Chapter 361: Philippine Campaign (10)

The intention of the US imperialists to use the Chinese National Revolutionary Army to hold back most of the Japanese army's strength was of course clear to Cheng Gong. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

If the U.S. imperialists really provided military assistance to the Nationalist Government as they had aided Britain in the past, Cheng Gong would certainly not interfere with the Nationalist Government's war against Japan to regain lost territory.

The problem is that I am afraid that the US government will come out with a tiger head, and in the end it will not even be able to see the tail of the snake.

The Soviet Union's massive expansion allowed Britain to survive under the German army. With Churchill's cunning, he will certainly try by all means to demand this and that from the United States, and he will also protect American interests in the name of protecting American interests.

In the original history, after the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Chinese battlefield became the biggest worry for Japan's southward advance. At the outbreak of the Pacific War, the strength of the Japanese Army was 51 corps, and the specific distribution was as follows: 4 in Japan, 2 in Korea, 13 in Northeast China, 22 in China, and 10 in the Pacific Theater.

In the Pacific Theater, Japan had only 10 divisions and regiments, accounting for 19.6 percent of the total, while the Japanese Army in the Chinese Theater had 35 divisions and regiments, accounting for 68.6 percent of the total number of divisions and regiments of the Japanese Army.

It can be said that China contained two-thirds of the Japanese army's strength, but it did not get the benefits it deserved after the war. Of course, this is related to Lao Chiang's short-sightedness, but it cannot be ruled out that the US imperialists are playing tricks in it.

Now, the Chinese government no longer has the crisis of being destroyed by Japan, and if the United States wants to draw China into an alliance to jointly resist Japan, it must show real sincerity.

In any case, most of Japan's war resources were inclined to the navy, and the Japanese navy was basically of little use to the Chinese battlefield. The navy, which occupies the vast majority of Japan's resources, will definitely rebel if it cannot seek more benefits for Japan in the war.

In the Asia-Pacific region, the Japanese Navy had only two opponents: the Royal Navy of Donghua and the US Pacific Fleet.

The Japanese Navy of the Royal Navy of Donghua did not dare to provoke, so naturally they had to take the US Pacific Fleet as a meal.

Therefore, Donghua and Huaxia do not need to worry at all now, it is the Americans, not the Huaxia people, who are burning their eyebrows.

"The U.S. government can promise and guarantee to support China in taking over all the French colonies in Asia after the war!" Marshall calmly sold the French government first.

Cheng Gong didn't say anything, but got up and came to the huge world map on the south wall of the hall, picked up the aluminum alloy telescopic map pole next to him, and pointed to the three northeastern provinces of China, the Yunnan-Myanmar border and the Yunnan-Vietnam border and said slowly:

"The Sino-Japanese War can only be fought in northeastern China, Burma and the Indochinese Peninsula. The territory that was conquered by the original French Indochina Peninsula naturally belonged to China, so Myanmar and the entire Bay of Bengal region should also be taken over by China.

In addition, considering the imminent outbreak of the Soviet-German war, after the Chinese army contained the main force of the Kwantung Army in the northeast, it was equivalent to liberating nearly one million troops deployed by the Soviet Union in the Far East, and made a great contribution to the Soviet Union's resistance to the German invasion. Therefore, after the war, the territories of the Far East of the Soviet Union, which once belonged to China, should be returned to China unconditionally. ”

"Wasn't the USSR a member of the Paradise Island Cooperation Organization?" Marshall looked at Cheng Gong very puzzled and asked, "Why sacrifice the interests of the Soviet Union to China?" ”

"There is no such thing as sacrificing anyone's interests." Cheng Gong shook the index finger of his right hand lightly and said:

"If there is a give, there should be a return, and it is reasonable. If the Chinese army does not fight in the northeast, once the Soviet-German war breaks out, Japan will inevitably send troops to the Far East in order to fulfill its obligations as an Axis alliance, and form a strategic posture of east-west attack with Germany. Mr. Marshall, do you think that with the military strength of the Soviet Union, it will be able to withstand the attack of Germany and Japan? ”

From Marshall's remarks just now, Cheng Gong can deduce that the US Government must have sent a special envoy to the Soviet Union to make a secret visit. After all, the Soviet Union contained Germany, which was definitely a great thing for Britain.

In the face of national interests, the so-called ideology, consciousness, form, and posture are not so important.

Once the Soviet-German war broke out, the United States and Great Britain would certainly draw the Soviet Union into the camp of the Allies. Even Britain would not mention the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

The Soviet Union sent troops to Poland and acquired almost half of Poland's territory. This was originally a German interest, but half of it was unreasonably taken away by the Soviet Union. With Hitler's arrogance, he will never be reconciled.

Therefore, whether it is from the point of view, knowledge, form, or national interests, Germany is already ready to send troops to the Soviet Union, and it has no choice but to send it!

This, coupled with the Soviet Union's military campaign to annex Turkey, further stimulated the interests of the Axis camp. The reasons for Germany to declare war on the Soviet Union were all the more sufficient.

White House aides once analyzed that once the Soviet-German war broke out, the Soviet Union was very likely to be in danger of national collapse.

On the Western Front, a powerful German army was to be faced; The southern front faced a counteroffensive by the armies of Italy, Bulgaria, Romania, and the Turkish army. The center also needed to deal with anti-Soviet forces in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran; On the Eastern Front, there was also an offensive by the more powerful Japanese Kwantung Army into the Soviet Far East.

In this case, the chances of Britain and the United States sending troops to the aid of the USSR were almost zero. The only thing the Soviet Union could rely on was China.

According to this analysis, it seems reasonable for China to recover the lost territory in the north.

Today's Huaxia is no longer the national government that nods when it sees foreigners.

With the assistance of the Donghua Empire, coupled with the "541 Project" that various countries had helped the Nanjing Nationalist Government to carry out, China had gradually established a national industrial system belonging to China. The Chinese people already have the qualifications and strength to engage in dialogue on an equal footing with the major powers on the international stage.

Considering that it is a betrayal of the interests of other countries anyway, a dead friend is not a poor man. After much consideration, Marshall agreed to Cheng Gong's request.

Two days later, on April 5, 1941, the U.S. government and the Nationalist Government of Nanjing, China, signed the Paradise Island Huamei Secret Treaty under the notarization of the Donghua Empire.

In this secret treaty, as long as the Sino-American alliance defeats Japan, the United States promises to hand over more than 1.6 million square kilometers of territory east of Lake Baikal to the Chinese government after the war.

In the face of such a great opportunity to expand the territory, the top leaders of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China, as well as all the local warlords, all put aside their prejudices and united as one, first forming an anti-Japanese coalition government, and then starting a nationwide military reorganization.

The Chinese army suddenly twisted into a rope, and the most sensitive and sensitive must be the Japanese Kwantung Army.

Sooner or later, war between China and Japan would break out in Manchuria, and the Kwantung Army had been mentally prepared from top to bottom.

If the opponent is only the Communist Eighth Route Army, Umezu Mijiro is not worried. However, if the armies of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party cooperate sincerely, as the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, Umezu Mijiro must consider making corresponding adjustments to the strategic focus of the Kwantung Army.

Germany and Italy have already decided to launch a punitive war against the USSR in mid-June of this year. As a member of the Axis Alliance, Japan had the obligation and responsibility to order the Kwantung Army to strike a military attack on the Soviet Far East Army at an appropriate time when Germany and Italy launched an offensive.

At this critical juncture, Umezu Yoshijiro subconsciously believed that it was possible that the Soviet Union had reached some kind of secret agreement with the Chinese Kuomintang and the Communist Party under the coordination of the East China Empire.

(To be continued.) )