On November 18, 1941, the Tojo Cabinet was formally established, and Hideki Tojo served as Minister of Land and Interior, and then served as Minister of Education, Commerce, Industry, and Munitions. In his inaugural statement, this fanatical militarist openly declared that "completing www.biquge.info the China Incident and establishing the 'Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere'" was the national policy of the empire, and that it was necessary to "march forward with the unity of the whole country to complete the holy cause under the imperial authority."

However, after Tojo became prime minister, he also felt that he was afraid that he would not be able to convince the public because of his lack of qualifications, so he was always looking for opportunities to write his prestige. Hideki Tojo won the trust of Emperor Hirohito by formulating a series of battle plans for attacking Southeast Asia. Hideki Tojo believes that the United States is the most important obstacle to Japan's further expansion abroad, and that a war against the United States is a major event that must be carried out sooner or later, and it cannot be sloppy.

As early as August this year, Hideki Tojo approached Isoroku Yamamoto, the soul mission of the Navy, and proposed the idea of starting a war against the United States within the year. Tojo said to Yamamoto Isoroku: "There is a Pacific Ocean between Japan and the United States, and if a war breaks out between Japan and the United States, the navy will be the strongest support of the empire. ”

Yamamoto Isoroku is also a restless guy, he has long wanted to try his skills in naval warfare, but the combat effectiveness of the Chinese Navy is too scummy, as early as the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War, it has been completely wiped out by the Japanese Navy and Army in the East China Sea and the Yangtze River. For several years, the Navy was overdone and turned into a transport and guard force. As early as the First Sino-Japanese War, after the Japanese Navy defeated the Beiyang Naval Division, the Japanese Navy no longer regarded Huaxia as an opponent. Although Admiral Laborde had led a French fleet to Taizhou and other seaports in Zhejiang Province since last year, and had sunk a Japanese Navy cruiser and destroyer last year, this fleet had not been taken seriously by Yamamoto Isoroku, who believed that the Imperial Navy could destroy them at any time if he wanted to. Moreover, Yamamoto also considered leading the combined fleet to raid the ports of Taizhou or Zhejiang to destroy the French fleet, but considering the ferocious hundreds of shrew fighters of the Third Army, he could only give up, after all, it would be a fool's thing to use valuable warships and carrier-based aircraft to fight with land-based aircraft and a few submarines.

Yamamoto Fifty-six, who had not fought for a long time, had a feeling of loneliness as a master, and in his opinion, if the empire went to war against the Soviet Union, the navy would still be useless, so he was also an advocate of southward expansion, and as long as the United States entered the war, the navy would have a real cause to do. Now that Hideki Tojo is prime minister, he has the power to influence the government's strategic policy, and when Yamamoto Isoroku saw that the opportunity had come, he presented his research results.

Yamamoto said: "Whether the empire can succeed in attacking Southeast Asia depends on the success or failure of the navy, and the success or failure of the navy depends on the degree of destruction of the US navy's naval power. I believe that a full-scale attack on Southeast Asia should be accompanied by a devastating blow to the U.S. Navy, or even earlier, because if the U.S. is on guard, it will be difficult to predict the succession of war. ”

Hideki Tojo nodded frequently, Yamamoto Fifty-six's words were right to his appetite, and he continued: "What is Yamamoto-kun's strategy to break the enemy?" ”

Yamamoto said: "The ratio of the combat power of the Japanese and US navies should be 4:6, and it must be noted that this is a fact, and the performance of the US Navy's aircraft carriers is better than that of the Empire, which is also a fact. Therefore, I believe that the only way to win is to rely on suddenness, Pearl Harbor gathers 40% of the US naval strength, and if it can be devastated before the start of the war, the ratio of Japanese and US naval power will become 7:5, the manufacturing cycle of large warships and battleship performance is very long, and the Imperial Yamato took 15 years to launch, so as long as the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor can be successful, the navy will firmly grasp the initiative in the war within three years. ”

"Yo Xi, Yamamoto-kun's words make a lot of sense!" Hideki Tojo nodded again and again, with the support of Yamamoto Fifty-six, the soul of the navy, he had the bottom in his heart, and he was ready to launch the Young Zhuang faction military cabinet in the next step.

On the morning of December 1, 1941, Nagumo Tadaichi led a huge fleet of six aircraft carriers, including the "Akagi", "Kaga", "Soryu", "Flying Dragon", Shozuru, and Zuizuru, three cruisers, nine destroyers, three submarines, and various supply ships, headed toward the Pacific Ocean.

But things soon took a turn for the worse.

December 1, 1941, 17 o'clock in the evening, Nanjing.

At this time, in the war room, the newly appointed commander of the Huaxia Dispatch Army, General Yan Junliu, and the chief of the general staff, Lieutenant General Harem Jun, were discussing the military situation in Huaxia, and they only took up these two positions at the beginning of this year, and the former commander-in-chief Nishio Shouzo and the chief of the general staff, Seishiro Sakagaki, were transferred back to their homeland because of problems with the Shanghai campaign last year.

Staff Officer Yin Jiro Shaozo stumbled into the war room of the headquarters of the Huaxia Dispatch Army, and handed a telegram to Lieutenant General Harem Jun, chief of the General Staff, without caring about the military salute.

Harem Chun shouted: "What are you panicking about! The Imperial servicemen had to keep the shock in any case, what the hell was going on? ”

Yin Jiro stood upright, gave a military salute and said: "The plane that Binban Gongzhi Shaozo was flying lost contact with the ground in the sky over Daya Bay at about two o'clock in the afternoon. ”

Yan Junliu on the side was looking at the map with a magnifying glass, and after hearing it, he raised his head and said, "Which bin ban are you talking about?" ”

At this time, Harem Chun had already finished reading the telegram, sat on the chair, and his face became a little pale: "It's not good, Binban Gongzhi carried Order No. 572 for the base camp to attack Southeast Asia and Pearl Harbor, and went to Guangzhou to convey the order, and he took the class of the Civil Aviation of China." ”

"Nani?"

As soon as Yan Junliu heard this, there was darkness in front of him.

But what they were carrying was an important secret that was now of the highest rank in the Japanese Empire, and if it was leaked, the consequences would be unimaginable. In order to keep the attack on Pearl Harbor and Southeast Asia sudden, the base camp did not even use radio when issuing orders, but used airplanes to convey them directly, that is, they were afraid that the telegram would be deciphered by the enemy country and the third country, Yan Junliu racked his brains in order to convey this order to the 23rd Army, and finally chose to take the civilian plane of Wang Jingwei's puppet government.

Harem Chun was so anxious that his face turned pale and said, "Your Excellency Commander, are we going to telegraph to the General Staff Headquarters?" ”

Yan Junliu glared at Harem Chun and reprimanded: "Confused! Binban is just missing, what are you panicking, think of another way first. ”

Harem Chun was trained, and then he suddenly realized, in the end, Jiang is old and spicy, this kind of thing is afraid that he will be removed from his post at worst, if he is sloppy, as long as there is no major incident later, no one will remember it. If you report it now, but in the end Binban is intact, isn't that looking for something for yourself? Thinking of this, Harem Jun hurriedly said to the opposite Yinjiro: "You immediately ordered the 23rd Army and the Seventh Flying Division to conduct a search from the air and the ground, and then ordered the intelligence department to step up the decipherment of the telegrams exchanged in the seventh exhibition area of China to find out the whereabouts of the 'Shanghai' civil aviation trigger, Your Excellency Commander, what do you mean?" ”

Seeing that Harem Chun understood his meaning so quickly, Yan Junliu nodded with satisfaction: "Very good, just do it." ”

Yan Junliu and Harem Chun waited until the second half of the night, but did not receive any news from Guangzhou, and it was only then that Yan Junliu reluctantly ordered the news to be reported to the Tokyo base camp and notified the commander of the Taiwan garrison, Commander Terauchi Shouichi.

Morning of December 2, Tokyo.

As soon as Hideki Tojo got up, Sugiyama Motomo sent someone to send a telegram from Yan Junroku.

After seeing the telegram, Hideki Tojo was so angry that he smashed his fist on the table and scolded angrily: "Yan Junliu, this stupid pig, is going to ruin the big things of the empire!" ”

The staff officer who sent the information asked tremblingly: "Your Excellency, will you notify the attacking troops at this time?" ”

Hideki Tojo snorted coldly: "No, this is a stupid idea, immediately telegraph Yan Junroku, give him three days, and report the whereabouts of this polite board to me, if the people of China get this information, it will be difficult to do, to find the scene of the plane crash, send a plane to blow up there." ”

It wasn't until December 4 that the Japanese found the plane crash site, but Binban was gone, and the Japanese were busy until the 7th, only to learn that Binban escaped after the plane crash, and he destroyed the documents and escaped outside, but then was found and killed by the army of the 7th Chinese War Zone on the 5th.

At this moment, the Japanese began to settle down, as long as the documents were not found by the Chinese, it would not be a big deal, and Hideki Tojo ordered the Pearl Harbor operation to proceed as originally planned! In the conference room, he sneered, turned the huge globe in the war room slightly, looked at the black map representing the United States, scalded the cigarette butt towards Pearl Harbor, and then stroked the Washington area with his hand, and then said lightly: "Roosevelt, this lame man, from tomorrow, he will not be able to sleep well." ”

At the same time, Washington, USA, White House.

Vice President Truman looked at President Roosevelt in a wheelchair and said, "Mr. President, I think this information from the Chinese people is still very accurate, and it is still too late to inform the garrisons in Pearl Harbor and Southeast Asia." ”

Roosevelt drooped his eyelids and said nothing. Truman saw a window wide open, and the wind was blowing outside, and a chilly wind was blowing in, and he walked over and closed the window.

Roosevelt said slowly: "Christmas is coming, are you going to go on vacation to Hawaii?" ”

Truman did not know what Roosevelt meant by this sentence and did not answer immediately.

Roosevelt said: "I'm afraid I won't be able to go there for a vacation this year, if I'm not mistaken, the planes on the Japanese fleet have already taken off." ”

Truman was taken aback.

Roosevelt continued: "This letter of information from the Chinese is extremely unreliable, do you say? The counter-espionage work of the Chinese people has not been done well, do you say? The target of the Japanese is only Southeast Asia, do you say? ”

Truman was dumbfounded.

Roosevelt took a sip of the coffee on the table, "The civilization of the United States of America is under unprecedented threat, which I said half a year ago. We have to shoulder the heavy responsibility of saving American civilization, and the isolationism that the big men in Congress are preaching all day long should be stimulated a little bit. After the end of the Civil War, the American people had not smelled the smoke of gunpowder for almost a century, and they did not understand that the continuation of civilization and peace sometimes required blood, even thousands of lives.

War is inevitable, and the sooner it plunges into war, the sooner the United States will be saved, this reason is very simple, but the big men in Congress have not read a book for a few years and can't figure out this truth, how can they understand it? Tell me about it? ”

Truman suddenly realized, slapped his hands hard and said, "The Huaxia people call this a bitter meat trick, but it's not that Zhou Yu who plays the board." I now understand why you suddenly transferred the two aircraft carriers in Pearl Harbor during the night two days ago. ”

Roosevelt sighed lightly, he looked out the window in the direction of Pearl Harbor, and there was a faint sadness in his eyes, "I think God will understand what I do, sometimes a small number of people sacrifice in exchange for the survival of more people." Harry, you have to remember that fifty years after our death, everything that is happening today remains a state secret. ”

On December 8, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was successful, and the Pacific War broke out......

"Extra...... Extra ...... Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, and the US Pacific Fleet suffered heavy losses! ”

"Nickname Wai ...... Japan officially declared war on the United States! ”

For a time, the whole world was shaken, and many people could never have dreamed that the Japanese would dare to attack the United States.

11.40 a.m

Today, in the headquarters of the Third Army in Hangzhou, a number of high-ranking generals such as Su Jin, Zhang Zhizhong, Li Wei, Huang Weiguo, Adele, Fred, and Chu Yuan gathered, and they were quietly listening to the voice coming from the radio, which was Emperor Hirohito's edict declaring war on the United States and Britain.

"Retain the Heavenly Blessing and Practice the eternal lineage, the emperor of the great Japanese Empire, and the loyal and brave people such as Zhaoshier.

I have declared war on the United States and Great Britain, I hope that the army and navy will fight with all their might, I hope that millions of people will be able to carry out their duties, and I hope that all the people will do their part and fully accomplish the purpose of the war with the total strength of a country of billions of trillions of hearts......"

More than twenty minutes later, when Emperor Hirohito's voice on the radio ended, Su Jin stretched out his hand to turn off the radio, turned around and smiled at the people behind him: "Did you hear it, the Japanese declared war on the United States, which also doomed them to defeat!" ”

The surrounding generals had long heard Su Jin say that there would be a war between the United States and Japan, so they were not very surprised when they heard this, but it was the first time Zhang Zhizhong heard this kind of remarks, and he asked curiously: "Think twice, where did you come from this conclusion?" ”

Su Jin didn't answer immediately, but took out a pack of Hadmen cigarettes from his pocket and began to smoke the people around him, and for a while, the smoke in the huge conference room was so thick that it seemed to be on fire, Adele, as the only lady who didn't smoke, glared at everyone hatefully, and couldn't go over to open all the windows, and suddenly a cold wind blew from the window, and at the same time blew away the smell of smoke in the conference room.

Su Jin smiled a little embarrassedly after seeing Adele's actions, and then said to Zhang Zhizhong: "The hegemony of the empire is not so easy to achieve, you see Emperor Hirohito's declaration of war, it is as stinky and long as an old lady's footcloth." You Hirohito declared war on the United States and Britain and declared war, why are you talking so much about China? Are the Chinese less angry with the British? The Americans are far away from us, or I'm afraid they will often come to take advantage of it. And you just declare war, you don't need to find so many reasons, it can be seen that Japan does not have a big politician, let the Soviet Union not fight, and start a war with the Americans first, and even the reason for long-distance friendship and close attack is not clear, how can this war be fought? It can be seen that Japan has neither far-sighted but sober strategists and military strategists, and it is not good at writing or using military force. ”

Zhang Zhizhong was amazed and said with a smile: "The United States and Japan have grown up, and the days in China will be much better now!" ”

Before Su Jin could speak, a staff officer hurriedly ran in, and as soon as he entered the door, he shouted: "Chief Su, Chairman Zhang, chiefs, Americans...... The Americans have declared war on Japan! ”

Although everyone knew that the United States would definitely declare war on Japan, before the declaration ......of war, everyone was actually quite bottomless, and now as soon as they heard that the United States had finally declared war on Japan, everyone's hearts became relaxed as if a big rock had fallen to the ground.

Su Jin also breathed a sigh of relief, although he had long been familiar with this period of history, but reading history books and personal experience were two different things, and now he was relieved to hear that the United States had finally declared war on Japan, and turned to Zhang Zhizhong on the side and said: "Chairman Zhang, the United States has finally declared war, and now our plan can finally be implemented!" ”

Zhang Zhizhong asked curiously: "Think twice, what plan do you want to implement?" ”

Su Jin smiled and said to everyone in the conference room: "Ladies and gentlemen, I told you two months ago that as long as the United States and Japan fight, it will be our chance. In the course of this year, our Third Army has gained the ability to take the initiative to attack Japan, and now we are going to attack the Japanese, are you all ready? ”

What answered Su Jin was a neat cheer: "Always be ready!" ”

"Good!" Su Jin's face became solemn, and he said loudly: "Okay, now I order!" ”

"Whoa!"

The generals and officers in the conference room all stood solemnly.

"I order that at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning, the 350th Division, the 351st Division, the 1st National Militia Division, the 2nd Garrison Division, the 3rd Garrison Division, the 1st Armored Division, the 2nd Artillery Division, and the 2nd Air Force Division under the Third Army will launch a counteroffensive against the Japanese troops in Fujian, and they must completely drive the Japanese troops in Fujian out of Fujian within one to two months!"

"Yes!"

What answered Su Jin was a resolute roar! (To be continued.) )