"Why a year later? Can't we immediately counterattack Hainan now? Lieutenant General Furuzhuang Ganro felt very aggrieved, and he personally returned to Japan, the main reason was that he thought that under his own persuasion, the government would increase the reinforcement of the 21st Army to restore face for their defeated 21st Army, who knew that such a result would be obtained.

Of course, Guzhuang Ganlang, who was very unwilling in his heart, wanted to find out, so even in front of so many bigwigs in the living room, he still wanted the military department to give him a clear reason.

In fact, Furujo Michiro does not value the new prime minister, because Kiichiro Hiranuma is not from a military background, but from a political family, and Japanese soldiers have always looked down on all government bigwigs who are not from military backgrounds. That's why Furujo Michiro dared to question Prime Minister Kiichiro Hiranuma so boldly.

But after all, Kiichiro Hiranuma is the prime minister of Japan, and he is a person who occupies an important position above tens of thousands of people under one person, and the things he decided cannot be changed by a small lieutenant general of Furujo Michiro.

However, Hiranuma Kiichiro still wanted to make some answers, so he looked at the emperor, and after getting the emperor's clear approval, he patiently explained to Lieutenant General Furujo Michiro:

"Here's the thing, since we occupied Shanghai, China, last year, the developed countries in the West have issued a stern warning to us.

Britain, France, the United States, Russia, and other countries do not allow us to expand our war in China, for fear of affecting the interests of Western countries in China.

However, at that time, the consensus of all parties in the country was that as long as Nanjing was occupied, the fighting spirit of the Chinese could be broken, and thus a forced landing on China, who knew that people were not as good as heaven, although we quickly occupied Nanjing, but the Chinese did not give in to this.

In order to achieve the strategic goal of a rapid forced landing on the Chinese government, we in Japan have launched the Xuzhou Campaign, the Wuhan Campaign, and now the Guangdong Campaign, despite the obstruction of Western countries.

The final results of several major wars were very unsatisfactory, because China was too big, the population was too large, and their war potential was several times that of Japan, even if they were severely damaged every time, but the Chinese could always recover quickly and launch a larger campaign.

Japan has already recruited three consecutive nationwide conscriptions, but it still cannot fully control the occupied areas of China. Long after the Battle of Wuhan, we in Japan were practically unable to launch such a large-scale strategic campaign.

At present, China and Japan are actually in a stage of stalemate, and compared with the war potential of China and Japan, it is quite unfavorable for us Japan to enter the stage of stalemate. We must increase our capabilities to break the impasse at hand.

That's why we launched the Battle of Hainan, hoping to defeat China's last outlet to the sea, in fact, even if we launched the Battle of Hainan, it would be our army to avoid strong maintenance.

If we win, we will completely encircle China, and we will continue to attack Guangxi, Jiangxi and other places to finally complete the comprehensive encirclement of Chinese mainland, and finally achieve the strategic goal of forcing the Republic of China government to surrender.

If it is defeated, it will not be able to launch a major offensive again, and first maintain the situation of strategic stalemate between China and Japan. Judging from the information on Hainan collected by our intelligence department, if we want to defeat Hainan in an all-round way, it is almost equivalent to launching another battle of Wuhan.

At the very least, it is necessary to mobilize several hundred thousand army, navy, and air forces again before it is possible to defeat Hainan, and Japan's current strategic reserves are seriously insufficient. ”

"How is that possible? Don't we have two years of oil reserves and five years of ammunition reserves? And we have to import a large number of strategic materials from all countries in the world every year, and we have only been fighting for more than a year, so why are there no reserves? Guzhuang Ganlang continued to ask.

Kiichiro Hiranuma motioned to the Minister of Economy beside him to explain. The Minister of Economic Affairs immediately opened a folder and looked at it and said: "Since we launched our plan to fully occupy China the year before last, after more than half a year of hard fighting, although we have won a major victory, the Chinese resistance has indeed become stronger and stronger, and the reason is that Western countries have made a lot of war profits by taking advantage of our war with China.

They sell their weapons and strategic resources to China at high prices in various forms, and even help China in the form of exchanging materials for resources.

At the same time, they deliberately increased the various minerals, steel, rubber, oil and other resources that they sold to Japan. So for more than two years, we have been using our country's strategic reserves, which have been depleted as a result of several mega-campaigns in China.

China is different, China's population base is too large, they do not have the disadvantage of insufficient military resources at all, as long as they can get the continuous strategic resources of Western countries, they are fully capable of defeating us.

Therefore, in order to prevent Western countries from continuing to support China, we have completely blocked China's exports since last year. Because we have forcibly blockaded China's open seas, we have seriously damaged the interests of Western countries in China, which are the interests of the United States in China.

Just three months ago, we publicly rejected the Nine-Power Pact, abolishing all the privileges of Western countries in China. Now the United States has stopped selling oil, scrap iron and other strategic materials to our country. This makes our strategic reserves even more strained.

Now that the U.S. Congress has passed a loan agreement in full support of China and has begun to impose a full embargo on aviation products against us, we can no longer get any spare parts for our aircraft.

The United States is also proposing a new embargo agreement, and I believe that the next step is to pass a comprehensive embargo.

In two years' time, our trade agreement between Japan and the United States will expire, and I believe that the United States will not renew it with us at that time.

If things go according to our predictions, we will lose all of our imported resources in two years. When the time comes, if China does not defeat us, we ourselves will have to be defeated. ”

"What's this? Isn't there still two years left? We completely occupied China within two years, and with China's innumerable manpower and material resources, we don't need to look at the faces of the Americans. Guzhuang Ganlang said.

"Things are not as simple as you think, first of all, China is an oil-poor country, and this is the only one, as long as there is no oil, it will be difficult for our war to continue." Prime Minister Kiichiro Hiranuma said.

"We can rob it, whichever country has it, we will rob whichever country it has, in Asia we are the strongest country, what else do we have to fear." Guzhuang Ganlang said.

"The only known oil powers, and what we may get, are Mongolia and the Philippines, and at the same time, strategic resources such as rubber in Southeast Asia are also what we need most." It was Hideki Tojo, chief of staff of the Japanese military department, who was next to the prime minister.

Furujo Ganro glanced at Hideki Tojo gratefully: "Then what are you waiting for?" Occupy them. ”

"That's what we're doing today for this military conference, and the question now is where are we going to attack these two places?

Mongolia has the Russians behind it. Although we just need to get oil on the Sino-Mongolian border. But we don't know where the Russians' bottom line is.

In the event that a war with Russia ends up because of the Mongols, this will be greatly detrimental to our future stable rule in Northeast China.

However, the countries of Southeast Asia are the territory of Britain and France, and if we attack Southeast Asia, we will certainly violate the interests of Britain and France, and if we confront Britain and the United States because of this, we will have no certainty of victory. Kiichiro Hiranuma said worriedly.

Hearing the prime minister say this, all the bigwigs present rushed to express their opinions, this one said wait and see, the other said that they would attack immediately, and some said that it was better to defeat them all. None of them, however, have come up with a truly meaningful and actionable opinion.

Emperor Hirohito saw that these guys were getting more and more outrageous, he coughed vigorously, and then he solemnly invited a major general sitting in the corner to get up and speak.

When the major general stood up, Furujo couldn't help but be happy that it was him, his mind had always been flexible, maybe he could really come up with a good idea.

But when Tojo Hideki saw this major general, he was full of displeasure, it turned out to be this guy, hmph, I didn't expect it to be valued by the emperor, I really don't know if the ancestral tomb of his family is smoking.

This middle-aged man with the rank of major general was dressed properly, and he did not feel inferior because he was the lowest rank in the audience, and he said loudly:

"This problem is actually not difficult to solve, as the so-called long-distance friendship and close attack, the enemy of the enemy is the friend, and now Germany has shown its fangs in Europe.

As long as Germany wants to re-emerge in Europe, it will definitely touch the interests of Britain and France, and once Germany confronts Britain and France, Britain and France will no longer have the energy to work hard to go to Southeast Asia.

So we could have sent representatives to Germany and signed an offensive and defensive alliance with them. If Germany wants to attack Europe with confidence, it must also be very worried about the actions of Russia behind it.

And as long as they form an offensive and defensive alliance with us, as long as we have hundreds of thousands of troops in the northeast, Russia will not dare to go westward with all its might. This would significantly reduce the burden on Germany.

As a matter of sincerity in our friendship with Germany, we can completely implement the strategy of killing two birds with one stone and attack Mongolia first, and if we win, Mongolia's oil fields will become the fresh blood of our Great Japanese Empire.

If it loses, it will sign a non-aggression pact with Russia, and the two sides will remain unchanged as they are now. Russia has been eyeing all of Europe, and they certainly don't want a fire in their backyard.

And as long as we go to war with Russia, Germany will recognize us as its ally, and if it deals with Britain and France, it will take the initiative to draw us into an alliance.

On the contrary, as long as Germany forms an alliance with us, we can rest assured that we will attack Southeast Asia, so that Britain and France will have no choice but to contain Germany in Europe.

And we are likely to get both Mongolia and Southeast Asia, and at worst, Southeast Asia will become our bag. ”

Hearing Ishihara's analysis, the bigwigs present admired it in their hearts, and everyone applauded unconsciously.

Emperor Hirohito was even more pleased to praise Ishihara as Japan's No. 1 military strategist, and such a talent could not be buried. The commander of the 16th Division will retire in a few months, so it is better to let Ishihara take over the post of commander of the 16th Division.

Seeing Emperor Hirohito elevate Major General Ishihara Waner like this, the Japanese bigwigs present immediately looked at Ishihara Waner with bright eyes, as if they saw a rising political star in the Japanese political arena in the future.

But Hideki Tojo was very unhappy in his heart, and he muttered in his heart: "This damn Ishihara Waner looked down on me when he was in Manchuria, saying that I could only be a private at most."

The year before last, he was finally rushed back to China, but he didn't expect to be alive again after more than a year, and he seemed to like him very much when he looked at the emperor, and wanted to promote him to lieutenant general and make him the commander of the 16th Division.

Hmph, what if you are promoted to lieutenant general? You still have to be an errand under me, you don't need to be ambitious now, I will clean you up sooner or later, as long as I get the opportunity, I will definitely get you a reserve, and then you will never think about turning over. ”