The wind blowing from the Pacific Ocean blew away the rain clouds in Tokyo's sky, and when the wind passed, the hot sun shone on the land again. /.0M\\The streets of Tokyo are becoming more and more depressed, the counters of shops are empty, and the pedestrians on the streets are mostly women with parasols, and occasionally a man comes out, either an old man in his sixties or a veteran soldier on crutches and wearing an old military uniform.

The car was speeding down the street, Ishihara looked indifferently at the streets on both sides, there was no traffic jam in Tokyo now, the gasoline ration was getting less and less, even the rich people were rarely able to use the car, and the officers who went out to contact the base camp were mainly bicycles.

The development of the war situation has proved that his judgment was correct at the beginning, the "Central" ** team ignored the hundreds of thousands of imperial troops in the south of the Yangtze River, the main force went north, attacked Shandong and Henan, and the front of the troops pointed to Hebei, and the more than 200,000 elite troops in the south of the Yangtze River were pinned down by the 700,000 troops of the "Middle" country, and could not move at all. On the contrary, North China, which was in dire need of troops, was overstretched, and Okamura Ningji had to tear down the east wall to make up the west wall, almost emptying the Shanxi troops, but the front-line troops were still tight.

The 17th Division and the 60th Division were shattered, and the ** team broke through the Yellow River and approached Mount Tai, and the whole Shandong was in danger; In mid-August, the North China Dispatch Army, the Kwantung Army, and the Navy joined in: from military deployments to troop strength to material rationing, there was a complete liquidation of the mistakes made by the base camp in recent years.

"The biggest mistake was to go to war against China." Ishihara lamented in his heart, he was almost certain that the original expansion faction was now silent, and Sugiyama Mototo, who stubbornly refused to admit it, but recently the news from the palace that "His Majesty the Emperor intends to retire Sugiyama Moto" and Hideki Tojo finally stopped being silent and wanted to express his displeasure in this way.

Prime Minister Kuniaki Koiso was almost helpless against this situation, and could only continue to convene joint meetings of the base camp cabinet" So the quarrel was moved to the meeting, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, the Ministry of Finance, the General Staff, the Ministry of the Army, and the Ministry of the Navy did not give in to each other, Ishihara Waner demanded a retreat from Jiangnan and the transfer of troops to North China, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs resolutely opposed it, demanding that the Wang Jingwei regime not be abandoned" The army and navy competed for steel, the army demanded the formation of more tank divisions, the navy proposed the construction of two new aircraft carriers, and the Ministry of International Trade and Industry was asked to expand steel production, However, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry complained that a large number of skilled workers had been conscripted into the army, and that production capacity had reached its limit, and that it was necessary to build a new factory to expand.

Within the army, the biggest complaint was not the "Chinese" sent army but the Kwantung Army, and the commander of the Kwantung Army, Umezu Mijiro, was very dissatisfied with the frequent transfer of troops from the Kwantung Army, and he reported to the base camp that the Kwantung Army was now extremely weak, and most of the defense line in the Great Khinganling Mountains had to be defended by the Manchurian Defense Army.

The current Kwantung Army is no longer the famous Kwantung Army, the essence has been transferred to Nanyang, transferred to the "Central" mainland, the current troops only the 10th Division is a standing division, the rest are all B divisions, eight of which are newly formed divisions, personnel from Manchuria in the countryside.

After the ** team launched a full-scale counteroffensive, Nishio Shouzo flew to Tokyo one after another, asking for additional troops to be sent to the Chinese country, and asking for more troops in North China, "Otherwise, the situation will be out of control, but the base camp now has no troops to adjust."

The battlefield of China has become a quagmire for Japan, and now Japan is completely powerless to get out of this quagmire.

By now, the senior generals of the army had already known that the war had changed, and it would be difficult for Japan to achieve a final victory, but the Cairo Declaration had already put forward conditions for them to end the war and surrender unconditionally, which was unacceptable to Japan.

The car stopped in the inner courtyard of the palace, and Ishihara got out of the car and saw that the members of the Showa cabinet of Koiso Province were already waiting in the courtyard, and Ishihara didn't want to go over, not because he was arrogant, but because he really didn't want to see that Sugiyama Moto.

Sugiyama was as stubborn as ever, resolutely refusing to give up any of the occupied areas, sparing no effort to stir up the emotions of the young officers and prevent Ishihara from carrying out the strategy he had formulated.

"Your Majesty, please come in." Ishihara was the last member to attend today's meeting, and when he arrived, Kido immediately invited everyone to the palace, and Koiso Kuniaki dressed up and led the way into the hall.

The palace is still magnificent, and there is a lack of electricity in the country, but the supply in the palace is still guaranteed, but Hirohito ordered that the palace should be strictly economical, and no lights should be lit before sunset. In addition, in the patriotic donation campaign that began in the spring, the queen Liangzi donated all the iron tools that were not used in the palace, and led the female officials to make thousands of needles in the palace.

But the atmosphere in the palace is becoming more and more gloomy and solemn, the owner of this huge palace has not smiled for a long time, and Empress Liangzi is anxious in her eyes, but she has no way to do it.

The course of the war took Hirohito by surprise, especially China. With astonishing tenacity and perseverance, the Chinese people survived the most difficult stage of the war, and now it is their turn to be the day themselves, but are they sure that the Yamato nation will survive?

Hirohito didn't know, or maybe he didn't have faith.

"Today, the cabinet and the base camp are here, do you have any countermeasures to the recent changes in China and the Pacific?"

Hirohito's tone was calm, Koiso Kuniagu's heart trembled, and the emperor was angry, and the emperor was criticizing the cabinet, a situation that has rarely occurred since the Meiji Restoration. Well, when it came to the recent quarrel in the army, Koiso Kuniaki broke out in a cold sweat.

"Your Majesty, the cabinet and the base camp are trying to solve it, Commander Nishio Toshizo has repelled the attack of the Shina Army on Anqing and Hangzhou, and General Okamura Ninji has also repelled the attack on the Shina Army on Taian." Koiso Kuniaki hurriedly reported some good signs on the battlefield to Hirohito, but he knew that it was a lie.

"Really?" Hirohito's expression was still so dull, but the change in tone revealed that Prime Minister Koiso's words did not hide from him: "The war has been fought for six years, and the front has retreated from Wuhan to the north of the Yellow River and Shandong, and the situation has become worse and worse, what are the strategies of the Ministry of War and the base camp to turn the situation around?" Sugiyama, you say! ”

At this time, not only Koiso Kuniaki, but everyone at the meeting knew that Hirohito broke the rule set by his grandfather, Meiji the Great, that the emperor would not directly intervene in court affairs. Ishihara looked up at Hirohito in surprise, but Hirohito's eyes were fixed on Sugiyama Moto, Sugiyama Moto's bald head broke out in a cold sweat, and he took out a handkerchief to wipe his sweat vigorously.

"Your Majesty, ......, ......, ......" Sugiyama Moto's eyes rolled around, hoping that someone would come out to reverse the situation for him, but everyone couldn't hide from him and didn't dare to raise his head at all.

The Meiji Constitution of the Meiji Constitution pursued by Nichimoto stipulates that the emperor has all powers, but in fact, from the beginning of the Meiji Emperor, the emperor does not interfere in the decisions of the cabinet, and he communicates his will to the cabinet through the Imperial Household Ministry, so that the cabinet can form a decision, so as to avoid that if there is a mistake in the national policy, the people will concentrate their grievances on the cabinet, and the emperor will no longer be responsible.

"What advice does Ishihara Qing have?" Hirohito's tone slowed down slightly, and the course of the war proved that Ishihara had always been right, and Hirohito regretted that he had not listened to Ishihara's advice in the first place, and his attitude towards him was naturally slightly better than that of Sugiyama Moto.

"Your Majesty, the latest news from the front line, the Chinese army has stopped attacking, which has given us some time, but we must hurry up and formulate a feasible strategy, otherwise once the Chinese army resumes the offensive, the situation in North China will further deteriorate." After Ishihara finished speaking, he looked at Hirohito with expectant eyes. Kuniaki Koiso can't control Sugiyama Moto, and he can only count on Hirohito now.

"Do you have any strategy?" Hirohito has long known about the dispute between the cabinet and the base camp, and Ishihara has been taking tough measures and has dismissed several section chiefs one after another, but this is still not enough.

"Your Majesty, the minister still suggested before, give up Jiangnan, negotiate peace with China and Soviet Russia, and go all out to deal with Britain and the United States." Ishihara said: "With the retreat of the imperial army, Chiang Kai-shek's conditions will certainly be raised, in order to stimulate them, the minister suggested starting with Soviet Russia, Stalin was under great pressure from Germany, if we asked for peace talks, withdraw from Soviet Russia and Mongolian territory, the minister thought that Stalin could agree." ”

"Giving up Jiangnan is tantamount to giving up the Wang Chingwei government, which will have a huge adverse impact on diplomacy, and we will no longer cooperate with the governments of the Philippines and Thailand." As soon as Ishihara's words fell, Shigemitsu Aoi gave up his objection.

Under the banner of the new order in East Asia, Japan established many new countries in the European colonies in Nanyang, and after these governments came to power, they all expressed their intention to cooperate with Japan to jointly oppose the Caucasians, but if Japan showed signs of defeat, these governments were likely to immediately turn their guns and deal with Japan itself.

"Didn't you agree to negotiate with Soviet Russia at the last cabinet meeting? How's it going? Hirohito asked.

"We have been in contact with the Russian counsellor in Switzerland, but the Russian side has not responded." Shigemitsu Aoi replied.

"Ishihara, you go on." Hirohito didn't say anything, but he had already made his attitude clear by interrupting Shigemitsu Aoi.

Ishihara was deeply encouraged, he cleared his throat and said: "The reason for abandoning Jiangnan and Shanxi is that we have insufficient troops, so we will ship the Jiangnan troops to North China, abandon Henan, Shandong, and southern Hebei, make a large and long-distance retreat, establish defensive positions in northern China, north of Beiping, use the terrain in this area to engage the Chinese army, defeat the Chinese army, and then negotiate peace with the Chiang Kai-shek government." ”

This is the overall strategy planned by Ishihara Wan'er, to concentrate his troops, and use the quality advantage of the soldiers to counter the numerical superiority of the [Zhong] ** team, as long as he defeats the people of China once, Chiang Kai-shek may make peace with the "Japan".

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