The Rise of Australia - Chapter 990

c971 Australia-Russia conflict

Although the Germans are losing ground, this does not mean that they will give up resistance.

The opposite reality is that in order to protect their homeland from counterattack, Germany will be more aggressive in defense and even care less about casualties.

This also means that if you want to conquer the German defense line, you must pay more casualties to do so. And for all the countries currently participating in the counterattack against Germany, casualties are precisely the most fatal link.

In other words, the more a country cares about the benefits gained after conquering Germany, the more effort it must make in the process of conquering Germany.

As long as you work harder in the process of conquering Germany, you must bear more casualties.

It is precisely because of this that Britain and Australasia are happy to see both France’s large-scale recovery of territory and Russia’s counterattack plan.

After all, although Germany is weak, it is definitely not an unarmed old, weak, woman and child. If you want to cut a bite of meat from Germany today, you must be prepared to be bitten back by the Germans.

In Australasia, in order to complete the strategy of occupying the Ruhr area formulated by the General Staff, the government and the military have racked their brains.

The first policy is to recruit more troops from Kalimantan and the Philippines.

However, since the outbreak of the war, the number of troops provided by Kalimantan has exceeded 3 million, and the number of troops provided by the Philippines has exceeded 1 million, which is almost exhausted.

Therefore, the government can only put the source of troops in a wider range of places, even including the island countries where the current situation is chaotic.

Yes, the island country army is also in Australasia’s plan.

It is undeniable that the combat effectiveness of the island country’s army is still quite good. Although it is not as good as the well-equipped Australasia army, it is at least at the level of the great powers.

Moreover, the island country has a sufficient population. If the three forces are squeezed, at least more than 2 million troops can be taken out.

These troops are perfect for counterattacking Germany. If Australasia wins, it can occupy the Ruhr area. If it loses, it will also lose the island country’s troops. The Australasia government does not feel sorry at all.

In addition, the current island countries are completely like lambs to be slaughtered. They have no say in the fate of their own countries and future development trends.

After the island countries were divided into three parts, Australasia’s influence on the island countries became even stronger. If any force is unwilling to obey the rule of Australasia, the remaining two forces will choose to besiege the rebellious force in order to please Australasia.

This is similar to the distribution of indigenous peoples in Kalimantan. They all make the influence of Australasia as a referee stronger through the mutual restraint between several forces.

As for whether the three island countries are willing to send troops to Germany, Australasia does not care at all.

After all, the island countries need to pay a large amount of compensation after the defeat, and there are various restrictive treaties.

At present, the three forces of the island countries cannot afford so much compensation. They can completely offset part of the compensation by the scale of sending troops. Anyway, Australasia has the final say in this regard.

As expected, after Australasia proposed to use the soldiers of the island countries to offset part of the compensation, the three forces of the island countries quickly agreed.

For the current island countries, human resources are the most useless, so it is better to let them play their due value.

Especially the huge army mobilized by the island countries in the war, which gave the three forces a headache when they laid off the soldiers after the war.

After all, the army of millions is not something that the three forces can afford at all. Instead of laying off some of them and letting these soldiers lose their jobs, it is better to let them continue to go to new battlefields.

The agreement on the dispatch of troops by the three forces of the island countries was quickly signed.

Australasia also generously offered the condition that each soldier sent could offset the compensation of 100 Australian dollars.

But there are corresponding penalties. If there is a desertion or surrender in the war, each island soldier will pay an additional compensation of 200 Australian dollars.

According to the current situation of the island countries, the three forces can provide a maximum of 2 to 3 million soldiers.

These soldiers can offset the compensation of 200 to 300 million Australian dollars, which means that the three forces of the island countries do not need to pay compensation to Australasia in one and a half years.

This is still very important for the island countries at this time. This year and a half can be used for post-war recovery, stabilizing the economy, and preparing for the next reparations.

Although each deserter or surrendered soldier will have to pay an additional 200 Australian dollars in compensation, in order to encourage the island country soldiers to fight for Australasia, after each island country soldier dies, an additional 100 Australian dollars in compensation can be offset for their country.

In other words, the maximum value of each island country soldier is 200 Australian dollars, and the value of 2 million to 3 million island country soldiers is about 400 million to 600 million Australian dollars.

If all these island country soldiers who went to Germany died in battle, the island country could be exempted from paying reparations for up to two and a half years.

Of course, the real situation is definitely not that exaggerated. Although Arthur did not care about the casualties of the island country soldiers, it was obviously impossible for this war to kill all the island country soldiers in Europe.

Unless a war against Russia or Britain was launched immediately, for Australasia at this time, why would it use war to achieve the status of world hegemony in a peaceful way?

Of course, if a war had to be launched to establish a world position, Arthur would never be soft-hearted.

Atomic bombs and missiles were prepared for such moments. Neither Russia nor Britain could stop Australasia from rising after World War II.

On April 15, 1939, the Australasia army arrived in the northern Finnish city of Salla.

Russian troops were stationed in Salla. After the Australasia army arrived at the edge of Salla, they used a telegram to publicly call on the Russian army in Salla, demanding that all Russian troops withdraw from Finland within three days and not destroy any of the Finnish cities.

Three days later, the Australasia army would use force to recapture all Finnish cities. If the Russian army had not withdrawn from Finland by then, it would be regarded as an enemy by the Australasia army.

This call was merciless, and the Australasia side would not care about the Russians’ ideas at all.

The Russian army soon heard the call and reported Australasia’s request to the Russian government.

Obviously, all the decorations in Sudalin’s office were damaged.

“How dare those damn Australasians! Even the Germans can’t defeat us, so why do they dare to threaten us?” Sudalin was full of anger in his office, and many senior Russian military officials were sitting beside him.

Because Zhukov, the new Russian Marshal who won the Battle of Moscow and the Battle of Sudalingrad, smiled bitterly and reminded Sudalin: “Dear President, I’m afraid that the Australasians are really capable of threatening us at this time.”

Although Russia did not participate in the war against the island country, it does not mean that Russia has no attention to the previous war in the Far East.

On the contrary, the Russians paid great attention to this war and even planned to get a share of it.

But because a large area of ​​Russian territory was occupied by the Germans at that time, and even the capital Moscow was facing a crisis, Sudalin did not order troops to the island country.

Originally, the Russians thought that after the victory of the Battle of Moscow, they would have time to free up their hands to cut a piece of meat from the island country.

But they didn’t expect the island war to end so quickly, so quickly that they couldn’t even participate in time.

The reason why the war ended so quickly was that Australasia had continuously taken out new weapons in the war against the island.

After the lives of many Russian intelligence personnel, the Russian side finally got the names and approximate appearances of several new weapons in Australasia.

A new weapon with extremely strong lethality to the navy is called a missile, which is more accurate and powerful than the bombs carried by the normal air force.

Another weapon that directly made the island surrender is called the Moss bomb (code name). Just one such bomb can destroy a city, and several bombs combined can even destroy a metropolis like Tokyo.

These two weapons alone are enough for Australasia to face any country in the world with a smile.

This is also the reason why Zhukov said with a wry smile that Australasia has threatening capabilities. After all, Russia at this time is simply unable to deal with Australasia’s advanced weapons.

“Haven’t you got the specific information about those weapons yet?” Sudalin was a little annoyed when he heard this, and looked at the head of the secret service.

“It’s very difficult, Mr. President.” The head of intelligence also smiled bitterly and shook his head, saying helplessly: “Australasia attaches great importance to intelligence work. At present, it is difficult for our people to enter the senior management of various departments in Australasia.

At present, we only know the code names and approximate appearance of these two new weapons, and we can’t even take a photo.”

When Australasia exports aircraft, it will not export missiles together.

Even the most primitive missiles will not be opened to Britain, France, Russia and other countries for the time being.

Anyway, with the aircraft currently exported to European countries, it can already guarantee air superiority over Germany. Although exporting missiles will make the German Air Force collapse faster, it will also create some trouble for the future Australasia Air Force.

“Damn it, damn it, damn it!” Sudalin said three damn it in a row before he finally put away his anger temporarily.

He looked at his chief of staff and asked with some expectation: “If we go to war with Australasia now, do we have a chance of winning?”

Zhukov was not shocked by Sudalin’s inquiry.

In Russia’s strategy, the Russian government headed by Sudarin always believed that there would be conflicts and even wars between Russia and Australasia.

The reason is very simple.

After defeating Germany, Russia will become a powerful country, even surpassing Britain to become the hegemon of Europe.

But Russia’s path of expansion has always been blocked, and its biggest enemy is Australasia.

Needless to say, Germany in the west. After Germany’s defeat, Germany’s territory will definitely be occupied by several countries.

Apart from Germany, the only directions for Russia to expand are Northern Europe and the Balkan Peninsula.

The direction of Russia’s expansion in Northern Europe is directly blocked by Finland, and the relationship between Finland and Australasia is inseparable, so it is impossible for there to be no conflict between the two sides.

Although Australasia did not reach out to the Balkan Peninsula, the Balkan Peninsula has the very important Strait of Constantinople, and the British are destined not to allow Russia to gain control of Constantinople.

The east side is even more difficult. After the island country was defeated by Australasia, Australasia has become the only great power on the entire Pacific coast.

The entire Pacific Ocean is like the back garden of Australasia. If Russia wants to expand in the Far East, there will definitely be a war with Australasia, even more cruel than the previous war between Russia and the island.

Although there are places such as Central Asia to the south where expansion can occur, India, ruled by the British, also blocks this.

In view of the relationship between Britain and Australasia, the Russian government has no doubt that Britain and Australasia will unite to deal with the powerful threat of Russia.

Therefore, as early as after the victory in the Battle of Moscow, there were conjectures within the Russian government about another war with Australasia.

After a long war, the Russian army has gradually grown into one of the most powerful armies.

Taking advantage of the strong momentum brought by the victory over Germany to the Russian army, it is obviously the best time to engage in a war with Australasia to determine the world’s hegemony.

But the then Chief of General Staff Zhukov said bluntly to Sudarin: “We declare war on Australasia today, and tomorrow Moscow will be bombed by Australasia. We have not developed new weapons like Australasia. , or we will not be able to fight Australasia until we have a solution to this weapon.”

It was this answer that directly dispelled Sudarin’s idea, and also made Russia very honest about the island country after the defeat, and did not have any inappropriate thoughts.

But now, after the conflict between Australasia and Russia over Finland, Sudarin has the idea of ​​​​a war with Australasia.

There is nothing that can be done about it. If Finland is abandoned, it means that Russia has lost the initiative on the road of expansion.

At this time, Finland is making concessions out of fear of Australasia’s new weapons. In the future, it may also make concessions in more areas, including the Balkans and the Mediterranean.

After retreating again and again, what hope does Russia have of competing for the hegemony after victory in the war?

For an ambitious person, such a bad situation is the most desperate, and it is something that everyone hopes to avoid and solve at all costs.

“Before we develop that kind of weapon, I don’t think we have any chance of winning.” Russian Chief of General Staff Zhukov still shook his head under Sudarin’s expectant gaze, with a wry smile on his face: “Even if we can delay the war through strategic contraction, Australasia, their terrible bombs codenamed Moss, will also destroy our cities and industrial bases one after another.

In this way, our strategic contraction only gives the enemy a more precise target. Unless our air force can completely suppress Australasia, today’s Tokyo is Moscow’s future. ”

“Damn, damn!” Sudarin repeated it twice again, and finally said with great reluctance but helplessness: “Let the troops stationed in Finland withdraw. A Finland cannot delay our plan, and it just allows them to join us. “I want our troops to return to St. Petersburg before the Australasian operation.”