Chapter 63: The Storm Suddenly Changes

The piece of cake drawn by Zhuo Fei was not too tempting for Chiang Kai-shek, and he was currently concerned about the situation at home. Although the New Army achieved good results in Hebei and Shandong, there was still a big gap between the results he hoped for. Moreover, Chiang Kai-shek had always hoped to be recognized by Western countries, and after refusing to continue to increase troops in Burma, he was also worried that he would turn against Britain and the United States because of this, and Chiang Kai-shek did not care at all whether the Soviets would fight with Germany.

Xu sensed what Chiang Kai-shek was thinking, so Zhuo Fei didn't say anything more, but chose to return to Burma. Zhuo Fei knew that the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party was a stopgap measure, Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong were both heroes, and once the domestic situation was eased, the contradictions between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party would erupt, and Zhuo Fei never wanted to be caught between the two parties. The umbrella company is not Zhuo Fei's company, it also involves Angela's interests, Zhuo Fei now just wants to quickly take South Asia to complete the commitment to the coalition government, and then take the umbrella company to seek his own interests.

"That's for sure, but I promised your uncle that I would make him a real rich man." Angela personally went to the airport to greet Zhuo Fei, who returned from Chongqing, and when she saw that Zhuo Fei's face was not good, she asked a few more questions, and learned that she was worried about the relationship and interest entanglement with China for the sake of protecting the umbrella, so she made fun of it. "Angela, you must know that it seems that when the umbrella company was formed, we were all proletariats and came together in order to live a good life, and this goal certainly cannot be changed."

The umbrella company has grown from scratch and has experienced too many twists and turns during the period, Angela naturally does not doubt Zhuo Fei's ability, especially the umbrella company has grown to the point where it has grown to the current point, which contains the hard work of too many people, how can you say that you can give up casually. Seeing Zhuo Fei so distressed, Angela could only patiently persuade a few words, but fortunately, the final plan had been launched, as long as the Independence Army could give full play to their abilities, the most popular goal sought by the umbrella company would definitely be achieved.

Angela was very optimistic, but Zhuo Fei was still worried, "It's not easy to do, it's not easy to do." Zhuo Fei pointed to the world map hanging on the wall and said to Angela, "It is not difficult for us to take South Asia, but the difficult thing is that the Japanese army is already preparing to land in the United States on a large scale, and with the assistance of the German submarine force and the Mexican army, the strength of the Allies will be greatly reduced." This is indeed good news for our Australian plan, but don't forget, once the Americans can't withstand the attack of the Japanese and Mexican troops, it seems likely that we will have to face the threat of the Japanese army to seize Australia. ”

Compared to the continental United States, it is true that Australia is closer to the New Guinea group that the Japanese plan to occupy than the mainland of the United States. Now that the Japanese are arrogant to the extreme, relying on the American factories they control, the Japanese can easily produce enough weapons, ammunition, and armaments in the next few years. The umbrella company can take advantage of the weakness of Britain and the United States to occupy Australia, but the umbrella company is facing the problem of population scarcity, once the Japanese army attacks, the umbrella company can only evacuate Australia.

Listening to Zhuo Fei pointing to the map and explaining, Angela had a different opinion from Zhuo Fei, "I think you think too much about things and confuse your brain." Not to mention that the Japanese have not yet occupied the New Guinea Islands, even if they have occupied them, which do you think the Japanese value more than the vast and sparsely populated Australia and the United States? Besides, isn't there still the USSR? According to the information we have now, the British and Americans have secretly contacted the Stalinist regime, and as long as the terms offered by the British and the Americans are attractive enough, the greedy Slavs will definitely not sit idly by and watch the Germans occupy all of Europe. ”

In order to completely convince Zhuo Fei, Angela opened the safe, took out the telegram received from Europe in the last few days and handed it to Zhuo Fei. "Look, this is a telegram from our people in Europe, the Germans are currently preparing to carry out the landing on the British mainland, but because the German Navy has drawn half of its submarines to support the Japanese, since the beginning of the month, the British mainland has been able to receive sea aid from the United States, including a large number of weapons, ammunition and daily necessities."

"And just before you got off the plane, I just got the latest news, the United States Atlantic Fleet and some ships hired from other countries and the Japanese Combined Fleet were at war, although I don't know the specific battle situation, but I can be sure that the losses of the Japanese Combined Fleet should not be small." Angela's new news at this time made Zhuo Fei crazy, he didn't want the Japanese Combined Fleet to be defeated now, so he had to die with the American Atlantic Fleet.

It's just a pity that the information received by Angela is not very detailed, and the two can only make preliminary judgments based on the number of ships mentioned in the telegram. "It seems that our task force has to speed up, on the one hand, using shadows to promote the plan of a large number of Japanese troops to land on the American mainland, and on the other hand, to speed up the plan to form a servant army. If we wait for the new Japanese ship to go to sea, we will be in trouble. Zhuo Fei calmly analyzed the current situation, only stayed in Ruili for one night, and immediately rushed to the front line of Donghu.

Time, Zhuo Fei felt that his time was very insufficient, but his final plan for South Asia had to be temporarily suspended, because he overestimated the speed of his Japanese Excellency's determination. From the time the first infantry landed on the west coast of the United States, the military commander's shadows lurking inside the Japanese base camp used various means to try to promote the plan of a large-scale attack on the US mainland, and this plan was also supported by Hitler, but the Japanese cabinet slowed down at a critical moment and did not approve and respond to the army's battle plan.

The Japanese army has always had a tradition of going down to the mainland, but this time it was different, this time they had to cross the ocean to fight on the US mainland, and without the help of the navy, it would be impossible for them, the landlubbers, to land on the US mainland. Some of the agitated army activists also contacted the navy, but without the approval of the cabinet, the ships remaining on the Japanese mainland did not dare to leave the mainland waters. "Don't those damn politicians see the benefits of occupying America?" The Japanese landing force was invincible on the west coast of the United States, and the frequent reports of good news brought back many young officers, but at the same time they were very dissatisfied with the attitude of the cabinet.

In fact, the Japanese cabinet members were also very difficult to decide at this time, and each of them, including the emperor, knew the advantages of occupying the United States, and the United States, with its strongest industrial base, seemed to be more suitable for the Japanese occupation than China, which was full of resistance. However, Japan is now facing a situation in which its forces are about to run out, and the Chinese theater of operations, which has been suppressed by the imperial army, has changed three times a day, and in just one week, the number of imperial soldiers killed and wounded on the Chinese battlefield has exceeded 20,000, and if it continues at this rate, it will not take two years for all the territories occupied by the empire in China to be returned.

Fighting a war meant casualties, and the Japanese army had been avoiding mass casualties since the invasion of China. However, since last month, the Chinese army, which has been losing and retreating, does not know what kind of panacea it has eaten, first in Hebei and Shandong, and then sent troops south into Burma to fight, and now the imperial army stationed in Burma has been suppressed on the front line of Yangon, and the situation of the North China Front is not very good.

If we want to fight against the United States on a large scale, it is necessary to draw a large number of imperial troops to participate in the landing battle, but the only solution to where the troops come from is to draw troops from the Chinese battlefield. The Kwantung Army was strong, but they had to take care of Manchuria and Northeast China, and they had to guard against the southward movement of Soviet troops. The Chinese battlefield is now in a bad mess, and once troops are dispatched to support the war in the Americas, and the Japanese cabinet fears that the imperial army in China will be completely forced back by the Chinese army, then the previous efforts of the empire will be in vain.

The Japanese Cabinet is greedy, wants to become a dominant player in Asia, and does not want to lose the opportunity to get involved in the Americas, but where in this world can there be the best of both worlds, so it is difficult for the Japanese Cabinet and their emperor to make a well-thought-out decision for a while. The Japanese cabinet and the emperor had such concerns, but the ordinary people and low-ranking officers who did not know what was going on did not know this, and at the instigation of well-intentioned people, a vigorous march appeared on the streets of Tokyo, and in only half a day, more than 300,000 Tokyo citizens gathered outside the Imperial Palace, and they strongly demanded that the cabinet immediately send more troops to support the war in the Americas.

The handprints of the people were sent to the palace, and some radical young officers made a gesture outside the palace to make a gesture of slashing their bellies, with the great intention that if the cabinet did not support the plan to increase the number of troops in the Americas, they would die here. The Japanese have a bloodthirsty factor in their bones, and most Japanese people agree with this kind of move to threaten the cabinet with death, and some even brought knives from home to prepare for a belly cutting relay outside the palace.

In the face of popular coercion, it became even more difficult for the cabinet members and the emperor to make a decision, and one bad thing was the decision that ruined Japan's national fortunes. The strength of the United States has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the members of the Japanese cabinet, and without the support and cooperation of the German submarine force and the Mexican army, the Japanese landing on the west coast of the United States would not have happened in the first place. Originally, it was just to deal with the Germans, but no one expected that this thing would actually succeed, and it looked like the prospects were not bad.

I don't know how the Japanese cabinet members communicated with the emperor, but in short, Zhuo Fei got the news that the Japanese cabinet finally made a decision and was ready to successively transfer more than 5 divisions from the Chinese theater to support the American theater. In addition, the Japanese Cabinet has also decided to continue to recruit troops on the mainland, and strive to form 30 new divisions to support the needs of the battlefield. Upon learning of this news, Zhuo Fei, who had been staying in Donghu, completely relieved himself and waited for the five divisions of the Japanese army to rush to the United States, and the 300,000 troops trained by the Americans should also be released, and then the Japanese cabinet could only continue to transfer troops to the United States.