As a senior general of the Japanese Army, Umezu Mijiro has always been in favor of "going north" and opposing "going south". Pen ~ fun ~ Cabinet www.biquge.info he even believes that Japan's greatest enemy in Asia is the Soviet Union, not the United States.

The Kwantung Army was tied with the North China Eighth Route Army at Chahar, and Umezu Yoshijiro believed that the Kwantung Army was not lost to the Eighth Route Army, but to the Soviet Union and the Donghua Empire, which provided military assistance to the Eighth Route Army.

If it weren't for the fact that the damned red deer of the navy occupied most of the resources of the empire, the Japanese army would definitely have received more military spending and supplies, so that the Japanese army could become the most powerful army in the world. Whether it is the Soviet Red Army, the Eighth Route Army in North China, and the National Revolutionary Army, they will all tremble and tremble under the iron hooves of the Imperial Japanese Army.

As long as he thought that the Kwantung Army could not even break through the defensive line held by the Eighth Route Army, Umezu Mijiro was full of bitter hatred for those red deer in the Japanese Navy.

Not long after the Nanjing Nationalist Government entrusted the South China Sea to the Donghua Royal Navy, it then entrusted the defense of the East China Sea, the Yellow Sea, and the Bohai Sea to the Donghua Royal Navy.

As a result, in addition to the warships of the Donghua Royal Navy, which can cruise freely, only a few offshore gunboats and torpedo boats under the Navy Department of the Nanjing Nationalist Government are left to carry out anti-smuggling tasks.

The Japanese Navy, which once regarded the Chinese Maritime Frontier as its own territory, now does not dare to cross the territorial boundary of the Chinese Maritime Frontier at all, and even the Japanese Navy, which is stationed in Port Arthur, can only slip into the Jiangdong Bay and do not dare to take a step beyond the Thunder Pond.

Such a situation undoubtedly made the Japanese Army even more cynical towards the Japanese Navy.

It can be said that the outbreak of the Philippine War also played a great role in the increasingly heavy pressure exerted by the Japanese Army on the Japanese Navy.

Germany and Italy were actively seeking war against the Soviet Union, and Japan naturally received the obligation of an ally to fight the Soviet Red Army in the Far East.

In this life, Japan, which did not bog the main force of the army into the quagmire of the Chinese War, fully possessed the strength and confidence to open up the northern and southern battlefields at the same time. It's just that the sudden sincere cooperation between the Chinese Kuomintang and the Communist Party made Umezu Mijiro faintly feel a very bad conspiracy taste.

Umezu Mijiro felt disgusted with the group of idiot politicians in the cabinet. The hasty end of the war against China, and the surrender of all the interests of the Great Ben Empire in China for decades, were only because of a deep fear of the illusory Pacific Fleet.

From the very beginning, Umezu Mijiro insisted on fighting to the end with the plan Pacific Fleet, and the Great Japanese Empire had heroic and fearless warriors, and he didn't believe that the plan Pacific Fleet that suddenly appeared could have so many troops to fight a war of attrition with the Great Japanese Empire.

However, Umezu Mijiro's views were not shared by the majority of the Japanese military. Because he has not personally experienced and experienced how terrible the planes and submarines of the Pacific Fleet are.

With the transformation of the Pacific Fleet into the Donghui Kingdom, and then into the Great Donghua Empire after the Dongao War, Cheng Gong continued to turn Chinese immigrants into citizens and soldiers of the Donghua Empire, which made Umezu Mijiro even more convinced that his original judgment was right.

Cheng Gong in 1937 was a bluffing paper tiger!

However, now this paper tiger has gradually been replaced with a solid steel shell, and its flesh and bones have gradually been alloyed. The Great Japanese Empire missed the best opportunity to eliminate Cheng Gong, so that Cheng Gong grew into a new generation of powers that could ride on the head of the Great Japanese Empire at will.

In less than four years, the growth rate of the Donghua Empire led by Cheng Gong made Umezu Mijiro have a chilling fear.

Perhaps, the Great Japanese Empire still has a chance to defeat Cheng Gong now, but Umezu Mijiro can conclude that it is definitely a lose-lose situation! In the end, it was the United States and the Soviet Union that got cheaper.

With an overland transportation line connecting to the Soviet Union in the northwest and an ocean-going route escorted by the Royal Navy fleet of Donghua in the southeast, Umezu Yoshijiro watched as the government led by the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China was building China's industry and economy at a rapid pace of development that was visible to the naked eye, but he had nothing to stop it.

Sooner or later, the developed and powerful Chinese army will recover the four northeastern provinces. In this regard, Umezu Mijiro has a clear understanding. And this day, he estimates that it is already approaching.

According to the exact information held by the intelligence department of the Kwantung Army, in 1940, the annual output of steel by the Chinese Kuomintang and Communist governments had exceeded 3 million tons. China has not only established a complete heavy industry for national defense and military industry, but also the Kuomintang and the Communist Party have established their own aircraft production lines, tank production lines, and automobile production lines.

Although China still needs to import the key core components of these military products from the Donghua Empire, this does not prevent China's growing national defense and military strength from posing a huge threat to Japan.

Umezu Yoshijiro was sure that as long as the Kwantung Army went to war against the Soviet Red Army in the Far East, the Eighth Route Army in North China would 100 percent launch a war of liberation to recover the lost territories in the Northeast. In addition, it is very likely that the heavy troops deployed by the National Revolutionary Army in Yunnan and Guizhou provinces will also launch a counteroffensive against the Japanese army sent to the south.

The Soviet-German war will be the fuse for Japan and China to restart a full-scale war!

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Both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China are actively reorganizing their arms for war, and Cheng Gong can only say that the US imperialists are really very lucky in this regard.

The U.S. imperialists used the interests of Britain, France, and the Soviet Union in exchange for the Chinese government's full-scale participation in the war, and such huge interests made Cheng Gong unable to refuse at all, so he could only raise his hands in agreement.

With China as a guarantee, the United States no longer has to worry that the Royal Navy's fleet of the Donghua Royal Navy, which is cruising in the South China Sea, will join forces with the Japanese to deal with the US Navy's Pacific Fleet, and can concentrate on planning how to deal a heavy blow to the Japanese in the Philippine battlefield.

The tremendous changes in the world pattern have put Cheng Gong's strategic vision and thinking to a greater and greater test.

After the outbreak of the Philippine War, Guam and Wake Island were occupied by the Japanese army not long after.

In response to the Japanese landing operation on the northwest beach of Luzon, the Japanese navy and air force also launched a landing offensive on Palawan.

Since he intended to let the US imperialists fight with the Japanese monkeys in the Philippines, Cheng Gong very decisively ordered the Seventh Task Force of the Royal Navy, Donghua Royal Navy, to open up the South China Sea route and place the main sea areas for patrol training in the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea.

Without the Donghua Royal Navy, the biggest destabilizing factor, the Japanese Navy gradually became more hands-free and actively looked for fighters for a decisive battle with the US Navy's Pacific Fleet.

The little devil wants to fight quickly, while the US imperialists plan to defend it strictly.

When he learned the exact information that the US imperialists had transferred most of the capital ships of the Atlantic Fleet to Hawaii, Cheng Gong really had to admire Hoover's resoluteness.

Apparently, Hoover had already made an accurate judgment that the German Navy was currently unable to pose a threat to the east coast of the United States.

The biggest enemy of the United States at present is Japan, and the key to victory or defeat in the Philippine campaign is a decisive naval battle. Therefore, Hoover used his presidential privilege to concentrate the vast majority of the capital ships of the US Navy's Atlantic Fleet and Pacific Fleet to engage in a decisive battle with the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet, thus laying the foundation for victory in the Philippine campaign in one fell swoop.

(To be continued.) )