Eventually, the Japanese envoy agreed with the figures given by the Germans, and within a few days, 100 fighters and 30 Leopard tanks were crammed into the transport ship bound for Japan.

The reason is actually very simple, the United States has been conducting more and more military operations in New Guinea. Around 3 October, the US military flew 400 sorties of bombers to bomb New Guinea frequently.

It is very obvious that the US military is brewing a counteroffensive in the Pacific region, and they hope to regain the real battlefield initiative through a large-scale counteroffensive.

This is because the US military has recently launched two new escort aircraft carriers, so that the United States can use as many as six aircraft carriers.

With these aircraft carriers, the US Navy felt that it was capable and confident of countering the Japanese Navy, guaranteeing absolute safety at the landing site.

On the other hand, the US Army also believes that its fighter planes that have taken off from Australia's Bamaga, Mapoong, and Morton areas can cover the landing grounds in the New Guinea island area, and that they can completely use army aviation to support the US army's landing operations.

In this way, the US military's reliance on the navy for landing operations can be reduced to a minimum. The distance between the straits is also very short, only about 150 kilometers, and there are islands to use in between, which is simply the perfect landing ground.

That's why the U.S. top brass asked Patton's 1st Panzer Army if it could go into battle. They really hoped that the 1st Panzer Army could be put into operation to create an armored superiority in the jungle plains of New Guinea.

As long as a part of the plains can be occupied, the powerful logistical supply of the United States can destroy the Japanese army on the island of New Guinea and sound the clarion call for the United States to counterattack in the Pacific theater.

Unfortunately, the strategic deployment of the Japanese army on the island of New Guinea is also very strong, in addition to the supplementary soldiers transferred from the rear, the original garrison on the island is as many as 20,000.

With the arrival of follow-up troops, there are now about 30,000 Japanese soldiers on the island, and a few are equipped with tanks and heavy artillery, which can be described as well-prepared.

Both sides were making final preparations for this war, but the German army, which had already entered the periphery of the Caucasus, suddenly fell silent.

Before the arrival of winter, the German side is already preparing as much as possible. They went further and better prepared than the German armies in history.

First of all, Germany, taking advantage of the integrated European textile industry, has equipped every German soldier with an overcoat and a padded suit.

These supplies, which had been piled up on the transport lines, were now slowly being delivered to the front, and the German top brass assured the Führer that not a single person would freeze to death in the occupied territories throughout the winter!

What they guarantee is that not a single person will freeze to death in the occupied territories, which means that the German side even counts civilians in Ukraine, Belarus and other regions within the scope of protection!

From this data, it can be analyzed how many cotton clothes the German army has prepared, as well as the corresponding cold materials.

In addition, in order to ensure that the tanks and heavy weapons such as armored vehicles on the front line could survive this cold winter, the Germans even equipped the tanks with cotton clothes to protect against the cold.

In addition, almost every tank platoon has specially prepared cold fuel - used to warm the frozen tank and let it start smoothly.

At the same time, the German side also allowed Farben Group to produce and reserve a large amount of antifreeze and antifreeze oil in advance.

Thanks to the commissioning of Libyan and Saudi oil fields, Germany is no longer short of fuel. Even Germany's oil reserves were slightly higher than before the war, completely getting rid of the situation of an oil-poor country.

Therefore, Farben Group has sufficient crude oil processing and production, and antifreeze and antifreeze fuel are well prepared. With these antifreeze oils, the Germans were naturally not too afraid of this winter.

The bitter cold has never been aimed at the destruction of the war on the one hand, but has allowed everyone involved in the war to "share the joys and sorrows".

The Soviets are also desperately preparing for the winter, and they attach more importance to this winter than the Germans, because in the coming year, they will face an even more ferocious German attack.

Stalin sent his troops to stock up on the front line as much as possible, and the Russians were familiar with winter, so their preparations were more casual.

On the contrary, the Soviet Union did not have to prepare too much in the details of the winter, and they had to prepare tanks and planes that must be consumed in the coming year.

And for today's Soviet Union, the production of T-34 tanks, as well as LagmiG and other fighters, is the most headache for them.

After all, their industrial system has been destroyed a lot, and the remaining industrial cities have to face problems such as insufficient workers and backward equipment.

But in any case, on the Soviet-German front, the two behemoths of the Third Reich and the Soviet Union, like polar bears, began to prepare for a cold hibernation nap.

There is no need to hibernate on the Pacific battlefield, and even in December, there will still be no terrible weather such as snowfall.

So, for the United States and Japan, there is no concept of a pause in this war. The scale of the battle for New Guinea has also become more and more unimaginable with the continuous investment of both sides.

In order to regain the initiative in the Pacific theater in one go, the US military sent all the units that it could call elite in its own country to Australia.

Including the 1st Army, the main force of the US Army, you will know from this name that the combat effectiveness of this force can definitely be described by the word terror.

The corps was commanded by Major General Charles Thompson, the chief of staff was Brigadier General Clovis Biles, and the artillery commander was Brigadier General Horace Harding, all of whom were very experienced operational commanders.

At the same time, the 2nd Army, commanded by the famous Major General Joseph Stilwell, was also drawn in this direction, and it was also very combat-ready.

With such two armies in charge, the US military's investment in New Guinea is already very terrible.

You must know that the leading role of the US military in landing operations has never been the Army, but the Marine Corps, and counting the US Marine Corps, which is about to enter battle, the Americans have definitely invested no less troops here than the Japanese army.

If it were not for the fact that it was not suitable to invest in large-scale armored forces, the top level of the United States even started the idea of putting the US 1st Armored Corps formed by Patton into the operation in New Guinea.

The U.S. Army Air Force is also a big soldier, with more than 400 fighter jets and more than 300 bombers in Australia - just the strategic bomber B-17, there are more than 100 terrifying scales!