"Hooray!" a Japanese soldier cheered loudly as he stood on the beach of Wake Island with his hands raised and a long rifle in one hand. Behind him, more Japanese soldiers sang loudly, their voices rising higher and higher.

They captured an American island, and the American commander on the island was standing dejectedly beside the triumphant Japanese commander, while the American prisoners of war, who had laid down their arms, were being guarded by Japanese soldiers with rifles with bayonets, and slowly walked onto the transport ship ready to carry them away.

Like Germany, Japan lacks labor, but the countries invaded by Japan are slightly different from those invaded by Germany, so the composition of the labor force lacking in the two countries is also different - Japan's labor force literacy level is significantly lower than that of Germany, and the countries it invaded, such as China and Vietnam, can provide a large number of labor, but cannot make up for the shortage of high-skilled personnel in Japan. This is not the case in Germany, where the variety of prisoners of war is much more complete than that of Japan. If Germany is a pure coolie, it has countless Soviet prisoners, and if it wants highly skilled personnel, Germany has highly educated prisoners of war such as France and England, which can alleviate its own shortage of labor to a certain extent.

Therefore, when Japan and the United States went to war, they set up concentration camps in the Philippines and Taiwan Province of China to train prisoners of war and engage in the production of marginal products of the military industry. This set came from Germany, and when Japan and Germany were friendly, the Japanese were very interested in this set of concentration camp reproduction system, and naturally they also learned a lot.

On several fronts, whenever US prisoners were captured, the Japanese had to immediately send them back to Taiwan and even Northeast China, so that these prisoners of war would be completely reduced to slaves who worked for Japan and produced military supplies for the Japanese army to expand its aggression.

The fall of Wake Island has deprived the United States of an important Pacific stronghold, and what is even more terrifying is that the United States has lost its naval fleet to defend against Japanese attacks, and now the entire Pacific Ocean is like a girl in open clothes, allowing others to covet and prying eyes.

Roosevelt urgently summoned the British envoy and proposed a way to relieve the pressure on the Pacific theater, which was simply a stroke of genius, and when Roosevelt drew up this plan, he couldn't help but applaud it. Once this plan is implemented, the whole world will be completely disorganized.

"Your Excellency, what are you summoning me here for in such a hurry?" The British envoy looked at Roosevelt anxiously, for fear that the U.S. government would come up with something strange and make war money by selling the interests of the British. Apparently he guessed correctly again this time, and the United States did hit its ally Britain again.

Roosevelt smiled embarrassedly, stood up and walked over to the British envoy, and said, "Australia has 15 divisions of troops in training, and I want to use the Navy to transport these troops back to the United States." ”

"Why? The transfer of Australian troops at this time will allow the Japanese to take advantage of the situation. Although the British envoy was not a military general, he also knew that the current situation was very unfavorable to the Australian region, and it was very likely that Japan would mobilize troops in the short term and invade Australia, which was underarmed.

"Not just the 15 divisions of the Australian Forces nouvelles, but also the five divisions of American units deployed in Australia, all of which are to be shipped back to the United States to prepare for further Japanese attacks. Roosevelt said solemnly, he knew that saying this would definitely make the British envoy furious, and he also knew that it was indeed very detrimental to the British royal government, but he had to do it in order to get the greatest benefit of the United States.

Nimitz's naval assessment report has come out, and the new commander who took over the US Navy's Pacific Fleet believes that defeating the Japanese Combined Fleet with the existing US naval forces is definitely akin to a fool's dream.

So Nimitz drew up a bold battle plan, which included abandoning almost all the islands of the U.S. Navy in the Pacific Ocean, including Pearl Harbor. Roosevelt agreed with this plan and strongly supported Nimitz's proposal to train the navy as much as possible, expand the size of the Pacific Fleet's aircraft carriers, and then engage in a strategic decisive battle when the aircraft carriers were larger than Japan's.

To put it bluntly, this strategy is the naval version of the land-for-time tactic, exchanging the vast Pacific Ocean for the hole cards to delay the Japanese attack. The Americans even did not hesitate to give up Wake Island and Hawaii, and asked Japan to let Japan suffer the unforgettable pain suffered by the US military.

However, the Americans do not want to give up these islands to Japan, in other words, if Japan does not take these islands bloodily, then it may threaten the US mainland in six months, which is not the result that the US government wants to see.

So the American aides thought of a way to get the best of both worlds, that is, to transfer British troops in Australia to help the United States hold on to these small islands until the United States finally produced a huge fleet to counterattack Japan.

However, a fatal question arises, that is, who will defend Australia, and if Australia cedes to Japan, it will not be in the fundamental interests of the United States. So an insidious plan was brought to the forefront: to pull the Axis powers into the water.

In the present world, there are two Frances at the same time, which is also the fundamental reason for the power of the French battleships in the Battle of Tobruk. Vichy France showed its attitude by sending battleships because of the dispute in Somalia, and this incident made the Americans suddenly think of a countermeasure, one that turned the Germans and the Japanese in turn.

"Mr. President, in this case, who will be responsible for the defense of Australia? Do you want our British Empire to give Australia to the Japanese?" said the British envoy, who was obviously very annoyed, gritted his teeth and hated.

Roosevelt shook his head, smiled and handed a copy of the plan to the British envoy: "Australia is not to be given to the Japanese, but to the British government, and Australia will issue a statement declaring its obedience to the leadership of the Scottish Chamberlain government." ”

"This ......" The British envoy was stunned for a moment, and then reacted instantly, this is obviously different from ceding Australia to Japan. The colony oscillated back and forth between the two British governments, which would have been acceptable to the British, and was absolutely different from the colony being occupied by the Japanese.

He thought about it for more than ten seconds and found that there was indeed room for maneuvering with Australia as bait. Once this is done, the result will be that Germany will not care about the gorgeous trap of Australia's safety.

If the Japanese did not dare to invade Australia because of this, then a statement would have topped up 100,000 soldiers, and it was obvious that the Americans had taken advantage. If the Japanese really entered Australia, then this is already a colony of Scotland and Britain, and it has nothing to do with the Americans, it should be Scotland and Britain.

Of course, Scotland and Britain don't have the ability to do this, but the Germans standing behind Scotland must stand up and give their allies an explanation. And whether Germany manages it or not, it is good for the United States. This move is definitely a clever move to retreat, and it can be called a rare diplomatic strategy in World War II.

The British royal family, weighing the pros and cons, accepted the Americans' terms, ordered the transfer of a large number of young Australians, and then had the Australian government announce a telegram.

On July 1, the Australian government announced that, for its own reasons, it recognized itself as a colony of the British government of Scotland, and that an official written letter would be delivered to Prime Minister Chamberlain's residence within a few days, thus giving birth to the world's first colony to recognize the British in the north.

The German government could only smile bitterly when he heard the news, and the old man Augustus reluctantly convened a meeting of the Reich Chancellor to discuss the response, but the result could only passively accept and recognize Australia as a colony of Britain in the north to join the Axis system. This decision was also instructed by Accardo, who felt that it was a thankless decision, and that it was better to make a choice that was best for him.

Since Australia posted it itself, there is no reason why it should not be welcome. As for the latter problems, I will leave it to the Japanese to have a headache. Accardo also wanted to know whether the banner of the European leader Germany and the invincibility of the Third Reich could scare Japan, which was far away in Asia.

On the same day that Australia announced that it recognized British rule in the north, Tobruk was occupied by Rommel, and the Australian troops inside laid down their arms and surrendered, along with the remaining British troops in India. Rommel was victorious in North Africa and rode into Tobruk in a car to inspect his Afrika Korps in person.

The Axis powers were in the limelight for a while, with the capture of Tobruk on the African battlefield and the submission of Australia in the Pacific, and it seemed that Germany really had the momentum to dominate the world. Unfortunately, this momentum only lasted until July 15, when it was completely broken by another country.

On July 13, 1938, due to the loss of support, the U.S. troops withdrew from several forts in the Philippine Chlorbin, and 19,000 American troops laid down their arms and surrendered to Japan, and the Japanese Army fully occupied the Philippines and Malaysia in Southeast Asia.

The Japanese Army, which had been sharpening its knives for a long time, did not stop its aggression there, but proved the great ambition of the Japanese with a move that shocked the world -- the Japanese Empire, together with the puppet Manchuria and puppet Vietnam, declared war on the Axis powers in one fell swoop, and at the same time invaded Australia.

In the early morning of July 15, 1938, the German people, who had only dreamed of world hegemony for only a dozen days, were awakened by the news that Japan had invaded its ally Australia and declared war on Germany.

In the early morning of July 16, 1938, the Holy German Third Reich, together with the Kingdom of Italy, Vichy France, northern Britain, Ireland, Spain, Romania, Turkey and other countries, declared war on Japan.