At the same time, the successive fiascos in the North China battlefield also caused fierce debate in the Japanese army base camp, Prime Minister Konoe Fumiro was almost sacrificed as a scapegoat by the military department, fortunately the army itself did not have the face to send someone to take over, and did not want to be in the upper position of the navy, Konoe Fumi's position as prime minister was retained, but even if he escaped, he still did not last long after all

After the major shili in Japan fought each other, the main responsibility for Zuihou was shifted to the dead people, and the focus of the debate then shifted to the next China strategy. In order to convince the emperor, the latter pointed out that the League of Nations Conference was imminent, and if the Western powers thought that Japan had no troops to send troops, they would underestimate the strength of the "Great Japanese Empire" and thus change their attitude toward Japan.

Emperor Hirohito didn't understand these principles, but he didn't want to lose face in front of Western heads of state, so he eventually supported their opinions, and later approved an unprecedented and frenzied military expansion. According to this jihua, in the next six months, in addition to rebuilding the 6 divisions and several independent mixed brigades that have been eliminated by the formation, Japan will also build 15 new army divisions, which means that the Japanese army will mobilize more than 80% of the reservists, which is equivalent to the mobilization level of the Japanese army in 40 to 41 years in history

However, for the 1st Army of the Japanese North China Front, which has been sealed in the natural cage of Shanxi, these measures are far from quenching the thirst of the near. For this reason, the Japanese military headquarters had no choice but to take the risk of sending all seven divisions and regiments currently stationed in Japan, Korea, and northeastern China to Tianjin to Tianjin, except for the Guards Division, to be incorporated into the North China Front to fight against China, while the defense areas vacated by them were taken over by the reconstructed or newly built divisions in China.

In doing so, Japan is bound to make the defense of the puppet Manchurians extremely weak in a short period of time, and this is undoubtedly a great opportunity for the Soviet troops in the Far East to move south in a big way and remove the threat of the Japanese Kwantung Army in one fell swoop, but at this time Stalin had already launched a great purge campaign that affected the entire Soviet Union, and the Soviet troops in the Far East were not spared, in an unprecedentedly depressed political atmosphere. Everyone gave priority to the preservation of self-preservation, and no one who was stunned would have nothing to do but give advice or opinions in person, only to wait until Stalin learned about it. The most haode opportunity has been missed

However, this large-scale deployment of troops by the devil is definitely an unexpected opportunity for the plateau that has just entered the northeast. It was the opportunity that the Kwantung Army had no time to take care of during this time. By the end of 37 years, the Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation had recovered to more than 30,000 people, and both combat effectiveness and cohesion were stronger than in the heyday of the past, and at the same time, no less than 300,000 trapped people in the Northeast were rescued, and a base with a population of more than one million was established in North Manchuria

It is worth mentioning that the telegram sent by Ryosuke Isoya and other Japanese generals to the headquarters of the North China Front before their deaths explained the cause of their defeat. Yoshio Shinozuka, who was thought to have completely ended his military career, was reinstated as the commander of the newly formed Japanese Army Tank Division, and his rank was promoted to lieutenant general. And if the tank division performs well in actual combat, then the Japanese War Department will ask the emperor to build one or three more tank divisions, and then together with the current tank division, form the first real mechanized army in the history of Japan and Shijie.

But this begs the question, if only a tank division. With the current number of combat vehicles in Japan, it is basically enough to squeeze together from the active service and stockpiled equipment, but if one or more mechanized armies are formed, the production capacity of combat vehicles will have to be rapidly expanded, and this will compete with the navy for steel and fuel. If in the original historical trajectory, this is almost impossible. But in this time and space, because of the butterfly effect caused by Hu Weidong's crossing, the top brass of the Navy admired the aircraft carrier more than in history, and the attitude was more resolute (mainly as a result of the successful air attack), so that the two super battleships Yamato and Musashi in the original Jihua (in fact, including the Shinano later, because they were no longer battleships built first and then changed to aircraft carriers halfway, they not only had better performance, but also saved a lot of materials. All were replaced by giant aircraft carriers, thus saving twenty or thirty thousand tons of high-quality steel, which is not a lot for the navy, but it is enough to build one or two thousand tanks and armored vehicles. As for fuel, the consumption of only one or two thousand tanks is just a drop in the bucket for the navy, and it is still a concession, not to mention that Japanese armored vehicles mainly burn diesel, while ships mainly burn heavy oil, and aircraft mainly burn gasoline, and it is high-quality aviation gasoline, so the conflict is actually not very big...,

The first successful blitzkrieg on Shijie not only caused the Japanese to suffer a great loss, but also attracted the attention of the two heads of state of the two major powers, who had always attached great importance to the armored forces. The German side wanted to send an officer corps to China to study, but the top echelons of the Red Party wanted to refuse, but after the German representatives expressed their willingness to further cooperate with the two sides, and even hinted that they could sell high-precision military machine tools to the base areas, Taizu finally listened to Hu Weidong's opinion and agreed to the Germans' request. Stalin, on the other hand, invited Hu Weidong to visit the Soviet Union to Zhou Gong, and hinted that this was one of the conditions for the Soviet Union to provide large-scale assistance to the Red Party

And the red party, also deeply shocked by the power of lightning tactics, but unlike many generals who fantasize about the mechanization of the troops, the more profound-eyed Taizu first realized that this tactic is not difficult for the Japanese army to learn, and they are far more qualified than the squadron to promote this new tactic on a large scale, although China has taken a big advantage this time, but if it can't come up with a way to crack it, the subsequent war of resistance will be more difficult, and the "quick victory theory" idea that gradually rises in China with one victory after another makes him even more worried, Therefore, the "On Protracted War" written by him soon after, unlike the historical analysis of the favorable factors of the War of Resistance against Japan, also focused on the analysis of the difficulties of the War of Resistance, and also analyzed the strengths and weaknesses of the mechanized troops, pointing out a clear way for the Chinese people to break the subsequent armor frenzy set off by the Japanese army (your support is my greatest motivation. )