The layout part of this book has gradually ended. In the next few chapters, it will enter the great game of iron-blooded anti-Japanese war and planning the world. The writing style will gradually change. Because this book features real historical figures as the protagonists, in the previous description, it is more cautious and cautious, and it seems to be ruthless. It originally required millions of words to write a more flesh-and-blood plot, which was compressed to more than 400,000 words. Therefore, the characters in the book are inevitably not distinct enough, and there is no emphasis on portraying the characters.

Starting from the next few chapters, the plot focus will be shifted from Lantian to detailed descriptions such as character characteristics, combat scenes, and games between various parties. I hope everyone likes it. At the same time, if you have good suggestions and opinions, you can leave a message, regardless of whether it is good or bad, just refuse to swear words, haha!

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After the September 18th Incident, the Soviet Union began to build military fortresses on the Sino-Soviet border, with 11 divisions in the Far East, including 2 cavalry divisions, more than 600 chariots, more than 500 aircraft, and 14 warships at the Haicunwei Port, with an estimated deployment of 230,000 troops.

Three or six years ago, Japan had only three divisions in Northeast China, with a brigade of machinery, a cavalry corps and three independent guards. There were about 80 aircraft, and the total strength was about 1/3 of that of the Soviet Union.

Therefore, the Army's "Northern Advance Strategy" was consistent with the confrontation between the Soviet Union in Northeast China on the same day.

The Japanese Navy's national defense strategy believes that the main targets of national defense are Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union.

The National Policy Outline formulated by the Japanese Navy advocates: "Foreign strategies should abandon the gradual imperial foreign policy of the past, which is 'coordinated' with the great powers, and eliminate all forces that are confronting our country; the policy towards Manchuria is to cultivate it into an indivisible part of the empire, in order to achieve the coexistence and prosperity of economic, political and military defense; for China, we should focus on the empire to form a joint support between Japan, Manchuria and China, and promote the stable development of East Asia; for the Soviet Union, to prevent it

To interfere in Far East affairs and prevent the spread of ** forces, we should resolve the unsolved cases of Japan and the Soviet Union to seek friendly relations; to prevent the United Kingdom from joining forces with the United States, the Soviet Union and China to curb Japan, and use changes in Europe to suppress the development of Britain's forces in the Far East; to strengthen the army to counter its confrontation policy against the empire in the Far East, so that it can recognize Japan's status in East Asia while developing friendly relations with economic interdependence as the tone at the same time."

The central goal of Japan's naval national defense strategy is the "Southward Policy", which believes that the first imaginary enemy of national defense is Britain, the United States, and the second is the Soviet Union. It advocates that Japan should develop its forces in the South Pacific while ensuring the hegemony of East Asia. The core purpose of this "Southward Theory" is to expel British, American and other forces from Asia and the Pacific region to realize Japan's plan to "dominantly expand China and the Pacific region." After fierce debate, Hirota Cabinet established the third amendment to the "Imperial National Defense Policy", with the specific contents:

1. The original intention of the Empire's national defense is to ensure that the Empire benefits the people and demonstrate its national prestige; 2. The Empire's national defense policy is based on the fundamental meaning of national defense. In order to ensure the stability of East Asia, we should enrich our military and ensure the development of the country, so as to prevent the rapid war in case of unexpected events; 3. The Empire's national defense aims at the United States and the Soviet Union, and at the same time guards the United Kingdom and China. To this end, the Empire's military forces should be aimed at guarding the East Asian continent and the Pacific region. The Empire's national defense forces are as follows: the army's military forces are 50 divisions and 142 air force squadrons; the navy forces are 12 main battleships, 12 aircraft carriers, 28 cruisers, 96 destroyers, 70 submarines, and the Air Force's military forces are 65 squadrons.

In the national defense, the Guangtian cabinet cannot clearly define a unified national defense policy with the army as the main or navy as the main. Therefore, the national defense policy established by the Guangtian cabinet can only take into account the establishment of the land, navy and defense targets at the same time. Therefore, the land and navy have proposed a huge military plan based on their respective defense goals. This national defense policy is actually the inevitable result of the withdrawal of the League of Nations and the world disarmament treaty system and the isolated international status.

In August 1936, the Hirota Cabinet held a meeting of the Five Majors. According to the national defense policy of the mainland and the navy, the "National Policy Benchmark" was established, combining diplomacy and national defense. While ensuring Japan's status in the East Asian continent, it also regarded the development to the Pacific region as Japan's fundamental national policy. That is to say, the "Imperial Diplomacy Policy" and the "National Policy Benchmark" established by the Hirota Cabinet were actually formulated according to the different national defense strategies of the land and the navy. While taking the "South Advance Theory" advocated by the navy as a national policy, it also recognized the "North Advance Theory" of the Army.

In this way, in terms of national defense strategy, Japan not only regards the Soviet Union as its defense enemy, but also expels British, American and other forces from the Pacific region as its current diplomatic focus. Therefore, the Hirota Cabinet actually merged the opposition between the land and the navy, establishing a "dualized" diplomatic line of "advancement between the north and the south".

Faced with the severe situation of isolation in international status after challenging the "Versailles-Washington" system, in order to ensure the smooth progress of its "northern advance strategy" with mainland China as its hinterland, the Guangtian Cabinet signed an alliance agreement with Germany on November 25, 1936, which was actually aimed at the Soviet Union and defended Britain, France, the United States and other countries. This is the famous "defense agreement" between Japan and Germany in history.

The so-called "Anti-Communist Agreement" is actually a diplomatic means that clearly protects Japan and Germany's foreign aggression and expansion. During this period, Japan's greatest interest in the alliance with Germany was to hope that Germany would restrain the Soviet Union and provide "spiritual and moral" assistance to Japan's war of aggression against China. At the same time, it hopes to use the "Anti-Communist Agreement" to expand the "Anti-Communist System", blind the vigilance of other countries, and finally achieve the goal of expelling British and American forces in the Far East.

In 1937, the Japanese General Staff formulated this year's combat plan against China, preparing to occupy North China, Central China, and South China with the strength of twenty divisions and destroy China in one fell swoop. At the same time, the Japanese Army Summit decided to immediately send troops from the country to attack China, and obtained the consent of the "Emperor" and the "Cabinet".

To this end, the Japanese secret service also made a large number of infiltration and division and disintegration plans for our country in a targeted manner. However, because the anti-special work in the areas under actual control of our party has been carried out very well, and in the areas under control of our party, it refuses to have any political, economic and cultural exchanges with Japan, all Japanese expatriates were deported.

In addition to being furious, Japanese imperialism also struggled to implement enemy spies infiltration plans, so it was quite lacking in the specific information of our party and our army.

Of course, Japan has obtained a lot of valuable military and political information in the Kuomintang-ruled areas, but based on the very narrow scope of the Kuomintang-ruled areas, Japan's understanding of China has lost its accurate and comprehensive judgment.

Even if we don’t have a rough understanding of our army’s current combat effectiveness and total number, we still have the original inertial thinking and naively believe that even if our army has changed a lot and become much stronger, it still cannot change the overall weak and end-of-stage army of our army.

While Japanese imperialism extends its vicious hand to China, our party and our army are also making secret plans.
Chapter completed!