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The meaning of what Prince Zaihito said was clear to everyone present, that is, to wait for the Germans to defeat Moscow and the defeat of the Soviet Union was decided.

Emperor Hirohito pondered for a while and said to himself: "Whether the Germans can take Moscow or not is indeed a key point!" ”

After a pause, Emperor Hirohito seemed to retract his thoughts and instead asked Hirota what he thought.

Japan's current foreign minister is Admiral Sadajiro Toyoda, but he has only been foreign minister for a short time, and Emperor Hirohito still consulted Hirota Hiroki, who served as prime minister in the 32nd cabinet and served as foreign minister in several cabinets.

Hirota Hiroki was the only civilian official in history among the Class A war criminals who were hanged in the Tokyo Trial after World War II. The main reason why he was the only civilian official to be hanged was that when he was prime minister, he restored the "full-time system of active generals (senior and lieutenant generals) of the minister of the army and navy," which stipulated that the minister and vice minister of the army and navy must be officers on active duty of the army and navy. This method was first developed by Aritomo Yamaguchi, the originator of Japanese militarism, Terauchi Shouichi turned it out of the pile of rags, and Hirota Hiroki was honored to be used as a puppet by Terauchi Shouichi. However, it was precisely because of this method that the power of life and death of the Japanese cabinet was placed in the hands of the army and navy. The army or navy can force the cabinet to fall at any time by resigning from the post of minister of land and navy, and it can also block the formation of a cabinet by means of not being able to produce a candidate for minister of land and navy. As a result, the Japanese cabinet was tied to the chariot of militaristic expansion.

For Chinese, Hirota Hongyi has another relatively famous thing. That is, in dealing with the issue of the puppet Manchukuo, he put forward the "Three Principles for China." Also known as the "Hirota Three Principles" :(1) "The Chinese side completely abolishes anti-Japanese words and deeds and gets rid of the policy of dependence on Europe and the United States." At the same time, a policy of goodwill toward Japan was adopted and put into practice, and then it was possible to cooperate with the Reich on specific issues. (2) "While it is necessary for China to finally formally recognize Manchukuo, it is now necessary for China to de facto acquiesce in the independence of Manchukuo, to cease its anti-Manchurian policy, and to establish economic and cultural cooperation with Manchukuo, at least in North China, which is adjacent to Manchukuo." (3) "In view of the fact that the red forces from Outer Mongolia and other places have posed a common threat to Japan, Manchuria, and China. In order to eliminate the above-mentioned threats, the Chinese side should cooperate with us in all kinds of measures that we wish in the border areas with Outer Mongolia. ”

Such an old aggression maniac, and a retired official who is unofficial and light, can even participate in the prestigious imperial meeting, which shows that this is a gathering of aggression maniacs.

When the emperor asked, Hirota Hiroki naturally wanted to answer. Listening to Hirota Hiroki's careful words, he said: "From the perspective of Japan's development, it seems that it is better to start a war against the Soviet Union. Preventive diplomatic negotiations with the Soviet Union could be held first, leaving room for manoeuvre. Germany captured Moscow, and our country could take advantage of the situation to move westward. Divide the USSR equally with Germany. If Germany is unable to capture Moscow for the time being, our country can also force the Soviet Union to conclude an agreement, at least the eastern plain of the Ussuri River and the island of North Sakhalin in the Far East will be assigned to our country. I think the Soviets must not want to fight on both sides. may agree to our request. ”

Hirota Hiroki's statement is in line with the Army's thinking, and Sugi Sugi and Hideki Tojo will report it.

Emperor Hirohito stopped them and asked Hirota Hiroki again: "There is some truth in what Aiqing said, but the question is how do countries such as Britain and the United States view our actions?" Will our country fall into isolation on all sides? ”

Hirota Hiroki had a blank face: "Since the signing of the Triple Alliance Treaty between Germany, Italy and Japan, Britain and the United States have included our country as a hostile country. Although we have made a lot of diplomatic efforts, we have not been able to change the United States' perception of us. It seems inevitable that there will be a war. Your Majesty does not need to consider the attitude of Britain and the United States, land is what the Great Japanese Empire needs most. ”

This Hirota Hongyi, it is not a loss to hang him a hundred times!

Emperor Hirohito no longer asked Hirota Hiroki, but Hirota Hiroki couldn't stop the car and reported again: "Your Majesty, in the long run, the minister thinks that our country should still go south. Seize the oil and rubber resources of Southeast Asia. The purpose of the northward advance was to remove the threat of the southward advance, so the diplomatic purpose must be to force the Soviet Union to sign an agreement. ”

Emperor Hirohito didn't think Hirota Hiroki was verbose, nodded slightly, and instead asked Umezu Mijiro to report on the Kwantung Army's thoughts.

Umezu Mijiro did not speak much at the previous three-day meeting, and what was carefully prepared was the speech at today's Imperial Council. Just now, His Majesty the Emperor announced his promotion to the rank of General of the Imperial Japanese Army, which stimulated Umezu Mijiro's whole body to be steaming, like a stove.

Umezu Mijiro was very well prepared, first thanked His Majesty the Emperor for his love, said that he would be loyal and serve His Majesty the Emperor for the rest of his life, and then asked the accompanying chief of staff Kimura Hyotaro to hang the map of Soviet Siberia he brought so that the ministers could watch it, and then calmly played: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that it is imperative to start a war against the Soviet Union, and the sooner the better!" ”

The veteran ministers present all pricked their ears and listened to what Umezu Mijiro had to say.

Umezu Mijiro continued: "Your Majesty, after the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, the Kwantung Army seriously analyzed and believed that the Soviet Red Army was not the opponent of the German army, mainly because Stalin's purge campaign to eliminate dissidents killed too many middle and senior officers in the Soviet Union. This has been confirmed by the war reports of the past few days. Under the powerful blows of the German army, the Soviet army was not at all an opponent. If the Soviet Union wants to turn the tide of the war, it can only hope that the United States will enter the war or that the weather will change in winter. Now it seems that the Americans are not ready to enter the war, and at most they will only provide some material assistance to the Soviet Union. As for the weather, it is now four months before the arrival of winter, and with these four months, the Germans can completely take Moscow. The only variable here was that the Soviet Union had drawn the Red Army from the Far East to the front line in Moscow. The Kwantung Army believed that the Soviets could not wait to draw troops to the west, and the reason why they did not immediately withdraw troops was that they were afraid that the Kwantung Army would launch a surprise attack. ”

Emperor Hirohito interrupted Umezu Mijiro's rambling words and asked, "Have you figured out the situation of the strength and equipment of the Soviet Far East troops?" ”

Umezu Yoshijiro reported that it was already very clear that the Soviet Union had 30 divisions, 1,600 aircraft, and a total of more than 2,000 tanks deployed in the Far East.

Emperor Hirohito's eyes suddenly became a little confused, and he muttered to himself: "1,600 planes, you can bomb Tokyo directly." ”

At this time, Shanshanyuan, chief of the general staff, spoke: "Your Majesty, after my country's cutting-edge fighters were put into the battlefield, they won a 27-0 victory in the Bishan air battle in the first battle. In this campaign, our cutting-edge fighters were against the Soviet planes equipped by Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese Air Force. After this battle, the imperial air force had firmly controlled the air supremacy of the Chinese battlefield. From this it can be inferred that the aircraft of the Far Eastern Fleet of the USSR were no match for the cutting-edge fighters of our country. Moreover, judging from the results of the German army in the past few days, if the sneak attack tactics were adopted, the Soviet planes would not even have a chance to take off. ”

The Minister of the Navy and Kawakoshiro couldn't bear the loneliness, and then Sugi Sugimoto's words played: "Your Majesty, the Navy has the ability to annihilate the Soviet Far East Navy in one fell swoop, and cooperate with the Army to seize Vladivostok!" ”

Vladivostok is the largest city and base in the Far East of the Soviet Union, and the capture of Vladivostok is tantamount to copying the back road of the Red Army in the Far East, which is extremely dangerous!

Both the Chief of the General Staff and the Minister of the Navy put on a shirtless posture,!

Umezu Mijiro was afraid that His Majesty the Emperor would not see the benefits of advancing north, so he hurriedly added: "Your Majesty, what the Kwantung Army has seen is not how many planes, tanks, and warships the Soviet Army has in the Far East, but a large amount of gasoline, diesel, steel, weapons, ammunition, and food that the Soviet Union has stored in the Far East for a long time. ”

This is the result of the changes in history.

Historically, the real intention of the Japanese army to plan its northward advance was, first, to cooperate with Germany to completely eliminate the Soviet Union, and second, to occupy Outer Mongolia by advancing northward, so that Outer Mongolia could be integrated with Manchukuo, which was supported by Japan, consolidate its occupation of Manchuria, and then expand into Siberia. In order to carry out this plan, the Japanese army carried out the largest mobilization since the founding of the army, formulated the Kwantung Plan, and determined the start of war against the Soviet Union on August 10.

The reason why the Japanese army finally abandoned the plan to advance north was that the Japanese saw from the fact that the German army was blocked under the city of Moscow that the Soviet Union was not so easy to defeat. Second, the Red Army in the Far East of the Soviet Union did not withdraw troops on a large scale to reinforce the European theater. Third, by going south to occupy Southeast Asia and Australia, we can obtain greater benefits, especially the oil and rubber resources that Japan urgently needs. Fourth, the United States strangled Japan's neck, forcing small Japan to go to war with the United States over oil resources that would affect its national fortunes.

Some commentators are short-sighted, saying that the reason why Japan gave up its northward march to attack the Soviet Union was because the Japanese army was frightened by the Soviet army in the Battle of Zhanggufeng and the Battle of Normenhan, and did not dare to attack the Soviet Union. Shallow! Superficial to the extreme! The Japanese army, which won the Russo-Japanese War, would have feared the Soviet army because of two small battles? What's more, in the Zhang Gufeng Incident and the Battle of Nomenhan, the Japanese army strictly said that it was only a tentative attack, and the scale of participation in the battle was limited to the division and regiment level. And the Soviets were in full force. This point, the Japanese intelligence system is so developed, it will not be unclear.

Now that history has changed, Umezu Mijiro has long since changed from "Wen Wei Po? The Military Forum learned about the deployment of the Soviet army and the real casualties in the Battle of Normenhan, and he had already sharpened his knives and prepared to fight the pigs and sheep. Therefore, his thinking is no longer how to fight, but what kind of capture he can get after fighting. This gaze is more ferocious, more vicious, and more insidious than the greedy gaze of the Kwantung Army in history.

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