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Chapter 1597: Allied Counterattack (1)

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    During the period of reorganization and training of Li Guoyao's troops, major changes have taken place in the situation on both the European and Asian battlefields.

    June 6, 1944, according to the Allied Tehran Agreement.  More than 2 million Allied troops under the command of Eisenhower landed in Novotel, France, opening up the second battlefield in Europe.

    The U.S. First Army commanded by Bradley, Patton's Third Army, and the British-Canadian 21st Army commanded by Gomery were like two sharp swords, striking directly into the French interior.

    Hitler sent Rommel and Kluge to command the counterattack, but they failed to effectively stop the Allied advance.

    Subsequently, the people of Paris revolted, and de Gaulle, who was in exile in the United Kingdom, returned to the capital after an absence of 4 years with the Allied forces.

    On September 3, the Allies liberated Bufenssel and reached Germany's western border.

    The Soviet Army on the Eastern Front also launched a powerful offensive at this time, entering the Baltic Sea, Poland, the Balkans and Hungary.  Germany, caught between the east and west fronts, was in dire straits.

    Although Hitler¡¯s remaining days were numbered, he still attempted to take risks.

    He activated the veteran Marshal Rundstedt, and after careful planning, he chose the Ardennes region as the breakthrough point for his final counterattack.

    On December 16, 1944, more than 20 divisions rushed towards the Ardennes area, catching Eisengunweil ??by surprise.  The Allied fronts in Belgium and Luxembourg soon faltered, opening up a "bulge" that loomed over Christmas in Paris and Bufenssel.

    Churchill hurriedly asked for help from Moscow and asked the Soviet army to launch an offensive in advance on the eastern front to reduce the pressure on the Allied forces on the western front.

    On January 12, the Soviet troops on the Eastern Front launched a full-scale attack to cooperate with the Allies.

    Eisenhower brought reinforcements from the south, and after nearly a month of hard fighting, he drove the German troops out of the salient and stabilized the front. However, the Allied forces' timetable for marching into the Third Reich was completely disrupted.

    But on the whole, the German army has an absolute disadvantage, and the battle lines are inevitably advancing towards the German mainland. Germany's defeat is almost a foregone conclusion.

    As the Allied forces gradually approach the German mainland, various problems on how to deal with the liberated European countries also urgently need to be solved by the Allies.

    Although the Soviet Union, Britain and the United States all preached the principle of democracy in words and claimed that the liberated people should be allowed to freely choose the government they love at the appropriate time without any external interference,

    ¡°But it¡¯s easy to say that, everyone agrees with these principles.  But there is still a war ahead, so it is not certain whether these can be guaranteed.

    After all, military traffic inevitably passes through these newly liberated areas, surrounded by poverty, chaos, and political instability.  Temporary measures must be taken to maintain order, restore traffic and meet basic civilian needs, and temporary measures have always been easy to fix in the social and political sphere.

    ??Thus, the development of military events created two different spheres of influence in Europe.

    To the east, the Red Army fought its way through Romania, Bulgaria, and parts of Yugoslavia, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, and Finland.  This fact gave the Russians a major say in the political and civil arrangements of these countries.

    To the west, British and American troops similarly fought their way through France and Belgium, as well as parts of Italy and the Netherlands.

    In addition, a small group of British troops landed in Greece on October 5, 1944, and before the end of the month, a few detachments with very small numbers pushed northward to pursue the retreating German troops until all of Greece was liberated.

    The military operations of Britain and the United States were so closely integrated that no clear spheres of influence were formed from military developments. However, informal agreements between the two governments gave the British dominance in Greece, Italy, Belgium, and the Netherlands.  position, while France, at least from an economic and military supply point of view, was primarily under American influence.

    Immediately afterwards, the Polish people launched an uprising in Warsaw. At the same time, the Red Army quickly invaded Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and other countries.

    In Hungary, decisive unrest occurred on October 15, 1944, when Regent Admiral Horthy publicly announced his intention to surrender to the Red Army.  The Germans were able to complete an armed coup before the decision was fully implemented. Horthy was arrested and sent to Germany, where the German army took over Budapest and western Hungary.

    But a part of the Hungarian army, under the leadership of General Mikolos, acted on Horthy's declaration and defected to the Russian side.

    On December 23, General Mikolos became the head of the provisional government under the protection of Russia, and the Allies began to negotiate an armistice agreement with the new regime.  According to this armistice agreement, HungaryLi was required to pay an indemnity of US$300 million for following Germany in launching a war of aggression, to be paid in goods over six years.  Of this amount, $100 million was earmarked for Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, and $200 million was for the Soviet Union.

    At the same time, Finland also successfully negotiated terms with the Soviets.  The Finnish government requested an armistice on August 25, the fighting ceased on September 5, and the armistice agreement was signed on September 19, 1944.

    The terms of the armistice were similar to those for Romania and Bulgaria, restoring the 1940 borders except for one area in the far north, including the important nickel mine of Petsamo, which was ceded to the Soviet Union.

    At the same time, an Allied Control Committee was established, and the reparations to the Soviet Union were set at 300 million U.S. dollars. The supreme power of the Soviet Supreme Command was very clearly defined.  One thing is different. Finland was forced to permanently cede certain military bases to Russia.

    Looking at the whole of Europe, Germany is facing an unprecedented defeat, and the battle lines are spreading towards the German mainland at a speed that exceeds Hitler's expectations.

    When the situation of the Germans in Europe was extremely bad, the war against Japan had uneven development on the three main fronts - China, Burma and the Pacific.

    In China, the offensive launched by the Japanese army in April 1944 continued to make progress. The U.S. air force bases built with great effort to bomb Japan were occupied by the enemy one by one. The most important one was the base in Guilin, which was destroyed on September 14, 1944.  Abandoned to the Japanese.

    Soon thereafter, Japan¡¯s offensive into mainland China was temporarily suspended.

    Americans believe that the main reason why the Chinese army is unable to defend these air bases is that Chiang stationed a large part of his army in North China to guard against Yan'an.

    The remedy seemed obvious. Combining the military forces of Chongqing and Yan'an, together with a political agreement between the two rival parties, seemed likely to enable China to make a significant contribution to the war, or to have a significant impact after the war.  Peace and democracy are the only ways to hope for development.

    As a result, from the summer of 1944, U.S. policy in China began to increasingly consciously place political goals above narrow military considerations.

    The U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff's confidence in China's military contribution to the fight against Japan has gradually diminished. Because of this, the fundamental reason why the Americans originally envisioned the Burma campaign no longer exists.

    However, the instructions to Mountbatten, Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Southeast Asia, have not changed.  His top priority is still to re-open land transportation to China through Myanmar and to defend some airports in India that serve as bases for flying over the "Hump" route. Therefore, the counterattack against Myanmar started in the jungles of northern Myanmar.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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