Beiyang reactionaries

"I will ask the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to convey the meaning of the Chairman."

Wang Jingwei nodded immediately.

The establishment of a demilitarized zone is not something that can be decided in one or two negotiations.After all, the interests of China and the Soviet Union are entangled along the border, and there are many troops, and there are many places that need to compromise.The two sides have been negotiating in this regard these days, and more talks are needed to complete it.

"Ah."

Duan Xun looked at the map and asked, "How is the Soviet Union's industrial and agricultural operations?"

"Soviet industrial production has been increasing, but agricultural production has been declining rapidly."

China is surrounded by two powerful countries, the Soviet Union and Japan, so China pays the most attention to these two countries.Intelligence agencies also attach the most importance to the penetration of these two countries.Not to mention the intelligence department, even among the units under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Soviet Union is a separate unit.Moreover, among the Asian Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan is the top priority.

"Is there no one there?"

"Correct."

Wang Jingwei nodded and said: "Currently Soviet factories have begun to use a large number of women, and some factories have even begun to use child labor. Most of the factories in the Soviet Union have not seen many young and middle-aged people. After the outbreak of the Soviet-German War, the Soviet Union not only Only the granary of Ukraine was lost, and the land in many parts of the Soviet Union has begun to be deserted. Because a large number of farmers have been conscripted into the army, and many have entered the factory as workers, the Soviet Union is currently seriously short of people in agriculture, and agricultural production has also declined sharply. In the past two years The amount of flour imported by the Soviet Union from my country has doubled several times, which shows that the current agricultural situation in the Soviet Union is very bad."

"Stalin was really flexible."

lack of people.

After hearing Wang Jingwei's words, several people present understood what the Soviet Union meant.

The Soviet-German war was too cruel, and it has been less than three years since it was fought, but it was completely debilitating for the Soviet Union.Not to mention anything else, after the outbreak of the Soviet-German War, the population of the Soviet Union's lost territory was 7000 to [-] million.

Then came the casualties, which were even more astonishing.

Up to now, the number of Soviet military and civilian deaths has exceeded 2000 million, and the number of Soviet casualties has exceeded 3000 million.Moreover, the wounded here are all seriously wounded who cannot recover within a short period of time. It is difficult for these people to return to the battlefield, and many of them will even become disabled in this life.If lightly wounded are added, the Soviet Union's current cumulative casualties are more than 4500 million, and will soon reach 5000 million.Moreover, Sood is still fighting a fierce battle in Kursk. It is impossible for the Soviet army to end this battle without paying more than 100 million losses.

The total population of the Soviet Union was only so high, and the military and civilian casualties were already so heavy, how could the Soviet Union have no shortage of people.

what's the result?

The young and middle-aged people in the Soviet Union were killed and injured, and the Soviet Union's military resources began to be severely depleted.In desperation, the Soviet Union could only keep relaxing the recruitment standards. Now even 15-year-olds and 50-year-olds have begun to be recruited into the army.If the war is still so severe, the Soviet Union may even relax the age to around 55 years old.Even so, the Soviet Union is currently seriously short of personnel. In desperation, the Soviet army began to form female soldiers on a large scale.

There are far more female soldiers than there have been in history.

Up to now, the Soviet Union has established a system of about 200 million female soldiers, of which 30 female soldiers directly participated in the Battle of Stalingrad and the subsequent pursuit.The Battle of Kursk broke out this time, and 50 female soldiers participated in the battle.These female soldiers are not logistics troops, nor are they government units or medical staff.But the real combat troops, like those combat troops charged into battle, the casualties were also very heavy.

The current Soviet Union is not only depleted of military personnel, but also has a serious shortage of factory workers.So a large number of female workers, as well as older people, and even child labor began to appear.

The Soviet Union has no time to think about other things. In order to win this war, the Soviet Union must mobilize the whole society.In the current situation, the Soviet Union must ensure an army size of more than 1000 million, and there must be no problems in the war industry.As a result, more and more troops were mobilized, and a large number of factories were recruited to leave what could be used. As a result, Soviet agriculture was greatly affected.

That's the population of the USSR.

But now people are needed everywhere.War needs people, industry needs people, and what is sacrificed is agriculture.

The Soviet Union is currently severely understaffed, and Stalin, the top Soviet leaders, has already felt it personally.This is a very serious problem.Originally, Stalin's idea was to settle accounts with China after solving Germany.The top Soviet leaders headed by Stalin were very dissatisfied with China's "taking advantage of the fire" during the Soviet-German War.I have been holding my breath, and I must wash away the shame.

But now Stalin is not thinking about settling accounts with China, but thinking about how to guard against China.

Because so what if Germany is defeated?

The young and middle-aged people in the Soviet Union suffered such heavy losses. Where can they recover in one or two years, it takes ten years as a cycle.Stalin and the others could imagine that even if the Soviet Union defeated Germany, how severe the situation in the Soviet Union would be.Now that the Soviet Union has lost a quarter of its population, it is still unknown when this war will end. According to the current situation, it is possible to lose a third of its population.

More importantly, the lost population is mainly young and middle-aged.

This is why the Soviet Union responded to China's demilitarized zone.

I can't fight anymore.

The high-level Soviet Union has already deeply felt the shortage of population, and they don't know when it will be when they want to win against Germany.If there is another war with a country with a population of 10 billion like China, the Soviet Union will really disappear.

Stalin knew that after the war the Soviet Union needed to recuperate.Therefore, China's proposal will be accepted.

"Let Gu Weijun talk to the Soviet Union in person, and there must be a result."

"Yes."

745

In 1942, the Second World War became more and more intense, and the casualties of the countries participating in the war continued to rise.But overall, 1942 was not a very good year for the Axis powers.

The Axis powers began to slowly lose the initiative on several important battlefields.On the Soviet-German battlefield, the largest battlefield of World War II, the German army prepared meticulously and assembled the main force to launch the Battle of Stalingrad.

At the beginning, it was relatively smooth, and even the German army announced several times that it had occupied Stalingrad.

But since 1942, the situation has taken a sharp turn for the worse.Although the Soviet Union paid a huge price, it finally won the battle of Stalingrad.Not only did Stalingrad be saved, but Zhukov also divided and surrounded a large number of German troops.The result was that Germany dropped a large number of its elite troops at Stalingrad.

After that, although the German army won some local battlefields, and even the Battle of Kharkov launched by Manstein, the Soviet pursuit troops suffered heavy losses, with more than 30 casualties.However, these battles did not bring Germany a strategic initiative.

In order to change this situation and regain the initiative on the Soviet-German battlefield, Hitler launched the Battle of Kursk.

Hitler assembled a large number of troops this time. Germany alone had more than 130 million troops, and the servant army mobilized a total of about 170 million troops.And equipped with a large number of aircraft and tanks.Compared with the historical battle of Kursk, the scale of this battle of Kursk is astonishing.

In the Battle of Kursk in history, Germany invested about 90 troops.But it is different now. Germany can get a lot of supplies from China, not only can mobilize more soldiers at home, but also mobilize more soldiers from other slave countries.

Therefore, Hitler will have so many troops in the battle of Kursk this time.

Not to mention the Soviet Union.The Soviet Union is indeed exhausted, but for this war, the Soviet Union is gritting its teeth and persisting.Not to mention other troops, in the battle of Kursk, the Soviet Union, which had exhausted its military resources, invested 50 female soldiers in an organized way, just to make up for the shortage of the army.In the Battle of Kursk, the Soviet Union, as the defensive side, also mobilized 300 million troops to participate.

After the Battle of Stalingrad, Soviet veterans lost too much.Therefore, in this battle of Kursk, the Soviet army added a large number of recruits.Even many recruits have only been trained for a month or two before they have already entered the battlefield.But in any case, the Soviet Union also gathered 300 million troops.

The Battle of Kursk broke out for about 50 days, with more than 150 million casualties on both sides.Compared with the Battle of Kursk, which lasted only one month in history, the Battle of Kursk did not end in about 1 days.The main reason is that the German and Soviet troops suffered more casualties in the Battle of Stalingrad than in history, and the capabilities of the two armies are seriously insufficient.The result was the Battle of Kursk initiated by Germany. Although it attacked violently, it still failed to break through the Soviet defense line.Although Zhukov was preparing to encircle, like the Battle of Stalingrad, he dealt a fatal blow to the German army.But the strength in Zhukov's hands is also seriously insufficient, so Zhukov is deploying troops.In order to complete its own strategy and make up for the shortage of troops, the Soviet military once again dispatched 50 formed female troops to the Battle of Kursk.In this way, in the Battle of Kursk, there were 30 female soldiers in the established system alone, and more than 80 million Soviet troops participated in the Battle of Kursk.

In this way, the Soviet Union and Germany fought a tragic war in Kursk.

This was the case on the Soviet-German battlefield, and the situation of the Axis powers on the North African battlefield was not very good.The North African army, which had been at loggerheads with Britain before and dealt heavy losses to the British and American landing forces, finally chose to defect under the promise of the United States.The second-in-command of Vichy France, Darlan, commander-in-chief of the North African Army, asked the North African Army to lay down its arms and hand over North Africa to the British and American coalition forces.Although Germany had already used transport planes to send a large number of troops to North Africa, the number of German-Italian coalition forces reached more than 35.But the overall situation is still very unfavorable for the German-Italian coalition forces.

Of course, it does not mean that the Anglo-American coalition forces occupied North Africa very smoothly.

Rommel took advantage of the fact that the British and American allied forces had just landed and had not yet had the opportunity to stabilize their position, so he raided the British and American allied forces, causing great losses to the British and American allied forces.Because the German army has strengthened its strength in North Africa, Britain and the United States have also strengthened the size of their troops for landing operations.The United Kingdom and the United States mobilized about 2000 transport ships and used two large-scale landings to transport 36 people.

But the troop organization cannot be said to be very good, and such a large-scale landing is the first time for Britain and the United States, so there is not much experience.The chaos of their troops was seized by Rommel and dealt a severe blow to the British and American coalition forces.In particular, the U.S. Third Army, which was newly established specifically for the North African campaign, included almost all U.S. troops in North Africa.However, Rommel suffered heavy losses. The casualties in World War I were as high as 5.7, which almost destroyed this US army.

This is another staggering loss for the US military after the second army was seriously injured in the last US military landing in North Africa.The U.S. military has not yet opened up a second front in Europe. It has already lost 10 troops here just by cooperating with the United Kingdom in the North African campaign.

Although it is not comparable to the losses in the Pacific War, it can also be seen how tragic the European battlefield is.The strength of the German army is really strong. The U.S. Army has suffered a lot of losses before it has fought the main force of the German army.Of course, the loss of the British army was not small.Fortunately, the British and American troops did not completely collapse, and soon the British and American troops went to North Africa again.Since the United States promised to participate in the North African campaign, it has sent 24 army troops to North Africa, 9 more than the original commitment.However, because of too many casualties, the United States once again urgently dispatched 15 troops to North Africa.

Compared with the continuous increase of personnel in North Africa by the United Kingdom and the United States, Germany has no strength to continue to increase personnel in North Africa.The result is that in the current North African region, although Rommel fought a few beautiful battles, the overall situation is getting worse and worse.

This is the European battlefield.

Then came the Indian-Burmese battlefield.

After Mountbatten took over as the commander-in-chief of the Far East Allied Forces, he began to integrate all the troops in the India-Myanmar region.With the support of the U.S. Army Air Corps, his project began.The U.S. Army Air Force is powerful, and it has a firm upper hand in the confrontation with the Japanese Air Force.Although the Japanese army soon sent more aviation divisions to participate, they were still not the opponents of the US military.