I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

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Among the four Nordic countries, Finland is already a slave country of Germany. What Germany needs to solve are Norway, Denmark, and Sweden. Among the three countries, Norway has the toughest attitude and needs to "fight". Although Denmark is unwilling to be occupied and controlled by Germany, it is very happy. Fear of Germany requires "scare". Sweden is a very pro-German country and needs to be "coaxed".

Since these three countries are all small states with small populations, and Germany is strong, in order to seize the time and cook raw rice before Britain and France come to their senses, Hitler decided to "attack on three fronts" and attack Norway at the same time. , Denmark, Sweden.

In the early morning of November 11, the German army officially attacked Northern Europe.

Although the German army attacked on three fronts, the troops dispatched were actually two routes, one on the border of Dedan in northern Germany and the other in Finland.

At two o'clock in the morning, Danish King Christian X was woken up from his bed by Danish Prime Minister Dorvald Staunning and Foreign Minister Ed Muncher, who told him a very unfortunate news: Germany had just issued an ultimatum to Denmark. Germany asked Denmark to become a protectorate of Germany, so that it would be protected from third country aggression under the protection of Germany.

If Denmark is unwilling, Germany "has no choice but to forcefully" protect Denmark."

King Christian X is 71 years old. He has a kind personality, loves the people like a son, and is a little weak.

After hearing the news, the old king almost fainted. He felt that Hitler was too domineering. Although he was very dissatisfied with Hitler being so domineering, he did not have the slightest thought of resisting, because he knew that Denmark and Germany could not Competitive.

Germany before the Soviet War was already a three-point fearsome, and Germany after the Soviet War was even more of a daunting behemoth residing in central Europe.

General Pruol, the commander-in-chief of the Danish armed forces, strongly demanded resistance, but the old king, the prime minister, the foreign minister and other high-level government officials did not want to resist at all. They knew that although Denmark was rich, it was very weak, and Denmark was completely a peninsula plain. It also borders Germany, the door is wide open, and there is no danger to defend. If you really resist, whether you can last a day is a big problem. It is better to surrender directly to avoid civilian casualties and property losses.

General Pruol asked the old king to leave Denmark and form a government in exile overseas, but the old king refused. He didn't want to leave his homeland, let alone abandon his subjects in times of crisis. He wanted to stay with his subjects. It's hard to be the same.

Because of Denmark’s surrender without a fight, Germany marched its troops into Denmark and into the capital Copenhagen without a single shot or bullet, and without bloodshed. It only took two hours, and no one was killed. It was smooth and easy unbelievable.

Denmark's "knowledge of current affairs" pleased Hitler very much. He specially ordered the German troops stationed in Denmark to strictly enforce military discipline, and not to harm the Danes unless they were attacked. In addition, although the Danish army was about to be disbanded, it was in return for the old king of Denmark. , the Danish King's Guard may be retained.

At the same time, the three German mountain infantry divisions in Finland were also dispatched, all the way to the border between Finland and Sweden.

The German ambassador to Sweden said unabashedly to the Swedish King Gustav V and the Swedish high-level: "The German army is starting from Finland. If Sweden accepts Germany's conditions, those German troops will pass through Sweden to fight Norway. If Sweden refuses Germany's conditions, those German troops will directly attack Sweden."

Faced with Germany's "coaxing and intimidation" methods, Gustav V, the king of Sweden, directly agreed with the Germans and asked his government to immediately agree to Germany's conditions.

Although the senior officials in Sweden feel that Germany is too rude, they are reluctant to be in the same boat with Germany, but at this point there is no other choice, not to mention that it is not bad to "mix" with Germany. Poland, Finland, Ukraine, the three Baltic countries, Italy and other countries are booming behind Germany. After Germany won the Soviet war, it distributed a lot of benefits to many slave countries. Sweden will definitely not suffer after taking refuge in Germany.

As a result, Sweden also joined the German camp without resistance, and the German army occupied Sweden without firing a single shot and without bloodshed.

That night, northern Europe was full of wind and snow, and the German army in Finland passed through Sweden without anyone noticing in the snowy night, and suddenly attacked the unsuspecting Norway.

The Norwegian government never dreamed that its neighbor would betray itself.

Because before this, Sweden also claimed to be a neutral country, so the Norwegian government naturally did not expect Sweden to let the German army pass through Sweden.

When Britain, France, the United States, and the whole world woke up on the morning of November 11, they suddenly found that Germany had occupied Denmark and Sweden in just one night, and was attacking Norway at a speed that shocked the world. .

Chapter 597 Germany Fights Again (2)

Germany's attack on Norway was divided into two routes, land and sea, that is, the two armies that attacked Sweden and Denmark respectively.

According to the plan formulated by the German High Command, after the German army attacking Sweden and Denmark approached the city, if the two countries of Ruidan knew the current affairs and chose to surrender, the German army would use a small number of troops to complete the peaceful occupation of the two countries of Ruidan, and then through the Ruidan Second If the two countries of Ruidan are ignorant of current affairs and choose to resist, the German army will first solve the two countries of Ruidan and make a quick decision, and then attack Norway through the two countries of Ruidan.

Facts have proved that the two countries of Ruidan are aware of current affairs, and they both chose to surrender without a fight. Therefore, the two German troops immediately passed through Ruidan and formally attacked the Norwegian campaign.

The German troops passing through Sweden are three mountain infantry divisions, all elite veterans who have participated in fierce battles on the Soviet battlefield, have been tested, and have rich practical experience. The total force is more than 4. They attacked Sweden by land; The German army (including Danish territory and territorial waters) is an infantry division and a marine regiment, with a total strength of more than 1.5, and has the assistance of all surface warships of the German Navy. Their purpose is to directly occupy the Norwegian capital and port cities through amphibious landing warfare Oslo, Kristiansand, Stavanger, Bergen, Alesund and other Norwegian coastal cities and important cities.

It's a bloody battle.

Norway has a tough attitude towards Germany. Although Norway only has a population of more than 300 million, an army of more than 5, and outdated equipment, Norway is not reticent to Germany's temptations and threats; Germany's national strength and military strength are needless to say, especially the German army. After the baptism of the Soviet war, both equipment and tactical thinking have reached the point of perfection. In the Norwegian campaign, the German army not only participated in the battle with the army, marines, and naval fleet, but also the air force, airborne troops, and special forces. All kinds of new tactics went into battle together, making the weak Norway unable to parry at all, and Norway also had a major disadvantage: Norwegian Defense Minister Wiedkon Quisling had been bought by Germany before the war.

After the battle broke out, despite the tenacious resistance of the Norwegian army, the course of the Norwegian campaign was completely one-sided. The German army invaded Norway through land and sea. And the attitude of the United States behind Britain and France.

After the outbreak of the Nordic War, the whole world was shocked.

The cruel fact that the flames of war in Europe were rekindled made British Prime Minister Chamberlain completely stunned. He realized that the "appeasement policy" he had painstakingly planned for many years had so far declared a complete failure, and Hitler did not sincerely want to "co-create" with him. Peace in Europe", on the contrary, Hitler has been deceiving him, paralyzing him, using him, step by step to complete the expansion of Germany.

Chamberlain, who had just woken up from a dream, suddenly felt unprecedented disillusionment and shock in spirit. For a while, he burst into tears.

"Your Excellency, Prime Minister, we can no longer retreat! Germany and the entire alliance are deceiving us! If we don't take decisive, tough, and effective measures against Germany, it will be too late! Everything will be over!" Eden said sadly.

Chamberlain's mind was groggy, and he felt extremely exhausted physically and mentally, so he nodded slightly.

The British government immediately notified the French government, the Dutch government, the Belgian government, and the American government, requesting that "the five countries unite to issue the strongest protest against the German government". And the most serious condemnation", demanding that Germany immediately stop its aggression against Norway and fully withdraw its troops from Sweden and Denmark, but Germany simply ignored it and was still busy attacking Norway against the clock.

Today, the fledgling Germany is not afraid of Britain at all, and of course it doesn't care about Britain's protests and condemnations.

Chamberlain was completely panicked. He asked Eden to call the French government immediately, demanding that France and Britain declare war on Germany at the same time, but there were strong opposition voices in the French government.

French Prime Minister Paul Renault replied: "Why did we declare war on Germany? The three Nordic countries are all neutral countries and have not concluded a military alliance with us. We have no reason to declare war on Germany at all!"

Aiden, who was almost mad, roared: "Can't you see it now? Is Germany attacking Northern Europe in order to attack us next?"

Despite this, the French leadership is still swinging left and right, and even there are opposition voices in the British leadership.

At this time, more and more high-level officials in countries such as the United States, Britain, France, the Netherlands, and the Netherlands have come to their senses, and they have suddenly understood the war ambitions of Germany and the entire alliance. It was impossible to take real "resolute, tough, and effective measures" for a while. Both the Netherlands and Belgium were weak. However, he felt guilty and did not dare to go to war against Germany alone. He hoped to get the help of France and the United States. There are also disagreements and disputes internally, making the five countries a mess.

Just when the British, French, Dutch, Belgians, and Americans were arguing, the Germans had already done it.

Although Norway, which was aggressively attacked by Germany, resisted tenaciously, the gap in strength was too great after all, and it was isolated and helpless, so it failed after only persisting for a week.

On November 11, the Norwegian campaign ended and the German army won a complete victory.

Norwegian King Haakon VII and other royal family members and high-level government officials were all captured. The German army occupied the entire territory of Norway and obtained Norway's 2.1-kilometer coastline.

After the Battle of Norway, the German Navy cheered loudly, because they finally got rid of the nightmare of being blocked by the British Navy again.

Occupying the three Nordic countries, Germany paid a negligible price. The occupation of Sweden and Denmark resulted in zero deaths, and the occupation of Norway only killed or injured more than 2000 people. Three other destroyers were sunk by the Norwegian army's coastal defense guns.

After the Norwegian campaign ended, Central Europe, Eastern Europe, and Northern Europe were all within Germany's sphere of influence.

The only fly in the ointment is that after Germany occupied Denmark, Denmark's subsidiary country Iceland and Denmark's overseas territory Greenland both claimed not to accept Germany's "illegal rule". Iceland declared "independence" and Greenland declared "self-government". Owning these two places in the world, although Germany has the military strength to immediately send troops to occupy Iceland and Greenland, but considering that even if it is occupied, it will be difficult to defend, so it gave up.

Until this time, the British, French, Dutch, and Belgians were still busy arguing. Although several countries had really started to prepare for war, the preparations were slow and clumsy. The impact caused an uproar.

In the British Parliament on November 11th, a member of the war faction quoted Oliver Cromwell's dissolution of the The famous saying in Parliament: "You have sat here for so long, but you have done nothing good, go, let me tell you in the name of God, get out!" Chamberlain's position as prime minister was in jeopardy.

On the night of November 11th, the first armed conflict officially broke out between the British army and the German army.

On this night full of wind, snow, rain and fog, the light cruiser HMS Aurora of the British Navy found a large cargo ship with a "deep draft and suspicious appearance" flying the German flag in the northern waters of the Celtic Sea in southern Ireland. An order to "stop immediately and be inspected" was sent to the German cargo ship through signal lights, but the German cargo ship ignored it and accelerated its speed.

The Aurora Goddess fired a warning while speeding up to catch up and intercept.

During the chase between the two sides, a small and medium-caliber artillery shell fired by the Aurora Goddess hit the German cargo ship. In an instant, the sky fell apart and flames rose into the air. The German cargo ship was smashed to pieces in a huge explosion. Shocked the tsunami-like waves.

There is no doubt that this German cargo ship was loaded with a huge amount of munitions.

This sudden situation was immediately reported to Hitler by the German Navy. Hitler had already fallen asleep, and immediately became sleepless after learning about it, and jumped up from the bed: "Damn the British, they actually took the initiative to provoke us!" He immediately realized something, "What's the date today?"

Martin Bormann, secretary-general of the Nazi Party and Hitler's personal secretary, who came to report, replied: "November [-]!"

A strange light flickered in Hitler's eyes: "Tomorrow is a very meaningful day, perhaps, this is God's arrangement!"

Martin Bormann realized immediately that tomorrow was November 11, the day of the end of the last world war, the day of the surrender of Germany at the end of the last world war.

1918年11月11日，德国向英法美投降；1941年11月11日，德国向英法美再战。

"Invite General Shang Zhen over here, and then immediately contact Wuhan, Tokyo, and Rome!" Hitler paced back and forth on the bedroom floor in his pajamas, his whole body radiant and radiant, "For such a big event, we must be notified in advance ally.

I think they will all agree and support, especially Japanese friends, who have been waiting for a long time!" Hitler showed a sly smile.

German time was six hours later than Chinese time. When Jiang Weiguo heard the news from Germany, it was still after eight o'clock in the evening, and he was at work.

Jiang Weiguo never planned to do everything by himself like Zhuge Liang, after all, he would die early, but he is duty-bound, because since he has a mind and vision beyond time and space, he must exert his maximum effect.

Protecting the country, strengthening the army, and enriching the people are the three major tasks of Jiang Weiguo. He not only wants to make his motherland stronger and bigger, but also allows his compatriots to live and work in peace and prosperity. Not only that, he It is also necessary to carry out a storm-like purification of the ideology and morals of our compatriots.

In addition to becoming stronger, China also needs to become more civilized, from an ancient civilization to a civilized and advanced modern country.

On the one hand, thousands of years of feudal civilization has accumulated a heavy cultural deposit for the Chinese nation. Loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, trustworthiness, propriety, righteousness, honesty, shame... have been branded on the backbone and soul of the Chinese people, and have been shining for thousands of years. Brilliance has actively promoted the development of ancient Chinese civilization, endowed the nation with super cohesion, maintained the operation of the moral system for thousands of years, and finally produced a bright and brilliant ancient Chinese civilization. The ugly, dirty, dark, and evil malignant tumors left behind by the Chinese nation have pervasively penetrated into the spirit, thought, blood, and bone marrow of this nation and most of its members. There are so many things that are too numerous to enumerate, and the most direct manifestation is all kinds of shocking bad habits, old customs, and dross culture.

Jiang Weiguo has inspected remote areas many times. Although the eastern part of China is much more civilized than the western part, in many rural areas in the east, what he saw and heard made Jiang Weiguo completely speechless. Dare to imagine what the countryside in the west, which is backward compared to the east, looks like, and those are just a combination of ignorance, backwardness, and human nature.

Now, it's time for a good cleanse.

A powerful country with broken etiquette, outdated people, declining morality, and degenerate morality will eventually end up like the Yuan Empire, disintegrating from the inside out. If China wants to achieve long-term stability and better and better, it needs not only a vast Territory, a powerful army, and a developed economy also need to build a new moral system of modern civilization, and carry out a comprehensive transformation of the people's spirit and ideology.

This arduous and great, long and important project naturally needs Jiang Weiguo to preside over it, because he is none other than him.

At this time, since the domestic situation has been completely stabilized and a large area of ​​new territory has been included in the Chinese territory, the Nationalist Government is implementing the "New County System", covering China's 1750 million square kilometers of land at this time.

There are 33 provinces and 3 special cities (municipalities directly under the central government) in the country, with more than 2500 cities and counties under its jurisdiction, and more than 25000 townships under its jurisdiction.

Taking advantage of the "new county system" being implemented, Jiang Weiguo started his big project at this time.

The reason why Jiang Weiguo chose this opportunity is that there are very deep-seated reasons. It is not Jiang Weiguo's original creation to rectify national thought, improve national morality, purify social atmosphere, and create modern civilization. The founders are his father Chiang Kai-shek and stepmother Song Meiling. People launched a set of "National Education Movement" in early 1934, and it is still going on until now. This movement is called "New Life Movement" and is presided over by Song Meiling. The Chinese have been reborn in their living habits, thoughts, and spirits, and have become civilized people in a truly modern civilized country. "Don't let Westerners look down on us and think that we are uncivilized oriental barbarians." The core, the purpose is to make the nationals spiritually change their appearance, with modern morality and modern knowledge.

The motivation of this movement is definitely correct and positive, but after more than seven years of operation, the effect has been insignificant and nondescript. It has been ridiculed as "regarding everything, but nothing" and "everything, everything".

After careful research, Jiang Weiguo came up with the reasons why the New Life Movement had been ineffective for seven years and had already existed in name only and died without a cause:

First, the guiding document of the New Life Movement is the "Outline of the New Life Movement", but the document is written in a large and vague manner, full of bureaucratic nonsense and truths that are correct but not said. The core idea of ​​the movement is "propriety, righteousness, integrity and shame". So, what is "propriety, justice, integrity and shame"?The document said: Li is a well-behaved attitude, righteousness is a righteous behavior, honesty is a discernment of innocence, and shame is a real awareness.

This passage must be right and well written, but is it useful?For grassroots people in China, where more than 90% of the population is illiterate at this time, the government calls on them to follow "propriety, righteousness, integrity and shame" as the principle of conduct and conduct, but fails to make "propriety, justice, integrity and shame" clear, which is a lot of nonsense. Ordinary people are confused and inexplicable, how can they achieve "propriety, righteousness, integrity and shame"?Therefore, it is necessary to instill concepts into the common people, to explain things in detail, and to tell the common people that, as long as they do not violate the law, they must also comply with moral standards, what should be done, what should not be done, and what should be done. Only by doing can we do better and be more ethical;

Second, the initiator and supporter of the New Life Movement is Soong Meiling, but she also belongs to this era after all, so her ideological level cannot surpass this era, which leads to many important details of the New Life Movement she initiated and hosted. Intentionally or unintentionally, the government adopted the method of avoiding the most important and taking the light of the light, and did not really grasp the key points, resulting in no significant effect of the campaign. Soong Meiling was also very afraid of many things, and did not dare to make obvious changes, and she had to consider all aspects Interests, caught in the situation of throwing rats;

Third, the New Life Movement is aimed at all citizens, regardless of whether they are grassroots people, the middle class, or high-level dignitaries, they should all be treated equally.

For example, the government does not allow ordinary people to go through the back door, but officials do so without any scruples. So, can the so-called new morality be promoted and popularized?Can the common people be convinced?Officials don't speak morally, but they ask the common people to be moral?Officials must play a leading role and must lead by example.

During the campaign, on the one hand, if the campaign went "too far" it would offend the interests of the powerful and powerful, so they made peace on many matters (that is, the second point); on the other hand, many officials superficially "responded to the Chairman and Madam", but in fact they are lazy and lazy, and their strange habits still do not change. They falsified and perfunctory during the inspection by superiors, and the sound of the waves remains the same. So, how can the movement be really promoted?

Fourth, China has been in constant war and turmoil, and the objective social environment is not conducive to the start of the New Life Movement (in the original history, China first had a ten-year civil war, followed by warlords, the Central Plains War, eight years of resistance against Japan, and three years of war. The civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, where there is still the condition to engage in a surname life movement), but now, the domestic situation in China has been very stable, and the conditions are ripe;

Fifth, the movement did not go deep into the grassroots, which is the most important reason.