Japan is willing to be the first bird, anyway, it has always been at odds with Soviet Russia, and there are still territorial disputes between the two countries. So Japan is very positive about this kind of thing. However, there is another deepest reason for this, except for China, countries around the world have inside stories that are not clear to other countries.

Germany has been behind the scenes, with the creation of the Axis Alliance. Germany and Japan need to prove their role with practical actions, Germany has the technology, Japan has ambitions. Germany's pledge has allowed Japan's ambitions to find a gap. At the time of signing the agreement, Germany promised to provide Japan with advanced military technology and to build a bridge between Japan and China. Persuaded China to open its waterways to Japan and export its resources to Japan.

These conditions of Germany have reached the heart of Japan, and Japan is also very greedy for Germany's advanced military science and technology, because Germany has opened up a lot of military technology to Japan. However, in the eyes of the Japanese, gluttony is greed, but it is not so important. The latter two conditions are what Japan really wants, military technology is very good, but for an island country without resources, no matter how good the technology is, it is equivalent to making it without raw materials.

In the Sino-Japanese War, Japan lost more than just money and land. The main thing is that Japan has lost control of its lifeline at sea, which, in the eyes of the Japanese, is the most deadly. An island country with few resources is most afraid of the blockade of others. And now the Japanese do not want to fight against China, the most important point is that China controls Japan's maritime lifeline. Once Japan breaks out into war with China again, unless Japan can completely annihilate the Chinese naval force in one fell swoop. Otherwise, Japan will be in danger of being blocked. At that time, no supplies will be sent to Japan, there is no need to land in Japan, as long as Japan is blocked, although no one will die of hunger, Japan will not have the strength to fight again.

Japan's main trade route is from the Japanese archipelago, Taiwan to the South China Sea, through the Strait of Malacca, Somalia, the Red Sea, and the Suez Canal into Europe. The other shipping lane is a direct connection with the United States, which is not under China's control, and Japan is not worried. But the first shipping lane is the real lifeline of Japan, and now China does not allow Japanese merchant ships to pass through at all, and Japan has always had to make a detour, bypassing Southeast Asia, taking the direction of Australia, and then going around the Indian Ocean. It's been a big circle, and the cost and efficiency have increased a lot.

And even this lifeline may be cut off by China at any time, because Borneo is also Chinese today, and Japan's shipping lanes are once again close to China's sphere of influence.

Importing resources from China is also a good proposition. The close proximity of the two countries not only reduces the cost of transportation, but also makes it efficient. Japan also takes a fancy to many of China's resources, and if these resources can be imported from China, there is no need to go to Europe to buy them for the time being.

Japan's proposal was extremely appealing to Japan, and the Japanese side knew that such a provocative action against the Soviet Union was likely to lead to war, but for the sake of immediate interests, Japan could not care so much, and besides, Germany and Italy were behind them.

Moreover, Japan is very uninterested in the current United States in its heart, and after several years of dumping, the Japanese are holding back a breath of anger in their hearts. The alliance with Germany was to get rid of the influence of the United States on Japan. With the help of Germany, to confront the United States. Now, as long as China opens its waterways to Japan, Japan's maritime lifeline will be secured, and it will not be afraid of the trade blockade imposed by the United States on Japan.

Before the departure of the Japanese fleet, the Chinese side sent a note to Japan, agreeing to Germany's proposal to open the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea routes to Japan and to allow the export of certain resources to Japan. Germany also sent Japan a lot of technology related to armored vehicles and tanks, and once again promised that if Japan needs it in the future, and is still on Germany's side, it can once again match Japan and let China directly sell weapons and equipment to Japan.

Germany had already given enough capital, and the Japanese side was extremely satisfied, and was happy to show off its military force. There are no eternal friends and enemies in the world, only eternal interests, which have been summed up by European countries for thousands of years. It is the best way to interpret Japan today.

Stalin burst the beans, and the Kremlin was full of Stalin's roars.

Sakhalin is still in the hands of the Japanese, and now the Japanese are doing this again. The whole world is watching how the USSR will respond to the provocations of the Japanese, and the protests are too pale. And out of fear of the red regime, other countries did not support the Soviet Union, but instead adopted a posture of watching the fire from the other side. The Soviet Union, which was immersed in its development, did not serve the interests of all countries. They all hoped that someone would come out and provoke the USSR, so that the USSR would not have the means to develop wholeheartedly.

The Japanese fleet was approaching Sakhalin, and the Soviet Pacific Fleet was still cowering in Vladivostok. The Japanese fleet, which could only look at the sea and show off its might, had a big gap in strength, not that the Soviet Navy did not want to go to sea, but that it did not dare to come out. Without the order of the superiors, once they come out to contend with Japan, if a war is triggered, then these so-called Pacific Fleets are likely to repeat the mistakes of the Japanese-Russian naval war of that year.

At that time, not only Sakhalin Island, but also the Far East will be threatened by Japanese troops. Compared to the Soviet Union, Japan is too close to the Far East. It will not be long before the Imperial Japanese Army will be able to scourge the Soviet Union.

The USSR was not afraid of Japan, but Japan was not afraid of the USSR either. With the exception of the Russo-Japanese War of that year, neither country fought again. The defeat in the Sino-Japanese War made the Soviet Union look down on Japan quite a lot, but on the one hand, it was afraid of the Japanese navy, and on the other hand, it was not the time for the Soviet Union to go to war with others. Because Germany is still eyeing the side.

In the Russo-Japanese War, Japan defeated the Russian army and the Russian navy. Although it lost to China, Japan also wanted to regain its self-confidence in the Soviet Union as soon as possible. Because after deduction, Japan is invincible no matter how it is calculated.

If it weren't for the fact that reason forced him to consider Germany behind, Stalin might have declared war on Japan. Because this matter is full of weirdness, Stalin did not dare to pack a ticket if there would be any conspiracy in it.

Japan and Germany formed an alliance, and immediately sang such a play, and if there were no German actions in it, Stalin would not have believed it. And now Stalin doesn't know what Germany thinks, Germany wants to do something against the Soviet Union, there is no doubt about this, Stalin knows very well, it's just that this time is not easy to grasp, is it so soon to do something to the Soviet Union?

Moreover, during this time, there was also a point that Stalin was very confused, and Germany had slowly revealed its friendship to the Soviet Union. Looking at Germany's intentions, it also wanted to sign a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union. It's just that Stalin didn't immediately agree to this kind of thing.

In Stalin's view, all this was too contradictory and too illogical. Japan's actions, combined with Germany's covert overtures, put Stalin in a dilemma. He was very sure of Hitler's pulse, and it was very likely that behind this overture, there was a cold murderous intention.

After thinking about it for two days, Stalin made up his mind. As long as you don't fire the first shot, see what the hell the other side is up to.

While the Provisional Combined Fleet of the Japanese Navy was circling Sakhalin Island, it received information that the Soviet Pacific Fleet had sailed out of Vladivostok. The Japanese side was suddenly shocked, and the Combined Fleet hurried back to meet the Soviet Pacific Fleet, and the fleet remaining on the Japanese mainland also formed a local defense fleet to prevent the Soviet fleet from launching a surprise attack on the Japanese mainland. The coastal defense units of various coastal cities have also been prepared for battle at any time, and the shore defense guns have exposed their barrels and are aimed at the sea. He also instructed the intelligence department to carry out a large number of intelligence reconnaissance on the Soviet Union and find out the Soviet Union's intentions.

The situation in the Far East became extremely delicate for a while, and the Soviet fleet, which originally seemed to be afraid of the Japanese fleet, was now different, the Soviet Navy was also dispatched, and all the naval forces in the Far East went out to Vladivostok.

Some media in Western countries have even begun to predict that a new war is about to break out in the Far East, and the first shot of the war will be launched at sea.

At this critical juncture, Stalin ordered the Soviet troops in the Far East to assemble and march to the other side of Sakhalin and the Twin Cities region near North Korea.

The whole world seems to smell the smell of gunpowder, and many people are calling for the explosion of this big explosive barrel in the Far East.

The Japanese side did not show weakness, and the 600,000 troops of the Kwantung Army in Korea began to assemble to deal with the Soviet Union's Chen soldiers, and three local divisions were also ordered to leave for Sakhalin. Bing Feng also posed a situation of fighting each other with the Soviet Union.

The three group armies of the Northeast Military Region and a fully formed air force division are also ready to be ready to go into battle at any time to prevent the outbreak of war from spreading to China and threatening the lives and property of the Chinese people. Qingdao's aircraft carrier battle group also completed its training mission at sea and returned to port to refuel fuel, supplies and ammunition. The submarine forces of Jeju Island also set off one after another, tailing and monitoring the fleets of the two countries.

Twelve hours after Stalin's order, Chen Shao received accurate information. Immediately, the order was ordered, and the alert level of the three Chinese armed forces was lowered, and there was no need to be so nervous. Even if the two sides really want to fight, the performance of the Chinese side is too obvious, and it would have been a fight, but it would have been difficult to fight when seeing China's posture.

They didn't want to be in the middle of a fierce battle between the two sides, and there were hundreds of thousands of troops with unknown attitudes watching. Because of this kind of thing, it really makes them feel uncertain, God knows if the Chinese army will fight over, not to mention that the two countries have always been at odds with China.

China's actions have made this seemingly delicate situation even more unpredictable.

(To be continued)