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

Upon hearing this, all the bastards in the meeting room started cursing “Baka!”

It is no wonder that the Xiaori people were defeated. The Xiaori people’s war against the Celestial Empire can be illustrated by a vivid metaphor.

A poor gang was so desperate to get rich that they borrowed high-interest loans to buy weapons and went to rob another gang. However, after working hard for a long time, sweating and bleeding, they settled the accounts at the end of the year and found out: "Damn it!" The money they robbed was not even enough to buy the weapons. All the money was taken away by the guys who sold the weapons.

Up to now, apart from the Japanese troops on the front line who have made a lot of money, the government has not made any money at all. On the contrary, it is heavily in debt.

At this time, the Chancellor of the Exchequer asked the Prime Minister of the Army tentatively:

"If you don't enter the British-American-controlled Old Burma and rely solely on the army, are you sure you can resolve the southwest direction and completely resolve the war within six months? Our finance department can issue another round of national bonds and equip your army with another 30 troops."

When Lu Xiang heard this "good" news, he did not make a decision immediately. Instead, he was silent for a while before slowly saying:

"If we want to completely defeat the southwest by relying solely on military means, based on the locust army's combat experience in the Ezhou Battle in the southwestern mountains that are not suitable for mechanized troops to deploy, we will have to pay at least one million casualties and fight for more than two years. This is based on the fact that the national army has no external aid. Now, with the opening of the Burma Road outside and the Red armed forces constantly causing trouble in our occupied areas, which has tied up most of the locust army's forces, we may need more resources and more time."

Now the Minister of Finance was speechless. According to what the Army Minister said, it would only take six months to fight on such a large scale. Either the country would immediately switch to a wartime system and abandon the private economy, overdrawing the country's future, or it would immediately declare national bankruptcy.

The southwest of the Celestial Empire is all mountainous and hilly. It has been easy to defend but difficult to attack since ancient times. There is an old saying that goes, "The world is not in chaos until Shu is in chaos; the world is pacified before Shu is pacified."

This is the special feature of the southwest. The mountains are steep and difficult to pass through. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "the road to Shu is difficult, more difficult than climbing to the sky". There are many places where one man can block the way for ten thousand men.

A third-rate troop defense can easily block the attack of three times the number of first-rate troops.

Generally, at the end of a feudal dynasty, the southwestern region would first rebel and establish a separatist regime. After the newly established regime unified the country, it would take the whole country's strength to slowly pacify the southwest.

"No, no. If we arm another million troops now, Britain and the United States will cut off our trade support. I think we have already occupied the most populous and productive Northeast China, North China, Central China, South China and other fertile lands. There is no need to continue to consume the empire's precious resources for the barren lands in the southwest and northwest."

"In order to win the continued support of the British, American and other Western devils, I think we should, on the one hand, hold on and digest the existing occupied areas, and strive to rely on the resources of the occupied areas to feed back the domestic economy, which has already had problems. On the other hand, we should launch the Northward Plan to completely solve the biggest threat to the northern border, the Far East Army. In this way, the British and American devils will acquiesce in our occupation of the Celestial Empire and continue to fully support us." The Prime Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs immediately added according to the plan.

"Soga! This is really the best of both worlds!"

"Indeed, on the one hand, it can ease the current domestic economy, and on the other hand, it can also ease diplomatic pressure!"

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As the Foreign Minister put forward his strategic ideas, he immediately won the applause of all the participants.

The grand strategy formulated by the Japanese army was to move north immediately after occupying China. The army believed that by moving north, they could join forces with Hans to attack the Russians, win continued support from Britain and the United States, and then completely eliminate this red center, making the northern border of Xiaori more secure.

After all, the Russians at that time had deployed 600,000 Far Eastern troops in the Far East, looking at their precious Northeast Plain across the river every day and publicly declared: "We would rather give up our homeland than give up here."

The other people also realized it after hearing what the Prime Minister of Foreign Affairs said. At the same time, they looked at the Prime Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of War in confusion, and they were all thinking in their hearts.

The northward strategy has always been advocated by the Army, but this time the Ministry of Foreign Affairs took the initiative to advocate it. When did the two of them become so close?

Is there some PY transaction we are not aware of?

At this time, Lu Xiang also acted as if he had just reacted and analyzed excitedly:

"With our ally Hans holding them back in the west, the Russian army can't pay too much attention to the Far East. The combat effectiveness of the Russian army right now is only equivalent to that of the last time we fought. Our Locust Army has experienced actual combat, and its tactical thinking and military equipment are no longer what they used to be. As long as we plan properly, it is possible to quickly eliminate the Far Eastern Army, cut off the Siberian Railway, and go north to win."

"I agree, that's what we should do!"

"Agree~"

"Agree~"

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Soon, everyone in the meeting room expressed their agreement, and even the Minister of the Navy remained silent.

Contrary to what most people imagine, at the beginning of the war, the entire army actually agreed to go north, even the Navy Idiots, who were the most incompatible with the Army Idiots.

The southward strategy seems good, but Southeast Asia is basically the sphere of influence of Britain and the United States. Once it goes south, it will inevitably provoke counterattacks from the two most powerful countries in the world.

The Japanese Navy, which is composed of elites and has learned a lot from the West, is much more rational than the army's idiots who are crazy about making achievements unless it is forced to do so. It is also unwilling to go head-to-head with the more powerful British and American navies.

Xiao Ri was not so stupid as to do this, so the strategy of moving northward, which was in line with the interests of Western countries such as Britain and the United States, was the mainstream opinion within the Japanese army at that time.

Seeing that everyone had reached a unanimous agreement, the Prime Minister, who had not expressed his opinion until now, finally spoke up.

"Since everyone has reached a consensus, the Ministry of Finance should come up with a specific "fight to support war" plan. As for the Army, well, be conservative and formulate a strategic reconnaissance plan first to get a feel for the Far East Army's combat effectiveness. As for whether to start a war, we should discuss it at the Imperial Conference and implement it after the Heavenly Locust agrees. We must not blindly expand the war like we did in the Celestial Empire War. We should do it step by step. The Empire's battle line is too long."

"Hi!"

"Hi!"

The Prime Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Prime Minister of the Army stood up and answered loudly, both with excitement in their tone. Both forces got what they wanted.

The army was unwilling to suffer huge casualties to fight in the barren southwestern mountains and wanted to go to the north where it was "easier" to establish merit. The Kwantung Army, in particular, which had been idle until now, was ready to move.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs could immediately inform Britain and the United States that the Japanese army would soon move north as Britain and the United States wished, thereby easing diplomatic pressure and ensuring that the trade of strategic materials was not cut off.