"Outside the nickname, the Third Army of Shina is attacking Mukden, and Commander Mijiro Umezu is leading the LinkedIn Yong's Kwantung Army to resist the invasion of the Shina people!"

"Outside the nickname, the Third Army of our army marched to the northeast on the order of Chairman Chiang Kai-shek, and is now attacking Mukden.

"In this dark time, there is a light in the Far East that cannot be ignored, and a brave general is leading hundreds of thousands of soldiers under his command to launch a righteous counterattack against the Nazi fascists, and the victory will surely belong to the great Allied forces!"

Su Jin led a large army to attack the Kwantung Army entrenched in the northeast, although in terms of scale compared to the Soviet-German battlefield where millions of troops fought at every turn, but it was very important for the war situation. The current world pattern www.biquge.info is that although the Germans were defeated by the Soviets' overwhelming T34 tank group like another time and space, and were forced to retreat from under the city of Moscow, the Germans who received the covert support of the Soviet Union and Jin were no longer without the power to fight back, and the appearance of the Iron Fist anti-tank rockets made the losses of the Soviets far beyond another historical time and space.

After repelling the Germans, the Soviets did not even take advantage of the victory to pursue like another time and space, both sides were silently licking their wounds, waiting for the next attack, and at this time Su Jin made a move, the Third Army sent troops to the northeast not only for the Soviets to reduce the pressure on the Far East, so that Stalin could take the opportunity to make peace with the Japanese and transfer a large number of troops from the Far East to support the European theater, but also from another aspect of the strong support of the pressure of the Americans in the Pacific theater, Under such circumstances, the Europeans naturally sang praises for Su Jin's actions.

On the other hand, the Chongqing government, since the July Seven Incident, has been losing the city and losing ground, although there have been several commendable battles during the period, but generally speaking, it is still out of the defensive, and now Su Jin sent troops to the northeast to raise his face Chongqing is naturally going to blow to the death, after all, the Third Army is also the national I army, so there are a lot of newspapers in China and Europe and the United States are reporting on this matter, and for a time Su Jin's name frequently appeared in the eyes of the Chinese people and even the European people.

Someone is happy and naturally someone is angry, and when such a thing happens, Ri I himself is naturally unhappy, and after learning that Mukden is also in danger, Hirohito finally couldn't sit still, and hurriedly convened a meeting of the Imperial Front overnight.

The Imperial Council of Japan was usually held in the Higashi Gyoen of the Imperial Palace, which was also the place where Hirohito met with his ministers.

Today, the Imperial Council convened by Hirohito himself was once again held in the East Imperial Garden, and there were many people attending the meeting, including more than a dozen cabinet members and many generals, and most of the ministers and important ministers of the senate faction sitting in front of Hirohito at this time looked extremely unnatural, some of them were angry and some of them looked gloomy, and of course some people sighed at this time, as if they were worried about the future of the imperial generals.

For those army and navy generals who were responsible for opening up the territory to the outside world and guarding the land internally, they all showed a complex mood of anger, sorrow and shame at this time, most of the army generals blushed, and the chief of staff of the army base camp, Sugiyama Moto, simply closed his eyes, but sweat kept coming out of his forehead, and the breathing between his noses became more and more rapid, and everyone could see the worry and anger between his eyebrows.

Sugiyama Moto, who had just taken over the post of chief of the General Staff from Prince Zaihito of the Imperial Palace, originally wanted to launch a surprise attack on Nakajo Mountain at the end of this month, crush the defenders of Nakajo Mountain, which no longer had the support of the Third Army, and occupy Zhongtiao Mountain again, and then the army occupied Xi'an in one fell swoop and approached Chong Iqing, and could even force the Chong Iqing government to surrender, but all this changed with the Third Army pointing directly at Mukden.

What is Mukden, here is the fundamental interests of the Japanese in China, it is not only the root of the empire in Manchuria, but also the most important and most prosperous place in Manchuria, a large number of coal, iron ore and various minerals and grain and other resources plundered by the Japanese I from Manchuria every year will gather to Mukden, and then transported from Mukden to Ri Iben, it can be said that Mukden is the most important material gathering place of the empire in China, but also the headquarters of the Kwantung Army, once Mukden is lost, then the prestige of the Kwantung Army for decades will be gone.

Ever since the Imperial Council began, there had been a silence here, and Hirohito, who was wearing a pair of thick nearsighted glasses, didn't say anything but sat there quietly, his right hand on his knee as if in repentance. The emperor didn't speak, and Hideki Tojo, as the prime minister, was also expressionless, but his face was blue and red for a while, and a look of anger and unwillingness lingered on his face.

Although he didn't want to speak, he couldn't do it without talking as Hideki Tojo, who had the highest status and position other than Hirohito, and since he was in this position, he had to do his duty.

Taking a deep breath, Hideki Tojo tried to make a calm gesture, "Gentlemen, just this morning, General Umezu Mijiro sent an urgent telegram. Su Jin of China is storming Mukden, although tens of thousands of soldiers of the Kwantung Army are fighting bravely to kill the enemy, but under the onslaught of the people of China, the empire's outer position in Mukden has become precarious, and the reinforcements will not be able to arrive for a while and a half, General Umezu Mijiro is likely to lead the remaining imperial troops to withdraw into the city to continue to resist, but if it is unavoidable, he hopes that the base camp can allow him to retreat temporarily, and wait until the reinforcements arrive before leading the imperial soldiers to recapture Mukden. ”

The atmosphere in the conference room was still very dull, and the admirals, who had always liked to raise the bar with the army, rarely did not take the opportunity to fall into the ground, and the admiral, the admiral Shigetaro, sat on the chair and just closed his eyes, as if he had not heard Hideki Tojo speak.

After a long time, Hirohito's sharp voice sitting on the throne rang out: "Tojo Qing, if you abandon Mukden, how sure are the army that they can retake it?" ”

"This ......" Tojo Hideki is sitting down now, who can say this kind of thing, but he can't say that he doesn't know, so he can only stand up and say: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the reason why Su Jin can pose a threat to Mukden is just to take advantage of the fact that the main force of the Kwantung Army is confronting the Soviets in Mongolia to get a little cheap, although it has temporarily gained the upper hand, but now our country has signed a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union, and this agreement has won us at least three years of peace with the Soviets, Our Ministry of Foreign Affairs has played an important role in this negotiation! ”

Speaking of this, Hideki Tojo bowed to Foreign Minister Shigetoku Togo, and Shigetoku Togo quickly stood up and returned the salute when he saw this.

Seeing the performance of the two pretending, Sugiyama Mototo secretly pursed his lips, what did he look like and still behave like this.

Immediately afterwards, Hideki Tojo roared with a fierce look: "Our Kwantung Army has more than 600,000 troops, and in addition to the garrisons to be stationed in various places, at least more than 400,000 troops can be dispatched to encircle and suppress Su Jin, so as long as we make up our minds, we will definitely be able to wipe out Su Jin and his Third Army in Manchuria!" ”

Hirohito still didn't speak, and at this time there was an unknown trace of fear and uneasiness in his heart in addition to anger. Since his ascension to the throne, Hirohito has always hoped that he can realize the dream of "eight grandios, one universe and four seas in the Great Japanese Empire" like his grandfather, and for this reason he did not hesitate to condone public opinion to frequently agitate the Japanese people, advocate the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, and even in order to crack down on those veteran ministers who did not agree to carry out a full-scale invasion of China, he also connived at the officers below to repeatedly launch the Xiajiao movement.

In the May 15 Incident of 1932, nine army and navy officers were able to easily storm the prime minister's official residence and kill Prime Minister Inu Yangyi, who had been in power for less than half a year, in his office.

After sweeping away the moderates, Hirohito finally got his wish and launched an all-out attack on China. At first, the war did go as well as Hirohito and the base camp had predicted, but slowly the war began to develop out of their intended track. Because Hirohito forgot that war is a machine without brakes, once it is turned on, it is no longer under the control of anyone, although Hirohito tried to control this machine that has deviated from the track several times, but in the end he found that he could only powerlessly let this machine take him in an unknown direction.

Hirohito didn't speak, but looked at Sugiyama Moto.

What else could Sugiyama Moto say, he could only grit his teeth and agree: "Tojo-kun is right, as long as the Kwantung Army can work together, it will definitely be able to annihilate Su Jin and his Third Army in Manchuria!" ”

Seeing that Sugiyama Mototo and Tojo Hideki both said this, Hirohito nodded, and he was about to speak, but the Tibetan Prime Minister Kagaya Konobu of the Ministry of Finance, who was sitting under Tojo Hideki, spoke, "Your Majesty, the importance of Manchuria is beyond doubt. Once Manchuria is lost, the empire's millions of troops in China will fall into a state of unsustainability, and it is impossible to rely on the empire's own mainland to support the consumption of millions of troops in China. As the Tibetan minister, I need to remind you that if we do not destroy the invading Chinese army in Manchuria within two to three months, it will have a major impact on the already poor economy of the empire, which is now overwhelmed! ”

Kaya Konobu's words made everyone's hearts heavy, and all of you here are people who can decide the fate of Japan, and of course they know the situation in Japan. War is a gold-swallowing beast, no matter how much money is invested in it is not enough, since 1937, Japan's annual military spending has increased year by year, by 1942 Japan's military spending has accounted for 35% of Japan's total financial expenditure, and the Ministry of Finance gave a red line of 50%, referring to the example of Germany's defeat in World War I, Kaya Koshin warned everyone more than once, once the military expenditure reaches or exceeds 50%, Japan's economy will collapse.

Kaya Xingxuan's warning was not without effect, and the Japanese cabinet had made several plans to try to reduce the number of troops in China, but once the monster of war started, how could it be so easy to stop. As more and more land was occupied in China, more and more troops were naturally needed, and the generals in China were clamoring every day to increase the number of troops, and the measures formulated by the built-in to reduce the number of troops could only be reduced to a dead letter.

In the face of Kaya Konobu's warning, Hirohito did not speak. After looking around at the ministers in the room, he closed his eyes and slowly chanted: "All brothers in the four seas, why is the wind and rain chaotic in the world? ”

These are two lines of poetry written by Hirohito's grandfather, Emperor Meiji, which means that the people of the world are originally brothers and relatives, why are there wars, killings and plundering to stir up this world?

A group of ministers all looked at each other, and the meaning of this sentence was naturally understood by everyone present, but why did Hirohito read this poem at this time......

The dull sound of artillery is constantly rolling from afar, the air is filled with the pungent smell of gunsmoke, and the sirens of the "Stuka" dive bombers can be faintly heard from time to time in the rumbling cannons.

"Half load!"

The battlefield was filled with the sound of the horns of the Japanese soldiers who launched the meat bullet attack, and these soldiers who carried out the meat bullet attack would pull the fuse of the explosive pack with a delay of twenty seconds the moment they jumped out of the trench, and rushed desperately towards the assault tank group, and the desperate howls came out of their mouths, and these days the soldiers completely ignored the rain of bullets flying in front of them, even if they were knocked to the ground by the vehicle-mounted machine gun on the tank or the rifle bullets that accompanied the infantry, they would not stop launching that desperate attack.

Many howling meat bullets were knocked down dozens of meters away from the tank, and after just a few seconds, they would be blown into countless pieces with a violent explosion, and the flesh and blood mixed with dirt were splashed everywhere, and even some small pieces of flesh flew onto the tank, blocking the tank driver's observation hole.

"These bastards little Japan!"

Looking at the meat pieces in the observation hole that were still a little smoky, Niu Manzhuang, who was holding the control stick in both hands, forcibly swallowed a mouthful of saliva and cursed, and then poked out the meat pieces in the observation hole with his fingers, and then looked at the blood stains on his hands, the tank driver only felt that his stomach was a little upside down, he quickly wiped his hands on his pants, and then continued to drive the tank towards the front.

"Niu Manzhuang, all forward!"

At this time, the headset of the tank cap came out of the roar of the commander who was also the company commander Luo Kebiao, Niu Manzhuang hurriedly shifted gears and increased the throttle to push forward, and the Japanese who he looked at through the observation hole with explosives bags and even rifles rushed towards the Japanese who had been a little smoother and had some spasms again, these Japanese knew that they would not pose much threat to themselves but still rushed madly, it was crazy.