From to 1935 2020

Chapter 367 No one can stay out of the world war

Unlike China, which is located in the temperate zone, Kalimantan has a standard tropical rainforest climate.The average monthly precipitation is over [-] millimeters, and there is a heavy rain almost every few days.This is also a common characteristic and defect of soil quality in tropical rainforest climate areas: excessive rainwater leads to a great loss of local soil fertility, but the fertility is not high.

In the absence of large-scale reinforced concrete road construction, the local traditional stone-paved roads suddenly turned into mud roads.

On the evening of February 20, the overseas Chinese in Pontianak City launched an "uprising". That night, the reinforcements from Sumatra Island, more than [-] kilometers away, received an emergency telegram asking for help. As a result, the troops sent did not set off until the next morning. .

While they were dawdling, it rained heavily, and after dawn, the local area was full of stagnant water and mud pits.

This time Sumatra Island sent more than 300 reinforcements, including a Dutch general. Before coming, the Netherlands had concentrated nearly 3000 local "toast" soldiers in the local area in advance.Then a coalition force of 5000 people was formed, and at [-] o'clock the next morning, they rushed to Pontianak for rescue.

Its low and incompetent rescue efficiency made the remnants of the CCP and the Kuomintang on the opposite side feel familiar.

Chen Geng, He Wei: It was as if they were attacking Chang Kaishen's troops.

Guan Zhenglin: It feels so familiar...

More than 5000 people set off at 20 o'clock and traveled more than [-] kilometers. At [-] o'clock in the afternoon, they walked like turtles to the ambush circle four kilometers away from Pontianak.

The tanks shipped from the United States are still in Sumatra for the time being and have not yet been unloaded.Prior to this, the Dutch had only 27 tanks in the whole of Indonesia, which were originally left in Java and Sumatra.This time, in order to suppress the local Chinese, the Netherlands shipped seven vehicles at a time, in addition to more than a dozen self-modified armored vehicles.

However, due to the bad road conditions, those cars were all stuck in the mud road behind and couldn't move. The only seven tanks were covered with soldiers and walked slowly in the front.

Watching the Dutch walk into the ambush circle, He Wei glanced through the binoculars.

"Vickers 1936 tank? This thing is too thin, and 12.7 can penetrate it." (PS: It is actually a Vickers 1938, an improved version of the 1936, and the two are very similar in appearance)

There is no front-line search, no two-wing reconnaissance, thousands of people, stretched out, just pulled out a long snake formation of nearly three kilometers on the road.

"Is this the virtue of foreigners? They are worse than chickens and dogs!"

Guan Zhenglin was also dumbfounded.During the Anti-Japanese War, he missed it because Chen Jitang avoided the war.In his impression, the fighting power of the Westerners should be higher than that of the little devils from the East.But from the binoculars, Guan Zhenglin almost thought it was a trick of the other party, seeing that group of foreigners who marched crookedly and collapsed.

Chen Geng, who was observing with him, said with a smile:

"Yudong, not all foreigners can fight. This is the colonial army of the Dutch. The young masters have mixed qualifications, most of them are poor, and they are even worse than Chang Kaishen's army... Cough cough...that's the level of Wang Jialie's two-pistol soldiers."

Halfway through the sentence, Chen Geng realized that he seemed to have said something wrong, so he shut up urgently.

The battle started at 01:30.The Vik tank, which was at the forefront, was targeted and bombarded by 12.7mm machine guns and anti-tank guns arranged in advance, plus several 37mm infantry guns smuggled from China. They were paralyzed within a few minutes of the battle— —The gun only weighs more than 100 kilograms, and its armor-piercing ability is very weak. It is a knocker in Europe, but it is more than enough in armor-piercing ability when it is placed in Kalimantan and used for Vickers thin iron. (This gun was introduced earlier)

There were no accidents in the whole battle. Thousands of people formed a long line of snakes, and when the guns fired, there was chaos.After a little surprise, the ants collapsed one after another.A few Dutch officers on tall horses wanted to command the troops, but because riding on horses became the most eye-catching target, they were immediately taken care of by machine guns and snipers.

The combined strength of the two families that ambushed them was less than three thousand.But it only took two hours to basically annihilate this Dutch force.After the war, more than 3000 people were captured as prisoners alone.Not many people were killed, and most of them lost their weapons and fled.The real battle process is only half an hour when the battle starts, and the rest of the time is spent arresting deserters all over the world.

The ones with the worst casualties were those "on horseback and on tanks", because the targets were big, so they focused on hitting them from the beginning.

The whole process, just like a boy's first time, just started a little exciting, and then it's over...

"Westerners, just this virtue and combat power?"

Whether it was He Wei or Guan Zhenglin, they all dropped their eyes.

On February [-]th, after the news of the annihilation of the reinforcements and garrison on Caledonian Island was spread, it was not the biggest news of the day-the headline of the day was that the U.S. troops stationed in the Philippines raised their hands and surrendered to Fufumi Yamashita.

However, the news of the "Great Overseas Chinese Uprising" in Kalimantan was tied to another piece of news.

It was the Japanese Army that attacked Bataan in the Philippines, but the high-speed assault ships of the United Fleet returning to the Japanese mainland had already completed their rest and supplies during this period, and began to go south with all their strength.

At 07:30 in the early morning of February [-]th, when the reinforcements sent by the Dutch to Pontianak just got up and changed their clothes, a large number of Japanese HNA planes heading south from the South China Sea had already flown to Balai at this time. All British airfields on the peninsula and Kalimantan.

Although the British deployed air defense radars on the peninsula during this period, the Japanese navy, which had obtained radar technology from the Soviets, knew very well the means of flying at ultra-low altitudes to avoid radars.

All the airports deployed by the British Air Force in the Malay Peninsula and the north of Kalimantan Island were bombed in a solid circle. More than 100 aircraft were directly bombed on the airport, and a few aircraft that took off also became the prey of the Zero.Fortunately, because Pearl Harbor was ahead, the British did not park the two classic ships from World War I in the port of Singapore during this period, but retreated to the port of Kuala Lumpur to avoid the aircraft carrier raid.

When the Times reported this incident the next day, it combined it with the "overseas Chinese uprising" that took place in Kalimantan Island, claiming that the local overseas Chinese colluded with the Japanese to launch the rebellion.

When British newspapers like The Times reported this incident, they showed off their anxiety and said it frankly, but the gentlemen sitting in Downing Street were in a hurry, and Roosevelt, who was far away in Washington, was also in a hurry.

MacArthur's 10,000+ people took advantage of the geographical advantage, but they were forcibly landed by tens of thousands of Japanese troops. They were overthrown in a wave, and they would be defeated. Roosevelt had expected it, but it was unexpected that they would lose so quickly—this Roosevelt overestimated the combat effectiveness of American soldiers and colonial troops.

In the war that took place in China, the Japanese were dragged along by the "mud legs of the Red Army". The small city of Nanjing invested 60 people.Facing the CCP army that "even used the cultural relics", they failed to fight and lost.Afterwards, Roosevelt conducted an investigation and learned that the Japanese army's equipment was very backward (according to the standards of the US military).

He once thought that it was nothing more than "pecking each other". On MacArthur's side, tens of 10 people occupy the home field advantage, and their weapons are no worse than their opponents.

However, in less than two months, he was completely annihilated and saved himself!

When the news came, Roosevelt was both happy and angry.Then this news was combined with two events that happened at the same time that day, and Roosevelt was so angry that he almost collapsed early from a cerebral hemorrhage on the spot.

He first sent an urgent telegram, warning the British not to rush to declare war on China for the time being, and to negotiate with the CCP first.On the other hand, it was [-]:[-] p.m. on the [-]th here in the United States, and on the opposite side of China, Leighton Stuart was guarding the gate of "Wuhan Zhongnanhai" in this time and space as early as [-]:[-] a.m., asking to meet Li Runshi.Waiting outside with him also included the liaison of the British agency in China.

As soon as they met, Leighton Stuart asked impatiently:

"Is your country preparing to declare war on the Netherlands?"

Of course Leighton Stuart was in a hurry. Just like the CCP and the Soviet Union had a military alliance treaty, the Netherlands and the British also had a similar mutual defense treaty in Southeast Asia.

Li Runshi replied:

"No, that's just an act of self-defense forced by local overseas Chinese to resist the upcoming anti-Chinese operation and concentration camps in the Netherlands!"

Leighton Stuart asked urgently:

"Is your country going to send troops to interfere in Southeast Asia?"

That's what he cares about the most.

"As long as the actions of the Japanese in Southeast Asia do not harm the interests of the Chinese, I do not intend to send troops to Southeast Asia. However...we will send warships and merchant ships into Southeast Asia to evacuate overseas Chinese according to the needs of the situation."

Li Runshi's answer made Situ Leitu and the British representative a little relieved.

On February [-]th, spent in an atmosphere of extreme tension among the three countries of the United Kingdom, the United States and the Netherlands. Fortunately, after the CCP announced that "as long as the British do not interfere with the self-defense behavior of overseas Chinese in Kalimantan Island, China will not send troops south." , the British and American families breathed a sigh of relief, but the Dutch cried.

In the battle from February 8000th to [-]th, the Dutch lost more than [-] colonial troops plus a major general and about [-] local officers and soldiers, plus nearly a thousand foreigners.

The Chinese Communist Party has not really sent troops yet, but relying on a group of secretly infiltrated agents to collude with local overseas Chinese to launch a rebellion, it has so easily pierced the painted skin of the Dutch paper tiger. Can the Dutch not be in a hurry?

However, it is useless to be anxious. Whether it is in West Asia or Southeast Asia, the British Empire is already in trouble.

After the longest day on February [-]th, on February [-]th, the flames of war in "West Asia" ignited again.

After nearly three months of replenishment and hoarding troops, Rommel commanded 26 troops to launch a general attack on the British defense line at the Suez Canal on the 40th.

In just one day, breakthroughs were completed in many places on the canal, and tens of thousands of troops and hundreds of tanks swarmed into the Asian land on the east bank of the canal.

Montgomery, who traveled halfway around the world to take over, was able to break through the line of defense that he had painstakingly managed for more than a month. After the battle last year, the British Empire faced military forces in Southeast Asia, South Asia, and North Africa at the same time. No matter how important pressure is here in North Africa, India's safety is fundamental. The reinforcements he received are limited and the quality is even worse.

The desert fox on the opposite side had nearly 20 regular German troops in his hands at this time.More than a dozen divisions and more than 1000 tanks, both in quantity and quality, surpassed Montgomery's—because the predecessor lost all his armored troops in Ra'aman, and Churchill coveted Roosevelt's "borrowing" and selling tanks "without cash". All the months added to him were "The Graves of the Seven Tankers."

It took only two days for the "North Africa Campaign" to become the "West Asia Campaign". Montgomery's troops retreated all the way, and if they retreated, they would retreat to Jerusalem, Syria or even Turkey...

"There is a dwarf in the east, a mustache in the west, and a bearded and a beardless (Li Runshi) in the north. These two guys are stabbing me with black knives, plus that whore in Italy..."

In Downing Street, Churchill kept sending telegrams to Roosevelt, asking him to quickly give practical help to help his brother. If the situation continued to deteriorate like this, the gentlemen of Downing Street might not be able to hold back and bow to Hitler.

At this time, Roosevelt in the White House was also worried. There were two things he was most afraid of. One was that China, the Soviet Union, and Germany, Italy, and Japan would collude to form the five-nation axis of evil. What else could the United States of America do?At most, it is to use the superiority of the navy to kill Japan at sea, so don't think about it in Europe.

And the second thing is that Britain succumbed.If the United States wants to interfere in Europe, it needs a springboard, and the United Kingdom is the most important springboard.The United Kingdom really retreated, how did the Great America land in Europe?

In the past two years, the United States began to mobilize by producing large quantities of arms for the British. With the production capacity of the United States, tanks and the like can be produced very quickly, but the quality of soldiers is very problematic.Although the U.S. military in this period began to mobilize and expand on a large scale before the Pearl Harbor Incident, the number was far from enough, and the quality was even worse.It will not be until after 1944 to really form combat effectiveness—in fact, the U.S. Army behaved like a human in World War II, but it was delayed until after Normandy in [-].

Before that, their performance in the war was also extremely broken.Historically, in the face of Rommel's African Army, which had a serious shortage of air force weapons after the Battle of Alamein, they were still beaten up in the Battle of Kesselring Pass, and even got "our Italians" from the British. Ridiculous nickname.

Hitler also smelled Roosevelt's future strategic direction from the U.S. Navy's more active attack on German submarines on the Atlantic route during this period.

During this period, he concentrated as much power as possible to help Rommel, and at the same time sent another envoy to visit Moscow in secret, requesting to discuss the "division of forces in West Asia" with Stalin.

At this point in time, as the location of the struggle between Britain and Germany shifted from North Africa to West Asia, the entire East Asian region was also extremely disturbed.

Several traditional powers in the Middle East: Turkey, Iraq, and Iran, the three countries that were originally out of the way, all felt the pressure of war from the west and the north at the same time.

There is no pure land in the world, and not many countries can stay out of the world war.

PS: In the first three days of each month, I will periodically suffer from sloth and don’t want to write anything. Those few days are over today.Resume normal updates.

Chapter 368 Planting Red Flags All over the World

A huge topographic map of the world is spread out on the desktop. Symbols of different colors mark the distribution of important minerals in corresponding locations: black trapezoidal symbols represent oil, black square symbols represent coal mines, and red circular symbols represent iron mines. Mine, bauxite is a white triangle.On the topographic map, large areas painted in light green represent arable farmland.

This is the "resource distribution map" of the world's minerals and arable land based on the map issued by Xiao Huang Ke in this world, combined with the data of later generations in the 21st century.The various symbols densely marked on it represent the distribution of various important minerals.

And another chart on Li Runshi's desk was plagiarized by Huang Ke from later generations. It is the population growth curve of China over the years in the future - except that all the marked years and times have been specially subtracted by 12 years. This is also the plane. The reason why New China was born 12 years ahead of schedule.

"Compared to China's huge population, our country is not vast in land and rich in resources, but poor in population and densely populated, with a serious shortage of resources per capita!"

In Li Runshi's hand, there is another document, which was handed over to him by Huang Ke. It comes from the statistics of later generations, the total amount of various proven mineral resources in China, the annual ore output, market demand, and Terrifyingly large "gap".

"The China before I came here was besieged by Europe and the United States. Although it has become the world's factory, it actually earns hard-earned money. What China buys rises and what it sells falls. A lot of economic dividends , have been harvested by the capitalist powers that control mining areas all over the world."

"China is indeed an oil-poor country! Referring to the future of another time and space, at most 40 years later, China will become an out-and-out oil importer, and the gap in oil demand is calculated in "hundred million tons."

"China is seriously short of high-grade iron ore. The Soviet Union has Ukrainian iron ore belts, and the United States also has high-grade iron ore belts, but China does not. The iron content of the iron ore used by our steelmaking plants is not even as good as that of foreign countries. The content of waste slag in the same industry is high!"

"Because of my actions, antibiotics have been mass-produced ahead of schedule, and China has even become the third country in the world capable of large-scale self-produced antibiotics. The large-scale promotion and use of antibiotics, the advance promotion of barefoot doctor's manuals, and the reports reported by various places this year The sharp drop in first-year mortality rates all mean one thing: a dreaded birth boom is coming."

"With the current level of medical care in our country, it is impossible to sterilize ordinary people, nor is it capable of carrying out large-scale abortions. As for mass production of condoms and contraceptives, it is even more impossible. In an era when entertainment activities are seriously lacking, the biggest concern of ordinary people is To be happy is to make children...."

"In 40 years, that is, in about 80 years, China's population will grow to one billion, and in a dozen years, it will increase to 14 billion! What will be used to feed these 14 billion mouths?"

From the recovery of Annan's "homeland" and what is happening in Kalimantan, whether He Wei was sent to Southeast Asia three years in advance for preparations, Huang Ke secretly supported Dai Li with a large number of weapons through Soviet relations, and even the "Third KMT-CCP Li Runshi knew exactly what was going on with "cooperation"—this matter itself was the result of many high-level meetings held by the upper echelons of the central government.

The above words were all said by Huang Kewei at the meeting to persuade everyone.As for Huang Ke's role in this process, Li Runshi knows exactly what he really thinks in his heart.

"It can be seen that the problem of lack of land resources and mineral resources in China in the future is quite serious!"

This is Wu Hao's "sigh" to Li Runshi after the meeting.

"China cannot engage in imperialism!"

In this matter, Li Runshi actually still has some idealism.But the data model chart of population growth is there, bloody data, bloody demand.

"If you control oil, you control the world. If you control food, you control everyone. Compared with us and the Soviet Union, the biggest advantage of US imperialism is not only its strong industrial strength, but also its agricultural production capacity. It is number one in the world, and it can even be said that this is the most terrifying place of American imperialism. Some people in later generations have calculated that if it is well cultivated, the arable land in the United States is theoretically enough to feed 20 billion people.”

China's current arable land area and per capita land ownership have been calculated.The upper limit of the population that the land can bear, at present, even if we try our best to "intensive cultivation", it is only enough to ensure the food and clothing of the existing people, and there is a little surplus-but this surplus will soon disappear in the next few years. Will be swallowed by the arrival of the baby boom.Even if China in the future completes the construction of large-scale chemical fertilizers, the rate of increase in food production will appear very weak in the face of population growth.

It's not that the Chinese are really good at giving birth.Huang Ke took out another time and space, and compared the population growth ratios of countries around the world after World War II. Compared with other countries, China's population growth rate was only at a medium growth level.However, at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, there were 3000 million people. Recently, after swallowing the Annan area and adding two new provinces, Nichinan (Laos) and Quang Nam (Vietnam), the population has increased to 5000 million people.

Xinde's Guangnan Province is very important. It is the most important grain-producing area in the south after the two lakes.The food production here alone is enough to support the rations of more than 5000 million people. This reason is enough for everyone to insist on "since ancient times".

Although the thirteen high-level officials who knew the future of history at the meeting all had the idea of ​​"not engaging in imperialism", the reality made everyone have to be influenced by cruel real problems when thinking about national policies and conditions.

After all, all doctrines are based on realism and on the basis of giving people enough food.

People are like iron, and food is like steel. If you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry.Thinking that China in this time and space will face a more serious population tide, land crisis, resource crisis, and food crisis than in history, all those who know have a strong sense of urgency.

And during this period, when Stalin put forward the idea that "the waterways of Southeast Asia must be controlled, the Strait of Malacca must be controlled as a frontier barrier to prevent the United States from extending its hands to Asia in the future", there was a series of subsequent "leftists". "Doctrinaire" seems to be very imperialist behavior.

Wu Hao walked in and saw Li Runshi staring at Huang Kezuo's "World Resource Distribution Map" in a daze, Wu Hao said: "The situation in Kalimantan Island has stabilized. The Japanese have gone south, the Dutch and the British are They are completely powerless to deal with it. The Japanese side has repeatedly assured us that they will only occupy the British Kalimantan area, and the rest will be under our control."