Obviously, the first one is the "combination" in the original history. The advantage of this method is that it is safe, and China will definitely win, but there are many disadvantages. First, China can only defeat Japan and cannot retaliate against the Soviet Union (Jiang Weiguo will definitely make Japan lose the most Miserable, and will do everything possible to prevent the Soviet Union from throwing stones at China), neither can regain northern Siberia, nor can regain southern Southeast Asia;

The advantage of the second type is also safe, and it is sure to win. After all, the two major powers of the United States and Germany are on China's side, but the combination is very difficult, and China cannot take back Southeast Asia in the south;

The third is tantamount to suicide.

Jiang Weiguo would rather abandon Germany than engage in such a "combination". It is too dangerous for China to do so.

Although Jiang Weiguo told Hitler about the oil fields in the Middle East in order to obtain more aid from Germany, and gave Germany "strategic guidance" in various aspects, Germany at this time will definitely be stronger than in the original history, and it will be able to fight more in the war. Good, but still going to be outnumbered.

Today, the Germans have brought the fourth "combination method": China, Germany and Japan vs. the United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union.

According to Germany's strategic conception: China and Japan turn enemies into friends, and then China, Germany and Japan fight the Soviet Union together, destroy the Soviet Union, and carve up the Soviet Union. The three countries can not only obtain huge resources and wealth, but also be connected on land. The entire Eurasian continent is China, Germany and Japan dominate, and all three countries will become "continental powers" and gain the capital to challenge the world's No. Maybe with the help of Japan) to fight Burma in Britain, so as to open up the Indian Ocean channel with Germany.

There is a very important paradox here: For the China-Germany-Japan Triple Alliance, the most perfect war step is to destroy the Soviet Union first, and then go to war with the United States, Britain and France. However, in order to seize the oil fields in the Middle East, Germany must simultaneously go to war against the United Kingdom , because the Middle East is the territory of the United Kingdom, so China, Germany and Japan will go to war against the Soviet Union and Britain and France at the same time. If the United States enters the war ahead of time, China, Germany and Japan will be really in danger, and they will have to deal with the United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union at the same time. Of course, This is also the second reason why Germany wins over Japan. It needs Japan's third navy in the world to deal with the United States, Britain and France.

If these can really be realized, Germany will unite with China to kill Japan after China, Germany and Japan carve up the world. At that time, China will really win.

However, the difficulty of this road is unimaginable, and there are too many risks, crises, and hidden dangers.

Jiang Weiguo asked Haushofer: "What conditions do you (Germany)...or we (Germany and China) offer Japan?"

Haushofer replied: "After the Soviet Union is resolved, Germany only needs the Soviet Eastern European region east of the Ural Mountains, and Central Asia is completely owned by China. As for North Asia (Siberia), the east of 130° east longitude belongs to Japan, and the rest belongs to China. !"

Jiang Weiguo shook his head: "It's a place where the sky is cold and the birds don't shit. The Japanese won't be interested!"

Haushofer said with a smile: "Combined with the British's Australia (Australia, New Zealand) and India (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Kashmir), aren't the Japanese still tempted? Don't they want the mainland? The Australian continent Give it to them!"

The German side hopes that China and Japan will cease the war and join forces. One is to obtain Japan’s navy and shipbuilding industry, and the other is to preserve the national and military strength of China and Japan. If China and Japan continue to fight, both countries will suffer greatly. Germany hopes that the Chinese and Japanese armies will join forces with the German army to fight against the Soviet Union, instead of fighting each other and hurting both sides. To take a step back, even if Germany supports China in defeating Japan on the East Asian continent, it is also defeating the Japanese army (Chinese army There must be no way to deal with the Japanese navy), then, on the one hand, China needs to beware of Japan’s comeback, and on the other hand, it also needs to fight the Soviet Union with Germany. Then, how much time and financial resources can China spend on construction and development?The Chinese army and the whole of China, which had just ended the Sino-Japanese War (and only ended on the East Asian continent, not completely ended), are dilapidated and unrecoverable. How can they fight the Soviet Union with Germany?The most troublesome thing is that neither Germany nor China, without a strong navy, can do anything about Japan, that is, they cannot completely destroy or conquer Japan. Then, even if Japan is driven out of the East Asian continent, it is very likely to make a comeback. As the so-called "enemy of the enemy They are friends." If Japan colluded with the Soviet Union or took refuge in the United States, Britain and France, the situation between China and Germany would naturally be worsened.

Instead of this, it is better to win over Japan.

The Sino-Japanese War broke out on July 1937, 7, Germany blitzed Poland on September 7, 1939, and Germany attacked the Soviet Union on June 9, 1. There is no doubt that time is very tight, and it is already February 1941, 6. Japan, three years and five months later, Germany and the Soviet Union went to war. China really wanted to help, so it had to completely defeat Japan on the East Asian continent within three years and five months, and then recuperate and reorganize its army.

Obviously, it is difficult for China to do it, even with the full support of Germany.

Hitler was not only fantasizing. He "liked" China very much at this time. At the same time, he knew that even if China wanted to strive hard, it needed time and wealth. If the Sino-Japanese war continued, China would have no time to build and develop. Military and financial resources will also be exhausted by war.

When China defeats Japan, it will be exhausted, crumbling, and has no time to recover. How can it compete with Germany for world hegemony?

Disaster!so difficult!It's so fucking hard!Jiang Weiguo was lying on the bed, sleepless and tossing and turning in the lullaby composed of the sound of guns and explosions from afar.

After much deliberation, Jiang Weiguo could only use the delay method to solve the problem: "Never mind it! Let's finish the current war first!"

Jiang Weiguo was going to sleep, half of the people in Nanjing were sleeping, and the other half were fighting and working.

In icy water, in rain, in snow, in muddy water, and in bloody water, the Nanjing Army and the Japanese Army waged endless fierce battles, and the cruelty and intensity were increasing day by day. The officers and soldiers of the Ninja Army directly ate the corpses and human flesh of the Japanese soldiers; at the Dashengguan Fortress, the officers and soldiers of the defenders stood firm in the knee-deep or even waist-deep muddy water.

Liu Wugou reported and described in the "China Heroes" that day: "... Dashengguan is located on the bank of the river, guarding the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in Nanjing. The trenches were filled with river water, rainwater, snow, and melted ice water. The muddy water was muddy, ice slag floated up and down, and the muddy water was icy cold. Our soldiers stood in this muddy water desperately to stop the Japanese invaders. The real "blood flow drifting pestle", the knee-deep or even waist-deep muddy water was filled with corpses. The muddy water mixed with blood showed a frightening dark red color.

The blood-colored mud, like zero-degree magma flowing across the trenches, has to make people cry!"

When the 5th Division stormed Wulong Mountain, the 16th Division stormed Dasheng Pass.

Zhang Yun, the commander-in-chief of the Great Victory Guards, roared angrily: "Brothers! This Kyoto division has committed all kinds of crimes in Jiangbei, killing countless of our compatriots and humiliating our countless sisters. If we don't kill all these beasts, what will we do after we die in battle?" Face to face those compatriots and sisters who have died in peace?" The officers and soldiers resented the deadly battle and blocked the 16th Division desperately.

In the middle of a sleet night, the 16th Division attacked again at night, and the officers and soldiers fought to the death again. After several hours of fierce fighting, Wu Junyi, the deputy battalion commander of the 2nd Battalion, asked Zhang Yun to retreat. Zhang Yun asked, "Why do you retreat?" No one? No more ammunition?" Wu Junyi replied: "The trench is full of ice water and mud, and the brothers can't bear the cold inside, and the lower body is numb and unconscious!" Zhang Yun was furious: "The soldier Not even afraid of death, but still afraid of the cold?" He ran to the position of Wu Junyi's army, took off his military boots, socks, and pants, jumped into the icy mud between the trenches with bare legs, and shouted sharply, "Keep fighting for me! !" Wu Junyi and other officers and soldiers were both ashamed and excited, gritted their teeth and endured the piercing cold like steel needles, and insisted on continuing to fight.

At the end of the battle, officers and soldiers such as Zhang Yun and Wu Junyi could no longer climb out of the trench by themselves, and were dragged out of the mud one by one by the follow-up officers and soldiers like pulling carrots and sent to the hospital for treatment.

In order to set an example, Zhang Yun took off his military boots, socks, and trousers. As a result, the frostbite was the worst. He lost seven toes and had extensive frostbite and chilblains on his legs.

"It's good that the root of life is not frozen!" Zhang Yun said, and the surrounding officers smiled bitterly.

Many details on the battlefield are difficult to explain clearly, but facts are facts, and uncivilized and indecent facts are also facts.

On the battlefield in winter (especially on the anti-Japanese battlefield in the original history), Chinese soldiers lacked warm clothes. To prevent their fingers from freezing, they could not shoot or fight bayonets, so they put their hands on their crotches when sleeping or in their spare time. , because it is "the warmest" there, and it can try to keep the hands warm.

When Liu Wugou was interviewing at Dashengguan, she met a wounded soldier in the wounded soldier hospital. She saw that the wounded soldier had all four limbs and five senses sound, and there were no bullet holes or knife wounds on his body, but he huddled on the hospital bed silently. Weeping.

Liu Wugou felt it was strange, and went up to ask, the wounded soldier said with a miserable expression: "I was soaked in the ice water of the trench for eight hours, and I was busy beating devils all the time. After I got out, I suddenly felt... ..." He showed an unspeakable expression, "It hurts badly there, extremely painful, I asked the military doctor to check it, and the military doctor said that my...those two things (testicles) have been completely frozen in ice water It’s necrotic, so it can only be removed!” He cried while covering his face, “I haven’t married a wife yet! Besides me, there are only two older sisters and one younger sister in my family, and I have only one son and one single seedling in my family. I have to completely cut off the incense, what can I do!"

Facing this crying soldier, Liu Wugou was speechless, she didn't know how to comfort him at all.

In this night's battle, a brigade of the 16th Brigade and the 30th Regiment of the 38th Division stormed a prominent position outside the Dasheng Pass, and was repelled after three consecutive attacks. , the Japanese army swarmed up and easily occupied this position. More than 200 Nanjing Army officers and soldiers in the position were blown to death in the trenches. These Nanjing Army officers and soldiers were standing in the waist-deep ice slurry, their legs were numb and stiff from the cold, so they had no way to dodge when the Japanese artillery shells fell.

These Nanjing Army officers and soldiers would rather persist in fighting immobile in the trenches than give up their positions.

Jiang Weiguo used unscrupulous means to attack the Japanese, and under the influence of his thoughts, so did his subordinates.

On February 2, the 2th Division was supported by four infantry brigades from the 16th Division, and launched a full-scale attack on Dasheng Pass again. With the fire support of more than 114 heavy artillery, more than 100 Japanese troops fought frantically Attacking Dasheng Pass, the defenders fought desperately and killed twice as many Japanese troops as their own. However, the Japanese artillery fire was extremely fierce, and the fortress was bombarded with holes. The entire defense line was on the verge of collapse, and the defenders suffered heavy casualties.

Zhang Yun eagerly asked for help from his superiors and friendly troops. The 88rd Brigade of the 203th Division of Yuhuatai dispatched a regiment to rush to Dasheng Pass. As a result, the Japanese army had already prepared dozens of artillery pieces to aim at the passage between Dasheng Pass and Yuhuatai. After the bombardment of the 203rd Brigade, the regiment that reinforced Dashengguan suffered more than half of its casualties.

Jiang Weiguo, who received the report, was anxious and heartbroken: "Is there really no way to help Dashengguan?"

"Yes!" Xiao Yao reminded, "Not on land, but on the river!"

The destroyer Weiguo and the gunboat Datong of the Yangtze River Fleet of the Chinese Navy, which were on the river near Nanjing, immediately joined the battle.

At this time, there were two "Yangtze River Fleets" on the Yangtze River, one belonged to the Chinese Navy and the other belonged to the Japanese Navy. Upstream, the national fleet is downstream, because if the Japanese fleet goes downstream, it will definitely be bombarded by the Zijinshan artillery group, and will also be attacked by the national army torpedo boat formation. If the national military fleet goes upstream, it will definitely be attacked by the Japanese Fleet attack, so the two sides "non-aggression".

The Dasheng Pass is downstream, and the nearby river is controlled by the national army fleet, so the Weiguo and Datong can participate in the battle.

After the two ships joined the battle, they immediately and forcefully regained the victory.

The five 5mm main naval guns of the Weiguo and the two 127mm main naval guns of the Datong continued to fire salvos, and the Japanese army besieging Dashengguan immediately flew into pieces of flesh and blood amidst lightning and thunder.

The Japanese army hastily launched a counterattack. The heavy artillery group that bombarded Dashengguan was divided into half to bombard the Weiguo and Datong on the river. The two ships continued to provide artillery assistance to the defenders while trying their best to evade and dodge on the river. The Datong was hit by three consecutive Japanese artillery shells. The whole ship fell apart in a big explosion, broke into several sections and sank into the Yangtze River. Less than one-third of the crew survived. At the same time, the Weiguo was also hit by a Japanese 240mm. The millimeter heavy howitzer hit the granary on the ship, but the shell did not explode, it was a dud. If the shell exploded normally, the Weiguo would definitely be blown to pieces.

When the crew of the Weiguo pushed the dud into the Yangtze River in cold sweat, Yu Shihang, the captain of the Weiguo and the former captain of the Datong, looked at the sinking Datong on the nearby river with grief.

Although the Datong was an old ship in the late Qing Dynasty, it made great achievements in battle, especially after being incorporated into the Yangtze River Fleet. It made great contributions in both the defense of Nanjing and the Battle of Nanjing. He retreated completely, but at this time he attacked with the Weiguo, but his halberd fell into the sand.

"Mine!" Yu Shihang was grieving, when the surrounding sailors suddenly yelled hoarsely. On the dark surface of the river, a mine floated unsteadily. It was impossible to do large-scale evasion on the surface of the Yangtze River. I saw that the mine hit the bow side of the ship, and it was a [-]-kilogram heavy mine, which was enough to shatter the bow of the Weiguo.

In Yu Shihang's words, "At this moment, my brothers and I gritted our teeth, closed our eyes, and our hearts stopped suddenly. I want to greet the whole family of the navy's mine-laying troops. Which bastard is it? Mined in the waters where our own warships are operating? I thought, what a pity I have just been promoted from the captain of a gunboat to the captain of a destroyer, and at the same time, I lost my gunboat and my destroyer.

I tense up, waiting in agony for the thunderbolt to explode on my warship, but, damn it, it's bloody hell!The mine didn't explode!I take back what I said at the beginning, I will not greet the whole family of the naval minelaying unit, those idiots scared me to death!Fortunately, the mine suffered a mechanical failure!Thank goodness!But what a hell of a thing it was! "He had lingering fears in his heart, and he was terrified after being thankful.

Despite the dangers, the Japanese artillery shells overhead, and its own mines on the water around it, the Weiguo is still doing its best to support the army brothers on land.

However, it is obviously not enough to rely on the destroyer Weiguo alone.

At this time, on the river near Dashengguan, apart from the sunken gunboat Datong and the destroyer Weiguo, which is struggling to join the battle, there is also a warship, and the tonnage and firepower of this warship are larger than that of Datong and Weiguo. A few orders of magnitude, it is the battleship Mutsu of the Japanese Navy detained here by the Chinese Navy and co-managed by personnel from eight countries.

The situation of the Mutsu at this time is as follows: the ship has four double-connected main ship turrets. The No. 1333 and No. 300 main ship guns and ammunition depots are controlled by the Chinese navy frogmen, and the ammunition depots are still full of shells. No. 200 The No. [-] main naval gun was controlled by the Japanese navy sailors on board, and the shells in the ammunition depot had been transferred by the Japanese army. There were originally [-] crew members on board, and there were more than [-] armed guards at this time. The Chinese navy had More than [-] frogmen remained on board to control No. [-] and No. [-] ammunition depots. In addition to Chinese and Japanese personnel, there were also personnel from Germany, the United States, Britain, France, Italy, and the Soviet Union on board, but there were not many personnel from the six countries. Either a dozen people, or just a few people, symbolically participated in the "eight-nation co-management".

In other words, the front of the Mutsu was controlled by the Japanese army, and the rear was controlled by the Chinese navy.

After the fierce battle of Dashengguan broke out, the personnel from the eight countries on the Mutsu "watched the battle nearby". The personnel from the six countries did not take a stand. , cheering for their own troops, the scene is as vivid as "two groups of fans watching a fierce game of their respective support teams", but they are not watching the show, but watching the bloody fight.

When the defenders of Dashengguan killed the Japanese soldiers, there were bursts of warm Chinese cheers on the Mutsu immediately. The excited frogmen desperately waved the red flags full of blue sky and white sun. The Japanese heavy artillery blasted Dashengguan upside down. At that time, the Japanese army on the Mutsu also immediately cheered and cheered in Japanese, and the sun flags were shaken and shaken.

"Damn it! These bastard little Japanese!" Bu Xiao was furious when he heard the Japanese cheers, "What a bird! What's there to be proud of!" He glared at the Japanese soldiers at the front of the Mutsu.

"Captain!" A frogman pulled Bu Xiao uneasily, "The brothers in Dashengguan seem to be unable to hold on! The devil's artillery fire is indeed too fierce!"

Bu Xiao looked at the Dasheng Pass on the land, and he sullenly said, "I know that Zhang Yun, he is a guy with long eyes and a head above his head. Female star Zhou Xuan, I really hope that bastard is killed by the devil's shell, but if the Dasheng Pass is lost, the Yangtze River transportation line will be cut off, and the Germans have assisted us with a large amount of arms. If the Yangtze River transportation line is really cut off Now, Nanjing is in big trouble, we still have to help that Zhang Yun!" He thought over and over again, suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and then looked at his subordinates with bright eyes, "Hey! Do you still remember " The Great Victory Seki Agreement? It says that we are not allowed to destroy the Mutsu, right?"

"Yes!" The frogmen nodded together.

Bu Xiao showed a strange fox-like smile: "But the agreement doesn't say that we are not allowed to 'use' the Mutsu, right?"

The frogmen were all taken aback: "Captain, what do you mean?"

Bu Xiao suddenly ordered seriously: "Hurry up! Contact Yu Shihang and ask him to transfer a batch of naval artillery to me immediately! Let's use the main naval artillery of the Mutsu to bombard the devils on land!" He looked at the guns in the ammunition depot. Cannonballs, "There are so many cannonballs, half of them can be left to blow up the Mutsu, and the extra half should be thrown on the devils! This can be regarded as returning to the original owner!"

It was an extremely crazy decision, and an extremely crazy act.

However, neither Bu Xiao nor Yu Shihang has any concerns about this, their logic is ready-made: With the support of Second Young Master Jiang, what are we afraid of?So, in the disbelief of all parties, 15 minutes later, the No. 4 and No. 410 on the rear of the Mutsu, a total of four 16mm main naval guns roared an earth-shattering explosion at the [-]th Division of the Japanese Army that was besieging Dasheng Pass. Thunder and flames.

"What are you doing? You violated the regulations!" The crews from the seven countries on board were shocked, the Japanese couldn't believe it, and became furious, and the crews from the other six countries pointed out righteously what Bu Xiao, Yu Shihang and others did.

"We didn't violate the regulations!" Bu Xiao argued strongly, "The agreement says that we are not allowed to destroy the Mutsu, but it didn't say that we are not allowed to use the Mutsu! Time is urgent, I don't want to waste my words with you! You all fucking quit ! Otherwise, I will detonate the shell immediately!"

"Boom!——" Four hurricane-like fire dragons soared on the Yangtze River, and the four 410mm main ship guns fired an overwhelming volley, which exploded in the crowd of Japanese soldiers besieging Dasheng Pass in an instant. The big fireball almost collapsed, and the Japanese soldiers on the four football fields were smashed to pieces and wiped out in the big explosion.

"Go on! Let it go!" Bu Xiao yelled with a shiny face, bombarding the Japanese with Japanese warships, Japanese cannons, and Japanese artillery shells. Is there anything more cost-effective in the world than this?

The 16th Division was completely devastated. The five rounds of salvos fired by the No. [-] and No. [-] main turrets of the Mutsu bombarded a total of [-] shells. Lost more than half of the strength of the Japanese army.

Including Major General Tatsumi Kusaba, head of the 19th Brigade, more than 70 Japanese soldiers were killed and injured by the Mutsu. "There is no missing bullet", once it is fired, it will blow up stumps and broken arms like sandstorms (large-caliber heavy artillery is extremely lethal, such as the above example of the Battle of Ganling, the volunteer infantry in this battle must be desperately fighting, but the battle According to later statistics, [-]% of the casualties suffered by the U.S. and South Korean coalition forces in the Battle of Shangganling were caused by volunteer artillery), and most importantly, the Japanese heavy artillery group could not fight back because the Japanese warships fired the guns.

When the Mutsu was found to be firing, Major General Kingoro Hashimoto, the commander of the Japanese heavy artillery group on the Daesungseki battlefield, received a report from his subordinates: "Your Excellency, Major General! The Mutsu just opened fire on us! Do you want to fight back?"

"Fight back?" Rear Admiral Hashimoto was furious, "That's a warship of the Imperial Navy! How do you fight back?"

The Chinese naval artillery on the Mutsu fired with complete recklessness. If it weren't for the need to keep half of the shells on board to continue threatening the Japanese, the artillery who had enjoyed the fight really wanted to blast all the shells on top of the Japanese army.

Relying on the "strong assistance" of the navy, the Dashengguan defenders once again defended the Dashengguan, killing and injuring more than 500 Japanese soldiers, of which about 6000 were caused by naval guns, and most of them were Mutsu. Caused by the USS gun.

After the war ended, Zhang Yun found a Japanese general officer's command knife on the battlefield, which belonged to Major General Kusaba Tatsumi who was killed by shell fragments. He gave this saber to Bu Xiao as a thank you.

"As of this time (February 2), according to statistics, our army has killed and wounded about 2 Japanese soldiers on the Nanjing battlefield, of which about 16.5 Japanese soldiers died!" Xiao Yao reported to Jiang Weiguo, "Our army The total number of casualties has also reached 10, of which 5.2 died, among the more than 2.1 wounded soldiers, about 3 were seriously injured and disabled, about 1.3 were slightly injured, and about 1.7 could recover within one month People!" He looked at Jiang Weiguo, "We've...half the casualties!"

"I understand, I understand!" Jiang Weiguo nodded, "We have already suffered half of the casualties!"

"Although there are militiamen who can fill them in, the combat effectiveness of the militiamen is definitely not as good as the original veterans!" Xiao Yao said solemnly, "Now, we are going to start shrinking the line of defense. Maintaining the original line of defense when the number of combatants is halved will cause us The military density and defensive strength of the defense line have been greatly reduced!"

Jiang Weiguo knew in his heart that after two months of fierce fighting, the Nanjing Army began to lack stamina.

Chapter 303 Preparing for a Counterattack

On February 2, the Political Department of the Military Commission was established in Wuhan. Chen Cheng served as the minister, Zhou Enlai and Huang Qixiang served as the vice ministers, and Zhang Lisheng served as the secretary-general. The department is in charge of wartime propaganda, and He Zhonghan, Kang Ze, and Guo Moruo are the directors of the first, second, and third departments respectively.

On the same day, Jiang Weiguo received a telegram from Xu Shiying, the ambassador of the Nationalist Government to Japan. Ambassador Xu told Jiang Weiguo in the telegram that Haushofer had already met with Japanese Prime Minister Konoe Fumimaro, and the two also specially invited him to participate in the "Tripartite Secret talks", this secret talk was carried out behind the back of the Japanese military, Haushofer completely represented Germany and Hitler, Xu Shiying represented the national government, Konoe Fumimaro only represented the civilian group of the Japanese cabinet.

Konoe Fummaro showed a very strong novelty, interest, and relatively supportive attitude towards this "Germany, China and Japan Three Kingdoms Alliance". However, Konoe Fummaro claimed that "the Japanese military has always been steadfast in the interests of the empire. Although the Japanese cabinet has the intention to , but very weak.

If Japan and China turn their enemies into friends, Japan will at best restore its situation to that before the July [-]th Incident. Moreover, the Japanese military has paid so many casualties and costs, and it has cost countless, so it is necessary to obtain some "compensation", even if it is a "symbolic Only in this way can the Japanese military have a step down. As for this "compensation", Japan must at least obtain the right to station and substantively control the three cities of Shanghai, Beiping, and Tianjin; Cooperate with 'Germany and China to 'put pressure' on the Japanese military, but the conditions are difficult to fall below the above bottom line."

Konoe Fumimaro is certainly not a "peace-loving person". He just wants to end this war that is obviously becoming more and more unfavorable to Japan and is getting out of control. Originally, the outbreak of this war was caused by his involuntary circumstances. He was promoted by the military. After the outbreak, the military became more self-willed and arbitrary, which made him feel more and more empty. He once laughed at himself to Hirohito, "I am like a mannequin in a street clothing store. They ( The military) didn’t let me know anything, and I let them manipulate me, which really made me very embarrassed.” Therefore, Fumimaro Konoe feared and disliked the Japanese military. Originally, he didn’t have the courage to carry the military behind his back.” But he has recently felt that Emperor Hirohito is also increasingly dissatisfied with the military, because before the outbreak of the war, the military promised the emperor that "Northern China will be pacified within one month, and China will be resolved within three months." , As a result, the facts have proved that the military has not fulfilled the promise they made to the emperor, and the military "cannot guarantee that the situation of war will always be under their control." The military fanatically provoked wars and actively promoted Hirohito was naturally displeased by the fact that the war was incapable of ending the war. Therefore, Konoe Fumimaro boldly speculated that the emperor also wanted to end the war early. He judged that the emperor would support him in this matter, which gave him the The "courage and courage" to engage in "limited confrontation" with the military.

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