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In the past three months, South China's economy has been steadily improving, due to the abundant resources of energy, copper and iron ore, rare metals, rubber and other resources in the subordinate areas, abundant grain reserves, coupled with the huge order support of the Soviet-German battlefield, industry and agriculture have shown explosive growth.

Under the large-scale invasion of the Japanese army, the economy of the United States was greatly damaged, and the supplies to support the British Isles and Africa were drastically reduced, and almost all of its energy was devoted to dealing with the Japanese invasion.

In mid-November last year, the Japanese army broke through the Bering Strait and landed at Cape Prince of Wales in Alaska.

Like Fairbanks, Okarta was a well-known gold mining city in Alaska, and with the discovery of gold in Alaska in the early 20th century, it gradually became a small city with a population of several thousand.

After entering this century, the United States discovered a super large oil field in Prad Hobe, Alaska, plus gold mines in Hokatsa, Fairbanks and Tanano, and the copper mine in Ninana, Alaska, which was originally nameless, became a hot land.

In order to exploit these deposits, the U.S. government invested in the construction of a highway from Pradhobe in the north to Hogata in the south, through Hogatsa, Fairbanks, and Tanaklos, and through the Canadian border, from Skner and Kamax to the railway hubs of Disney and Fort Nelson. Later, the United States built a highway between the mainland and Fairbanks, but in this era, only ordinary roads are used for traffic.

Since the city of Okaca is less than 200 kilometers from the Arctic Circle, the characteristic polar night here will soon arrive, when the day will only be two or three hours, and the rest of the time will be almost covered in darkness.

The Japanese and the American army fought a tragic battle in Hogartsa, due to the loss of air supremacy, and the Japanese army had a double advantage in the number and quality of the army, the American army was forced to retreat to Fairbanks, but on the way encountered an ambush by the Japanese army, the American army was completely dispersed, and the remnants fled to Canada.

It turned out that two days after the capture of the Aleutian Islands, Nagumo Tadaichi's aircraft carrier task force joined up with the transport fleet that had arrived from the Chiba Islands to escort the four divisions of the 17th Army of the Japanese army under the command of Vice Admiral Anami Yuji to launch a beach-grabbing landing operation at Anchorage.

There was no doubt that the 17th Army, which had experienced the bloody battle in Australia, was not at all able to resist by the seriously untrained American Coast Guard, and soon the Americans lost the port of Anchorage.

During the economic crisis in the thirties, Roosevelt carried out a lot of infrastructure construction in order to alleviate the pressure of domestic employment, including the construction of the railway from Port Anchorage to Fairbanks City, the connection of this railroad made a great contribution to the development of Alaska and the rational use of resources, but now it is also convenient for the Japanese army.

The Japanese army soon took the train and went north along the railway, and attacked Fairbanks, cutting off the retreat of the American army in one fell swoop, causing the 12th Army of the American army, which was attacked from the front and rear, to collapse.

Look at the reaction of the Canadian government and military.

After Britain declared war on Germany, Canada, as the Dominion of the British Commonwealth, had a total of 60 regiments, most of which were sent to the British Isles and southern Africa, and currently only had the 3rd and 6th Infantry Divisions and five air squadrons, with a total strength of less than 100,000.

In the face of the overwhelming superiority of the Japanese army, the Canadian government panicked, and after a brief discussion between Prime Minister Mackenzie King and the Secretary of Defense James and Ritton Ralston, they immediately made a decision: all troops and residents in the western region would be withdrawn to the eastern region. This move caused great controversy among the allies, but the Canadian government and military went their own way, hastily organizing the people to flee the western region like a plague, and all the railways and roads were filled with troops and civilians retreating westward.

Like the United States, Canada is also a country composed of immigrants, no, Canada at this time can not be called a country, because after the outbreak of the war, Canada's self-government existed in name only, completely under the control of the British wartime cabinet, and once again from a semi-independent dominion to a colony that asked for money and people could not have their own opinions.

In the eyes of the Americans, it was very convenient for Churchill to represent the entire British Empire, and Canada was nothing more than a vassal of the British Empire in North America.

Of the 11 million population, about 40 percent are British, 30 percent are French, 10 percent are of other European descent, about 3 percent are indigenous people, including Indians and Eskimos, and the rest are Asian, Hispanic, and African-American.

After the surrender of France, the Vichy government maintained close cooperation with the German Nazis, and even had several French volunteer divisions in the German camp that attacked the Soviet Union, while the influence of the Free French in the French community in Canada was minimal, so they agreed with the orthodox white spoon French Canadians were firmly opposed to getting involved in the war, but their political views have been suppressed, and the French mayor of Montreal, Camillin Red, was even arrested and imprisoned for opposing conscription and sending troops to Europe and Africa.

In the French-majority region of eastern Canada, Quebec, where the French population is the majority, the French who wish to stay out of the situation may declare independence at any time at the instigation of the Axis powers, and there is a huge crisis within Canada.

In the view of Mackenzie, Prime Minister Kim believes that once the western region is caught in the war with the Japanese army, the unrestrained French in the east will inevitably be encouraged, and the probability of declaring independence will increase exponentially.

In view of all these circumstances, Prime Minister Mackenzie King, James, and Minister Ritton Ralston completely abandoned the defense of the western part of the country, and all the troops and civilians were transported by rail, road and waterway to the east of Ontario and Quebec, so that due to the large influx of British and other citizens in Quebec, the French independence forces will inevitably be greatly suppressed.

Between survival and destruction, Canadians have chosen to survive in spite of each other. Because the Japanese army was so fierce that the retreating Canadians could not take away large items at all, and the entire western Canadian industrial facilities and food and other materials fell into the hands of the Japanese army almost intact.

At this time, Canada was not a wild place, and the western region still had a large industrial base.

During the First World War, in order to meet the war needs of the suzerain, Britain, and at the same time the goods that originally depended on European imports had to be produced to meet the needs, Canada's ore smelting, iron and steel, metal processing, manufacturing, textile and chemical industries developed rapidly, and many new industrial sectors and new manufacturing factories sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and even under the British government's risk-averse business philosophy, Canada established a very complete military industrial system, making Canada transform from a traditional agricultural country to an industrial country.

After the war, Canada's economy continued to grow, but due to overcapacity, after the outbreak of the economic crisis in 29 years, there was a decade-long economic depression throughout Canada, and it did not ease until the outbreak of the war, and the backlog of materials in the country was piled up, such as more than 13 million tons of wheat stored in warehouses (historical facts), most of which were built in the northwest region where there was little rain and severe cold, and the Japanese easily got the much-needed grain.

Seeing the fierce and abnormal Japanese army approaching him step by step, the top level of the US government and the commanders of the US military command were frightened and dispatched troops to actively deal with it.

The previous deployment of the US military was as follows:

The 1st Army and the 11th Army were deployed in the Southwest Pacific Theater and deployed by General MacArthur. The third amphibious army was established in the Pacific Theater and was dispatched by Nimitz; The Second Army, the Fifth Army, and the First Armored Army went to Europe as expeditionary forces, of which the Fifth Army was stationed in the British Isles to prevent possible landing operations launched by the German army, and the Second Army and the First Armored Army had just driven the Japanese back to the island of Madagascar in South Africa; After the Japanese invaded Central America, the 9th Army was sent to Venezuela, the 10th Army was transferred to Honduras, the 4th Army was deployed in Belize, and the 12th and 13th armies were stationed on the Mexican border and the oil fields on the east coast.

On the home front, the 12th Army has been defeated in Alaska, and the new 12th Army is currently being rebuilt in Jackson, Mississippi. As the Japanese army rushed to the northern border, except for the Third Army, which was still stationed in California and Oregon to guard against possible landing battles launched by the Japanese army, the Sixth Army defended Washington and Idaho, and the Seventh and Eighth Armies assisted in the defense of Montana, North Dakota, and Minnesota.

In addition, the 13th Army is being formed in Providence, Rhode Island, the 14th Army in Brownwood, Texas, the 15th Army in Borrigard Barracks, Louisiana, and the 16th Army in Fort Riley, Kansas, and the 2nd Armored Army is also being reorganized in Polk Barracks, Louisiana.

As the Japanese army advanced into the United States, the United States had no choice but to relax the conditions for conscription and seize the time to organize the 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, and 24th armies.

Fortunately, in addition to the units directly under the Army Command, the United States also has a large National Guard and Coast Guard commanded by the state governments, which are a powerful supplement to the main force.

The all-out contest between the Japanese army and the US army kicked off at the end of the twelfth month.

After taking the western part of Canada with a whirlwind of clouds, Japan did not stop long, and soon divided its forces in Prince George and Edmonton.

The commander of the Japanese Left Route Army was General Okamura Ninji, the former commander of the North China Front, and he was under the command of the 13th Army and the 18th Army, as well as five independent infantry brigades to assist in the battle. The army marched south from Prince George, went straight to Seattle through Vancouver, broke the defense of the 63rd Division of the 63rd Division of the 6th Army of the US Army near the border line, entered Seattle, a natural harbor city in the northwest of the United States, before the arrival of the New Year, and then continued southward, and is currently engaged in fierce battles with the 8 divisions of the 3rd Army and the 6th Army of the US Army in the Coast Mountains and Cascade Ridge area.

The commander of the Japanese Army's Central Route Army was the three generals of the riverside who made a fuss in the Burma-India theater. Tsuiha, Hirohito's favorite general, Kawabe Shozo was full of passion, ready to use the blood of the Americans to make a shame, and his subordinates gathered such elite tours as the Tenth Army and the Twenty-eighth Army.

The Central Route Army set out from Edmond City and moved south to Calgary City, but encountered stubborn resistance from four divisions of the Seventh Army, known as the "Extraordinary Army" of the US Army, in the Missouri Plateau area.

The Japanese Right Route Army was commanded by the famous "Malay Tiger" General Yamashita Fengfumi, and had the terrifying combat power of seven tank divisions and twelve infantry divisions of the Kwantung Army.

Throughout December, the Right Route Army was constantly on the march, although a large number of tanks broke down during the period, especially since the end of December in North America, which brought great difficulties to the march, but still did not stop the pace of the Right Route Army's advance, and on the first day of the New Year, the vanguard of the Central Route Army took Regina, an important city in central Canada, directly threatening the security of the Great Plains region of central America.

In early February, after resting in the city of Regina, the mechanized army of the Right Route Army turned around and moved south, crushing the defenses of the Eighth Army of the American Army in the Minot area of North Dakota, and then rushing down the railroad to Minnesota, directly threatening the security of the American light and heavy industrial base in the Great Lakes region, and the whole world was shaken.