Although Prime Minister Hideki Tojo was extremely powerful, he could not help but feel guilty when facing the demigod and demigod Emperor Hirohito. Of course, his fear was more due to the unsatisfactory war. China first launched a massive air raid on the Japanese mainland.
, and now they have begun to spray herbicides on Japanese farmland, which has had a fatal impact on Japanese agriculture.
"Prime Minister, I want to know how much farmland has been destroyed, how much our food will be reduced, and is there any way to stop it?"
As soon as Tojo heard Hirohito ask about the losses, sweat broke out on his bald forehead, and he said tremblingly: "According to current rough statistics, a total of 200,000 hectares of fertile farmland have been destroyed, accounting for about three-thirds of the entire Kanto Plain.
More than one-third. In addition, 85,000 hectares of forest have also been destroyed. If the current situation develops, the empire's food production this year will be reduced by 20%!"
After hearing this number, Hirohito felt that the world was spinning. Food was the most important thing for the people. A 20% reduction in food production did not mean that everyone would eat 20% less a day. Misfortunes cannot be shared equally.
Not only will those powerful people not go hungry, but they will also make the country rich.
This means that there will definitely be a large-scale famine in Japan. Especially since Japan has to support overseas battlefields, the pressure on the country will be even heavier. The lack of food will definitely cause chaos in Japan. Read the full text of "Devil Eyes Monster".
Moreover, it is still in wartime, and Japan's maritime lifeline is still threatened by the joint efforts of China and the United States. This has put a fatal rope around the neck of the island country. As long as this continues, local agriculture will be completely destroyed, and overseas sources will be completely destroyed.
If it is cut off, Japan will lose without a fight!
"Prime Minister, what I want to listen to is your approach. The people of the empire need food. I order you to maintain the basic domestic supply, otherwise your role as prime minister will come to an end!"
According to Japan's political system, the emperor does not have the power to remove the prime minister, but now Hirohito has broken the political rules so simply. His actions are undoubtedly declaring that he is the most powerful dictator and prime minister in Japan.
It's just a doll in his hand.
This is indeed the case. Almost all the Japanese soldiers on the front line participated in the battle shouting the slogan of fighting for the emperor. With this prestige, Hirohito could easily remove Tojo.
Under these conditions, the emperor was not held responsible for the war, but only tried some generals who led the army. At the same time, the staff and the chaebols also escaped sanctions. Do you still expect Japan to reflect on its war crimes? It can only make them think that the invasion was not
Wrong, the only thing wrong is failure!
As soon as Tojo Hideki heard Hirohito's words, he immediately fell to his knees on the ground, his bald head knocked to the ground desperately, "Your Majesty, the sin of a humble minister deserves to be punished by death! The headquarters has formulated several countermeasures, and we will definitely be able to do so.
Eliminate the effects of the food crisis!”
Hirohito controlled his emotions and said again: "Prime Minister, please tell me."
"Your Majesty, the base camp has formulated a total of three strategies. The first is to strengthen territorial air defense and build early warning radars to detect and predict Chinese bombers in advance. The second is to stabilize maritime trade routes and increase food replenishment from Southeast Asia and other places.
intensity to ensure domestic needs. The third is to increase the intensity of ocean fishing. The Chinese attack large merchant ships at sea very frequently, but they do not pay much attention to some small fishing boats. Now that the empire controls a huge sea area, it can get enough
Fish, especially whales, as long as the fishing intensity is increased, it will also be a supplement to the country."
Tojo Hideki proposed three methods, Hirohito nodded, and then said: "These three methods are good, but the Prime Minister must also see that these are only temporary measures and cannot fundamentally solve the problem. What the empire needs is
Solve the problem once and for all, do you understand what I mean?"
"We understand that His Majesty is asking the Empire to occupy Australia and New Zealand as soon as possible and obtain the vast farms and pastures there."
"The Prime Minister is right. Australia is the maritime fulcrum of the Americans. As long as we capture it, the US Pacific Fleet will be completely destroyed. Moreover, Australia has an amazing amount of ore. If the empire captures this place, it will solve its worries. The German allies have already begun
Regarding the battle of Stalingrad, as long as we win here, the Soviet Union will collapse. By then, our pressure will be much less, and the Prime Minister's Empire must survive this difficult period."
Hirohito seemed to be talking to Tojo, but also seemed to be talking to himself. He originally thought that Germany could attack Moscow and destroy the Soviet Union in two or three months just like it did with the French. However, the Soviet Union's tenacity was far beyond imagination.
Moreover, the two major powers China and the United States also tried their best to deliver all needed materials to the Soviet Union. In particular, China also set up special cooperative factories in Outer Mongolia, Xinjiang Province and other places to fully produce military materials for the Soviet Union.
Relying on the support of China and the United States, and Su Liang's unique special system, the entire country soon turned into a large military camp, and the power of all Russians was gathered together. They had only one goal, which was to completely destroy Nazi Germany.
Steel Torrent was reorganized, and soldiers from the Far East were transferred to the Moscow front. After a fierce battle, although the Soviets lost millions of lives, they successfully blocked the German attack and saved Moscow.
After Hitler's attack failed, he had to choose Stalingrad as the breakthrough point. He hoped to conquer the city named after Stalin and at the same time seize the rich resources of the southwestern Soviet Union, especially the oil fields in the Caucasus, to nourish the Third Reich.
Thirsty war machine.
Hirohito had pinned his hopes of victory on Germany. As long as the Third Reich remained as ferocious as ever, Japan could get out of its bad situation.
Regarding the Battle of Stalingrad, not only Japan is paying attention, China and the United States and other countries are also paying close attention to it. Germany’s magic weapon is blitzkrieg. If it loses speed, the Third Reich has nothing to fear. The Soviets in Moscow have already won once.
, if it wins again in Stalingrad, Germany will face the fate of complete defeat. Read the full text of Personal Beauty Guide.
In the early stages of this fateful battle, Stalin and the Soviet Supreme Command once again made misjudgments. They believed that the focus of Germany's attack would be in the direction of Moscow. Therefore, the Soviet Union placed heavy troops in Moscow, and the defense force in the southwest was relatively small.
Weaker.
The German attack was divided into two directions, one targeting Stalingrad and the other targeting the Baku oil fields in the Caucasus. At the beginning of the war, the Germans went smoothly. Manstein successfully eliminated the Soviet army in Crimea and captured prisoners.
170,000 Soviet soldiers were killed, exhausting the reserves that the Soviet Union had finally assembled.
In addition, the Soviet Union misjudged the situation and took the initiative to launch an attack in the southwest. In the Kharkov Battle, 75,000 people were killed, another 240,000 were captured, and more than 1,249 tanks were lost.
There are more than two thousand artillery pieces.
This failed battle undoubtedly showed that the Soviet army did not yet have the ability to actively attack Germany. There was a huge gap between the two armies in terms of combat capabilities and campaign organization. It would take a while for the Soviet army to defeat the German army.
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Relying on the glory of victory, Germany once again gained a strategic advantage and began to launch a fierce attack on Stalingrad. Only then did Stalin realize that he had once again made a mistake in judgment. The left wing of Germany's Bock Army Group B, Holt
The 4th Armored Group and the 2nd Weicks Army suddenly attacked from the northeast of Kursk to the east and launched an assault on the 13th and 40th Group Armies of the Bryansk Front, aiming directly at Voronezy in the upper reaches of the Don River.
At the same time, the right-wing Paulus 6th Army also launched an offensive from the northeast of Kharkov, advancing southeast with Stalingrad as the goal, and broke through the defenses of the 21st and 28th Army. The Soviets invested all their reserves.
battlefield, but still could not stop Germany's overwhelming momentum.
At this time, the situation on the battlefield was already very critical. The Stalingrad Front tasked with defending Stalingrad had only 12 divisions with 160,000 troops, 2,200 artillery pieces and mortars, about 400 tanks, and 454 aircraft. It was composed of long-range aviation (
(150 to 200 bombers) and the 102nd Air Defense Aviation Division (60 fighter aircraft) are responsible for support.
The German [***] teams they had to face were Hoth's Fourth Armored Army and Paulus's Sixth Army. The Sixth Army alone had 6 armies, including 2 armored corps.
The 14 divisions have about 270,000 people, nearly 500 tanks, 3,000 artillery pieces and mortars, and can also be supported by 1,200 combat aircraft from the 4th Air Force.
At this time, Germany not only had a quantitative advantage, but also the quality of the German [***] team was far superior to that of the Soviet Union. The situation in Stalingrad could be said to be in danger.
In order to save the grim situation, Stalin once again thought of Zhukov, the most reliable general. Stalin appointed Zhukov as the Supreme Deputy Commander-in-Chief and decided to immediately mobilize the 24th and 66th Army Groups and the 1st Guards Army to go to Stalingrad.
Immediately, Zhukov flew to Stalingrad and began to organize the counterattack of the 24th, 66th Army and the 1st Guards Army. Stalin called Zhukov to request an immediate assault on Stalingrad to ease local tensions.
However, what no one knew was that at the most critical moment in Stalingrad, Stalin himself left Moscow and quietly went to Chita, the capital of the Far Eastern Republic. Of course, Stalin did not escape, but went to meet Qiao Yu.
Stalin and Qiao Yu were old enemies. From the beginning of the Soviet Union, Qiao Yu resolutely sent troops to intervene in the Soviet Union, regained the lost land, and supported the Far Eastern Republic. This became a pain in the hearts of all Russians.
The eagle has completely lost its head.
Although no major conflict broke out between China and the Soviet Union, the border was never peaceful again. Of course, there were times when the two countries learned from each other, such as the Five-Year Plan. That's it. To be honest, the political systems of the current Soviet Union and China are actually very similar.
Of course, including Germany, they are all strongman politics and one-party states.
Stalin's special plane flew over the vast Siberian desert, and Qiao Yu also set off from Yanjing to the north. The two heads of state were about to have their first formal dialogue.