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Umezu Mijiro was not the commander of the Kwantung Army back then, General Kenkichi Ueda. ^^ Ueda Kenkichi was old, and the Battle of Normenhan dared to send only a newspaper clipping of the "Wen Wei Po = Military Forum" run by the Chinese of Chapter 1156 of the three-unit system to study, and finally came to the conclusion that the Kwantung Army was fully capable of defeating the Soviet Red Army in the Far East.

Historically, the First World War of Normenham scared the souls of the little devils away, and since then they have not dared to provoke the Soviet army easily. Now that history has undergone such great changes, the article of "Wen Wei Po = Military Forum" has made the casualties of the Japanese army and the Soviet army very clear, which has given the Japanese a new understanding, that is, during the Battle of Normenhan, the Japanese army fought against a group army of the Red Army in the Far East with the strength of a division, and all branches of the Soviet Union participated in the war, and the final casualties were not much different from those of the Japanese army. Combined with the results of the war on the Eastern Front, the Japanese now believe that the Battle of Normenham was their victory, or at least a victory despite defeat.

Umezu Yoshijiro now believes that although the Soviet Red Army is well equipped, has strong armor, and has fierce artillery fire, the command level of the commanders and the individual tactical level of the soldiers are very naïve, and they cannot be compared with the Kwantung Army at all.

Umezu Mijiro also carefully analyzed the strength of the Kwantung Army. Now, the infantry divisions and regiments owned by the Kwantung Army are Chapter 1156 Regiment. The Manchurian Defense Forces could also be put into operation. In the event of war, the Kwantung Army was able to receive support from the Korean army and navy. There are enough troops.

Umezu Mijiro was smarter than Ueda Kenkichi, who ordered Okabe Naosaburo to command the 1st, 2nd, 5th, and chariot brigades to attack Vladivostok without the consent of the base camp, and that was almost the capture of the Ussuri Plain. Umezu Mijiro was much more far-reaching than Kenkichi Ueda thought, and he didn't just want the Koto region and Sakhalin. Therefore, he wanted to obtain the authorization and support of the emperor and the Japanese government to use the forces of the Japanese army and navy to solve the Far East problem in World War I.

Umezu Mijiro made a silent calculation, and felt that by mid to early August, the Soviet army would inevitably be defeated on the western front, and the Soviet Red Army in the Far East would inevitably be transferred westward, and its ground forces could be reduced by half, and the air force and other units directly under it could also be reduced by one-third. At that time, the Soviet Far Eastern Army will be reduced from 30 divisions to 5, and the number of tanks and aircraft will be reduced accordingly. At that time, the Kwantung Army's use of force against the Soviet Union will inevitably be half the effort, and it will be very easy to destroy the Soviet Far East Red Army and occupy the entire Siberian region.

It was also when Smatanin invited Sadajiro Toyoda to meet with Umezu Mijiro that Umezu Mijiro sent Takei Seitaro, a staff officer of the Kwantung Army Operations Department, to fly back to Japan from Changchun to report to the General Staff Headquarters about the Kwantung Army's intentions: 1. The war against the Soviet Union requires some preparation time; Second, it is necessary to attach importance to the issue of secrecy in combat preparations; 3. Manchuria needed the following military supplies: ammunition for 30 divisions and regiments for one battle, food for 16 divisions for three months, and fuel for 16 divisions for five months.

Umezu Mijiro was to tell Emperor Hirohito and Prime Minister Konoe that the Kwantung Army needed to expand its forces in order to gain greater benefits for the Japanese Empire.

After Kiyotaro Takei returned to the General Staff Headquarters to report, he immediately attracted the attention of Sugi Sugimoto, the demon of the invasion of China and the chief of the general staff of the Japanese army. Sugi Moto personally drove to drink Hideki Tojo to discuss, and the two went together to meet Prime Minister Konoe Fumima. After discussing the matter, the three decided to convene a joint meeting of the government and the base camp to discuss the issue of war against the Soviet Union.

The commander of the Kwantung Army, Mijiro Umezu, and the chief of staff, Hyotaro Kimura, were ordered to return to China to attend the meeting.

The meeting was held in secret, but it was attended by a large number of officials, including the heads of the General Staff Headquarters, the Ministry of the Army, and the Ministry of the Navy, as well as the heads of various cabinet departments, the Senate, and the Diet.

Although it was a secret meeting, it was very noisy. It was mainly a struggle between the northward faction, the southward faction, and the non-aggressor faction.

The non-expansion of the aggressive faction has now changed, originally they advocated the Japanese invasion of the scope of public office on the Yongding River line in North China, but now they have been like this, and their position has also changed, advocating the settlement of the Chinese problem first, forcing the Chiang Kai-shek Nationalist Government to surrender, completely eliminating the Eighth Route Army led by **, and consolidating the occupation of China. There was a split in this faction, and some of them believed that they would not expand their occupation in China and that they would negotiate with Chiang Kai-shek on the basis of the existing occupation zones. If Chiang Kai-shek chews on negotiations, he will vigorously support Wang Jingwei's regime, expand Wang Jingwei's military strength, and use China to contain China.

The northward expansion policy is the consistent policy of the Japanese Army, and the "National Defense National Policy Outline" formulated by the Army is very clear; the purpose of the operation is to safeguard Japan's hegemonic position in East Asia and eliminate all forces that hinder Japan; the No. 1 hypothetical enemy of national defense is limited to the Soviet Union, followed by Britain, the United States, and other countries; it is advocated that Japan should pour all its forces into implementing the "northward expansion" strategy with Chinese mainland as the hinterland, and then expand into the Pacific region after forcing the Soviet Union to submit and eliminating the northern threat. The Japanese Army's diplomatic strategy of "advancing northward" actually advocates "north first, then south," and its purpose is to first resolve the Soviet problem and then seek a decisive battle with Britain and the United States. At this time, due to the assassination of Matsuoka Yoyou, Japan did not sign a Japanese-Soviet treaty of friendship and neutrality with the Soviet Union, and the German army was on the offensive again, and the Japanese army's northward advance faction could not sit still, and spoke one after another, supporting the Kwantung Army to start a war against the Soviet Union and cooperate with Germany, flanking the east and west, destroying the Soviet Union in World War I, and completely removing the northern threat of the Great Japanese Empire.

There were also differences between the northward faction, some of whom believed that they should take advantage of the opportunity to attack the Soviet Union, but to control the scope of the operation, it was limited to the Far East. When the Germans took Moscow, they negotiated with the Germans and demanded that Siberia be assigned to Japan.

The "Southward Expansion Policy" is the central goal of the Japanese Navy's national defense strategy, which holds that the first hypothetical enemy of national defense is Britain and the United States, followed by the Soviet Union, and advocates that Japan should develop its influence in the South Pacific region while ensuring its hegemony in East Asia. The core purpose of this "southward expansion theory" is to expel Britain, the United States, and other forces from Asia and the Pacific region and realize Japan's plan of "monopolizing China and expanding the Pacific region."

As a matter of fact, as early as 1936, when the Hirota Hiroki cabinet was in charge, it formulated an outline for the use of imperial defense policies to coordinate the different opinions of the army and navy in the north and south, and it not only regarded the Soviet Union as a defensive enemy, but also regarded the expulsion of British, American, and other forces from the Pacific region as the current diplomatic priority, which was tantamount to establishing a strategy of advancing both north and south.

The reason for such a contradictory strategy of the army and navy is that the Japanese do not have a fixed plan in their hearts, and they cannot see exactly how to fight in order for the Japanese to ascend to the land of Asian hegemony

At this time, the position of the Japanese Navy changed, and the current Minister of the Navy, Shiro Kawako, and the commander of the Combined Fleet, Isoroku Yamamoto, all had different opinions on the southward advance to fight the British and the Americans. The point is that they are in the minority among the admirals who attended the meeting.

There was a lot of noise at the meeting, and Akira Muto, director of the Military Affairs Bureau, and Shinichi Tanaka, the head of the war department, actually fought on the spot.

Muto Akira had long known that there was going to be a war between the Soviet Union and Germany, because he had a good relationship with the ambassador to Germany, Hiroshi Oshima, who sent him a telegram in advance, explaining that the Soviet-German war was inevitable, and asked the army if it was willing to follow the Germans to pick up the ocean.

Muto Akira was originally a staunch pioneer in the invasion of China, but after serving as deputy chief of staff of the North China Front for a period of time, his thinking changed, believing that China had a large land and a large population, and if Japan persisted in the War of Resistance, Japan would always be dragged down one day. For Japan, the best option was to negotiate an armistice, to separate Manchu and Mongolia from China, or to carve out the territory of Japan. As for South China, Central China, and North China, it is entirely possible to withdraw troops and restore the pre-war situation.

With this in mind, after receiving a telegram from Hiroshi Oshima, Muto Akira found a few more people to analyze together, believing that the Soviet Union was as vast as China and had profound war potential, and that Japan could not conquer China, and similarly, Germany could not conquer the Soviet Union. It's better for Japan not to wade into troubled waters.

Muto Akira expressed his thoughts, and proposed that Japan should not be prepared to fight in Southeast Asia, and that the end of a war with the United States was destined to be tragic. Japan only needs to be full of Mongolia.

Muto Akira is furious! It is Japan's national policy to drive the European powers out of Asia and build a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere with Japan as the leader, and it is also the dream of all warlords since the Meiji Restoration. Muto Akira's statement is tantamount to extinguishing the dreams of the lackeys of these Showa warlord machines, large and small.

In fact, Muto Akira is not a good person, his ideas are very vicious, and he is in the same vein as the thinking of the Japanese army strategist Ishihara Waner, who has now been transferred to the reserves, but he is a little more conservative than Ishihara Waner. If Japan really did what he said, and little Japan would not fight the Soviet Union or the United States, and would still be willing to withdraw from North China, Central China, and South China, it is likely that Chiang Kai-shek would agree to negotiate on the basis of this condition. Even if Chiang Kai-shek did not negotiate with Japan and used Japan's national strength to defend Northeast China and Inner Mongolia, it would be difficult for the squadron to recover the rivers and mountains of Northeast China. By the end of World War II, Japan would naturally not be a defeated country because it did not go to war with the United States and the Soviet Union. Perhaps when little Japan sees that Germany is gone, it will issue a statement declaring war on Germany, and it will naturally be the victorious country. According to the usual trick used by the United States and the Soviet Union to divide spheres of influence in history, the Northeast is likely to be assigned to Japan. The Chinese are afraid that they will have to bear unbearable pain.

Fortunately, at this time, the people sitting in the venue were a group of aggressors with their eyes above the top, and Muto Zhang's words not only did no one listen, but caused a lot of saliva. Neither faction supported him.

Shinichi Tanaka, chief of operations at the General Staff Headquarters, was a hard-line aggressive and expansionist faction, and after Muto Akira finished speaking, Tanaka Shinichi immediately took up the case, quarreled with Muto Akira, and scolded him. Muto Akira couldn't bear it anymore and pounced on it and got into a fight with Shinichi Tanaka or two.

The meeting could not go on, so Prime Minister Fumima Konoe had to announce the adjournment of the meeting and resume it the next day.

For three days in a row, the Japanese Cabinet and the base camp were holding contact meetings.

What Sugimoto and Hideki Tojo were most afraid of was that the navy would not cooperate, but in the end, to the surprise of Sugimoto and Hideki Tojo, the navy turned to support the war against the Soviet Union.

Historically, after the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, it was the Japanese Navy that took the lead in proposing to the base camp and cabinet on June 24 to secretly prepare for war against the Soviet Union.

The reason why the Admiralty turned around was ostensibly because it saw the fighters brought by the German blitzkrieg against the Soviet Union, but in fact there was also the reluctance of Shiro Kawako, Isoroku Yamamoto and others to attack the United States.

At this time, the German ambassador to Japan Ott kept asking Japanese Foreign Minister Sadaijiro Toyoda to meet with him, forcing the Japanese government to send troops to fight against the German army.

Ott seemed to have seen through the psychology of the Japanese wanting to sit back and enjoy the success, and clearly told Sajiro Toyoda that when the Germans took Moscow, it would be too late for the Japanese to participate in sharing the results of the war. The Führer would not have agreed.

Although Sadajiro Toyoda had already threatened the Soviet ambassador to Japan, Smatanin, but after all, this was a major matter related to the fortunes of the country, and the headquarters camp and the joint government meeting were still arguing, and no conclusion was formed, and Sajiro Toyoda did not dare to talk nonsense, but only told Ott that Japan needed time to further study and judge the situation.

Sadajiro Toyoda, who returned to the venue, further informed the Germans of the demands and the German army's war report.

Think about it, in just a few days, the Germans captured more than 300,000 Soviet Red Army, destroyed Soviet planes, and captured more than 3,000 tanks. God, what a sight to behold for the Japanese, who were reluctant to equip the army with heavy tanks!

Hideki Tojo and Sugi Sugimoto didn't want to make noise at the venue anymore, with the support of the navy, their confidence was stronger, not to mention the support of Prime Minister Fumima Konoe?

Hideki Tojo and Sugi Sugimoto requested that an imperial council be convened and asked His Majesty the Emperor to decide!

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