… Ying Gaojun, you are really a person born in war, Dan Shidan doesn't want to see it for a moment. \\, 0m//Qin Yan Saburo's heart moved, and then he was overjoyed. This is indeed a solution, Japan is destined to play a supporting role in the war against the Soviet Union, and the goals of the war should be limited. And Tatetakanosuke is quite right, north of the Great Khingan Mountains is the Siberian Plateau. It is difficult for a large number of troops to survive in this area.

The Trans-Siberian Railway, the main railway artery of Soviet Russia to the Far East, was also chosen in Mongolia, and did not go north of the Khingan Mountains. Therefore, the offensive could be ended by occupying the south of the Trans-Khingan Mountains.

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"The Kwantung Army exercises will have to wait for a month and a half, and then to what extent the Soviet-German war will develop. We can also depend on the situation. Nishio Shouzo looked up at the Zhengda Guangming plaque, and then also interjected.

"America's feelings cannot be left unscrupulous. The prime minister is likely to choose a negotiated settlement of the dispute first. In this way, we leave a buffer room, and in this time period, we will first deal with Soviet Russia, and then turn around and deal with the United States, and Tatsunosuke will paced to the throne and made a gesture of invitation to Qin Hiko Saburo.

Qin Yan Saburo smiled slightly and sat up, he then felt that this position was not comfortable, a section stretched out from the back of the throne, just under his waist, forcing him to straighten up, and he had to maintain this posture, the time is short, it is easy to say, it is quite uncomfortable for a long time.

"Haha. Qin Yanjun. It's uncomfortable to sit in this position, it's obvious that Nishio Shouzo has already sat on it, and he knows what it's like to sit on it, and Tachitakanosuke can't hold back his pleasure, and it's obvious that he's tasted it too.

"Yo Xi" Qin Yan Saburo showed a cheerful smile, got down from his seat, looked at the richly decorated throne, shook his head and sighed. This throne looks comfortable, who knows that it is so uncomfortable to sit on, but for thousands of years, the Chinese have tirelessly fought for this chair.

The grand Taihe Hall Qin Yan Saburo lingered, but his time was only half a day, and he hurriedly visited the Zhonghe Hall and the Baohe Palace, the latter two places were not so detailed, but they still made Qin Yan Saburo continue to exclaim.

The situation surprised them, as Fumima Konoe announced his resignation at the end of July due to the Hidemi Ozaki incident. The Konoe cabinet collapsed, and in early August, Hirohito authorized Hideki Tojo to the cabinet, while also agreeing to concurrently serve as Minister of War.

The first thing Tojo's cabinet did was to send a special envoy to the United States to negotiate with the United States, and Tojo's national policy policy still made the resolution of the Shina incident a top priority for the cabinet. However, Tojo was still faced with the demand for a declaration of war on the Soviet Union, which was becoming more and more intense. Tojo had already received that the young officers of the Kwantung Army were secretly connecting with each other, preparing to imitate the old example of 918 and Lugou Bridge, and force the government to agree.

As an expert in the next gram, Tojo has nothing to do about it. He knew that this matter could not be suppressed by orders, and he led the advance corps of the Kwantung Army into the customs without an order, which led to the further expansion of the Lugou Bridge Incident, and only then did today's China Incident.

Whether to declare war on the Soviet Union, Hideki Tojo was not sure in his heart, the threat of the United States was imminent, and Soviet Russia was a long-standing enemy. Germany's attack on Soviet Russia was in full swing, and the ambassador to Germany, Oshima, frequently called and urged an immediate war against the Soviet Union, believing that the collapse of Soviet Russia was imminent and that the capture of Moscow was just around the corner.

Oshima made this judgment on the basis of the situation on the battlefield, and the German attack went unexpectedly well. The raid was unusually successful, and it was on the day of June. More than sixty airfields deployed by Soviet troops on the front line were bombed, and twelve hundred aircraft were destroyed. On the ground, the three-way army was in full swing, and by early July, Army Group Center had captured Minsk, the capital of Belarus, and in mid-July, Smolensk, the gateway to Moscow; After the victory of the Southern Army in the border area, it successfully reached the fortified area of Kiev.

In mid-July, Army Group Center, after capturing Kesmolensk, shifted its forces to the southwest for a surprise attack. Encircled and annihilated two Soviet armies in Uman. Including the commander of the group, there were 100,000 prisoners. This is a huge victory. It was soon overwhelmed by the ensuing siege of Kyiv.

The siege and annihilation of Kiev can be described as the largest encirclement and annihilation battle in human history, this battle, fought from midsummer to early autumn, and finally the Soviet Russian Southwestern Front and the Bryansk Front, as well as the Southern Front, six. Army. The total strength of one million troops was encircled and annihilated by the combined forces of the German Army Group Center and Army Group South, and 660,000 prisoners were taken prisoner alone.

It is true that because of the smooth military operation, the pressure from Germany has decreased, but the pressure from within the army has increased. The Kwantung Army's major exercises were repeatedly postponed, but Tojo felt bad from this postponement.

In mid-August, the Manchuria Military Police Command reported that the North China Dispatch Army Operations Section Chief Takanosuke Osami went to Xinjing to hold secret talks with the Kwantung Army Chief of the First Section, Senior Staff Officer Arisushi Osa, and the young Kwantung Army officers such as Takeryo Nakasa Alum Village, and agreed to assemble troops in the name of the exercise to create trouble during the exercise. Then a major attack on Soviet Russia was launched.

"Bastards, bastards, what are they going to do! Why didn't Commander Umezu stop it! Dong Bian and Er were furious, glaring at Itan Fu Seishiro, and he thought that it was Ban Huan who was acting behind his back.

"What will Umezu do to stop it?" Itagaki smiled bitterly: "Hasn't the Kwantung Army always done this?" 918, Lugou Bridge, the Kwantung Army has always been like this

Tojo didn't know what to say. 918 was carried out by the Kwantung Army behind the back of the cabinet, and afterwards the government had to posthumously recognize it; During the Lugou Bridge Incident, the cabinet repeatedly ordered that it should not be expanded, but it was he Tojo who personally led the advance force of the Kwantung Army. Advance to Chahar. Now these middle- and lower-ranking officers are simply following their example.

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"No, I will never allow it, I will never allow it!" Tojo was a little angry: "War is never allowed without an order from the cabinet. ”

"The question is how to stop it?" Muto Akira asked, Itakami was disdainful, the reason why Tojo was able to serve as the prime minister of the cabinet was that the old ministers thought that he could control the army, and the current army was controlled by a group of fanatics, and their actions made the Shigetomi group feel worried, worried that they could not control them, so they broke through the constitution and chose an active army general as the prime minister, and allowed him to serve as the minister of the army for the first time, but once these elders thought that he could not control the army, then all the power of Tojo now could be lost, so Itagaki decided. It is impossible for Tojo to stop the actions of the Kwantung Army, on the contrary, he will change with the attitude of the Kwantung Army.

Soon news came from Manchuria that the Kwantung Army began to establish the Manchurian Defense Army by surprise, and 150,000 strong men from all over Manchuria were conscripted. The prisoner of war camp in Guannai slaughtered prisoners of war, especially those of the Central Army. These prisoners of war were transported to Manchuria. Joining the Manchurian Defense Forces, in order to equip these prisoners of war, the Kwantung Army used supplies from strategic reserve warehouses, and also demanded that the country urgently transport weapons and equipment enough to equip 100,000 people to Manchuria.

The measures of the General Staff are intriguing, and they quickly sent supplies to Manchuria without even consulting the cabinet. When Hideki Tojo heard about it, he accepted this fait accompli while insulting.

However, this rapid transportation also shook the warehouses of the General Staff to the ground, so clean that even rats could not be stunned. The commander-in-chief of the dispatch army in Nanjing, Tada Jun, called angrily. Ask the military department for an explanation. Why did the materials to be transferred to Central China be handed over to the Kwantung Army, without which the Eleventh Army would not have been able to launch the Yichang Campaign, capture Yichang, and threaten Chongqing; The East China troops could not launch an attack on the third theater of operations in China, and the agreed attack on the Sulu theater in China would also end without a hitch, if the military headquarters could not maintain the supply of supplies to the troops sent to China. In particular, the supply of ammunition will not see the light of day for a solution to the incident in China.

Tojo couldn't explain to Tada, so he had to suppress Tada's report. Tojo did not refuse to launch a war fight against the Soviet Union. He was disgusted. When he was chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, he admired this style of decisive action, but now that he is prime minister and minister of war, he feels that this kind of action is really a big trouble.

However, Tojo's resentment did not last long, and the Kwantung Army could no longer bear it, so Umezu Mijiro sent his chief of staff, Kimura Hyotaro, to the military headquarters to report on the preparations for the special exercise, while Nishio Toshizo sent Tatsunosuke to the military headquarters to report on the results of the North China security operation.

Neither Hideki Tojo nor Seishiro Itagaki of Kuchiyama thought it was a coincidence.

"According to intelligence, after the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, Stalin transferred a large number of troops from the Far East to the European theater, including all tanks. There were also 600 aircraft, and the current Soviet troops in the Far East had dropped from 1.2 million to 700,000, a situation that was extremely beneficial to us, and Kimura Hyotaro did not report on the state of readiness, but on the contrary, at a joint meeting of the military headquarters and the General Staff, he first introduced the changes in the forces of Soviet Russia in the Far East.

"Is the intelligence reliable? Suyama asked in a deep voice, his elbows resting on the table, looking very interested.

Very reliable, Hyotaro Kimura looked confident: "Stalin arranged a spy network in Tokyo. We also have an intelligence network on their side, and the information provided by this network has proven to be accurate several times

Kenji Dohihara breathed a long sigh of relief in his heart, this intelligence network was established when he was in Manchuria, and now it is finally starting to work.

"At the beginning of the German-Soviet war web. The Russian army was very nervous, but after August. They relented, probably thinking that winter was approaching and the Imperial Army would not attack again, Kimura Hyotaro explained.

"This is reasonable, Oshima reports. The Soviet army was hit hard by the German army, Stalin could no longer care about the Far East, and the difference in numbers between 700,000 troops and 700,000 imperial troops was not large. Itagaki said calmly.

"But Stalin was wrong, the blow given to them by the imperial army was not weaker than that of the German army, and he said with some eagerness, not paying attention to the fact that most of the people present were generals, and he was considered a low rank here.

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