On June 28, 26 June of the Republic of China, Lieutenant General Hideki Tojo, chief of staff of the Kwantung Army Headquarters, was convening the staff officers of the Kwantung Army Headquarters to conduct a simulated deduction in the war room. At this moment, the commander of the Kwantung Army, General Kenyoshi Ueda, walked in with the support of a group of guards.

"Stand up, gentlemen!"

At the command of the officer on duty, all the officers stood up and saluted the commander.

"Well, you have worked hard!" Kenkichi Ueda looked at the staff officers and nodded. He turned his gaze to Hideki Tojo and asked, "Tojo-kun, I heard that you are doing a deduction?" "Hey! Hideki Tojo replied, "We are conducting a drill against the Nanking government in China. ”

Ueda Kenkichi asked quietly, "Nose!" Tojo-kun, what are the results of your deduction? ”

Hideki Tojo replied confidently: "We believe that if we are promised by force, it is the best policy to strike a blow at the Nanjing regime first and remove the threat from behind me." At this time, the Nanjing government decree could only reach a few provinces such as Jiang and Xi, and the empire should strike at it with lightning speed, "as long as the Nanjing government is solved", the entire China will be leaderless, so that the empire can encroach on it step by step, and solve the entire China in one fell swoop. "And what about the Chahar government? Have you considered their reactions? Kenkichi Ueda asked rhetorically.

At the mention of the Chahar government, the atmosphere in the war room suddenly froze, because it was an unavoidable question.

Hideki Tojo thought for a while, sorted out his thoughts and returned: "Now the nearly 700,000 troops of Soviet Russia are pressing forward step by step under the leadership of its general Zhukov, and most of the forces of the Chahar government are hoarded on the front line of Birdland-Ude in Siberia to confront Zhukov. ”

Seeing Tojo Hideki's confident appearance, Ueda Kenkichi poured cold water on him at an inopportune time: "Tojo-kun, don't forget, they still have 400,000 troops in Chahar. ”

Hideki Tojo smiled coldly: ...... Hmph, "Don't look at his 400,000 troops" But this Ti Tong's appetite is too great, and he now occupies the land of Mongolia, Ningxia, Qinghai and other provinces.

Although the territory is larger, the number of places that need to be stationed has also increased accordingly. In addition, they also sent nearly 100,000 troops to the Mongolian border as mobile troops, so that they could reinforce Siberia at any time when the war in Siberia was unfavorable, so that their troops in Chahar could be about 200,000. So we don't have to worry about them at all. Ueda Kenkichi slowly glanced around, looked at these staff officers and asked, "Do all the gentlemen think like this?" ”

"Hey!" All the staff officers bowed sharply to Ueda Kenkichi and said in unison, "The lower ranks unanimously agree that this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the Empire. If we wait for the Chahar government to come back, it will be exponentially more difficult for us to occupy China......"

Ueda Kenkichi groaned, at this time Ueda Kenkichi was already a sixty-two-year-old man, and he couldn't work in the military for a few years, so his wish was just to make more benefits during his tenure and go home for two years to retire.

Therefore, since he became the commander of the Kwantung Army, he ordered the puppet Concord to cooperate with the puppet military and police in the crusade, carry out brutal oppression, plunder of food, materials, etc., and spiritual slavery. To cite just one example: in the spring of this year, "Kenkichi Ueda issued an order asking the members of the puppet Concord to donate 150,000 yuan" to buy an airplane to support the "jihad." In the end, a total of more than 170,000 yuan was apportioned, and only 50,000 yuan was spent to buy a 240-horsepower plane carrying the wounded and sick, and the rest went into his own pocket.

Now seeing that a group of officers led by Hideki Tojo, the Young Zhuang faction, and the officers have such a strong demand to start the operation of fully occupying China," he hesitated in his heart.

Speaking of this, I have to mention that the army has a strange tradition: "That is, after the battle is fought, everyone will be added to the rank and knighthood, but if the battle is lost, the chief officer will definitely be unlucky, but the staff officer is generally fine."

So, seeing Hideki Tojo so actively agitating for war" Kenkichi Ueda couldn't help muttering in his heart, you kid wants to go to war so actively, naturally you want to be on the throne again, but if you lose the battle, you have to be an old man like me to carry the black cauldron. I wanted to refuse, but I was afraid that I would be accused of being stupid and misleading the country by the staff officers. Ueda Kenkichi, who was in a dilemma, came up with a compromise plan only after being reserved for a while, that is, to send additional troops to Rehe in the name of the exercise, and to send two wings to the direction of Beiping to "unite the troops of the North China garrison army to attack Beiping" and then make a decision depending on the situation.

While Guan Youjun was actively planning the strategy of invading China, "the North China garrison army was not idle, and they also began to plan a way to attack Beiping under the planning of General Tada Jun."

Late at night, in the conference room of the North China Garrison Army Headquarters, Tada Jun was arranging the battle plan.

"The 1st Wing sent a brigade to the side of Beiping City in the name of acting, and then joined the 3rd Wing to quickly attack Beiping under the pretext of the disappearance of soldiers. The 2nd Division followed closely behind to expand the results of the battle......",

In the end, Tada Jun put down his baton and asked, "Gentlemen, what do you think of this plan?" ”

"I have a question!" At this time, a person stood up below, and everyone looked at it to see that it was a general with glasses, a thin face, and a stern expression, he was Lieutenant General Okamura Ninji, who was the commander of the Second Division at the time.

Tada Jun was displeased when he saw that the division commander who had just been transferred from the Kwantung Army to the North China garrison did not give himself face at the first meeting. But for the sake of grace, he still asked with a smile, "Oh? Do you have any questions about Okamura-kun? ”

"Yes!" Okamura Ninji's stern expression on weekdays became more serious: "After our army occupies Beiping, "we will directly face the powerful Chahar government" I want to know. What is the response plan of the base camp or the North China garrison army" You must know that the Chahar government under the leadership of Su Tong is not as easy to bully as Song Zheyuan's 29th Army opposite us. ”

Listening to Okamura Ningji's words, the faces of Tada Jun and the generals in the battle conference room suddenly fell, this Okamura Ningji was clearly saying that our North China garrison army would only pick up soft persimmons and pinch them, and if they hit hard stubble, they would be bearish.

Tada Jun said with a dark face: "Gangmura-kun, I forgot to tell you that with the approval of His Majesty the Emperor, the base camp just passed a mobilization order yesterday, and our Imperial Army will send an additional 400,000 troops into China" to solve the problem of China as soon as possible. I believe that with such a strong force, we can quickly solve the Nanjing government and force them to surrender. When the time comes, we can unite the whole country to solve the problem of scabies in the Chahar government. ”

As soon as Tada Junyi finished speaking, Lieutenant General Koiso Kuniaki, the commander of the 12th Division next to him, also stood up and said, "Now the northern, eastern, and southern sides of Beiping have been controlled by the imperial army: in the north, there is the first part of the Kwantung Army deployed in Rehe: in the northwest, there are about 40,000 people in the eight divisions of the puppet Mongolian army controlled by the Eastern Army: in the east, there is the puppet "Hebei Eastern Defense Communist Autonomous Government" and the puppet security team of about 17,000 people under its control; To the south, the imperial army has forcibly occupied Fengtai, and in the words of the people of China, Beiping City is already a turtle in an urn. What else are you worried about? ”

"That is, how can our Imperial Army be afraid of a small local government?"

"When the 400,000 troops of our empire arrive, the day of the fall of the Chahar government is just around the corner!"

Hearing the discussion of the generals in the conference room, Tada Jun's face showed a satisfied smile, he pressed his hand down, and the conference room suddenly fell silent.

Tada Junzhi said with satisfaction, "Gentlemen, the battle plan for Beiping this time has been approved and supported by the base camp. On behalf of His Majesty the Emperor, Prince Zaihito of the Imperial Palace personally called us to inquire about our battle plan, so this plan must not be lost, "Gentlemen, let us work together!" ”

"Imperial onboard!" , "His Majesty the Emperor is onboard!" "Take Beiping City and approach Chahar!" ”

Listening to the fanatical cries of the division commanders and staff officers in the conference room, Okamura Ninji, who was sitting below, shook his head secretly, and these division commanders were all carried away by the good news of the 400,000 additional troops in the base camp. The Japanese could have increased the number of troops by 400,000, but was there no one to support it? You know, China has a population of 450 million, and these people in the military department want to compete with China for a simple population, what a stupid plan it must be to come up with.

With a sigh, Okamura Ninji quietly walked out of the conference room and came outside to breathe, "At this time, his chief of staff, Major General Taro Hashimoto, also walked out.

He came to Okamura Ningji's side and comforted him softly: "Your Excellency, the division commander, the people inside are all mice-eyed, you don't have to pay attention to them!" Okamura Ninji sighed: "Hashimoto-kun, look at them, as soon as they heard that the local army was going to increase by 400,000, they got carried away, as if they could conquer China tomorrow." But they didn't expect that "even if there are 400,000 more troops, how many can be distributed to North China?" I can assert that 100,000 will reach the sky, but our opponent has a population of 450 million! As long as the Nanjing government has enough weapons to support them, they can continuously expand their troops, not to mention 400,000 or 4 million soldiers, they can summon them. ”

"Your Excellency the Division Commander" As long as we act quickly and force the Nanking government to step down before the Chahar government withdraws from the Siberian battlefield, then everything is still very promising. ", Hashimoto reassured.

"I hope so!" Okamura Ninji looked at the twinkling stars in the sky and sighed.

Chahar and Su Tong are the number one henchmen in the future of the empire! We must take advantage of the weakest time when he is dragged by Soviet Russia, and destroy him! Okamura Ninji thought secretly