At present, the world situation is very delicate, and the Axis powers with Germany as the core have declared war on the East Asian bloc led by Japan, and the Allies are also inseparable from Japan. Interestingly, the Axis and the Allies are also in full swing in North Africa.

At the same time, neither China nor the United States of the Central Powers declared war on Germany, but the Soviet Union did not declare war on Japan, and Japan declared war on all the countries of the Central Powers, but it did not tear its face with the Soviet Union. Both sides have exercised restraint in the long East Asian region, and neither side has been willing to take a single step.

The Japanese now have nothing to fear, after all, Germany does not have the energy and ability to send troops to the Pacific theater. And Australia is now a huge temptation that is almost unguarded, and if you don't eat it in one bite, you will be sorry for the kindness of the Americans anyway. It took little time for Japan's base camp to analyze the pros and cons of the two trade-offs, and almost all of Japan's top brass believed that Germany's interests in the Pacific were not central and could be compromised.

Naturally, the optimism of Japan has risen again, and they believe that the Germans will not be fooled and will not want Australia. As for the declaration of war between the two sides, it is just a bargaining chip, and once Japan defeats the United States and dominates the Asia-Pacific region, the Germans can only pinch their noses and compromise.

Some of the more sensible Japanese officers felt that it was not wise to go to war like the Germans, because in many cases the Japanese knew Germany as a former ally better than the Americans, and because they knew that, they knew what was really terrible about the Germans.

The Germans' tanks had always been favored by the Japanese, but because of the destruction of Führer Accardo, the two countries did not cooperate on the tank project. As a result, when the German army swept across the Eastern Front with Tiger and Leopard tanks, completely annihilating the millions of troops of the Soviet Red Army, the Japanese small tanks - well, it is obviously an exaggeration to call this kind of thing a tank, but it is true that this thing is called a tank, and everyone should not mind...... Japan's small tanks can only bully and bully the Chinese army, which lacks heavy weapons, in Asia.

The opposite example appeared in the navy, the cooperation between the Japanese Navy and the Germans has been progressing faster than the army, so when the Japanese army was still using 20-ton "heavy tanks", the Japanese Navy's aircraft carriers had begun to take off and land new Zero carrier-based aircraft. As a result, the carrier-based aircraft of the Japanese Navy first attacked Pearl Harbor and then fought on Wake Island, making a name for themselves as a demon of zero war.

The Zero War was the ultimate product of Japanese-German cooperation, and at least in terms of materials and part of the design, the Germans came up with a lot of useful things to support Japan to go further on the road of fighters. Unfortunately, the cooperation between the two countries was soon ended by Accardo's strategy of running China and destabilizing the situation in the Pacific, and the Japanese Navy did not get the German engine they coveted.

The Japanese knew that while the U.S. Navy was still keeping its radar detectors secret, the Germans were already studying how to use radar beams to guide weapons to attack from a distance. The Japanese knew that while the Americans were still bullying small Japanese tanks in the jungle of the Philippines with M3 tanks, the Germans' Tiger tanks could already penetrate two M3 tanks with one shot. The Japanese also knew that the Germans had a mouth-watering array of advanced weapons at their disposal, from tactical camouflage smocks for individual soldiers to terrifying ultra-long-range early warning radars on huge Zeppelin-class aircraft carriers.

These lower- and middle-ranking Japanese officers, who had really come into contact with the Germans, knew how terrible the country that his Emperor had just declared war was. They even felt that they were far behind the Third Reich, which was already dominating Europe in terms of tactics and strategy, equipment and technology, and that the country had gone from being an ally to a mortal enemy.

"Hopefully, our superiors are just joking, and hopefully in a few months we will be able to make peace with the Germans. After hearing the news of the declaration of war, Jiro Horikoshi, the Japanese designer of the Zero fighter who knew the Germans, told his assistant that he was able to design the Zero fighter, and it was largely thanks to the inspiration given by the Germans that he completed the final design.

And a Japanese officer who had accompanied the German advisory group in the Battle of Nomenkan said something even more explicit. In a letter to his wife, he wrote about the declaration of war: "When I heard the declaration of war with Germany, I was really very pessimistic, and the German soldiers I knew were undoubtedly very good, and I did not dare to take any chances when I fought against them. The dearest of my life is you, so I have to tell you about my frustration. The fact that our Emperor had declared war on Germany was, in my eyes, even more foolish than our war with the United States. ”

However, the views of these people will never reach the ears of the senior staff in the base camp, and these Japanese high-ranking bureaucrats are very sure that the Germans cannot appear in the Pacific: first, the Germans are not capable of coming, second, even if they can, there is no need to come, and finally, the Americans, like the Japanese, do not want Germany to come. With these three points as a basis, all high-ranking officials, including the emperor, did not find anything wrong with declaring war on the Axis powers.

Many high-level officials even believe that when Japan provoked the Pacific War, the Axis powers not only did not fulfill their obligations as allies, but also expelled Japan from the Axis bloc, and this humiliation must be restored. At that time, war was not immediately declared because the time was not ripe, and now that the time is ripe, it is natural to let the Germans see the prestige of the Japanese.

However, the Japanese did not know Germany too well, or rather, the Japanese did not know Germany with such a Führer as Accardo. Accardo has always felt that the sentence of the Han Dynasty back then, "Those who offend me in China will be punished even if they are far away." It was a very heart-warming slogan, and Accardo had a little bit of a devil-fighting anger in the depths of his soul, and Accardo had to give his allies an account to consolidate his position as European leader.

It's already good that the Japanese devils can guess the last one of these things, but even if they want to break their heads, they can't figure out why the German Führer made up his mind to cheat Japan as soon as he came up. Therefore, although the assumptions and analysis of the Japanese are very reasonable, they are wrong from the beginning, and they are outrageously wrong.

On the very day of the declaration of war, the German Navy sent its expeditionary fleet and pounced violently towards the Pacific waters. There were 10 ships in this fleet, and it was a large number of German elites - the German Navy did not send its main fleet, but sent 10 submarines to kill Japan.

In order to supplement this submarine force, the German Navy also sent three destroyers to the north of Britain to protect three supply ships to Australia and provide logistical support for these submarines.

Accardo had studied Japan so thoroughly that he felt a little embarrassed to do so. He knew that Japan's sea and land battles had a long history, he knew the Japanese Navy's big ships and huge artillery complex, he knew that the Japanese Navy did not attach importance to anti-submarine warfare, and he also knew that the Japanese did not have radar at present......

In another time and space, even the US submarine forces, which had not fought much in the war, could inflict damage on Japan's maritime transport supply lines, and could sink Japanese aircraft carriers off the coast of Japan and then escape, so what would happen if the US submarine forces were replaced by Germany's ace submarine forces? Accardo couldn't help but touch his forehead, and he felt sorry for the price that Japan was about to pay.

The lack of attention to anti-submarine warfare has always been a weakness of the Japanese Navy, and surprisingly the Japanese Navy has never intended to correct this mistake, enduring huge losses, gritting its teeth and turning a blind eye to the achievements of American submarines, while their valuable submarines are used for jobs similar to those of moving companies and taxis (the Japanese Navy likes to use submarines to transport personnel and supplies and even deliver food to the islands stranded on the front line) -- if you still think that is not strange enough, then you really can't find a more bizarre naval decision.

Moreover, the core of the Japanese Navy's submarine tactics is to attack high-value targets, which is fundamentally different from the German Navy's submarine forces. The German Navy was cold, 3,000-ton transport ships and 30,000-ton battleships attacked whenever they had the opportunity, so the German Navy's submarine record was so high that it was smacking. The Japanese Navy is the opposite, they were ordered to attack the opponent's core warships, and they did not hesitate to launch suicide attacks for this, so the Japanese Navy's submarine forces in another time and space have a pitiful record.

So Accardo did not send his own high seas fleet to fight the Japanese air forces, which would be useless except for cheap Americans. He calculated the weakness of the Japanese, and the submarine went to fight the autumn wind, interfering with the speed of Japan's eastward advance, so as to prevent Japan from really possessing itself this time and surrendering the United States.

Accardo now had to deal with the problems he faced, what he knew could only be used as a reference in many cases, and the current situation in the world was very different from the brutal World War II he knew. In that time and space, the Axis countries dismantled each other to challenge the allies, which was regarded as a bipolar hegemony, and now in this time and space, because his butterfly fanned its wings, it has become a three-legged situation beyond recognition.

This three-legged triumph is definitely a real three-legged tripod, the three groups declare war on each other, and everyone has to worry about another opponent coming to pick up the bargain after an all-out blow. Thinking of this, Accardo couldn't help but smile bitterly, he looked at the report on the battle of Tobruk written by Rommel, raised his head and looked out the window: the world is different, how far can he, the Führer, go this time?