Chapter 1227 Atomic Bomb 9 Atomic Bomb 10

Of course there are pro-German factions in Canada!

The French people in Quebec are now very pro-German and have long been looking forward to a Bourbon prince to be their king. Of course, this is not the only reason Quebecers are pro-German. The French people in Quebec in this era were mainly farmers, and their products were mainly sold in Europe - the United States itself is a super agricultural power with so much agricultural products that it needs to be dumped. It has no need for Canadian agricultural products at all, and Europeans have more people and less land. , a big customer of Quebec farmers.

Now because of the war, the farmers in Quebec are almost bankrupt, and naturally they are dreaming of "joining the European Union".

In addition to French farmers in Quebec, Germans in Canada are generally pro-German, and the most influential pro-German figure is Margaret Rose von Saxe-Coburg-Gotha - she is the British Princess Margaret, the heir to the (Canadian) throne, should have used the surname Windsor.

But for some unknown reason, she restored her ancestral surname - Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (family name is Wetting) after the Soviet-Russian peace talks (actually Germany won the Soviet-German War). Moreover, she added "Feng" before her surname, completely claiming to be a princess of the German Saxe-Coburg-Gotha dynasty, and she even started learning German!

According to the information Donovan had, the Canadian heir to the throne, who was said to be rebellious in adolescence, was very dissatisfied with marrying a Bourbon prince. Her imaginary husband should be a German prince, preferably a vicious Nazi. Warrior, it would be better if you are an ace pilot...

In short, as the balance of victory in the war tilted more and more towards Germany, many Canadians (British people in Canada), including Princess Margaret, discovered that they had German ancestry (many of which were true). . Some British nobles who originated in Germany simply restored their German ancestral surnames and added "von" in the middle of their names, and many Canadians (British people) began to learn German.

Now Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom has announced that she will send troops to expel the US military in Canada. I am afraid that the pro-German faction in Canada will become more arrogant, and the pro-American camp will be greatly shaken, right?

"Can anything happen to Canada...?" After learning a lot of pro-German information about Canada, Truman began to worry that something had happened to Canada.

There are now hundreds of thousands of effective British troops on Canadian soil. If something happens, the United States will die in an ugly way.

"It's not that bad yet..." Donovan thought for a while, "If we lose the battle in Newfoundland and Labrador and let the British army...the British traitor army invade Brunswick, I'm afraid there will be Very serious problem.”

The British troops in Canada will resist the invading German troops, but it's hard to say whether they will fight against the invading... oh, it should be against the liberating British troops.

As for British traitors and so on...this is what Americans say, and Canadians don't see it that way at all. In the eyes of most Canadians, Queen Elizabeth is the legitimate heir to the British throne. She served as British regent after George VI fled. She was crowned king and led the quelling of the rebellion in London when the cabinet and parliament had collapsed. It's completely correct and not treacherous at all.

"Mr. President, we should be prepared to help Canada gain independence from Britain and establish a democratic republic when necessary!"

The suggestion was made by Secretary of War Wallace, who had no favorable opinion of the monarchy in any situation. We are even more resolutely opposed to a pro-German European reactionary dynasty (the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha dynasty is actually a German dynasty) ruling Canada after the war - this dynasty is likely to become a tool for German power to penetrate North America!

"Henry," Truman glanced at Wallace, "if we overthrow George VI and establish a Canadian republic, then our peace negotiations with the European Community will become extremely difficult. And... Canada's hundreds of thousands of pounds The army and millions of militiamen are likely to become our enemies!"

"But President," Wallace shook his head and said, "if we allow the pro-German forces in Canada to expand, even if peace is achieved, it is possible that Canada will fully fall to Germany in the future and plunge the United States into crisis again.

Once Germany deploys long-range bombers capable of carrying atomic bombs on Canadian territory, the entire United States will face catastrophe! "

The reasons put forward by Wallace were difficult to refute. Truman glanced at Presidential Chief of Staff William Leahy, whose already white eyebrows were knitted into a ball, as if he was thinking hard about countermeasures.

"Mr. President," Leahy said, "Minister Wallace is right when he says that we must prevent Canada from falling over to Germany after the war... Canada should be independent, not part of the British Empire."

"Are we going to take Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec?" Truman asked.

"No... that won't work." U.S. Army Chief of Staff Marshall interjected, "The Army in Canada is not prepared for this and it is impossible to disarm the Canadian Army in a short period of time."

"Then think of other ways." Wallace said, "For example, be prepared to control George VI and Princess Margaret. In addition, we should clearly tell George VI that the United States is opposed to a European prince becoming a Canadian The future king!"

Truman thought about it and the current solution seemed easier to accept: "Okay, that's it. I will let Kennedy go to Canada... He was the ambassador to the UK and had a good relationship with King George VI. If King George VI could listen to his advice at that time, we would not be so passive now."

At that time, Kennedy believed that Britain could not defeat Germany and should negotiate peace as soon as possible. This suggestion was criticized by Britain and the United States at the time, causing him to lose his position as ambassador to the UK. Now it seems that he was prescient.

When Truman mentioned this, the conference room in the White House bunker suddenly became awkward. Wallace winked at William Leahy, and the President's Chief of Staff immediately said, "Mr. President, the situation on Newfoundland has stabilized and is beginning to change in our favor. Although the Germans organized airdrops continuously during the daytime on the 26th and 27th, there were no more super-large transport planes that could carry tanks, and those dropped on Newfoundland were ordinary paratroopers.

These lightweight troops cannot compete with our armored forces in any way! Therefore, on the night of the 26th and 27th, our army's advancement was quite smooth, and now the German army has been compressed into a narrow strip of land several tens of kilometers long near the west coast of Conception Bay."

Following the airdrops during the daytime on the 26th, hundreds of Fokker 42s flew over Newfoundland during the daytime on the 27th, dropping thousands of paratroopers and a large amount of supplies. Now the number of German troops on the west coast of Conception Bay has exceeded 30,000.

However, the US troops on Newfoundland were not worried about the increase in the number of German troops. What really frightened them were the German tanks and tank destroyers, especially the E-25 tank destroyer that appeared on the battlefield for the first time. Its 70-caliber 75mm gun could even threaten the front of the US M26 "Pershing" tank at a distance of 1,500 meters when using pointed tungsten core armor-piercing bullets. If the battle took place at night, with the excellent night vision device, the E-25 tank destroyer could threaten the M26 "Pershing" tank at a distance of 1,000 meters, and at this time the commander of the "Pershing" tank had not even discovered the hidden position of the E-25 with the help of flares.

So in the battles on the night of the 26th and the night of the 27th, the US 16th Armored Division lost a total of hundreds of various tanks and tank destroyers, and the progress was very slow. The so-called compression of the German army to a narrow strip of land several dozen kilometers long near the west coast of Conception Bay was just the result of the German army's active contraction.

However, the destruction of more than 100 tanks and tank destroyers was not too much for the US troops on Newfoundland. They had enough inventory to consume, and the route to Newfoundland was not completely cut off by German submarines and mines. The Americans used tank landing ships to transport a total of 200 M26 "Pershing" tanks from the Nova Scotia Peninsula to Newfoundland on the night of the 26th and the 27th.

In addition, many airports on Newfoundland that were destroyed in the German air raid on the 24th were repaired. This allowed the C-47 transport planes that transported tank crew members to land on the island at night, so by the daytime of the 28th, the number of tanks/tank destroyers equipped by the US military on Newfoundland (excluding inventory) did not decrease, but increased by more than 300!

Using these newly added tanks/tank destroyers, the US military also urgently formed a new armored division on Newfoundland - the 21st Armored Division of the US Army. The 21st Armored Division, the 16th Armored Division, the 11th Airborne Division, the 13th Airborne Division and the 17th Airborne Division formed the 20th Army, which was commanded by Lieutenant General Walton Walker (transferred from Trinidad), a brave general under General Patton, and was specifically responsible for attacking the German troops on the west coast of Conception Bay.

"Mr. President," Marshall, the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, assured President Truman, "Lieutenant General Walton Walker once commanded troops to fight bloody battles with the Japanese in the Hawaiian Islands and has very rich combat experience. The five elite armored divisions and paratrooper divisions under his command will soon launch an attack. Within a week, the German troops entrenched on the west coast of Conception Bay will be completely wiped out!"

"Can the Germans on Newfoundland be eliminated in one week?" Truman was skeptical.

"No problem." Navy Chief of Operations Ernest King also said: "President, we have many light ships in Conception Bay and tens of thousands of mines. It is impossible for the German ships to break through within a week. Therefore, the German troops on Newfoundland are actually isolated and helpless."

Chapter 1253 Atomic Bomb 10

"That's great!"

The US President finally breathed a sigh of relief after hearing Ernest King's assurance, and then said to Secretary of War Wallace: "Henry, I think the victory in Newfoundland can put a perfect end to this world war."

"President, you mean..." Wallace didn't seem to understand Truman's words, "You mean, we should make peace with the Germans?"

"Not only Germany," Truman shook his head vigorously, "but also Japan! The whole world should restore peace after the battle of Newfoundland."

"Japan?" Wallace shook his head vigorously, "But they are about to be defeated. The Far East War they launched was a complete disaster. Even the bastard Tojo Hideki resigned."

For the United States and Europe, the Far East War was just an insignificant local war in a distant place at the beginning. The German General Staff headed by Imperial Marshal Hessmann did not seem to have studied this war seriously - because for Germany, the three parties involved in the Far East War, the Soviet Union led by the Soviet Bolshevik Party (the Soviet Union is not the official name of the country now, Soviet Russia is the official name); China led by the Chinese Bolshevik Party and the Japanese Empire, were not enemies of Germany.

The Soviet-German War had turned into the "Soviet-Russian Civil War" in 1944, and the armistice had been reached in July 1944 - this was also what Germany was happy to see. If the armistice could not be reached, then Stalin's "100 million" (actually not that many) Slavic masters would all join Europe! So Germany actually did not want the Soviet Union to be defeated by Japan in the Far East, which would accelerate the unification of Russia.

In 1939, the central government of China completely fell into the hands of the Bolshevik Party supported by the Soviet Union. This was actually related to Germany, because Germany launched the World War at that time and also showed a gesture of alliance with the Soviet Union, which made the Bolshevik Party of China and the revolutionary regime in southern China, as allies of the Soviet Union, worth a hundred times more. Therefore, the Bolshevik Party completely became the dominant force of the revolutionary regime in the south, and then launched the Second Northern Expedition, targeting the Fengtian-Zhangjiakou regime entrenched in North China and Northeast China.

The powers such as Britain, the United States, and France, fearing to offend the Soviet Union (they were very afraid of the Soviet Union and Germany forming an alliance at that time), severed diplomatic relations with Fengtian-Zhangjiakou when the Bolshevik Party army began the Northern Expedition, and established diplomatic relations with the southern revolutionary government at the same time - which was equivalent to sentencing the Fengtian-Zhangjiakou regime to death!

Japan, as the backer of the Fengtian-Zhangjiakou regime, intervened when the Northern Expedition army approached Beijing, and the Soviet Union did not show weakness and sent the 56th Red Army Group commanded by Zhukov from Outer Mongolia to support the Chinese revolution.

The two sides fought a decisive battle on the Chahar grassland, but no one announced the result after the war. It seemed that there was neither a winner nor a loser. However, according to reliable rumors, the elite 2nd Division and the 1st Cavalry Group (equivalent to a division) of the Japanese Army at that time attempted to repel the Soviet Army before the Soviet Army and the Chinese Red Army joined forces from Mongolia.

As a result, the two sides fought a field battle on the Chahar grassland, and the Japanese army also experienced the power of mechanized warfare for the first time. Although the BT tanks and T-26 tanks equipped with the Soviet Army's 56th Army at that time had almost no outstanding performance in the subsequent Soviet-German War. But they were not something that the Japanese army, which had no anti-tank means, could stop, so the battle must have ended with a disastrous defeat for the Japanese army.

After this battle, the Chinese Red Army of the Northern Expedition entered Beijing and Tianjin without bloodshed - the Japanese-leased garrison in Tianjin hastily evacuated after the Chahar War, and the British, French, American and other countries' troops stationed there also withdrew at the request of the Chinese Revolutionary Government together with the foreign troops stationed in the Shanghai Concession.

However, the Chinese Red Army, which had successfully taken North China, did not continue to advance into the hinterland of Northeast China. Instead, with the assistance of the Soviet Red Army, it advanced to the Liaoxi region (occupying the Liaoxi Corridor and the Rehe Mountains) and then announced a ceasefire with the Fengtian regime. The failed Fengtian regime also experienced internal strife. The old marshal Zhang Zuolin (who lived 10 years longer than in history) was assassinated, the young marshal Zhang Xueliang fled to Beijing, and the Fengtian general Tang Yulin became the master of the three northeastern provinces with the support of the remaining Fengtian troops, and continued to survive under the protection of Japan.

This Chahar War, which was not paid attention to by the West, also became the main reason for Japan to abandon its continental expansion policy in late 1941.

However, in 1944, seeing that the Soviet Union was retreating under the attack of Germany, Japan once again picked up the continental expansion policy that had been abandoned. The army headed by Hideki Tojo formulated a risky expansion plan, preparing to dispatch more than 1 million elite "mechanized troops" to try to defeat the Soviet Red Army to seize the Far East and take over the entire Northeast China.

However, what the Japanese did not expect was that they would encounter not only more than one million defeated German Nazis on the Far East continent (the defeated Nazis were not something the Japanese could deal with), but also countless Chinese GCist fighters!

In the 17 or 18 years before 1944, although China completed a vigorous social revolution, the country was still inconspicuous in the eyes of the great powers. Because it is now an industrial age, and China is very backward in this regard, it is not in the eyes of the Great Japanese Empire.

Of course, the Japanese view also has some truth. Because the Soviet Union's own strength was very limited at the time, it was impossible to provide assistance like the later Khrushchev period. So until 1942, the industrial level of China's "liberated areas" was still very weak, with an indicative steel output just breaking through 1 million tons, less than one-seventh of Japan's, and electricity was only 5 billion kilowatt-hours, only one-fourth of Japan's, and coal production was only tens of millions of tons.

However, this does not mean that China did not make great progress in the nearly 15 years from 1928 to 1942 - the Soviet Union (GC International) helped China cultivate a whole generation of talents! In 1928, the total number of college graduates in China was only a few tens of thousands. By 1942, there were as many as 812,000 college students alone! The number of students in ordinary middle schools exceeded 10 million, the number of students in vocational middle schools exceeded 2 million, and the number of students in ordinary primary schools reached an astonishing 90 million!

The two to three million Red Army soldiers who participated in the Northern Expedition in 1939 were all a generation of new people who had received at least 6 years of GCist revolutionary education - GCist revolutionary education was of course ideological education + militarization. When they graduated from junior high school, they had to write a blood oath to join the Red Army to liberate all mankind. GCist good fighters. At least in terms of ideology, they were no worse than Japan's Showa samurai.

These young GCist fighters are not only an ideal source of soldiers (and there are as many as you want, according to the calculation of elementary school graduates, there are more than 10 million in each class, of which at least 5 to 6 million boys are suitable for military service), but also an industrialized labor force.

Therefore, from 1942, when the United States decided to use lend-lease materials, loans and engineers to win over China to participate in the war, the Americans soon discovered that China was a country with amazing growth potential that they had ignored (this was also related to the closed-door policy adopted by the Chinese revolutionary government).

Only a small amount of inflow of machinery and technology (the value of the machinery was less than 300 million US dollars) triggered a "great industrial leap" in China. In just three years, China's steel production increased by more than 3 times, breaking through 3 million tons, electricity increased by 1 times to 10 billion degrees, coal exceeded 150 million tons, and oil production also exceeded 800,000 tons (Yumen and Yanchang oil fields were developed). The growth of the most basic military products, including rifles, machine guns, and artillery, has reached an astonishing level, enough to arm an army of more than 10 million people.

Before Japan launched the Far East War, China's Bolshevik government had realized that the invasion of Japanese imperialism was coming, so it mobilized in advance and organized millions of Red Army. The backbone of this army was the internationalist fighters who had experienced the baptism of the Soviet-German War. Although China did not declare war on Germany, it also sent hundreds of thousands of internationalist fighters to participate in the war. In addition, the Soviet Union also sent a large military advisory group headed by Marshal Konev. Although their military experience cannot be compared with the German army that won on the battlefield, it is definitely not comparable to the Japanese army that has never seen mechanized warfare.

Therefore, the Far East War that began in July 1944 became a nightmare for the Japanese Army. The Sino-Russian Red Army, which had an absolute advantage in manpower, deliberately showed weakness at the beginning, took a defensive stance on the Jinzhou-Rehe line and the major strongholds in the Soviet Far East, and dragged the blindly arrogant Japanese army into the Winter War with heavy casualties. Then, they took advantage of the snowy season from December 1944 to March 1945 to launch a winter counter-offensive (the Soviet army and Chinese internationalist fighters who had participated in the Soviet-German War had rich experience in winter warfare). They not only repelled the Japanese army from all Soviet territory except North Sakhalin Island and all Chinese territory except Port Arthur Fortress, but also crossed the Yalu River with great vigor and confidence. They advanced to around 38 degrees north latitude, and only stopped the offensive because of the warming climate and the arrival of the snowmelt season in the northeast.

This humiliating war also triggered a political crisis in Japan. Hideki Tojo, who had been in high spirits since 1942, had to resign as prime minister in early 1945, and was replaced by Yamamoto Isoroku, a hero of the navy.

Yamamoto, who had realized that Japan was unable to defeat the United States, the Soviet Union and China at the same time, stepped up the process of peace talks with the United States in early 1945, and offered the conditions of demilitarization of the "Hawaiian Islands" and the "Aleutian Islands".

"No!" Truman shook his head. "A weakened Japan is not good for us either. Because that will allow European power to return to Southeast Asia and Australia... The Germans may be thinking about this, otherwise the Japanese would not have suffered such a disastrous defeat in the Far East War. The Germans must want to use the power of the Soviet Union, China and us to defeat Japan, and then let the Europeans take back their Southeast Asian colonies, Australia and New Zealand. We can't let them get their wish!"