After the Japanese army reoccupied Cangxian, the actions made Liu Yimin feel incredible.

In Liu Yimin's mind, after the Japanese army captured Cangxian, it would inevitably carry out a crazy sweep of the border of Hebei or Luxi, central Hebei, and southern Hebei again. Therefore, Liu Yimin sent a telegram of instructions to our army in Hebei and Lubian, Luxi, southern Hebei, and central Hebei, pointing out: "After the Japanese army captured Cangxian, because it has not captured the main force of our army, it is necessary to concentrate its forces on sweeping our base areas and resuming the occupation and control of Hebei and Lubian, Luxi, southern Hebei, and central Hebei. All units of our army in the above-mentioned areas should heighten their vigilance, closely monitor the movements of the Japanese army, and strictly guard against a surprise attack by the Japanese army. For example, if the Japanese army concentrated on fighting in a certain direction of our country, Zeng Zhongsheng and Cai Zhong were responsible for commanding our army to fight in Hebei, Luxi, southern Hebei, and central Hebei, and adopted the tactics of attacking the south in the north, fighting in the south, fighting in the east, and attacking in the west, so as to smash the Japanese attack. I am on standby in Ludong, Lunan, and northeastern Anhui and all units will cooperate in the operation. ”

However, the information from the Yin teams of various departments made Liu Yimin feel inexplicable, first the 6th Division and the 16th Division urgently evacuated Suxian and Fuyang, saying that the train was going south to return to the 11th Army. The defense of the county and Fuyang area was given to the 23rd Division of the Longhai Road. Immediately afterwards, the 1st and 2nd Divisions were returned to the Kwantung Army, and then the Guards Division and the 5th Division were transferred back to China for rest and replenishment, and even the armored brigade was urgently transferred to Central China and joined the 11th Army of the Central China Dispatch Army. According to the intelligence, in the past few days, the Japanese army has moved frequently, the wheels of Jinpu Road and Pinghan Road are rolling, and all units along the railway line have strengthened their vigilance and tightened the passage to ensure the safety of the army.

In fact, these changes in the Japanese army followed the trajectory of history. In the history of history, the Japanese army had already issued an operational order to capture Nanchang at this time, and the 6th Division and the 16th Division were also the main forces to capture Nanchang. The three divisions of the Kwantung Army had never entered the customs to fight in an organized manner in the history of history, and at this time they were also busy preparing for war and preparing for war against the Soviet Union. As for the Guards Division and the Fifth Division, since there was no longer a single division in Japan, they returned to China not only for rest and replenishment, but also for the purpose of defending.

What Liu Yimin couldn't figure out was that there had been such a big change in the history of Liyin, and the Japanese army was also deployed at the beginning according to the posture of not destroying the Eighth Route Army's instructor Yin and swearing not to give up, why did it end in such a hurry?

Later, Liu Yimin figured out that there were many factions within the Japanese army, and whichever faction came to power, it would engage in a set of its own policies, and it seemed that Hiranuma Kiichiro succeeded in forming a cabinet.

Liu Yimin's judgment is really right, it is indeed Hiranuma Kiichiro who formed a cabinet. When the Konoe cabinet resigned, Emperor Hirohito was still snickering in his heart, thinking that Konoe Bunma's prestige was too high and there was a potential threat to the imperial power, so it was better to resign. However, after Konoe's resignation, who will form a cabinet has become a big problem, after all, Japan is a relatively advanced country, and various political forces are intertwined, and Emperor Hirohito just wants to make a dictatorship, and not everything can be done at will. As a result, Emperor Hirohito had to accept the recommendation of Fumima Konoe and let the Speaker of the Privy Council, Kiichiro Hiranuma, form a cabinet.

When the new prime minister took office, it was natural for him to re-examine Japan's domestic and foreign policies. However, Kiichiro Hiranuma did not have any tricks, and the reason why he became famous in Japanese politics was mainly because he advocated and adhered to policies, and he was in the same pot as Niào of Konoe Fumima. Therefore, the first thing he did as prime minister was to review the war against China. The review came and went, and the cabinet of Hiranuma Kiichiro, like the Konoe cabinet, believed that it was necessary to politically pressure Chiang Yinjie Yinjie Yinshi Zhengyinfu to surrender, militarily take a defensive position along the Yangtze River, and take an offensive against the Eighth Route Army in North China to restore law and order in North China. However, during this period of time, the divisions and regiments in North China were led by the nose and beaten by the Eighth Route Army, and they were very passive, resulting in Japan's loss of face in the international community, the domestic economy being dragged down by the military, and the inflation rate increasing. Therefore, Kiichiro Hiranuma instructed the army and navy to seriously study the war situation in North China and recover the declining situation as soon as possible.

Liu Yimin knew that Japan's army and navy had their own strategies, that is, within the army, the Kwantung Army was to advance northward, the Central China Dispatch Army was to launch the Nanchang Offensive, the North China Front was to move to sweep away the Yindàng operation, and the South China Fourth Theater was to counterattack. Hiranuma Kiichiro asked the army and navy to review the war, which was tantamount to making these warlords quarrel, and it was not at all a strategy to unify Yinyi.

If this is the case, the Japanese army can only act according to the established strategy, the Kwantung Army is still preparing for war against the Soviet Union, and the Central China Dispatch Army is preparing for the Battle of Nanchang, and the North China side has no choice but to obediently send out various sharp divisions. It seems that the Japanese army has returned to the track of historical history, which means that Liu Yimin's series of measures have taken effect, and the war situation in North China will be temporarily calm for a while.

The information on the large-scale movement of the Japanese army was not only obtained by Liu Yimin, but also by Zhongyinyang and the General Yinbu of the Eighth Route Army. The main Yinxi and the general Yinxi sent a telegram, asking the instructor to seize the good opportunity of the Japanese army's heavy army to leave Shandong, let go of the Suzhou-Anhui base areas, consolidate the Jiaodong, Jiaolai, Qinghe, Hebei-Lubian and Luxi base areas, expand the southwestern and Taixi base areas, and support our army in central Hebei to restore the base areas.

The Supreme Command also received information that the 6th and 16th Divisions of the Japanese Army were moving south to participate in the Nanchang operation. At this time, Nanchang's strategic position is more prominent. Because after the Battle of Wuhan, China formed an encirclement posture in Wuhan with heavy troops in the 5th Theater in the north and south of the Yangtze River, and the Nanchang area not only covered the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway, the strategic transportation line of the 9th Theater of the Lianyin system, but also was a strategic base for the Chinese side to gather heavy troops, posing a major threat to the Japanese army. There was also an airfield in Nanchang, where Chinese planes often went to bomb Japanese warships in the Yangtze River. In view of this situation, in order to expand the occupation of Central China, the Japanese army changed its strategic posture and completed the political and military efforts to force Jiang Yinjie to surrender to Shizheng Yinfu, and it was bound to capture Nanchang.

For this reason, the Supreme Command issued an operational order to defend Nanchang, requiring the Ninth Theater to attack the enemy on the Nanxun Line, divert the direction of the Japanese army's attack, and undermine the Japanese army's strategic deployment. All units of our army in North China were required to actively launch offensive operations to contain the Japanese army and force it to attack Nanchang with all its might.

This time, Jiang Yinjie's telegram to the General Yinshi Department of the Eighth Route Army was full of praise, praising all units of the Eighth Route Army for not fearing a strong enemy, bravely attacking and achieving remarkable results since the start of the war. In particular, in the eighteenth episode, the military instructor of the Yin regiment taught Yin, who went south and north in Shandong and Jiangsu and Anhui regions, contained the main force of the Japanese army invading China and covered other battlefield operations, with brilliant achievements that are obvious to all in the country. Jiang Yinjie Yinshi asked Zhu and Peng to lead their subordinates to take active action and launch a large-scale offensive in North China, forcing the Japanese army to transfer the main force back to North China to fight in the direction of Nanchang.

No one thought that at the same time as the Battle of Nanchang began, the Jilu border area also fell into a turbulent situation.

There were indeed many contradictions within the Japanese army. The six generals of Lu Xianghata Shunliu advocated fighting the battle of Nanchang first, believing that after the capture of Nanchang, the situation of Jiang Yinjie's Shi Zhengyin Mansion would further deteriorate. If the main force of the squadron in the Nanchang area can be eliminated, Jiang Yinjie Yinshi must surrender. Therefore, from beginning to end, he supported the commander of the 11th Army, Lieutenant General Okamura Ninji, in actively deploying the Nanchang operation. The commander of the North China Front, General Shanshanyuan, also supported the capture of Nanchang, but the facts since he took office told him that the North China and the Eighth Route Army's military equipment was the henchman of the Imperial Japanese Army, and it must be eliminated as a priority. Otherwise, the Eighth Route Army would threaten the Pingjin area at any time, and it would be impossible for the Japanese Army to concentrate its forces on fighting in other directions. Sugimoto's views were supported by Shouichi Terauchi, Tada, and others. The commander of the Kwantung Army, Kenkichi Ueda, never forgot to prepare for war against the Soviet Union, and demanded that the 1st Division, the 2nd Division, and the 23rd Division be rebuilt. His views were supported by the Northern Advance faction within the Japanese army.

After arguing and arguing, the chief of the general staff of the Japanese army, Prince Zaihito Miyaji, came to the conclusion that it was nothing, and the key was that the size of the force was still too much to meet the needs of the operation.

Liu Yimin didn't know that as early as when he led his army south to Longhai Road, Prince Zairen of Xianyuan Palace had already entered the palace to meet Emperor Hirohito and carried out another conspiracy.

Emperor Hirohito was a little discouraged by the performance of the army and navy, losing one brigade today, one division tomorrow, and two or three divisions the day after tomorrow. In the end, let alone attacking the Soviet Union in the north or attacking Britain and the United States in the south, I am afraid that China alone will exhaust the national strength of the Great Japanese Empire and defeat the war. Therefore, when he saw Prince Zaihito of the Idle Palace, he didn't have a good face at all.

Prince Zaihito of the Imperial Palace actually didn't want to come to see Emperor Hirohito, and he didn't win any battles, let alone seize any national treasures, so he came to see His Majesty the Emperor purely to scold. But after all, he is the chief of the general staff of the Japanese army, the second culprit of the war of aggression against China, and he has to be responsible for his own duties and actions, right?

Looking at Prince Zaihito's orange-skin-like old face and gray beard in the Idle Yuan Palace, Emperor Hirohito felt disgusted in his heart, feeling that this old thing was also a guy who ate white rice, and with such a strong national strength and such a powerful army and navy of the Great Japanese Imperial Yin Kingdom, there was no way to take the Chinese. After a year and a half of fighting, not only did Jiang Yinjie Yinshi have no avatar, but he made the army and navy lose so many troops, which is simply an unforgivable crime!

Thinking of this, Emperor Hirohito just wanted to raise his foot and kick Prince Zaihito of the Kanin Palace to the ground. But looking at the gray beard of Prince Zaihito of the Kanin Palace, thinking about the suppleness of Empress Ryoko, and thinking about the death of King Tsuhiko of the Higashijuer Palace, Emperor Hirohito had a kind of sympathy for Prince Zaihito of the Kanin Palace, and even thought that he must protect the old prince, and he was also loyal to work for himself and for the state.

Prince Zaihito of the Idle Palace had already sensed that Emperor Hirohito wanted to do something to him, and he was ready to be scolded, but he didn't expect that Emperor Hirohito remembered his grandson and nephew Yin'er who died in battle, and his mentality changed so much. Therefore, when Emperor Hirohito gently asked him to sit and talk, and asked the NV official to serve him tea and refreshments, this old ghost Yinzi simply did not know what day it was, and His Majesty the Emperor was so kind to him, he hastened to apologize.

After the monarch and ministers were seated, Emperor Hirohito asked His Royal Highness what was the urgency of the request.

Prince Zaihito of the Imperial Palace reported the basic situation of the current war in China and asked His Majesty the Emperor to approve the expansion of the army.

In order to prove that the expansion of the army was necessary, Prince Zairen of Xianyuan Gong said earnestly: "Your Majesty, the main reason why the Eighth Route Army can sit big in North China is that our army's garrison strength is insufficient, and it cannot control the situation in the occupied areas. The situation now is that the squadron is getting stronger and stronger, and the main forces are far from being wiped out. The main force of Jiang Yinjie's Yinjie Shi Zhengyinfu army formed an encirclement posture against Wuhan and could flank Wuhan at any time. The Eighth Route Army was poor and fierce in North China, constantly attacking the imperial army. The battlefields of the imperial army on both the north and south fronts were in a passive situation. The Soviet Union also deployed hundreds of thousands of troops in the Far East with ill-intentioned intentions. If it continues like this, the minister is worried that the war will be unfavorable to the side of the Great Japanese Empire. Once the allies launched an offensive in Europe, the Great Japanese Imperial Kingdom would be unable to cooperate, and it would be difficult to predict the future situation of the war. ”

What Prince Zaihito of the Idle Palace said was the truth, and Emperor Hirohito pondered for a moment and asked, "What does His Royal Highness think of Si Yin's true intentions?" ”

This matter has a bearing on the overall strategic situation, and generally cannot be said, and if it is wrong, it will be punished in the future. However, Prince Zaihito of the Imperial Palace was the number two person in the strategic decision-making of the Japanese army, and he could not help but say: "Your Majesty, the army attacked Vladivostok in July last year and was counterattacked by the Soviet army. Later, he fought with the Soviet army in the Zhanggufeng area and ended in a draw. In these two battles, the Soviet army did not take advantage of the victory to expand the victory, but the Soviet Union is now the largest military support country of Chiang Yinjie Yinjie Shi Zhengyinfu. Intelligence proved that Soviet pilots participated in the operations of the Chinese Air Force, and in the capture of Nanjing and Wuhan, there were records of Soviet planes fighting against the Imperial Army. Si Yinda Yinlin is indeed ill-intentioned. If it were not for the Soviet Union's support for Chiang Kai-shek's Yin-Shi Zhengyin-government, Chiang Kai-shek's air army would have long since ceased to exist, and his troops would have long since failed to impeach. However, whether the Soviet Union will directly send its troops to participate in the battle at the request of Chiang Yinjie Yinshi and what their real motives are, can only be judged and evaluated, and there is no accurate conclusion. If the Imperial Army marched north to fight against the Soviet Union, it could not move south to seize the resources of the Anglo-American zone of interest. If they went south to fight against Britain and the United States, they had to take into account the possible attack of the Soviet Union. The Kwantung Army demanded a war against the Soviet Union, but the minister thought that it would still have to fight a dozen battles, and only by fighting could the true intentions of the Soviet Union be exposed. ”

Emperor Hirohito gave an "um" and then asked if there had been any progress in the assassination of Siyin.

After the Japanese army failed to capture Vladivostok, they were bent on revenge. It happened that Siyin Yinlin carried out a great purge, and General Liusikov, who was then the head of the Far Eastern Region of the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs, was implicated and his wife was killed. Determined to avenge his wife, Ryusikov fled to the northeast, bringing the latest information to the Japanese that the Soviet Union had amassed hundreds of thousands of heavy troops and more than a thousand planes in the Far East. In the face of this threat, the Japanese military Yinnao decided to strike first and get rid of Si Yinlin.

Ryusikov told the Japanese that since 1930, Siyin Daiyinlin would go to Gori every three years to visit the grave on January 25, the day of his father's death. After each tomb visit, Siyinda Yinlin will inevitably go to the seaside health resort of Sochi for a few days, and will also go to the Matzesta hot springs, 4 kilometers from the villa, to bathe from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. every day. There is a special bath room in Siyin Da Yinlin, and there are two personal guards standing in front of the mén, and there are also four guards in Wuyin costume standing on the passage leading to the special bath room from the front hall and the back lounge. The hot spring water used by Siyindayinlin flows into the nearby river through the sewer. At night, the water consumption of the hot springs decreases, and the water in the sewer is not up to the knees, and people can climb down the sewer to the boiler room of the special bath room of Siyin Dayinlin.

Based on this, the Japanese military department formulated an assassination operation plan codenamed "Bear Hunting Plan", organized a seven-person assassination team, conducted special training, and prepared to infiltrate the Soviet tourist resort Sochi. Then, choose the right time to clean up the six guards in front of the bath room, and finally eliminate Siyin Da Yinlin.

It's just that for some unknown reason, not long after the Lyusikov assassination team entered the Soviet Union from Turkey, they were found by a Soviet patrol, three were killed, and four fled back to Turkey in embarrassment.

The Japanese military department's special service machine Yinguan reviewed the reasons for the failure, and now a Soviet intelligence officer named "Leo" was mixed in the assassination team, but "Leo" did not say until his death how he knew about the actions of the Japanese army and how he infiltrated the assassination team.

After Prince Zaihito of the Idle Palace reported the situation, Emperor Hirohito took a sip of water from his teacup, took a sip, and said slowly: "Call Sakamoto No. 1 Middle School to Germany." The Germans have been fighting with the Soviet Union for a long time, and there should be a way. Can Germany and Japan act together? ”

Sakamoto No. 1 Middle School is the director of the special service machine of the military department, and is specifically responsible for the formulation and implementation of the bear hunting plan.

Emperor Hirohito said this, Prince Zaihito of the Idle Yuan Palace was bright, and immediately said that His Majesty was wise, so that the ministers were suddenly opened.

Next, Emperor Hirohito and Prince Zaihito of the Kanin Palace began a plot to expand the army. Prince Zaihito's opinion was: First, reorganize the 35th Division, because although these three divisions were broken, none of the military flags fell into the hands of the army. In particular, the 10th Division, the division headquarters and individual subordinate units remained in Dexian at that time and were able to be preserved, and now they have been withdrawn to the mainland to stand by. The rebuilding of these three divisions and regiments will not increase the number of military expenditures, and there will be a budget, which will save a lot of money. As for how to rebuild, Prince Zaihito of the Idle Palace is also confident, and he proposed that the 10th and 14th Divisions are permanent divisions and regiments, which undertake strategic mobile combat missions. The 35th Division belonged to the North China Front Army and undertook combat missions with the Eighth Route Army. These three corps must ensure their combat effectiveness, and they should transfer six garrisons from the Manchurian border garrison, and then transfer artillery, cavalry, engineers, and baggage troops from the garrisons of various fortresses in the country to be incorporated into the above three divisions and regiments to ensure that the combat effectiveness of these three divisions and regiments does not decline. Then recruit soldiers from the reservists of the original 14th Division to supplement the garrison of the Manchurian border, and train while preparing for war.

Without waiting for Prince Zaihito of the Imperial Palace to say more, Emperor Hirohito interrupted him: "Your Royal Highness, the 10th Division can be formed with the remnants of the division headquarters as the main body, and the reservists of the division can be recruited. The 5th Division was formed with left-behind divisions and reservists. The 35th Division was composed of the former 2nd Division, the left-behind divisions and reservists. The garrison of the Manchurian border cannot be moved, and to prepare for war against the Soviet Union, the Kwantung Army can only be strengthened, not weakened! ”

Emperor Hirohito's tone of speech was non-negotiable, and he did have the courage of a great commander to kill and decide.

Prince Zairen of Xianyuan Palace was overjoyed when he heard this, his purpose was to expand the army, and it didn't matter how it was organized. His Majesty the Emperor said this, indicating that he supported his military expansion, and this matter would be easy to do. Besides, the left-behind divisions and reservists of the Second Division are all veterans, and they are veterans with fierce styles, and their combat effectiveness is only stronger than that of the Manchurian border garrison. With them organizing the Yin team, the combat effectiveness of these three divisions can be imagined.

Prince Zairen's gray beard shook and then put forward a second plan for expanding the army, that is, to organize a new mixed brigade and expand the number of mixed brigades of the Japanese army in China to 23 and take on the task of garrisoning the occupied areas.

Emperor Hirohito proposed that the combat effectiveness of the new Yin Brigade was too poor, and it was not an opponent, and the more it was formed, the worse it was, which was equivalent to sending military equipment and supplies to the Eighth Route Army.

When Prince Zairen heard this, he hurriedly defended that it was a fact that the combat effectiveness of the new Yin team was poor, but any Yin team had a process of actual combat training. Like the 38th Division, the Longhai Road operation was very good, from the division commander to the soldiers, they did not panic, and took advantage of the battle to thwart the Eighth Route Army's attempt to break the Yin's team of the Longhai Road Department to encircle and annihilate the division. In his report, Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okabe spoke highly of the 38th Division's battlefield performance. Even the 32nd and 36th Divisions on Jiaoji Road and the 41st and 40th Divisions on Jinpu Road have achieved very good results on the battlefield recently, and they are very different from when they first entered the battlefield. It is believed that the newly formed independent mixed brigade will also perform well in the future. Because all soldiers have a heart loyal to the emperor and have the determination to sacrifice their lives for the Great East Asian Sacred Yin War.

Emperor Hirohito thought about it, the 38th Division performed really well, and the Eighth Route Army that broke through the Longhai Road must be part of Liu Yiminyin's main force, otherwise it would not have been possible to break through the imperial army's position so quickly. If it had been placed at the time when the 38th Division had first entered the battlefield, perhaps the Yin Brigade of the Division would have fled, providing an opportunity for the Eighth Route Army to take advantage of. The 41st Division also performed well, and the main force basically did not suffer major damage. The 36th Division performed better, and the first battle solved the Li Wenli Department in Luzhong, which shows that the division is aggressive, tenacious, and dares to fight.

Emperor Hirohito nodded: "His Royal Highness is reasonable, in the name of me, the 38th Division, the 41st Division, and the 36th Division will be commended, and priority will be given." The matter of forming a mixed brigade on its own was thus decided. Later, in the occupied area, they cooperated with the field division to carry out the operation. Tell the captains of all departments to take the initiative to fight, and repeatedly clear and sweep the base areas of Tubalu. ”

Saying this, Emperor Hirohito's voice raised an octave and became sharper: "The military department should seriously review the operation in North China and come up with practical methods. It is necessary to turn the base area of Tubalu into a scorched earth, and let them freeze to death, starve to death, and die of disease! ”

Prince Zairen of the Idle Courtyard Palace was busy standing up, and Hai kept coming.