On July 7, Republic 2783 (1943), after discussions, Qiu Fatzi and Garner advertised the merger of the two groups into one for easy command and coordination. However, this merger was a major British Allied organization to join the Atlantic Treaty Organization of the United States.

This is a clear indication of the primary-secondary relationship. For Britain, which has completely lost India, it is simply a tragedy of a house leak and overnight rain. This is one thing that shows that the empire on which the sun never sets has completely disappeared, and Britain has officially become a second-rate country.

Since the beginning of the war, Britain has lost British East Africa, Oceania, Malaya, India, Egypt, and most of South Africa. As we all know, the characteristic of the colonial empire is to rely on the colonies for support, and Britain, which has now lost most of its overseas territories, is already cutting off most of the sources of funds and resources.

If nothing else, oil is very tight. Now they still control the oil fields in Nigeria, but although it is not yet the front line, it is not safe now, and the German planes are also visiting from two ends in three days. Nigeria is now the UK's main oil producer, and the Erde sons are not stupid, so it's strange if they don't come to bomb. However, even without the Germans' planes, it would have been very difficult to get oil back to Britain from Nigeria under the blockade of German wolves.

So now the British can't afford to be arrogant, and they must rely on the United States to support them, otherwise the British will probably be half starving to death. In the face of the United States, which has mastered their life and death, it is natural that they can only obediently kneel and lick.

But this move by Britain also had a great impact on the allies. The small countries that declared war on the Allies under the influence of Britain and the United States, after seeing the unfavorable situation of Britain and the United States, naturally began to be half-hearted. Cuba, the Central American Federation, Mexico and Portugal, for example, have all made small calculations.

Portugal, in particular, is about to cry. The other countries of the Western Covenant are either in the Americas or Africa, and it is not easy for Erdezi to clean them up even if they want to, but Portugal is different, they are in Europe, and it is not too easy for Erdezi to clean them up, and they didn't do it before, that's because the mustache didn't put them in his eyes, but now that Germany has taken Gibraltar, and the German-Italian fleet has rushed out of the Mediterranean, it's completely different.

The Portuguese dictator, Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, regretted that he had been caught on the British and French pirate ships in a momentary moment, and he was now considering whether to change his court, if not to defect, to withdraw from the war. It's better not to mix this kind of fairy war, but even if they are not France, the big rooster is a great power, and they can leave if they want to, but Portugal must consider the attitude of Britain and the United States. So, Salazar struggled for a while, and decided to wait and see which direction of the wind would be longer, and take a little more talk.

Amid the heat of war, the Second World War entered its fourth year. The United States, with its abundant capital and strong industrial strength, as well as a large amount of blood, began to gradually reverse the unfavorable situation. However, although they and Japan are in the hands of dogs in South Africa, the two countries have not yet declared war......

Well, that's because the U.S. entered the war in the name of volunteers, and while everyone knows this kind of wordplay, it's not a war between the U.S. and Japan, at least on the surface. Since the two countries have not declared war, they cannot attack each other's homeland.

This kind of thing is ridiculous, but this is politics, this is the rule. As long as no one wants to lift the table, then you have to play according to the rules, even if the rules seem silly and naïve.

Therefore, although Japan has now entered the national mobilization system, apart from the tense atmosphere on the border, there is still peace in the country.

In the history of the original time and space, the reason why Japan could not even defeat the United States with only one hand in World War II was because their industrial production capacity was insufficient, and their local resources were insufficient.

Japan, as a populous island nation, was under threat from the very beginning of the war on its key sea transportation routes. It can be said that Japan pushed the war forward with a steady stream of plundering and importing strategic goods, and then lost the war as ships loaded with strategic goods were sent to the bottom of the sea.

The United States in the original time and space could use Hawaii and Midway as bases to dispatch submarines to the western Pacific to sabotage trade, and its submarine combat radius could even cover the Japanese mainland. Although the reputation and achievements of the US submarine force are not as great as those of the German counterparts, and the performance of the submarines is not as good as that of the German counterpart, Japan's antisubmarine technology is not as strong as that of its allies, especially the United States. Among other things, the United States can already put radar on airplanes and spacecraft to try to detect submarines and snorkels, but Japan is blank in this regard.

Although the number of American submarines at that time was not as large as that of the German wolf pack, the number of Japanese merchant ships and shipbuilding capacity were also far inferior to those of the United States and Britain. If large warships such as aircraft carriers need to be built for one and a half to two years, and a thousand submarines of 2,000 tons are much easier to build, even if the United States has not developed the technology of building submarines in sections, it only takes eight months for an American submarine to be launched, and it can be put into service in ten months, plus the tonnage is small, and there is no need to occupy a dock, and the United States can build a lot of submarines, and if they want to, it is not uncommon for hundreds of submarines to explode a year. Let's put it this way, in fact, the United States used less than 20% of its strength to deal with Japan at that time.

As a result, Japan fell into the same situation as the British, and a large number of transport ships were sunk, and the tonnage lost was much higher than the tonnage built.

Therefore, what really broke the Japanese will to fight was not the island-hopping operations of MacArthur and Nimitz, the strategic bombing of Japanese cities and even the use of atomic bombs, but the complete exhaustion of Japan's war resources.

During World War II, Japan lost more than 10 million tons of merchant ships and freighters of all types, of which 54 percent were owned by U.S. submarines, while the U.S. Navy's submarine force accounted for only 1.6 percent of U.S. naval forces. Had it not been for the ongoing technical and tactical problems, their record would have been much higher.

But on this plane, the situation is completely reversed.

The flaws of the original plane-time Japan are now gone. First of all, Japan is now a serious mainland country, and although there are still many undeveloped areas in the country, its resources are far from being comparable to those of Japan's four islands. It can be said that they lack nothing but oil. Strategic materials don't need to be brought in from outside.

They are not worried about the only oil that needs external supply, including not only the transmission of oil and gas pipelines in East Africa, but also a large number of oil tankers from China and several oil hegemonic countries. Not to mention that the two countries have not officially declared war now, even if they declare war, give Ghana eight more dares, he will not dare to attack Chinese oil tankers.

You say that the surface fleet intercepts it, but the premise of interception is to have the right to control the sea, and Japan's navy and air force are not ornaments.

Secondly, there is the question of anti-submarine technology. Because Japan had enough of the suffering of Chinese submarines in the Sino-Japanese war, it paid special attention to anti-submarine technology. After the Japanese Revolution, New Japan became China's little brother, and naturally acquired a large number of anti-submarine technologies that were more advanced than those of the European and American powers. Now Japan's anti-submarine capabilities are second only to China's.

After the war between Japan and the United States, the United States also sent a number of submarines to Japan's coastal activities, but they were mink or captured by Japan in large numbers.

The situation on the plane, on the other hand, was seriously threatened by Japanese submarines. Because the U.S. African territories were industrially weak, and many supplies and personnel had to be transported from the Americas, this long supply line became a hunting ground for Japanese wolves.

Although the number of Japanese submarines is not as large as that of Germany, the performance is more advanced, and the Yankees can't even help the German submarines, let alone the more advanced Japanese submarines.

This severely limited the increase of US troops to Africa, and although they forcibly recruited a large number of black cannon fodder from Africa, they did not increase as fast as Japan's troops, and the ratio of friends and foes shrank. Moreover, the Japanese Army in this plane is far stronger than the horse manure of the Yellow Kingdom in the original time and space, the degree of mechanization is quite high, the heavy firepower is not lacking, and the weapon performance is even more than that of the United States.

For example, the Japanese infantry is now equipped with a large number of Type II assault rifles (the Japanese version of the Chinese Type 81), while most of the rifles in the hands of American GIs are M-14s. Although the M-14 is also an automatic rifle, its performance is far inferior to that of the Type 2. By the way, China's Type 81 on this plane is actually very different from the namesake of the original space-time, using a 6×42mm bullet, which is actually a Type 03 without composite materials.

Therefore, under the tug-of-war, the front of the two sides in South Africa has maintained a stalemate between the two sides.

It should be mentioned here that despite the war between Japan and the United States, trade between China and the United States is still booming. Because they did not declare war on each other, and the United States did not attack the Japanese mainland, they did not meet the conditions for triggering the relevant provisions of the People's Revolutionary Union. That is, theoretically, both of them are still "peaceful". Naturally, China will not impose a trade embargo on the "peaceful" United States.

Of course, taking into account the feelings of the Japanese people, China still announced that it would ban the export of weapons and military supplies to the United States until the end of Japan's "South African conflict". True, China defined the matter as an "armed conflict", and both countries acquiesced. Of course, the embargo is only for weapons and military supplies, not for civilian goods. Although the Japanese are not very comfortable with this, they can only understand: Who told you not to declare war? China is a big country that is responsible and abides by the rules.

In fact, the United States does not import many weapons from China, only some relatively high-end things such as jet fighters, because their own domestic arms consortiums are staring at this piece of arms and this cake, so how can they import things that they can produce by themselves?

China's arms and merchant ships have been sold to all major belligerents in World War II, including but not limited to Britain, the United States, Germany, Japan, and the Soviet Union. It is really sold all over the world, and China has become a real world arsenal because of this, not some petty democratic arsenal or fascist arsenal. What is a competent arms dealer? That is, if you resell arms to both sides of the warring party, then you can be considered a competent arms dealer. China adheres to the spirit of fair trade contract, and the transaction to any one is the same, you get what you pay for, and you pay for it with one hand and deliver it with one hand.