"Your Excellency Okamura, the problem now is not that the empire wants to start a war with Donghua, but that the Donghua empire is a bit unforgiving!"

Shan Binyuan slapped the table and said indignantly, "The Imperial soldiers will never allow anyone to sell every inch of land they have fought with their lives and blood!" ”

"Never tolerate!"

"Declare war on Donghua!"

"I can't bear it, I don't need to endure it anymore!"

"If they want to fight, we will fight!"

Looking at these passionate colleagues in front of him, Okamura Ninji could only shake his head and smile bitterly, and said with a long sigh: "Donghua has never provoked the Great Japanese Empire, this is the British deliberately want to borrow the hand of the empire to push Donghua into the arms of the allies. Could it be that the princes really wanted to turn Donghua into an enemy of the Japanese Empire? ”

Shouichi Terauchi took a deep breath, calmly met Okamura Ninji's helpless eyes, and said slowly:

"Okamura-kun, the unyielding loyal soul of the 68,439 outstanding imperial soldiers who died in the fifth, sixth, and sixteenth divisions reminds us all the time that Cheng Gong is the most dangerous enemy of the empire!"

"Don't let hatred blind your sanity!" Okamura Ninji stared at Terauchi Shouichi extremely sternly, and said in a deep voice: "Between countries, there is no eternal hatred, no eternal friendship, only eternal interests!" The interests of the Great Japanese Empire are not for you generals to trample on in order to wash away your personal shame! ”

"I think Commander Okamura is right!"

Yamaguchi stood up and said solemnly and solemnly: "The Imperial Navy has also suffered a big loss at the hands of Cheng Gong. However, the Imperial Navy has become stronger through Cheng Gong, otherwise we would not have been able to win the British army and the French army so easily! This is a fact that no one can question, please be cautious! ”

"Victory was won by the loyalty and bravery of the Imperial soldiers to the Emperor!"

Yamashita Fengwen stood up and said categorically: "At the beginning, the fleet of the Beiyang Naval Division was stronger than the Imperial Navy, but in the end, it was completely defeated by the Empire. Therefore, people come first! It is also an unquestionable fact that the overall quality of the Imperial soldiers is stronger than that of the Donghua soldiers! ”

"The Imperial Army is confident enough to defeat the Donghua Army!" Tada Jun looked at Okamura Ninji with great determination, and said loudly: "The land of China must belong to the Imperial Army!" ”

"Your Excellency Okamura, Shina must be part of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere!" Terauchi Shouichi solemnly looked at Okamura Ninji and said: "The imperial hegemony of the empire is inseparable from the frontier position of China!"

If we do not cut off the root cause of Donghua's immigrant population from China, the more time passes, the stronger Donghua will become. Now, we still have a chance to fight with Donghua. But if we don't take the opportunity to turn China into a part of the empire, we won't even have a chance to fight in the future! ”

Okamura Ninji was silent. He knew very well in his heart that Shouichi Terauchi had told the essence of the matter.

With the support of Donghua, the anti-Japanese democratic government of Beiping and the national government of Nanjing are constantly developing industry and developing people's livelihood economy. Although the Kuomintang and the Communist Party have not yet formed a coalition government, the current China is no longer the same as the China of two years ago.

At the time of the outbreak of the July Seven Incident, Huaxia produced only 40,000 tons of steel, 28 million tons of coal, 13,100 tons of oil reserves, and 700 tons of steel. China could not build a large-caliber artillery, not a single car, not a tank, not a single airplane, not a single warship.

BUT NOW, THE CHINESE AND COMMUNIST PARTIES HAVE ACHIEVED AN ANNUAL OUTPUT OF 1 MILLION TONS OF STEEL, 50 MILLION TONS OF COAL, 50,000 TONS OF COPPER, 300,000 TONS OF OIL, 700 TANKS, 500 PLANES, 200 AIRCRAFT, 800 ARTILLERY PIECES OF CALIBER OF 100 MM OR MORE, AND 60 TORPEDO BOATS.

According to the five-year plans of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China, by next year, China's comprehensive national strength and industrial production capacity will be doubled compared with this year. time, China's war potential will become even stronger.

If China is not conquered before it becomes stronger, perhaps the empire and even Manchuria may be lost in the future.

More importantly, if we don't find a way to use war to slow down the development of the Donghua Empire, and allow the Donghua Empire to be left and right in the Axis camp and the Allied camp, and make a lot of war money, the Great Japanese Empire will never have a chance to catch up with the Donghua Empire.

Perhaps, His Majesty the Emperor and the cabinet saw this clearly, so they decided to start a war against China, intending to turn China into a huge burden for the Donghua Empire.

"If the Donghua army forcibly enters Hong Kong, order Takashi Sakai to never back down!" Okamura Ninji finally made a decision: "If necessary, you can fight back!" However, Imperial soldiers must not fire the first shot! ”

"Hay!" Terauchi Shouichi, Tada Jun, Yama Binyuan, Yamashita Fengfu and others bowed down to receive the order.

……

Hong Kong, about 150 km southwest of Victoria Bay.

The flagship of the 3rd Amphibious Assault Subfleet of the Second Fleet of the Royal Donghua Navy, the aircraft carrier "Huo Quai", the amphibious assault ship "Zhujiang", the amphibious dock landing ship "Yimengshan", the fast combat support ship "Poyang Lake", the cruiser "Longdun 112", the destroyers "Kaijiang 245" and "Kaijiang 246", and the frigates "Tuotu 307" and "Tuotu 308" were slowly cruising in battle formation.

In the sky, from time to time, several F-4M Phantom carrier-based fighters, twin aircraft in formation whizzing over the fleet, escort circling.

At the command center of the "Huo Quai" aircraft carrier island, Wang Jingchun stood in front of the tactical map with his hands behind his back, staring at the small sun flag representing the deployment of the Japanese troops in Hong Kong on the map with bright eyes. Beneath the seemingly calm face, there is actually a battle passion that is difficult to hide in his heart.

The emperor clearly knew that it was a conspiracy of the British to take Hong Kong from the Japanese army, but he still ordered the Royal Navy to take over Hong Kong as soon as possible, which was obviously an attempt by the emperor to dampen the arrogance of the Japanese army in Asia.

Wang Jingchun had already guessed that the emperor would definitely not be of the same mind as the Japanese. In recent years, Japan's military strength and industrial production capacity have been continuously strengthened, but in fact, the ambitions of the Japanese have been used to attack the British and French, so as to achieve the intention of driving the tiger and devouring the wolf. Now it seems that his guess was undoubtedly correct!

Wang Jingchun had long known about the various deployments of the Japanese army's southern dispatch troops on the Yunnan-Burma border and the Yunnan-Vietnam border through the internal war situation report of the Royal Navy. After sending Li Delin and Long Zizhou ashore, Wang Jingchun waited for the Pentagon's instructions every moment.

Wang Jingchun knew that he was sitting in the South China Sea with the 2nd and 3rd amphibious assault squadrons, and it was definitely not as simple as deterring the Japanese army. The newly formed Royal Navy's Task Force 7 will certainly undertake the strategic task of fighting a decisive battle with the Japanese Navy at some point.

At present, the emperor is just letting the little devil manage the British and French colonies in South Asia for the Great Donghua Empire. In the future, the whole of Southeast Asia will definitely belong to the Great Donghua Empire! The glorious mission of Greater East Asia Co-prosperity can only be realized by the Great Donghua Empire!

"Commander, I just received the information." Duan Yunpeng, the intelligence officer of the fleet, walked over and whispered beside Wang Jingchun: "Okamura Ningji has given an order to Takashi Sakai, the supreme commander of the Japanese army in Hong Kong, resolutely not to hand over Hong Kong to us, and if necessary, we can launch a battle to defend Hong Kong. ”

Wang Jingchun took the telegram and read it carefully for a while, and then laughed and said: "Lao Tzu is still worried that the little devil will pretend to be a grandson and hand over Hong Kong obediently!" Someone, pass on my order, according to the predetermined battle plan, forty minutes later, launch an attack on the Japanese warships in Victoria Harbor! ”

(To be continued.) )