"Tuk, tuk!" A short knock on the door came, Bai Hui, who was immersed in her own thoughts, suddenly raised her head, and only reacted after a few seconds, the knock did not continue, but she still stood up, glanced at the shoe cabinet at the door, and then walked over, put one hand on the gap in the shoe cabinet, and asked in a low voice, "Who!" ”

A simple two-word answer: "Open the door!" ”

Bai Hui obediently opened the locked door, and a short and stout middle-aged man walked in, he took off his coat and hat, revealing a shrunken expression unique to island people, this temperament is an important reason why he cannot engage in direct intelligence gathering work, so his task is to manage dozens of agents under him, one-line agents.

"Mr. Yi, please drink tea!" Bai Hui stood in front of Mr. Yi with low eyebrows and served him a cup of hot tea, she had undergone inhuman training in China, and her nerves were extremely coarse, but when she faced her top boss, Mr. Yi, she still couldn't help but feel uneasy in her heart.

"You haven't contacted me for a month, do you have to let me take the risk of coming to you in person?" Mr. Yi asked.

"I'm sorry, I'm in contact with a low-level civil servant in a material statistics bureau, and I haven't made a breakthrough yet."

"Well, I see, your last proposal was very good, the upper level can't open it, and we can also get what we want at the bottom level." Bai Hui, who was praised by Mr. Yi, immediately showed a smile of relief, this was not a hypocritical smile, in front of Mr. Yi's huge power, Bai Hui felt that any of his disguises were vulnerable.

"The Empire's previous intelligence arrangements in China were destroyed by the great changes in the situation, and the intelligence and mapping data collected by our ancestors in China allowed us to win the Sino-Japanese War, but then this information became useless. We have to re-estimate China's military strength, industrial strength, and intelligence on high-ranking officials and generals, and your next main task is to provide changes in China's material transportation and lay a good foundation for us to estimate the time when China will send troops to Japan. ”

"Mr. Yi, will Huaguo definitely send troops to Japan? Aren't they fiery with the Americans? ”

"Smack!" Bai Hui slapped Mr. Yi firmly.

"Stupid, the life and death of the empire is at this moment, you are still naïve to think that Hua will not attack the empire! Their actions in the Pacific were to ensure that they would not be interfered with by the Americans when attacking the empire, and Lu Liang, a staunch anti-Japanese element, was close to saying such a thing as destroying the Yamato nation! ”

Everyone knew that once Hua conquered the Hawaiian Islands, the next target would be Japan. Of course, the Japanese militarist dictatorship knew that it was fully mentally prepared for this after the Yokosuka incident. Their masters, the Americans, were blocked by the Chinese fleet on the other side of the ocean, and from then on the Japanese themselves could only deal with the Chinese army.

From that moment on, the Emperor of Japan clearly ordered the whole of Japan to unite and use all their strength to protect the living space of the Yamato nation. In just two months, the Japanese Army expanded from 200,000 standing troops to 1.3 million troops, and there were also a large number of retired veterans and reserve soldiers. The War Department plans to expand the number of troops by another 3 million within six months, and the most extreme plan is to expand the army by 10 million soldiers within a year, almost to the extent that the entire army is a soldier.

Of course, it is easy to mobilize so many soldiers, as long as we do not care about the normal development of the domestic economy, the farmland can be abandoned, the unimportant factories can be shut down, and everything must meet the needs of the army expansion. In addition, all factories were integrated into the war planning system, under the control of the War Department, and all resources were spent on the army. The demand for steel from the civilian sector has been reduced to a minimum, and a large number of civilian steel appliances have been forcibly confiscated and used to make military supplies such as weapons and barbed wire.

Fortunately, Japan had a good industrial production capacity with the assistance of the Americans, and China did not have a bad relationship with Britain, which also allowed Australia's steel and other natural resources to be transported smoothly to the Japanese mainland. In order to slow down the pace of China's southward movement and ensure the security of Malaysia, Burma, India, the Middle East and other regions, the British strategy was to arm Japan and let China fall into Japan's quagmire and have no time to take care of anything else, so a large number of British transport ships and merchant ships in the Indian and Pacific Oceans were hired by the government to transport strategic materials to Japan, including iron ore, copper ore, oil, rubber, grain and other strategic resources. This is also where the confidence of the Japanese military government lies, the American master was beaten away, but I didn't expect the original British master to come to the door again, Japan is really a lucky country, God bless the river! (Deliberately miswritten)

The frenzied transportation of supplies allowed Japan to store a large amount of supplies before the war, and in order to prevent these materials from being destroyed by the Chinese army in the war, the Japanese tried their best. For example, large numbers of civilians were mobilized to transport iron ore and other materials to densely forested valleys, oil was stored in caves, and rubber that could not be stored for a long time was wasted in industrial production. These stockpiles allowed Japan to hold out in the war for a longer period of time, and also caused more trouble for the Chinese army.

A large number of tanks, artillery, firearms, ammunition and barbed wire were produced by military factories and transported to the army's growing ranks of armed recruits, and the data table in the hands of the War Department showed that the Japanese army had completed 85 percent of the equipment production, of course, with the increase in the number of troops and the change of production, this number will change accordingly, but the current achievements are worthy of the pride of the Japanese, because this 85 percent means that 1.1 million soldiers have been fully armed and have sufficient ammunition. As long as China does not move Japan, this number will continue to increase, and the more well-equipped elites there are, the greater the trouble they will cause to the Chinese army in the future, and the more they will be able to ensure Japan's security.

This figure would be even more staggering if it weren't for the Army Air Force and Navy competing for a portion of steel resources and industrial capacity. The War Department is very dissatisfied with this situation, the Army Aviation Corps is a little better, after all, the Army is its own people, and the Air Force planes can also provide great help to the Army. But why did the Navy come out and make trouble?

After the Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese navy was completely destroyed, and a large number of naval talents also sank into the sea, and the poor Japanese navy did not change after the arrival of the United States. The people believed that the reason for Japan's defeat was the failure of the navy, so there were very few people who applied for the naval academy, and not only did the navy not have warships, but there was also a shortage of personnel in terms of personnel training.

After the Yokosuka incident, the government only remembered the usefulness of the navy in the face of the great threat from China. At this critical moment, every force needs to be mobilized, although the navy does not have warships, but there are still many shipyards in Japan, and a super battleship called the "Yamato-class" has been established and entered the slipway of the shipyard. The upper echelons of the navy, who still had considerable influence within the military and government, took this opportunity to prepare to restore the glory of the Imperial Japanese Navy, and the battleships were the main way to achieve this.

The Yamato-class battleship turned out to be a big joke, the Japanese Navy did not have the ability to produce more supporting battleships, not to mention the fact that aircraft carriers had already shown tactical superiority over battleships. What role can a single Yamato-class battleship do? Maybe it was used as a battery to prevent the landing of Hua? The battleship did no purpose in the war except to consume precious steel resources, and in the end, Emperor Taisho ordered the construction of the battleship to be stopped, and after dismantling it, all the steel was used to build the army's tanks and guns - which eventually armed two divisions of army soldiers.

In addition, the Navy also ordered shipyards to produce more than 50 torpedo boats before the start of the war, which also consumed a lot of steel resources.

The superficial prosperity made the upper echelons of the Japanese military government full of confidence, and they even fantasized that the Chinese army would attack quickly, and then break the blood on the hedgehog-like homeland, so they had to sign a peace agreement with Japan, recognize Japan's status, and then the two countries formed an alliance to divide the Pacific and Southeast Asia equally!

However, all prosperity is in the air, at least the Japanese people in the middle and lower classes of society do not feel the prosperity and power, they are forced to do heavy labor, contribute the only food, and only get life-sustaining materials. Most children did not have enough to eat, and from the beginning of the Yokosuka incident until the end of the war, more than 150,000 children died of hunger. In order to prevent the plague from destroying the country, the Japanese government had to set up the Corps Brigade, which burned corpses and threw them into the sea.

For example, in a small fishing village near Fukuoka in Fukushima Prefecture in northern Honshu Island, Japan, Jiro Yamashita is struggling to collect fishing nets from the sea, and his wife is also pulling hard, but such a heavy work is too difficult for two middle-aged people over 45 years old, and they are hungry.

The tuna that I most looked forward to did not appear in the fishing nets, and this large carnivorous fish was not something that could be caught in such nets and small fishing boats, but people had to keep some hope, and those high-ranking officials and nobles liked the sashimi made of this fish the most, and if they were lucky enough to catch one, they could earn half a month's ration. (To be continued.) )