At this time, due to the resolute counterattack of the Soviet Red Army, Qian Zhengxin, a small staff officer who advocated a counterattack against the Soviet and Mongolian troops, was already frightened by the powerful armored offensive of the Soviet Red Army, and sat at the end of the conference table, drooping his head and not saying a word.

Kenmasanobu was like this, and Major General Otozaburo Yano, the deputy chief of staff of the Kwantung Army Command who supported him, and others also lowered their heads, not daring to meet the gaze of Ueda Kenkichi.

Because Naosaburo Gangbe once served as the chief of staff of the North China Front, and joined forces with Terauchi Shouichi to remove the head of Kyosuke Kawamura's First Division, Ueda Kenkichi has always been lukewarm to him and a little unkind to him. Naosaburo Okabe, who was highly used during the Kannai War and commanded the heavy army group of the Japanese army, felt very disappointed, and because his genitals were knocked out and became disabled, Naosaburo Okabe was reluctant to stay in the Kwantung Army, and recently he has been writing to Toshiichi Terauchi, asking for the help of His Excellency the General to transfer him from the 1st Division.

Although he had an idea in his heart, Naosaburo Okabe was, after all, a senior general of the Japanese army and one of the backbone of the Japanese army, and his consideration still revolved around the army's northward expansion policy. However, Gangbe Naosaburo was different from those staff officers of the Kwantung Army Headquarters, he fought more with the Eighth Route Army in North China, and witnessed the process of the destruction of the elite Eighth Division, the Tenth Division, and the Fourteenth Division.

No, Naosaburo Okabe spoke: "Your Excellency Commander: In view of the unfavorable situation in the battle at Nomenkan, I propose to report to the base camp and request the deployment of additional troops and the establishment of a unified command organization with full responsibility for the war against the Soviet Union. ”

It should be said that this proposal of Okabe Naosaburo was in line with the proposition of the Army's northward advance faction and also in line with the Kwantung Army's demand for expanding the war. After hearing this, Ueda Kenkichi felt that it was very suitable for his taste, squinted his eyes, and nodded slightly towards Naosaburo Okabe, which means Yo Sai.

Seeing that Kenkichi Ueda agreed, Naosaburo Okabe felt the need to fully express his opinion, and then continued: "Your Excellency, Commander, there are two points that must be taken seriously. One is the question of assessing the combat effectiveness of the Soviet army, and we cannot always think that the backbone commanders of the Soviet army were all killed by Stalin, and the combat effectiveness is not good. We have to see that the equipment of the Soviet army greatly exceeded that of the Great Japanese Army. ”

Kenkichi Ueda also felt the same way, and scolded when he opened his mouth: "The politicians in the cabinet are always reluctant to spend money to improve the army's equipment, and use all the money on naval shipbuilding, so that the tanks of the Japanese Army have become ridiculous toys in front of the Soviet tanks, and they are vulnerable." Lieutenant General Michitaro Komatsubara reported that when the Soviet heavy tanks fought with our tanks, they ignored the attacks of our tanks, and the artillery and machine guns hit the heavy armor of the Soviet heavy tanks, and only bullet marks could be seen. As a result, the Soviet heavy tanks could beat our tanks to scrap metal with just one shot! The damned politicians of the cabinet should bow down and apologize in the face of the corpses of the broken soldiers! ”

Ueda Kenkichi's words resonated with the officers present, and there was immediately a noise in the conference room.

Kenkichi Ueda was the moderator of the meeting, and Naosaburo Okabe only said one point, and there was still one point not to say! Listening to Kenkichi Ueda's silence, the noise in the conference room stopped abruptly. Kenkichi Ueda nodded, and asked Okabe-kun to continue.

Lieutenant General Gangbu became Gangbe-kun, and the word "please" was added, so that Gangbu Naosaburo felt that the sun seemed to come out of the west, so he breathed a sigh of relief, sorted out his thoughts, and then said: "The second point, since the fight has started, we have to fight hard, and we can't retreat when we encounter setbacks." In the past few days, I have paid close attention to collecting the "Wen Wei Po" of the Chinese people, and I have been very inspired by the military forums of the Chinese people. Since the Soviets concentrated their main forces in the Nomenkan area, why can't we move in other directions? You must know that the area north of the Heilongjiang River and east of the Ussuri River, including Sakhalin Island, was originally the territory of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and now it should belong to the Manchukuo inheritance. The Kwantung Army was supposed to help Manchukuo recover the territories mentioned above. ”

If what Naosaburo Okabe said sounds to future generations, it will be naked aggression. However, this was the end of the thirties of the twentieth century, an era in which territorial sovereignty was determined by power and force, and many parts of the world were still colonies of foreign powers, and the Japanese army occupied the southern part of Sakhalin at this time. Gangbe Naosaburo did not mention Outer Mongolia, because at this time Outer Mongolia had not yet established the Mongolian People's Republic, and nominally, Outer Mongolia still belonged to China. Including most of the Tangnu-Ulianghai, it is still nominally Chinese. Moreover, these were war years, and who the land belonged to was determined by the results of the war. Once the Japanese Army's plan to advance northward succeeds, they will not only be plotting the land east of the Ussuri River, but they will have a big appetite! If they had succeeded, the history of World War II could have been rewritten.

After listening to Naosaburo Okabe's words, Kenkichi Ueda immediately said: "What Okabe-kun said is true, I remember that 20 years ago, all villages and towns east of Lake Baikal were stationed in the Great Japanese Army. From Vladivostok to Chita, the Eastern Railway and the Trans-Siberian Railway, the flag of Greater Japan is displayed at various stations. It is ridiculous that the Beiyang government also issued a statement, saying that "this time the national committee intends to unify the roads of Siberia, Ussuri, and Eastern Province, but the nature of the Eastern Province Road is different from the previous two roads, and the road is entrusted by the Chinese government to be built by Daosheng Bank for a Sino-Russian joint project." At present, due to civil strife, Russia is unable to completely manage this road, and China should continue to manage the railway on its own in accordance with the contract between the East Qing and the Qing Dynasty, and no third country should interfere. It's ridiculous. At that time, I was serving in the Puyan Dispatch Army sent to Siberia, successively serving as a staff officer, a headquarters attached, and the chief of the operations section, at that time I was only 44 years old, just in the prime of life! ”

Kenkichi Ueda became excited as he spoke, and seemed to recall the past when he went to Siberia with the army, and Naosaburo Okabe only thought it was funny.

Ueda Kenkichi was obscene for a while, and only after a long time did he say in a hateful voice: "It's all the incompetence of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the signing of the "Japan-Soviet Treaty on the Basic Rules of Relations between the Two Countries" with the Soviet Union, not to mention the land east of the Ussuri River, but also the northern part of Sakhalin Island for nothing. The politicians in the cabinet are simply a group of guys who have taken the land that the army officers and soldiers sacrificed for studying abroad in exchange for the country, a group of guys! ”

Kenkichi Ueda and Naosaburo Okabe performed for a long time, and the Kwantung Army staff officer Qian Masanobu couldn't sit still. This bold guy was still confused by the defeat of the Japanese army at Nomenkan just now, but now he has finally come to his senses. I heard him say: "Sakhalin Island belongs to the defense zone of the local garrison, and it is separated by the sea, without the cooperation of the navy, relying on the garrison stationed in the southern part of Sakhalin Island alone, it is difficult for the attack to be effective, and the base camp will not approve our plan." But an attack on Vladivostok is feasible. If we had concentrated the 1st, 2nd, and 5th Divisions in a surprise attack, the Soviets would have been surprised, and they would have had miraculous results. ”

The chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, Ryosuke Isoya, had finally gained a long memory because the 10th Division was completely annihilated by the Eighth Route Army, and he couldn't help but interrupt these war madmen with his words: "Your Excellency, Commander, we are discussing what to do on the Nomenkan front, not to attack the area east of the Ussuri River. You know, this is beyond the scope of the Kwantung Army's operations. I should consult the base camp for my opinion. ”

Ryosuke Isoya didn't want to listen to Kenkichi Ueda's words, but most of the Kwantung Army generals present didn't want to listen to it. I heard the little staff officer Qian Zhengxin say: "Your Excellency the Chief of Staff's words are incomprehensible, the task of the Kwantung Army is to prepare for war against the Soviet Union, no matter how it is fought, it is correct, and the premise is to win." At the time of the Manchurian Incident, did General Seishiro Itagaki and General Kenji Dohihara ask for instructions from the base camp? If you ask for the base camp, is there still Manchuria today? In my opinion, I would like to ask Your Excellency the Commander to adopt the suggestion of General Gangbu and send elite divisions to attack Vladivostok by surprise. As long as we achieve the objectives of the campaign, the base camp will have absolutely nothing to say. ”

This is the Japanese army, and the little staff officer dares to contradict the chief of staff on certain occasions!

As soon as Qian Zhengxin's words fell, Major General Yano Otosaburo, deputy chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, also raised his head that was still hanging down just now, and said: "If we can sneak attack Vladivostok, it will have the effect of dispersing the Soviets and preparing for the battle in the Nomenkan area." This is also in line with the strategy of attacking the east and attacking the west in the Art of War, and once the Japanese Army attacks and occupies Vladivostok, the Soviets will be in a hurry and will be eager to negotiate an armistice with us. When the time comes, we will take the initiative. ”

At this time, Tada Jun had been transferred from the vice minister of the War Department to the commander of the Third Army of the Kwantung Army, and after listening to it for a long time, he felt that these guys were simply crazy, and he didn't want to think about how to support the 23rd Division in the battle and eliminate the Soviet-Mongolian army in the Nomenkan area, but to reopen the battlefield. Don't these guys know that the Great Japanese Army is no longer capable of launching a strategic offensive campaign on the Kannai battlefield due to its lack of troops?

Thinking of this, Tada Jun couldn't help but say, "The attack on Vladivostok must be explicitly authorized by His Majesty the Emperor and the Prime Minister. The Soviet Union was not China, and Vladivostok was not the Shenyang it was at the beginning. I suggest that Your Excellency the Commander should immediately seek instructions from the base camp and follow the instructions of the base camp. ”

Tada Jun said this, and the commander of the Fifth Division of the Japanese Army, Jun Imamura, also opened his heart to Xiao Jiujiu.

Originally, the Fifth Division was a division directly under the jurisdiction of the North China Front, and its mission was strategic mobile operations. Historically, the Fifth Division was urgently reinforced from North China after the Japanese defeat at the Battle of Nomenkan. Now that the Japanese army has reached the northeast ahead of schedule, it goes without saying that once the Japanese army wants to expand its war against the Soviet Union, the Fifth Division must go on the march.

Imamura beat the drum in his heart and fought with the instructor of the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi, resulting in the 21st Brigade of the Fifth Division being shattered, and the division commander Lieutenant General Seishiro Itagaki was forced to commit suicide by disembowelment. During the attack on Zhoucun, he was poison gas by the Eighth Route Army and was hit hard again. The instructors of the Eighth Route Army are so powerful, isn't the Soviet Army even more powerful? Lieutenant General Michitaro Komatsubara's telegram made it clear that the Soviet tanks were every five meters, and it was purely a terrible torrent of steel.

Imamura couldn't help but snort and said, "What His Excellency Tada Jun said is reasonable, as a great Japanese emperor, you should absolutely obey His Majesty the Emperor and go to the trouble for His Majesty the Emperor. Therefore, it is recommended that His Excellency the Commander ask the base camp for instructions and follow the instructions of the base camp. ”

Ryosuke Isoya was scared by the Eighth Route Army, Imamura was afraid to take the lead, and only Tada Jun may indeed be strategic.

By the time Imamura finished speaking, there was a brief silence in the conference room of the Kwantung Army Headquarters, and after a short time, a fierce quarrel broke out. The loudest noise was naturally the vast majority of the generals who supported the sneak attack on Vladivostok. Slowly, the voices of Tada, Ryosuke Isoya, and Imamura arguing were drowned out in the sound of the quarrel.

Ueda Kenkichi is indeed old, and his head is about to rise when he is noisy. This old devil simply dragged Ryosuke Isoya out of the conference room, went to send a telegram to the base camp, explained the arguments and deliberations at the meeting, and said that the Soviet army connived at the Mongol army to invade the Manchurian border, openly provoked, and triggered the Manchurian-Mongolian border conflict. Judging from the current war situation, the Soviet army had already planned and gathered a large number of troops. The Kwantung Army must resolutely counterattack and destroy the Soviet-Mongolian army in the Nomenkhan area. Request urgent guidance from the base camp.

To Ueda's surprise, the base camp replied quickly this time, and ordered the 23rd Division to stop the attack, stabilize the defensive line, and wait for further orders.

Ueda Kenkichi couldn't figure out why the base camp would send him such an order, obviously because he didn't want to expand the war! I think what the base camp said when the Eighth Garrison successfully attacked the Mongolian cavalry division, and didn't it acquiesce in the expansion of the war? The Second Air Group attacked three airfields in the Soviet Far East, which was a deep operation in the territory of the Soviet Union, and the base camp also acquiesced, so why did the base camp retreat when it was now necessary to fight the Soviets unprepared?

Not only Ueda Kenkichi couldn't figure it out, but if Liu Yimin couldn't figure it out here, how many experts in military history in later generations couldn't figure it out. Later, everyone finally understood that this little Japan is this virtue, a first-class soldier, a second-rate general, and a third-rate commander. Or rather, first-class tactics, last-stream strategies. Others described the Japanese army as an adventurous cripple who jumped and shrunk to keep his body balanced. This was the case with the Zhang Gufeng incident, and the same was true with the Nomenkan incident. Obviously, the Kwantung Army now has the first, second, fourth, seventh, twelfth, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, and 104eight divisions, as well as a number of independent garrisons, independent brigades, and independent mixed brigades, which are extremely large in strength and supported by the well-trained Manchurian Defense Forces, but the Kwantung Army still thinks that the strength is not enough, so it has to transfer the fifth division from North China. The 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 7th, and 12th elite permanent divisions were not used, but the 23rd Division of the garrison division was allowed to engage the Soviet army, and, as soon as it suffered a loss, the base camp ordered to stop the offensive. Isn't that a surprise!

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