I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

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Everyone in the carriage looked at Feng Zhian's back in astonishment.

"You used to do this, I can turn a blind eye!" Feng Zhi'an sighed, "After all, we were in China at that time, and it was understandable that the camps were different. After all, you wanted to revitalize our China in your own way, but Now, we are on the foreign battlefield, the situation is different, what is the difference between you and traitors?"

The door of the carriage was pushed open, and several Haitong agents walked in with no expression on their faces. There were more than a dozen gendarmes behind them, escorting four or five people who had already been tied up. They were all middle and high-level officers in the 37th Army.

Chen Rui, headed by Haitong agents, drew out his pistol, looked at someone in the carriage with contempt, pointed his gun at that person, and said in a cold tone, "Please!"

The man seemed to have been mentally prepared for this. He looked at He Jifeng behind Chen Rui, his eyes moved, and his eyes turned into a kind of pity: "You still haven't taken a firm stand, and you are on a road that is destined to be nailed in history. The road on the pillar of shame!"

He Jifeng sneered: "It will be you who will be nailed up, not me, not us!"

Chen Rui beckoned, and two Haitong agents stepped forward and searched for the man's gun.

"Idiot!" Chen Rui sneered, "Thank you and your comrades for tipping off, otherwise, how could Cui Kefu be fooled by Feng Junzuo?" He laughed, "Mr. Zhang, you remind me of someone, Chibi Jiang Gan in the war, tsk tsk, Jiang Gan stealing books, hahaha! You have repeatedly leaked our army's battle plan to the Soviets, how could Feng Junzuo not know? Keeping you is just using you idiots!"

There was a trace of extreme anger and remorse on the man's face, and then turned into a kind of disdain: "You can be proud! You can be rampant for a while, but in the end you can't escape the fate of being spurned by the people and buried by history!"

Chen Rui spat a mouthful of thick phlegm on the ground: "It's just a group of street rats who hate ghosts and ghosts! They thought they were something!" Then he asked his subordinates to escort him out.

"You guys go out too!" Feng Zhi'an waved his hand.

The officers left one after another, and only Feng Zhian and Chen Rui were left in the carriage.

"Captain Chen..." Feng Zhi'an looked at Chen Rui with a strange expression, "If I'm not mistaken, many officers, staff officers, adjutants and even guards in my army actually have another layer of identity, right?"

Chen Rui smiled: "Feng Junzuo, smart people don't need to speak clearly, right?"

Feng Zhi'an said suspiciously: "You seem to have known it a long time ago, and have been focusing on monitoring those few people!"

Chen Rui smiled again: "Feng Junzuo, you can fight well, just leave the cleaning and other small things to us!" He saluted Feng Zhi'an, and then went out to leave.

From the bloody battle on August [-] to the middle and late September, the three-way army of the Nanjing Army basically completed the strategic tasks in the early stage of the war.

Although there is still some time before the rainy season and winter, the Nanjing Army did not make persistent efforts and began to switch from offense to defense in an all-round way, because the ordnance, ammunition, and supplies were almost consumed.

Section 494 Intermission period (1)

From the bitter battle on August [-] to the end of September, it took about two months for the Nanjing Army to complete the planned goal at the beginning of the war in one go. Generally speaking, although there were many shortcomings in the ointment, the Nanjing Army did achieve strategic The great victory and the brilliance of the results shocked the world, and made the United States, Britain, France and other countries, as well as Japan, who were originally gloating at the mentality of "sit and watch", feel unbelievable and vaguely uneasy.

After two months of fierce fighting, the Nanjing Army took control of the ruling power and initiative in Central Asia, basically wiped out the Soviet Army in Central Asia, cut off the main line of the Siberian Railway, and severely damaged the Soviet Army in North Asia. The situation can be said to be very good.

There were thunderous cheers in Peking, relief in Wuhan, a toast in Berlin, and mixed joy in Tokyo.

Hitler sent Jiang Weiguo a long and eloquent telegram with thousands of words, highly praised Jiang Weiguo and Jiang Weiguo's Nanjing Army, and lavishly praised China and the Chinese army for their great contributions in this Soviet war.

In the telegram, all kinds of fancy words were used dizzyingly. At the end of the telegram, Hitler hoped that "the Nanjing Army will continue to advance and further support the German army" and "it is best to defeat the Soviet Union before the arrival of this winter."

In this regard, Jiang Weiguo resolutely refused: "I'm sorry, it can't be done!"

Hitler was a little disappointed: "The Chinese army is invincible and invincible. Why don't they take advantage of the victory and pursue it?"

Jiang Weiguo replied: "I can't beat it anymore!"

Jiang Weiguo was telling the truth.

According to accurate statistics from the Nanjing Army Headquarters, in the past two months, a total of 20 divisions of the Nanjing Army have participated in the battle, with more than 70 troops (including air forces) successively participating in the battle, and a total of about 100 million Soviet troops have been eliminated, including about 15 Soviet troops. , injured about 25 Soviet troops, captured Soviet troops and accepted Soviet surrenders about 60; 26 people, about 9 people were injured and sick, and about 17 people were captured and missing (including those who may be captured but cannot be determined for the time being).

The Nanjing Army achieved great results, but also paid great losses.

Since the Nanjing Army is taking the route of elite soldiers, the hundreds of thousands of troops that the Nanjing Army participated in the war are all "well-trained elite soldiers" (the Nanjing Army cannot train more elite soldiers at the same time, because live ammunition training needs to consume ammunition, and the Nanjing Army does not have enough ammunition. Therefore, the limited ammunition was concentrated on hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers for high-intensity training. The hundreds of thousands of infantrymen of the Nanjing Army who participated in the battle all reached the individual combat level of the veterans of the old Japanese divisions, and their shooting skills were very good), causing more than 20 casualties at once. Thousands of elite soldiers (about two-thirds of the wounded and sick can recover, but it takes time to recuperate, and one-third are seriously injured and disabled, unable to return to the army and the battlefield), which really hurt the strength of the Nanjing Army , more importantly, more than three-quarters of the ammunition, fuel and other ordnance materials stored by the Nanjing Army have been consumed in these two months of high-intensity fighting. , Insufficient income, so that the Nanjing Army's material reserves after the two months of fighting before the end of the war were only a quarter of what they were before the war.

Under such circumstances, the Nanjing Army is naturally "unable to fight". Although there are still one or two months before the rainy season and winter, the Nanjing Army is indeed unable to continue to attack. The ordnance and supplies are exhausted, let alone attack, and even the defense will not be able to launch.

The Nanjing army must then turn from offense to defense in an all-round way.

On the one hand, Wuhan and Beiping were heartbroken by the loss, and on the other hand, they began to digest and consolidate the results of the war with joy.

By the beginning of October, the situation in Central Asia was like this: Turkmenistan was ceded to Iran in the five countries of Central Asia. It is definitely possible to enter Turkmenistan or use the railways, ports, airports and other facilities in Turkmenistan; the other four countries in Central Asia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan, are completely controlled by the Nanjing Army. Kazakhstan is slightly different. The Nanjing Army completely controls Kazakhstan. The northeast, north, east, and south of the country are temporarily out of reach for the west and central areas. There are still a lot of remnants of the Soviet army and Kazakh forces that are pro-Soviet and pro-Russian, but there is no climate, because there are seven cities in Kazakhstan. Six are under the control of the Nanjing Army. The Nanjing Army currently only controls about 50% of the territory of Kazakhstan, but controls about 80% of the population of Kazakhstan, and controls the overall situation of the country.

The situation in North Asia is like this: the Nanjing Army did not occupy much land in North Asia, just "one head and one tail", and the "head" was Omsk. Areas, the closest to the area occupied by the Nanjing Army in Central Asia are the three cities in the northeast of Kazakhstan, about 15 kilometers away, without railways, and mainly rely on the Irtysh River for transportation. As for Barnaul and others, they briefly occupied The "tail" is the former Huxi battlefield. The Nanjing army regained Anbei, and at the same time took over a dozen small towns such as Qiecheng in one go, unable to continue to penetrate; the Soviet army in North Asia was captured by Nanjing. The army wiped out about [-]%, and there are still about [-] troops concentrated in the middle area of ​​"one head and one tail" controlled by the Nanjing Army. The southernmost point is the Western Sayan Mountains on the Sino-Soviet border, and the northernmost point is the Arctic Ocean), mainly consisting of the four major cities of Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Novokuznetsk, and Krasnoyarsk, as well as dozens of small towns and hundreds of villages etc.

This area is already an "enclave", because the main line of the Trans-Siberian Railway has been cut off, so it has completely lost land access to Moscow.

At present, this area has about 15 Soviet troops and a population of about 500 million. There are many factories, the industry is very developed, and the agriculture is relatively weak.

The German army continued to fight on the battlefields of Eastern Europe, while the Nanjing Army put down its banners and drums, and turned from offensive to defensive in an all-round way, while operating the occupied areas.

First of all, the Outer Xinjiang area has been completely recovered. Jiang Weiguo ordered to change the name of Balkhash Lake to "Xihai Lake". The Outer Xinjiang area established an administrative province "Xihai Province". Kedouka was renamed "Anxi" (obviously, Xihai Lake, Xihai Province, Anxi correspond to Beihai Lake, Beihai Province, and Anbei). The total area of ​​the province is about 52 square kilometers, which is completely included in the Chinese territory. new territory.

Although Xihai Province was "cede" from the Kazakh territory, the Kazakhs obviously have no objections.

It is worth mentioning that Almaty, the capital of Kazakhstan, is actually located at the junction of the outer Xinjiang region and the original Kazakh region, and can be included in Xihai Province. However, considering the "China-Kazakh friendship", the Chinese government has not "taken it back" from the Kazakh government. "Almaty recognizes that the city of Almaty and the city within a radius of 1 kilometers are Kazakh territory. In return, Kazakhs allocated more than [-] square kilometers of land to China in other places.

In fact, according to the new China-Kazakh border division, Almaty, the capital of Kazakhstan, is [-] kilometers away from the border of China (Xihai Province), and is almost close to the border of China. Logically, the capital of a country is close to the territory of another country It will make people very worried, but the Kazakhs are very relieved, because China is not only Kazakhs neighbor, but also Kazakhs "liberator" and a big backer in the future.

Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan under the control of the Nanjing Army carried out comprehensive political reforms at the same time. The original Bolshevik regime was completely overthrown, and a new regime completely subordinate to China was re-established, and the Bolshevik political and economic systems were completely abolished. Pro-Soviet and pro-Russian elements were severely punished (this move was criticized by the United States, Britain and France as the "yellow terror" because it caused tens of thousands of pro-Soviet and pro-Russian people in the four Central Asian countries to be killed).

In addition, the Nanjing Army helped the four countries to form new armies. The new armies of the four countries were all "anti-Soviet and anti-Russian self-defense forces". Kazakhs had the largest population and formed 20 divisions with a total force of about 20. The brigade is the unit, and several brigades have been established, with a total of about 10.

With the 30 Central Asian Army assisting the Nanjing Army, the pressure on the Nanjing Army has naturally decreased a lot. The tasks of the Central Asian Army (mainly the Kazakh Army) are mainly to maintain domestic law and order, stabilize social order, search and suppress pro-Soviet and pro-Russian elements, and build railways, airports and docks and other military equipment, as well as assisting the Nanjing Army in operations.

It is only natural for the Nanjing Army to station troops in the four Central Asian countries, and it must have absolute control over the Central Asian Army.

After the Nanjing Army "liberated" Central Asia, it effectively stabilized the region and made the local people feel China by forming a new government, implementing privatization, land reform, and religious freedom.

As for the Central Asian Army, the Nanjing Army was in charge of training, armed with captured Soviet-made weapons, and sent military advisers to battalion-level and above units in the army to strengthen control on the one hand and improve their combat effectiveness on the other hand.

During the war, Jiang Weiguo was not very busy, because it was not his turn to strategize, nor was it his turn to charge. If there was no war, he would be very busy.

Jiang Weiguo knew very well that the Nanjing Army had indeed gained the upper hand and had a great deal of initiative, but sooner or later the Soviet Army would counterattack aggressively. Jiang Weiguo did not think that the German Army would be able to defeat the Soviet Union before the arrival of this winter. Not rigid", after all, the Soviet Union is too big, and its national strength is also very strong, it is inevitable to catch its breath. What the Nanjing Army and the German Army are doing at this time is to prevent it from making a comeback, but the Soviet Union will definitely launch a large-scale counterattack.

The Nanjing Army still has many vicious battles to fight in the future, and it cannot be taken lightly. Seizing the time to prepare for combat is an urgent and top priority.

After entering the golden autumn and October, Jiang Weiguo fell into the busyness of not entering the house three times.

On October 10th, the National Day, Chiang Kai-shek, who was "joyed by the dragon face" because of his victory, came to Peiping, cordially received the main generals of the Nanjing Army who participated in the war, delivered an "important speech", and then generously rewarded him.

The Nanjing Army has fought so many victories, it is really unreasonable for Chiang Kai-shek not to give substantive rewards, especially Jiang Weiguo, who is the actual commander of the million-dollar Nanjing Army, is still holding the rank of major general, which makes many people fight against him. He Yingqin, Chen Cheng and many other giants of the national army repeatedly analyzed various reasons in front of Chiang Kai-shek that "Jiang Weiguo must be promoted to lieutenant general".

In fact, He Yingqin, Chen Cheng and other giants who have already cultivated to become elites can't see Chiang Kai-shek's true thoughts. The reason why Chiang Kai-shek has been deliberately suppressing Jiang Weiguo's military rank is to show his leadership demeanor of "selflessness and meritocracy". Now it has been delayed for so long , It should be enough, Chiang Kai-shek actually wants to be promoted to the rank of Jiang Weiguo, He Yingqin, Chen Cheng and other giants are just doing what they like, giving Chiang Kai-shek a step down.

Sure enough, Chiang Kai-shek "couldn't stand everyone's persuasion", followed the people's hearts and kindness, and officially promoted Jiang Weiguo to the rank of lieutenant general on October 10, and awarded him a blue sky and white sun medal.

October 10th is also Jiang Weiguo's 6th birthday. Jiang Weiguo became the youngest lieutenant general of the national army.

For this "birthday gift" from his old man, Jiang Weiguo didn't care. He didn't care much about his rank, whether it was a general or a private. Anyway, he had the final say on the Nanjing Army.

Jiang Weiguo doesn't care about his rank, but there are a lot of people who care, mainly those young and strong officers in the Nanjing Army. They are Jiang Weiguo's confidantes, and naturally "cannot walk in front of the leader". Jiang Weiguo is a major general, and they are also major generals if they survive. Most of them are colonels, and it is difficult to continue to climb up, because Jiang Weiguo is a hurdle.

Now, Jiang Weiguo dawdled and procrastinated for so long and finally became a lieutenant general. Many people secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Several major generals, seven or eight lieutenant generals, and three or four generals (secondary generals).

It seems that these generals have been honored by Jiang Weiguo, but in fact Jiang Weiguo has been suppressing them and cannot be promoted.

This "collective promotion" seemed ordinary, but it was actually a good thing of great significance to the Nanjing Army. It is naturally a good thing that young officers who have been metabolized in tactical thinking, learn from the old and learn from the new, and have more flexible minds, become regiment commanders, brigade commanders, and division commanders.

In the first stage of combat, the Nanjing Army did expose this shortcoming. Some veteran generals were affected by their rigid and outdated thinking.

For an army that has always been healthy, ability should exceed qualifications. Of course, experience is also very important. However, after the first phase of combat, there are countless young officers of the Nanjing Army with actual combat experience. They are enough to take on the future mission of this army heavy burden.

Jiang Weiguo had too many things to worry about, first of all, the issue of money. The military expenditure of the first phase of the battle made him shudder, and he had to rack his brains again to do what he hated the most: to use everything to the extreme get money.

First of all, the domestic "wool" has grown quite vigorously, and Jiang Weiguo can "shear the wool", but he will certainly not do stupid things like killing chickens and taking eggs. His countermeasure is to issue war bonds and take out all the "spare money" in the pockets of ordinary people To use it in this war, of course, the government must keep its word and return it to the people with interest. After so many victories, the army has acquired a lot of new land, resources, minerals, and business opportunities, all of which can be used Secondly, the Jews are also a piece of fat that can continue to squeeze oil. Jiang Weiguo contacted the leaders of the Jews and proposed to issue war bonds to the Jewish consortium for a period of three years, with a base value of [-] million U.S. dollars. Subscribing for [-] million U.S. dollars, the area of ​​land that China will provide to the Jews in the future will increase by [-] square kilometers (the quality of the land must be guaranteed, and Jiang Weiguo will not use the barren land to make up for it). The Jews readily agreed to this. The momentum of the battle is very good, and the Jewish consortium cannot be indifferent. With this method, Jiang Weiguo has made every effort to calculate, and estimates that he can get more than one billion dollars in funds from the Jews in the next three years.

After working so hard to get the money, Jiang Weiguo will definitely not keep it in the bank to earn interest. He gets money with his left hand and spends it with his right hand. After all, there are too many places to spend money. The first is the military pensions and awards. It costs a lot of money, and then it is to buy weapons and supplies to supplement the ordnance consumption of the war.

China can produce its own weapons and supplies, but it is far from enough to meet the needs of the frontline troops. It is not a long-term solution to ask Germany for nothing. Germany is also at war, and it is also very tight. Jiang Weiguo can only buy it.

The United States, Britain, and France are neutral countries. Although they do not want Germany and China to win, they will not let go of the opportunity to make war fortunes. Even if the government is unwilling to sell things to China, their domestic arms dealers and conglomerates will steal Sell.

Of course, powerful weapons and equipment cannot be bought by Jiang Weiguo, nor can he afford them (if he buys an aircraft carrier from the United States, Jiang Weiguo will go bankrupt if he buys two). Arms dealers in France mainly buy infantry light weapons, automobiles, armored vehicles, transport aircraft, medicines and other ordnance materials. Large-caliber artillery, tanks, bombers, especially heavy bombers are not available to Jiang Weiguo. It had to buy a large amount of industrial raw materials such as rubber, oil, and metal from the United States, Britain, and France.

For this reason, the national government's gold reserves were almost squandered by Jiang Weiguo, and Jiang Weiguo had no choice. Although gold is a good thing, it is inedible and wearable waste in the treasury. Industrial raw materials will make it realize its value.

The "workers' trade" proposed by Germany and China before the war can also be put into action. In fact, this matter has already started after the Sino-Soviet war.

Germany is indeed short of people. In the original history, the German army sent millions of workers and prisoners of war from the occupied countries to work in Germany to fill the shortage of German labor.

Right now, China and Germany are conducting trade in this area. It can be said that each gets what it needs, and each gets what it needs. Germany lacks labor, and China lacks skilled workers.

According to the agreement between Jiang Weiguo and the German side, before going abroad, Chinese workers will receive two or three months of intensive training by German workers or technicians in China, and then go to Germany to continue their studies while working, and sign labor contracts. Those who are as young as two years or even one year, 10 people go abroad every month, and one million people a year, and maintain the scale of 200 million people in Germany. Those who have been trained will go back to China directly, and the newcomers will go to Germany again, forming a cyclical process.

It is worth mentioning that these Chinese workers have no wages in Germany, and the rewards Germany gives them are conditions for them to study and train, and the wages are paid by the Chinese government itself; Contract, arrange for them to train Chinese workers in China, half of them are engaged in teaching and scientific research, and the other half are engaged in technical guidance in factories and enterprises.

Xinjiang and Xihai Province (outer Xinjiang) are already the forward bases of China’s war against the Soviet Union. It is urgent to strengthen the development progress. It is necessary to build a new arsenal in Dihua (Urumqi), mobilize a large number of reclamation troops to enter Xinjiang and Xihai Province, and build roads. Mining is needed, factories need to be built, immigrants need to be... These all make Jiang Weiguo spend money like water.

In the war against the Soviet Union, the German army was an ally of the Chinese army, but the two sides could not fight side by side. However, the Nanjing army now has allies, one is the Central Asian army, the second is the Iranian army, and the third is the Yellow Russian army. They all need to be expanded and trained. And there will be a fourth friendly army, the Jewish Army.

Seeing the war situation, the Jews were very optimistic and couldn't help themselves. They hoped that Jiang Weiguo would help them form an army and an armed army. The Jewish Army would assist the Nanjing Army in fighting and get tempered and sharpened through actual combat. In this way, the Jews would have a strong army of their own. army too.

The Jews already knew very well that without the army, their dream of restoring the country would be difficult to realize, and they themselves were still precarious and at the mercy of mermaids. With the army, whether it was self-protection or restoration, the situation would be very different. After all, The Jews also need the army to protect their country after the restoration of the country. The army built after the founding of the country is definitely not as good as an army that has participated in wars and has actual combat experience.

Jiang Weiguo was overwhelmed by the plethora of things, and what bothered him the most was the equipment problem of the Nanjing Army.

"We have too few artillery! Especially large-caliber heavy artillery! We have suffered enough from the cannonism of the old Maozi!"

"If we had more artillery, the battle would be much easier! Brothers don't need to shed so much blood!"

"Without enough artillery, our army's ability to attack fortifications is really not optimistic!"

"We need large-caliber heavy artillery! Of course, the more small and medium-caliber infantry artillery and mortars, the better!"

"There are also planes! Especially bombers! We have a lot of fighter jets, and the old men dare not take the planes, but there are too few bombers! If there are enough bombers, the battle will be easy! The attack power of the troops will be improved at once! There will be no useless situation where there are Soviet soldiers all over the mountains and plains, but there is no way to carry out carpet bombing! We can save a lot of blood, waste a lot of time, eliminate more Soviet troops, capture more places, and gain more Results!"

At the summary meeting of the Nanjing Army, the attitudes of the generals were astonishingly unanimous, and they all complained that there were too few artillery and bombers.

"Where the hell am I going to get you artillery and bombers?" Jiang Weiguo was depressed.

"Yes!" Xiao Yao reminded Jiang Weiguo, "The Japanese army has a lot of artillery, but the Japanese deliberately sealed it up in the warehouse. On the one hand, it was to prepare for their rapid and large-scale military expansion in the future. I hope we are too strong, I hope that we will lose both sides in the fight with the Soviets; the Japanese Navy has a lot of planes, the Japanese Navy probably has more than [-] planes now, and at least [-] bombers, but when we urgently need bombers, the Japanese will Playing deaf and dumb!"

"Oh..." Jiang Weiguo couldn't help his heart fluttering, and then felt a sense of anger, "Is it possible that I'm going to beg the Japanese?"

Chapter 495 Visit to Japan (1)