Roosevelt's telegram made the faces of the Japanese government extremely uncomfortable, especially Japanese Prime Minister Fumima Konoe. Another reason for the United States' rejection of the Japan-US summit meeting is that Prime Minister Konoe was the prime minister of the Japanese Government at the time of the outbreak of the "China Incident," and on the issue of Sino-Japanese peace, the Konoe principle that Japan adheres to is precisely what he declared.

At this point, the Japanese Government has also seen that it is impossible to clean up the situation through dialogue between the heads of state of Japan and the United States in view of the overall situation, rather than saying that there is very little hope in fact. This also made the army and navy, which had expressed great enthusiasm for the above-mentioned summit meeting, extremely embarrassed, because they had attached great importance to the summit meeting and had great confidence in it, and had even appointed a plenipotentiary attaché and made the necessary preparations for this purpose.

Lieutenant General Kenji Dohihara, director of the Army's internal aviation department, is one of the plenipotentiary attachés, and the chief of the Muto Military Affairs Bureau and the 20th squad leader of the General Staff Headquarters are attachés. And the behavior of the United States is undoubtedly a slap in the face of the Japanese, and it is even the government with the base camp to fight together, snap, bang, extremely loud!

After the President of the United States slapped the Japanese government, the bell of 1941 rang with it, and the time began to enter 1941.

China has never had the custom of celebrating the New Year in foreign calendars, so when the Chinese people celebrate the New Year in Western countries, the Chinese people are very calm, and they do not even cause a little wave.

But at this time, Chen Feng, who was far away in Guisui, was not calm at all, and finally entered 1941, and the curtain of the great era was finally opened. 1941 was the most crucial year for all the belligerents in the Second World War.

During the year. Hitler's "sea lion plan" to conquer the British Isles was eventually shelved indefinitely, and Italy was repeatedly defeated in Africa. At the same time, Britain finally passed "their most glorious moment", the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union began in June of that year, and the United States was dragged into the war step by step......

For the Japanese Empire, 1941 was a year that determined its ultimate fate, because the long-standing dispute between "going north" and "going south" within Japan finally ended in the victory of the "south" faction. On July 2, 1941, less than half a month after the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, the Japanese Imperial Council finally decided that no matter how the situation in the world changed. The Empire of Japan would take steps to the south. to establish the so-called Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere; As for the Soviet-German war, an attitude of temporary non-access was adopted.

Hitler's "Barbarossa" plan and Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor directly led to a great change in the situation in the world, Hitler's "Barbarossa" plan drew the Soviet Union into the war, and Japan's strategic decision was to involve the United States in the war.

Such. The Soviet Union, one of the two future superpowers, began to show its super-war potential under German aggression. Hitler's continental superiority was gradually eroded by the Soviet Union. Meantime. Of course, Japan's "southward expansion" strategy can seize Southeast Asia, which is rich in strategic materials and an important strategic transportation route, strike a blow at the power of the European powers in Asia, and realize Japan's monopoly on the East Asia and Pacific regions. But. The "southward movement" will inevitably lead to a fierce conflict between Japan and the United States, another superpower, because the United States has extremely important interests in the East Asia and Pacific regions.

Although Japan's previous aggression against China had seriously infringed on U.S. interests in China to some extent, the isolationist sentiment in the United States was so serious that President Roosevelt, who was actively engaged in the war, was unable to bring the United States into the war.

Japan's southward advance, especially the attack on Pearl Harbor in late 1941, provided President Roosevelt with the best excuse for participating in the war. In this way, the strongest maritime flanking power, the United States, also participated in the war that year, and the strategic pattern of the East Asia and Pacific regions changed as a result. By the end of 1941, the Soviet Union and the United States, the two major continental powers that would determine the course of the war and shape the future of the world, were finally dragged into the war, and the strategic pattern of the world was greatly changed.

1941 was also an extremely important year for China, it was a common year, the year of the snake in the lunar calendar, and the 30th year of the Republic of China. In 1941, the country entered the middle of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and the Southern Anhui Incident that occurred in January of that year was an event of great significance in the history of the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.

This year was marked by the Flying Tigers' visit to China to fight and the Chongqing Tunnel Massacre. But what Chen Feng paid the most attention to was the two major events of the Soviet Union's entry into the war and the United States' participation in the war, especially the United States' participation in the war.

The entry of the United States into the war is undoubtedly a good thing for China, and the most intuitive feeling is that because of the participation of the United States in the war, the Japanese have another goal in their firepower, and China can finally take a breath after four years of war.

Although in the first few months of the Pacific War, Japan's strategy was indeed extremely smooth, taking Hong Kong, Malaya, the Dutch East Indies, Burma, and the Philippines. French Indochina and Thailand also submitted to Japanese rule. By the end of 1942, Japan had enslaved 350 million people.

However, Japan has only gone so far. With the official entry of the United States into the war and the changing situation on the Soviet-German battlefield, the advantages of the Axis powers were gone forever.

The entry of the United States into the war has enabled the US government to finally use all its manpower and material resources to wage war. To a certain extent, it was Japan's actions that greatly accelerated the course of the history of the world and greatly advanced the entry of the United States into the war. The entry of the United States into the war marked the final overwhelm of the power of the Allies over the strength of the Three Axes, and since then the course of the war has taken a huge turn, and the Allies have passed the most difficult moment and gradually begun a strategic counteroffensive.

Chen Feng must thank the Japanese for this, if it weren't for their "smart" actions, the Americans might still be bullying the they call on the American continent.

As a matter of fact, before Japan went south to Southeast Asia and attacked Pearl Harbor, although Roosevelt tried in every possible way to bring the United States into the war, he had no choice but to have too much isolationism at home, and Roosevelt did not achieve much success, and only made the United States an "arsenal of democratic countries." And Japan's actions immediately provoked the anger of the Americans. As a result, the U.S. Congress declared war on Germany, Italy, and Japan in early 1942.

Japan's southward expansion into Southeast Asia also showed that the Triple Alliance was not so coherent internally, and that the strategic inconsistencies of the Axis powers led to too many enemies. Before Japan moved south, Hitler had already begun the war against the Soviet Union. According to the Triple Alliance Treaty, Japan was supposed to cooperate with the Nazi strategy and send troops to Northeast China to attack the Soviet Far East. But Japan did not cooperate with the German Nazis, and did not even make a superficial statement of declaring war on the Soviet Union, but went south to Southeast Asia. Japan's southward move to Southeast Asia pushed the United States directly to the forefront of the confrontation with Japan.

Japan's southward strategy puts Japan in a face-to-face confrontation with the future capitalist world's leading power. In fact, Japan underestimated the war potential of the United States. As a result, Japan paid a huge price for its audacious gamble: it lost nearly 3 million people in the war, lost its entire overseas empire, suffered untold material losses at home, and left physical and psychological wounds for generations.

In addition, Japan underestimated the potential for Chinese resistance. Japan's invasion of Southeast Asia forced it to slow down further aggression against China. Under these circumstances, a situation of strategic stalemate has emerged in the Chinese battlefield.

China's huge human and material resources showed a powerful role at this time, and the whole nation continued to encroach on Japan's power while constantly increasing its strength in order to defeat the Japanese invaders, so that Japan had to put most of its strength in China to deal with China's resistance.

In this way, on the one hand, Japan needed a large number of troops to move south to Southeast Asia and to confront the United States, and on the other hand, the development of events in China dragged down a large number of Japanese troops, and Japan's predicament had emerged. Japan's southward move to Southeast Asia became an extremely important turning point in the balance of forces between the two sides of the war. The Southward Southeast Asia strategy, which was an important part of its vision of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, was implemented in 1941, culminating in the entry of the United States, a flanking power on the other side of the Pacific.

Since then, the Second World War has really involved the major countries in the world, and the strategic situation between the Axis countries and the Allies has also caused many enemies among the Axis countries, resulting in the dispersion of forces. The Allies, on the other hand, began to surpass the Axis in strength due to the participation of two flanking powers. As a result, the strategic situation of the Second World War changed dramatically in 1941 and began to develop in favor of the Allies.

1941 was also an extremely important year for the Eighth Theater and the Chen family, in this year, Japan would draw troops from the Chinese battlefield and the Kwantung Army to the south to fight the Americans, so Chen Feng's strategy of sending troops to the Northeast to recover the Northeast could be implemented.

With Japan's invasion of Southeast Asia, China's position in Asia and the entire world has been highlighted, and as the most powerful man in China besides Lao Chiang, Chen Feng will also be valued by the United States and Britain. The island of New Guinea controlled by the Chen family and the naval force under Chen Feng will also become the most relied on armed forces of the United States and Britain and other countries, and this year is the year of the eighth theater and the Chen family's take-off.

In addition, with the continuous expansion of the war, the Chen family's arms companies, oil companies and pharmaceutical companies in the United States will become important suppliers of the United States to aid Britain and France, and then the Huaxia Group will usher in a spring of development together with the American economy, and perhaps in a few years, the United States will become the creditor of the world's countries, and the Chen family will become the creditor of the US government.

1941 was a turbulent year, a year that Chen Feng was looking forward to a year in 1941! (To be continued......)