When the Japanese gathered all the ships they could muster and crossed the Strait of Malacca with the large number of troops they had managed to assemble again, the British, who were guarding the Indian Ocean, were unaware of this, for Seishiro Sakagaki was leading his troops from Burma to India at this time, and their attention was almost entirely drawn to it. Of course, the Japanese were inevitably condemned by the British for marching on India in such a "bright and bright" way, and the Chinese troops were massing in the northeast of Burma, but the Chinese had a very good reason: they were undersupplied and could not afford to launch another large-scale campaign.

The British had no choice but to fight the surging Japanese army alone. But at this time, the North African campaign had also begun, and although the British army in Egypt under the leadership of Montgomery was full of momentum, it could not support India for a while, so the only thing that the Indian governor Wavell could use was the local Indian army. Although the number of this army is not small, based on the performance of the British army in the previous Burma campaign, Wavell is still a little weak.

Thus, the Great War broke out in such a situation that was extremely unfavorable to the British.

The expeditionary force organized by the Japanese landed in Somalia, and then, after attracting some British troops from North Africa to the south, with the "Yamato" and nearly 100 transport planes carried by another aircraft carrier, the troops were airdropped from Somalia to Egypt, and the important town of Aswan in southern Egypt was empty.

This sortie by the Japanese once again shocked the world.

Montgomery hastily adjusted his deployment in an attempt to drive the Japanese out of the continent. But at this time, the Germans, who had never shown much in North Africa, suddenly joined the war...... Rommel's armoured forces entered Libya, and the desert fox was accompanied by a large number of transport planes and bombers, most of which flew to Aswan and traveled frequently between Aswan and Somalia. Transported a large number of Japanese troops to Egypt.

The campaign was further expanded.

Although Montgomery was still invincible at the beginning, when his tank met the Japanese army rushing up with Molotov cocktails or cluster grenades, he had to temporarily stop the counteroffensive, and in addition, he had to face a Rommel who was no worse than him, and even more cunning and capable of fighting......

North Africa is in a hurry!

The Allied Command in Europe had no choice but to hastily draw up a new battle plan and send a large number of newly assembled Anglo-American forces into North Africa. But even then it was a little late. Because the air alliance of the Axis powers has already begun the blockade of the Red Sea route. The Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the narrowest part of the Red Sea, became an impenetrable moat for Allied ships. So they had to go to the Cape of Good Hope instead. And as a result, the range increases several times.

But that's not the worst of it.

The Japanese army and the Italian army handed over the garrison in Aswan, secretly returned to the division, and plunged headlong into the Indian battlefield. As a result, this move directly exploded Waver's chrysanthemum, who was confronting Seishiro Sakagaki on the India-Myanmar border. And when Wavell hurriedly transferred his troops back to the defense again. The Indian National Congress Party, which had reached an agreement with the Japanese, also began its own "show". They called on the people of India not to cooperate with the British and to take the opportunity to fight for independence. And soon. Mahatma Gandhi, who held high the banner of "non-violence and non-cooperation", was assassinated. The murderer's spearhead was directed at the British colonial authorities

Despite the efforts of Wavell and others, the anger of the Indians finally exploded, and the otherwise peaceful non-cooperation movement began to show violence, and even a small armed uprising, and the British authorities initially retreated a few steps. But as the situation got worse and worse, Wavell eventually raised the butcher's knife against the colonized. As a result, the situation in India became even more uncontrollable, and the Japanese army began to win successive victories on the eastern and western fronts. A so-called "Indian Independence Army" was even organized, which was used as cannon fodder for itself in the fight against the British......

And victory in North Africa and South Asia did not seem to be the limit for the Japanese.

While these two places were under heavy artillery fire, the fleet led by Nagumo Tadaichi reappeared at Pearl Harbor...... Of course, this time the Japanese were not so lucky, and the expeditionary Japanese fleet suffered huge losses in the battle against the reconstituted Pacific Fleet, but the problem was that this time the raid was still won by the Japanese. Pearl Harbor was destroyed again, and for a short time it could not be used as a base for the US military, and at the same time, the main force of the Pacific Fleet was also defeated. Once again, the power of the United States in the Pacific was seriously weakened.

In this way, the arrogance of the Japanese was extremely arrogant for a while against the backdrop of the victory of the east-west advance.

The Germans, who were also the main members of the Axis powers, were also not below the Japanese.

After taking Stalingrad, Germany succeeded in seizing the Soviet Union's Caucasus oil-producing region and marching to Moscow...... After months of fierce fighting and the loss of nearly two million troops, Stalin, a hard-mouthed fellow like Churchill, finally had to abandon his capital, lead the Soviet government and a large number of soldiers and civilians to begin a major retreat, and began to carry out large-scale guerrilla warfare. However, because the Ural Mountains were still heavily defended by the Japanese army led by Nishio Shouzo, Stalin was able to move much less, and for the same reason, many factories that were supposed to be evacuated from the Ural Mountains had to be moved north. As a result, the losses of Soviet industry were many times greater, and the whole country showed a sense of withering under the German attack.

The horrors of fascism covered the whole world in such an environment.

Against the main forces of the Axis powers, Britain and the United States also appeared more pessimists as a result. Many members of the US Congress even put forward proposals to make peace with Germany and Japan and withdraw from the war. And Roosevelt did his best to suppress this opposition. But even so, the situation is still extremely bad, and the United States is still in "danger" of withdrawing from the war at any time!

In order to change this situation, Roosevelt and Churchill agreed: fully support China!

Because in the entire anti-fascist war, only China is now the only bright spot...... While the Japanese were rampaging through South Asia and North Africa, Chinese forces regained the provinces of Hunan and Hubei, as well as parts of Anhui and Jiangxi. Coupled with the previously recovered Guangdong and Shanxi, China has already shown signs of a major counteroffensive.

The most important reason why the global war situation has fallen into the current situation that is extremely unfavorable to the Allies is that the Japanese are messing around on all sides. But everyone knows that if Japan loses in the Chinese battlefield, it will lose. Because from China, it is possible to directly threaten the Japanese mainland. No matter how arrogant and arrogant the Japanese are, after being threatened and attacked on their homeland, they can only continue to be their shrunken turtles.

As a result, the governments of China, the United States, and the United Kingdom began to have frequent contacts. At the same time, under the threat of the Japanese navy, British and American ships began to send large quantities of strategic materials to China at the risk of their lives.

Originally, the British side proposed that the Chinese army launch an attack in Burma and seize the port of Yangon, and then the supplies could be transported directly from Yangon along the railway north and then along the Yunnan-Burma Highway to Kunming. But the Chinese side rejected this proposal. Because the Chinese government saw through the "sinister intentions" of the British government at a glance! The capture of Rangoon, although it opened up a safe transportation channel for materials, was also tantamount to cutting off Sakagaki's retreat, which would force Sakagaki to retreat with all his might, and at the same time, it would also be equivalent to taking a fire for the British and relieving the siege of India. It would be fine if it were an ordinary country, but the British are really not trustworthy. Almost all the people involved in the Chinese government can conclude that once the Japanese withdraw from India and the threat from South Asia is lifted, Britain will inevitably change course again and stop supporting China. This kind of thankless work, they won't do it.

Therefore, under the command of Qin Wei, the Chinese Air Force once again used the "secret weapon" to attack the outlying island batteries off the coast of Singapore with cloud burst bombs, and then seized it with airborne troops, and then told the British: Malacca is safe! The British, of course, did not believe it, but after the first convoy crossed the Indian Ocean into the waters of Malacca at great risk, they had to believe Chinese words...... It's really safe! As long as they entered the Strait of Malacca, the Japanese warships would no longer come to harass them. Even if sometimes everyone passes by, the Japanese warships are honest.

Obviously, there are many doubts and tricks in this, but Britain and the United States have chosen to ignore them. They put forward only one hope: after receiving assistance, China will be able to quickly launch a counteroffensive against Japan! No matter which battlefield or which direction it is, as long as it is counterattacked.

China did not disappoint its allies.

After receiving sufficient support, the operation to regain the lost territory began. First Jiangxi, Anhui, then Henan and other places. Although the offensive of the Chinese army was not fierce or rapid, and the advance of each step was not large, but under the step of the battalion, it also recovered a lot of territory. However, compared to China, the Japanese side was a little miserable, especially the Japanese troops on the Chinese battlefield, because a large number of supplies were sent to support the Japanese troops on the front line, their life was getting worse and worse. As the occupied territories continue to shrink, they have less and less supplies to loot. As the war continued, a large number of soldiers of the Japanese army, who were the invaders, began to go hungry, and the supply of ammunition began to be insufficient. This information surprised many people, and at the same time made many Chinese think that the Japanese might not be in China for a long time...... Soon, however, as a new piece of news spreads, people realize that the aggressor cannot lose so easily.

And this is the news: Germany handed over a large number of weapons from the captured Soviet Red Army to the Kwantung Army led by Nishio Shouzo, and this batch of weapons came rapidly along the Trans-Siberian Railway towards the Far East...... (To be continued......)