Spy Wars: I have space, but I choose to work alone

Hearing the answer he least wanted to hear, even the fat and shrewd man's expression changed. After driving away the four ordinary gendarmes, he looked at the three professionals with inquiring eyes.

A Navy lieutenant commander who studied in the United States summed it up:

"Sir, these commands are commonly used by the American military. Ordinary people would never say them in English. These are standard military terms."

Signaled to the secretary to see the guest off.

After everyone left, when Fatty was the only one left in the meeting room, a very suppressed voice of "Baga! Damn British and American white beasts!" echoed in the meeting room.

Now all the unreasonable things make sense. It turns out that creatures like Yaksha with explosive combat power were cultivated by British and American monsters?

That is to say, how could the level of the Military Control Commission possibly produce such Yakshas in large quantities? It seems that the British and American evildoers have always been behind this.

At this time, the status of British and American white people in the hearts of East Asian countries is like the status of modern black uncles in looking at China: powerful and invincible, and even with some deified meaning.

If you say that Yaksha is from China, no one will believe it. But if you say that the British and American devils helped China to cultivate them, everyone will believe it.

Just like the fat guy, he is cursing the British and American devils and the cabinet that is living a simple life.

In a top-secret meeting room, a dozen old men in kimonos gathered for a small meeting.

Just like now, big meetings are held for small matters and small meetings are held for big matters. At this time, a dozen old men are deciding the national strategy for daily life.

First up is the Chancellor's report:

"From July 1937 to March 7, in just less than two years, we made four consecutive temporary military expenditures, with the cumulative amount reaching 1939 billion yen, which is more than four times the Empire's national budget in 3. In 4, the Empire had 100 billion foreign exchange reserves and 1936 tons of gold reserves. Now there are only 4 tons of gold reserves left, and the foreign exchange has been used up, all of which is used to import materials needed for the war."

"In order to cope with the shortage of supplies caused by the war, the Empire was forced to implement the "Second Military Mobilization" plan from April 1938 to March 4. Now the domestic production is in a state of chaos, and problems such as rice shortages and electricity shortages are emerging one after another. Your military department can give you an accurate answer. When will the war in the Celestial Empire end? Before the war, you said that the war would end in three months. Now it has been almost two years, and there is no sign of ending the war in the Celestial Empire. If it continues, the Empire's economy will not be able to bear it."

As soon as the Finance Minister finished speaking, the entire conference hall immediately buzzed with concern for the current economy of the empire, while also casting suspicious eyes on the representative of the Army Department.

Being stared at with suspicion by so many people, the Army's spokesperson, Lu Xiang, also felt a little flushed, and he tried to explain himself:

"The army handed over so much spoils and occupied so much territory. Where did all the gold go?"

The Finance Minister was brutally blunt:

"War spoils? Do you mean those large quantities of initial mineral products? Or do you mean the mere 100 tons of gold? If those primary mineral products are to be turned into the weapons in your hands and the clothes on your body, don't they require investment of resources? Our Ministry of Finance has calculated that for every yen your army has taken back, the Empire has to invest five yen. Now the Empire's war against the Celestial Empire is simply a losing business! Why didn't your army implement a policy of gradual erosion in the first place, but had to recklessly expand the scale of the war?"

This question left Prime Minister Lu speechless. The Japanese army in World War II was actually not as stupid as most people thought, and they were not trying to swallow up China in one bite.

Even the stupidest attack on Zhenzhu Port in the eyes of ordinary people was only aimed at destroying the main force of the US Pacific Fleet, forcing the US to sign an armistice agreement and then recognize the fact that they had swallowed up Southeast Asia, rather than believing that they could defeat the US.

Therefore, they still had a general strategic guideline, such as annexing the Northeast first, then North China, gradually digesting the resources of the occupied areas, and then gradually annexing other regions.

But ideas are just ideas, and there are a lot of problems when it comes to their implementation.

As mentioned before, the hierarchy within the Xiaori Empire was strict, and the class between nobles and commoners was not something that commoners were allowed to cross.

They did not treat civilians as human beings at all, especially the lower-level officers and soldiers in the Japanese army who were extremely poor.

Soon, some smart Japanese soldiers discovered that as long as they kept fighting, they could seize things, and then make military achievements and improve their own class.

As a result, there were endless cases of the inferior rebelling against the superior in the Japanese army, and the war was constantly expanded by the reckless manipulation of the "younger generation" in the army who wanted to be rich and famous, and to stand out from the crowd. In fact, they were the "common people" who wanted to stand out.

After hearing the army boast that it could end the war against the Celestial Empire in three months, his gambling nature came into play.

No matter what strategy was involved, they went all in when there was no preparation for an all-out war and poured all the available resources in the country into the army.

They attempted to destroy the main force of the Celestial Empire, force it to surrender, and end the war quickly.

But what’s interesting is that although the National Army at this time had failed in all its large-scale battles and suffered heavy casualties, it failed to allow the Japanese army to complete a large-scale annihilation campaign or destroy the main force of the National Army, and often just defeated them.

Militarily, they retreated again and again; politically, Xiao Ri used all kinds of means to induce surrender.

But they refused to surrender, and their lives became chaotic. The war fell into a tug-of-war that they least wanted.

The war has been going on for so long that the cost of living a normal life has become too high, and the huge sunk costs force them to continue.

The Army Prime Minister could no longer hold back and complained:

"It's not that our army didn't work hard, but the National Army has foreign aid! We have forced the main force of the National Army to the barren southwest region. It seems that if we force it a little more, the National Army will surrender. However, Britain and the United States are interfering with the situation and using the Yunnan-Burma and Yunnan-Vietnam highways to provide blood transfusions to the National Army. If we want to quickly end the Celestial War, we must cut off these two blood transfusion lines. Our army has applied to enter Laomian Burma, so that the war will end completely by the end of the year."

"Damn it, it's these British and American white beasts again!" Upon hearing that it was Britain and the United States that were causing trouble, the Minister of Foreign Affairs cursed unconsciously.

“How do you use “又”?”

The other bigwigs also looked at the Prime Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with strange eyes. The Prime Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs realized that he had said the wrong thing and quickly added:

"No, Britain and the United States have clearly conveyed to us through diplomatic channels their dissatisfaction with our unauthorized expansion of aggression, and urged us to launch an attack on the Russians in the north. Old Burma is a colony of England. If our troops enter Old Burma, they can cut off the channel for foreign aid for the National Army. At the same time, Britain and the United States will also cut off all our trade. This is a price we cannot afford."