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Chapter 1628 changed when he heard the wind

"Baga!"

Marshal Morimasa Ishimotonomiya, commander of the Siberian Front of the Japanese Army, stared at the commander of the Fourth Army, General Kotaro Nakamura, with gloomy eyes:

"Nakamura-kun, I want you to explain that the warriors of the empire did not die on the battlefield, but were taken into the swamps and quagmires of Western Siberia, a whole division, less than half of them returned, and lost all their weapons and baggage, which is simply a shame for the empire! Didn't you plan to hire a guide who was familiar with geography before making a plan? ”

"Hey!"

Kotaro Nakamura bowed deeply and said with a big red face:

"Your Excellency, after receiving the order of the Front to make a detour to Cupino, I immediately instructed the General Staff to make a detailed plan, who knew that the Soviets were so cunning, that the map of the march they gave us was completely wrong, and the places marked with roads were swamps and lakes, and those were where the steppes were, but there were rivers running across them, and the soldiers were simply confused! Western Siberia is vast and sparsely populated, and the locals have all been relocated by the Far Eastern Army and the Anjia Army, although we tried our best, we still could not find a suitable guide, and the military orders were like a mountain, so we had to hurry on the road! ”

Born in 1874, Prince Imotonomiya was the fourth son of Prince Asahiko of Kurenomiya, and succeeded his uncle Prince Imotonomiya as the third generation of the head of the Rihongu Palace. Six years ago, the rank of marshal was promoted to the rank www.biquge.info of military senator, and the Siberian operation was of great importance, and the base camp specially appointed the imperial marshal as the commander to check and balance the armies and coordinate the relationship between the front line and the base camp.

King Shouzheng of Rimoto Palace groaned, stood up and walked to the map, and looked at it carefully, but from the 1:800000 map, he couldn't see the murderous intent hidden under the deep green at all, and he was silent for a while, before he raised his left hand and signaled that the matter would stop: "That's it, it's not you!" Stalin was not at ease, he wanted us to fight to the death with the Far Eastern Army and the An Jiajun, and in the end they would clean up the mess, and we must now avoid excessive consumption of troops and sit back and watch the situation change.

"Gentlemen, due to supply difficulties, the imperial base camp has made a decision to attack Western Siberia, relying only on the eight armies we have now, and the two armies that are rushing to Novosibirsk will be distributed in major cities along the railway, sticking to the railway line between Siberia and the Far East, and the ten armies in the Far East will secretly transfer south to the Lanyin Islands!"

The generals were taken aback, and General Kazuki Kiyoji asked urgently:

"Your Excellency Marshal, why give up such a good opportunity now that the great rivers and mountains east of the Urals of Soviet Russia are in front of you? This is tens of millions of square kilometers of land, and the Empire desperately needs the resources on it......"

"Your Excellency, Commander, this is the Empire's best chance to expand its territory, how can it be given up so easily? Ladies and gentlemen, we should jointly protest to the country! ”

The commander of the Fifth Army, General Yamada Otosan, turned red with anger and anger.

Shunroku Hata slapped the tatami mat even harder, stood up violently, waved his fist and said, "Is it the order given by Ishihara Wan'er's puppet?" The empire is in the northern part of China, Shandong and Jiangnan, and it is because of his prevention that it has made a lot of trouble, and now it is going to spoil me and other good things, and I am incompatible with him! ”

Shunroku Hata is a senior army general, and Sugiyama Mototo, Koiso Kuniaki and others were Lu Shi's contemporaries, participated in the Russo-Japanese War, and later entered the Army University for further study, successively served as the chief of the combat squad and section chief of the General Staff Headquarters, the commander of the 16th Wing of the Field Artillery and the commander of the Fourth Brigade, the head of the Operations Department of the General Staff Headquarters, the commander of the 14th Division, the head of the Army Aviation Headquarters, the commander of the Taiwan Army, and the director of army education, which disappointed Shunroku Hatata's hopes, so he harbored deep hostility towards Ishihara Waner.

King Morimasa of Rimoto Palace knew the prestige of Shunroku Habata in the army, and originally wanted to scold Kiyoji Kazuki and others, but when he saw that the generals in the army were fierce and accused, he couldn't help frowning, coughed majestically, and waited for everyone's eyes to turn to him, and then said in a feminine voice unique to the royal family:

"I can understand your feelings, but this is a unanimous decision made by His Majesty the Emperor, the Cabinet, and the Headquarters in light of the international situation! I am afraid that you don't know that three days ago, Hiroshi Oshima, the imperial ambassador to Berlin, and Toshio Shiratori, the ambassador to Rome, sent back secret telegrams one after another, declaring that Germany may carry out the White Plan at the beginning of next month and invade Poland in an all-out way, and then a new European war will start in an all-round way!

"All of you here are witnesses of the last European war, and you should understand that this is a gamble on the fate of the country and the nation, and if Britain and France win, then Germany, which lost the last European war, will face the most tragic fate, and we only need to consolidate the existing gains; On the other hand, if Germany and Italy win, then a new political and economic order will be born in Europe and even the world, and Southeast Asia, Australia, and India will become pastures for other countries to compete for deer.

"Here, I just want to ask you, is it better for the empire to obtain the rich lands and abundant human resources in Southeast Asia, South Asia, and even Australia and New Zealand, or is it better to see no human population in these hundreds of miles, and spend half of the year in a bitter cold land around zero?"

The generals looked at each other and quickly fell into deep thought.

"What the empire has done in India, Burma, Malaya and Australia, I am sure everyone here is well aware that we are the equivalent of liberators in the minds of indigenous people such as India, Burma and Malaya, and it is easy to gain recognition."

Speaking of this, King Mamoto of Rimoto simply stood up, paced back and forth with his hands behind his back, and said eloquently: "The empire has the third largest navy in the world, and our shipping capacity is second only to the United States and Britain, ranking third in the world. During a visit to the United States at the end of last year, Prime Minister Konoe and Foreign Minister Hirota received a large loan, half of which was secretly used to order merchant ships in the United States, and the base camp meant that by the end of December 40, the empire would have a shipping capacity of 40 million tons.

"What is the purpose of the Empire in building such a large fleet of transport ships with such great determination? Maritime transport is carried out with the help of natural waterways, which is not limited by roads and tracks, and has stronger passing capacity, large volume and low cost. On the contrary, if the empire fights continuously in the icy Siberia, if nothing else, the transportation of ammunition and food to the front line alone will be enough to drag down the economy of our empire! ”

The commander of the Seventh Army, General Yoshiyuki Kawashima, said in a strange manner: "Didn't the Far Eastern Army and the Anjia Army rely on the Trans-Siberian Railway for supply? Why don't you see them dragging down the logistics? ”

King Morimasa Ishimoto was thinking about this question, and Shunroku Hahata had already answered it on his behalf: "Nagawa-kun, I have thought about this question deeply, in fact, it is very easy to understand, at the beginning, all countries in the world were happy to see the Soviet Union split, and supported a large number of materials by sea, and the Chinese consortium also transported a lot of arms and food, all of which were hoarded in North Manchuria, Primorsky, Amur and Mongolia, etc., plus Yegorov later made a surprise attack on Western Siberia and intercepted a large number of strategic materials, In the decisive battle of Western Siberia in December last year, he unexpectedly crushed the army of Butdyonny and pushed the defense line to the Urals in one fell swoop!

"According to the information provided by the Soviet side, in order to cope with the war in the Far East, Moscow stockpiled a large amount of food and ammunition in Baikal, Eastern Siberia, Western Siberia and the Urals, plus the development of specially built material storage and transportation warehouses in Western Siberia and northern Kazakhstan during the First and Second Five-Year Plan periods, as well as the warready bases that were deliberately expanded on the Urals in order to prevent German expansion, made the Far Eastern Army make a lot of money, This is also the most fundamental reason that supports the continuous fighting of the Far Eastern Army and the Anjia Army.

"And we are different, the place we occupy has been scraped by the Far Eastern Army, and all the strategic materials are either transported to the Ural front, or sent to Central Asia to support the Anjia Army in the war, and most of the warehouses left to us are empty, and the purpose of fighting and supporting the war cannot be achieved, and all transportation is carried out by the Siberian railway, which is indeed very difficult! Now I suddenly understand the decision of the base camp! ”

Yoshiyuki Kawashima once served as the Minister of War, and during the 226 Mutiny, the rebels surrounded the residence of the Prime Minister of the Army, and shouted at the Kawashima General who was close to the age of sixtieth birthday, and the leader of the rebels, Captain Koda, read to him the "Book of Fun for Jumping" and demanded that the Prime Minister accept all the requirements of the Imperial Road.

Those young officers who participated in the mutiny completely ignored the fact that Kawashima Riku was still nursing when he was bleeding on the battlefield of the Russo-Japanese War for many years, and trained him to be stunned, Kawashima Yoshiyuki was a completely unassertive person, who was originally helped up as a puppet, and the vice minister Furujo Michiro was also an imperial faction, so the situation was controlled by the imperial faction from the beginning. After the rebellion was put down, Kawashima, a guy who had no position, was transferred to the reserve along with Minamijiro and Shigeru Honjo, and Terauchi Shouichi took over as Minister of War after the famous family. If it weren't for the need for a large number of high-ranking generals to form a military-level unit this time, it would have been impossible for Yoshiyuki Kawashima to make a comeback.

Therefore, at this time, when he heard the answer of the powerful military general Shun Hata, who he originally wanted to please, he immediately resigned, nodded yes, and looked like he suddenly realized.

"Savings are always exhausted, and now after months of fighting, the good foundation laid by the Soviets at the beginning is estimated to have been squandered, especially now that the Anjia army has cut off the main supply route of the Siberian railway, and only relying on the Mongolian road and transport aircraft to transport supplies by air is obviously a drop in the bucket. Ladies and gentlemen, do we have any hope of recovering the face lost on the battlefield in China in Siberia and dealing a heavy blow to the An Jiajun? ”

Seiji Kazuki thought about it for a moment and made a very tempting suggestion.

There was a lot of discussion in the room, out of bitter hatred for An Jiajun, many people thought that Kazuki Kiyoji had a good idea, and now was the time to find An Jiajun to settle old accounts.

General Koichi Ishikawa, chief of staff of the Front Army, glanced around at the excited generals, smiled slightly, and suddenly asked, "Gentlemen, I don't know what you know about airships?" ”

Shunroku Hata was a little puzzled, frowned, raised his head and replied: "The airship was a flash in the pan during the last European war, and with the end of the war, it was gradually forgotten. In July 27, the 'Zeppelin' airship came out, it weighed 118 tons, carried 53 tons, powered by five diesel engines, and the maximum speed was 193 kilometers per hour, two years later, on August 8, the 'Zeppelin' began a great round-the-world flight, starting from New Jersey in the United States, passing through Germany, the Soviet Union, China, and Japan, and returning to Los Angeles on August 26, the whole voyage lasted 21 days, 7 hours and 34 minutes.

According to intelligence statistics, in the late twenties and mid-thirties, eighty-six ships were built in the United States, seventy-two in the United Kingdom, one hundred in Germany, one hundred in France, thirty-eight in Italy, twenty-four in the Soviet Union, and twelve in our Empire Japan.

"In three or six years, Germany built a large airship 'Hindenburg', which is propelled by four Daimler-Benz diesel engines with 1,200 horsepower each, with strong power, and the first-class equipment inside is like a luxury air cruise ship, and its noble and fast characteristics have attracted many people from the upper echelons of society. Britain and France also built their own large airships R-100 and Akron with reference to the Zepbling. However, on May 6 of the following year, the Hindenburg exploded in hydrogen gas due to an electrostatic spark during landing, resulting in the death of 36 people. Since then, Britain and the United States have also had a number of large airships, most of which have been wrecked one after another, and the development of airships has come to a standstill since then. May I ask the Chief of Staff what is the purpose of asking this question? ”

Koichi Ishikawa nodded with satisfaction:

"Hata-kun's answer is very good, I wonder if you have noticed the news that there is something like a fortress flying in the sky in the western part of China that has been frequently reported by the intelligence department recently? According to the unremitting efforts of the intelligence officers, we got the answer from Germany, Nanhua began to study airships in the second half of last year, and in a short period of time, it now has several generations of products, and the latest generation of airships can carry up to 250 tons, the cruising speed is 150 kilometers, and the available tonnage is 150 tons after deducting the weight of the cabin and driving equipment. There are as few as three or five airships and as many as twenty or thirty airships, forming a huge cluster of airships, cruising between South China, southwest China and Mongolia, and Central Asia. I don't know what advanced technology Nanhua has adopted, so far, there is no news of the airship crash, which provides a very magical supply method for the transfer of materials on the front line.

In addition, the information provided by the Soviet side shows that immediately after the occupation of the major cities in Central Asia, the Anjia Army carried out land reform, replanted food crops, took over factories and enterprises, and made every effort to start construction.

"Since the Japanese Imperial ** team entered Western Siberia, the Far Eastern Army immediately organized the relocation of factories and enterprises to Kazakhstan, and it is expected that it will only take half a year to a year for the Anjia Army in Central Asia to achieve self-supply, so we think that the concept of the Anjia Army's material supply will be cut off is extremely wrong.

"The reason why I bring it up here despite the strong desire for revenge is that I don't want to blind the bright eyes of the monarchs because of hatred, this army that has caused us countless troubles is really not to be underestimated, if it is because we underestimated the opponent and caused huge losses when making plans and actual commands, Ishikawa will never forgive himself because he did not remind everyone in time!"

With that, Koichi Ishikawa stood up and bowed respectfully to everyone in the room.

"Ishikawa-kun is ...... modest"

"We won't think about it......"

"I know that the chief of staff is ...... for our good"

The sedan chair was carried, and when the generals saw that Ishikawa Koya, who was a member of the imperial family, was in such a low posture, they all said nonsense.

King Rimoto Shrine pressed his hands weakly, and soon the room was quiet:

"Gentlemen, the base camp means that we are not busy with the war now, and first move the machinery and equipment, steel, and minerals of the occupied areas to Korea and Manchuria. After emergency repairs, we communicated with the Bac Ninh Railway, the Middle East Railway and the Primorsky Railway, and the supplies from Siberia could be easily transported to North Korea and Manchuria, greatly enriching our industrial base. For some time to come, front-line operations will be dominated by feints, and the inventory of the occupied areas will be our top priority. The Emperor's decree that as long as it is needed by the Empire, even a nail must not be spared, understand? ”

"Hey—"

All the staff bowed respectfully, and somehow, their hearts were relaxed.