"To fight the outside world, we must first secure the interior" was the basic national policy of the Nationalist Government when the nation was in danger after the September 18 Incident, and it was intended to cope with the situation of "three-legged support" at home and "four-way dispersion" at home. The chairman's "peace and security" is centered on "suppressing the Red Party" and roughly includes the following three meanings: First, it is necessary to suppress the Red Party armed forces by force, eliminate the threat of the Red Party, and establish the dictatorship of the Kuomintang;

The second is to tame the opposition within the party and at home, weaken the local powerful factions, expand the unified power of the central government, and use force when necessary; Thirdly, in order to stabilize society, enrich national strength, and enhance the ability to resist foreign aggression. Officially out of this logic of thinking, when the military pressure from the Japanese army on the frontal battlefield was reduced, the chairman's first reaction was not to purge the troops, let alone rectify the rule of history, but to suppress and eliminate dissidents, especially the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army under the leadership of the Red Party!

As a result, large-scale friction incidents occurred in Shanxi, North China, and even the Sulu theater. However, whether it was in Shanxi, Jiangxi, or Henan, the national army that took the initiative to provoke friction did not bargain, and was completely at a disadvantage, and was beaten by the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army. During the entire period of the Anti-Japanese War in the original history, the Nationalist Government set off three "counteroffensive climaxes" before and after. ……

On September 2, 1940, the Treaty of the Triple Alliance of German, Italian and Japanese fascists was signed in Berlin. In order to cooperate with the escalating war of aggression, the Japanese government has tried its best to incite war fanaticism at home. Prime Minister Fumifumi Konoe organized the "Taisei Tsubazan Movement", while Minister Hideki Tojo vigorously promoted the spirit of bushido. On September 5, 1940, while diplomatic negotiations between the United States and Japan were still ongoing, Tominaga, the chief of operations of the Japanese General Staff Headquarters, forcibly stationed himself in French India** by force.

French Indonesia was a French colony in the eastern part of the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia between the 18th and 19th centuries, roughly the size of present-day Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia combined, as well as the 747,391 square kilometers of Guangzhou Bay, which was forcibly leased from the Qing Empire. As early as 1937, after the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, Japan demanded that French Indonesia stop supplying strategic materials to the Nanjing government.

After France surrendered to Germany in Europe, Japan threatened to use the airfield in Tokyo Prefecture to fight against China, and allowed Japanese troops to stay and pass through. Now Japan has finally extended its military power to Southeast Asia, officially taking the first step in attacking southward.

Sensing the looming danger of war, the U.S. government decided to step up its warnings and officially announced a ban on the export of scrap metal to Japan on September 6. To the surprise of the outside world, even though Japan had joined the Axis powers and entered the northern part of French Indonesia with military force, the United States did not include oil in the embargo at the first time.

Because Roosevelt believed that although the oil embargo was the trump card of the United States against Japan, it also directly meant war. Seeking compromise and reserving room for reconciliation was the main practice of the United States in the period that followed. This was reflected in another incident, when Japan strongly demanded that the Dutch East Indies oil fields increase their supply to Japan, and the United States actually made a concession and agreed to increase oil exports to Japan.

For a year after September 1940, the United States and Japan engaged in a "tug-of-war dark war" over oil. Both sides are very clear about the bottom line of the other, and once one of them "rushes", the situation may change at any time. On September 10, 1940, President Roosevelt issued a call to American industry to produce 50,000 aircraft a year. Henry Ford, who had long since retired, felt the duty to reopen the world's largest single factory: Willow Creek Aircraft Factory.

The L-shaped Willow Creek plant covers an area of 330,000 square meters and mainly helps Uni-President Aircraft assemble the B-24 Liberator bomber. With Henry Ford's lofty status as a "god-like" in the American corporate world and his "godfather-like" appeal, the Willow Creek Aircraft Plant was quickly built in less than two years.

Not only that, but millions of companies across the United States have also taken action. On September 14, 1940, a historic event took place in the European theater! Soon after the start of World War II, Nazi Germany set its sights on the British Isles.

After the occupation of all of Western Europe, in order to conquer Britain as soon as possible, the German Führer Hitler personally drew up a plan of action called "Sea Lion". However, when the German fighters acting as "vanguard officers" flew over Britain, what awaited them was an air "guerrilla war" in which the weak defeated the strong. After three months of complete failure, the Sea Lion plan was declared a complete failure, and the Führer realized the brutal fact that forcing Britain to surrender through air strikes had become an impossible task.

At this time, the whole of Europe, except for Britain, was already prostrate under the German tank, and with the exception of the powerful Soviet Union, Germany could no longer find a new enemy in Europe! But the German war machine was already at full speed, and it was not something that could be stopped if it wanted to!

Germany has made enemies on all sides and has brushed too many hatred points, if the pause button of the war machine is forcibly pressed at this time, then it will be all the Germans who will be caught up in the battlefield machine and torn apart! However, the Soviet Union had suffered huge losses in the Finnish-Soviet War, with millions of personnel lost, and this battle fully exposed the very low combat effectiveness of the Soviet army, the poor organizational ability of the army, and the low quality of its commanders after the Great Purge of the Soviet Army.

During the Finnish-Soviet war, Germany sent a large number of military observers to Finland, the main purpose of which was to examine the combat capabilities of the Soviet army, and they came to erroneous conclusions that influenced the decision-making of the German high command. The Führer knew very well that this war would start sooner or later, and even if Germany did not take the initiative to attack the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union would attack Germany sooner or later.

Germany is now in a very good situation, winning on the battlefield and not yet facing defeat. On the other hand, the Great Purge in the Soviet Union has greatly damaged their vitality, and launching a war against the Soviet Union at this time can not only achieve a surprise effect, but also strategically crush the Soviet Union. The Führer did not expect Britain and France to declare war on him so quickly, and Germany had no ships and no large military ports to cross the strait.

Occupying LinkedIn has become impossible, and Germany can only turn around and bite off the rest of the European countries first. If you don't go crazy, you can't live! In this case, the Führer had no choice but to wage a war of annihilation against the Soviet Union. Because only in this way can the German war machine, which has burned red, realize its full potential.

Because only by waging a war of annihilation against the Soviet Union and annexing the entire Soviet Union could it compensate for the attrition of Germany. Because only by annexing the USSR will Germany have a chance to return to a normal state! So, the Barbarossa plan was freshly baked.

As we all know, during World War II, the Axis bloc was led by Germany, Italy, and Japan, and the three countries signed the "Treaty of the Triple Alliance between Germany, Italy and Japan" in September 1940, which is known as the "Triple Axis" in history. But what is less known is that the Soviet Union once agreed to join the Axis powers and form the "Quadruple Alliance", which is not covered in the history books.

This has to start from 1939, with the signing of the "Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact", relations between Germany and the Soviet Union warmed sharply, the two countries joined forces to carve up Poland, and the Soviet Union also provided Germany with a large amount of strategic resources. Out of strategic interests, Germany began to lean towards an alliance with the Soviet Union, and invited Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov to Berlin to discuss the issue of the "Quadruple Alliance".

After reading the draft, Molotov proposed that the Soviet Union agree to join the military alliance, but they conditionally demanded that Bulgaria, Romania, Finland, Turkey, and the Persian Gulf region be included in their sphere of influence. However, such conditions are unacceptable to Germany and Japan, especially in Germany's view, the Balkan Peninsula is its sphere of influence, and now the Soviet Union also wants to intervene, which cannot be tolerated.

Therefore, the attitude of the German side towards the Soviet Union was very cold, and there was no reply to the Soviet Union, and the matter of the alliance between the two countries was not over. Because of the serious conflict of interests between the two sides, the "four-nation alliance" was not finally realized. After the rendezvous of Soviet and German troops in Poland, they were ostensibly friendly and celebrated with each other, but this was only a façade. Since the main battlefield of the Soviet Union at that time was in the East, it was mainly fighting with Japan. Stalin secretly mobilized 60 armored divisions and 1 million troops to the Soviet-German border, preparing to move the battlefield westward and attack the German army after destroying the Japanese army!

Hitler saw Stalin's tricks, believed that Germany was small and lacked resources, could not fight a protracted war, and Germany could not hold it without strategic depth, so he decided to preemptively seize resources and catch the Soviet Union by surprise. Considering various factors, Hitler realized that the contradictions between Germany and the Soviet Union were irreconcilable, so he secretly formulated the "Barbarossa" battle plan and made up his mind to completely solve the Soviet Union.

In the early morning of September 14, 1940, Nazi Germany tore up the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact and assembled 190 divisions with 5.5 million men, 6,000 aircraft, 5,000 tanks, 50,000 artillery pieces, and 200 warships in conjunction with the client countries Hungary, Romania, and Finland. Divided into three army groups, the Soviet Union launched a blitzkrieg attack on Leningrad, Moscow and Transcaucus in the Soviet Union from the northern, central and southern directions, and the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union broke out in full force.

The "Barbarossa" battle plan was nine months ahead of the original history, and for Germany, the Soviet Union was much weaker than the original history, and the after-effects of the Great Purge are still very obvious. To the detriment of Germany, the Soviet ground was loose sand in the summer, sticky muddy in the fall, and covered in snow in the winter.

Poor road conditions in autumn slowed the German advance, and Germany had to prepare for the harsh weather and the harsh conditions of the Soviet transport network. Of course, this is not necessarily a good thing, at least not because of the original history, when the Führer would have been overly optimistic that he would be able to take Moscow before the harsh winter arrived.

In that case, the German front-line troops would not have to rely on newspapers to stuff their jackets to keep warm in temperatures of minus 30 degrees Celsius after the arrival of the harsh winter. In order to operate the stoves and heating, the German soldiers had to use gasoline, which was already in great short supply, as fuel.

Another thing in Germany's favor was that the alliance with Japan was closer than it had been in the past, and the Japanese Army was much stronger than it had been, holding back more Soviet troops. As for how it will develop in the future, only God knows whether history will repeat itself!

The Soviet-German war broke out suddenly, and the whole world was shaken! With the Führer's move to the Soviet Union and the culmination of World War II, the world situation underwent earth-shaking drastic changes in an instant. When the news reached the United States, Roosevelt could no longer sit still.

On the same day, Roosevelt had Secretary of Life push his wheelchair into the Capitol and give a speech to the members of Congress before voting on the concession bill. "Gentlemen, the German devil's claws have now reached out to the Soviet Union, and the American crisis has really come!" "Gentlemen, please look at the world map, now the whole world has been burned red by the war, and there is no pure land to be found!" "The Soviet Union alone could not stop the German steel tanks!"

"Once the German tanks were crushed by the Soviet Union, they would cross the Bering Strait into Alaska and then across Canada into the American mainland!" "By that time, the USSR will fall, Britain will fall, and we will have to face the entire Axis coalition alone! The United States is inevitably drawn into this war, and it is impossible for the United States to be left alone. "Wake up, gentlemen, it's time to abandon all unrealistic illusions, and it is no longer possible for the United States to remain as detached as it was in the last world war!" "Therefore, the sooner we intervene in this battlefield, the more favorable our situation will be!" ……

Britain and the United States are permanent allies, and Britain and France are allies, France has perished, Britain is unable to stand alone, Britain is beginning to get very close to the Soviet Union, and the United States will naturally think that a friend of a friend is a friend, and vice versa. The Soviet-German war broke out in an all-round way, and Germany marched forward all the way with the momentum of destruction and decay, and the United States, which was originally unwilling to participate in the war, and the United States, which was bent on making war money, could not sit still at all.

Roosevelt was eager to enter the war immediately, and in addition to the fact that he had to fight to protect himself in the crisis of war, the main reason for this was that the time was ripe for war. As soon as the Soviet-German war broke out, three major conditions were directly created for the United States: first, the Soviet Union was involved in the war and had no worries; second, Germany was weakened and the front was further lengthened; Third, Britain and France completely lay down. At this time, the United States made a move, which was tantamount to probing for things and picking the fruits of victory.

As a result, Roosevelt began to build public opinion, repeatedly saying that he would enter the war, and then directly sent troops to Europe and stationed in Iceland, ready to enter the war at any time. As soon as Germany attacked the American troops in Iceland, the United States would immediately enter the war and at the same time begin to vigorously support Britain and the Soviet Union! When Roosevelt gave a speech to the Diet, Hirohito also urgently convened the Minister of Military Affairs to convene a meeting of the Imperial Council.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, all the ministers who were eligible to participate in the Imperial Council, such as Konoe Fumi, Kanin Miyazaihito, and Fushimi Palace, all the ministers who were eligible to participate in the Imperial Council arrived. "Gentlemen, war has begun! God bless Yamato, Soviet-German has finally gone to war! Hirohito waved his fists and roared with a hideous face, "The once-in-a-lifetime opportunity of the Great Japanese Empire has finally arrived!" ”

Seeing this, Foreign Minister Yoyo Matsuoka hurriedly asked: "Your Majesty, do you mean that the empire is going to declare war on the Soviet Union?" The reason why Matsuoka asked this question was because the German Foreign Ministry had just sent a note to Japan, asking Japan to follow Germany in formally declaring war on the Soviet Union in accordance with the agreement of the German-Italian-Japanese Axis Alliance, and to start a war on both sides of the Eastern and Western Fronts to attack the Soviet Union on both sides.

However, Hirohito waved his hand and said: "No, the current enemy of the empire is not the Soviet Union!" "Your Majesty's words are timely, the current enemy of the empire is not the Soviet Union!" The old cloudy eyes of Xianyuan Gong Zairen suddenly revealed fiercely: "The enemy of the empire is Huaxia!" It's time for a national mobilization to resolutely and completely destroy China! ”

Xianyuan Gong Zairen's words are not that Yelang is arrogant and wants to shake the tree, but it exposes a very cruel truth. In 1937, the Sino-Japanese War broke out in full force, and it has lasted for three years now, and nearly half of China has been lost to China, and most of China has been burned red by the war.

But Japan did not carry out a general mobilization for war, and did not even enter the wartime system! The so-called wartime system refers to the system formed by the state in all fields such as military, political, economic, and cultural, as well as in the organization, system, production, livelihood, and management, in the military, political, economic, and cultural fields, during the wartime.

In other words, until now, Japan's domestic social order is still operating according to the normal system, unlike in China, which has long been disrupted. The Nationalist Government has carried out a general mobilization for the war, and everything is in the service of the War of Resistance, and it is crazy to catch strong men everywhere. Once Japan carries out a general mobilization, once the entire country is transferred to a wartime system, it can burst out five times or even ten times the energy in a short period of time. To give a very simple example, such as the number of troops!

Since the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, the total number of Japanese troops stationed in China has been 1.6 million, and if you add Korean, Taiwanese and local troops, the Japanese army is less than 2 million. But once mobilized, Japan can mobilize at least another 7 million troops! Another example is military spending, in 1939, Japan's annual military expenditure was equivalent to 1.9 billion US dollars.

However, once it transitioned to a wartime system, Japan could mobilize at least $10 billion by implementing a nationwide rationing system, minimizing spending on all fronts, and then concentrating most of its spending on the military.

In other words, if Japan were to switch to a wartime system and carry out a general mobilization for war, it would be able to burst out at least five times more than its combat effectiveness! If all the combat power generated by the general mobilization is used on the battlefield in China, then the final result will be absolutely disastrous! It's just that the consequences of going all out to storm will be very serious, and such an outbreak cannot be sustained.

In just three years at most, Japan's national strength will be hollowed out and completely depleted, and it will become extremely weak for a long time. Otherwise, according to the wolf ambition of the Japanese devils, they will never easily miss the great opportunity to completely destroy China. "It is impossible to mobilize for war, and it will never be possible unless the empire faces a threat to its survival!"

Hirohito waved his hand and said, "The ultimate enemy of the empire is not Huaxia, but the United States!" Just to conquer China and start the general mobilization of war, even if it is won, the empire will only gain more than it loses! After a pause, Hirohito shouted in an almost crazy tone: "From tomorrow onwards, we will switch to a wartime system and implement a nationwide rationing system!"

The Empire must concentrate all its resources and prepare for a life-and-death war with the United States! "Hirohito's head is still relatively sober in general, knowing that even if he fights to eat Huaxia, there is now a Shanghai General Tang Juwu staring at Japan, and General Tang Juwu's army has not moved, which is also something Hirohito is worried about, but the result will only be to put Japan in an extremely dangerous situation, and it may be wiped out by Tang Juwu or the United States at any time.

However, the proud achievements of Germany's allies made him extremely angry, and his ambition to dominate the Asia-Pacific region and carve up the world quickly swelled. At the same time, the Japanese war machine was already running at full speed, and Hirohito had no choice but to continue to move forward to absorb more war resources and stimulate greater war potential. "Hello!" The military and political officials sat up on their knees, and ordered the leader of Hirohito, Hirohito had already said this, and they had nothing else to say except absolute obedience!

Hirohito's eyes froze, and after glancing at the participating ministers, he asked in a deep voice, "Do you have anything else to say?" Konoe Fumiji bit his lip, hesitated for a moment and then said stiffly: "Your Majesty, the minister has something to say." "Konoe-kun, please have something to say."

Hirohito's eyes immediately cooled, and before Konoe Fumiro could speak, he knew what the other party wanted to say, but at this time, he couldn't block Konoe Fumi's mouth. Fumiro Konoe organized his words for a moment, and then said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, since the Meiji Restoration, although the empire has made great strides in industry, its national strength has also increased many times. But fundamentally speaking, the empire's industrial base was still very weak, far inferior to that of the Western powers, especially compared to the United States.

Since its independence, the United States has been concentrating on development for nearly 200 years, especially the world war 30 years ago, which established the status of the United States as the first industrial power! After a pause, Konoe Fumiro continued: "Once the US war machine is fully activated, they will be able to produce 100,000 combat aircraft, 100,000 tanks, 100,000 artillery pieces, and thousands of warships in a year!"

Just the thought of this scene makes me shudder! In the face of such an industrial power, does the empire really have a chance to win? I don't know what you think, but I really don't have confidence in that. There is no problem at all with the full expansion of the empire into Southeast Asia, but the time is far from ripe for war with the United States, and I myself am firmly opposed to a war with the United States, at least not at this stage! ”

Xianyuan Gong Zairen nodded and said: "Your Majesty, I agree with Konoe-kun's opinion, it is really difficult for the empire to defeat the United States now, and it is better not to provoke the United States without sufficient money." "Yes, the United States is far away from the Eurasian battlefield, and so far it has adhered to its neutral position, and has not shown much hostility towards the Empire, and the Empire really has no need to take the initiative to provoke the United States!"

"The minister also thinks that it is very irrational to start a war against the United States, and he should be cautious!" Driven by this wave of rhythm, Minister of Internal Affairs Kiichiro Hiranuma, Minister of the Navy Yoshida Zengo and others also nodded in agreement. These old devils are not stupid, they all know very well how many catties they have.

Now it has taken a lot of effort to deal with China, which is weak in national strength and civil strife, and if it fights with the United States at this time, the consequences will be unimaginable. Hirohito, who was on the rise, was extremely unhappy when he heard these harsh and frustrating words, and his face became darker and darker. Taking a deep breath, Hirohito gave Hideki Tojo a look.