Nonsense! Tojo and Kuchiyama Shijihei came out at the same time, Tojo Wei "Tanuki eyes Kuyama Yuan, but the latter glared at Itagaki viciously, Tojo Kiyoshi coughed: "It is absolutely impossible to withdraw troops from China, the withdrawal of troops is a serious blow to morale, and it is even more impossible to fight against the Soviet Union!" Moreover, for decades, millions of soldiers of the Imperial Army have spilled blood on the China Continent, and they must not give up! ”

"Banhuan-kun, you are cowardly!" Shiyama Yuan also shouted loudly, and the sparse white hair on his head almost stood up: "Four, the imperial army is invincible, and Chiang Kai-shek will never pay the price!" ”

Seishiro Itagaki felt that this was indeed a sign of weakness, so he changed his tune and said: "Otherwise, I will personally go and negotiate with Chiang Kai-shek, and we can give up all the occupied areas south of the Great Wall, and it is acceptable to negotiate with him on this condition." \\。 ”

Including the guards were stunned, the guards still remembered that when the Lugou Bridge Incident occurred, Bantan was one of the most ferocious, leading a division from Beiping to Taiyuan, and from Taiyuan to Nanjing, landing in Qingdao, occupying the Jiaodong Peninsula, and the prestige was unparalleled for a while, but now he offered to give up everything he had gained.

, Wanbi North

"I think it's okay, as long as we defeat Soviet Russia, we can get back what we have given up for the time being in the future." Another cadre of the expansion faction, Muto Akira, expressed his support.

"Smack!" Tojo slapped the chair in a fit of rage: "Absolutely not!" How can this be done! The blood of the Imperial Army will not be shed in vain! Absolutely not! I don't agree! ”

Seishiro Itagaki and Akira Muto sighed almost at the same time, the war in China had fallen into a quagmire, and the government army in China still had four million troops, of which the well-equipped and well-trained Central Army was more than two million, and this number continued to expand.

In order to solve the China Incident, the Japanese military and political elite racked their brains to lure Wang Jingwei down, but did not receive much effect, Dohihara and Kagezo proposed to continue negotiations with Chiang Kai-shek, and the commander of the 11th Army, Netmura Ningji, asked for more troops, and at the same time put forward a huge strategy, believing that the route of the Mongol conquest of the Southern Song Dynasty should be taken, first taking Xi'an, and then crossing the Qinling Mountains, and then entering the main force of the China Army from the north and then encircling the two lakes area.

This strategy was supported by the commander of the dispatched army, Tada Jun, but he did not expect Nishio Shouzo to propose another strategy, which was ostensibly aimed at Soviet Russia, but in fact it was aimed at China; Amimura Ninji is based on military operations, while Nishio Shouzo is based on political means.

However, both of these means require a large increase in troops, but it is very difficult to increase troops, and the Wuhan operation has already made Japan exert its strength to eat milk, not to mention the exhaustion of weapons and ammunition in the country, and even seventeen or eighteen-year-old students have been sent to the battlefield. And whether it is the strategy of Okamura Ninji or Nishio Toshizo, a large number of troops need to be increased. Nishio Shouzao is okay, proposed to shrink the battlefield of China, draw troops from above, and Wangcun Ningci directly asked for an increase of 500,000 troops, first sweep away the Yan Xishan Jin Army and the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi, and then from the north and east, two ways into Shaanxi, in one fell swoop, the Shaanxi squadron, next year over the Qinling Mountains, into Sichuan.

"Only go south" Wang Jingchun shouted loudly: "The reason why China can continue to resist the imperial army is because of the support of Britain and the United States, we can concentrate our forces on attacking the British army, and we can also achieve the purpose of assisting Germany, and we can also obtain resources to continue the war." ”

"That would cause Mi Prefecture to intervene," Muto retorted: "The United States is stronger than Soviet Russia, and besides, Nishio-kun said it well, and the use of troops is concentrated." In this world war, the German-Japanese-Italian steel axis has been formed to deal with China, Britain and the Soviet Union, and Soviet Russia will be their main force, and only by defeating Soviet Russia can they grasp the initiative in the war. ”

"Muto-kun's words are good, compared with the enemy, we are already at a disadvantage in terms of human resources, and if we pull the United States into the war again, our disadvantage will be even more obvious, and the risk of going south is greater than going north." Yan Junliu said slowly.

The meeting has always been stuck in a stalemate, from declaring war on Soviet Russia, to the China Incident, to going south to the South Seas, and then returning to the north or south, and then talking about the situation in the country, seeing that the meeting was about to end without a problem, Tojo was a little anxious, and he said to Konoe Fumima: "Prime Minister, what is your opinion?" ”

As Prime Minister, Konoe Fumima remained silent throughout the meeting, sitting there with a graceful and dull demeanor, as if listening to everyone's opinions, and as if he was at a loss, which made people a little unfathomable.

"It is impossible for an empire to be an enemy of the whole world." Konoe said slowly, "If you want to go north, how many troops can the navy send?" ”

"The strength of the Soviet Russian Far East Fleet is not strong, and it only needs to dispatch a few dozen destroyers." Nagano Xiu looked very calm, Soviet Russia was not a naval power, and the Far Eastern Fleet was even weaker, not much different from Tsarist Russia, but Japan had the third strongest fleet in the world, and its strength was not at the same level at all.

"A large number of troops are needed to go north, and it is likely to clash with the United States in the south. Konoe sighed.

"So what? If the United States interferes, then fight! Wang Jingchun was very angry in his heart, and his tone became even more blunt.

"With Germany's cooperation, there is no confidence in fighting Soviet Russia, the United States, the second Soviet Union and Russia have this weird look at Net Jingchun, Net Jinghua guessed the stopper, and Sato and Tsukada, who were fierce just now, were silent.

"No matter what, we have confidence in our own bow first" Tojo's momentum is still very strong: "It's really not good, let's do it on both sides, the navy goes south, and the army goes north." ”

"How can this work" Yuyama Yuan immediately objected: "The empire does not have the strength to fight with the United States, Britain, China and the Soviet Union at the same time

"The main forces of the empire are trapped in China, and if we want to fight with the United States and the Soviet Union, we must shrink the China front." Yan Junliu thought about it and said, "I think there is some truth in Nishio-kun's suggestion, such as Guangzhou and Fuzhou. I think that we can give up, the 21st Army of General Guzhuang can be liberated from more than 50,000 people, the blockade of Guangzhou can be handed over to the navy, Fuzhou can also be abandoned, so that there are more than 60,000 people, and then 50,000 people can be transferred from the 11th Army, and another 100,000 troops will be formed in the country, so that one million troops participating in the war will be enough, after all, our side is only cooperating, and the German side is the main battlefield. ”

"It's better to wait, only wait until Germany reaches Moscow, and then we can do it, so that we can get twice the result with half the effort, and the risk is the most," said Fumima Konoe.

"However, the weather in the north is cold, and it is better to attack in July, otherwise it will be very difficult to fight once winter comes." Yan Junliu explained: "The cabinet should decide as soon as possible, and then immediately mobilize troops

Konoe's weak personality was undoubtedly exposed at this time, and he hesitated for a moment, looking at the shirt as if asking for help. Yuan and Nagano are self-reliant, and Shiyama Yuan is silent, and Nagano is self-cultivation and pretends not to see it.

Then it was decided to give up Guangzhou and Fuzhou, and the guards finally nodded, and Tojo encouraged his cheeks to speak, but in the end he still didn't say anything, and those young officers in the army province had long been clamoring to declare war on Soviet Russia, which put a lot of pressure on him.

"What about the troops in Indochina? Will it be withdrawn or will it continue to stay there? Nagano Shushen felt that the northward advance had passed, and if it went north, then there would be no need for this army to stay in Indochina.

"It can't be like this". Yan Junliu said: "If we give up Guangzhou too soon, it will alarm Soviet Russia and make Gu Zhuangjun shrink his troops, and once he receives the order, Lixuan will abandon Guangzhou." ”

"A brigade from the 21st Army will be stationed in Indochina," Tojo said abruptly, "the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway must be cut off."

The head of the guard is going to be big, isn't this the same as opening the net on both sides? The question is not whether to go north or south, and that there are low-hanging fruit benefits in going south, but there is also the risk of the United States entering the war, and the danger of Germany betraying the alliance; The attitude of the United States in the north is unpredictable and there are no real benefits, but it is much safer politically.

"When the hanger is ready, the Germans will not hit Moscow so quickly" Nagano Shushen saw that Pan Konoi was in a dilemma, so he kindly resolved it for him: "We can make two preparations, on the one hand, we can enter Indochina, and on the other hand, we will order the Kwantung Army to conduct a large-scale military exercise, as a response to Germany's request, and also test the Kwantung Army's war preparations."

"Okay, then let's do it, this decision is not to be offended, not only to appease the radical officers who are eager to fight, but also to stabilize the navy that wants to go south, it can be said that it kills two birds with one stone, and the guards hurriedly agreed

The decision at the liaison meeting soon turned into a cabinet decision, and Songwang met with the French ambassador to Japan to accuse the French authorities in Vietnam of allowing military supplies to enter China through the Yunnan-Vietnam railway, and demanding that France withdraw from Vietnam and be stationed by Japanese troops. This demand was categorically rejected by the French conquest.

At the beginning of July, Songwang again made representations to France, making it clear that if the French army refused, then the Japanese army would take free action and enter Vietnam. The Bayser government asked the German government to intervene, but Hitler firmly refused.

France capitulated, and Beyday ordered the French troops to withdraw from Vietnam and into Cambodia and Laos, July 5. The Japanese army was fully stationed in Vietnam.

Two days later, on 7 July, it announced the imposition of an oil embargo on Japan and froze Japanese assets in the United States; on 8 July, Britain announced that it would stop exporting oil to Japan and freeze Japanese assets in Britain; and on 9 July, the Dutch and Indian authorities announced their response to the US decision.

The United States, Britain, and the Netherlands imposed an embargo on Japan at the same time, which was tantamount to imposing an embargo on Japan on a global scale, and Japan suddenly fell into a desperate situation, and Japan's top leaders were in a mess, and the call for war in the south was once again rising.

"There must be a war immediately, otherwise the combined fleet will no longer have oil to operate." Gang Jingchun almost pressed his head to the tip of Nagano's nose, and shouted feverishly: "Occupy the Dutch East Indian Ocean, drive the United States out of the Philippines, occupy Singapore, and the whole of East Asia will be ours, Your Excellency, what are you waiting for!" ”

Call for monthly pass support, let the monthly pass fall like raindrops, endure the call for monthly pass support, let the monthly pass fall like raindrops

The latest full book: 、、、、、、、、、、