"To fight against foreign forces, we must first stabilize the country at home" is the basic national policy of the National Government when the nation was in danger after the September 18th Incident. It is intended to deal with the situation of "three pillars" at home and "dispersion in four directions" internationally. The Chairman of the Standing Committee's "pacification at home" is based on
"Suppressing the Red Party" is centered on it, which roughly includes the following three meanings: first, it is to use force to suppress the Red Party armed forces, eliminate the threat of the Red Party, and establish the Kuomintang's dictatorship;
Secondly, it is to tame the opposition within the party and the country, weaken the local powerful factions, expand the unified power of the central government, and not hesitate to use force when necessary; thirdly, it is to stabilize the society, enrich the national strength, and enhance the ability to resist foreign aggression. Due to this kind of thinking logic, when
After the military pressure from the Japanese army on the frontal battlefield was relieved, the Chairman's first reaction was not to reorganize the troops, let alone rectify Shi Zhi, 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 frictions occurred in Shanxi, North China and even the Sulu theater. However, whether in Shanxi, Jiangxi or Henan, the national army who took the initiative to provoke friction did not get any benefits. They were completely at a disadvantage and were defeated by the Eighth Route Army.
It was defeated by the New Fourth Army. During the entire period of the Anti-Japanese War in original history, the Nationalist Government launched three "counterattack climaxes"...
On September 2, 1940, the Tripartite Alliance Treaty of Germany, Italy, and Japan was signed in Berlin. In order to cooperate with the escalating war of aggression, the Japanese government tried its best to incite war fever in the country. Prime Minister Konoe Fumi organized the "Daizheng Yizan Movement",
On the other hand, Prime Minister Hideki Tojo vigorously advocated the spirit of Bushido. On September 5, 1940, while diplomatic negotiations between the United States and Japan were still in progress, Tominaga, the Chief of Operations of the Japanese General Staff Headquarters, forcibly entered 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. Its area was roughly equivalent to the combined area of today's Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. It also included Guangzhou Bay, which was forcibly leased from the Qing Empire, with an area of 747,391
square kilometers. As early as 1937, after the Sino-Japanese War broke out, Japan asked French Indonesia to stop providing strategic materials to the Nanjing government.
After France in Europe surrendered to Germany, Japan threatened it with force, forcing it to agree to use the airport in Tokyo Prefecture for the war against China, and to allow Japanese troops to stay and pass through. Now Japan has finally extended its military power to Southeast Asia and officially taken the step of
The first step in the southward attack.
Feeling that the war crisis was approaching, the U.S. government was determined to intensify its warnings and officially announced a ban on the export of scrap metal to Japan on September 6. What surprised the outside world was that even though Japan had joined the Axis Powers and entered French Indonesia with force
North, but the United States did not immediately include oil in the embargo.
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 retaining room for reconciliation was the main approach of the United States in the following period. This was reflected in another incident, when Japan
When it strongly demanded that the Dutch East Indies oil fields increase supply to Japan, the United States actually made concessions 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" over oil. Both sides knew each other's bottom line clearly.
"The situation may change at any time. On September 10, 1940, President Roosevelt issued a call to the American industry to produce 50,000 aircraft per year. Henry Ford, who had retired long ago, felt deeply responsible and immediately came back to build the world's largest single aircraft.
Body factory: Willow Creek Aircraft Factory.
The L-shaped Willow Creek factory covers an area of 330,000 square meters and mainly helps Uni-President Aircraft Company assemble the B-24 "Liberator" bomber. With Henry Ford's "god-like" lofty status in the American corporate world and his "godfather-like" response,
Due to the appeal, Liuxi Aircraft Factory was quickly built in less than two years.
Not only that, this inspired millions of companies across the United States to take active action. On September 14, 1940, a historic event occurred on the European battlefield! Shortly after the start of World War II, Nazi Germany set its sights on the British Isles.
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After occupying the entire Western Europe, in order to conquer Britain as soon as possible, the German head of state Hitler personally formulated an action plan called "Sea Lion". However, when the German fighter planes acting as "pioneer officers" flew over Britain, what awaited them was a battle
The weak defeated the strong in the air "guerrilla warfare". After three months, the Sea Lion plan completely failed. The head of state realized a cruel fact, that is, forcing the British to surrender through air strikes has become an impossible task.
At this time, the whole of Europe, except for Britain, was already crawling under the German tank. Except for the powerful Soviet Union, Germany could not find a new enemy in Europe! But the German war machine was already running at full speed, and it could not be stopped if it wanted to.
Come down!
Germany has made enemies on all sides and has accumulated too much hatred. If the pause button of the war machine is pressed at this time, all the Germans will be involved in the battlefield machine and be torn to pieces! And the people who have just experienced it will be
The Soviet Union suffered huge losses in the Finnish-Soviet War, with millions of personnel lost. This battle fully exposed the very low combat effectiveness of the Soviet army after the Great Purge, as well as the poor organizational skills of the army and the low quality of its commanders.
During the Finnish-Soviet War, Germany sent a large number of military observers to Finland. Their main purpose was to examine the combat capabilities of the Soviet army. They came to wrong conclusions, which affected the decision-making of the German high command. The head of state knew that sooner or later, this war would be inevitable.
Yes, even if Germany does not take the initiative to attack the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union will attack Germany sooner or later.
Germany's current situation is excellent, with victories on the battlefield and no defeat yet. On the other hand, the great purge in the Soviet Union has greatly weakened their vitality. Launching a war against the Soviet Union at this time can not only achieve unexpected effects, but also strategically crush them.
To suppress the Soviet Union, the head of state did not expect that Britain and France would declare war on him so quickly. Germany had no ships and lacked a large military port, so it could not cross the strait.
Occupying Britain has become impossible, and Germany can only turn around and eat away other territories of European countries first. It is impossible to survive without going crazy! In this case, the head of state has no other option except launching a war of annihilation against the Soviet Union.
Because only in this way can Germany, the red-hot war machine, unleash all its potential.
Because only by launching a war of annihilation against the Soviet Union and annexing the entire Soviet Union could Germany's consumption be compensated. Because only by annexing the Soviet Union could Germany have a chance to return to being a normal country! So, the Barbarossa Plan was newly released.
Everyone knows that the Axis Group during World War II was headed by Germany, Italy, and Japan. The three countries signed the "Germany, Italy, and Japan Tripartite Alliance Treaty" in September 1940, which was historically known as the "Three Powers Axis." But few people know it.
Yes, the Soviet Union once agreed to join the Axis Powers and form the "Four Power Alliance". This period of history is not covered in the history books. What exactly happened?
This matter has to start in 1939. With the signing of the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact, the relationship between Germany and the Soviet Union heated up 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 toward an alliance with the Soviet Union and invited Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov to Berlin to discuss the "Quadruple Alliance" issue.
After reading the draft, Molotov proposed that the Soviet Union agreed to join the military alliance, but they had conditions, requiring that Bulgaria, Romania, Finland, Turkey, and the Persian Gulf region be included in their sphere of influence. But such conditions were not met by Germany.
, what Japan cannot accept, especially from the perspective of Germany, is that the Balkan Peninsula is its own sphere of influence, and now the Soviet Union wants to intervene, which is intolerable.
Therefore, Germany had a very cold attitude towards the Soviet Union and did not reply to the Soviet Union. The alliance between the two countries was abandoned. Because there were serious conflicts of interest between the two sides, the "Four-Power Alliance" was not finally realized. In Poland, the Soviet Army
After rendezvousing with the German army, they were friendly on the surface and celebrated each other, but this was just an appearance. Since the Soviet Union's main battlefield at that time was in the East, it was mainly fighting Japan. Stalin secretly mobilized 60 armored divisions and 1 million troops to the Soviet-German border to prepare
After destroying the Japanese army, the battlefield moves westward and attacks the German army!
Hitler saw Stalin's trick and believed that Germany was small and lacked resources and could not fight a protracted war. Germany could not defend it without strategic depth, so he decided to preemptively seize resources and catch the Soviet Union by surprise. Considering various factors, Hitler realized
The contradiction between Germany and the Soviet Union was irreconcilable, so they secretly formulated the "Barbarossa" combat plan and determined 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, together with the slave countries Hungary, Romania, and Finland, assembled 190 divisions with 5.5 million people, 6,000 aircraft, 5,000 tanks, and 50,000 artillery pieces.
200 warships were divided into three army groups and launched blitzkrieg attacks against the Soviet Union's Leningrad, Moscow and Transcausal directions from the north, center and south. The Soviet Patriotic War broke out in an all-round way.
The "Barbarossa" combat plan was nine months earlier than the original history. What was good for Germany was that the Soviet Union was much weaker than the original history, and the sequelae of the Great Purge are still very obvious. What was bad for Germany was that the Soviet Union was much weaker than the original history.
The ground is loose sand in summer, sticky mud in autumn, and covered with heavy snow in winter.
Poor road conditions in the autumn will slow down the progress of the German army. Germany must be fully prepared to deal with the harsh climate and the poor conditions of the Soviet transportation network. Of course, this is not necessarily a good thing, at least it will not be like the original history.
It would be overly optimistic to judge that Moscow can be captured before the severe winter arrives.
In that case, the German frontline troops would not have to rely on newspapers stuffed into their jackets to keep warm when the cold winter arrives, at temperatures of minus 30 degrees Celsius. In order to operate heaters and heaters, German soldiers would have to use the already very scarce gasoline.
Used as fuel.
Another thing that is beneficial to Germany is that its alliance with Japan is closer than in the original history, and the Japanese army is much stronger than in the original history, and it has restrained more Soviet troops. Blessings and misfortunes lie in blessings.
The historical trend of the European battlefield has undergone a major deviation. As for how it will develop in the future, only God knows whether history will repeat itself!
The sudden outbreak of the Soviet-German war shocked the whole world! As the head of state commanded the Soviet Union, pushing World War II to its climax, the world situation underwent earth-shaking changes in an instant. When the news reached the United States, Roosevelt could no longer sit still.
On the same day, Roosevelt asked the Life Secretary to push his wheelchair into the Capitol and gave a speech to the participating members of Congress before voting on the concession bill. "Gentlemen, the claws of Germany have now reached the Soviet Union, and the American crisis has truly arrived!"
"Gentlemen, please look at the map of the world. Now the whole world has been burned red by the flames of war. There is no more pure land!" "The Soviet Union alone can't stop the German steel chariots!"
"Once the German tanks crush the Soviet Union, they will cross the Bering Strait and enter Alaska, and then cross Canada and enter the United States!" "By then, the Soviet Union has fallen, and the United Kingdom has also fallen, and we will have to face it alone.
For the entire Axis Alliance! It is inevitable that the United States will be involved in this war, and it is impossible for the United States to stay alone." "Gentlemen, wake up, it is time to give up all unrealistic illusions.
It is no longer possible for the United States to maintain its aloof status like it did in the last world war!" "So, the sooner we intervene in this battlefield, the more favorable the situation will be for us!"...
Britain and the United States are permanent allies, and Britain and France are allies. France has perished, and Britain is alone. The United Kingdom has begun to get closer to the Soviet Union. The United States will naturally think that friends of friends are friends, and vice versa. The Soviet-German war broke out, and Germany
The United States, which was originally unwilling to participate in the war but wanted to make war profits, could no longer sit still.
Roosevelt was eager to join the war immediately. In addition to the need to protect himself in the war crisis, the main reason was that the time was ripe to join the war. The outbreak of the Soviet-German war directly created three major conditions for the United States: First, the Soviet Union was involved in the war;
There are no worries; secondly, Germany has been weakened and the front has been further stretched; thirdly, Britain and France have completely surrendered. At this time, the United States takes action, which is tantamount to digging into the bag and picking the fruits of victory.
As a result, Roosevelt began to continuously build public opinion and repeatedly stated that he would participate in the war. Then he directly sent troops to Europe and stationed in Iceland, ready to enter the war at any time. As long as Germany attacks the U.S. troops in Iceland, the United States will immediately join the war and begin to vigorously support the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union!
Suddenly, when Roosevelt was delivering a speech in Congress, Hirohito immediately summoned the military and political ministers to hold a royal meeting.
At one o'clock in the afternoon, Konoe Fumimaro, Kanin Miya Zaihito, Fushimi Miyahiro Prince and other ministers who are qualified to participate in the imperial meeting all arrived. "Gentlemen, the war has begun! God bless Yamato, Sude has finally started the war!" Hirohito
Waving his fists, he roared with a ferocious face, "The Empire of Japan's once-in-a-lifetime opportunity has finally arrived!"
Seeing this, Foreign Minister Matsuoka Yosuke quickly asked: "Your Majesty, do you mean that the Empire is going to declare war on the Soviet Union?" The reason why Matsuoka Yosuke asked this was because the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs had just sent a note to Japan, asking Japan to declare war on the Soviet Union.
The Axis Alliance Agreement between Germany, Italy, and Japan followed Germany's official declaration of war on the Soviet Union, and the war began simultaneously on the east and west fronts to attack the Soviet Union from both sides.
However, Hirohito waved his hand and said: "No, the current enemy of the empire is not the Soviet Union!" "Your Majesty said it right, the current enemy of the empire is not the Soviet Union!" Kanin Gong Zairen's old and cloudy eyes suddenly revealed a fierce look: "The empire
The enemy is China! It’s time to launch a nationwide mobilization and resolutely and completely destroy China!”
The words of Hanyuan Gong Zairen were not arrogant and wanted to shake the tree, but exposed a very cruel fact. In 1937, the Sino-Japanese War broke out in full force, and it has lasted for three full years, and nearly half of China has been lost.
Most of China's territory was burned red by the flames of war.
However, Japan has not carried out general mobilization for war, and has not even entered a wartime system! The so-called wartime system refers to the country's organization, system, production, life, and management in all fields such as military, politics, economy, and culture during the war.
In other aspects, a system was formed by taking various measures to adapt to the needs of war.
In other words, until now, the domestic social order in Japan is still operating according to the normal system, which is completely different from the normal order in China. The National Government has implemented general mobilization for war, everything is in the service of the Anti-Japanese War, and it is frantically recruiting young men everywhere. Once Japan
Through general mobilization, once the entire country switches to a wartime system, it can explode 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 Sino-Japanese War broke out in full force, the total number of Japanese troops stationed on Chinese territory is only 1.6 million. If North Korea, Taiwan and local troops are included, the number of Japanese troops is less than 2 million. But once the general mobilization is completed, Japan can mobilize at least 7 million more troops.
Army! Another example is military expenditure. In 1939, Japan's annual military expenditure was equivalent to 1.9 billion U.S. dollars.
But once it transitions to a wartime system, Japan implements a rationing system nationwide, cuts all expenditures to a minimum, and then concentrates most of the expenditures on the military, it can mobilize at least 10 billion US dollars.
In other words, if Japan switches to a wartime system and carries out general mobilization for war, it will be able to unleash at least five times more combat effectiveness! If all the combat effectiveness unleashed by general mobilization is used on the Chinese battlefield, the final result will be absolutely catastrophic!
However, the consequences of an all-out attack will be very serious, and such an outbreak cannot be sustained.
In three years at most, Japan's national power will be hollowed out and completely exhausted, and it will even become extremely weak for a long time. Otherwise, according to the wolfish ambition of the Japanese devils, they will never easily miss the great opportunity to completely destroy China.
"General mobilization of war is impossible. Unless the empire faces an existential threat, general mobilization of war will never be possible!"
Hirohito waved his hand and said: "The ultimate enemy of the empire is not China, but the United States! The war mobilization started just to conquer China. Even if it wins, the empire will only gain more than it loses!" After a pause, Hirohito spoke in an almost crazy tone.
shouted: "Starting from tomorrow, we will shift to a wartime system and implement a nationwide material rationing system!
The empire must concentrate all its resources to prepare for a life-and-death war with the United States!" Hirohito's head is generally quite clear, knowing that even if he risked his life to eat China, there is still a General Tang Juwu from Shanghai who is watching him eagerly.
Japan is facing Japan, and General Tang Juwu's army has not moved. This is also something Hirohito is worried about, but the result will only be to put Japan into an extremely dangerous situation, and it may be attacked by a wave of attacks by Tang Juwu or the United States at any time.
destroy.
However, the impressive record of the German allies made him extremely jealous, and his ambition to dominate the Asia-Pacific and carve up the world rapidly expanded. At the same time, the Japanese war machine was already at full speed. In addition to continuing to move forward to absorb more war resources and stimulate greater war potential, Hirohito simply
There was no other choice. "Hai!" The military and political officials all knelt down and stood up, shouting at Hirohito. Hirohito had already said this, and they had nothing else to say except absolute obedience!
Hirohito's eyes narrowed, he glanced around at the ministers present and then asked in a deep voice: "Do you have anything else to say?" Konoe Fumimaro bit his lip, hesitated for a moment and then said bravely: "Your Majesty,
I have something to say." "Konoe-kun, please say something."
Hirohito's eyes immediately turned cold. Before Konoe Fumimaro opened his mouth, he knew what the other party wanted to say, but he couldn't stop Konoe Fumimaro's mouth at this time. Konoe Fumimaro organized his words, and then said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty
Since the Meiji Restoration, although the empire's industry has made great progress and its national strength has increased many times, fundamentally speaking, the empire's industrial foundation is still very weak, far inferior to that of Western powers, especially compared with the United States.
Since its independence, the United States has concentrated on development for nearly two hundred years, especially the world war thirty years ago, which established the United States as the number one industrial power!" After a pause, Konoe Fumimaro continued: "Once the United States becomes
With the war machine in full swing, they can produce 100,000 combat aircraft, 100,000 tanks, 100,000 cannons, and 1,000 warships a year!
Just thinking about this scene makes me shudder! Facing such an industrial power, does the empire really have a chance to win? I don’t know what you think, anyway, I really have no confidence in this. The empire’s full-scale expansion into Southeast Asia is completely
There is no problem, but the time for war with the United States is far from mature. I am firmly opposed to war with the United States, at least not at this stage!"
Kanin Gong Zaijin nodded and said: "Your Majesty, I agree with Konoe-kun. It is really difficult for the empire to defeat the United States now. Without sufficient preparation of money, it is best not to provoke the United States." "Yes, the United States is far away from Eurasia.
On the battlefield, so far we have adhered to a neutral stance and have not shown much hostility towards the empire. There is really no need for the empire to proactively provoke the United States!"
"I also believe that starting a war with the United States is very irrational and we should be cautious!" Driven by this wave of rhythm, Minister of the Interior Hiranuma Kiichiro, Navy Minister Zengo Yoshida and others also nodded in agreement. These old devils are not stupid, they all know who they are.
How many kilograms are there?
Now, even China, which is weak in national power and in constant civil strife, cannot handle it after all the efforts it has taken. If a fight with the United States starts at this time, the consequences will be disastrous. Hirohito, who was on the rise, felt extremely sad when he heard these harsh and depressing words.
Unhappy, his face became darker and darker. Taking a deep breath, Hirohito winked at Tojo Hideki.