Three days after Stalin fled from Moscow to the city of Yekaterina, the Germans approached the city of Moscow, and Zhukov, who was living and dying with Moscow, could only send a telegram to Stalin with tears:

"Mr. Stalin, I am Zhukov, and now I have very unfortunate news to report to you. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

I feel so guilty for my incompetence, the Germans have already invaded Moscow, this morning they have launched a siege of the city, and the situation is not bad, but very bad, and it has completely exceeded our expectations......"

"Marshal Zhukov, it's not your fault, I know that we are losing on all fronts, it's not your responsibility, you and your soldiers are brave and fearless in the face of the aggressor armed to the teeth, and you are worthy of respect.

My marshal, do not be discouraged, the entire Soviet people will support you, please hold on, and please remember that good will always triumph over evil. ”

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Since the outbreak of street fighting in Moscow, it has really become a meat grinder for Germany and the Soviet Union, the German army has the advantage of weapons, but the Soviet army has the advantage of defense, and the two sides are fighting every inch in the city of Moscow.

The Germans consumed about 350 tons of ammunition of all kinds every day, and the trains from Germany to the Moscow front departed every five minutes, and even such a compact and fast transportation was just enough for the German troops on the Moscow front.

The corpses of the German Allied Army and the Russian Liberation Army transported out of Moscow every day can fill several trains, and the replenishment of the German Allied Army and the Russian Liberation Army is also sent in tens of thousands every day, and these sent cannon fodder will soon be filled into the meat grinder in Moscow.

The street fighting in the city of Moscow is not an exaggeration to describe it as a river of blood and a mountain of corpses, and the Moscow guards under the command of Zhukov really had the idea of co-existence and death on the road position, which caused huge casualties to the attacking German Allied forces and the Russian Liberation Army.

The only advantage of the German street fighting was that they surrounded Moscow, and the Soviet defenders were one less dead, while the Germans were able to bring in a steady stream of men and ammunition.

For these Soviet troops who are fighting desperately, the only way is to fight for the consumption of soldiers, ammunition, and will, depending on who can hold out to the end.

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Stalin had no choice, he urgently asked Britain and the United States for help, but Roosevelt did not directly refuse Stalin this time, but gave Stalin a tactful promise:

"The United States will go to war as much as it can."

After Roosevelt knew exactly that Japan was going to take action against the United States, Roosevelt intended to force Japan to do something against the United States in advance.

Yes, Roosevelt intended to force Japan to attack the United States, and to realize this plan was actually very simple, that is, to impose a material embargo on Japan.

Japan is an island country, and all resources depend on imports, especially oil, and once the United States imposes an embargo on Japan on all kinds of materials, Japan's war machine will be instantly suspended.

Now the sinister form of the Soviet Union forced Roosevelt to make this decision, because the Soviet Union was almost unable to hold on, millions of German troops were besieging Moscow at this time, the fall of Moscow was just around the corner, and the Stalin regime was about to become a local power.

Roosevelt had to use this bitter ploy in order to get the United States into the war as soon as possible. And what about Japan? After they learned that the US Chutong had announced an embargo on its supplies, the cabinet of Hideki Tojo immediately held a military meeting behind closed doors, and the southbound faction and the northbound faction once again quarreled.

In 1939, Japan drew up two operational orientations, namely "southward" and "northward" operations. At first, Japan valued the abundant war resources of the Soviet Union and planned to invade the Soviet Union and occupy Siberia.

From May to September 1939, Japan launched a large-scale exploratory strategic offensive against the Soviet-Mongolian forces in the Normenhan area, 200 kilometers south of Hailar on the Sino-Mongolian border.

The two sides mobilized hundreds of thousands of elite troops and advanced military equipment to engage in a fierce confrontation that lasted for more than four months on a wasteland overgrown with weeds and rolling sand dunes.

Due to its backwardness in military thinking and tactical technology, Japan suffered its first and worst defeat since the Russo-Japanese War.

After the defeat of the "northward march", the dream of attacking the Soviet Union and occupying Siberia came to naught, so they turned around and planned to "go south" to seize greater war resources (oil) and so on, so as to annex the world's reserve and subsequent resources in the future.

Nanyang, at that time, there were British, Dutch, and American colonies, which added difficulties to Japan's plans to go south. At the same time, since Japan and the United States pursue completely antagonistic East Asian policies, Japan and the United States will inevitably have a collision of interests in East Asia.

In the spring and summer of 1940, there were two high-rises in Japan. For a year and a half, from the first upsurge of the theory of southward expansion in the spring and summer of 1940 to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor at the end of 1941, which led to the outbreak of the Pacific War, Japan did not dare to start a war against the United States.

Japan repeatedly canceled or postponed the scheduled time for advancing southward, mainly because the anti-Japanese struggle of the Chinese people disrupted the deployment of the Japanese army's aggression and forced the Japanese fascists to postpone the southward advance many times.

Japan's expansion into Southeast Asia, which began in mid-1941, caused discontent among the region's major powers, and in order to give the Japanese a little warning, the United States froze trade with Japan, the most important of which was high-octane oil.

Without oil, the Japanese war machine could not function, and the ships broke down, which meant that they could not continue the invasion, and in order to ensure normal aggression and plunder oil, they could only go south.

Japan's domestic fuel reserves can only last for half a year, and Japan understands that it can either withdraw its troops from China, stop its foreign expansion, and move closer to the United States diplomatically.

Either they will form their own banner, go south to seize strategic resources, and continue to intensify their aggression against foreign countries. There were colonies of the United States, Britain, and the Netherlands in the South Seas, and entering the South Seas would be tantamount to declaring war on the United States, Britain and the Netherlands, but Japan decided to take the risk.

Yamamoto Isoroku believed that in order to go south, it was necessary to seize air and sea supremacy in the Pacific Ocean, so that the road to the south could be unimpeded. And in order to seize air and sea supremacy in the Pacific, Pearl Harbor must first be destroyed.

Pearl Harbor in the Pacific Ocean is the main hub of transportation, Hawaii is east of the West Coast of the United States, west of Japan, southwest to the islands, north to Alaska and the Bering Strait, all between 2,000 nautical miles and 3,000 nautical miles, across the Pacific Ocean from south to north planes, all with Hawaii as the stopover, so Yamamoto 56 aimed the sneak attack on the United States Pearl Harbor.

After Yamamoto's plan was approved, the Japanese government decided to occupy the resources of Southeast Asia first as an answer to the embargo, but the United States would definitely not agree, and the United States would definitely send its Pacific Fleet to intervene, which was the main reason why Yamamoto Isoroku considered that he must first destroy the United States power in the Pacific before invading the countries of South Asia.

The plan of the commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, Isoroku Yamamoto, to attack the naval base at Pearl Harbor was a tactical step in achieving this strategic purpose. (To be continued.) )