Beiyang reactionaries

Orders are increasing.

Shipyards and ship repair yards in China are receiving more and more orders.

"Japan is a small country, and most of its resources need to be transported from other places. Of course, they lack transport ships. Moreover, Japan's industrial scale is limited, and it is vigorously developing large warships. Therefore, the order for transport ships can only fall on us."

Japan's industrial scale is limited.

This is obvious.

This can be seen from Japan's current steel production, which is only about 700 million tons.This is already the limit in Japan.These steel productions have determined the scale of Japan's industry.

Look at other industrialized countries.

Not to mention perversions like the United States, the United Kingdom, which is currently suffering from indiscriminate bombing by Germany and is in a very critical situation, currently produces more than 1300 million tons of steel.There is also the Soviet Union, whose current steel production is around 1500 million tons.As for Germany, which is currently sweeping across the European continent, its steel output is nearly 3000 million tons.

This is the gap between Japan and the world's major industrial countries.

Insufficient steel production directly affects the expansion of Japan's industrial scale.The purpose of Japan's occupation of Southeast Asia is for the resources there.A large number of looted things were transported from Southeast Asia to Japan.This requires a large number of transport ships.

But Japanese shipyards have no time to manufacture transport ships.Japan has gathered all the country's shipbuilding forces, mainly building large warships such as battleships, heavy cruisers, and aircraft carriers, and is preparing to compete with the United States at sea.Although Japan attaches great importance to the development of aircraft carriers, Japan's combat concept has not completely broken away from the era of large naval guns.Therefore, Japan has built a large number of battleships, which has almost doubled in size compared to history.Including the combat aircraft carriers and heavy cruisers owned by Japan, the number has increased a lot compared to history.

Therefore, the transport ships and orders Japan needs are all flown to China.

"You said, can the British and Indian troops stop the Japanese army?"

"It depends on the fighting power of the British and Indian troops. Judging from the Japanese that blocked the direction of Malaysia several times before, the fighting power of the British and Indian troops is not bad, but not too strong. If you want to stop the attack of nearly 50 Japanese troops from the Burmese front, it should not be so easy."

"Ah."

Historically, Japan's attack on Southeast Asia almost swept away those colonial troops.

Within half a year, they controlled Southeast Asia, and the British army was retreating steadily.But in this time and space, because China and Japan intervened in Nanyang affairs relatively early, and Japan was the first to solve the Netherlands.

In order to guard against the increasingly powerful Japanese army, the British and Indian troops started initial mobilization a few years ago.In the past two years, the British and Indian troops have trained more than 50 troops, which should be stronger than in history.

But it is not easy to overestimate their strength.

"How is the handover of arms between us and the British and Indian troops?"

"It's relatively smooth at present. Because the British and Indian troops are in a hurry, we have increased the transportation volume and put in more trucks. At present, the transportation volume of the Burma Road alone exceeds 3 tons of various materials in a month. Plus In the past, we used railways to send things to the border, and the British and Indian troops used trucks to transport a larger number of things. In addition to arms, we also provided 1.7 trucks to the British and Indian troops. According to the current transportation speed , In another two months, the weapons and equipment of 50 divisions can be handed over to the British and Indian troops."

"Ah."

In the war between Britain and Japan, Duan Xun didn't care who won or lost.

On the contrary, what Duan Xun cares about is that neither side should admit defeat easily.It is best for Japan and Britain to spend a few years in Myanmar, so that Japan needs China, and Britain also needs China.When the two of them fought, the logistical supplies and a large amount of medicine needed were not small amounts.

Now Japan can use sea transportation to provide supplies to frontline troops.When the war is fierce, it is estimated that shipping will be too late.Because the traffic conditions in French Indochina and Myanmar are very poor, there will definitely be many problems in Japan's logistics.At that time, the closest to the battlefield will be China's Guangxi and Yunnan regions, and logistics supplies might as well go to China.Both the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway and the Yunnan-Vietnam Highway are the busiest places for material transportation in Southwest China.

So Duan Xun didn't want the British and Indian troops to collapse at the first touch.

Must hold up.

It is best for both sides to fight to the death, and both sides will suffer.

"Chairman, there is new news from India. Just a few days ago, the Governor of India invited several leaders of the Congress Party and told them that as long as the war is over, Britain will allow India to be independent. But they demand Congress must help Britain win this war."

"Smart thing to do."

Duan Xun nodded.

The British have always been so smart and know when to back down and when to be tough.It's no wonder that those British colonies, even if they became independent, rarely fell out with Britain.It is because the British are too smart.

Now the Indian National Congress Party is very powerful. Many officials in the Indian local government are members of the Congress Party, and even many lower-level officers of the British and Indian Army are also members of the Congress Party.Now the former chairman of the Congress Party and the main leader of the Indian National Liberation Movement, Chandra Bose defected to Japan and established Free India.Chandra Bose has a great influence among young Indians, and the British side is also a little flustered.Therefore, it is very smart to choose to make a promise to the Congress Party to stabilize the Congress Party.

"Ren Chao'Li Jishen', you pay close attention to the development of the situation in Myanmar. The supplies needed by the British and Indian troops must be guaranteed first."

"Yes."

"Also, take advantage of the handover of materials with the British and Indian troops, and send small troops to improve the maps in our hands. We must have the most detailed maps of the Burmese region. We also need to contact the local Chinese Federation of Overseas Chinese to see the distribution of local forces in Burma. Condition."

"Yes."

After the deployment, Duan Xun smiled wryly while holding his forehead.

Whether the British and Indian troops can hold Myanmar, Duan Xun is more worried than the British.But this is also impossible.Japan's takeover of Burma will not only affect Britain, but also affect China's interests.Moreover, the country of Myanmar is a very important country in China's future strategy.

It is impossible for Duan Xun not to care.

"Chairman, Vice Chairman Wang has something to ask you for."

"Please come in."

Although Wang Jingwei is the vice chairman of the Supreme Committee, he is very knowledgeable and knows how to advance and retreat.Knowing that Duan Xun was holding a military committee meeting, he waited outside for Duan Xun.

Soon Wang Jingwei walked in, came straight to Duan Xun, and said, "Chairman, news from Moscow and Berlin. Seven hours ago, Germany attacked the Soviet Union."

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On May 1940, 5, Germany mobilized more than 9 million troops to raid the Soviet Union.

Of course, the news that Germany is going to attack the Soviet Union is not a secret.On the contrary, information about Germany's attack on the Soviet Union was flying all over the sky, and most countries had information in this regard, which was basically an open secret.It's just that no one is sure that Germany will definitely attack the Soviet Union. Even if it attacks the Soviet Union, everyone does not know when it will attack the Soviet Union.

The same is true for Duan Xun.

There are many kinds of information.

Not to mention anything else, Germany has deployed millions of troops on the border.In addition, millions of troops from Romania, Hungary, Italy, and Finland, Germany's allies, also gathered on the Soviet border.In such a situation, one can tell at a glance that Germany is definitely going to conflict with the Soviet Union.

But when to attack, no one has conclusive information.

Therefore, China pays more attention to Japan.It was originally thought that Japan would launch the Burma campaign in May, but judging from the current situation, it is difficult for Japan to launch an offensive before the end of May and the beginning of June.It is really because the traffic in the French Indochina area is not good.Hundreds of thousands of troops are going to fight, and there are too many things to prepare.

When Japan launched the Burma campaign, more than 800 aircraft were prepared.

Therefore, to build an airport in many desolate areas, one does not know how much material will be used and how much time will be spent.Therefore, the time for the Japanese army to launch the Burma campaign was pushed back and forth.Just when China, including the United Kingdom and the United States, were paying attention to the Myanmar campaign that Japan was about to launch, Germany raided the Soviet Union.

War without declaration.

At this time of World War II, undeclared wars abound.Germany's attack on the Soviet Union was also an undeclared war, but Germany still pays attention to procedures and is more rigorous in doing things.Although the start of the offensive was an undeclared war, after the outbreak of the war, Germany immediately started the declaration of war procedure.

Count Schulenburg, the German ambassador to the Soviet Union, had an urgent meeting with Molotov, the People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union in Moscow, and personally read Germany's declaration of war to him.The same is true on the German side. Ribbentrop personally read the declaration of war to the Soviet ambassador to Germany.It is precisely because Germany is fighting without declaration, so when other countries received the news, the Soviet Union and Germany had already been fighting for half a day.

The Soviet Union and Germany were at war.

A global sensation.

It was much more sensational than the Sino-Soviet war.