Do you know why a person is deceived? Because all the people who are deceived hope in their hearts that everything they have experienced is true for one reason or another before the scam begins. The stronger this subjective expectation, the higher the probability that they will be lured by the scam.

When a person has greed in his heart, or when he has a strong desire for something to happen to him, it is often the easiest time to be taken advantage of. For example, you can get a lot of money for nothing, for example, you can easily get social status.

For another example, in the base camp that strongly hopes that Japan can get out of the current predicament, countless generals are discussing the news that the Soviet Army will transfer another 10 divisions of troops to the Western Front. This news is too important for them, so important that it makes people's hearts beat faster.

Some people are scolding their mothers in their minds, they feel that the Soviet army attaches importance to the German army and transfers troops to defend against the German army, which is an insult to the soldiers of the Imperial Japan, and this insult must be resolved through war, and the samurai of the Imperial Japan should not be treated like this.

The other part of the people, that is, the more realistic army pragmatic generals, prefer to seize important strategic materials through a limited surprise attack, and then quickly make peace with the Soviet Union and the United States, ending the current passive war.

The best state they hoped for was that the Japanese army would go north to fight a sneak attack, and then, after annihilating a large number of Soviet troops, would take away the supplies of the Soviet army and then quickly retreat, and the Soviet army was forced by the German pressure on the Western Front to sue for peace with the Japanese army, and the Japanese army "reluctantly" agreed--so they took a large amount of military supplies for nothing.

Then the Japanese army used this batch of looted military supplies to supplement the Pacific theater, defeated the US Navy, fought for the initiative in the war, and then ended the war with the United States by the steps of victory.

Everyone here will become a meritorious service to the Japanese Empire, achieve fame, and then be promoted to CEO, win Bai Fumei, and reach the pinnacle of life, thinking about it, is a little exciting.

What? You ask, if the Soviet Union does not seek peace after it is defeated, how will Japan end? This, how will it end...... According to the calculations of the Great Japanese Empire, they will inevitably sue for peace, which is simply certain.

What? You ask how if you can't win the Pacific War after taking so many supplies? How will this end...... With the bravery of the soldiers of the Japanese Empire, US imperialism is simply vulnerable!

Under the hypnotization of such thoughts, these Japanese generals had already been ready to attack the Soviet Union, and they felt that this was a godsend to save the fate of the empire, and it was the most intuitive manifestation of Amaterasu's protection of Japan. Otherwise, who will explain why the Soviets cooperated in transferring 10 divisions of troops when Japan was most helpless?

In fact, in addition to some more conservative generals, Hideki Tojo and Motomoto Sugiyama prefer to believe that the intelligence from German spies is true, that is, the Soviet Union now has no more troops deployed in the Far East, not even 600,000. This made Tojo even more bold when drawing up his offensive plan.

Objectively speaking, because Japan is located in an island country, it has always lacked a leader with real strategic foresight, so Japan is seriously short-sighted in terms of strategy, and the only thing that can be used is the famous "Tanaka Sonata" that Tanaka Yoshiichi presented to the emperor. In this book, Tanaka points out a vague strategic direction for Japan's future expansion: if you want to conquer China, you must first conquer Manchuria, and if you want to conquer the world, you must first conquer China.

Listen, what a grand and coherent strategic direction. As a result, it was like a guiding light, giving the top management of Japan the feeling of being empowered from a high position, Daigo, and so on. The Japanese imperialists, who had just tasted the sweetness of the First Sino-Japanese Naval War and the Russo-Japanese War, immediately began to roll up their arms and sleeves to put into practice such a creative slogan.

Of course, the most fatal thing in Japan is the lack of grassroots executive talents to implement strategic plans, compared to the lack of strategic talents. Or this is the saddest part of the whole of Japan, almost everyone, what is called "just so capricious".

Everyone made concerted efforts to implement the sentence "If you want to conquer China, you must first conquer Manchuria, and if you want to conquer the world, you must first conquer China" into "If you want to conquer Korea, you must first conquer Manchuria, you must first conquer China, and if you want to conquer China, you must first conquer the world" -- does it sound reasonable? I can't help but want to try this process of execution myself?

On September 18, 1931, in order to completely gain a foothold in Korea and implement their colonial rule in northeast China, the Japanese army launched the famous 918 incident and began to attack northeast China, but they found that the Chinese people resisted quite fiercely, and the United States and other Western countries also hindered it, and it was difficult for them to gain a foothold in northeast China.

Then, in order to better rule Northeast China and pass on the economic crisis at home, the Japanese army had no choice but to go south to North China and continue to invade China -- and then they found that it was unrealistic to completely subdue China without killing the United States and Britain, which supported China. So the clever Japanese were dissatisfied with the US oil sanctions and brazenly launched the Pearl Harbor sneak attack.

In short, after the Japanese had been making enemies of the whole world after they had been making enemies of the whole world, they suddenly remembered a question: Why did we provoke so many strong enemies? -- Thinking about the fact that such a small country does not have many cards in its hands, it is indeed understandable that it often makes some faint moves similar to the four two belts and two kings.

"This time, it was His Majesty the Emperor's blessing that allowed us to get such a good opportunity. If we squander this opportunity, then in the Pacific theater, we will have a hard time turning over. Hideki Tojo and Motomo Sugiyama obviously didn't believe that Yamamoto Isoroku could turn the tide of the battle (in fact, Yamamoto Isoroku himself didn't believe it), so they spoke.

Opportunity is opportunity, but this time how many materials and troops should be used to seize the opportunity, but it must be studied carefully, according to the calculations of General Sugiyama Mototo, he feels that the Japanese Empire must gather at least 1.5 million troops in the northeast to ensure that this war is foolproof.

Look at what people say, there is a level: as long as 900,000 elite Japanese troops can be transferred to northeast China, then the plan to attack the Soviet Union can be implemented. It's just that Hideki Tojo really wants to smack this old colleague of his own, if he can find a way to draw out 900,000 elite troops, he would have knocked down Chongqing, China's escort capital.

"Also, Sugiyama-kun, your battle plan must be revised, and an attack against the Soviet forces does not require such a large force to execute. In fact, I think that the number of troops deployed by the Soviet army in the northeastern border area is only about 600,000 at most, so there is no need to be so cautious at all. Hideki Tojo preferred to believe the information that the Soviet army was insufficient, so he glanced at Sugiyama Moto, and spoke.

Sugiyama eventually changed his original plan for a full-scale offensive to an unrecognizable state: the Japanese army gathered 600,000 troops, launched an offensive in northeast China, and after taking Vladivostok, he found a way to make peace with the Soviet army. Of course, the basis for the formulation of this plan was that "the Soviet army was capable of mobile defensive operations with a maximum of 600,000 soldiers."

Accardo, who was far away in the wolf's den, heard that Japan was planning a plan to attack the Soviet Union in the north, and handed the report to Brauchitsch with a smile: "You say, there are really a group of fools in the world who believe that their good luck can last 50 years. They even believed that when they wanted to sleep, someone gave them pillows because their emperor blessed them. ”

"And no wonder, my Führer. "Brauchitsch had been very relieved since he heard that the Japanese army was planning a battle plan to go north. Regardless of whether the Japanese army will participate in the Soviet-German war or not, as long as the Japanese army shows its intention to go north, it is normal to help the German army contain 1 million Soviet troops: "Our luck has always been good, and you have been invincible with us." ”

"I don't rely on luck. But because I can see the future clearly, Marshal Brauchitsch. Accardo smiled and played with his unique sense of mystery: "We don't rely on luck to get to where we are, we rely on reasonable speculation and grasp of the future. ”

"You are right, my Führer. Brauchitsch nodded, indicating that he admitted Accardo's statement, but he was still a little worried, and opened his mouth to confirm: "If this fights, it is estimated that it will be able to drag down the 1.5 million regular troops of the Soviet Union." ”

Accardo smiled and nodded his head twice like Brauchitsch before replying: "I am very satisfied with 1 million, at least I can lose hundreds of thousands of troops in the Caucasus and Stalingrad." ”

Brauchitsch stood up and said to Accardo: "My Führer, this information does not guarantee that the Japanese army will attack the Soviet Union north, but according to the rules of the General Staff, my men and I must start drawing up the relevant battle plan, so I will not disturb your rest, good night." ”

Seeing that Brauchitsch was leaving, Accardo did not stop him. He just didn't know why he thought of a sentence, and added: "Let General Quchler step up his attack on Stalingrad, Guderian has already urged him several times, he has already driven into the designated position, and he can enter Kursk at any time." ”

"Yes! I see. Brauchitsch saluted: "Accelerate the assault on Stalingrad." ”

Accardo waved his hand and motioned for him to leave: "Go, my marshal." ”