In fact, the idea of a decisive battle at home was already in place at the beginning of the Pacific War, because in terms of the strategic environment at that time, Japan was not completely sure of defeating the United States and Britain, so it also thought about the way back while formulating a war plan against the United States and Britain, and once the offensive did not go smoothly and the first phase of the war could not completely crush the US occupation of the South Pacific region, then Japan planned to fight a decisive battle with the United States and Britain on its own soil.

Although the battle was surprisingly smooth, the Japanese captured most of the islands in the South Pacific in about half a year after the start of the war, so everything related to the decisive battle on the mainland was put on the shelf. However, some of the previous preparations were not wasted, so after a period of preparation, the pre-war preparations for the decisive battle on the home ground predetermined by the Japanese army were finally completed, and the equipment of the large corps was generally ready.

However, due to the intensification of Allied air raids, a large number of factories in Japan were bombed, and the production capacity of the military industry plummeted. In addition, a large number of bridges and highways were blown up, a large number of roads in Japan were blocked, and resources such as fuel, food, and cloth were seriously insufficient.

In addition to these, the equipment and training of the Japanese troops and the preparation of the rear were also very slow, mainly because the Japanese army lost almost all of its heavy weapons and more than half of its light weapons when it withdrew from its overseas colonies. If there are no weapons, the troops are not called troops.

Even the weapons and equipment of the units deployed on the front line are not very complete, and some units still lack some artillery and heavy weapons, especially horses and automobiles. Regarding the construction of positions, it is an important frontal battlefield along the coast of Kyushu, Shikoku, and Kanto regions. Only 60 to 80 per cent of the plan has been completed, while most of the other frontal battlefields are only about 50 per cent complete.

The question of training, with the exception of the decisive battle corps assembled in the rear, was busy building large-scale positions and had little time for training.

Regarding the most important logistical preparations, on the Kyushu and Shikoku sides, the build-up of ammunition was 100 per cent, the build-up of fuel was 94 per cent, and the build-up of grain was 16 per cent. However, the build-up of materials needed to concentrate troops in a decisive battle is very worrying. Kanto side. 50% of the grain was gathered. However, the build-up of ammunition and supplies was only partially assembled due to the priority supply to Kyushu. Other areas, except for Kyoto. Logistical preparations have been even more sluggish.

May 19th. The Allies fought hard for almost a month. Finally, the remaining 100,000 people of the Japanese 14th Front Army were annihilated in the mountains of the northwest of the Philippines, and the supreme commander of the Japanese 14th Front Army, General Yamashita Fumi, was killed. The 14th Front Army, which had ruled the Philippines for more than three years, was destroyed.

Upon learning of the annihilation of Yamashita Sho's army, the Japanese army reported on it at length, and the headquarters officially posthumously awarded Yamashita Fumimi as the Marshal of the Imperial Japanese Army, and held a large-scale state funeral in Tokyo.

The intention of the Japanese government and the military department is to arouse the feelings of hatred and hatred among the Japanese people, after all, this operation is different from any previous war, this is to fight on the Japanese mainland, compared to the Japanese, the Allies are the aggressors, if the propaganda is good, it will be a great help for the decisive battle on the mainland.

Sure enough, after the deliberate propaganda of the Japanese government, the Japanese army's recruitment points in various cities were crowded with indignant young people.

Not to mention that the Japanese government is trying to turn the whole of Japan into a big fortress, but to talk about the war on the European side, preparations for the Normandy landing operation have come to an end.

In order to tear apart the German positions on the Western Front in one fell swoop, the Allies attached great importance to the Normandy landing campaign, and in order to carry out this large-scale campaign, the Allies gathered a total of 2.88 million troops. The army has a total of 36 divisions, including 23 infantry divisions, 10 armored divisions, and 3 airborne divisions, with about 1.53 million men.

The Navy has about 5,300 warships in operation, including 13 battleships, 47 cruisers, 134 destroyers, about 1,200 destroyers, 4,126 landing ships, and more than 5,000 transport ships.

The Air Force has 13,700 combat aircraft, including 5,800 bombers, 4,900 fighters, and 3,000 transport aircraft gliders. For this reason, the Allied air raids changed from bombing Germany's industrial areas to bombing Germany's communication lines, and because of the Allied bombing of Germany, the progress of building Atlantic fortresses was repeatedly slowed down, and some workers who built Atlantic fortresses were even forced to build railroads.

From the end of March to the end of May 1944, millions of troops from the United States, Great Britain and Canada, 170,000 vehicles, and 600,000 tons of various supplies successfully crossed the English Channel. As of May 20. The Allies were ready on all fronts, and as soon as the Allied commander-in-chief Eisenhower gave orders, several million troops would appear in Normandy and launch an all-out attack on the German army in France.

However, the troops on the front line waited, but the order was not given for a long time, and the landing plan, which was originally scheduled for mid-May, did not move until the 20th, which caused dissatisfaction among many high-ranking officers at the front.

However, Eisenhower had no choice, this was an order from the Allied High Command, requiring them to continue to assemble and stand by, and only with the order of the Allied High Command could they launch a landing campaign.

Why did the Allied High Command delay its action? That's because someone asked them to wait, and this person was none other than Chen Feng.

Ten days ago, William Jr. sent a telegram saying that he had been in contact with Rommel, but he still had some concerns about assassinating Hitler, and he was trying to convince him.

Five days earlier, William Jr. had sent back the news that they had made contact with Hofak, the leader of the young officers who opposed Hitler within the German army, and had persuaded Rommel that a plan to assassinate Hitler was being developed, which was expected to take place at the end of May.

According to the agreement between the two sides, after Hitler's death, Rommel, who was in charge of Group B on the Western Front, would open up the battlefield on the Western Front and make every effort to persuade Kruger, the commander-in-chief of the Western Front, to cooperate with the actions of the Allies. However, the Allies could only encircle and suppress the Nazis in Germany, not the Wehrmacht, and the trial of Germany after the war must be fair and just, and the mistakes of the First World War must not be repeated.

Chen Feng communicated with Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin on this matter, and they agreed in principle to Rommel's request. This is a win-win cooperation for both sides, because as far as the evidence has been collected, the Germans are already preparing for defense on the Western Front, and if they force a landing, the losses of the Allies will be very heavy.

If Rommel can cooperate with the Allies to open the Western Front, then the Allies can land in France in a very short time, and then drive straight to capture Paris and Berlin, the war will also be reversed in a very short time, and the Allies will end this damned war as soon as possible at a very small cost.

With the commitment of Roosevelt and others, Rommel also expressed his willingness to fully cooperate with the Allied operations, and at the same time personally cooperate with the assassination of the secret agents. However, before the assassination operation began, Rommel hoped that the Allies would not rush to attack. This is also the main reason why the Allied High Command asked the troops at the front to assemble and stand by and delay in attacking!

On May 25, 1944, an earth-shattering event occurred in Berlin, Germany - the German Führer Hitler was assassinated by a car bomb, and his life and death were uncertain!

According to the information circulating at the scene, it seems that Hitler was going to attend a lecture at the Berlin Army Academy that day, and the assassin seemed to have known his destination in advance, so he set up an ambush on the way to the Berlin Army Academy, and when Hitler's motorcade passed an intersection, a car full of explosives suddenly rushed out and crashed into Hitler's car in hatred, and then a large explosion occurred.

Whether Hitler was dead or not, Rommel didn't know this face, but it didn't matter anymore. Based on the results of hundreds of experiments and the faint news, Rommel and others could judge that even if Hitler had not died on the spot, he would have been seriously injured and could not serve for the time being.

For Rommel and others, a dead Hitler is the same as a Hitler who cannot govern, and as long as he does not interfere in the military and political affairs of Germany, then Germany will not go to extinction with him.

On the same day, under the order of Kruger, commander-in-chief of the German Western Front, 1.38 million German troops opened their positions on the Western Front to welcome the Allied landing, and at the same time cooperated with the Allied counteroffensive against Germany.

The European battlefield has undergone a major reversal in a very short period of time, and it can be expected that in a month at most, there will be good news on the European battlefield, and Chen Feng has made great contributions to all this.

On 30 May, the Allies captured Paris, and at the same time, the Soviet Red Army entered Warsaw.

On the 31st, the Wehrmacht issued a statement on the Eastern Front that it was willing to cooperate with the Soviet Red Army in its counteroffensive against Germany. At this point, the two major groups of the German army betrayed the Hitler regime at the same time, and the Third Reich, which Hitler had created, was crumbling.

On June 1, the shocking news came out of Berlin that German Führer Hitler had died of his wounds in Berlin on the evening of May 28, leaving a political will before his death. In his will, Dönitz was appointed President of the German Empire and Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht, responsible for the military and political affairs of the whole of Germany.

Dönitz was very surprised by this appointment, and since July 1943 he himself had spoken to Hitler only in public. Hitler never hinted to Dönitz that he would be considered his heir, after Hitler had already decided to have Reich Air Marshal Goering his heir.

However, because of the continuous defeat of the German army at the front, Goering suggested to Hitler that Hitler would give him the authority to take charge of all the affairs of the country, and suggested negotiations with the Allies. Annoyed and angry, Hitler regarded it as the most serious crime of treason and decided to dismiss Goering from all his posts.

Even after Goering lost his inheritance, Dönitz never received any hint of this from other sources. In Dönitz's opinion, none of the Nazi leaders would have guessed this. Although everyone understood that Goering could no longer be Hitler's heir. Himmler, however, was moving around, trying to take Goering's place. I didn't expect that in the end, the Führer would choose to make him the new Führer of the Empire. (To be continued......)