Chapter 28: The noisy red camp
Late December 1945, Soviet Union, Moscow, Kremlin
Moscow in December was already a land of ice and snow. But in every room in the Kremlin, it is still as warm as spring.
However, no matter how much the heating in the Kremlin is turned on, everyone who visits the place can't help but feel chilly and trembling.
After all, the so-called "Great Purge" of the Soviet Union had just passed a few years ago. And the man whose brutality was off the charts, who sent hundreds of thousands to the execution ground and dumped millions of others into Siberia, is still watching every Soviet citizen in this palace!
At this moment, Uncle Joseph, who made millions of people gnashed their teeth and hated him, and even more people were in awe and fear, was in his office, folding his arms and admiring the map of Europe on the wall, looking at the thick red arrows on the map. Rushing up and down, gradually turning the vast land red...
——These are the great Red Army who worship him! Belonging to a red empire created by him!
This unprecedentedly huge empire was completely penetrated by his personal will, and the entire state machine was his armor and sword!
Now, this force carrying the red flag of sickle and hammer is sweeping the world like a tide, preparing to create a revolution in human history!
Twenty-eight years ago, on November 7, 1917 (October 25 in the Russian calendar), under the outstanding leadership of Comrade Lenin, the great Russian working class achieved the great victory of the October Revolution and established the world's first The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, a socialist state power, ended the strange situation of two governments in one country, in which the Provisional Government and the Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies existed side by side in Russia. However, what greeted the Soviet government next was not the joy of a successful revolution, but overwhelming rebellion, a variety of foreign intervention forces, and a nationwide civil war. Even if the Soviets won the battle to found their country with great difficulty, they would still have to face the hostility and blockade of the entire capitalist world.
——The reactionaries at home and abroad have never stopped trying to subvert the socialist regime, and this has always been the case until now. On the other hand, the Bolsheviks in the Soviet Union have never stopped exporting the idea of revolution and liberating all mankind, and are steadily implementing it.
Now, the power of the European socialist camp has expanded to an unprecedented extent: from the fjords of Norway to the beaches of the Aegean Sea, from the flower capital Paris to the ancient capital Rome, everywhere is covered by bright red flags. But the gloom of the crisis also emerged at the same time - all military experts were constantly warning him that the great Red Army had far exceeded its attack limit and would soon be overwhelmed by accumulated fatigue and long supply lines!
At the same time, the surviving European capitalist camp continues to struggle and resist: Britain's belligerent fat man Churchill briefly stepped down in October. However, because the peace negotiations between the newly-installed Attlee Labor cabinet and the Soviet Union finally broke down - despite having suffered two nuclear bombs, the arrogant John Bull still refused to completely give up their sphere of influence on the European continent, which led to the British Labor cabinet downfall. Churchill's war-minded cabinet made a comeback again this month, continuing its fierce game with the red camp and receiving more assistance from its American cousin.
Therefore, the current battlefield in France is still a stalemate and a see-saw. Although the remnants of the British Expeditionary Force have completely withdrawn from France's Atlantic coast, the situation on France's Mediterranean coast has become unstable as more than 200,000 Spanish troops have successively moved north to join the war. But a reversal occurred again: these Spanish intervention forces and the remaining troops of the Vichy French government joined forces and successfully held back the Soviet Red Army, which was exhausted from long battles, at the northern foot of the Pyrenees.
Then, relying on the fire cover of the British Mediterranean Fleet and the U.S. Air Force strategic bombers, De Gaulle just this week led a mainly black French Foreign Legion force to successfully land in Marseille from North Africa again, and carried out an attack on the French Workers' Red Guards in Marseille. Massacre. Although this approach aroused great anger among French civilians, in France today anyway, class conflicts have erupted with equal intensity, no less than this one.
On the other side, within a few thousand kilometers behind this crossfire line, various types of communist rebellions are also coming and going endlessly. Coupled with the countless disputes between the newly established regimes in various socialist countries, it is simply The Kremlin was overwhelmed and greatly slowed down the Red Army.
What particularly stunned Stalin was that in western Ukraine, which is now the core hinterland of the Soviet Union, there is still a fascist gang that has not been wiped out! And can break into the local county government! The cadres in that place really should go to the labor camps to learn!
Alas, there are troubles and loopholes everywhere, and the battle front seems to be stretched too long! The Red Army was unable to concentrate its forces...
Stalin sighed like this, feeling agitated and having a severe headache. Sometimes he really had the urge to "nuclearize the world" - there are currently two hundred atomic bombs of various types with yields from 100,000 tons to 1 million tons. Instead of letting those cowardly and mediocre descendants guard the world's largest nuclear arsenal and be "peacefully evolved" by the enemy, it is better to throw out all the atomic bombs in hand before you die of old age!
Of course, Stalin also knew very well that such things could only be thought of randomly. As long as the Soviet Union does not have the ability to drop atomic bombs on New York and Washington, the so-called "nuclear world peace" can only be a pure fantasy: even if it succeeds in bombing London, there will still be the big tiger of the United States to fight behind.
Therefore, after rubbing his forehead, he turned his attention to the map of East Asia on the other wall: If the current situation on the European battlefield is the indigestion of the socialist camp after its rapid expansion, then the situation on the East Asian battlefield is It was chaos that was caught off guard.
——Until the moment before the sudden collapse of the Japanese Empire, the Soviet Red Army’s attention was always focused on the Western Front. Regarding the war situation in East Asia, apart from large-scale trade with the Japanese Empire, only the minimum alert force was maintained.
As a result, when the entire war machine of the Japanese Empire collapsed, Stalin discovered that the strength of the Soviet Red Army in the Far East was so weak that the total mobile forces that could be mobilized were less than 100,000. Even with the cooperation of the Japanese Communist Party and the Chinese Red Army, it would be very difficult to compete with the Americans for the legacy of the Japanese Empire. Even Manchuria and North Korea, which were originally thought to be a sure thing, will encounter twists and turns.
"...Incheon landing...the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea...that bully Halsey really made a good move!"
He squinted at the blue arrow on the map that cut off the Korean Peninsula horizontally, and couldn't help but snorted in frustration.
——On Christmas Day, the main force of the U.S. Pacific Fleet led by Admiral Halsey suddenly appeared on the west coast of the Korean Peninsula, and sent Marines to land and take control of the Incheon Port that had long been abandoned by the Japanese army, providing a threat to the North Koreans entrenched in Seoul. The * Group transported a large amount of ordnance supplies and allowed the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea, which had been in exile abroad for many years, to hang up a sign in Seoul, the old capital of the Kingdom of Korea with great political significance.
Obviously, this was a serious blow to the process of North Korea's socialist revolution and a great encouragement to North Korea's feudal and backward forces.
But unfortunately, the Soviet Red Army in the Far East was really unable to prevent this from happening.
The Soviet Red Army currently entering North Korea only has one brigade in Wonsan Port and one reinforced regiment in the Chongjin area. And Comrade Kim Il-sung, the intended leader of the Soviet regime in North Korea, actually only had two seriously understaffed divisions. Comrade Kim was able to peacefully take over the northern city of Pyongyang with the support of the Soviet Union and the cooperation of the Japanese troops stationed in North Korea. It was already very reluctant. As for marching further south to Seoul and destroying this nest of North Korean communist forces, we can only wait until he has established a relatively stable ruling order in Pyongyang and recruited more troops.
In the same way, the Soviet Red Flag Pacific Fleet based in Vladivostok is currently unable to sail out of the Tsushima Strait and confront the US Pacific Fleet outside the large pond of the Sea of Japan - due to long-term neglect, The size of the Soviet Pacific Fleet has always been pitiful. The largest flagship is only a heavy cruiser. How dare it dare to hang out in front of Admiral Halsey's dozens of aircraft carriers and a dozen battleships?
In fact, Vladivostok has now entered a freeze period. Except for a small number of destroyers, submarines, speedboats and light cruisers that came to Wonsan Port in advance, most of the ships of the Soviet Pacific Fleet are currently firmly locked The ground was frozen in the harbor and it was impossible to get out of the harbor.
Even in Manchuria, north of North Korea, the current situation is in chaos, and it may take a long time to stabilize.
——Although General Umezu Yoshijiro, the commander of the Japanese Kwantung Army, before leading the Kwantung Army to retreat back to the country to fight against the US military, he handed over the last Chinese Emperor Puyi to the Soviet Union as promised, and disarmed and demobilized most of the native troops in Manchukuo, but there was still a part of Manchukuo. The native troops refused to surrender and became bandits or petty warlords. At the same time, the entire Manchukuo instantly fell into a state of anarchy, and then there was a complete breakdown of social security.
The paratroopers that the Soviet Union parachuted in to take over power only had time to control several major cities such as Harbin and Changchun, and then barely ensured the smooth flow of several major railway lines. As for the troops and political workers of the Chinese Red Army, just taking over Peiping in the south was already a struggle, and the leading troops heading north to exit the border had just arrived in Shenyang. Most of the remote counties in Manchuria are currently in a chaotic situation where thugs are rampant.
Of course, all these difficulties are temporary. Stalin never thought that those Chinese comrades who had been tested for a long time could not even punish some criminals and thugs who looted homes and houses. Today, the fundamental obstacle and the biggest enemy of the socialist cause in the East is still The Americans across two oceans...
Just as Stalin was contemplating the map with his pipe in his mouth, a human figure suddenly formed in the void beside him.
——Splendid long golden hair, an exquisitely decorated boat-shaped hat, a brightly colored plaid skirt, and slender legs wrapped in plush socks.
Although it looks like a high-quality furry girl with good looks, the way she appears is obviously not that of a mortal.
However, Comrade Stalin turned a blind eye to this, as if he had become accustomed to it.
"...Comrade Sophie, do you have the latest information from the East?" He blew out a smoke ring and asked casually without looking back, "...What is the specific situation in Japan? Do any comrades of the Japanese Communist Party have it? Able to seize national power in a short time? ”
"...I'm afraid we are not optimistic, Comrade Stalin. Although a series of Soviet local regimes have been established in the Japanese archipelago, this has also stimulated the chaebols, landlords, nobles and other class enemies of the Japanese Empire, prompting them to defect to the United States more quickly. Under the banner of imperialism”
Comrade Ship Girl Sophie April replied, "...when the Japanese Soviet regime was established one after another, the power of the Japanese Provisional Government was also rapidly increasing. The plutocrats, capitalists and landlords of the old Japanese Empire all tried to use it. The guns and artillery of the US military came to suppress the workers' and peasants' movement and restore the old order."
"...In other words, just like Russia after the October Revolution, Japan is rapidly dividing into two camps, red and white, right?"
Stalin muttered in a low voice, "...What about Australia and the Pacific battlefield further south? Are there internal divisions in the Japanese army there?"
"...Yes, in the southern battlefield, only the Japanese Navy is basically under our control, while a considerable part of the Japanese Imperial Army there, after passing the initial wait-and-see stage, defected to the enemy. This led to Chaos, collapse and disintegration of the entire front.”
Sophie replied, and at the same time stretched out her hand to unfold a map of Southeast Asia and Oceania theaters that standardized the Japanese military's sphere of influence - just before the nuclear explosion in Tokyo, the Japanese Empire's wartime headquarters had just voluntarily abandoned Ceylon Island and abolished the establishment of the Indian Army. . Therefore, the Japanese-occupied area south of China roughly extends to Burma in the west, the Micronesian Islands in the east, Fiji in the southeast, and Australia in the southwest... excluding the control range of the Japanese navy, the military units deployed in this area The Japanese Army can be roughly divided into two systems: the Nanyang Army and the Australian Army. Nowadays, with the division and disintegration of the Japanese Empire itself, this vast southern occupied area covering tens of millions of square kilometers has also been cut into pieces due to the divergent positions of various Japanese armies.
"...First of all, more than a month after the nuclear explosion in Tokyo, General Terauchi Toshiichi, the commander-in-chief of the Nanyang Army, who was born in a Japanese aristocrat, finally issued a public telegram at the headquarters in Singapore, ordering the entire Nanyang Army to obey the Japanese Provisional Government and report to the Provisional Government of Japan. At the same time, the American and British allies surrendered. Withdrew from the war and negotiated peace with the US military. In New Guinea, Lieutenant General Anda 23, who was also born into a noble family, was neither willing to surrender to the US military nor join the red camp. He ultimately chose to commit suicide. Three divisions under his command After the military movement, it was basically taken over by our side
On the other hand, General Yamashita Fengfumi, the commander of the Australian Army stationed in Sydney, and the entire twenty divisions of the Japanese Australian Army agreed to join the Soviet camp. In addition, part of the Nanyang Army stationed in Indonesia, the Philippines and Indochina also strongly resisted Juichi Terauchi's order to surrender and asked for help from the Combined Fleet. The Combined Fleet Command has been busy sending ships to pick them out and temporarily place them in New Guinea and other places..."
Pointing to the various colored signs on the map, Sophie talked eloquently - in general, some of the Japanese troops in the Nanyang Theater are waiting to surrender, while some of the troops that have not lost their fighting spirit are making strides eastward and southward. It contracted and quickly abandoned the Philippines and Indonesia and other Southeast Asian regions with dense indigenous populations and fierce resistance movements. It moved to the Oceania region where troops and immigrants were more concentrated, and continued to fight against the US military.
This approach is obviously more in line with the actual situation and in line with the long-term interests of the Soviet Union and the Communist International movement. However, in view of the Americans' arrogant performance in East Asia, Stalin hoped that the completely red Combined Fleet could move north as soon as possible to attack the arrogance of Halsey's fleet. In this regard, Comrade Sophie's answer was: "...the new Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet, Narumi Inoue, has led the task force back to the mainland to take charge of the overall situation. The main force of the Combined Fleet, including four Yamato-class battleships, is under the command of Chief of Staff Kami Shigetoku Next, deal with the withdrawal of troops from Hainan Island..."