After the First World War brought great trauma to all mankind and brought excellent opportunities for the rise of many fortunate countries, the Second World War was finally staged as scheduled in various accidents and inevitability.

On September 3, Britain and France declared war on Germany. In response, the members of the Axis Accords did not deter their enemies, and Germany, Italy, and Beneath declared war on Britain and France. It is expected that both sides will have more partner countries to join this future war.

However, after the British declared war, they only actively expanded their armaments and warfare, and opened their factories to full capacity to produce all kinds of necessary equipment, including guns and ammunition, artillery, aircraft, tanks, and warships. They found that the British were almost just beginning to prepare for the Germans, compared to the well-prepared Germans. They need more troops, more army than navy, more equipment for everything from uniforms to weapons.

After the French declared war, they immediately gathered heavy troops on the Maginot Line on the German-French border, while trying to further expand the size of the country's 113 army divisions.

The First World War reminded the French that, in addition to the Germans advancing to the vicinity of Paris, was the cruel lesson of a lack of strategic depth. The Germans had to be concentrated on a strong defensive line to defend the Germans to the death in order to avoid the tragedy of World War I. Seeing more than 40 divisions displayed on the French side of the Maginot Line, and smiling at the Germans on the other side, who had no choice but to look at France, the French had never felt that the political axe was so wise.

"Look, the war happened, but it was in Poland!"

This is the headline of Le Figaro, an old French newspaper founded in 1853, with a picture of the Polish War underneath. The writer used a kind of schadenfreude, coupled with some cynicism, to argue that the Germans had failed to 'bully their neighbors' as they did during World War I, even though the damned war had broken out.

"If they want to cross the Maginot Line, they will pay millions of deaths, and the victory will be France, it will be Maginot and it will be Maginot Victory. What we need to do now is not to worry about their attack, but to think about how to rescue Poland. Poland needs us, Europe needs France, and France will save the whole of Europe like a war. ”

This is the French Prime Minister, Paul Renault's reply in an interview with reporters, quite imposingly, his strength and self-confidence told the French that the war is far away from our France, and there is no need to worry about it.

After Italy declared war, it quickly moved closer to Germany, and even sent five divisions of Italian troops to Poland to participate in the war at the first time, and for the entire Balkans, Mussolini was also ambitious and vowed to make achievements.

In Asia, it is still the people who have really announced to the world with 'practical actions' that the war is coming again.

In Tokyo, it is said that Emperor Moto meets the Kikunoya of his courtiers.

"His Majesty the Emperor."

At this time, the people standing in the Kikuno Pavilion were all important members of the army, including the newly promoted Minister of Land Minamijiro, the chief of the army general staff, Hideki Tojo, and the important members of the military department, the deputy chief of the general staff, Seishiro Itagaki, and the head of the War Department of the military department, Ishihara Wanji. Nagano of the sea is self-cultivation, and Admiral Yamamoto is fifty-six.

Six years after the end of the Sino-Japanese War, these generals of the Chinese army, who had performed well in the Sino-Japanese war, have all entered the upper echelons of the Chinese army. On the other hand, the rapid rise of middle- and low-level officers in the military department has enabled these people to gradually control the operation of the military department.

"Is it really time to go to war? Is it possible to declare without war? ”

The emperor pretended to be calm, and said in his usual worried Chinese tone, but he put it on the handle of the chair, trembling his left and right hands, and had betrayed him deeply. Moreover, when things come to this point, no amount of cover-up is superfluous.

What a man who longs for war.

He likes to gamble, likes to gamble with the fortune of the country, loses, the natural island environment can make the capital preservation, and once he wins, it will be several times, or even ten times the land that becomes the bag of the empire, of course, there are more resources, population, wealth.

"Yes, His Majesty the Emperor. The young officers of the military department were already in a state of extreme restlessness, and there were even indications that they might take some coercive measures for the sake of the Empire if it was delayed in carrying out actual war operations. ”

The important members of the military department, Hideki Tojo, stood together, and held the emperor's sword on his side to bow his head and salute.

"The warriors of the empire crave war, I know that. They are all good samurai who are loyal to the emperor and the spirit of bushido, but ......" The emperor turned his head and asked Nanjiro Rikusho, "Are we ready?" ”

Nanjiro stepped out of the ranks, held back his excitement and said, "Your Majesty the Emperor." Since the defeat in the Sino-Chinese War, the whole empire has carried out deep introspection. First of all, on the economic front, it took the empire six years, after a considerable number of imperial citizens to contribute, the economy finally reached new heights, and the industrial indicators that symbolized the military potential had reached about twice as much as before the armistice.

On the military front, we learned the lessons of our defeat in the war against the Chinese and carried out a six-year reform of the entire army. Dozens of new models of weapons have been developed, among which the Type 95 tank and Type 95 aircraft are among the advanced weapons projects. In addition to distributing a certain number of submachine guns, the entire imperial [***] team also strengthened the artillery configuration and anti-tank weapon configuration of each department.

At present, the total number of the Empire's army is 1.6 million, and it can be mobilized to the scale of 3 million people at any time, and the weapons and equipment can ensure that the basic ration is sufficient.

In the Navy, our aircraft carriers also exceed the Chinese, although it is difficult to make an assessment of the combat effectiveness of both sides, but at least, excluding the Chinese, in Asia, in the Pacific Ocean, they are invincible.

In total, the current emperor team has 1.6 million people, and it can mobilize up to 3 million people at any time. The number of tanks is 2,100, more than 3,700 aircraft, 12 aircraft carriers, and 11 reserve ships that can be urgently converted into aircraft carriers in wartime. Due to the end of the war with China and the strong support of the Germans, the imperial [***] team is now fully prepared and fully capable of facing any enemy in Asia except the Chinese. ”

The emperor nodded slightly, although he was a little dissatisfied with Nanjiro's several mentions of the Chinese, but he also knew that this was the truth, and that Ben could not be an enemy of the Chinese, at least for now, because there were more places waiting for the empire to 'receive'.

The report on the development of the military power of the Chinese, which he only read last night, is developing very fast, and conservative estimates that the empire is not necessarily the opponent of the Chinese.

Hirohito knew that only six years ago, the powerful force displayed by the Chinese, although not many of them, was an elite division. Even the Type 95 tanks and Type 95 series aircraft, which had just been developed, could not reach the level of tanks and aircraft of the Chinese in 1933.

In this regard, he had asked Germany for help, but the excuse he received for refusal was that the development of advanced armored forces and advanced air forces would run counter to the original agreement and would arouse China's resentment.

The Germans, as agreed with China, rejected the book and only provided moderate technology, but it has to be mentioned that he still has some strength, and the summary of the defeat in the war, plus the help of Germany, what he held back in six years has actually reached the advanced rank of the world, at least better than the equipment of the Soviets.

Of course, the Soviets' ability to innovate in research and innovation is beyond the reach of the Soviets.

In the end, when the emperor came to the conclusion, he believed that the Chinese's weapons were indeed several years ahead, but they may also face the problems of too small equipment, difficult to manufacture, and expensive to build, otherwise they should have been eliminated long ago after all these years, but the fact is that they are still the main equipment of the Chinese.

It's just not known how much the equipment of each model has improved.

Emperor: "So, have you already decided?" ”

"His Majesty the Emperor atoned for his sins, we just discussed a few directions of attack." Hideki Tojo stepped forward and said in front of a map with a few arrows drawn, "Your Majesty, please see, the first direction is the Far East, but it is clear that the time has not yet come. The second direction of attack was the Philippines, but it faced resistance from the Americans. The third direction is Vietnam, where the French are their nest in the Far East, and now they are pinned down by the Germans, and resistance will be limited. The fourth direction is Singapore, the Far Eastern nest of the British. The fifth direction is Indonesia.

Indonesia had most of the resources needed for the empire, rubber, oil, grain, timber, ore, etc., and most importantly, its colonists were the weak Dutch. ”

"The military department means that Indonesia has been chosen." The Emperor nodded, he could still see this.

"Yes, Your Majesty, Indonesia meets all the needs of the current empire, as well as the requirements of minimum risk and maximum gain." Hideki Tojo said.

"However, there is a Chinese Hanzhong Special Zone there, and there are a large number of Chinese, will the Chinese take the opportunity to interfere? Since the empire will covet Indonesia, the Chinese have the same reason. Hirohito reminded.

"Therefore, we have decided to inform the Chinese of this top-secret combat operation in accordance with the original agreement, and promised to protect the Indonesian Chinese, protect the Chinese property, ensure the Chinese industry, ensure that the previous Indonesian-Chinese trade and investment projects will not be affected, and compensate the damaged property of the Chinese, and we will do our best to do so."

If the Chinese are just like the Americans, making a lot of war money, then our occupation of Indonesia will have little impact on them. However, if the Chinese deliberately provoke a war under the pretext, then, since it cannot be avoided, there is only a war. Hideki Tojo said with confidence that although the empire does not take the initiative to provoke the Chinese, in case of war, the emperor [***] people will not be cowardly.

"Very well, contact the Germans, let them negotiate with us Chinese in everything, we can make appropriate concessions, all for the sake of the re-rise of the Empire, the Empire will be armed for a long ......time"

With a wave of his hand, the Emperor said to his courtiers, "Give the order to mobilize for war, arm our army, the Reich needs to have more troops and more weapons and equipment, just like the Germans." ”

"His Majesty the Emperor is wise, and the empire will surely be prosperous for a long time."

On September 15, 1939, the secret representative of the German government rushed to China, secretly met with the Chinese political axe, and revealed to the Chinese political axe the intention of the army to launch a military operation in the direction of Indonesia.

Almost at the same time, the report on the launch of a major operation in Southeast Asia was placed on Zhang Shusheng's desk.

"The premise of implementing the policy in accordance with the established plan is, of course, that our interests and the interests of the Chinese are not damaged. As for the Hanzhong Special Economic Zone, if necessary, it can temporarily take in Chinese to escape the war. ”

Zhang Shusheng knew very well that his actions in Southeast Asia were necessary, and only in this way could he make the entire World War II more muddy. I myself who did not get caught up in the Chinese battlefield will completely vent my madness and beast surname to a new place, Southeast Asia, or the Soviet Union. Originally, in history, many Western countries sat sneeringly and watched China being invaded by the Chinese people, believing that the Chinese were incompetent, so good, this time, the millions of Japanese troops who were not dragged down by China's huge territory and 40,000 people will give them a more vivid performance.

This time, there will be no Chinese expeditionary force, and this time, there will be no millions of Chinese troops dragged in China. This time, these armies will all be borne by the British, the French, the Soviets, and even the Americans.

Originally, in history, the bayonets that pierced the Chinese will stab the French, the Dutch, the British, and the Americans this time.

Onboard !!

In such a frenzied cry, they will storm the territory of Western countries and kill the people of Western countries.

The era of watching the fire from afar, the era of letting China form an expeditionary force to send to death, and the situation of letting Westerners pay to send Chinese to the battlefield to die, will never be repeated.

At this time, he may not be afraid of any country other than China, because this island country with the surname of animal is too far away from those traditional powers, and the only Soviet Union is only a remote Far East close to it.

China, on the other hand, has enough ways to counterbalance them.

Leaving aside the army and navy, Zhang Shusheng is very confident that he will be able to send many gifts to China's rapidly developing medium- and long-range air force alone.

The distance is so close that you don't even need to take off from an aircraft carrier to bomb from the mainland. In terms of the army and navy, once the two countries go to war, they will be defeated, and it will be beneficial to both sides if they do not go to war.

On September 25, 1939, the Fourth Task Force of the Chinese Army suddenly arrived in Indonesian waters, and this task force with more than 20 troop carriers, including four aircraft carriers and three battleships, as well as more supply ships, just one squadron of planes blew several broken warships of the Dutch to the bottom of the sea.

"From now on, the Empire will be officially at war with the Kingdom of the Netherlands......"

Ben declared war on the Netherlands, but only a minute before the war began, the ambassador to the Netherlands handed over the declaration of war to the Dutch political axe.

There was no preparation at all, and even the entire Dutch garrison in Indonesia had only three Dutch divisions and two indigenous brigades, and in such a situation, they would face a frantic attack composed of three divisions of the first class.

"Southeast Asia is in danger!!"

When such a headline appeared in a Chinese newspaper, a bombshell news was also thrown out by the Chinese political axe at the same time, causing an uproar.

On September 26, 1939, the day after Ben declared war on the Netherlands, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhou Guolai announced at a press conference on Hanjingshan that "in view of the current complex situation in Southeast Asia, Comrade Zhang Shusheng, the supreme leader of the Chinese People's Mingzhu Republic, the supreme leader of the Baath Party, and the chairman of the Chinese Nationalities Affairs Commission, will visit the Hanzhong Special Economic Zone to inspect the living conditions of the Chinese in Nanyang!" ”――

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