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As soon as the Imperial Council ended, inspired by the murderous spirit of the meeting, Prime Minister Fumima Konoe immediately summoned Sugi Sugimoto, Chief of the General Staff, Hideki Tojo, Minister of the Land, and Shiro Kawako, Foreign Minister Sadajiro Toyoda, Prince Zaihito Miyajihito, the old marshal, Prince Zaihito Miyajihito, military counselors, Toshiichi Terauchi, Shunroku Hata, and Mijiro Umezu, commander of the Kwantung Army, did not stop for a moment, but all gathered in the war room of the base camp to study in detail how to implement the spirit of the Imperial Council and secretly prepare for war against the Soviet Union.

Historically, the Japanese army formulated the "Kwantung Plan" to attack the Soviet Union.

In the historical "Kwantung Plan", the Japanese army was preparing to carry out a series of strikes on the Soviet army in the predetermined direction, crushing the Soviet army in the Primorsky area, along the Amur River and in the Trans-Baikal region, occupying the main lines of communication, military industrial enterprises and logistics supply bases, destroying the resistance of the Soviet army, and forcing the Soviet army to surrender. The Japanese army planned to advance to the Baikal region and end the fighting in 6 months.

According to the Kanto Plan, Japan issued a mobilization order on July 5.

On July 7, the Japanese emperor approved a plan to secretly recruit 500,000 people and requisition 800,000 tons of ships for the delivery of military supplies to the puppet state of Manchuria.

On July 11, the Emperor of Japan issued a special Order No. 506 to the Japanese Kwantung Army and the Japanese troops stationed in northern China. The order clearly stated that the Japanese troops in the Far East should be ready to invade the Soviet Union.

July 22nd. Japanese troops began to assemble in the border areas of the USSR. The Japanese army sent about 10,000 officers and soldiers and 35,000 horse-drawn wagons to the puppet state of Manchukuo every day and night through various assembly points in Korea. According to the plan. The Japanese army formed the three front armies (eastern, western and northern fronts) with the 629 troops that had been assembled. Its total number reached 20 divisions. In addition, the Japanese Supreme Command also planned to increase the strength of five more divisions in the puppet state of Manchukuo, and the troops were mainly mobilized from the Central and South China fronts.

On July 25, the Japanese Admiralty issued an order. Chapter 1160, which was formed specifically for the war against the Soviet Union, ended with 850,000 troops, which was equivalent to 58-59 infantry divisions of the Japanese army. And at this time. The Soviet Union deployed a total of 30 divisions in the Far East and Siberia. The Japanese army achieved a two-fold superiority over the Soviet Union in terms of strength. Plus Chapter 1160 of Hokkaido ended up with nearly 1 million troops preparing to attack the Soviet Union. At the same time as the build-up of troops, the Japanese army also stockpiled large quantities of ammunition, fuel and food in Manchuria and various parts of Korea, as well as 2-3 months of war readiness.

At the same time, according to the "Kwantung Plan", the puppet army of the puppet state of Manchukuo and Inner Mongolia would also participate in the war against the Soviet Union. The Mongolian puppet army was incorporated into the Japanese army in Inner Mongolia and formed the Mongolian United Volunteer Army. In addition, from 1938 onwards, according to the order of the Kwantung Army Command, a unit of white bandits was formed in the puppet state of Manchuria, and they were also incorporated into the Japanese army that invaded the Soviet Union, and their task was to enter the territory of the Soviet Union to sabotage railways and communication lines, strike, reconnoitre, sabotage and carry out anti-Soviet propaganda on the logistics supply bases of the Soviet army. In this regard, the Japanese army was afraid that only one White Russian bandit army would not be enough, and formed a White Russian special forces unit to carry out sabotage activities in the Soviet Union.

All this was carried out under the name of "special exercises of the Kwantung Army".

It's all real history, not fiction.

At this time, history had changed, and the Japanese army was even more determined to attack the Soviet Union in the north!

Fumima Konoe appeared unusually neat this time, and instructed Foreign Minister Sajiro Toyoda to immediately summon the Soviet ambassador to Japan, once again affirming Japan's attitude of not intervening in the Soviet-German war for the time being, and making sure to convince the Soviets that the Japanese Empire had no intention of starting a war with the Soviet Union and covering the Kwantung Army to complete the mobilization. At the same time, it immediately organized a negotiating team to intervene in the negotiations as soon as war began, and strived to press the Soviet Union to cede the Far East as soon as possible; instructed Hideki Tojo, the prime minister of the land, to immediately organize a secret mobilization, come up with a mobilization order and plan as soon as possible, and report to His Majesty the Emperor for permission; instructed the Chief of the General Staff, Shanshan Yuan, to immediately draw up a plan for operations against the Soviet Union; instructed the sea minister and Kawako Shiro to immediately organize and form a fleet to cooperate with the Soviet war, and to ensure the annihilation of the Pacific Fleet of the Soviet Red Navy in one fell swoop; Umezu Mijiro was instructed to immediately carry out secret mobilization in the Kwantung Army and prepare for battle.

After the deployment of Konoe Bunma, these Japanese military giants conducted a careful study together and implemented major implementation measures one by one.

Historically, the Japanese base camp believed that the basic condition for waging a war against the Soviet Union was to first weaken the Soviet army's military strength in the Far East, and that the best time to attack the Soviet Union was when the Soviet Union reduced the number of operational divisions in the Far East and Siberia from 30 to about 15, and the aviation, armor, artillery, and other units were reduced by two-thirds.

This time, the Japanese army did not have this idea, and the commander of the Kwantung Army, Umezu Yoshijiro, was ambitious to annihilate or completely defeat the Soviet Far Eastern Red Army in one fell swoop, and the Minister of the Navy and Kawakoshiro also went against the normal state of concentrating on the study of the Analects and Mencius, and vowed to annihilate the Pacific Fleet of the Soviet Red Navy in one fell swoop. Therefore, Konoe Bunma demanded that the combat plans of all departments should highlight the word "fast" and "ruthless" and win the battle in one battle.

Umezu Mijiro proposed. The Kwantung Army now has only 10 infantry divisions and two tank divisions in the 1st, 2nd, 7th, 9th, 11th, 12th, 23rd, 24th, 28th, 51st, and 57th, and the border garrison and several ** brigades need to undertake the defense of Manchuria. There are not enough troops. It is necessary to send troops from China to draw elite divisions to reinforce.

Except for the 51st and 57th divisions and regiments that were transferred to the Kwantung Army and the 48th Division and regiments were under the command of the 22nd Army in Guangdong because they were expanded on the basis of Taiwan's ** mixed brigades, the other divisions and regiments with the prefix "four" were all on standby in Japan and were ready to be used in southward operations. Originally. At this time, it was appropriate to transfer these divisions to the command of the Kwantung Army, but the Japanese have always been small and always thinking about fighting in the south. While preparing for war against the Soviet Union, he also prepared to move south to capture French Indochina, that is, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. These troops preparing to advance south could not move.

Hideki Tojo immediately proposed. The four-unit system of permanent divisions and regiments and ad hoc divisions and regiments was abolished and replaced with a three-unit system. The reason for this is that actual combat has proved that the three-unit division and regiment system is more flexible, has a reduced command level, and is more convenient for exerting combat effectiveness. This issue was already concluded in the eight-point consensus on public security in North China formed when General Shunroku Hata, Senior General Sugi Sugimoto, and General Toshiichi Terauchi went to the North China Front to supervise the war, but it was due to the frequent wars. The Army had no chance of putting it into practice. This time, because of the large-scale mobilization of the Kwantung Army, it happened to be carried out at the same time.

When Hideki Tojo spoke. His face was calm, and he couldn't see what he was really thinking in his heart. However, the leaders of the army present here are well aware that at this time, His Excellency Tojo's proposal is just right, and that the backbone wings should be drawn from the four-unit unit system to reorganize the new divisions and regiments, which can be three backbone wings to form one division, or two wings or even one wing can be used to expand the new divisions and regiments. In this way, the combat effectiveness of the troops has been ensured, and the establishment of the army has been greatly expanded invisibly. Even if it is necessary to change the three-unit division back to the four-unit division in the future, it will not be possible to downsize the existing divisions.

After all, Konoe Fumima is a civilian official, and although he knows very well that these guys in the army have always been bold and reckless, the situation that Hideki Tojo said is indeed a drawback to the Japanese army under normal circumstances. Think about it, a division has two brigades and four wings, and the division commander can directly command the wing, but he still has to go through the brigade commander. In this way, there is purely one more formality. Normally, it is often the brigade commander who has nothing to do. It was with this in mind that Fumima Konoe nodded in agreement.

As soon as the Prime Minister agrees, things will be easy. Hideki Tojo immediately proposed that in order to ensure a complete victory in the war against the Soviet Union, men between the ages of 24 and 45 in Japan and Manchuria should be mobilized to join the army, and the Japanese Army should be expanded by 25 to 30 divisions at one time.

The Imperial Council has decided to secretly prepare for war against the Soviet Union, and His Majesty the Emperor is waiting for when the army will start to act, and Fumima Konoe, as Prime Minister of the Cabinet, can only obey the will of His Majesty the Emperor. Unless he wants the cabinet to fall immediately.

Chief of the General Staff Shanshan Yuan also had a draft, and immediately proposed to immediately form the 30th Division and the 31st Division, which were assigned to the Kwantung Army; The 16th Division and the 116th Division were transferred from the 11th Army to Manchuria immediately, and the 14th Division was transferred from the First Army and transferred to the Kwantung Army. The 20th Division of the First Army was returned to the Korean Army. The four divisions and regiments transferred above all left a backbone wing, which was mixed with the first mixed brigade in North China and Central China to form a new division; The Fifth Division, as a reserve mobile division, temporarily stayed in the Lianyungang area for landing training and undertook the task of reinforcing the North China battlefield.

After a while, Shanshanyuan added five divisions of elite troops to the Kwantung Army, and also asked the Korean army that cooperated with the operation to return the 20th division, which means that once the battle starts, the elite troops of the Kwantung Army that can be used for field battles will have 15 infantry divisions and two tank divisions. In this way, the backbone troops that marched north to wage war against the Soviet Union were all there. All that remains is the question of adding new troops and replenishing them after mobilization. If we add the two divisions of the North Korean Army and the ** mixed brigade stationed on South Sakhalin Island, plus the border garrison, **brigade, ** garrison under the command of the Kwantung Army, the puppet Mongolian army, and the puppet Manchurian defense army, the strength of the army is already quite huge.

Prince Zairen of the Idle Courtyard Palace is indeed old, and he should have died a long time ago. No, he sat there and listened for a long time, and then he came up with an idea: "Your Excellency, the great mobilization should not be limited to the Yamato nation. Manchuria practices a five-ethnic republican system, and Manchuria introduced a compulsory military service system as early as last year, and all adult men must undergo military training, and the quality of the soldiers is very good. In addition, the DPRK has also implemented a military service system, and Taiwan has also conducted military training for adult men. I think that mobilization should be carried out in Manchuria, Korea, and Taiwan, and high-quality soldiers should be transferred directly into the army divisions and regiments. It not only satisfies the needs of soldiers for the expansion of the army, but also increases the sense of identity of the Manchurians, Koreans, and Taiwanese with the Japanese Empire, and can also allow Manchukuo, Korea, and Taiwan to contribute part of their military expenditures. ”

As soon as Prince Zaihito finished speaking, Konoe Fumima and the others applauded!

In fact, after the outbreak of the Lugou Bridge Incident, the Japanese army mobilized the puppet Manchu army, Korean soldiers, and Taiwanese soldiers to participate in the war, but the number was not huge. At the suggestion of Prince Zairen of the Imperial Palace, the Japanese army began to openly recruit soldiers from Northeast China, Korea, and Taiwan on a large scale.

The chariot of the little devils rumbled!

In charge of drawing up the battle plan was Shinichi Tanaka, head of the General Staff Headquarters of the Japanese Army.

Before the Russo-Japanese War, Russia was Japan's number one imaginary enemy. Although the Russo-Japanese War has long ended, the Tsarist regime has long been overthrown, and the Soviet Union has long been established, there is not only a spring breeze on the faces of diplomats, but also a secret military confrontation between countries. To this day, the Soviet Union remained the number one imaginary enemy of the Japanese Army.

For this reason, the Japanese General Staff Headquarters has a number of anti-campaign plans for the Soviet Union in different periods. Shinichi Tanaka didn't need to make much effort, and quickly came up with a battle plan.

Considering that in addition to possessing a relatively high degree of mechanized infantry units and the Pacific Fleet, the Soviet Far East Red Army also possessed 60 heavy bombers, 450 fighters, 60 attack planes, 80 long-range bombers, 330 light bombers, and 200 naval aviation planes, which could directly bomb Tokyo and turn Tokyo into rubble, the first target of the battle plan drawn up by Shinichi Tanaka was Vladivostok and the airfields of the Red Army in the Far East, in an attempt to concentrate the army and naval aviation, In one fell swoop, destroy the Red Army airfield in the Far East and the Pacific Fleet, seize Vladivostok, and then cut off the Trans-Siberian Railway by surprise troops, outflanking the main force of the Red Army in the Far East, and the Soviet-Mongolian army with the Japanese army pinning down the Mongolian defense line. After destroying the main forces of the Red Army in the Far East, the division will return to the west and take the Zabaikal region.

Shinichi Tanaka named this battle plan the "Kanto Plan".

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