The combat ability of the Japanese army is very distinctive, they are good at hand-to-hand combat, shooting, bomb throwing, individual combat ability is extremely strong, they are the best at shooting soldiers I have ever seen, their stature is short, but the combat is fierce, they also have weaknesses, although their artillery is much more than the Chinese army, but it is much worse than the European and American armies, this time the New Fourth Army concentrated most of its firepower, it suppressed the Japanese army, and at the same time their tank armor is very thin, I even saw that the New Fourth Army broke through the Japanese tank armor with a special artillery, It was a cylindrical cannon like a medieval artillery, but unfortunately they didn't let me see it up close, I suspect that it was a new Soviet weapon, and I believe there were a lot of information about this in the Japanese army. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Finally, I must mention that I have followed the New Fourth Army and seen too many tragedies caused by the Japanese army, massacres, rape camps, looting, and all kinds of unspeakable things are constantly staged in this land, and I can't believe that there are such demonic armies and so many cruel people in the world. The Chinese people can only endure hardships under the war, or they can only choose to join the army to take up arms to resist, and more and more people resist, my regiment, when I left, there were already more than 300 peasants who took the initiative to ask to join, and there were hundreds of captured Nanjing troops to ask anyway, these people were selected and absorbed into the New Fourth Army, the New Fourth Army first baptized them ideologically, let them know what the New Fourth Army troops are fighting for, therefore, I don't think the Chinese Red Party will give up fighting against the Japanese army, because all their armies agree with the idea that national contradictions are above class contradictions, and if the Central Committee of the Chinese Red Party wants to cooperate with Japan, then it can be seen that their army will collapse from within, and their central decision-making layer will never allow such a thing to happen.

We will continue to observe Yan'an, Chongqing, and the Japanese army in this land, and report back to them at any time, hoping that our intelligence can provide sufficient clues to Mr. President's strategic choices, and may God bless the United States. ”

Barred and Xie Weisi finally finished this month's report, they put the report away and prepared to take it back to Washington, Bauer yawned and looked at Xie Weisi, who was also extremely tired next to him, and smiled, "We are finally going back, and the call from above asked us to go to Xi'an, because our delegation is in Xi'an at this time." ”

Xie Weisi nodded and said, "That's fine, we can report directly to the top when we go to Xi'an, I believe these things will definitely shock the White House." ”

Bao Ruide said with some concern, "I am more worried about Japan's strategic changes, this time the New Fourth Army has beaten several cities, but the Japanese army has not fought back fiercely, which is not in line with the Japanese combat habits we have obtained, I suspect that the Japanese army does not want to counterattack, but does not care about counterattacking." ”

Xie Weisi immediately reacted and said, "You mean that the Japanese army is about to go south?" So the troops in China are understaffed and temporarily contracted? ”

Bao Ruide hummed and said, "I don't know what happened to the long-rumored four-nation talks." ”

Xie Weisi smiled, "That's a European thing, we don't need to care too much, I care about Asia." ”

What Bao Ruide and Xie Weisi didn't know was that the reason why the Japanese army did not fight back immediately was partly due to them.

-- Tokyo

"Knock knock" There was a knock on the door.

"Come in." The guard put down his pen and said outside.

Ishihara opened the door and bowed to Konoe and said, "Prime Minister, I have an extremely important piece of information that I would like to report to you. ”

The guard immediately stretched out his hand and said, "Sit down, what's wrong?" ”

Ishihara sat down and handed Konoe a document and said, "This is urgent information from China, our agents have found traces of suspected Americans in Shanxi, and at the same time received information on a secret visit by the American delegation in Chongqing, and we suspect that the United States is preparing to change its attitude towards the Empire." ”

The guards immediately opened it and looked at it, and Ishihara explained while letting him see it, "Their actions are very secretive. Chongqing and Yan'an were obviously highly secretive about the visit of the United States, and not only did we not see any public reports, but even our secret service learned of it by extreme coincidence, and we have learned that this delegation arrived in China from Southeast Asia, and in light of the current international situation, it should be China's new reinforcements after the Soviet Union was about to withdraw its aid. ”

Konoe asked, disbelievingly, "Is this information reliable?" You must know that this will be related to the grand strategy of our empire, and if the United States is an enemy of us, then the situation of the empire will be completely different from what we judged at the beginning.

And I have doubts, we have known about China's Song Ziwen's request for help from the United States for a long time, but according to our understanding, the United States should not have any positive feedback. ”

Ishihara nodded and said, "This just shows the cunning of the Americans, they are the secret Chen Cang of the Ming Plank Road, I guess they are preparing to secretly support the Chinese against us, and I dare to assert that the United States will soon impose sanctions on the empire on trade." ”

As he spoke, Ishihara got up and flipped through the information to a photo and said, "This is a photo that our unit inadvertently took when fighting with the Red Party's armed New Fourth Army in Jiangsu, China, although this person in the photo is wearing the uniform of the New Fourth Army, but he is obviously a Caucasian person, and the appearance and characteristics of this person are very similar to those described by our agents in Shanxi, if you just want to support China to balance our country, then the United States does not need to be so urgent to get the combat habits and strength level of our army, I suspect, The United States may have operational intentions against the Empire. ”

Konoe looked at it, put down the document with a snap, and said, "I have always hoped to coexist peacefully with the United States, and in the plan drawn up by the military department to go south, I even asked to let go of the American sphere of influence such as the Philippines, but I didn't expect that the United States had begun to secretly want to deal with us." ”

As he spoke, Konoe took a few deep breaths, opened his eyes, and said, "Report it to His Majesty the Emperor, we may have bad intentions." ”

-- Imperial Council

"I don't think we need to worry about possible U.S. interference at all, even if the U.S. wants to support China, as long as we go south, our troops can cut off the Yunnan-Burma road, how can American supplies be transported into China?" Hideki Tojo said without any worries, "If you are worried about the intervention of the US military, I believe that the katana of our imperial army will teach them a lesson, I said before that the Americans are greedy for life and afraid of death, as long as they are threatened with death, they will shrink back in the Americas and dare not come forward!" In this regard, I think the Navy will agree with me, right? ”

Of course, Navy Minister Yoshida Zengo did not dare to show weakness, and immediately nodded and said to Hirohito, "Your Majesty, our navy can guarantee that US warships cannot appear in the Sea of Japan. ”

Ishihara said to Hideki Tojo with a smile, "If you can win by shouting, then the donkey will rule the world, gentlemen, there are now many signs that the United States will not do nothing as we guessed at the beginning, and those who bear the future of the empire on their shoulders should first count the defeat and then win, think about it, if the US military really launches a surprise attack on the empire, what will happen to the empire, the empire's front is already very long, if it goes south, it will be longer, such a long front, where is the main, where is the auxiliary, where should be defended, where can be abandoned." If there is no such strategic planning, I think we should stop preparing for the south for the time being and think about these issues. ”

"Yaga!" Hideki Tojo jumped up and shouted, "The warriors of the Imperial Army can't give up an inch of the land they occupy!" It should be guarded everywhere! ”

"Are you a soldier? To defend everywhere is to lose everywhere! Don't you know that? Ishihara immediately retorted.

"If you really want to say it, the mainland is naturally the first, followed by Manchuria, North Korea and Taiwan and the surrounding archipelago." Konoe was not so impatient, and first threw out his arguments.

"These places are all in the eastern part of the empire, and if the US military comes to attack, it will also come from the west, so what does it have to do with these places?" Hideki Tojo said disagreeing, just because it was the guards who pulled him into the pavilion, and it was not good to scold people directly.

"If the U.S. military really goes to war with the empire, then it will definitely take the Philippines as a starting point and attack the South Seas, if this is the case, our troops may have to concentrate on the South Seas to fight the U.S. army, will the Chinese army take the opportunity to counterattack?" Ishihara said analytically.

"In addition, I must tell you that the news from Berlin indicates that Germany and the Soviet Union have been at loggerheads on the division of power in Europe, and that we will not be able to face the old adversary of the Soviet Union." The foreign minister unleashed another bomb.

"The Soviet Union, China, the United States, that is, if the most extreme scenario happens, we may fight on three fronts. And that's not counting the British army. Ishihara took a breath and said, he was most worried about the Soviet Union.

Hirohito was also scared into a fine sweat by such an analysis, he looked at the guard anxiously, and the guard immediately reacted that he couldn't hit Hirohito like this, otherwise Hirohito would probably suspect that he was not capable enough and replace himself.

Konoe immediately said, "Actually, it's not that exaggerated, this is the most extreme situation we think, in a good direction, the United States and the Soviet Union have not really exposed their hostility with the empire, and even the Soviet Union has just signed a peace contract with us, isn't it?" ”

At this time, Hirohito suddenly saw Ishihara's sneer, and said, "What does Ishihara understand?" ”

Ishihara immediately signaled to Hirohito and said: "I put forward three combat plans for your reference, the first is a quick war, immediately send troops to Southeast Asia, the United States has not yet decided whether to participate in the war, before the internal unity of thought, use the autumn wind to sweep away the leaves of the offensive to solve the Southeast Asian problem, just like the Manchuria incident in the past, this is the best policy, I am eighty percent sure that if we end the war in Southeast Asia in three months, the United States will not have time to send troops."

The second is to immediately negotiate with the United States in an all-round way and reconsider going north, but the premise of going north is that the Soviet Union and Germany are at war or even war, so that we will have the risk of the United States attacking the back of our army, but if our country and Germany fight together, it will be difficult for the Soviet Union to win, and it is difficult to say whether the United States, which sees that the Soviet Union has no hope of winning, can make up its mind to start a war against the empire, and this is the middle policy.

The third is to completely abandon foreign expansion, concentrate on navigating China, and aim to establish a Sino-Japanese community. ”

After speaking, Ishihara looked at everyone, "These are my three strategies, if anyone proposes other strategies that are better than mine, just put forward." ”

"It seems that you didn't mention China in the first two proposals." Someone stood up and asked.

Ishihara looked at everyone and asked, "China, which we can't take now, will we still have the strength to take it when we are at war with the United States or with the Soviet Union?" It would be nice to maintain the status quo! ”

In fact, this was the biggest problem in Japan's strategy, and Germany's goal was clear, to defeat France and Britain and establish a great empire that occupied Europe. Although Japan now has a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, it has never had an accurate plan for strategic steps. Because Japan wanted to take China step by step at the beginning, slowly take China, but it turned out to be a full-scale war, and there is no end to now, China has involved a large number of troops after making Japan's cards in the hands are no longer enough, only the navy has no pressure, which is also the reason why Japan's high-level is considering going south, and now Japan is like a gambler with some cards in his hand, looking at the card game and feeling that there is a chance anywhere, hesitating.... However, on that day, the Imperial Council gave an order to the Chinese theater that all troops were not allowed to counterattack at will, mainly because the Japanese top brass was afraid of the lower echelons of the troops below, and if the Japanese army was preparing to go south or north, and as a result, a major battle broke out in China, it would be uncomfortable to eat raw food.

-- Berlin

"We have been talking for a month, and our Comrade Stalin has expressed his dissatisfaction with the state of our negotiations here, and if the Soviet Union is really needed to join the alliance, then it should be shown with sufficient sincerity, and not so blindly delayed and perfunctory." Molotov expressed his displeasure.

"The opinion of our head of state is that he wants the Soviet Union to give up its claims against Turkey and Bulgaria, and as compensation, we are willing to give you a part of India, the most brilliant diamond of the British Empire, to your trust, and that your country will easily join our country in Egypt and Japan and India after taking the Middle East, and I hope you will adopt it." Ribbentrop proposed the German proposal.

Molotov took a breath and said, "Well, I will relay it to Moscow, please wait for our reply." ”

Something has changed.