Although Prime Minister Hideki Tojo is powerful, but in the face of the demigod and half-human emperor Hirohito, he still can't stop feeling empty, of course, his fear comes more from the war, China first wantonly attacked the Japanese mainland, and now began to spray herbicides on Japanese farmland, which has a fatal impact on Japan's agriculture.

"Prime Minister, I want to know how much fertile land has been destroyed, how much our food will be reduced, and is there a way to stop it?"

As soon as Tojo heard Hirohito ask about the loss, sweat broke out on his bald head, and he said tremblingly: "According to the current rough statistics, a total of 200,000 hectares of fertile land have been destroyed, accounting for more than one-third of the entire Kanto Plain. In addition, 85,000 hectares of forests have also been destroyed, and if the current situation develops, the Empire's food production will be reduced by half this year! ”

After hearing this figure, Hirohito felt that the world was spinning for a while, and the people took food as the sky, and the grain production was reduced by 20 percent, which did not mean that everyone ate 20 percent less a day. Misfortune cannot be shared equally, and those powerful will not only not starve, but on the contrary, they will make a fortune.

In other words, there will inevitably be a large-scale famine in Japan, especially since Japan has to support overseas battlefields, and the pressure on the country will be even heavier, and the lack of food will inevitably cause great chaos in Japan.

Moreover, it is still in wartime, and Japan's maritime lifeline is also threatened by the joint efforts of China and the United States, which puts a deadly rope on the neck of the island nation, as long as this continues, the local agriculture will be completely destroyed, and the overseas sources will be completely cut off, and Japan will be defeated without a fight!

"Prime Minister, I want to listen to your way, the people of the empire need food, and I order you to maintain the basic supply of the country. Otherwise, your prime minister will be the end! ”

According to the Japanese political system. The emperor does not have the power to remove the prime minister. But now Hirohito has so simply broken the rules of politics, and his actions are undoubtedly declaring that he is the most powerful dictator in Japan, and that the prime minister is nothing more than a puppet in his hands.

It was also true that almost all the Japanese soldiers on the front line participated in the battle with the slogan of fighting for the emperor. With this prestige, Hirohito could easily remove Tojo.

Under these conditions, the emperor was not held accountable for the war, but only tried some of the generals who led the troops, and the staff officers and chaebols escaped punishment. Do you still expect Japan to reflect on its responsibility for war crimes, only to make them think that there is nothing wrong with aggression, but only failure!

As soon as Tojo Hideki heard Hirohito's words, he immediately fell to his knees and fell to the ground, and his bald head knocked desperately to the ground, "Your Majesty, Weichen's crime deserves ten thousand deaths, and his crimes deserve ten thousand deaths!" The base camp has formulated several countermeasures that will definitely eliminate the impact of the food crisis! ”

Hirohito controlled his emotions and said, "Prime Minister, let's talk about it." ”

"Your Majesty. The base camp has drawn up a total of three strategies, the first of which is to strengthen the air defense of the homeland. We will build an early warning radar to detect and forecast the bombers of the Chinese people in advance. The second is to stabilize the maritime trade routes and intensify the replenishment of grain from Nanyang and other places to ensure domestic needs. The third is to increase the intensity of marine fishing, the Chinese people attack the large merchant ships at sea very frequently, but they do not care much about some small fishing boats, now that the empire controls the huge sea area, they can get enough fish, especially whales, as long as they increase the intensity of fishing, it is also a supplement to the country. ”

Hideki Tojo proposed three ways, Hirohito nodded, and then said: "These three methods are good, but the prime minister should also see that this is only a palliative solution, and cannot fundamentally solve the problem, what the empire needs is to solve the problem once and for all, do you know what I mean?" ”

"Wechen understands that His Majesty is asking the Empire to occupy Australia and New Zealand as soon as possible, and to acquire the vast farms and pastures there."

"The Prime Minister is right, Australia is the fulcrum of the Americans at sea, and as long as it takes here, the US Pacific Fleet will be completely finished. Moreover, Australia has a staggering amount of ore, and the empire took it here, and it solved the worries. The German allies have already started a campaign against Stalingrad, and if we take it, the Soviet Union will collapse, and then we will have much less pressure, and the chancellor empire will have to survive this difficult period. ”

Hirohito was talking to Tojo as well as to himself, thinking that Germany would be able to attack Moscow and destroy the Soviet Union in two or three months, as he had done with the French, but the Soviet Union was far more tenacious than he imagined.

Moreover, China and the United States have also done everything they can to deliver all the necessary materials to the Soviet Union, especially China has also set up special cooperative factories in Outer Mongolia, Xinjiang and other places to produce military supplies for the Soviet Union.

Relying on the support of China and the United States, coupled with Su Liang's unique special system, soon the whole country became a large barracks, and all the forces of the Russians were gathered together, and they had only one goal, which was to completely destroy Nazi Germany. The steel torrent was reorganized, the soldiers of the Far East were transferred to the Moscow front, and after a fierce battle, although the Soviets lost millions of lives, they successfully held off the German advance and kept Moscow.

After the failure of Hitler's attack, he had to choose Stalingrad as a breakthrough point, hoping to conquer the city named after Stalin, and at the same time take the rich resources of the southwest of the Soviet Union, especially the oil fields of the Caucasus, to feed the thirsty war machine of the Third Reich.

Hirohito had pinned his hopes of victory on Germany, and as long as the Third Reich remained as fierce as ever, Japan would be able to get out of its dire situation.

For the battle of Stalingrad, not only Japan is paying attention, China and the United States and other countries are also very concerned, Germany's magic weapon is the blitzkrieg, there is nothing to fear if the Third Reich loses speed, the Soviets in Moscow have already won once, if they win again at Stalingrad, Germany will face the fate of complete defeat.

In the early days of this fateful battle, Stalin and the Soviet High Command once again made a mistake of judgment when they believed that the German attack would still be focused on Moscow, so the Soviet Union placed heavy forces in Moscow and the southwestern defense was relatively weak.

The German attack was divided into two directions, one against Stalingrad and the other at the Baku oil fields in the Caucasus. In the early stages of the war, the Germans had a good time, and Manstein succeeded in destroying the Soviet army in the Crimea, capturing 170,000 Soviet soldiers, and depleting the reserves that the Soviet Union had so hard to assemble.

In addition, due to the miscalculation of the situation, the Soviet Union also took the initiative to launch an attack in the southwest, killing 75,000 people in the Battle of Kharkov, another 240,000 prisoners, and losing more than 1,249 tanks and more than 2,000 artillery pieces.

This failed battle undoubtedly showed that the Soviet army did not yet have the ability to take the initiative to attack Germany, and there was a huge gap between the two armies in terms of combat capability and campaign organization, and the Soviet army would have to go through a period of testing if it wanted to defeat the German army.

Germany, by virtue of its victory, once again gained a strategic advantage and began to launch a fierce attack on Stalingrad, and it was only then that Stalin realized that he had once again made a mistake in judgment. The 4th Panzer Army of Hoth and the 2nd Army of Weiks, on the left flank of the German Bock Army Group B, suddenly attacked eastward from northeast Kursk and carried out a surprise attack on the 13th and 40th armies of the Bryansk Front, aiming directly at Voronezh on the upper Don River.

At the same time, Paulus's 6th Army, the right flank, also launched an offensive from northeast of Kharkiv, advancing southeast with Stalingrad as the target, and breaking through the defenses of the 21st and 28th armies.

At this time, the situation on the battlefield was already very critical, and the Stalingrad Front, which was tasked with defending Stalingrad, had only 12 divisions of 160,000 people, 2,200 artillery pieces and mortars, about 400 tanks, and 454 aircraft, which were supported by long-range aviation (150~200 bombers) and the 102nd division of air defense aviation (60 fighters).

The German army they had to face was Hort's Fourth Panzer Army, as well as Paulus's Sixth Army, the Sixth Army alone had 6 armies, including 2 Panzer Corps, 14 divisions of about 270,000 people, nearly 500 tanks, 3,000 artillery pieces and mortars, and could also be supported by 1,200 combat aircraft of the 4th Air Force.

At this time, Germany not only had a numerical advantage, but also a qualitative German army far superior to the Soviet Union, and the situation in Stalingrad could be said to be critical.

In order to salvage the dire situation, Stalin once again thought of the most reliable general, Zhukov, who appointed Zhukov as the supreme deputy commander and decided to immediately transfer the 24th and 66th armies and the 1st Guards Army to Stalingrad.

Zhukov then flew to Stalingrad and began to organize a counterattack by the 24th and 66th armies and the 1st Guards Army. Stalin sent another telegram to Zhukov demanding an immediate assault on Stalingrad in order to ease local tensions.

But what everyone doesn't know is that just when Stalingrad was at its most critical, Stalin himself left Moscow and quietly went to Chita, the capital of the Far Eastern Republics.

From the beginning of the founding of the Soviet Union, Qiao Yu resolutely sent troops to intervene in the Soviet Union, recovered the lost land, and supported the Far Eastern Republic, which became a pain in the hearts of all Russians, and the double-headed eagle has completely lost a head.

Subsequently, although there was no major conflict between China and the Soviet Union, the border line was never peaceful again, of course, the two countries also had times when they learned from each other, such as the five-year plan, which is the case, and the current Soviet Union and China are actually very similar in political system, of course, including Germany, both are strongman politics, one-party countries.

Stalin's plane flew over the vast Siberian desert, and Qiao Yu also departed from Beijing to the north, and the two heads of state had their first formal dialogue. (To be continued.) )