the same year (1939) Japan’s steel output was 670 million tons, more than 2200 million tons in Germany, 1900 million tons in the Soviet Union, and 4800 million tons in the United States. Although China is still far behind Japan, far behind Germany and the Soviet Union, and far behind the United States, the progress is undoubtedly very huge Yes, and it is expected to double in 1940, reaching more than 400 million tons. On the one hand, China's own steel industry is constantly expanding, and on the other hand, Jiang Weiguo took back large iron mines such as Anshan and Benxi in southern Liaoning (this move It also caused Japan's steel production to be hit hard);

In terms of coal, China is not particularly "backward". In the original history of 1937, Japan's coal output was more than 5000 million tons, and China's coal output was more than 2800 million tons (mainly because the technical level required for coal mining was not high enough). High), at this time in 1939, China’s coal output was more than 6000 million tons, and it was expected to increase to 1940 million tons in 1; for comparison, Germany’s coal output was 6 million tons, the Soviet Union’s was 1.5 million tons, and the United States was 6.5 million tons.

In fact, all major countries, including China, have no shortage of coal. Coal production is more than sufficient. Coal mining does not require high technology. What modern industry needs most is oil.

In terms of oil, the four major countries of the Allied Powers are short of oil. In 1939, Germany’s oil production was 1000 million tons (four-fifths were imported and one-fifth was synthetic), Japan’s was 200 million tons, and the Soviet Union’s was 2000 million tons. tons, the United States is 1.6 million tons, as for China, it has reached 150 million tons, more than half of which are produced by Yumen Oilfield, and the rest are produced by several oil fields in Jiang Weiguo's hands, such as Shengli Oilfield. Although the oil reserves of Shengli Oilfield It is as high as more than 50 billion tons, but it is still in the original state of exploitation after all. Right now, Jiang Weiguo has more Karamay Oilfield with oil reserves of more than 18 billion tons and Daqing Oilfield with oil reserves of more than 50 billion tons. sea”, but such things as oil extraction are wasteful.

Although in later generations, the annual oil output of Daqing Oilfield is as high as 5000 million tons, that of Shengli Oilfield is as high as 3000 million tons, and that of Karamay Oilfield is as high as 1000 million tons, adding up to almost 1000 million tons a year. It is possible, let alone [-] million tons, [-] million tons is enough to make Jiang Weiguo wake up laughing when he falls asleep.

However, because Jiang Weiguo vowed to guarantee that "China's Shandong, Xinjiang, and western Heilongjiang provinces all have super large oil fields with reserves of more than one billion tons or even billions of tons", so the top leaders of Germany, Italy, and Japan all attach great importance to this. (After all, Germany, Italy, and Japan are extremely short of oil), and sent most of the country's geological experts, oil exploration experts, technicians, and a large number of machinery and equipment to help China exploit Shengli Oilfield, Karamay Oilfield, and Daqing Oilfield. Jiang Weiguo promised that these three After the oil field is officially exploited, Germany, Italy, and Japan can all get oil dividends. As the saying goes, "People are united, and Mount Tai is moved." Because the four countries have concentrated their efforts on joint exploitation, the progress of this major event is still very fast.

According to estimates by experts, Shengli Oilfield could produce 1940 million tons of oil in 150, Daqing Oilfield could produce 100 million tons of oil, and Karamay Oilfield could produce 50 tons of oil. Oil production should exceed 350 million tons.

Although not particularly large, it is also very gratifying, and the scale of oil extraction will become larger and larger, and it will double by 1941.

China, Germany, Italy and Japan jointly exploited China's oil. In this major event, there is such a detail worth mentioning, which is the Daqing Oilfield.

Daqing Oilfield is located in the west of Heilongjiang Province. After the Far East War, Japan reluctantly returned Heishi to China. Jiang Weiguo got Heishi, and then invited Japanese experts to explore the oil fields in Daqing area together with Chinese, German and Italian experts (Daqing It is not yet an official place name).

When the German experts announced that "there is indeed a super-large oil field with reserves of more than one billion tons or even several billion tons", Jiang Weiguo looked at the faces of the Japanese experts and Japanese personnel on the scene. As he expected, one by one " It’s like dead parents” (this is Jiang Weiguo’s original words), “The Chinese experts, German experts, and Italian experts at the scene all cheered, and the Japanese experts were also laughing, but the laughter was uglier than crying.”

Jiang Weiguo really wanted to know the expression and mentality of the high-level officials in Tokyo when they knew that there was a super-large oil field in Hexi, which was originally a Japanese-occupied area but was abandoned by Japan and returned to China. Of course, he could not see and feel it with his own eyes, but basically I can also imagine that it must be regretful, and the intestines are green with regret. The Japanese can only watch helplessly in the midst of suffering, "The Chinese are mining in the Black West, which they have voluntarily given up. The redness of the billowing oil".

Regarding national power, Jiang Weiguo, like the Chinese of later generations, is still accustomed to looking at the most obvious data of "gdp". In 1939, the gdp rankings of the eight major countries in the world were as follows:

United States: about $1000 billion; Germany: about $450 billion; Soviet Union: about $400 billion;

UK: about $380 billion; France: about $300 billion; Italy: about $100 billion.

As for China and Japan, Japan is almost 120 billion US dollars, and China is almost 80 billion US dollars.

The gdp is both intuitive and very general.

Before the Sino-Japanese War (1937), China’s economic aggregate lacked accurate statistics. There were two internationally recognized figures, one was 40 billion taels of silver, and the other was 260 billion yuan in French currency. If converted, the former was about 20 billion U.S. dollars. The latter is about 70 billion US dollars, and there is a big gap. Therefore, it is really difficult to say China's gdp, but it can be analyzed and speculated.

Before the September 40th Incident, Japan's gdp was about 60 billion US dollars. Before the July 120th Incident, Japan's gdp increased to about [-] billion US dollars. At this time, it even increased to [-] billion US dollars, because Japan gained Northeast China and the huge resources, so the Japanese economy was stimulated to develop greatly.

In the original history, with the Battle of Midway as the demarcation point, before that, Japan fought very smoothly, occupied large areas of other countries, plundered a lot of resources and a lot of wealth, the war won can greatly stimulate economic development After that, Japan began to go downhill, and the economy declined and deteriorated day by day.

For comparison, in the original history, after the war between China and Japan, China became worse and poorer, and its economy naturally declined, while Japan became stronger and richer (until the Battle of Midway Island), and its economy naturally boomed It is booming; at present, although China has suffered a lot in the Sino-Japanese War, it has not suffered a fatal blow. The world has been stimulated by the war to be more prosperous (the Chinese army has won the war, and the war will naturally promote economic development positively), so compared with the original history of 1939, China's gdp is much higher, while Japan's gdp is lower.

On the other hand, it should be noted that in Japan's gdp, the industrial output value accounts for a large proportion, while in China's gdp, the industrial output value accounts for a small proportion. Most of gdp is piled up by population and agriculture, just like the qing dynasty, although There is almost no modern industry, but relying on the large land, rich people and self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy, it also has a huge economic aggregate.

Of course, the economy based on population and agriculture is just a giant with mud feet.

Although in 1939, China's gdp was still behind Japan, but it is certain that by 1940, China's gdp will surpass Japan, because the "lifeblood" that the Japanese are extremely dependent on industrially and economically - the Northeast, At this time, Jiang Weiguo had taken away the most important provinces of Liaoning (Liaonan) and Heilongjiang (Heixi) in terms of heavy industry.

This is a trade-off relationship. By 1940, China's gdp will make great strides, while Japan's gdp will shrink.

"As long as the Chinese army does not lose and continues to win battles until the end of the world war, China's economy can double, double, and double again!" Jiang Weiguo is very confident about this, "If the army wins the battle, It can stimulate the rapid development of the domestic economy, and the army can win battles. It can also plunder a large amount of resources and wealth from other countries, and further feed back the domestic economy.

Money, robbing other countries' money in wartime is definitely faster than earning other countries' money in peacetime! "

Overall, the first half of 1940 was a seemingly peaceful first half. For Jiang Weiguo, it was a busy and fulfilling first half. The German army and more than 250 Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, and Romanian troops are preparing to go in an orderly manner.