[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 952: Soaring 1941 (Ask for subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

Quietly, the tail of 1940 slipped away from the fingertips, and the bell of 41 years rang with it, and the time began to enter 1941, and China's War of Resistance entered the fourth year. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

China has never had the custom of celebrating the New Year in foreign calendars, so when the Chinese people celebrate the New Year in Western countries, the Chinese people are very calm, and they do not even cause a little wave.

But at this time, Ma Zheng, who was far away from the front line in Shandong, was not calm at all, and finally entered 1941, and the curtain of the great era was finally opened.

1941 was the most crucial year for all parties involved in the Second World War.

During the year, Hitler's "Sea Lion Plan" to conquer the British Isles was finally shelved indefinitely, and Italy was repeatedly defeated in Africa. At the same time, Britain finally passed "their most glorious moment", the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union began in June of that year, and the United States was dragged into the war step by step......

For the Japanese Empire, 1941 was a year that determined its ultimate fate, because the long-standing dispute between "going north" and "going south" within Japan finally ended in the victory of the "south" faction.

On July 2, 1941, less than half a month after the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, the Japanese Imperial Council finally decided that no matter how the world situation changed. The Empire of Japan would take steps to the south. to establish the so-called Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere; As for the Soviet-German war, an attitude of temporary non-access was adopted.

Hitler's "Barbarossa" plan and Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor directly led to a huge change in the world situation, Hitler's "Barbarossa" plan drew the Soviet Union into the war, and Japan's strategic decision was to involve the United States in the war.

In this way, the Soviet Union, one of the two future superpowers, began to show its super-war potential under German aggression, and Hitler's continental superiority was gradually eroded by the Soviet Union.

At the same time, Japan's "southward expansion" strategy can certainly seize Southeast Asia, which is rich in strategic materials and an important strategic transportation route, strike at the power of the European powers in Asia, and realize Japan's monopoly on East Asia and the Pacific.

However, the "southward movement" will inevitably lead to a fierce conflict between Japan and the United States, another superpower, because the United States has extremely important interests in the East Asia and Pacific regions.

Although Japan's previous aggression against China had seriously infringed on U.S. interests in China to some extent, the isolationist sentiment in the United States was so serious that President Roosevelt, who was actively engaged in the war, was unable to bring the United States into the war.

But Japan's southward advance, especially the attack on Pearl Harbor in late 1941, provided the best excuse for President Roosevelt's involvement in the war.

In this way, the strongest maritime flanking power, the United States, also participated in the war that year, and the strategic pattern of the East Asia and Pacific regions changed as a result.

By the end of 1941, the Soviet Union and the United States, the two major continental powers that would determine the course of the war and shape the future of the world, were finally dragged into the war, and the world's strategic pattern underwent extremely major changes.

1941 was also an extremely important year for China, it was a common year, the year of the snake in the lunar calendar, and the 30th year of the Republic of China. In 1941, China entered the middle of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and the Southern Anhui Incident that occurred in January of that year was an event of great significance in the history of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.

This year was marked by the Flying Tigers' visit to China to fight and the Chongqing Tunnel Massacre. But what Ma Zheng paid the most attention to was the two major events of the Soviet Union's entry into the war and the United States' participation in the war, especially the United States' entry into the war.

The entry of the United States into the war is undoubtedly a good thing for China, and the most intuitive feeling is that because of the participation of the United States in the war, the Japanese have another goal in their firepower, and China can finally take a breath after four years of war.

Although in the first few months of the Pacific War, Japan's strategy was indeed extremely smooth, taking Hong Kong, Malaya, the Dutch East Indies, Burma, and the Philippines. French Indochina and Thailand also submitted to Japanese rule. By the end of 1942, Japan had enslaved 350 million people.

However, Japan has only gone so far. With the official entry of the United States into the war and the changing situation on the Soviet-German battlefield, the advantages of the Axis powers were gone forever.

The entry of the United States into the war has enabled the US government to finally use all its manpower and material resources to wage war. To a certain extent, it was Japan's actions that greatly accelerated the course of world history and greatly advanced the entry of the United States into the war.

The entry of the United States into the war marked the final overwhelm of the power of the Allies over the power of the Axis of the Three Kingdoms, and from then on the course of the war took a huge turn, and the allies went through the most difficult moment and gradually began a strategic counteroffensive.

Ma Zheng must thank the Japanese for this, if it weren't for their "smart" actions, the Americans might still be bullying the they call on the American continent.

As a matter of fact, before Japan moved south to Southeast Asia and attacked Pearl Harbor, although Roosevelt tried in every possible way to bring the United States into the war, he had no choice but to have too many isolationist forces at home, and Roosevelt did not achieve much success, and only made the United States an "arsenal of democratic countries." And Japan's actions immediately provoked the anger of the Americans. As a result, the U.S. Congress declared war on Germany, Italy, and Japan in early 1942.

Japan's southward expansion into Southeast Asia also showed that the Triple Alliance was not so coherent internally, and that the strategic inconsistencies of the Axis powers led to too many enemies.

Before Japan moved south, Hitler had already begun the war against the Soviet Union. According to the Triple Alliance Treaty, Japan was supposed to cooperate with the Nazi strategy and send troops to Northeast China to attack the Soviet Far East.

But Japan did not cooperate with the German Nazis, and did not even make a superficial statement of declaring war on the Soviet Union, but went south to Southeast Asia. The fact that Japan had a strategic plan to move south to Southeast Asia quickly pushed the United States directly to the forefront of the confrontation with Japan.

Japan's southward strategy puts Japan in a face-to-face confrontation with the future capitalist world power. In fact, Japan underestimated the war potential of the United States. As a result, Japan is about to pay a huge price for its audacious gamble.

As it turned out, Japan lost nearly 3 million people in the war, lost its entire overseas colonies, suffered untold material losses at home, and left physical and mental scars for generations.

In addition, Japan underestimated the potential for Chinese resistance. Japan's invasion of Southeast Asia forced it to slow down further aggression against China, and in this case, a strategic stalemate emerged in the Chinese theater.

China's huge human and material resources showed a powerful role at this time, and the entire nation continued to encroach on Japan's power while increasing its strength in order to defeat the Japanese invaders, so that Japan had to put most of its forces in China to deal with China's resistance.

In this way, on the one hand, Japan needed a large number of troops to go south to Southeast Asia and to confront the United States, and on the other hand, the development of the situation in China dragged down a large number of Japanese troops, and Japan's predicament had already appeared, and the fact that Japan went south to Southeast Asia became an extremely important turning point in the change in the balance of forces between the two sides of the war.

Since then, World War II has truly involved the major countries in the world, and the strategic situation between the Axis and the Allies has also led to the dispersion of forces due to the enemies of the Axis countries in many ways.

The Allies, on the other hand, began to surpass the Axis bloc in power due to the entry of two flanking powers. As a result, the strategic situation of the Second World War changed dramatically in 1941 and began to evolve in favor of the Allies.

Of course, 1941 was also an extremely important year for the Suicha Military Region, when Japan would draw troops from the Chinese battlefield and the Kwantung Army to the south to fight the Americans, so Ma Zheng's strategy of recovering North China could be implemented.

With Japan's invasion of Southeast Asia, China's position in Asia and the whole world has become prominent, as China's most powerful corps commander besides Lao Chiang, Ma Zheng will also be valued by the United States and Britain and other countries, plus the expansion of the war will inevitably make penicillin become a strategic material for all countries to compete for, it is completely conceivable that the business of the Huaxia Company is hot, so this year is bound to be a year of take-off for the Suicha Military Region. (To be continued.) )