Chapter 494 Desert Storm Operation
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Although the Soviet Union spent a huge amount of money in vain, they imported a large number of industrial equipment from the Chinese Empire. These industrial equipment were very important for the economic recovery and national defense construction of the Soviet Union, and laid the foundation for the future development and growth of the Soviet Union. The Chinese Empire provided a huge loan of 20 dragon coins to the Soviet Union, which also played a key role in the rapid rise of the Soviet Union's national socialist economy.
Of course, the Chinese Empire did not deeply understand the huge energy of the Soviet Union's national socialist economic model. Although it extorted a huge sum of money from the Soviet Union when it was desperate, it did not expect that the Soviet Union would take advantage of this opportunity to quickly establish a national industrial system, and quickly restore the economy in the near future, and develop rapidly along the way, and even once posed a huge economic threat to the Chinese Empire.
The Chinese Empire did not expect future events, but in terms of immediate interests, Sino-Soviet trade made the Chinese Empire profitable. In particular, the Soviet industry was destroyed, and various commodities from the Chinese Empire were able to enter the Soviet Union continuously and quickly occupy the Soviet market.
In the first quarter when Sino-Soviet established trade, the Chinese Empire exported more than 8 million tons of various commodities and goods to the Soviet Union, with a trade volume of up to 1 billion dragon coins. The entire Soviet Union was filled with commodities from the Chinese Empire. If it weren't for the local whites and Russian, they would have thought they had arrived in the Chinese Empire.
The first quarter was the highest trade volume between China and the Soviet Union. Because the Soviet Union urgently needed these equipment and commodities to restore the Soviet economy and maintain social stability. Since then, it began to decline every month because the Soviets did not have much money to purchase except for purchasing necessary supplies. Although the Soviets did not have much money, the merchants of the Chinese Empire were able to pick up the last penny from their pockets.
The trade between the Chinese Empire and the Soviet Union made European countries envious, jealous and hated. Soon, European countries were no longer united. Germany felt the shattering of the Allies group and in order to resist the threat of the Allies. Germany decided not to make the mistake of fighting on both sides during the World War. Taking advantage of the opportunity of Tsarist Russia being replaced by the Soviet Union, Germany hoped to repair its relations with the Soviet Union. In this way, once a war broke out again, Germany did not have to fight on both sides. Only when France and Britain were focused on the Western Front had a chance of victory.
As early as the Tsarist Russian era, Germany supported Lenin's Bolshevik Party in order to destroy Tsarist Russia, which provided great help to Lenin. Therefore, there was a honeymoon friendship period between Germany and the Soviet Union.
Germany hopes to establish friendly relations with the Soviet Union so that Germany will not be attacked from both sides. At the same time, Germany's economy needs to be restored urgently, and trade with the Soviet Union is very important to Germany. So the German government sent the Vice Premier of State to visit Moscow in secret, met with Lenin, and negotiated the issue of Soviet-German trade cooperation.
The trade agreement reached between the Soviet Union and the Chinese Empire was a serious unequal treaty. The Soviet Union paid a huge price for this, because the Soviet Union had no choice but to accept it. Now Germany extended a helping hand to the Soviet Union. Lenin attached great importance to the development of trade cooperation relations with Germany because he knew that Germany was advanced in technology and Germany urgently needed to restore its economy. The Soviet Union and Germany had a common language. At the same time, the Soviet Union did not want to be controlled by the Chinese Empire, so the development of multilateral trade was the way out for the Soviet Union.
In addition to maintaining peaceful relationships with the Soviet Union in political terms, Germany can resist the threat of the Allied Powers, its economy needs to be restored urgently. The Soviet Union is a huge potential market. The huge trade volume between China and the Soviet Union makes Germany salivate. If this money can be given to Germany, it will greatly promote Germany's economic recovery speed. Germany believes that their technical reserves are no worse than the Chinese Empire, and can trade with the Soviet Union at a price that is more preferential than the Chinese Empire to grab the trade volume of the Chinese Empire.
The Soviet and German countries had each other's needs, hit it off, and soon signed a bilateral trade agreement. Compared with the Sino-Soviet trade agreement, the Soviet-German trade agreement was very fair. Germany exported technology and industrial equipment to the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union tightened its belt to save money to Germany. After the establishment of bilateral trade, the trade volume expanded to 40 million dragon coins in less than four months, while the Sino-Soviet trade volume dropped to less than 50 million dragon coins.
Germany came out to grab the Chinese Empire's trade volume with the Soviet Union, which made the Chinese Empire very dissatisfied. Soon, the Chinese Empire intervened and imposed economic sanctions on German companies and enterprises on the pretext that Germany provided the Soviet Union with high-tech that the Chinese Empire restricted exports.
Germany was not damaged in the world war, so the economy recovered quickly with the support of some loans from the Chinese Empire. However, compared with the Soviet-German trade, the Chinese Empire was always Germany's largest trading country. The technology and equipment necessary in many fields of Germany had to be imported from the Chinese Empire. Moreover, the Chinese Empire held German government's government of Weimar was very panicked about the economic sanctions of the Chinese Empire and immediately sent senior state officials to China to explain.
But no matter how German officials explain it, the Chinese Empire's share of trade with the Soviet Union was affected, and the profits involving tens of millions of dragon coins will naturally not be let go.
As he had no choice but to succumb to the will of the Chinese Empire and set a guarantee to prohibit the export of high-tech and related products that the Chinese Empire did not allow to the Soviet Union. In order to make up for the losses of the Chinese Empire in trade with the Soviet Union, the German government will turn an additional 70% of the total trade volume of Soviet-Germany to the Chinese Empire for purchases of goods every year on the basis of the normal Sino-German trade volume.
After obtaining the guarantee from the German government, the Chinese Empire lifted economic sanctions on Germany, but the Chinese Empire will send specialists to supervise Germany's exports to the Soviet Union, and the German government also agreed.
In this way, the Soviet-German trade agreement was acquisced by the Chinese Empire.
However, other European countries soon discovered the big cake of the Soviet Union. Poland, Finland, Sweden and other countries close to the Soviet Union also had a certain industrial foundation and were profitable to the Soviet Union's exports. Since Germany had established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and resumed trade, then these countries were naturally not willing to have a stalemate with their neighbors, and quickly established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and resumed trade and trade. The trade volume between these small countries and the Soviet Union was not large. It did not pose a threat to the competitiveness of the Chinese Empire's commodity, so the Chinese Empire turned a blind eye.
However, for the European Allies, the restoration of cooperation between Germany and the Soviet Union made Britain, France and Italy very worried. During the World War, although Tsarist Russia did not achieve a decent battle against Germany, it restrained the 5 million troops of the allies, reducing the huge military pressure on Britain and France on the Western Front. It can be said that there was no credit and hard work. The demise of Tsarist Russia once almost defeated the Allies, and the Allies knew the importance of Tsarist Russia's restraint on the Allies. Now Tsarist Russia is gone, and the Allies has lost an important ally that can restrain Germany on the Eastern Front. This has put the Allies in an unfavorable situation. Originally, the Allies took the lead in forming the European anti-Soviet international alliance. One of the purposes was to make Germany and the Soviet Union hostile to allow the Soviet Union to continue to play the role of Tsarist Russia. But now the Soviet Union has established diplomatic relations and signed a trade agreement, which sounded the alarm for the Allies.
To this end, the Allies proclaimed in Europe that Germany was degenerated by the Soviet Union and would become the enemy of the European capitalist world, and called on European countries to isolate Germany. At the same time, the Allies immediately sued Germany in the Tribunal, because the League of Nations had an important consensus that the League of Nations had was the collective international business. The Allies accused Germany of colluding with the Soviet Union, violating the League of Nations agreement and demanded the League of Nations to impose sanctions on Germany.
But what made the Allies tragic was that, as a permanent member, Germany voted to reject the proposals of Britain, France, Italy and the three countries. At the same time, in order to protect themselves, Germany also dragged the Chinese Empire down. The reason was that the Chinese Empire also established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and signed a trade agreement.
Therefore, the Chinese Empire had to help Germany explain and appease Britain, France and Italy. It said that the establishment of trade relations with the Soviet Union was only for humanitarianism, because the Chinese Empire could not bear to see the Soviet Union starving everywhere, and it had nothing to do with the Soviet government purely to help the Soviet people. The Chinese Empire reiterated its insistence on the attitude of ** International Trade and International to unchange, and dispel all member states' concerns.
The Chinese Empire's outsourcing rescued Germany, which prevented the League of Nations from passing the proposal to sanction Germany. Italy also compromised at this time, because the world war did not bring benefits to Italy, Britain and France did not fulfill its promise, making Italy and the Allies' camp intermittently interfere with the Allies. At this time, Italy found that Germany's economic recovery was faster than that of Britain and France. Therefore, Italy, the fence-in-law, decided to show goodwill to Germany and finally came forward to work with the Chinese Empire to rescue Germany.
Seeing that the League of Nations did not overthrow Germany, Britain and France planned to unilaterally impose economic sanctions and political isolation on Germany. However, the domestic economic recession between Britain and France was still early to recover, and economic sanctions on Germany did not work, because Germany's largest trading country was the Chinese Empire, and trade with Britain and France has always been single-digit due to hostility. Economic sanctions were invalid, and political isolation of Germany did not improve, because Germany and the Chinese Empire were closely related, and the Soviet Union also supported Germany, European countries did not want to offend Germany, for fear that the war would affect them again in the future.
On the military level, Britain and France once planned to invade Germany with armed forces because France had always been resentful of the German-occupied Alsace and Lorraine and looked forward to recapturing it one day. However, both the British and French sides were worried that a war would break out again and were unable to do so. In addition, the Chinese Empire and Italy did not agree to use force, so they gave up.
In the end, Britain and France had to admit the status quo, and there was no way to deal with Germany for the time being. However, Britain and France did not want the Soviet Union to establish friendly relations. Therefore, in order to win over the Soviet Union, Britain and France established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union in the summer of 1923 and resumed bilateral trade.
The Soviet Union was quite happy about this. The intrigue between the European powers and the Eastern Chinese Empire just allowed the Soviet Union to profit from it. As a result, the Soviet Union had many trade channels and was no longer willing to be slaughtered by the Chinese Empire. It could compare stores and choose the most cost-effective channel to buy the goods needed.
In this way, starting from the autumn of 1923, the Chinese Empire clearly felt that the Sino-Soviet trade volume had dropped significantly and shrunk, and its profits were no longer as before. For this reason, the Chinese Empire discussed countermeasures with Britain, France, Germany and other countries. The five countries wanted to make money from the Soviet Union, so they quickly reached an agreement, that is, the unified price of materials exported to the Soviet Union by both sides, and a standard was to formulate export standards according to the current trade volume of the five countries to the Soviet Union, and raise prices to prevent the Soviet Union from growing bigger. Subsequently, the plan formulated by the five countries was approved at the General Assembly of the National People's Congress, and all member states agreed to formulate unified export standards on trade with the Soviet Union and raise prices to curb the development of the Soviet Union.
Therefore, starting from September 1923, the trade prices of the League of Nations members with the Soviet Union increased in an all-round way. Key commodities soared by 200%, and countries unified standards and divided the trade quota evenly, so that the Soviet Union's plan to profit was bankrupt and returned to the starting point. However, the Soviet Union's national socialist economy had recovered at this time, and key equipment and materials had been purchased. The Soviet Union was working hard to reduce imports, improve the national industrial system, and formulated the Soviet Union's first five-year plan.
The Soviet Union entered the era of planned economy. This is similar to the economic development model of the Chinese Empire. However, it is more thorough than the Chinese Empire, because all the funds, manpower and material resources of the Soviet Union could be concentrated together to do one thing. The Chinese Empire was subject to various restrictions back then, and only the concentrated part of the manpower, material resources and financial resources could not reach the level of the Soviet Union.
Therefore, all countries, including the Chinese Empire, underestimated the fighting spirit and ability of the Soviet Union, and did not have a comprehensive economic blockade for the sake of current interests. By the time the Soviet Union developed and then sanctioned the Soviet Union, it was no longer able to do so.
The growth of the Soviet Union is a later story. As for the moment, the Chinese Empire gained considerable benefits using the Soviet Union, and overall gains outweigh losses.
The first reward is that in the third month after the establishment of Sino-Soviet trade, some of the weapons and equipment exported by the Chinese Empire to the Soviet Union were used to help third-world countries carry out national liberation movements.
The Soviet Union established activity groups around the world through the Communist International to incite local armed forces to oppose European colonists. Turkey was the first to be hit, because Turkey had collapsed after the war, and the military invasions of Greece, Britain, France and Armenia caused Turkey to lose a large area of land, including Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Arabia, Iraq, etc., and successively broke out wars. Among them, Iraq was assigned to the sphere of influence of the Chinese Empire by Turkey. The Chinese Empire's garrison in Kuwait dispatched to suppress Iraq's armed uprising, but it supported an Iraqi puppet government. Following the will of the Chinese Empire, it has actually separated from Turkey, and Türkiye also acquiesced to this.
However, Türkiye is unwilling to lose Egypt, Syria and other places because Egypt has the Suez Canal, which can exchange for huge income for Turkey. However, just because Egypt has a Suez Canal, it has also become the focus of fierce competition among the great powers of the East and the West.
Before the World War, the Chinese Empire chose to withdraw from the Suez Canal and cash out its shares. It also directed a wonderful drama of conflict between the Allies and the Allies, becoming one of the fuses for the outbreak of the war between the two major military groups.
After the war, Emperor Chen Hao of the Chinese Empire knew that the world would be peaceful for a long time and trade would flourish, and the Suez Canal would make huge profits, so he hoped to regain control of this important economic and strategic channel.
Similarly, after the war, the Allies and allied countries reached a peace treaty in Madrid, and Britain, France and Germany re-controlled the Suez Canal. Germany was in view of the fact that it could not take into account the Suez Canal during the World War, and the Panama Canal controlled by the Chinese Empire had been successfully operated for a long time. The Suez Canal was not important to Germany because German merchant ships no longer need to go through the Mediterranean controlled by France to the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, and can pass directly from the Panama Canal controlled by the Chinese Empire, which is safer. Therefore, Germany planned to give up the shares of the Suez Canal and resell it to the Chinese Empire for 13.3 billion German marks.
Excluding the depreciation factor of Mark, the money is actually only equivalent to 20 million dragon coins, which is no different from giving it to the Chinese Empire. Of course, this is actually a political transaction between the Chinese Empire and Germany. Germany sold shares of the Suez Canal to the Chinese Empire under the sharp depreciation of Mark, which naturally made the Chinese Empire cheaper. In return, in addition to ensuring that the Baghdad Railway is unobstructed to Germany, the Chinese Empire also allowed Germany to use the Panama Canal during the war. The latter one was very important to the German Navy, because in this way, the German Navy could quickly deliver the world and quickly enter the Indian Ocean during the war to threaten Britain and France's colonies there.
The Austro-Hungarian Empire's shares in the Suez Canal were directly acquired by the Chinese Empire, because the Austro-Hungarian Empire owed huge debts to the Chinese Empire, and Austria and Hungary did not object to this.
Similarly, Türkiye's shares in the Suez Canal were also obtained by the Chinese Empire, which was one of the conditions for the Chinese Empire to promise not to support the Ottoman Empire's government of Mohammed VI and to recognize that the Kemal Revolutionary Government was the only legal government in Turkey.
In this way, the Chinese Empire had actually obtained 50% of the shares, while Britain, France and Italy never gave up their shares in the Suez Canal. This made the Chinese Empire very dissatisfied.
Soon, the opportunity comes.
After the World War, Britain and France took advantage of the invasion of Turkey by Greece and Armenia, and sent troops to seize Egypt. In order to strengthen control and enslave Egypt, Britain and France declared Egypt under the protection of the two countries. Egypt became a protector of the two countries.
After the Second Greece-Turkish War, although Britain and France promised to return Egypt to Turkey, the two countries secretly used tricks to continue to maintain Egypt's status as a protector, and the Chinese Empire did not want Turkey to reconcile with Britain and France. They chose to default on this. Turkey had no choice but to accept the conditions of Britain and France. This aroused strong opposition from the Egyptian people.
The Egyptian bourgeois party, the Waffle Party, proposed to strive for the complete victory of Egypt "through peaceful means" and gained support from the people.
At the same time, the Soviet Union also targeted Egypt. In order to achieve the strategic goal of global redemption, Lenin instructed the Communist International to lead the Egyptian revolutionary movement and take the opportunity to subvert the Egyptian regime.
In the winter of 1918, the leader of the Egyptian bourgeois national movement, Zagruel and others filed a request to the British colonial authorities for the withdrawal of Egypt and granting Egypt a complete victory. They also organized a delegation to prepare to negotiate with the British government in London, and also requested to file a complaint at the Shanghai League of Nations.
In the spring of 1919, the British colonial authorities flatly rejected this reasonable request and arrested the leaders of the Waffle Party, triggering a great anti-British uprising by the Egyptian people.
In March 1919, the trend of anti-British demonstrations among Cairo students quickly swept across the country.
In 1922, with the secret support of the Soviet Union, the invalid peaceful demonstration turned into a spontaneous armed uprising, and fierce street fighting occurred in big cities such as Cairo. Under the command of the pro-Soviet leader Emir, the peasants carried out guerrilla wars in the countryside, attacking the British army and destroying the railways.
By the end of 1922, Emir's uprising had developed to a large scale, with more than 300,000 guerrillas spread all over the country.
In January 1923, Emir captured Cairo, and the British and French forces retreated to the Fortress of Port Said, and most of the Suez Canal was occupied by Egyptian rebels.
On January 15, the British and French coalition forces could no longer support it, and the calls for opposition to war in the two countries overwhelmed the waves. In addition, since the disarmament of the five-nation convention, the number of British and French troops was seriously insufficient. After so long, the British and French military expenditures were huge and the finances were unable to support it.
So Britain and France sought help from the Chinese Empire, because the Suez Canal also had shares in the Chinese Empire, and they could not be taken back by the Egyptian rebels! But the Chinese Empire took the opportunity to demand the acquisition of shares in Britain and France in Egypt. In this regard, Britain and France were quite angry and scolded the Chinese Empire for taking advantage of the situation. However, Italy quickly flattered the Chinese Empire at this time and took the initiative to transfer the shares in Italy to the Chinese Empire for 9 million dragon coins.
Britain and France disagreed with the conditions of the Chinese Empire, and soon Emil led his troops to capture the Port of Said, and 50,000 British and French coalition forces were forced to surrender.
Emir quickly established the Egyptian Soviet Socialist Republic. The whole world knew that the person behind Emir was the Soviet Union. The relationship between Britain and France and the Soviet Union deteriorated rapidly and all trade exchanges were abolished.
The Soviet Union attempted to occupy the Suez Canal and instructed the Emir government to unconditionally recover the Suez Canal. This touched the interests of the Chinese Empire, so the Chinese Empire sent troops to Egypt on the pretext of protecting the Suez Canal.
In February of the 23rd year of Guanghua, more than 20 warships of the Mediterranean Fleet of the Chinese Empire arrived near Egypt, shelling the Port of Said and Egyptian coastal cities along the way. The Chinese Empire's Cyprus military base dispatched three air wings to attack Cairo, the capital of Egypt, and blew up the Presidential Palace of Emir.
In March, the Third Marine Division of the Imperial Empire landed on Türkiye's territory and launched an attack on the Egyptian army from the Sinai Peninsula. A military operation code-named "Desert Storm" was launched on a large scale.
Over the vast desert, hundreds of fighter planes roared across the sky, hundreds of chariots on the ground formed an attack cluster, roaring forward, rolling up sand and dust in the sky, like a sandstorm coming.
Although the Egyptian army defeated the British and French coalition forces and had a strong morale, they were facing the elite armored division of the Chinese Empire armed to the teeth. Emir was overconfident and thought that he could defeat his opponent with the human sea tactics and the spiritual power of the red Soviets. But he was very wrong. The flesh-and-blooded Egyptian army had only one result when it encountered the impact of the steel torrent, that is, flesh-and-blooded flying.
A bloody battle on March 5 became the most brutal battle in Egypt's history. The armored forces of the Third Marine Division of the Chinese Empire defeated Emir's 170,000 elite troops. The three armored musketeers of the Chinese Empire built a horrifying Sinai meat grinder and massacred 60,000 Egyptian troops within three hours, which made the Egyptian army frightened and the 170,000 troops were about to collapse.
Faced with the one-sided massacre, Amir was helpless. Within three days, the Egyptian army gave up six cities in a row and retreated to Cairo. The Chinese Emperor ** then occupied three cities on the Suez Canal and restored the Suez Canal navigation.
Because the front line was too long, the Emperor of China rested for three days. During these three days, the Emperor of China successively drew troops from the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean, landing from Port Said and Port Suez respectively, forming a three-sided attack on Cairo.
On March 22, two armored divisions and three mechanized infantry divisions of the Chinese Emperor completed the combat deployment and quickly advanced into Egypt. The entire Egyptian desert rolled up a sandstorm of 180 kilometers from east to west, sweeping across Egypt vertically.
Emir witnessed the strong combat power of the Chinese Emperor. Compared with the Chinese Emperor, the gap between the British and French coalition forces and the Chinese Emperor was huge. The gap in strength cannot be made up by spiritual strength and human sea tactics. Moreover, Emir's subordinates were basically peasant guerrilla troops, which made the newly established Soviet regime face a huge survival crisis.
Emir relied on the support of the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union's weapons and equipment were naturally not as good as the Chinese Empire, and many of the weapons and equipment were actually imported from the Chinese Empire. When the Chinese Empire launched a military operation in the desert storm, it naturally put pressure on the Soviet Union, forcing the Soviet Union to no longer support Emir.
Under this circumstance, the Emir quickly split, and the local bourgeois forces in Egypt were unwilling to be ruled by the Soviet regime and quickly moved closer to the Chinese Empire.
Aford, a member of the Egyptian royal family, a bourgeois politician and military strategist, quickly seized the opportunity and launched a military coup in Cairo, arresting Emir and the main members of the Soviet government. The restoration of the Egyptian royal family received support from many Egyptian veterans and nobles. The peasant army led by Emir had no political vision and lost its fighting spirit after being defeated by the Emperor of China, so he had fantasies about the restoration of Aford.
Aford immediately established the Kingdom of Egypt and appointed himself as King Aford I of Egypt. At the same time, he actively sent a special envoy to contact the Emperor of China.
Originally, the Emperor of China was about to take Egypt in one breath, but a sudden problem made Emperor of China particularly embarrassed. The reason was that the M16 tank used by the Emperor of China's armored forces had a serious failure. The high-intensity military operations in the desert for many days exposed a fatal problem, that is, there was no sand protection system, and the sand caused the failure rate of the tank to soar. The m16 tanks, which had more than half of the m16 tanks in a week, broke down one after another, and the armored division was forced to stop advancing. Although the W16 wheeled infantry tank was still usable, it lacked the ability to attack. The Desert Storm Operation Command canceled the offensive order.
When Afude sent people to seek peace, the Chinese Empire government immediately agreed to suspend the attack and the two sides started peace talks.
The Egyptian side was already scared by the battle a week ago and did not notice the abnormality of the Chinese Emperor. They were determined to negotiate, so the Egyptian king agreed to all the conditions proposed by the Chinese Empire.
The two sides reached an agreement in less than three hours of negotiations. Egypt recognized the Chinese Empire's control and management rights over the Suez Canal and allowed the Chinese Empire to send troops to garrison the canal. Egypt was not allowed to garrison within 100 kilometers, and the Chinese Empire's control over the Suez Canal was custody within 10 kilometers. The Chinese Empire's control over the Suez Canal was extended to 1999, starting from 1924. Egypt compensated the Chinese Empire for economic losses on the Suez Canal and the Chinese Empire's military expenditure totaled 10 million dragon coins, controlled the Egyptian protests and remarks, gave the Chinese Empire one-sided most-favored-nation treatment, and allowed Chinese Empire citizens to open factories in Egypt.
After the negotiations were reached, the Chinese Emperor ** successively withdrew from the Suez Canal area and entered the three fortresses of Port Said, Ismeria and Port Suez.
It was not until many years later that a military paper about the Desert Storm published by a military strategist in the Chinese Empire was published that the Egyptian military knew that the Chinese Emperor's armored troops had encountered a fatal disaster at that time. If the Egyptian army could seize the fighter jets and counterattack quickly, the victory or defeat might change. Even if they could not win the entire war, they would at least save some face. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!