Therefore, while many politicians in the United States have stepped up their efforts to smear and agitate the sentiment of the Chinese new government and war of opposition, the US intelligence agencies, together with Britain and France, conducted a larger intelligence spy on China.

A detailed investigation was conducted from industry, agriculture, economy to education, medical care and other aspects. Although the most detailed data and data were not available, the intelligence data summarized by the three countries still showed that China already has a certain military and industrial strength.

Although data can represent a great background of strength, in the war, the people who decide the war have never been able to obtain detailed information and information.

Although China drove away Japan during the War of Resistance Against Japan, Japan's military strength was at the end of the world's powers, which was better than the old Italy.

Therefore, the Sino-Soviet Battle became the best observation point for the United States, Britain, France and other countries to judge the combat effectiveness of China's military. They spared no effort to collect information about China's military combat, trying to judge the combat effectiveness of China's military.

But what drove the intelligence agencies of several countries was that because the combat areas between China and the Soviet Union were too deep, it was very difficult to transmit intelligence. The concealment of reports by China and the Soviet Union did to a large extent confuse the United States, Britain and France, and it was difficult for them to obtain the latest and fastest information on the war process from the distant and deep combat areas.

Among the latest information obtained by the US intelligence agencies, only the information that the Soviet Union launched a counterattack in the Far East was just received. But how large is the scale of the counterattack? How effective is the counterattack? How large is the combat loss ratio of the counterattack? These more specific information are unknown.

As intelligence agencies, they naturally will not use the data released on the official mainstream media of the two countries to analyze and judge the battlefield situation. Each country will deliberately reduce its own losses and exaggerate its losses to beautify itself. In this regard, everyone in the world does this.

Only fools will publish real casualties, and only fools will believe these officially released data.

It is precisely because of this that Roosevelt is deeply worried. How strong is China's strength? It seems that only after the two sides fight head-on on the battlefield can we know...

The world war situation has undergone great changes in 1943. Although the Chinese Soviet war was vigorous in western and northern China, due to the deliberate concealment of both sides, the course of the war only exists in the reports of the top leaders of the two countries.

However, the warring sides of the Soviet nuclear Germans were promoting the world with great fanfare.

The Germans advocated the invincible victory of the German national chariot, while the Soviets promoted the cruelty of the Germans and the tenacity of the Soviet people. The two sides not only attacked each other on the battlefield with real swords and guns, but also on the invisible secret front and on the stage of world public opinion, both sides were competing hard.

In late June, after a spring of energy conservation, the Germans launched a new round of offensive this year, with more than 2 million people, thousands of tanks, tanks, and thousands of aircraft attacking the heartland of the Soviet Union one after another.

Faced with the German army, which was in full swing, five million Soviet soldiers and civilians fought on the defense line, resisting every kilometer and one kilometer. Both sides knew that this year's battle would determine the fate of the Soviet Union's life and death.

On June 22, at 3 a.m., Germany dispatched about 2,000 aircraft to suddenly attack more than 50 airports on the defense line of more than 500 kilometers north and south of the Soviet Union, as well as other military bases, transportation hubs and important cities.

It also used thousands of cannons to bomb the important Soviet fortifications on this line of defense. At 30 o'clock, the German army was guided by armored and motorized troops. The airborne troops airborne into the depth of the Soviet defense cooperated to launch a full-line attack on the Soviet Union. The Soviet-German war escalated again.

After the German army launched a new round of offensives, the Soviet army used its temporary fortification system built in a winter to carry out arduous resistance. However, due to the long freezing period of the Soviet Union, the fortifications were constructed very hasty, and many bunkers and fortifications could only be constructed in the simplest way, which caused the Soviet Union to suffer heavy casualties during defense.

On the first day of the new offensive, the Soviet army lost more than 400 aircraft. More than 100 of them were destroyed at the airport. Two-thirds of these more than 100 aircraft were blown up at the airport during the first round of air strikes.

At the same time, due to the successful imitation of China's new jet fighter jets, the German Air Force successfully won air supremacy. The German tank troops and motorized infantry also quickly broke through the Soviet defense line and advanced 30 kilometers. A large number of military warehouses on the defense line, the reserved weapons, equipment and military supplies almost all fell into the hands of the German army.

The German army's ground attack was carried out in three ways: the "North" Army Group, commanded by Marshal Leib, and under the jurisdiction of the 16th, 18th Army and the 4th Tank Cluster, with a total of 29 divisions. With the support of 700 aircraft from the 1st Air Brigade, it attacked north from Yaroslavl.

Intent to open up the north to capture St. Petersburg, occupy coastal ports, make the Soviet fleet lose its base, and shake hands with the Finnish army on Soviet territory.

The German "Central Middle Road" Army Group undertakes the main assault mission to attack Vladimir on the central Soviet Union. It is commanded by Marshal Bock, and is under the jurisdiction of the 4th, 9th Army and the 2nd and 3rd Tank Groups, with a total of 50 divisions and 2 brigades, supported by more than 900 aircraft from the 2nd Air Force.

The mission was to carry out an assault from Vladimir to the east along the railway line to Kazan in the east. It cut off the strategic front of the Soviet defense and encircle and annihilate the Soviet defensive forces that resisted the attack on the front.

The German "Central Middle Road" army group launched a fierce attack on the Soviet army with about 40 divisions. The Soviet Union organized the mechanized 6th Army of the 10th Army, the 6th Cavalry Army and the 19th Army of the 3rd Army to jointly launch a counter-assault on the German Ukiyka Group.

The counter-assault was commanded by Yuryev, deputy commander of the Front Army. Because the dispatched corps were scattered in various places for even defense, the preparation time was not only very hasty, but also could not concentrate troops for defense. In addition, the lack of necessary communication equipment, it was unable to form a powerful assault corps to carry out concentrated assault on the German army.

Moreover, the 19th Mechanized Army had already fallen into a tense battle. The 6th Cavalry Army and the 6th Mechanized Army suffered serious losses during the march and deployment. In addition, fuel and ammunition were exhausted in frequent battles. The anti-assault troops were forced to give up the Ge counterattack and retreat to the Vicsa area.

The Soviet retreat immediately appeared a large gap between the flanks of the Northwest Front and the Central Face Army. The 4th Army on the left wing of the Central Face Army was violently attacked by German air force and artillery. It failed to occupy the predetermined defensive zone.

By the third day of the outbreak of the spring offensive, the two wings of the German tank corps had penetrated into the Soviet territory for more than 170 kilometers. The strategic transportation center of Arzamas was present in front of the German tanks. The three armies arranged by the Soviet Union were facing the danger of encirclement between the north and south wings.

Faced with this crisis, Stalin ordered the 17th, 19th and 20th armies gathered in the rear to immediately reinforce the area of ​​Arzamas for defense.

The German army's plan was very simple. It was to divide the south and north routes into clamp-shaped assault, responsible for the 9th Army and the 3rd Tank Group on the South Road, and launch an attack from the Liangzan area. With the help of the upper and lower railway lines, the German army of the two routes would meet in Arzamas with two wings and attack, gather the jaws, forming a large encirclement.

The tactics are extremely simple but effective. Along the way, there are not only many important industrial cities, but also important strategic locations and strategic production factories. Without destroying them, the Soviet Union was like a young hero who could not kill him. He could always produce aircraft, cannons and tanks.

At the same time, after a winter rest in Stalingrad, 700,000 German troops were dispatched again.

The German "Southern" army group was commanded by Marshal Longdstedt and under its jurisdiction, which also contained the Romanian 3rd and 4th Army, the Tank Cluster and a Hungarian Rapid Army, a total of 41 divisions and 13 brigades. The 4th Air Force and the Romanian Air Force provided air support.

The task is to attack north along the railway line, which is to add chips to the new round of German offensive and give greater multiple pressure to the Soviet Union.

The Pioneer was composed of the 1st Tank Cluster and two armies, advancing north along the railway line. The 1st Tank Cluster was arranged between the 6th and 17th Army, and its mission was to cooperate with the two armies and head straight to Saratov. On the 23rd, the 1st German tank Cluster launched an assault on the junction of the 5th and 6th Army of the Soviet Army, opening a gap of 12 kilometers wide.

The armies of the Southwest Front Army's middle and left wing were facing the danger of being deeply surrounded by the German army. In order to eliminate the enemy that broke into the ground, Kilbonos assigned six mechanized armies and three infantry troops to carry out counterattacks. However, it was particularly difficult to concentrate several mechanized armies to carry out concentrated assaults.

At the same time, due to the lack of unified command, the various armies failed to organize coordinated actions and failed to counterattack. The German army then changed its deployment and invested in elite corps, breaking the Soviet army's resistance at the junction. On the 30th day, the capture of Kameson was lost, and the road leading to Saratov opened. Saratov lost the last natural barrier and had to face the war directly like Stalingrad.

However, it is worth mentioning here that in Hitler's plan, the German army in Stalingrad would divide 300,000 people to continue to go east along the railway line on the Caspian Sea and enter Kazakhstan all the way east, completing the feat of opening up the Soviet Union and allowing soldiers from China and Germany to shake hands on the Soviet territory.

Hitler's idea was also cancelled under the persuasion of the Chinese envoy. Hitler's crazy idea was indeed very attractive, but it is still unrealistic. Not to mention how far it is from Stalingrad to the Sino-Germany meeting, the vast desert in western Kazakhstan made the action of the meeting full of romantic hardships.

Instead of wasting precious oil in the vast desert wasteland, it is better to destroy the Soviet Union and then shake hands and meet pragmatically. Fortunately, although Hitler was crazy, he still understood the meaning conveyed by the special envoy secretly sent by the Hualian government.

As the General Staff predicted, although the German summer offensive achieved great success in the first two days, the Soviets' tenacious stamina quickly showed up. On the 29th, on the sixth day after the German summer offensive began, the Arzamas area became the key point of competition between the two sides.

The command of the Soviet armed forces ordered all armies to defend the area. They will draw more reserves to reinforce, and the two sides launched another desperate battle around Arzamas.

The Germans spent a lot of money on this attack. Not only did they invest huge troops and combat weapons, but they also included more than 500,000 second-line combat troops recruited by Italy, Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Czechoslovakia and other occupied vassal states.

In the northwest of the Soviet Union, Finland, which the Soviet Union attacked before the outbreak of World War II, also launched a counterattack with the support of the Germans. It not only severely damaged the Soviet troops stationed in Finland, but also seized a large amount of weapons and ammunition, which forced the Soviet Union to draw another batch of troops to Finland to suppress the rebels.

But for Hitler, Finland's restraint and Italy and its own servants were not as pleasing as China's military operations in the central Soviet Union and the Far East.

Although Hitler wanted to promote the greatness of Chinese friends all over the world, under the strong request of the Special Envoy of the United Nations League, Hitler could only praise Chinese friends in a small scale at internal gatherings.

Regarding the difficult difficulties the Soviet Union was in, starting last year, the United States, Britain, France and other countries adjusted their diplomatic policies and began to provide the greatest help to the Soviet Union in substantial detail.

Because they found that if the Soviet Union was really defeated, the Chinese would not be threatened from the north. In this way, the Chinese could invest more troops into Southeast Asia and try to retake the US, Britain, France and other countries would definitely not want to see it.

Therefore, no matter how much they hate the Soviet red regime and how much they hate the Soviet government, the United States, Britain and France still need to provide a large amount of supplies to the Soviet Union to strengthen the strength of the Soviet Union to avoid the Soviet Union's defeat. The same old saying is that there are no eternal friends and no eternal enemies.

However, the most unfavorable thing about democracy is that the sharing of doubts and rights always leads to different voices and small actions in the face of emergencies.

Due to the failure in the early stages of the Soviet War, especially the capture of the Soviet capital, many military strategists and politicians in the British and American countries were skeptical about the prospect of cooperation with the Soviet Union and even made various pessimistic estimates.

Although President Roosevelt did not agree with all kinds of pessimistic predictions, in order to grasp first-hand materials on the actual situation of the Soviet Union and specific requirements for military aid, Roosevelt decided to send his close adviser, Harry Hopkins, who was in charge of US loan affairs, to the Soviet Union as the president's personal representative.

At that time, Hopkins was in London with Prime Minister Churchill. After receiving Roosevelt's instructions, he immediately flew from Scotland to Switzerland. He then transferred several times from Switzerland before arriving in Kazan.

Hopkins also believed that it was necessary to have a deep understanding of the situation in the Soviet Union, and he had such an idea when he visited Britain. He discovered many changes there: "The Soviet Union has not been subjected to violent air strikes for a long time, but behind this tranquility is the sign of a greater storm."

However, Hopkins, who arrived in Kazan, found that although the Soviet Union was facing great pressure, the Soviets were still optimistic. The facial expressions of the people walking on the streets were extremely relaxed and pleasant, and even those who did not laugh had a firm expression on their faces. The development of the war did not make the Soviets feel pessimistic and desperate.

After Hopkins arrived in Kazan, he was immediately received by Stalin. He told Stalin: President Roosevelt believed that Hitler was the public enemy of mankind, so he was willing to provide more assistance in the Soviet war against Germany.

Stalin talked to him about the situation on the Soviet-German battlefield, and said that after the failure of last year, the Soviet people had withstood the crazy attack of the Germans.

At the same time, Stalin emphasized that the Germans had consumed too much energy in the offensive last year, and such energy could not be recovered in a month or two. Although Hitler launched a new round of offensives, the Soviet people were confident that they could withstand it.

However, Stalin also vaguely proposed that in the face of German bombers and fighter jets, the Soviet army urgently needed anti-aircraft machine guns, heavy machine guns and rifles, especially air defense weapons such as aircraft, tanks and anti-aircraft guns. Hopkins said that as long as the weather permits, everything will be done to transport supplies to the Soviet Union in the next few weeks.

However, the issue of heavy weapons was not finally resolved. Hopkins proposed the conditions for implementing the long-term supply plan, saying that the US government must not only have a comprehensive understanding of the Soviet military situation, but also the model, quantity and quality of their military weapons.

In addition, we must have a full understanding of the raw materials and the production capacity of the factory. Stalin immediately agreed to Hopkins' request for field investigations of the Soviet area currently controlled by the Soviet Union, allowing him to go deep into the frontier of combat, arsenals and other places for visits.

Through this visit, Hopkins saw with his own eyes that the Soviet Union still had in the remaining controlled areas, grasped the more detailed situation of the Soviet army's counterattack in many places, and also learned that the Soviet leaders were full of confidence in defeating the German fascism.

From this he concluded that the Soviet Union could not only withstand the enemy's attacks, but also give the enemy a heavy blow. He reported to Roosevelt in Kazan: "I have a deep trust in this front, and the morale here is particularly strong and I am full of firm confidence in victory."

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