The Japanese side was the first to discover that the situation was wrong for the Japanese troops stationed at Zhennanguan, which belonged to the 5th Squadron of the 2nd Brigade of the 41st Infantry Wing. This is also the army that participated in the Battle of Kunlun Pass, and the losses were relatively serious, because there were too many new recruits, so they were transferred to the pass to garrison. By the way, the brigade's subordinate adjutant and special agent Cao Chang personally guided the troops to conduct special training. The training task is to attack the large forts, because there are several Western-style forts built at the end of the Qing Dynasty, such as Zhongying and Ma'anshan, nearby, and some of them still retain the Krupp fortress guns purchased by the Manchu government.

The 41st Wing used these batteries as a standard to train the infantry in attacking mountain forts, and the obvious goal was to build fortified lines for the French troops of the Dong Dang and Lang Son generations. It stands to reason that the upper echelons of the Japanese Army have extinguished the desire to use force, and the General Staff Headquarters is not blind and cannot see the changes in French Indochina, but can only say that the Japanese army has a tendency to act in defiance of the yang and the yin, and the atmosphere of each playing small abacus is really too prevalent, and it will not be strange at all to see these performances of the subordinate units of the Fifth Division, and then look at Morimoto Nakasa's solitary departure.

The war in Europe was over, and the eventual victor was, as expected, the mighty Greater German Reich. The momentum of Germany's leadership of the whole of Europe has become unstoppable, and a powerful world hegemony is being born before people's eyes. The reaction of the Japanese government to this news was one of surprise and joy, and there was also a hint of joy.

It was surprising that the empire that Japan admired so much that the sun never set fell to the ground, so fast that everyone had no time to react, and when some countries wanted to search for corpses and pick up cheap, they found that Britain and Germany were preparing to sign a military alliance agreement, because France and Germany also had similar alliances, so it was said that any one of them would have to face a counterattack from most of Europe. The news came that shocked a bunch of diplomats and politicians with glasses. It's so incomprehensible that these Europeans seem to treat state relations as a game of play.

The war swept through most of Europe, involving as many as seven countries, resulting in more than 100,000 casualties, direct losses of 20,000 pounds, and the displacement of countless civilians. More families have been ruined, thousands of Europeans have lost all their belongings, and many centuries-old villages and towns along the British coast have disappeared from the world.

At this moment, the enemies who fought each other for their lives turned out to be allies, people who had hated each other for almost half a century stood together and sang friendship for a long time, the politician who had been scolding the dictatorial invaders a month ago raised his right arm in praise of Reinhardt, and the blood-red swastika flag fluttered outside the Louvre and on the Tower of Victoria. It's so beautiful that it's hard to witness.

In fact, it is not difficult to explain at all, people are like clusters and groups, and the leaders of the great European countries are not stupid. It is also evident that there is a crisis outside Europe at this time. Relatives on the other side of the Atlantic, who have been coveting Europe, and the giant red bear on the other side of the Narev River, the European countries weakened by the war, are about to face a more serious challenge than ever.

The war may have really just begun, as the apostle said, and was far from over. Politicians have chosen to compromise in the face of national interests, and they have thrown away their dignity and dignity in the face of personal rights and interests. The Germans would never give up their fair share of the spoils, and France and England did not want to be stripped of another layer by the onlookers, and the three powers hit it off. The result was a silent agreement on mutual assistance and mutual defense.

As defeated countries, Britain and France recognized Germany's leadership in the alliance. And he is willing to contribute to the establishment of a new European order led by Germany. Germany was rewarded by retaining the political systems of a few of these countries without annexation, while releasing most of the prisoners of war unconditionally and providing full assistance to each country in its post-war reconstruction efforts. Military protection is also provided to all countries in the system.

The Japanese government is pleased that Germany and Japan have always maintained a good friendship, and they believe that under the new European order led by Germany, more European countries will support their war of aggression against China. They even dreamed that Germany would give some benefits to Japan, an old friend. For example, if we take over the colonies of several European countries in Southeast Asia and the like, if we don't do this, we will tilt the export of resources to Japan a little, and then strangle the material delivery to China, then all Japan's current problems will be solved, and the emperor's dream of eight Hong and one Yu will definitely be realized soon. Fortunately for Japan, the last assassination did not have much impact on German-Japanese friendship, and fortunately those fools did not succeed, otherwise the current German-Japanese relations would have been endless.

The Japanese army was even more excited when they got the news, they seemed to see the hope of their own success from the German victory, and the heroic ghost beast was not to be feared, as long as the independent country stood on the side of Japan, East Asia would be in the hands of the Japanese Empire. This is also a reason for Morimoto to go alone, he believes that the Japanese army's preparations are sufficient, and in the face of the rotten wood-like colonies of the country, there is no need to look ahead and backward, and the group of corpses in the military department and the government, if they had half the vision and courage of the head of the independent country, they would have occupied the whole of Asia long ago.

The Japanese navy is more practical, they believe that the power of the independent country in Europe at this time is in full swing, comparable to the Napoleonic empire of the year, there are few opponents in the world, Japan's power only occupies a corner of Asia, and is no longer qualified to sit on an equal footing with the other side, the possibility of equal cooperation between the two sides is already very small, and Germany's power will inevitably extend to Asia, where it has countless resources and wealth, a huge market and almost infinite manpower, and if Japan does not pay a price that can satisfy the other side, Why should you leave this piece of fat to Japan, you must know that the two sides have not signed any agreement until now, and they are not allies at all.

There were other ideas within the Japanese Navy, especially some technical officers in the naval administration and aviation departments, who had been eyeing the British Royal Navy's ship technology, and they wanted to organize a group of experts to go to Europe and ask Germany to put pressure on Britain, so that Britain would open the Royal Navy's database to Japan and obtain the advanced naval technology they coveted. Vice Admiral Toyoda, then head of the Naval Administration Headquarters, said that he could give it a try. Vice Admiral Yamamoto, who was promoted from vice admiral of the Navy to commander of the Combined Fleet last year, believes that there is no such possibility, and that naval technology is a core secret wherever it is placed. Britain and Germany will not agree to such unreasonable demands, this is complete wishful thinking, and it is simply self-inflicted.

The pro-British and American faction in the navy had the upper hand, and it was impossible to say how complicated it was to think about the complexity of the British Royal Navy, which was the idol of his youth, to ashes. Although the British Royal Navy has been reduced to a third-rate navy, it is a camel after all. The remaining fleet is still larger than the navies of seventy percent of the world's countries. Moreover, after the end of the war in Europe, an alliance was established with Germany as the mainstay, and its shipbuilding strength far exceeded that of today's Japan. As long as the Europeans are given enough time, they will soon be able to regain their original strength, and even go to the next level.

As far as the information currently knows, there are six battleships being built in the dockyards of Britain, France, and Germany, which is half of the total number of battleships existing in the Combined Fleet. Judging by the character of the ambitious head of state, it is conceivable that more warships will be built in the coming year.

The attitude of some Japanese admirals began to shift in the direction of the German-Japanese alliance, and they took it for granted to form an alliance with the powerful, at a time when only fools and non-nationals would oppose this proposal, which was vital for Japan's future. Previously, some people in the navy were worried about provoking the powerful Britain and the United States with the German alliance, but now that Britain has been defeated, the only one who can confront and overwhelm the Imperial Japanese Navy is Miriken on the other side of the Pacific, and as long as Japan and Europe form an alliance, the United States will no longer pose a threat.

At the same time, it is necessary to be prepared that Germany will refuse to form an alliance. Because Germany was already powerful at this time, and it was a close ally with the Soviet Union. It is far away from the United States, and there is no need to win over Japan at all strategically. The Japanese navy's suggestion was that no matter how much effort was expended, no matter how much effort was spent, no matter how much effort was pleased, Germany must be convinced, and even if it did not form an alliance, it would not be an enemy of Japan. Guaranteeing Japan's interests in Asia would take a lot of pressure off the Japanese navy even if Germany remained neutral in the middle.

At the end of the day, Japan's economy was already in serious trouble, with a long-term trade deficit leading to massive capital and foreign exchange outflows. With only one percent of the gold in its pre-war reserves, the country is on the verge of bankruptcy, and it has only survived its splendor thanks to the wealth plundered in northeastern China over the past two years. Since the full-scale war began on the Chinese battlefield, the domestic living index has begun to decline significantly, and newspapers and radio broadcasts have desperately publicized the Japanese army's successive victories on the Chinese battlefield, but the common people have found that more and more goods have been included in the list of restricted goods, and some have even disappeared from the shelves.

Although the Japanese cabinet still has confidence in winning the war against China, judging from the current rate of material consumption, Japan is likely to be exhausted before winning the war. Most of the important strategic resources were bought with real money, especially the United States, which relied almost on scrap steel and oil imported by the United States to support the war, and the United States also relied on these transactions to almost empty Japan's treasury, and most of the wealth plundered from China was invested in the bottomless pit of Japan-US trade, except for those divided among the various chaebols.

With no hope of victory in the short term, the Japanese reluctantly accepted that they were facing a war of attrition. The defeat of Nomenkan frustrated all northward advances, and after the army and navy compromised with each other, both sides set their sights on Southeast Asia. It has a large number of strategic resources that Japan needs, such as grain, spices, tropical fruits and medicines, various rare and precious metals, and especially oil, which is as important as the nation's blood.

Almost ninety percent of Japan's domestic oil consumption needs to be imported from abroad, and oil transactions with the United States account for ninety percent of the total trade, and Americans only accept dollars, gold and silver, and the money paid from oil in the past few years alone is enough for Japan to build another navy. However, these consumption is unavoidable, warships need fuel for training, airplanes and trucks also need fuel to drive, domestic heating, power generation, metallurgy, chemical industry and all walks of life are inseparable from oil as a raw material and energy, the daily delivery of arms and materials to the Chinese battlefield, as well as the minerals and grains plundered from China, these things need to be transported by ships.

Japan is mostly mountainous, and there is not enough arable land in the first place, so the country's grain production can only meet 80% of the domestic needs, and the remaining 20% must be imported from abroad, and all non-staple foods such as soybeans made in northeast China, such as soybeans for soy sauce and miso.

Some ships can burn coal, but most of the new freighters use oil-fired boilers, which is a huge consumption figure. Therefore, by the year 40, Japan could not avoid a rapid decline, and only by seizing cheap or even free resources from Southeast Asia could Japan continue to maintain this deformed system and continue this war of aggression.

Historically, Japan did just that, waging a war aimed at plundering resources under the pretext of liberating the peoples of its colonies in Southeast Asia. But now, everything may change dramatically because of the solitary departure of a Japanese officer Nakasa.

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