"To fight or not to fight?" In the middle of the night, Meng Xiang tossed and turned and couldn't sleep.

The last few words of Wei Hanchao's words in the day were still lingering in his ears:

"The prestige of every powerful country is played, and the self-confidence of the people of every big country is also played. Picking up cheap strategies can only stimulate the excitement of the people, but it can never arouse the blood of the people, let alone the strong self-confidence of the Han and Tang dynasties, which defied the Quartet! Those high-nosed foreigners only admire the strong! ”

In the vanguard army, Wei Hanchao is one of the famous hawks, and he has a very war-mad flavor.

When the southern offensive of the Chinese National Defense Force was sluggish, many soldiers of the vanguard army could not help but talk about strengthening the offensive and increasing the scale of the offensive.

At this time, Wei Hanchao, who was in the northeast, also actively demanded that the Yalu River be attacked, and the Japanese should be directly driven out of the Eurasian continent, and even advocated attacking the Japanese island, so as to wash away all kinds of humiliation from the First Sino-Japanese War to the present.

"The time has not yet come, and it is not bad to sit back and watch Japan and the United States fight each other!" Fan Chong is the person who knows the most detailed overall plan of Meng Xiang, and many strategic plans are compiled by him.

"Stratagem can win the war, but it can't win the respect of the war!" Although Wei Hanchao vaguely guessed some of Meng Xiang's arrangements, he still asked Zhandao, "If others attribute the strategy to a momentary luck, it is inevitable that there will be a clown who jumps off the beam to continue to make noise." Only by playing with prestige can we avoid more trouble in the future. Peace has always been laid by war! ”

Wei Hanchao's eloquence made Meng Xiang's heart move.

In the past, the overall strategic layout of the vanguard army was basically based on the impression of later generations in Meng Xiang's mind.

The international environment is very different from what it was in the past. This made Meng Xiang's decision more and more difficult.

The clones around him are loyal executors, but they are not advisers to mentors and friends.

Fan Chong is a good staff officer. But not a bold commander. He has always enriched his flesh and skin around Meng Xiang's decision, but the core is always Meng Xiang's will.

Zhou Bai does not interfere in military affairs. And Tang Yaoshi is a typical old-fashioned master full of intrigues. Meng Xiang's transition from an otaku to the supreme commander of the country was most influenced by him.

The environment determines the character of a person. Meng Xiang's layout and conspiracy full of his mind all day long made the blood of the angry youth already silent.

Wei Hanchao's words made Meng Xiang's heart ripple.

What a great power has is not only strength and wealth, but more importantly, it needs to have a unique soul of a great power.

In a certain period of time, China in later generations has already possessed the economic strength and military strength that surpasses some old powers, but it is still not recognized as a powerful country by others or even the Chinese people. The reason is that there is a lack of the soul of a great power that unites the people.

Germany was defeated in World War II, but his courage and strength in single-handedly facing many world-class masters such as Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and France are still recognized by the world, and even the spirit of challenging power has aroused the admiration of many people.

Even though the Japanese were defeated in World War II. But they fought all over half of Asia and crushed the British and French colonial armies. Although the final defeat to the most powerful Americans at the time did not completely lose their national confidence. Even if they were losers, they still looked down on the Chinese who relied on the victory of the allies to wear the winner's crown.

It can be seen from the differential treatment of other countries that even the Chinese themselves have no confidence, and their admiration for foreigners and flattery of foreigners is frequently displayed in front of the Japanese. Even in the end, there was no shortage of people licking the feet of the enslaved countries in World War II, such as sticks. Full of pseudo-Qing slave statues. There is no such thing as the heroism of standing up.

"Huaxia needs such a victory?" Meng Xiang's heart kept lingering.

The vanguard army drove the Japanese out completely. At this time, the Chinese people were already much tougher towards the Japanese, but when facing the Anglo-American white countries, there were still all kinds of soft-footed people.

Even if Japan drove the Allies out of the South China Sea and defeated the British and American navies in the South Pacific, the Chinese people still had a little weakness when they bragged about defeating the Japanese and defeating the old empires such as Britain and the United States.

Through the introduction of Pioneer Radio and other media, even many discerning people know about it. The main forces of Britain and the United States are in Europe, and the Japanese may not necessarily be superior to the British and the Americans, and even if China drives out Japan, it will not necessarily be able to defeat the British and the Americans. In particular, those who have seen the prosperity of Western civilization in the United States can hardly say that they are better than Britain and the United States compared with the thin foundation of China at this time.

Moreover, in the eyes of many people, the Chinese Vanguard Army defeated only the Japanese Army. And not a powerful navy that the Japanese are enough to boast of in the world.

There is still a long way to go on the road to becoming a strong country in China. Even Meng Xiang has the shadow of the hegemony and uniqueness of the United States in his previous life, and the premise of many strategic layouts is to bring the strength of the Americans as close as possible to the United States at the end of World War II. First weaken your own momentum, and try to weaken your opponent with strategy. I never wanted to fight hard against the strongest side of the Americans.

"Blood casts the soul of a great country, and the rise of the spirit condenses the cornerstone of national rejuvenation!" Meng Xiang muttered to himself.

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"The hard power of the economy and the military is the cornerstone of rejuvenation, and the rise of the spirit is the glue that holds these cornerstones together. Without the self-confidence of a great country, without the cohesion of the people's recognition and honor of the country, what is the rejuvenation of China? The rejuvenation of China should first of all be a spiritual reinvention that gets rid of servile thinking and establishes our self-confidence that we despise the world. What we want to do is not to be a strong body can only be slaughtered by people to slaughter cattle and sheep, but to be a tiger wolf who dares to show his fangs even if he is weak and disabled. At the giant meeting the next day, Meng Xiang's sleepless spirit stimulated the fluctuation of his blood.

"I'm still young, not an old man in the twilight!" Looking at the two old foxes below, Lao Yan, who was still smiling, and Tang Yaoshi, who was also squinting, Meng Xiang's heart unconsciously popped up with such an idea, and at the same time he felt a little regretful in his heart, what he was facing in front of him was not those students from the military academy. finally had a passionate speech, but in front of a group of wise old men who were rational to the absolute freezing temperature.

"If we launch a large-scale offensive in the south, I am afraid that the main force of the Japanese army will be transferred to Indochina, and even their offensive in Australia will be affected. They would never dare to let us occupy Indochina and cut off the ties between Australia, India, and the Japanese mainland. In addition to the clones, these giants are still young, and they also frowned.

When the Japanese fought against the United States, they were also worried about the important reason that the Americans would cut off the connection between the South Seas and the mainland in the Philippines.

Seeing that Australia is about to be taken and India controls half of it, China must be very vigilant when it occupies the Indochina Peninsula at this time.

Even in their hearts, the Huaxia Navy is still immature and still belongs to the offshore navy. However, having occupied the Indochina Peninsula, with the huge ships and submarines of the vanguard army, it was enough to intercept the various routes from Australia to the main island of Japan nearby. As for India, the land of wealth that has just arrived, it is directly cut off.

At this time, after the Puppet Manchurians and the United States were cut off, the Japanese could only rely on coal and fine iron ore shipped from India to lay the foundation for the road to becoming a great power in the future.

In the strategy of the Japanese, maintaining this line was as important as the capture of Australia. Otherwise, the Japanese would not have dispatched troops to concentrate their westward forces on the Indochina Peninsula, and would not hesitate to engage in a hand-to-hand battle in the jungle with China.

"Japan has not yet captured the whole of Australia!" Fan Chong reminded Meng Xiangdao again.

In many previous plans, it was only after Japan completely occupied the Australian mainland that the vanguard army would exert its strength in all directions.

"As long as Britain and the United States still occupy a palm-sized part of the Australian mainland, it is easy to cause disputes over the ownership of Australia early, and shorten the time for us to turn against the British and Americans." This is Meng Xiang's calculation.

When the time comes, when the Chinese army raises troops to the south, Britain and the United States can rely on the land they still hold on to to assert their sovereignty over this territory, and when the Japanese fight to the death against China, they will expand the occupied territory, and even trigger a large-scale counteroffensive accordingly. Only after Japan has fully occupied Australia will it delay the full occupation of Australia in the future through various means.

"If we take it from Japan, we can justifiably do it for a while, and buy us a little more time to develop." Whoever occupies has more say. Relying on the force value of spies and natives, as well as the global planning layout, Meng Xiang was sure to stand on the ground before Britain and the United States.

"Besides, there are no Chinese compatriots in those places, and it doesn't matter how many people die to us. Even the more you die, the less suffering there is, the easier it will be to do many things in the future! This is what Meng Xiang said in his heart. Fan Chong also understood Meng Xiang's abacus, so he reminded him.

"We can attack more than just the South, right?" Meng Xiang said.

"If we attack the Korean Peninsula and threaten the Japanese mainland, the Japanese will also withdraw their forces to the advantage of others!" Fan Chong said urgently.

"Then we can choose a direction that makes Japan feel less threatened!" Meng Xiang said with a smile.

When Fan Chong and others were struggling to find out where to attack where not to be regarded as a huge threat by Japan, Meng Xiang spoke again: "Haven't the Japanese always looked down on our navy? I think it's time for our navy to sharpen in real combat! ”