"The vanguard army is too deceitful, just teach them a lesson!" In Japan's military senate, Shinzaburo Masaki grumbled indignantly.

With the defeat of many famous generals in Huaxia, especially the silence of Shouichi Terauchi, the person who arrested him in prison in the first place, this giant of the imperial sect was reinstated. After all, as the first army general imprisoned by the domestic regime, he still has some ability, coupled with the fanatical indulgence of loyalty to the monarch and militaristic thoughts, in order to check and balance, when the royal family partially retreated in the army, he was also exchanged for his outing.

As soon as he spoke, he pointed directly at the vanguard army that had beaten all the famous generals of the Japanese army, and used it to mock.

"How do you teach them? I didn't see that the 500,000-strong army of the vanguard army had already deployed on the China-Burma border, so I was waiting to find an excuse. Nobuyuki Abe rolled his eyelids and said.

"The British have been defeated by us, and we are still afraid of the 500,000 troops of the Zhina?" Masaki Shizaburo couldn't help replying, but there was silence around for a while, and after a long time, Tojo Hideki snorted coldly:

"There are not only 500,000 people in China, but at least 5 million, if not more troops, threatening Manchuria."

Everyone was speechless for a moment.

Although a series of victories made every Japanese excited, the shadow of the previous defeat in front of the vanguard still hung over the hearts of everyone.

The vanguard army expanded rapidly, but the sophisticated equipment was not left behind, and the ever-expanding numbers made the Japanese feel a little powerless. After the defeat of the Japanese in China, they increased their conscription, which had expanded to more than four million at this time, but many soldiers were still practicing with wooden sticks at this time, and their weapons and equipment had been lagging behind. Such a contingent and a vanguard army equipped to the teeth made even the most optimistic Japanese generals have to be cautious.

Hideki Tojo said helplessly: "Our forces are already very scattered, and it is not appropriate to involve the vanguard army for the time being." Only when we completely occupy the resources of Southeast Asia can we fight a decisive battle with China. ”

"Shall we continue west, then?" Nagano Xiu said coldly beside him.

At this time, except for the Japanese army that was shrinking and guarding the puppet Manchukuo, all the others had already withdrawn from China, and the economy could not be blocked because of the close contacts between China and Germany and the United States. It turned out that the strategy of completely occupying Burma in time and space, blocking China's foreign trade, and forcing Lao Chiang to surrender no longer worked. Therefore, Japan is not too urgent to occupy Burma completely.

Now Japan has occupied Yangon and the ports along the coast. Coupled with Singapore in hand, it has blocked the possible counterattack of the British on Southeast Asia. And swallowed the rubber, oil, rice, ore, etc. of Southeast Asia into the stomach. The next step is simply to occupy the entire Western Pacific. Problems with digestion as soon as possible.

"The vanguard army is just a border to remind us not to go beyond Mandalay. And it didn't stop us from continuing west. We don't need heavy troops deep into Burma. All you have to do is follow those ports on the shore all the way to the rich India! Masaki Shizaburo replied.

His eyes gradually lit up, India was a land of legendary richness, the wealth of which was a temptation in the hearts of all people, and the fanaticism of the militarists drove him to conquer it.

"The Americans' fleet will not be built at all in a year, and our fleet can sail farther." Nagano Cultivation is also full of ambition, "Our fleet has already arrived on Irian Island, maybe as long as we take one step further, we will be able to reach the Australian mainland!" ”。

Compared to the confidence of the army that was sunk by the vanguard. Although the Japanese Navy also suffered a lot of losses at the hands of the Pioneer Army, they all attributed it to the sharpness of the Pioneer Army's huge artillery, coupled with the victory of the southward movement, the confidence of the naval faction leading the southward movement was extremely inflated. The defeat of the U.S. Pacific Navy and the Anglo-Dutch fleet in a short period of time made them look farther away, hoping for more wealth and merit.

Although some of the oil fields and refineries in Nanyang were destroyed, some of them were still usable, and the addition of support from Qinghuo Energy Company was able to alleviate Japan's oil shortage. Ships of all kinds are sailing again.

However, in the direction of the offensive, the army and navy had another dispute.

In the East, the Japanese still have a glimmer of hope for negotiations with the United States. The Navy did not plan to conquer Hawaii, but held Midway Island, waiting for negotiations with the Americans.

On the other hand, the Japanese Navy turned its ambitions to the south.

It would be a great honor to cross the South Seas and conquer an entire continent like Australia.

As an island nation, the desire for the mainland has squeezed the adventurous spirit out of the bones of the Japanese.

"Our fleet can blockade the Australian mainland, and the long coastline makes it impossible for the sparsely populated Anglo-Australian army to defend against our landing." The Navy's plans are clear, but the Army clearly likes to play against the Navy.

Most of the process of going south is that the navy is in the limelight, and the profits obtained are mostly naval factions. Yamashita Fengwen's rapid march gave the army another hope, that is, to fight along the land until India, another big empire. The wealth amassed by this jewel in the British crown is not inferior to that of China, and it is easier to obtain.

"Go to India! They were glad to have our help in driving out all the Brits. "In the name of overthrowing British colonialism all the way, the Japanese tasted the sweetness, and it was easy to win over the natives who were holding back the fire of the British in various places. Also in India, people have already contacted them. It seems that as long as they hit India and raise their arms, the whole of India will respond.

The Army's opinion is biased towards westward expansion, and only by advancing westward can the Navy become a supporting role and the Japanese Army take the initiative.

With the rapid expansion of the Japanese army in Southeast Asia, the contradiction between this issue of the direction of strategic offensive, which had been temporarily shelved, became more and more prominent, and the Japanese top brass quarreled over the two opinions of southward and westward advance.

"We don't need to continue to expand, what we need is oil, rubber, rice, and now that we occupy the South Seas, we will expand our strength first." Of course, there were relatively conservative voices, but as soon as the words fell, they were stepped on.

At this time, the British were concentrating their energies on Europe and transferred a lot of Indian troops, while the Americans' forces had not yet intervened in Australia.

After arguing endlessly, Hirohito finally spoke, and under that ambiguous ventriloquis, everyone finally realized that Hirohito's ambition was greater.

Both sides!

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"I'm doing this for the good of the little devil! Once their army is stuck in the jungle and delays their outward expansion, won't it shatter their dream of hegemony? Meng Xiang felt a little sorry in his heart.

In order to avoid too much damage to the expeditionary force, the vanguard army issued a warning to the devils early. Do not arbitrarily invade the border of China too close to avoid misfire.

Burma's Ringangi and other oil fields have fallen into the hands of the Japanese army, and most of the rice-producing areas in the central and southern parts of the country have also fallen into the hands of the Japanese army, and the strategic goal of the Japanese has been mostly completed. The Japanese quickly tacitly chose to slow down south of Mandalay.

But in another battlefield, the Japanese army intensified its offensive against the American forces in the Philippines.

After landing on Luzon, the Japanese army transferred some troops in the Philippines in order to cooperate with the attack on Burma and Java, so that in the face of the stubborn resistance of the American army on the Bataan Peninsula, there was no progress.

After the fighting in Burma and Malaya eased a little, the Japanese offensive in the Philippines increased significantly, and the American Orange-3 defense was crumbling, and MacArthur had to call for reinforcements every day.

"Keep it up!" Washington replied simply, their energy has been hovering in Europe.

A large number of American aid was sent to Soviet Russia, supporting their equally shaky defensive line. As a result, although the Germans attacked the periphery of Moscow, they did not break through to the interior for a long time. Large numbers of Russian troops were urgently transferred from elsewhere and thrown directly into the 100-kilometer front around Moscow, which was cut by steel and flames, or in the ruins of the corpses in various shapes on the outskirts of Moscow.

At the same time, the British Navy, which had received American assistance, had enough confidence to launch a signal for a decisive battle against the German Navy, which was blocking the lifeline at sea.

They threw themselves into the fleet, strangled the wolves on the sea, and even began to look for a duel opportunity for the battleship of the Sea Overlord.

The American cargo ships of the brigade also began to replenish the somewhat withered British maritime lifeline as the British fleet broke through the German naval blockade, and at the same time began to provoke the patience of the Germans, triggering a war boom in the Atlantic.

Europe is far more important to American interests at this time than Asia. And now the crisis in Europe is even more urgent.

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"You should talk to Huaxiaren! Draw more troops back from the east. "With the arrival of winter clothes and winter equipment for the German army, the Americans saw that Soviet Russia, which had been desperate for its life, was a little out of breath, and had to remind the Russians that they still had a million troops in the East.

"Resolutely do not talk to those greedy Chinese people! Do you know what they want? They want the Far East, and even swallow all of Siberia! "Stalin's attitude was resolute, ceding territories was absolutely impermissible. What's more, he had already pondered that the Chinese on the eastern front had no intention of crossing the Ural Mountains. This means that the threat alert from the Eastern Front can be weakened. (To be continued)