The next day, the German Foreign Minister sent the official text of the dissolution of the alliance with Japan to the Japanese ambassador to Germany, and the German Foreign Minister did not even find a reason, and Germany unilaterally dissolved the alliance with Japan.

The German Foreign Office immediately held a press conference, and journalists from many countries, including those from the United Kingdom and the United States, were invited. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

At the press conference, the German foreign minister explained the reasons for Germany's dissolution of the alliance with Japan, such as Japan's failure to fulfill its obligations as an ally, and Japan's attack on China, Germany's friendly country.

The world's media was instantly detonated, and Japan, one of the three Axis powers, was actually expelled from the Axis Alliance by its leading brother, Germany.

Journalists from all over the world simply felt that the news was important and sent their own news to their own newspapers, but these reporters did not know why Germany had broken off its alliance with Japan.

Of course, there is a clear person in the United States, that is, US President Roosevelt, when Roosevelt received the news that Germany had dissolved the alliance with Japan, the mild-mannered Roosevelt couldn't help but scold in his office:

"These damn Jewish pigs, this is all a good thing you have done, if Japan attacks the United States, then the United States can only declare war on Japan alone, but our ultimate goal is to beat Germany down, only Germany has the ability of the United States to compete for world leadership, Japan is a fart!"

Roosevelt scolded the Jews in his heart, but Roosevelt was still helpless against the Jews of the United States, for no other reason, the Jews of the United States controlled 70 percent of the economy of the United States.

Roosevelt's original strategy was one of Europe first and then Asia, because Germany and Japan had broken off the alliance, and this strategy was obviously no longer applicable, and Roosevelt could only adjust his future strategy to Asia first and then Europe.

To put it simply, historically, the United States fought Germany first, and then destroyed Little Japan after destroying Germany, but now Roosevelt had to adjust his strategy to first clean up Little Japan that dared to do something against the United States, and then to compete with Germany for world hegemony.

The impact of this change in strategy on history was unimaginable, and Germany was given more than two years of precious time for it, which laid a solid foundation for Germany's all-round rise.

Let's talk about Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, after he received the text of the dissolution of the treaty from Germany, Hideki Tojo poked his nose at this.

Because Germany and Japan are thousands of miles apart, Germany's dissolution of the alliance with Japan is really insignificant in Tojo's eyes, so he didn't take it to heart at all.

Hideki Tojo's main mind now is completely focused on formulating a plan for the southward operation, and such a trivial matter as the dissolution of the alliance between Germany and Japan has simply entered the eyes of Hideki Tojo.

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On 21 April, more than 400,000 German troops in the northern sector of Army Group South, and more than 300,000 Axis troops, completely wiped out the encircled Soviet forces, and the first phase of the Barbarossa Plan was achieved as scheduled.

After a short rest, the northern sector of the German Army Group South crushed the Soviet city of Vorog, while the hundreds of thousands of Axis troops behind them swooped down on some small local cities.

After the German army completely occupied the Soviet Union, the Soviet Affairs Bureau would immediately send a large number of task forces to implement a series of Rommel national policies, such as the division of land and land, the restoration of the economy, and the restoration of industrial and agricultural production.

There is no need to worry that Rommel's policy will be hindered by the other Axis armies, which have German gendarmes in them, and besides, these Axis forces are only responsible for fighting wars, and all the administrative work is carried out by some staff members of the German army from the German rear, and these administrative staff are experienced and will not make any major mistakes.

Volig is about 300 kilometers away from Chisinau, and Guderian plans to get there in five days, and Guderian is still very confident in capturing a small city like Volrog, and he has more than 400,000 German troops in his hands.

As for the German troops in the southern sector of Army Group South, there were slightly more of them, and their task was to capture Odessa, a city with a population of 1.1 million and an urban area of more than 40 square kilometers, and I don't know what the Soviet defense here was?

Odessa was the location of the Soviet Union's Black Sea Fleet, and its defensive forces could not be too small, and the Black Sea Fleet protected 50 percent of the Soviet Union's foreign trade.

With such an important fortified city, Guderian handed over the command of the northern sector to the deputy commander-in-chief, and he went to the southern sector to direct the German troops in the southern sector to attack Odessa.

Guderian commanded more than half a million German troops in the southern sector of Army Group South, breaking through three lines of Soviet defense in one day and encircling Odessa.

The German air raids in the early stage caused heavy losses to the Soviet Black Sea Fleet, and the remnants of the warships were forced to withdraw from the Black Sea Fleet base.

Even if the Black Sea Fleet had not retreated, Stalin would not have been able to let these Soviet troops retreat, they had to hold on and hold on as much as possible to delay the advance of the German army.

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The Soviet troops defending in Odessa at this time were the 12th Army of the Ukrainian Front, the 12th Army had 3 infantry divisions, the 4th and 5th Cavalry Corps, the 25th Tank Army and 2 tank brigades, which were actually rapid clusters of the Front.

The Soviet garrison of Odessa totaled 120,000 people, and with the addition of the improvised militia units, the number reached 200,000, which gave the Soviet army the ability to compete with the German SS, and Guderian already had some information about Odessa in his hands at this time.

The Soviet army in Odessa was the general command of the Ukrainian side, and the commander-in-chief of the front army was Marshal Timoshenko, which consisted of the 5th, 6th, and 12th armies, including aviation regiments and units.

Among them, the 5th and 6th armies were scattered on the three routes on the German-Soviet border, and the result went without saying, it disappeared in one day, and the 12th Army of the Ukrainian Front was originally used by Timoshenko as a reserve support force, and if there was danger, it would go there to support, and it can be seen from the composition of the 12th Army of the Ukrainian Front that it was not cavalry or tanks, but three infantry divisions, and the rest were all mobile forces.

Timoshenko also wanted to support his own fronts, but when he saw that hundreds of thousands of German armored troops were crushing him and breaking through the whole line, even if Timoshenko sent all the 12th Army in his hands, he would not be able to save the three lines of defense.

Although the treacherous and cunning Timoshenko was not as powerful as Zhukov, it was precisely because of his caution that a new situation appeared in Army Group South of the "Barbarossa" plan, and this new situation was a huge threat to Army Group South.

With the latest information, Guderian went to the General Headquarters to discuss tactics with Manstein, because the current situation was likely to give the Germans two options.

One is to encircle but not fight, which will inevitably drag down the German army's already small attacking troops, and the other is to attack the Soviet Union in depth after fighting.

This is a fortified city guarded by 200,000 Soviet troops, Odessa is a seaside city, most of the buildings in the city are reinforced concrete houses, which is very conducive to the defense of the Soviet army.

"Commander-in-chief, you see how to fight in this situation." (To be continued.) )