In the spring of 1945, the 5th Fleet, a member of the Grand Fleet of the Western Allied Powers, visited Hawaii, USA. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 It is not only the European fleet itself that attracts attention, but also Field Marshal William August von Oldenburg, Chief of Staff of the German Empire and Chairman of the Military Council of the Western Allies, and Field Marshal Sean Purcell, Secretary of State for Defense of Ireland and Vice Chairman of the Military Council of the Western Allies, and the presence of US Secretary of War Henry Lewis-****, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, and Chief of Army and Navy Staff Wilhelm Dan Neil Leahy were all present at Pearl Harbor. Although the two sides did not make any public statements about the high-level military meeting, the presence of these heavyweight faces is in itself an intriguing signal.

Since the beginning of the 40s, due to the strong rise of Japan, the relationship between the Western Allies and the United States has continued to improve, and by the beginning of 1943, with the signing of the German-American memorandum of understanding, the restrictions on the development of armaments by the armistice treaty on the United States have been lifted. The Oahu military base, which was destroyed by the Japanese army, has been comprehensively restored and has once again become the command center and support base of the US military in the Pacific region; as a result of the major strategic readjustment of "defending the east and expanding to the west," the US Navy and Air Force have changed from being distributed in the two oceans to being mainly in the Pacific Ocean and supplemented by the Atlantic Ocean, and 70 percent of the navy's strength has been invested in the Pacific direction, and the elite forces of the Air Force, in addition to the local air defense units, are basically deployed in the Pacific region.

The United States is heavily armed in the Hawaiian Islands and some South Pacific islands, and the armies of the Western Allies led by Germany are heading out of the Indian Ocean from the Middle East and the Arabian Sea. Because of this, the German, Irish and U.S. military leaders met in Hawaii, and the 5th Fleet of the Western Alliance and the 1st Fleet of the U.S. Pacific launched joint exercises. Until the joint announcement of Germany, Ireland and the United States brought a shocking surprise to the world!

On the basis of the unjustified aggression of the Japanese Government against the sovereign state and from the standpoint of safeguarding the global civilized order, the governments of Germany, Ireland, and the United States decided to issue an ultimatum to Japan, demanding that it immediately stop its military aggression in China, gradually withdraw from the existing front to the side of the armistice line agreed in the 1938 armistice agreement, and then end the war confrontation between the two sides through peaceful consultations. The joint announcement was a lifesaver for the desperate Chinese government, which retreated to Chongqing overnight and spread the exciting news to the front lines.

The Konoe cabinet first lodged a protest with the ambassadors of Germany, Ireland, and the United States to Japan, holding that the so-called joint proclamation was an unreasonable act of forcibly interfering in the military and political affairs of other countries, and reiterating that their actions to establish a new order in Asia were in line with the development of civilization, not against or undermining it. A few hours later, the Konoe cabinet issued a government statement, accusing the German-Irish-American joint proclamation of another "black ship incident" against Japan (referring to the incident in 1853 in which the United States used gunboats to force Japan to open its country), and that today's Japan is no longer a closed and backward Japan a century ago, but a first-class power that is completely independent in the fields of economy, industry, military, science and technology, and is the "leading big brother" supported by the people of Asia. Have confidence to resist the unreasonable demands of the Western world......

The Japanese Government was full of the belief that its hard-line attitude would make the other side helpless as if it were resisting the sanctions of the League of Nations, but as soon as the government statement came out, it was immediately "slapped in the face" by all countries in the world -- within 48 hours, 39 countries echoed the announcement of Germany, Ireland, and the United States and condemned Japan's aggressive acts, including the Soviet and Russian governments, which had just signed a peace treaty with Japan, and among the European and American countries, only Italy, the Osi Empire, and Bolivia remained silent. This once again made the Japanese realize that the Konoe Cabinet was deeply isolated and mired in internal and external difficulties due to its mishandling of this major diplomatic incident, but the matter was far from over. On the basis of the joint communiqué, the military and political heads of the three countries subsequently held several meetings to discuss cooperation in the military, economic and other fields, especially exchanges and sharing in nuclear research.

At the beginning of June, under the tremendous military pressure of the Western Allies, Soviet Russia reopened the supply channel from West Asia to China, and although less than 1,000 tons of equipment, ammunition and medical supplies were transported to the Chinese government through the northwest every month, these combat supplies were the last hope for the Chinese government troops whose self-production capacity had dropped to the freezing point. At the same time, the Russian government is also considering joining the Trans-Pacific Cooperation Council in exchange for strategic assistance from European and American countries.

Although the size of the Soviet Russian navy in the Pacific region was less than one-fifth of that of the Western League and the United States, its unique geographical location has always made the Japanese very jealous, and after receiving the news that the Soviet and Russian sides might join the Trans-Pacific Cooperation Council, the Japanese government immediately sent a high-level diplomatic delegation to Moscow to try to keep the Russians neutral. The Soviet and Russian governments took the opportunity to make a package of demands to Japan in addition to territory, including Japan's advanced aero-engine technology and shipboard weapons technology, and the Japanese even agreed to compensate for the large Soviet and Russian cruiser "Kirov" that they had sunk during the war with a cutting-edge heavy cruiser.

History has proved more than once that the Russians' promises are not solid, but after the visiting delegation obtained a series of assurances from the Soviet and Russian governments, the Japanese military could not wait to adjust their strategic layout, and many divisions stationed in southern Korea and northern China were transferred to the Yangtze River valley and the southern mountainous areas to strengthen the combat intensity in the frontal battlefield and the sweeping guerrilla areas, with the intention of completely breaking the Chinese resistance in the shortest possible time and reducing the protests and condemnations of the international community to empty words.

On the other hand, the Japanese-Indian coalition forces, which had the upper hand in the Indian battlefield, did not deal a fatal blow to the Indian federal army, which was in a difficult situation, but instead made informal contacts with the Indian federal government through non-governmental figures to send a signal of armistice and peace talks. Although the federal government of India has the support of the allies, they have been defeated repeatedly, and gradually lost the confidence and morale of the united India, and the accumulated huge casualties have made the quality of their soldiers continue to decline, and it is difficult to launch a large-scale offensive against the Hindustan supported by Japan in a short period of time. As a result, in mid-July, the Indian Federal Army had a series of vicious incidents of collective mutiny and defection, the Indus River defense line was breached, the Japanese and Hindustan coalition forces launched an attack in an instant, the Indian Union Army was like a flood after the embankment had burst, and government agencies and military officials hurriedly withdrew to the southern Persian region under the control of the Western Allies. Seeing that there was no hope of reversal, the Western allies had no choice but to agree to the Indian Federation to make peace with Japan, and the war in South Asia subsided.

Without the containment of the Indian battlefield, some of the main forces of the Japanese army would be able to withdraw from South Asia, which could not be worse news for the Chinese government, which was struggling in a desperate situation, and while continuing to use the terrain in the Sichuan-Shu region to resist the Japanese attack, they had begun to speed up preparations for continuing to lead the anti-Japanese front in exile.

At a time when many are still struggling for the last ray of hope, while others have given up hope, a subtle twist has occurred. In early August 1945, the second round of Australia's general election ended, and the native-born white politician Littler defeated the Japanese candidate Haraichi Kobayashi to become Australia's first president.

Before the election results were announced, the Japanese Navy mobilized capital ships to the East Indies Sea to indirectly put pressure on the Australian people, but their move was met with a strong counterattack from the Trans-Pacific Cooperation Council, and the US Pacific Fleet sailed to the adjacent waters of New Zealand with half of its strength, and the German and Irish navies also formed their ships deployed in South Asia into a task force, which arrived in New Zealand at the same time, and held large-scale military exercises with the US Navy. After the election results were announced, the Japanese fleet brazenly went south, and soon appeared in the waters north of Australia, and the Japanese residents and security forces in northern Australia took advantage of the situation to create chaos and tried to negate the election results, but as the European and American warship groups, which were twice as large as the Japanese fleet and four times the number of air forces on the Japanese side, arrived in the waters of northeastern Australia and confronted them from afar, Japan's attempt to forcibly interfere in the Australian political situation failed to succeed, and based on Australia's important strategic position in the southwest Pacific, after Australia returned to the European and American spheres of influence, The Japanese had to strengthen their military presence in the East Indies, the Malay Peninsula and the Philippine Islands in order to consolidate their absolute defensive circle. In this way, the Japanese field troops evacuated from the Indian battlefield were temporarily pinned down in Southeast Asia, instead of becoming the last straw that crushed China's frontal anti-Japanese front.

In late August, the Battle of Dasanguan, which lasted for 84 days, ended with the Japanese army occupying all the key passes, although the Chinese army failed to win the final victory, they used inferior equipment to resist the Japanese army's nearly 200,000 elite troops, and achieved the result of killing and wounding more than 40,000 enemy Koukou, which provided as much preparation time as possible for the subsequent Hanzhong defense war, so it was regarded as one of the most positive battles during the Anti-Japanese War.

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