Kenji Dohihara is the king of the Japanese army's intelligence community.

He is naturally very clear about Hideki Tojo's words, and he is also very clear about the current situation and difficulties of the Kwantung Army.

The Japanese Kwantung Army was founded in 1904, is the product of the Russo-Japanese War, their real imaginary enemy, is the Soviet Russian Red Army in the north, so in the entire Japanese military system, the army's treatment and training are superior, and self-esteem is very high, known as the "flower of the Japanese Imperial Army" reputation.

After the "77 Incident" in 1937, in the Pingjin area of North China, although hundreds of thousands of Japanese elites were gathered, they did not dare to go south to chase the Central Plains, and the reason was that they were afraid that the Soviet Russian army would attack the puppet Manchukuo, especially in the eyes of the Kwantung Army - "Manchu and Mongolia are the lifeline of the imperial state".

After hearing Tojo's complaints, Doihara had no choice but to express his position.

After all, this guy is the behind-the-scenes boss of the Japanese army in North China, and the "77 Incident" that was out of control was a good thing made by his subordinates, and now His Majesty the Emperor has been angry, and the Japanese Chinese have also complained, if even Ishihara and Tojo stand by and watch, once the Battle of Songhu fails, he will not say anything about the commander of the general army, the rank of marshal, it will be very good if he is not ordered to disembowel.

"The powerful Soviet Red Army, there is no longer anything to worry about".

"On the inside line of Soviet Russia, we have sent back new information that Genrik Yagoda, the former head of the KGB, has long since resigned, and in fact, since September 1936, he has been replaced by Nikolai Yezhov - is secretly presiding over the work, and so far the anti-rebellion movement has been in full swing."

"Now not only is the Soviet Russian government in chaos, but the once formidable high-ranking officials, such as Grigley Zinoviev, Karl Radek, Lev Kamenev and other important leaders, have been secretly tried by the special departments and executed one by one, and even the entire Red Army is in chaos."

"According to reliable information, in June of this year (1937), even Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky was secretly taken into custody by the KGB, and at the same time, a large number of Soviet and Russian generals were affected, and it is estimated that 20 million people in the entire Soviet Union will be secretly tried and killed."

"Tukhachevsky?"

Hideki Tojo was also a little frightened, this is one of the founders of the Soviet Red Army, and he is talented, brave and good at fighting, known as the nickname of "Red Napoleon", if even he was killed, the Soviet Union would really be in chaos, but in his opinion - the reason why the Soviet Union did this was more like singing according to the script.

In addition to the sadness of the rabbit and the fox, this guy asked a little silently, "How did a small 'Kirov incident' evolve into today's situation?" Could it be that the Soviets are just putting on a show, deliberately letting our guard down in order to launch a surprise attack when we are not prepared? ”

The Kirov incident broke out on December 1, 1934, the assassination of Sergei Kirov, a senior official in Leningrad Oblast (equivalent to Shanghai in China), which caused the high-level collective shock of Soviet Russia inexplicably, Stalin and other Soviet Russian leaders, under extreme anger, launched a "rebellion" campaign, which began at the end of 1934 and ended on the eve of the outbreak of World War II in 1939, which lasted four or five years, and the consequences were simply catastrophic.

Regarding Tojo's questioning, Tsuchihara was also stunned, and said with a wry smile, "This possibility does exist, if it is really acting, it can only be said that Soviet Russia is too willing to spend blood."

"Because the five marshals of Soviet Russia have all been secretly examined, in addition to Tukhachevsky, the two marshals Bryuhel and Yegorov are also about to be secretly executed, and the two marshals Budyonny and Voroshilov are still in the secret review, and it is estimated that they will either die or shed their skin."

"Not only is the situation at the top of the Soviet Russian leadership relatively bad, but our internal line has also received a secret document from the Central Committee of Soviet Russia, according to Stalin's secret instructions - three of the four first-level commanders (fronts) in the Soviet Russian Red Army will be disposed of, twelve second-level army commanders will be left behind, sixty-seven army commanders will be killed, and one hundred and ninety-nine division commanders will be killed."

At this time, not only Hideki Tojo was a little speechless, but even Ishihara Waner, who was known as "unparalleled wisdom", frowned a little.

If only a few marshals or heads of state were moved, it could be said to be a political struggle, or acting for outsiders to see, and even the commanders of the army and division were indiscriminately killed, and I am afraid it is difficult to explain it by acting.

After Ishihara pondered for a while, he thought of a key point, "Dohihara-kun, may I ask who is the inside line of your intelligence department?" I wonder if his information is reliable? ”

Kenji Tsuchihara was silent for a moment before he pulled out a secret document from his body and motioned for everyone to keep quiet.

After all, there is an ancient precept in China, the so-called "the king does not lose his ministers, and the ministers do not lose their bodies".

As the chief intelligence officer of Japan, he is an out-and-out Chinese expert and the biggest intelligence leader of the Japanese army, so he naturally knows the mystery very well, because he has this inner line of Soviet Russia, and he can save a lot of trouble when fighting Soviet Russia in the future.

Ishihara and Tojo took the document and looked at it, and it was the resume and self-description of a certain Soviet Russian general - "Ryushikov, a third-class political general of Soviet Russia", who was appointed governor of the KGB Far East at the beginning of 1937, and is currently the head of the "suppression" of the Soviet Far East, and the source of information is quite reliable.

In the past six months, the number of arrests and interrogations by Ryushikov has already exceeded 100,000, and thousands have been secretly executed, but Moscow is still not satisfied, believing that he is also leaning to the right, so he has to find a way out, and only then did he contact Japanese intelligence officers.

The cunning and suspicious Hideki Tojo was a little suspicious until this time.

After a cursory glance at Tu Feiyuan, he continued to look for the thing he was most concerned about, that is, the deployment of Soviet and Russian forces in the Far East, because no matter how false the information was, it would inevitably be mixed with some real and credible information.

Ryushikov was a political general, and he was a bit of a layman in military affairs, so in a pile of intelligence, only a few data were briefly mentioned, and Soviet Russia deployed in the entire Far East - "more than 700,000 Red Army, 1,600 fighters, 800 BT7 and T26 tanks, and a number of heavy artillery of various types."

After seeing this data, Ishihara and Tojo were a little dumbfounded.

With the strength of the Japanese army currently deployed in the northeast, it is only six or seven divisions and regiments, and even if you add the puppet army of Manchukuo and the paramilitary organizations such as the Japanese reclamation regiment, it is only three or four hundred thousand people, and even if the Japanese army can fight again, it does not dare to say that the nearly one million army of Soviet Russia is nothing, and the thousands of tanks and artillery are not vegetarians.

This polar bear is really hard to mess with.

However, sending troops to support the Songhu battlefield was a death order issued by the Japanese emperor himself, and even if the Kwantung Army and the Japanese army in North China had any difficulties and dangers, they had to take a back seat, so there was no possibility of bargaining, only the question of how many troops to send and how to select the elite.

Hideki Tojo was very troubled, if he really sent the elite soldiers to the Songhu battlefield, not to mention the problem of loss, in case these troops were targeted by some political enemies, they would be split one by one, so as to form a number of new divisions, and these elite troops would be completely out of his control.

He had no choice but to talk nonsense while using his brain quickly.

"Send too many troops, of course not, once the Russian Red Army goes south, the entire Manchukuo will have no troops available, if the imperial state loses Manchukuo, I am afraid that the imperial soldiers in China will be finished, and it will be a joke to rely on the supply of warships of the navy alone."

"However, if there are fewer factions, it will not help at all, it will only expand the scale of the battle in the Songhu battlefield a little more, and in the long run, the damage to Japan will be immeasurable."

These words are all practical problems, and Tu Feiyuan had no choice but to nod.

At the beginning of the war, the Japanese army base camp prepared for the worst, believing that no matter how fierce the battle was, Japan's domestic reserves of all kinds of strategic materials should be able to support more than half a year, but since the July 7 Incident, it has only been more than two months, and the strategic materials such as oil, rubber, and iron and steel have long been exhausted.

To add insult to injury, the European and American powers have imposed another material embargo.

According to the Japanese base camp, if the war between Japan and China lasts for another three or five months, even the Combined Fleet will have to be disbanded one by one.

Therefore, many Japanese political leaders believe that if the "Japan-China incident" cannot be completely resolved within the next two months, they suggest that "it is better to stop all military operations of the Japanese army [invading China], so as not to be taken advantage of by the European and American powers."

"Stop here" is a cold joke at all.

The expansion plan of Showa 13 (1938) has already been secretly introduced, and it is initially expected to expand 60 divisions, which can allow hundreds of Nakasa and Dazuo to be promoted to generals. How much stake is involved?

If they really dare to stop here, they will be "punished by heaven" tomorrow.

Ishihara and Tojo are the darlings of this era, but they only dare to follow the trend, and the "heavenly thieves" can't stand it.

The so-called general trend is precisely the interests and needs of the upper and lower levels of Japan -- the upper strata of Japan need new martial arts to expand the strength of various big families, the middle strata of Japan need colonies to expand their industries and capital, and the lower strata of Japan need the opportunity to get ahead, and they are not willing to be slaves and servants for eternity.

The only way to solve everything is war.

Since the situation in Soviet Russia was so unpredictable, Hideki Tojo, who had always been known as "bold," did not dare to gamble, so he had no choice but to plan for the worst, planning to order the Second Division, which had just returned to the mainland to rest, to be secretly transferred to the Shenyang area to serve as the defense of Liaodong and South Manchuria.

As for the defense of Korea and the Japanese mainland, the 19th Division (also known as the Ronan Division, also known as the Ronan Division, stationed in Korea) and the Imperial Guards, the Emperor's Imperial Army, will be responsible for each other.

In addition, the defense of Xinjing (Changchun), Harbin, and the North Manchurian area will be handled by the 1st, 4th, and 7th Divisions, which are the first echelon to defend the Soviet army from moving south.

The Eighth and Twelfth Divisions, which were originally attached to the Kwantung Army, as well as a number of independent mixed brigades, were stationed in the vicinity of the Great Wall and Shanhaiguan, and when necessary, one or two brigades and regiments could be transferred to form elite mobile detachments, which would be accompanied by divisions and regiments of the North China Dispatch Army to the south to support the invasion operations in various parts of North China.

The result of the deliberations of Ishihara and the others was to divide the support operation against the Songhu battlefield into two steps.

The first step was to form the 10th Army of the Japanese Army. On October 24, 1937, we will strive to land at Jinshanwei in Hangzhou Bay, so as to open up the second battlefield of Songhu, directly assist the landing force at Wusongkou, and strive to defeat the Shanghai defenders of China from the front, and completely end the long-lasting Battle of Songhu.

The second step was to form the 11th Army of the Japanese Army. After occupying Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang Province, we will turn around and attack the southern corridor of Taihu, that is, Huzhou-Wuhu and other strategic points, and finally outflank the rear road of Nanjing's strategic defense circle.

They did not believe that at this time, Huaxia would not be able to withdraw from the Shanghai Theater.

At the same time, as long as the Chinese army withdrew from Shanghai, the Japanese army's heavy forces would take advantage of the situation to approach Nanjing, and in that situation, the Nanjing Nationalist Government had only two choices, one was to compromise and surrender to the Japanese army in humiliation, and the other was to be captured by a million Japanese troops.

At that time, China was even in danger of extinction.

In order to prevent the intervention of the Western powers or the current Nationalist Government's "ignorance of current affairs," Ishihara and the others believed that it should be possible to consider "supporting a new Nationalist Government to come to power" and that this new puppet government would sign a Sino-Japanese peace treaty with "peaceful significance" in the future.

As long as the peace treaty is signed, even if the "Sino-Japanese Incident," which suffered heavy losses, is officially over, then millions of Japanese troops, whether they "march north" to attack the Soviet Union or "advance south" to occupy Southeast Asia, can choose calmly, and even dominate the world is unknown.

As for the current Nanjing government, it is as they can do if they want to move the capital to Wuhan or Chongqing, even if they want to continue to resist the "Greater East Asia Co-prosperity", it is in vain.

Because by that time, Lao Jiang and others were no longer the legitimate representatives of Huaxia, and if they wanted to continue fighting, they would only be regarded as rebelling against the rule of the new government in Nanjing.

Tojo's meaning was clear, the Japanese army in North China would be the main force supporting Songhu.

Kenji Tohihara had a bitter face, because the troops in his hands were also a little too nervous, and the North China Front seemed to be strong and strong, and only eight divisions could handle it.

Once the 10th and 11th armies were formed and went south to support the Songhu battlefield, there would be only two divisions left in the entire Japanese army sequence in North China, and even if there were a number of unreliable mixed brigades and Tokugawa Yoshitoshi's "special" aviation regiment, there would be only 100,000 men.

Don't look at the fact that the Japanese army has always been very arrogant, boasting at every turn that it "treats one as ten" and "a small squad can defeat a division in China", is that all political propaganda?

Whoever is true is a fool.

If a unit commander really dares to estimate the combat strength of the enemy and us in this way in his battle plan, he does not need to use his base camp at all, and his subordinates will be arrested for the crime of "espionage" and carry out artificial "heavenly punishment."