I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

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As for the armored troops (tank troops), the scale and strength of the Chinese Army’s existing armored troops are relatively good, almost all of which are concentrated in the Nanjing Army, including several armored divisions, light armored divisions, armored infantry divisions, and more A large number of mechanized units or motorized units that use armored vehicles, automobiles, motorcycles, and bicycles.

In terms of military system, the Chinese Army is close to perfection. In terms of training, the Chinese Army has basically completed the systematic construction. In terms of weapons and equipment, the situation of the Chinese Army is also changing with each passing day. It has a military industry with a very strong scale and a very strong output. .

In the production of heavy weapons, the military industry of the Chinese Army has a big gap compared with Germany. The output is about one-third of Germany, surpassing Japan, and slightly inferior to the United Kingdom. It is completely hard to keep up (even Germany is far behind the United States, whose military industry is in full swing); in the production of light weapons, the military industry of the Chinese Army is almost the same as that of Germany, and it greatly surpasses Japan and Great Britain. Of course, it is still incomparable with the United States, which is fully engaged in the military industry.

As for the standards of weapons and equipment, the Chinese Army mainly has four types: German, Japanese, Soviet, and Chinese. German weapons come from localized production and imitation after importing from Germany and obtaining production lines provided by Germany. Japanese weapons include: Some of them were transferred, leased, and sold from Japan, and some came from localized production and imitation after obtaining the production line provided by Japan, but the quantity and output were far inferior to those of the German type. Soviet-style weapons were captured from the battlefield and received Soviet weapons and equipment production lines. The number of localized production and imitation carried out is lower than that of the German type and higher than that of the Japanese type, which can equip millions of people. The Chinese type weapons are developed, improved, and produced locally.

After several major rectifications, the Chinese Army has embarked on the route of "comprehensive German mechanization" for three reasons. The use of the same system of weapons and equipment by the Chinese army is more beneficial than disadvantageous, and it is a matter of course. Second, the performance of German weapons is very reliable, advanced, and excellent, and it is worth copying the Chinese Army. Always use the "Wanguo brand" weapons, which include Germany, Japan, the Soviet Union, and China. You must choose one that fully covers the other three. The German style is naturally the best choice.

Therefore, the Chinese Army is fully mechanized in terms of weapons and equipment, but it has not been completed. The Nanjing Army has fully completed it, and the rest of the troops are still in progress. On the other hand, although the Chinese Army advocates moral weapons, it is not superstitious. , adopting the correct policy of "gathering the strengths of a hundred schools of thought", although German weapons are fully popularized, they also absorb the best of Japanese, Soviet, and Chinese weapons, continue to vigorously produce and equip troops, such as small and medium-caliber artillery for the Japanese army , Soviet large-caliber artillery and rocket launchers, etc.

The Nanjing army is fully mechanized, and some of the rest of the troops are mechanized, and most of them still use Japanese, Soviet, and Chinese weapons. This is due to a simple reason: because the arsenal does not manufacture 98k rifles to equip non-German troops, What’s more, productivity should be used to manufacture more 98k rifle bullets to supplement the Nanjing Army at the forefront. The troops not on the front line and stationed in the domestic rear only need to have guns, even Soviet-style, Japanese-style, and Chinese-style. All turned into German weapons.

The reason why China's military industry can have today's scale and productivity stems from four aspects: first, local construction, development, and operation; second, the support and assistance of external allies such as Germans and Jews (including the Japanese); After winning the Soviet war, a large number of machinery and equipment and a large number of technical personnel were plundered from the Soviet Union. Fourth, after the recovery of the Northeast, it received the construction results of the Japanese painstakingly operating in the Northeast for ten years.

Of course, all of this is based on Jiang Weiguo changing history.

Even after the United States entered the war, the Chinese Army was still recognized as "the second in the world" (the first is naturally Germany, and the third is Japan), which is all the credit of Jiang Weiguo.

The Chinese Air Force is also quite large and powerful at this time. Like the Chinese Army, the Chinese Air Force has been able to grow from a few hundred old-fashioned aircraft to thousands of new-style aircraft at this time, which is completely inseparable from Jiang Weiguo's painstaking efforts.

The Chinese Air Force mainly includes three parts: "Aviation Force", "Air Defense Force" and "Airborne Force".

In terms of aviation, after deducting the losses and consumption during the war, the Chinese Air Force had nearly 9000 aircraft before the United States entered the war, and all of them were new aircraft, of which 75% were fighter jets, 10% were bombers, and 15% were transport aircraft. The ratio of reconnaissance aircraft and other types of aircraft is so unbalanced (generally speaking, the number of bombers in a country's air force is about the same as that of fighter jets, and there are even slightly more bombers than fighter jets. For example, in the Luftwaffe, there are more bombers than fighter jets), Because the Chinese Air Force took the route of "fighter first" or even "fighter only" in the early stages of development, the purpose was "not to be able to bomb people, but not to be bombed". It is undoubtedly correct, but it also produced "sequelae", which caused the Chinese Air Force to be "seriously biased" in the proportion of aircraft types. However, at this time, there has been some improvement and mitigation, and the number of bombers is increasing, but the overall ratio is still obviously out of balance.

The aviation unit of the Chinese Air Force takes the "wing" as the main unit, and several wings form a theater-level group during wartime. There are currently about 20 aviation wings, more than [-] of which are fighter wings, and the remaining wings Here, half of the bomber wing and half of the transport wing.

An aviation wing has several aviation brigades under its jurisdiction, a brigade has several squadrons under its jurisdiction, and a squadron has several squadrons under its jurisdiction.

As for the R&D, manufacturing and production of aircraft, the Chinese Air Force was originally very weak on this point. It had real aircraft production capabilities only at the end of the Sino-Japanese War. , the research and development, manufacturing, and production capacity of aircraft have been able to grow rapidly.

The aircraft productivity of the Chinese Air Force at this time was not inferior to that of Japan. About two-thirds of the aircraft produced were German aircraft, and about one-third were Chinese "wooden aircraft" (cooperated with Jews).

The air defense forces of the Chinese army are under the jurisdiction of the Chinese Air Force. Because the Chinese Air Force has a large number of fighter jets with strong combat effectiveness, the air defense forces of the Chinese army rarely get actual combat opportunities. In addition, China needs to concentrate its limited resources and funds on the military. The production of the most urgently needed weapons and equipment makes the production of anti-aircraft guns, anti-aircraft machine guns and other anti-aircraft weapons that are not in high demand low. Therefore, the air defense force of the Chinese Air Force is not very large. There are more than 20 air defense regiments, and the weapons and equipment are relatively lacking.

The airborne troops of the Chinese Air Force are at the forefront of the world in terms of tactics, thinking, concepts, and actual combat experience. Group system) preparation.

The total strength of the Chinese Air Force is about 60, of which the total strength of the Air Force is about 50, the total strength of the Air Defense Force is about 5, the total strength of the Airborne Force is about 2 (including logistics personnel), and the total number of various subsidiary forces is about 3. Ten thousand.

Compared with the rapid development of the Chinese Army and the Chinese Air Force in just a few years, the Chinese Navy has made great progress, but the range is far less than that of the Army and Air Force. The fundamental reason is not that China does not need a powerful navy, but that China does not have enough resources. and time to build a mighty navy.

The components of the Chinese Navy mainly include: surface fleet, submarine force, marine force, and aviation force.

There are 6 divisions in the marine combat force of the Chinese Navy, all of which are made up of two brigades and four regiments, and each division has about 1.5 troops; Units no longer have high battlefield needs, so they were completely reduced and incorporated into the Marine Corps;

The aviation force of the Chinese navy consists of several air teams, equipped with more than 500 aircraft of various types, the main types of which are fighter jets, dive bombers, torpedo attack aircraft, transport aircraft, and reconnaissance aircraft. They are stationed in important coastal areas of China and some land forces Mixed formation to form a coastal defense force;

The submarine force of the Chinese Navy has always received the highest degree of attention and the greatest strength in construction, so although limited by China's national power so that the scale is not particularly large, it can be called the essence of the Chinese Navy. Currently there are about 50 submarines of various types ( Mainly combat submarines, 3 of which belonged to the Pacific Fleet of the Soviet Navy, and the rest were purchased by the Chinese Navy from Germany or aided by Germany to China or built by China itself, and several submarines were "confiscated" by the Thai Navy by Jiang Weiguo).

As for the research and development and manufacture of submarines, the Chinese navy is currently unable to develop submarines by itself. It is built entirely with the submarine design drawings and submarine manufacturing equipment provided by Germany. At first, the output was very low, but because of Germany's continuous assistance and a large number of submarines received after the end of the Soviet war Machinery and equipment and a large number of technicians (although the Soviet Union is not a naval power, it is a submarine power, with more than ten submarine research institutions, submarine manufacturing factories and tens of thousands of submarine development personnel), so that the Chinese Navy's ability to build submarines by itself can be achieved. Substantial growth has reached the level of building more than 10 submarines per month. As long as the financial resources are sufficient, about 130 new submarines can be added a year.

The composition of the surface fleet of the Chinese navy is very complicated, because building large warships requires a lot of resources and a long time, so buying, leasing, robbing, and capturing warships from other countries are the biggest ways for the Chinese navy's surface fleet to obtain warships .

Before the Sino-Japanese War, the Chinese Navy had a total of more than 50 ships and dozens of auxiliary ships, most of which were small boats and old ships, with a total tonnage of only 4.4 tons. During the Sino-Japanese War, the cumulative loss of about three-quarters The large warships (all old-fashioned), but more than 10 Japanese warships were snatched, and some Soviet ships were obtained before and during the Soviet war. At the same time, some ships (mainly submarines) were ordered from Germany and a few were aided by Germany. Ships, the Chinese navy itself also builds ships (mainly torpedo boats and gunboats). Before the outbreak of the United States' participation in the war (Pacific War), the ships owned by the Chinese navy's surface fleet mainly include:

1 aircraft carrier: Ryujō (leased by the Japanese Navy to the Chinese Navy);

1 heavy cruiser: Zhongzheng (formerly the Kirov of the Pacific Fleet of the Soviet Navy, with a displacement of 9000 tons, but the ship is already outdated and old, and its actual combat effectiveness is not strong);

4 light cruisers: Ninghai, Pinghai (the former was ordered from Japan before the Sino-Japanese War, and the latter was built by the Chinese Navy after obtaining the design drawings of the Japanese Ninghai), Anhai, and Dinghai light cruisers (formerly two light cruisers of the Pacific Fleet of the Soviet Navy);

There are 3 auxiliary cruisers: Jingtao, Rage, and Rage (all aided by Germany, the three ships were originally named Atlantis, Orion, and Wedel, all with a tonnage of more than 15000 tons. warships converted from civilian ships and disguised as civilian ships);

12 destroyers of various types: Weiguo (formerly Japan's Shigure), Hiratsu (formerly Japan's Sea Kaze), Taiyuan (formerly Japan's Yamakaze), Xuzhou (formerly Japan's Ekaze), Songhu (formerly Japan's Tianjin Wind), Zijinshan (formerly Japan's Xuefeng), Vladivostok (formerly belonged to the Leningrad class of the Soviet Navy's Pacific Fleet), Hailanpao (same as above), Shuangchengzi Number (same as above), Number of Khabarovsk (same as above), Number of Temple Street (same as above), Number of Nerchinsk (same as above);

More than 20 gunboats of various types: Zhongshan, Yixian, Dashengguan (formerly Japan's Saga-class), Wulongshan (formerly Japan's Saga-class), Tangshanzhen gunship (formerly Japan's Saga-class) and After the end of the Sino-Japanese War, Longtanzhen, Beigushan, Mufushan, Hongshan, Yuhuatai, etc. were successively built;

More than 40 gunboats of various types (most of which belong to the Xianning class developed and built by China);

More than 100 patrol boats of various types (including 27 ships originally belonging to the Pacific Fleet of the Soviet Navy);

More than 30 minesweepers of various types (including 22 formerly belonging to the Pacific Fleet of the Soviet Navy);

There are more than 300 torpedo boats of various types (including 58 originally belonging to the Pacific Fleet of the Soviet Navy, most of which are the Wasp class developed and built by the Chinese Navy); regarding torpedo boats, it is obvious that this unit once supported the Chinese Navy together with the submarine force During the Sino-Japanese War, the backbone of the Japanese navy stubbornly resisted. At present, although the Chinese navy is striving to move towards the direction of "big ships and big ships", the construction of the navy cannot be rushed, and it needs to be done step by step. It has not been underestimated by the Chinese navy, and is still the ace weapon and signature weapon of the Chinese navy, maintaining a huge scale;

There are about 80 auxiliary ships of various types such as transport ships and transport ships.

At this time, the Chinese Navy has a total of about 600 ships of various types (most of which are small, and torpedo boats alone account for half of the number), with a total tonnage of about 10 tons (including the aircraft carrier Ryujo leased from Japan). The total force is about 30 people.

After the United States entered the war, naval warfare must be the main component of this world war. In fact, the two remaining enemies of the Confederate camp at this time, whether the United States or the United Kingdom, are naval powers and naval powers. Before the war, the U.S. and British navies were tied in the world first.

Among the eight major powers, the Soviet navy no longer exists. The strength of the Chinese navy has been summarized above. Next, the naval strength of Germany, Japan, Italy, France, the United States, and the United Kingdom will be summarized.

【German Navy】

Because of Jiang Weiguo's "pointing the maze", the German Navy embarked on a new path before the war, with submarines as the core and main force, and did not develop aircraft carriers that did not have much use (there are three reasons why the German Navy did not develop aircraft carriers, one is resources and Time is limited, and it needs to be concentrated on the development of submarines. Second, the aircraft carrier can be handed over to the Japanese Navy and Italian Navy for development. Second, the main imaginary enemy of the German Navy is the British Navy. There is only the narrow English Channel between Germany and Britain. The German Air Force is completely can cover this sea and air area, so the German Navy does not need aircraft carriers), and does not develop battleships with lower practical uses. Therefore, the Bismarck and Tirpitz battleships that were once famous in the original history were not born. Similarly, the Graf Zeppelin and the Peter Strass aircraft carrier did not come out, but the German Navy still has some surface warships, including:

3 armored ships: Lützow (Deutschland), Admiral Spee, Admiral Scheer;

2 battlecruisers: Scharnhorst and Gneisenau;

3 heavy cruisers: Admiral Hipper, Blucher, Prinz Eugen;

6 light cruisers (3 of the Leipzig class and 3 of the Königsberg class);

More than 10 auxiliary cruisers (excluding the 3 donated to the Chinese Navy);

More than 20 destroyers (more than 10 more are under construction);

More than 100 torpedo boats;

There are about 100 other auxiliary ships of various types;

More than 400 submarines (still under construction).

The total gross tonnage of all ships of the German Navy is about 75 tons (submarines account for half of the gross tonnage).

It is not difficult to see that the German Navy basically gave up the plan of "building a powerful surface fleet", but devoted itself to expanding the submarine force, so that it already had the world's largest and impressively large submarine force when Germany and Britain went to war. The shocked submarine force quickly demonstrated extremely powerful destructive power and strategic strike capabilities in the actual combat of the blockade of the sea transportation line against the British mainland.

Not only that, although the German Navy is beyond the reach of the United States, it is developing a targeted secret weapon, that is, the "missile submarine" proposed by Jiang Weiguo, which is a large submarine that can carry and launch missiles at sea.

Undoubtedly, after the German Navy officially possesses missile submarines, the Atlantic Ocean will no longer be a natural barrier to protect the continental United States, because the missile submarines of the German Navy can sneak into the waters near the continental United States, and then launch warheads into the mainland to reload. Missiles with high-energy explosives, poisonous gas, and even bacteria have caused huge damage, loss, and psychological shock to American shipbuilding.

【Japanese Navy】

Similar to the German navy that received Jiang Weiguo's "pointing maze", the Japanese navy also received Jiang Weiguo's "pointing maze". As a result, the German navy gave up surface warships and went all out to develop submarines, so the Japanese navy gave up battleships and went all out to develop aircraft carriers.

Before the United States entered the war (the US-Japan war, the outbreak of the Pacific War), the Japanese navy reached its peak with a new attitude. First of all, it is worth mentioning that the Japanese navy was unscathed during the Soviet War, but lost during the Sino-Japanese War. Not lightly, due to many reasons such as backwardness in war thinking, the Japanese Navy was beaten by the Chinese Navy and Air Force with targeted weapons such as torpedo boats, submarines, and aircraft during the Sino-Japanese War.

1 light aircraft carrier: Fengxiang;

2 heavy cruisers: Furutaka and Kako;

4 light cruisers: Yubari, Tenryu, Tatsuta, Oi;

2 armored cruisers: Izumo and Iwate;

7 destroyers: Fengfeng, Qifeng, etc.;

More than 10 transport ships; more than 60 small and medium-sized auxiliary boats of other types;

There are more than 40 Japanese civilian merchant ships and cargo ships (basically all were sunk by Chinese navy submarines);

These ships total more than 50 tons.

Although the Japanese navy suffered heavy losses during the Sino-Japanese War, Japan's shipbuilding industry has been running at full capacity, and after the Sino-Japanese War, Germany, China and Japan concluded an alliance, because "the naval power of the Allied countries mainly depends on Japan. Therefore, countries such as Germany and China have provided great assistance and support to the Japanese navy. Germany provided technology, China provided resources, etc., and the Japanese military and political leaders followed the requirements of Germany and China, and adopted "weakening the army and strengthening the navy." Therefore, the Japanese Navy ushered in a "spring of full development", and embarked on a correct path, so that the development momentum is in full swing.

At this time, the major warships in the possession of the Japanese Navy included:

10 aircraft carriers (excluding Fengxiang, which was sunk by the Chinese Air Force, and Ryujo, which was leased to the Chinese Navy): Akagi, Kaga, Canglong, Hiryu, Xianghe, Ruihe, Yamato, Zhonghua No. [-], No. Deutschland, No. Italia (the new Taiho class is already under construction);

10 battleships: Nagato, Mutsu, Fuso, Yamashiro, Ise, Hyuga, Kongo, Hiei, Haruna, Kirishima;

重型巡洋舰16艘：2艘青叶级、2艘妙高级、4艘高雄级、4艘最上级、2艘利根级；

16 light cruisers;

More than 100 destroyers;

More than 130 submarines (including 50 ships originally belonging to the Pacific Fleet of the Soviet Navy acquired from the Chinese Navy);

About 200 ships of other types of ships;

The total gross tonnage of all ships of the Japanese Navy is about 120 million tons.

[Italian Navy] (this navy is basically under the orders of Germany)

9 battleships: 4 Veneto class, 3 Count Cavour class, 2 Andrea Doria class;

9 heavy cruisers: 2 Taranto class, 4 Zara class, 3 Bolzano class;

12 light cruisers (another 12 are to be built in batches);

1 aircraft carrier: Eagle (reformed from a large cruise ship; another one is under construction, Sparrowhawk);

More than 60 destroyers of various types; more than 120 submarines of various types; about 100 ships of other types of ships;

The total gross tonnage of all ships of the Italian Navy is about 80 tons.

[French Navy] (This navy has been controlled by Germany)

5 new battleships (two more are under construction); 3 old battleships;

About 20 new heavy and light cruisers; about 10 old heavy and light cruisers;

2 new battlecruisers; 1 aircraft carrier (medium);

There are more than 60 destroyers of various types, more than 100 submarines of various types, and two to three hundred other ships and auxiliary ships.

The total gross tonnage of all ships of the French Navy is about 50 tons.

【U.S. Navy】

战列舰18艘：2艘怀俄明级、2艘纽约级、2艘内华达级、2艘宾夕法尼亚级、3艘新墨西哥级、2艘田纳西级、3艘科罗拉多级、2艘北卡罗来纳级；另有4艘南达科他级正在建造中并且都即将完工；更强大的衣阿华级已经设计完成，后续还有比其更强大的蒙大拿级；

重型巡洋舰17艘：2艘彭萨科拉级、6艘北安普敦级、2艘波特兰级、7艘新奥尔良级；

轻型巡洋舰33艘：10艘奥马哈级、10艘布鲁克林级、2艘圣路易斯级、4艘亚特兰大级、2艘奥克兰级（后续还有5艘）、5艘克利夫兰级（后续还有22艘），另有伍斯特级已经完成设计；

8 aircraft carriers: USS Langley, USS Lexington, USS Saratoga, USS Ranger, USS Yorktown, USS Enterprise, USS Hornet, USS Wasp; another Essex class has been designed;

More than 150 destroyers of various types, more than 120 submarines of various types, and hundreds of other ships and auxiliary ships;

The total gross tonnage of all ships of the US Navy exceeds 200 million tons.