Japan, the Ministry of the Army, several army generals gathered together with depressed faces, discussing the issue of attacking the Pacific islands.

In their opinion, the Japanese navy is in full swing, and it is the end of the world for their people. The Japanese Navy is now invincible, and their army is simply a bunch of rice buckets......

There were three main battlefields in the Empire of Japan, the most important of which was China, and in fact Japan did not fight well.

Even without the support of the United States, the offensive posture of the Japanese army on the Chinese battlefield could not be maintained, that is a certain thing.

A large number of Japanese troops were pinned down on the Chinese battlefield without much resources, which made the Japanese top brass feel a great waste.

However, the attack had no direction and did not have enough troops, and this was the most troublesome thing for Japan.

China is so big that more than half of the Japanese army is pinned down in Japan's Chinese-occupied areas, maintaining law and order and dealing with guerrillas.

Japan is not very accustomed to such battles and cannot solve them in a short time. The problems on the frontal battlefield are also becoming more and more serious, causing headaches for Japanese high-level officials such as Hideki Tojo.

Do not think that if it were not for the restraint of the United States, Japan would have achieved a perfect victory on the battlefield in China.

In fact, the opposite is true, because Japan does not see any possibility of victory in the short term on the Chinese battlefield, so it will go to Southeast Asia for trouble.

Attack Chongqing? Take Yan'an? These landmarks seem to be very important, but none of them are a way to end the war for Japan.

After 1945, Chiang Kai-shek also captured Yan'an, and everyone could see the result, so it was not a good choice to attack Yan'an and occupy barren areas such as Shaanxi.

It would only waste Japan's limited forces, disperse Japan's last reserves, and then take a piece of land that was useless to Japan.

The result of the attack on Chongqing was similar, the Japanese could not be sure that the Nationalist Government, which had lost its capital Nanjing, would surrender after the occupation of Chongqing.

What's more, Japan has already raised a Wang Jingwei, which has blocked all possibilities for Chongqing to surrender - it is more difficult to let Mr. Jiang be Mr. Wang's younger brother than to kill him.

It was precisely because of the uneven Chinese battlefield that the Japanese War Ministry had a debate about whether to go north or south - they really couldn't afford to go west......

It is easy to explain that the North Journey is to go to the trouble of the Soviets - and as a result, the Japanese Army itself cannot say how troublesome this matter is.

In the first battle of Nomenkan, Japan not only knew the strength of the army, the mainstream power of Europe, but also knew its own shortcomings.

Men, they have become a shortcoming of a country, and their shame is definitely bursting. Therefore, the army itself decided not to talk about going north, and now it is shouting to go south.

Going south must also be supported by the navy in order to proceed smoothly. However, the Navy is now bent on confronting the Americans in the Pacific, and it has no energy to take care of the Army's.

As a result, the matter of going south has become the army's own one-man show. This is a good thing, it was originally a southward strategy advocated by the navy, but the army had to complete it on its own.

Although it is said that on the way south, there can be no real opponent. Singapore and Malaysia were both taken down as a matter of course, and Vietnam and Laos were also decisively defeated.

As for Thailand, it directly defected and sided with Japan, becoming a solid ally in alliance with Japan......

However, in the course of the conquest of Burma, the Japanese Army encountered considerable trouble: April and May were the rainy season in Burma, and the whole offensive had to be halted.

To put it simply, the Japanese Army has finally discovered its own shortcomings: its logistics support work is really bad.

As for how rotten? When Japan attacked China, it had its own combat experience, that is, they generally only brought ammunition, and they could not raise all the food, so they could completely collect it on the spot in the occupied areas.

This is not a normal levy, but when attacking, robbing the enemy's, or directly robbing the people's grain.

Transferring part of the logistics to the enemy is a clever and cunning part of the Japanese military, and it is also a last resort choice for their own insufficient resources and low transportation capacity.

The main reason for such unscrupulousness, in addition to the cruelty and meanness of the Japanese army, is the most important point, that is, this set of tactics must "have something to grab".

When the Japanese Army faced the dense rainforest, there were no people and no livestock, only endless trees and fierce beasts.

Poisonous snakes and spider leeches can kill a person here, and although the Japanese soldiers are tenacious, they are also a headache for the ecology here.

It is a bit reluctant to say that Japan knows nothing about the state of the country, but it is also an exaggeration to say that they know more about the country.

Logistics supplies were to be transferred from within Japan to Taiwan, and then to the coast and south, bypassing the Strait of Malacca, to Burma.

Needless to say, when we are about to reach our destination, we have to sail a long way through the Indian Ocean.

How could the British battleships, which were stuck in the Indian Ocean, let the Japanese transports go free? In the absence of escorts, the Japanese lost several transport ships, so they had to transport supplies to Thailand and then by land to the front line in Burma.

The amount of material that would be spent in this way can be seen from the constipated expression on His Majesty's face every time he has a meeting.

However, if the offensive is suspended, the Japanese top brass is unwilling to do so -- India, which has lost its foundation, is like fat on the board, and if Japan does not take it, won't it be cheaper for others?

Hideki Tojo and others, who already believed that the co-prosperity of Greater East Asia had succeeded nine times out of ten, had already put the Axis bloc in the position of an imaginary enemy at this moment.

In the eyes of these Japanese militarist leaders, if Japan could not pacify the United States and occupy India as quickly as possible, then India would fall to Germany, which had defeated the Soviet Union.

Once India becomes a German-controlled zone, Germany will encroach on Southeast Asia and threaten the "Chinese occupation zone" on which Japan depends for its survival from both north and south.

Therefore, the army has been doing two things recently, the first thing is to build a fortress in the north, hoping to consolidate the defense line in northeast China with the help of the Great Khing'an Mountains and snowfields.

The second thing was to gather troops and prepare to invade India, where the "wolf ambition" of Germany to continue eastward was completely dispelled.

The Japanese thought very simply: if you dare to attack my puppet Manchukuo in the northeast, I will dare to let the combined fleet enter the Red Sea and destroy your Middle East foundations!