"Marshal Brumberg's injury is no longer serious, can we arrange for him to visit Japan, it will be the Japanese New Year in more than ten days." Weierle rubbed his eyes, raised his head and proposed to Xu Jun.

"You mean, let Brumberg go to Tokyo and negotiate directly with the Japanese cabinet?" Xu Jun stopped.

"My head of state, Japanese Foreign Minister Matsuoka, seems to be a mouthpiece at the moment, and he does not dare to have his own opinions. I think instead of going back and forth with the Japanese in Shanghai, it would be better to go straight to Tokyo and find their emperor. "Wehrle is very tough.

"It's a real way to put some more pressure on their higher-ups, otherwise they're going to think it's over." Xu Jun nodded, having already made a decision in his heart.

Count Stauffenberg's telegram did not contain much content, but conveyed a lot of information at all, and he reported the latest course and content of the negotiations with the Japanese foreign minister, and the Japanese information obtained by the German envoy from various sources, and included a lot of his personal analysis and assessment.

At present, the attitude of the Japanese government towards Germany is very contradictory, and it wants to curry favor and win over it, but also fears that the German forces will take this opportunity to return to the Far East.

With the development of trade cooperation between China and Germany, Germany's influence on China is gradually increasing, and the German armed forces have returned to the South Asian colonies.

After the defeat of France, there were already signs of the myth of the German army's combat effectiveness in Japan, because at that time there was a rumor that the two countries were about to form an alliance, and in order to boost the morale of the Japanese people, the Japanese domestic media portrayed Germany as extremely powerful, which meant that the empire had such a strong ally, and Japan would definitely be able to compete for hegemony in Greater East Asia.

However, this propaganda offensive soon subsided as relations between the two countries cooled, but the Great Independent Empire was the first in the world in science and technology, the independent national defense forces were invincible, and the head of state of the independent country was full of wisdom and scheming, and the Japanese people had been instilled with a lot of such information in their minds.

As mentioned earlier, there was a large group of German admirers in the Japanese Army, and most of the senior officers of the Japanese Army had visited Germany at this time, and they were convinced that Germany was the strongest military in Europe, and the previous destruction of Morimoto's Brigade in French Indochina had reinforced this impression in their minds.

And the small conflict that broke out in the Shanghai Concession put the German SS, which the Japanese military had not paid serious attention to before, to the table of reality. Now there is a new view in the Japanese Army, that is, the SS is more effective than the German regular army, and it turns out that the Germans have always kept a hand on the outside world, and the SS is their elite force at the bottom of the box.

The Japanese translated the SS as "pro-guard," and it is true that the SS was Hitler's personal guard at first, but as the group developed, its nature changed and it became a quasi-state military force used to maintain the Nazi political system.

Not only did Germany send its army, navy, and air force to Asia, but now even the most elite Führer's Guard has appeared, which only proves that the German side has no small plans. If it was only for the safety of Marshal Brummberg, it was entirely possible to equip the army's guard units, so why should there be such an armament as the Führer's Guard.

Why did the Germans transfer this unit to Shanghai, just for the parade? Fumiro Konoe did not think so, this was by no means what Tokyo had previously judged, and it was only to announce the return of German power.

In order to discuss the handling of the concession conflict incident that occurred in Shanghai, the Japanese cabinet held a meeting for several days, and in addition to discussing how to appease the feelings of the concession countries, it also discussed the German side in particular.

Matsuoka, who had rushed back to Tokyo overnight from Shanghai, raised a worrying question at the meeting about whether Germany was planning a pivot to Asia.

If the Germans really want to regain the rights they lost in the last war, their most likely target is undoubtedly the Jiaodong Peninsula in China. The independent country operated the Jiaodong area for decades, invested a lot of manpower and material resources, and established mines and railways, as well as the most advanced coastal defense fortress system in Asia at that time. As a result, all this was cheapened by the Japanese Empire after the First World War, and who knows if the Germans still remember this old account in their hearts.

Although after the Washington Conference in 1922, Japan was forced to compromise with the Great Powers, nominally withdrawing from the Jiaodong Peninsula and returning sovereignty to the Chinese government. In fact, however, Japan still retains a lot of privileges, and there are still a large number of Japanese expatriates living there, as well as various Japanese-run factories and mines.

After the outbreak of the war of aggression against China, the Jiaodong Peninsula has become the core area of Japan in North China, and if Germany asks to return to Jiaodong at this time, the Japanese cabinet will be in a very difficult situation.

First of all, the military will never agree to such a thing, and neither the army nor the navy will tolerate it, because this is not only a diplomatic and political issue, but also a question of the face of the Imperial Japanese Army. It is impossible for the Japanese government to agree to such a demand, because the nationalism in the country has already been shaken off, and the people who are full of big minds and souls will not listen to any explanation from you, they only know that the "traitors" must be "punished by heaven."

As a result, the cabinet did not discuss anything at the end of the meeting, after all, this was only Matsuoka's personal imagination, and there was not the slightest evidence to confirm that the Germans did have this plan. If Matsuoka's judgment is wrong, the Japanese cabinet, which has overreacted, will become a laughing stock in the international community. More importantly, if relations between Germany and Japan are thus damaged, then who can afford to take this responsibility.

The Army said that it had repeatedly deduced that if the Japanese Army confronted the German Army head-on, the Imperial Army would have a chance to win only if it occupied more than three times its strength and controlled the air supremacy on the battlefield.

This meant that once Japan provoked the Führer and caused him to send German troops to Southeast Asia, the number would not be too large, and as long as there were only four or five regular infantry divisions and one or two armored divisions, Japan's previous "southward expansion plan" would become nothing more than empty talk.

Japan is now in the process of drawing troops from the Chinese theater to form a "Southern Army" cluster to carry out the southward expansion plan. The General Staff Headquarters is also considering transferring some troops from the local garrison and the Kwantung Army to supplement the Chinese theater, so where can they come up with these 20 elite divisions.

At present, the mobilization of a large number of Japanese elite troops in the Chinese battlefield, especially in the important North China region, has affected the local strategic situation.

Now that Chiang Chung-cheng had obtained a batch of weapons and ammunition made by Britain and France, he even launched several small-scale counterattacks of a tentative nature in the areas of confrontation between the two armies on the front line of Hunan, Hubei, and Guizhou.

At the end of the meeting, it was Konoe Fumiro who made a decision, and what Matsuoka said was just a guess, and what the Japanese government had to do at present was to prevent this speculation from becoming a reality as much as possible, so maintaining friendly relations with Germany now seemed to be of extremely important strategic importance, and it was worth paying even some price in order to achieve this goal. Of course, it is not advisable to blindly retreat, the dignity of the Japanese Empire and His Majesty the Emperor brooks no violation, and what should be fought for in the core interests of the empire is still to be fought for, but it is necessary to maintain a "degree", and as for how to measure and grasp this "degree", it depends on the performance of the monarchs themselves.

Konoe Fumiro still adheres to his theory, and it is of course best to be able to pull Germany into Japan's chariot, which shows that God bless the great god of the Imperial Kingdom, and there is no need to force Germany to form an alliance if it is not willing to form an alliance, as long as they are not enemies of Japan, the Japanese government has already earned it.

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