Norodom Palace, Saigon, Vietnam.

The French Governor's Office throughout Indochina has now become the headquarters of Japan's Southern Dispatch Army.

As a conqueror, Okamura did not enjoy the fruits of victory as arrogantly and empty-eyed as the other generals in the Southern Dispatch Army, but stayed alone in the large office of the former French governor, full of luxury, standing in front of the window and looking at the falling rain lines outside the window, his brow furrowed deeply, deeply.

What Chief of Staff Ishihara was most worried about really happened.

Today, for the third time, the former high-ranking generals of the North China Dispatch Army, headed by Shouichi Terauchi and Yama Binyuan, have bluntly told him to renew the Chinese strategy, wave their troops to attack Liangguang, seize Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan, and then go all the way east along the Yangtze River, cooperate with the Kwantung Army moving south, and occupy the whole of China in one fell swoop.

With the existing military strength of the Japanese Empire, it was not impossible to occupy the whole of China from the southwest to the northeast in preparation for war. If someone stands up and shouts to occupy Huaxia within three months at this time, no one will laugh at this person's arrogance and ignorance.

However, the empire cannot just stare at Huaxia, it must consider the attitude of the Donghua Empire!

The existing military strength and war potential of the Great Japanese Empire were entirely based on the various advanced military and civilian technologies provided by the Donghua Empire. Otherwise, with the former Great Japanese Empire, Okamura Ninji would never have believed that the Imperial Army could defeat the British and French armies in the Southeast Asian theater.

Although victory is joyful, as a high-ranking general of the empire, you must not be carried away by victory and lose your mind.

Whenever he thinks of the kind of supersonic jet fighter equipped with the Seventh Fleet of the Royal Navy, Okamura Ninji shudders.

Even today, Okamura Ningji still can't believe that this is Cheng Gong's last hole card, and his intuition tells him that the Donghua Empire must have hidden a more powerful killer weapon that has not been revealed.

Okamura Ninji once consulted Tabun Yamaguchi and Tomozaburo Ozawa and asked them if the combined fleet of the Imperial Navy could defeat the Royal Navy of Donghua.

Yamaguchi's answer was very simple, the Seventh Fleet of the Royal Navy of Donghua alone could withstand more than half of the strength of the Combined Fleet. And the Donghua Empire also has two large fleets, the Home Fleet and the North Pacific Fleet on Zhenshi Paradise Island.

According to reliable information, the overall strength of the Home Fleet of the Royal Navy, the North Pacific Fleet, each of which exceeds that of the Seventh Fleet.

Okamura Ninji already understood that Yamaguchi Tamon was telling him that the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy would definitely not be able to defeat the Royal Navy of Donghua. This is not something that can be solved by courage and confidence, but a real military technology generation gap!

However, the vast majority of the generals of the Imperial War Department did not have such a clear understanding of the Imperial Navy.

Advanced Type 99 fighter (F4U Japanese version), Type 99 medium tank (T34/85 Japanese version), Type 99 light tank (Type 63 amphibious tank Japanese version), Type 99 heavy tank (Type 59 modified Japanese version), Type 99 armored personnel carrier (Type 63 tracked armored vehicle Japanese version), Type 99 self-propelled artillery (M41 Japanese version) and other weapons and equipment have been localized and mass-produced (1939 is the year 2599 of the Japanese emperor, so it is called Type 99);

Type 98 rifle (6.5MM56 semi-automatic rifle Japanese version), Type 98 submachine gun (6.5MM56 submachine gun Japanese version), Type 98 squad machine gun (6.5MM56 squad machine gun Japanese version), Type 98 general-purpose machine gun (7.7MM Japanese version MG42), Type 98 military pistol (54 pistol Japanese version), Type 98 40MM gun grenade launcher (M203 Japanese version) and other Type 98 gun weapons have also achieved industrial mass production.

After two years of silence, the Japanese Army, which has been completely equipped with new weapons and equipment, is invincible even if it is thrown into Europe, let alone in Asia.

Based on this situation, someone proposed to restart the Huaxia Raiders, and Okamura Ninji can also understand it. But the problem is that if attacking Huaxia is exchanged for tearing face with the Donghua Empire, or even declaring war on each other, this is definitely not the situation that Okamura Ninji wants to see.

The empire has declared war on Britain and France, and at this time, if the two enemy states of China and Donghua are established, it is very likely to bring a monstrous disaster to the entire Yamato nation!

Unless the Donghua Empire could maintain neutrality on the Sino-Japanese issue, Okamura Ninji would rather be removed from his post than agree to the "Operation Zero Plan" proposed by Terauchi Shouichi, Yama Binyuan, and others to attack Nanning and Guangzhou in China.

This zero battle plan, Okamura Ninji immediately transmitted back to the Tokyo Military Department, and sent a separate copy to His Majesty the Emperor.

Three days passed, and no clear reply was received from the military department. Even His Majesty the Emperor didn't seem to know anything about it.

This strange situation reminded Okamura Ninji of when the War Department proposed to bet on war with Cheng Gong's PLAN Pacific Fleet two years ago, His Majesty the Emperor seemed to be as silent as he is now.

I remember that after the defeat of the gambling war, the Imperial Army was purged by His Majesty the Emperor from the grassroots to the top. Many people were scapegoated on the spot and ordered to apologize for their crimes.

If you think about it, the current situation is similar to the gambling war two years ago. Because the zero operation plan is also betting that the Donghua Empire will not interfere in Huaxia affairs!

Most of the elite of the Central Army of the Nationalist Government in Nanjing became what is now the Royal Navy, Royal Air Force, and Royal Army of the Donghua Empire. Chiang Zhongzheng is currently reorganizing the Central Army of the National Revolutionary Army. It can be said that now is a period of vacuum in which the military strength of the Nationalist Government is most empty.

However, the Nanjing Nationalist Government was much weaker militarily, but its industrial and economic development had multiplied several times compared with two years ago!

Once it fails to end the war in China quickly, and when the Donghua Empire comes to its senses and fully intervenes, the Great Japanese Empire will not need to face such a simple matter as being attacked on its back.

The British and French ghosts are now hoping that the Imperial Army will make mistakes and provoke the war in China again.

The Communist Eighth Route Army supported by Lucia is no longer the Eighth Route Army of the past, but an elite unit that is more like a regular army than the original Central Army.

The anti-coalition armed forces operating in the three eastern provinces have never stopped their guerrilla sabotage activities over the years.

As long as the empire resumes the war in China, all of these problems may lead to a potential crisis that will lead the empire and the army into the quagmire of war.

Moreover, there is one biggest variable: the Donghua Empire!

You must know that the Donghua Empire has now established a Paradise Island Cooperation Organization with the Soviet Union, and the two countries have become a comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership. If Donghua declared war on the Empire, the Soviet Union would certainly follow suit.

The Eastern Soviets attacked the empire, and Okamura Ninji couldn't have imagined what a terrible disaster it would be.

Okamura Ninji asked himself that he could be regarded as a qualified strategist and military strategist, and before Cheng Gong and the PLAN organization appeared, Okamura Ninji could clearly see the entire world pattern. However, for the first time since the establishment of the Tohui Kingdom, Okamura Ninji felt that his brain was not enough.

Because the world has become a complete stranger to him! Relations between countries have become more complicated!

(To be continued.) )