The cannon sound of the Xinde War made the Kwantung Army collectively rejuvenate as if it were a chicken's blood, and the request for a war against the Soviet Union in the north flew to Tokyo like snowflakes, and the commander of the Kwantung Army, Umezu Yoshijiro, also suggested to the military headquarters that the enemy in the north should be solved first, and then the southern problem, and put forward the "Outline of the Development of the Situation and the National Policy of the Empire", in which Umezu Yoshijiro absorbed the spirit of Nishio Toshizo's memorandum and proposed to take political measures against the Shina incident, and the imperial army forces should immediately take action against the Soviet Union. Joint destruction with Germany first destroyed Soviet Russia. /。 \\

If Nishio Toshizo's memorandum only represents the opinion of the North China Dispatch Army, then Umezu Yoshijiro's outline shows that the North China Dispatch Army and the Kwantung Army have joined forces to force the palace, and the military department naturally does not dare to ignore it, not to mention that Germany has officially asked the Japanese side to send troops to cooperate, and only the chairman of the General Staff of the Military Department, the Cabinet, and the Senate will participate in convening a liaison meeting.

It was an informal meeting, but it was a regular meeting in Japanese political circles, and the purpose was to communicate some important decisions in advance, so the emperor also sent the Minister of the Interior to attend.

At the beginning of the meeting, Foreign Minister Matsuwang insisted that war should be declared immediately, ignoring the fact that he had signed a treaty with Soviet Russia not long ago, and now that Germany was attacking Soviet Russia, it was our opportunity to solve the threat from the north, and if we waited for the defeat of Soviet Russia, then we would not be able to gain anything! ”

Matsuwang's proposal was supported by War Minister Hideki Tojo and Deputy Chief of General Staff Seishiro Itagaki, who firmly stated: "Soviet Russia is our old enemy, so we should abandon Wuhan and unswervingly attack, look at the world map, if Soviet Russia submits, half of the whole world will be in the hands of our Axis three countries." Under such a commanding situation, Chiang Kai-shek would never be stubbornly insisting, and the United States would never dare to interfere in our actions in the South Seas! ”

However, there are also resolute opponents within the military, such as Kenri Sato, director of the Army Military Affairs Bureau, Keijun Mitsumo, director of the Navy Military Affairs Bureau, and Tsukada Tsukada, deputy chief of staff, who are in the vanguard of resolute opposition.

Sato was very irritable and interrupted the loose net that continued to shout: "Declaring war on Soviet Russia, there are no strategic materials in the north that we urgently need, attacking the north, except for the wasteland and ice and snow, there is nothing!" On the contrary, the South has oil and rubber that we desperately need. Britain won weakly, the main forces were attracted to Germany, and we just took advantage of the situation! ”

"According to the base camp estimate, Soviet Russia will surrender between three months and six months" Matsunet Yang estimated that he was very dissatisfied with Sato, Sato did not back down at all and glared at him, Matsumo's short body and emitted huge energy, he stood up and continued to shout: "If we don't take action, in the future, Germany can also use this as an excuse to refuse to declare war on the United States, then the Triple Axis will become a dead letter!" ”

After the Battle of Zhunan, the remnants of the Japanese army entered Vietnam, and the French authorities planned to collect their weapons and then send them back to Japan in accordance with international practice, but the Japanese army refused to be absorbed by the French army, but instead occupied the northern part of Vietnam, and had a skirmish with the French army, which caused a very serious repercussion in the international community, and the British and the United States determined that the Japanese army was likely to move south, and the British began to gradually increase the Nanyang army. The United States has also issued a serious warning to Japan, while stopping the sale of scrap steel to Japan. Therefore, the Japanese understood that if they insisted on going south, they would inevitably go to war with Britain and the United States. Then Japan needs the Tri-Nation Axis even more.

Now Germany has made a request, and if Japan refuses, then Germany will do the same in the future. Refusing Japan's demands, Japan has nothing to say.

"The Triple Axis is directed against Britain and the United States". Tsukada Tsukashi said loudly, Songwang scolded in his heart, the Three Kingdoms Axis started from the Three Again Joint ** Alliance, and later developed into the Three Kingdoms Axis, so from the very beginning, it was aimed at Soviet Russia, and Tsukada Tsukada actually explained the Three Kingdoms Axis Treaty indiscriminately to his face.

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"The empire has a strong navy, and if you go north, you will not be able to exert your naval power at all, and besides, going north will also risk causing American intervention." Oka Keijun also stood up in support.

"Absolutely not, the United States is also the first" Songwang's rebuttal was equally harsh and swift: "The United States and Soviet Russia are two completely different social systems. Roosevelt would have been impeached by the U.S. Congress if he had declared war on the empire for Soviet Russia.

Matsunet Itagaki Tojo side, Sato net Keizukada attacked the side, the two sides argued fiercely, and no one refused to give in, but the giants next to him, such as Konoe Furuma, Suyama Moto, Nagano Shuse, and Kido, did not express the slightest statement.

"Overall length". Sato couldn't compete with Matsunet and Itagaki, and turned to Kuchiyama in a rage, forcing him to make a statement. Kuyamamoto's chubby face was always silent, and the cigar in his hand was smoking.

"Keep talking, let's talk about it." Suyama Yuan's expression was calm: "However, I don't think the United States will not declare war on us for Soviet Russia, although their social systems are different, it is difficult to say in a war." ”

"Three months, to six months". Kido looked solemn and pondered: "When the Chuchina Incident occurred, it was also said that in three months, the territory of Soviet Russia was more vast than that of China, even if we occupied the Far East, Soviet Russia could still withdraw to the Urals to resist, and in addition, Mongolia, how many troops could the imperial army invest?" Are you sure you will win? Besides, it's cold in the north

Kido was a representative of the emperor, and his words largely represented the emperor's intentions, and Konoe understood that the emperor was not in favor of going north, but instead he was in favor of going south.

"Although we have cut off the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway, all kinds of materials are still flowing into China through the Yunnan-Burma Highway, and only by cutting off this artery in the south can we force China to surrender." Chief of Operations Shinichi Tanaka also stood up and spoke out in support of the southward operation.

"Misguided people!" Tanaka Shinichi was taken aback, but turned his head to see Muto Akira, whose face was flushed, Muto Akira stood up and rushed to Tanaka Shinichi: "Shina is known as a big land. Rich in resources and large in population, so although his industrial capacity is only one-tenth of that of the imperial county, they still hold on to four for a long time, all these conditions, Soviet Russia has, stronger than China, does the empire still have the strength to consume? Go south, deal with Britain and the United States? Can the strength of the empire be able to fight on two fronts? Until the China incident is resolved, the empire should no longer declare war on any country! ”

At the beginning of the Lugou Bridge Incident, Muto Akira advocated the expansion, but after four wars, he himself worked in China for two years, and what he saw and heard in China made him pessimistic about the future, and deeply regretted that he did not listen to Ishihara at the beginning, and should not have expanded the Lugou Bridge Incident. Now that he heard that he was going north and south, Tanaka Shinichi's argument finally made him explode.

"Muto Daisa" Tojo was a little unhappy, and scolded in a deep voice: "The Empire's determination to conquer China remains unchanged, and what General Tanaka said is not wrong, without the support of Britain and the United States, it is impossible for China to resist until now." ”

Tojo opened his mouth, Muto Shori cut his words, Tojo's eyes swept over the important ministers present, and said in an accentuated tone: "I think it is still advisable to attack Soviet Russia, Soviet Russia is our feud, if we take the first move, once Germany is defeated, Soviet Russia will make a move against us, in this case." So why don't we do it first? ”

Tsukada asked coldly: "How many troops do you need to transfer to attack Soviet Russia?" Nomenkan and Zhang Gufeng proved that the Soviet army could not be defeated without a strong tank force, and our tanks were lagging behind Europe, and Germany supported us in producing only 200 tanks, which was far from forming an armored corps.

It will take at least two years to adjust the strength of the troops. ”

Japan suffered a big loss at Nomenkan, worse than the battle of Zaoyang, only more than 3,000 people escaped from nearly 60,000 people in the entire army, after the war, the commander of the Kwantung Army, Kenkichi Ueda, resigned, and was replaced by Umezu Mijiro, the commander-in-chief of the front, Komatsubara, committed suicide, and the chief of staff, Netmoto, had his legs blown off.

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This defeat made the Japanese realize that in order to compete with Europe and the United States, they must renovate their armed forces, and set up tank divisions and regiments in the same way as Germany did, and for this reason, two tank divisions and regiments were added to the establishment of the Kwantung Army, but in addition to the establishment, there must also be tanks, and the Chinese battlefield has proved that Japan's main battle tank, the Kuang medium tank, has weak armor, and is unusable, and it is necessary to produce new tanks, and Germany has provided Japan with medium tanks and self-propelled guns.

However, the biggest difference is that Japan also has a large navy, and the steel production is divided by the navy. As a result, a very small share of steel was used in the production of tanks, which led to an extremely low rate of tank production. The formation of tank divisions was also extremely slow.

The number of tanks required for a tank division is 380, but now there are only 200, which is far from the required number.

"It's our duty to fight with the conditions we have!" Ban Huan said coldly: "We have always been like this, in the Sino-Japanese War, we fought the strong with the weak; In the Russo-Japanese War, we still attacked the strong with the weak; In the Manchurian Incident, we only have more than 10,000 people, and we still seize Manchuria, if we had to wait until everything was ready, Japan would have perished long ago! ”

"That's right!" Songwang applauded loudly.

"If you want to declare war on the Soviet Union, you must decide in mid-July," the emperor's attendant military attaché, Yan Shunroku, said calmly: "Moreover, the Kwantung Army now has only 700,000, and the Mongolian garrison army has 180,000, but Chahar, Yuyuan, and Rehe need to leave about 80,000, so only 800,000 can be put into attack, and to attack Soviet Russia, it is necessary to increase the number of troops to 1 million, which requires an increase of 200,000, and this part of the troops needs to be drawn from the domestic and Chinese battlefields." ”

The meaning of Yan Jun's six words is very clear. The squadron will never give up this opportunity to teach the Japanese army. Wuhan is likely not to be insured.

"We should negotiate peace with Chiang Kai-shek, and if necessary, we can abandon the occupied areas south of the Great Wall and concentrate our forces to defeat Soviet Russia first." As one of the main promoters of the expansion faction, although he left the battlefield of China, he was still paying attention to the news from China, and he had already learned the news of the development of Guizhou, and the development of the southwest was gradually exposed, and the national government had been secretly preparing for five years in order to prepare for this war, and the industrial base in the southwest had reached the scale of one million equipment, which made all the Japanese generals feel shocked.

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