Supporting the body in the white blade, wandering in the red dust

Chapter 999

"The time has not come yet." Bai Lang was also an old fighter, and he had a good understanding of modern warfare - the principles of wars in ancient and modern times, both in China and abroad, were the same, and there was no change. If you want to know when the Japanese will expand the war, you only need to look at their domestic industrial economic conditions and the stockpiled raw materials to guess.

Wars are always fought on industrial and logistical resources, and modern wars place particular emphasis on these two points. Not to mention the current Japanese army, the Navy Combined Fleet is a disposable fleet in Bailang's eyes. Not to mention the losses in a few more battles, it will collapse due to the maintenance of logistics. In this regard, Britain, also an island country, is far superior to the Japanese.

Japan is a well-known poor imperialist country, but at least it can provide all the weapons and supplies for its army. The navy is a bit dangerous. Bai Lang is very clear that during the entire Pacific War, the Japanese were unable to make up for the losses on the battlefield, both in terms of manpower and material resources.

The Americans could lose a warship, whether it was a battleship or a heavy aircraft carrier, and they could replace two within a few months, and at the same time they could replace the lost manpower or even double it. The Japanese could not do that. If they lost warships, small and medium-sized warships such as light cruisers and destroyers, and submarines were okay, and they could replace a certain number within half a year after the loss. However, once a large warship such as a heavy cruiser or above was lost, it was almost a permanent loss.

Therefore, the Japanese Combined Fleet is a disposable fleet. Bai Lang only needs to observe how much crude oil and iron ore they have stockpiled, and then combine it with the US export volume to know when the Japanese will take action.

Now, from Bai Lang's point of view, since the Northeast had to reinvest funds and industrial power, the development of the Japanese army has basically stopped, but the development of the navy has only been affected and has not stopped - the key is that the Americans' investment in them has increased a lot for a while, and they made a lot of money from Japan, which caused Japan's national debt figures to rise a lot.

If this continues, it will be difficult to sustain, and they may even speed up their offensive? But their strength should be inferior to that of the "same period", and what can they do by plundering China? If you want to plunder an agricultural country, you can only plunder agricultural products and primary resources, and you have to consume domestic industrial power to produce them. "In short, the feudal activities of local coordination will be expanded, and the scope of their invasion will be reduced?"

The larger the territory you occupy, the greater the burden you carry, and the faster you go bankrupt.
Now Japan is eyeing Shanghai, the largest industrial city in Asia outside of Japan. This may be one of the biggest pieces of fat in Asia. Of course, the oil in Borneo is also very good, but most Japanese will not consider that this stuff has to be shipped back to Japan for distillation and refining, which will take up a considerable amount of their transportation capacity.

The moment is now 1935. The Japanese invasion of China has stopped for nearly three years. The Nationalist government has once again fallen into a false dream of peace. In Europe, at least the voices of the Noodle Man are not so loud. They are busy rebuilding the disaster-stricken areas, and the prestige of the old Mexicans is a little higher. And the Sandezi next door has made a fortune by selling machinery and equipment for reconstruction, and of course has also tested some of their engineering machinery that they are preparing to use in certain areas.

At this time, San Dezi had completely climbed out of the economic crisis and defeat, and was even more developed than the "same period". The action of rearmament was also greater than the "same period", and in fact, a fairly large air force had been established - this was a military force that Germany was explicitly prohibited from establishing in the Treaty of Versailles. San Dezi's pace was fast and determined - also thanks to the investment of the Americans, American capital made a lot of money in the rise of San Dezi, making the German industry larger than the same period. Would the war be delayed? Bai Lang thought it was unlikely.

The Japanese were sending more troops to Shanghai, but this time it was not so smooth - the Nationalist government seemed to be much tougher and repeatedly rejected Japan's demands - it should be because they saw that Japan was struggling to rebuild the industry and agriculture in Northeast China, and they had confidence in limiting Japan's aggression. But the funny thing is that the Nationalist government did not strengthen its own army, and even its industry actually declined a little bit compared to three years ago.

It's mainly heavy industry, light industry is okay, and many countries' investment funds and funds for purchasing military equipment are taken by darlings of certain families in the government to invest in American banks and securities companies to earn interest.

The whole Nationalist government spiraled down into the abyss of corruption, becoming even more corrupt than in the same period. This corruption also had its advantages, which was that the Red forces were stronger than in the same period - after the four crossings of the Chishui River, more troops were retained during the Long March.
"The subsequent Liberation War will probably be faster." Bai Lang thought.

As a wealthy man living in Shanghai, his life was no different from that of a rich young master. After planting more than a dozen lotus flowers, he moved to a European Victorian-style garden house on Masinan Road/Sinan Road. He hired a gardener, two maids, a cook, two male servants, and even bought a Citroen and found a driver.

Of course, his taste in clothes has also changed. Bai Lang looks like a civilized man - a suit thug is of course a civilized man, with a three-piece suit, a trench coat, a top hat and three-jointed calfskin shoes, but his big beard remains unchanged. Of course, he can also change into a plaid tweed hunting suit, with boots and a deerstalker hat, and always hold a civilized stick in his hand, which is used to drive away poor ghosts.
In fact, Bai Lang saved many poor people. Most of the philanthropists these days were fake, and Bai Lang donated to the few who were truly philanthropic. The male and female servants he took in were all from refugee backgrounds, and he would help anyone he liked. There was also an irregular number of children serving at the gatehouse, who did odd jobs. Bai Lang gave them two full meals a day and a dime.

So the master has a mean face but a kind heart, but he is a nightmare to the foreigners who try to plunder cultural relics and the compradors and gangsters who serve them.

At this time, Bai Lang would wear a Chinese-style outfit, cover his head and face or wear a mask. Usually, after robbing people, he would torture them and ask them where their cash and valuables were - many of these people did not trust banks and hid their hard currency in safes at home. After Bai Lang tortured and robbed them, he would put the sacks in Suzhou River and Huangpu River and plant lotus directly. I don't know how neat it was - anyway, there were starving people falling on the streets of Shanghai every day, and there were many floating sacks in the Huangpu River. The so-called paradise for adventurers and the style of the gangster's happy place were all here.

(End of this chapter)