"Why not go south, now the situation is already clear, the British and American ghost animals are not willing to give up their interests in East Asia, they are afraid of the rise of the empire. They feared that after the empire controlled the vast areas of East Asia and Southeast Asia, it controlled the resources of this vast area enough to become an existence comparable to the top powers such as the Soviet Union, Germany, and the United States. Britain and the United States did not permanently close the Yunnan-Burma Railway and the Yunnan-Burma Highway because of the threat of the Empire, which is the latest information obtained by Imperial agents in China at the cost of their lives. ”

At this time, Qiao Jun, who was dressed in a lieutenant general's uniform, threw the documents in his hand on the table and let the people in the staff headquarters circulate them.

"After the Empire joined the Axis powers, Britain was furious and decided to restore the Burma Highway in a month and a half. The warriors of the empire in the rear of China, at the cost of more than ten lives, and two agent sites, got accurate information about the northwest air force of China, from the opening of the Yunnan-Burma highway, they used this road, in addition to obtaining two sets of 200,000 tons of steel smelting equipment, and smoothly put into the steel base in southern Sichuan. In addition, most of the training planes of the Northwest Air Force in China, as well as the engines of no less than 800 Zephyr dive bombers per year, and some spare parts, are imported from this road to the northwest mainland. A month before Britain closed the Yunnan-Burma Highway, there was even a large batch of machinery and industrial equipment shipped from the United States. Most of them are related to the manufacture of engines, aircraft. ”

Watching the people from the General Staff Headquarters bow their heads and read this confidential document, Qiao Jun continued to talk eloquently.

"Now, under the auspices of the Central Army in the northwest and China of China, the Yunnan-Burma Railway, which has a larger volume of goods transportation, will be opened to traffic immediately, and its cargo transportation capacity will be ten times that of the Yunnan-Burma Highway. We here can imagine that if the Northwest of China gets more aero engines, even if the Northwest is unwilling to let the American factory produce the power engines for the Wyvern fighter on its behalf due to technical secrecy. The bomber alone can save a lot of aircraft manufacturing capacity for the Northwest, allowing it to fully produce the Wyvern fighter. And those machinery imported from the Yunnan-Burma Highway to the northwest, last year alone, the northwest increased the production capacity of at least 1,300 aircraft. The Northwest already has a relatively complete aviation industry chain, and their aircraft are very advanced. As you can imagine, once the Burma Highway is also opened, the northwest will have enough industrial equipment. After receiving a large amount of technology injection from Chinese and overseas Chinese technicians in the United States, how much threat will the Northwest Army pose to the empire? ”

"Even if we do not start from the perspective of world domination, it is very important to conquer China, end the war against China as soon as possible, and cut off the foreign aid of the China Army, especially the Northwest China Army. What's more, due to the sharp expansion of the war against China, the rate of consumption of the imperial oil reserves from last year to this year is almost on par with the rate of purchase. And this time the empire signed the trilateral pact with Germany and Italy, and the United States has begun to ban the sale of some materials to the empire, who knows if oil is also banned by the United States. ”

"Britain and the United States have always been on the same front, and even if the United States does not ban the sale of oil, according to the current situation, just maintaining the import of materials and machinery to the northwest is enough to keep the empire permanently in the quagmire of this war. By the beginning of the war, the empire had lost nearly half a million elite soldiers on the battlefield of China. And with each year of the year, the number of soldiers killed in battle has maintained a high growth rate of 10 to 20 percent. ”

"Southeast Asia is a delicious piece of cake, France has been defeated by Germany, and British forces have retreated to their homeland. The entire continent of Western Europe had become the domain of the German army. The British and French colonies in Southeast Asia are already ownerless at this time, and only by controlling the huge manpower and material resources in Southeast Asia, as well as the oil resources urgently needed by the empire, can the empire be invincible for a long time, otherwise according to the scale of the current Northwest Army of China, which is getting bigger and bigger, without cutting off their supply channels, the war against China alone will not be over for another four or five years! ”

"Rather than being dragged down by Britain and the United States using China to bring down the empire, why not fight hard, take advantage of the fact that there are still millions of unmobilized soldiers in the empire, and take advantage of the fact that there are still enough hole cards in the hands now, to have a blitzkrieg like the German army, which will sweep the whole of Southeast Asia, and we will win the First Sino-Japanese Naval War. We also won the Russo-Japanese War, and this time, we will also win, this time the Great War will push the empire to an unprecedented peak and create a world-class Great Japanese Empire! ”

Qiao Jun made a generous statement in front of the senior generals of the General Staff Headquarters that the information in his hand was naturally not really stolen by the secret services under his command, but deliberately leaked to him by the Northwest. In the past few years, with the help of the Northwest Pusher, Qiao Jun has been promoted from a middle-level officer at the time of the 918 Incident to the deputy chief of the General Staff Headquarters and entered the core decision-making level of the Japanese army. Although they are not the top elites, they have enough access to a large number of military secrets.

However, what made Qiao Jun Zhanmu not quite understand was that in the past few years, Jiang Li had been providing him with some valuable information to help him take the position. Until now, he had not made any requests, which made Qiao Jun Jimu a little suspicious that Jiang Li's brain had been kicked by the donkey. However, since Jiang Li has been sitting in the Central Plains Theater for more than two years now, and the Central Plains Theater is still immovable, this possibility obviously does not exist. Jiang Li pushed him to such a height, apparently to gather more valuable intelligence. In the past, his status was too low, and Jiang Li didn't look down on him at all.

Although he didn't have much contact with Jiang Li, Qiao Jun had a hunch that once Jiang Li used his chess piece, I am afraid that the end of the war would not be too far away. He is too deeply entangled with the Northwest, and there is no possibility of getting rid of the Northwest at all. The memories of the darkness and hatred of his childhood made Qiao Jun Ji despise those fanatical bushido spirits. Whether it is in Japan, or if he defects to the Republic of China later, he doesn't care, leaving this place where he has no sense of belonging may be good in the future.

In fact, Jiang Li, who still knows the general course of history, attaches the most importance to letting the Japanese army maintain its established track, or attacking Southeast Asia in advance. Even if he has the advantage of being a traverser, Jiang Li is still a little worried that the Japanese army will not play cards according to common sense, after all, the battlefield of the Republic of China has been completely unmasked, and now in 1940, France was defeated, and Chairman Jiang retreated to southern Hunan and Guizhou. Zhengzhou, as a fortress in the Central Plains, has always been in the hands of the Northwest Army, and the Japanese army has not yet opened the Pinghan Road. Suiyuan also accounted for only a small half. During the entire eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Japanese army only lost more than 400,000 people on the battlefield in China, and now the number of soldiers killed in battle has exceeded the eight years in history.

Even if the general trend of history is still the same, Jiang Li still has a trace of apprehension. In Jiang Li's eyes, even if Qiao Jun didn't do anything, just added a few more pushers in the process of the Japanese army moving south, its significance was far greater than annihilating one or two Japanese divisions on the battlefield

123 Chongqing Wharf was full of shouting and heavy panting. Chongqing is mountainous, near the water, and surrounded by undulating terrain, and during the war with the Japanese army, the materials transported from all over the country made the transportation along the river enter a short period of prosperity.

However, the Japanese army was busy exterminating the Chiang Central Army in the Qiangui area of southern Hunan, and also fought against the Jin Sui Army and the Central Plains Field Army, and for a time did not care about Chongqing, the wartime capital in the history of the Republic of China. The geographical environment of Chongying was also the ideal wartime capital in the mind of Chairman Chiang. However, Jiang Li's henchmen took root in northern Sichuan for several years, recruiting and training a large number of new troops in northern Sichuan every year, and it is conservatively estimated that there are more than 100,000 new troops in the northwest who are training in northern Sichuan. Among them were veterans of at least several divisions. Therefore, no matter how good Chongqing is, but there is already a tiger lying next to it, Chairman Jiang naturally cannot put his central organs in the mouth of the tiger.

Chongqing is mountainous, the terrain is undulating, in the wharf along the river, there are a large number of stone steps, a large number of porters carry heavy burdens, wearing straw sandals, a heavy step on the stone steps, the waist pole is pressed to the rickets, it looks as if it will be broken at any time.

"Chaotianmen, the symbol of Chongqing's spiritual culture, the first modern wharf in the future will be built here." XCMG wore a hard hat and walked down the stone steps, next to Pan Qingzhou and several other accompanying officers, a little eye-catching in the crowd full of porters and laborers, but most of the people were no longer surprised by this scene, it was the war years, and there were not a few troops entering and leaving from the Chongqing wharf. These ones looked like officers, but the rank badge had been removed, and they weren't very conspicuous.

"Now that the Japanese army has captured Wuhan, they can attack Chongqing by going straight up the river. Let's overhaul the dock here now, as soon as the Japanese army comes, not to mention that they will definitely capture Chongqing, I'm afraid there will be chaos again. Pan Qingzhou looked at the bustling Chaotianmen Pier Road.

"The main force of the Japanese army is concentrated in the plain, and the Northwest Army has been carrying it until now, and the scale is getting bigger and bigger, and the Japanese army is helpless against the Northwest Army now. Tracing the river straight up, to fight Chongqing, the supply line is so long, I'm really afraid that they won't come. ”

Jiang Wenhao next to him smiled and said, even though it was out of the need to sit in northern Sichuan, Jiang Li threw him into northern Sichuan for a few years, Jiang Wenhao still complained in private. However, complaining is complaining, Jiang Wenhao knows the importance of Sichuan to the northwest. In northern Sichuan, the bones are scattered, and Cheng Cheng faces those recruits, Jiang Wenhao now misses the time when he fought in Songhu. Of course, now his command is full of some information about the terrain and climate of Southeast Asia, and Jiang Wenhao is also very clear about Jiang Li's intentions in the future. In the future, most of his positions will be in the south, and in the past two years, he may still have to sit on the cold bench, but if the Japanese army really comes to fight Chongqing, he will have to loosen his muscles and bones. The North Sichuan Army has been idle for too long. The Japanese army came over, and he also took the opportunity to let the Northwest Army radiate in Sichuan.

"That's right." Pan Qingzhou shrugged his shoulders, and did not object to Jiang Wenhao's words, even if his son Pan Wenhua, the new king of Sichuan, had to be polite to Jiang Wenhao, not to mention him, a backward man. Although the difference in age between the two is not big, the difference in status is here.

"The transportation conditions on this side of the wharf are too poor, before the shipbuilding equipment comes, the roads on the wharf must be renovated first, and during the construction period, there must be a lot of manpower, and I hope that Mayor Hu will help one or two more." Mr. Chen looked at the middle-aged man next to him who was wearing a black robe and thick-rimmed eyes.

"Mr. Chen, and Professor Xu rest assured that Chongqing will give enough help in terms of manpower coordination. The rebuilding of Chaotianmen Wharf is also a major event for the people of Chongqing. ”

After Mayor Hu glanced at Pan Qingzhou, he nodded in response. As the new mayor of Chongqing appointed by Pan Wenhua, he knew his responsibilities, but he didn't expect that Pan Wenhua was still subordinate to the Central Army of the Jiang family, but he had already connected with the Northwest Army in private. But it's no wonder. After all, no matter how the Central Army of the Chiang Department looks at it, there is a feeling of sunset, but the reputation of the Northwest Army is getting more and more famous in the war. Chiang had already retreated to the southwest corner, and although he also had a certain influence in the southeast, it was much overshadowed by the Northwest Army, which single-handedly took up the entire northern theater. Deng Xihou, Sun Zhen's subordinates, out of Sichuan, can also mix up the appearance of a person, and the troops brought out of Sichuan by Liu Xiang back then, at this time, are still in the Central Army of the Jiang Department, and they are just miscellaneous cards that are constrained by others.

In addition, the influence of the northwest on Sichuan has become deeper and deeper, and after Liu Xiang's death, Pan Wenhua, who took over most of Liu Xiang's power, has already made plans, which is reasonable. In the era of great turmoil in the Republic of China, betting on both ends is a very versatile self-preservation skill.

"XCMG, the people who repair the docks, how many and how many, the equipment of the shipyard will also arrive in the shortest possible time, and the commander has only one request, with the fastest speed, to build his own steamer, a gunboat of acceptable quality. The role of this wharf is not only to transport some refugees, but also to rely on these ships to transport troops when the Northwest Army recovers Wuhan and crosses the river to fight when the railway bridge is blown up by the Japanese army. Jiang Wenhao reminded Xu Gongdao.

"I know that." Xu Gong nodded, Jiang Wenhao is arrogant, he has heard of it, in fact, in addition to shipbuilding, it is also the northwest that began to test the manufacture of U-shaped submarines, as early as after the 918 incident, in the military cooperation between the northwest and Germany, using some exchange conditions, the northwest has obtained the manufacturing technology of U-shaped submarines, even if the U-shaped submarines manufactured now cannot go to sea under the blockade of the Japanese army, but sooner or later the Yangtze River channel will be opened, when the submarine in the northwest will go straight down the river, after entering the estuary, it is the sea is wide and leaping, As another trump card to defeat Japan in the future.

Looking at the rather primitive and backward dock in front of him, XCMG was inexplicably excited, this will be the new starting point of the Republic of China Navy. Airplanes, artillery, and the Republic of China have all made them, but only the northwest has created a level that can be compared with the great powers. Submarines, even if they cannot be compared with German origins, are of epoch-making significance to the Republic of China. (To be continued.) )