"Oh, the losses are too heavy...... "All the staff officers of the headquarters of the Dispatch Army and the headquarters of the First Army gathered in front of the huge battle map, and there was a lot of discussion, and these people of the army were now actually all looking sad. They all knew that the Battle of Chita had just begun to warm up, and the real tragic Armageddon was still to come, but the numbers on the casualty reports of the four divisions belonging to the First Army made all of them breathe cold! In just over half a month of fierce fighting, the losses of the 2nd and 14th divisions, which arrived in Chita, exceeded 3,000 people! The total number of casualties in the two divisions is as high as 3,800, and nearly 600 people are missing, and it is estimated that they have become gods. As for the 4th and 8th Divisions, which arrived later, the situation was not much better, because after they reached Chita, Commander Otani Kikuzo ordered the First Army of the Rì Army to launch a counterattack in an attempt to recover the positions lost by the Chinese and Cimbrian forces in the early stage, only to suffer a disastrous defeat. In the end, the 4th Division lost 5,000 men, while the 8th Division suffered more than 4,000 casualties, but the position was not recaptured! General Otani Kikuzo judged from this that the reinforcements of the Soviet Russian Red Army were also concentrating on the Chita front...... The Battle of Chita is likely to turn into a meat grinder-style war of attrition like the Battle of Verdun!

"Only keep going! The losses of the Imperial Army were heavy, and the Red Army of Soviet Russia must have suffered more casualties, now it depends on who has the stronger ability to bear the loss of human life! And the Reich did not fight alone, and Poland and China shared the losses with us. So in the end, Soviet Russia will definitely not be able to hold on! ”

"Hehe, counting on China? I think it's better to forget it! Look at what kind of troops they sent to the Chita front...... What will those people do besides consuming military rations? And the Mongolian battlefield was even more weak, originally counting on them to contain 200,000 Soviet Russian Red Army, but now only one Soviet Russian cavalry army plus 20,000 Mongolian troops have taken away half of Mongolia...... As a result, the pressure on the entire Eastern Front battlefield fell on us. ”

"If only the Chinese could launch a counterattack to northern Mongolia, at least a hundred thousand Red Army could be contained, right? In this way, the pressure on Chita will be greatly reduced. ”

"I can't count on it, Jiang Jshi of the Northeast Army of China can't send a decent army at all. And Chang Ruiqing of Nanjing doesn't seem to have taken the resistance to Russia to heart, he probably wants to count on the empire to win without a fight after defeating Russia, right? ”

"Eight squares! This warlord is too cunning...... If it weren't for his shouting that the whole people would resist Russia and defend Mongolia. How could the empire get involved in this war lightly? ”

"The empire did not fight against Soviet Russia for the sake of China! We came to Chita for the 4 million square kilometers of rich land in the Republic of Humberia! Since the people of China don't have much enthusiasm to fight, let's win the war alone! For such a large piece of land, it is worth paying the lives of a million people! ”

"But is the empire really ready to pay hundreds of thousands or even millions of lives? The national mobilization has not even begun! Compared with. Soviet Russia has already fully mobilized......"

"The situation here must be known to the country, the general mobilization must begin as soon as possible, and more reinforcements are needed on the Chita front."

"And the people of China must also move. In any case, let them launch a large-scale counterattack in Mongolia......"

A vote of rì this staff officer began to talk nonsense, first complaining and then began to come up with ideas. But there was no clever solution, the terrain of Siberia was there, a large railway, a string of small cities along the railway, and endless forests, and the elusive Red Army guerrillas in the forests! Rì himself can't play any clever tactics on this kind of terrain, and the only feasible thing is to "harden the village and fight a dumb battle", take human lives and national strength and slowly consume Soviet Russia, if you can consume Soviet Russia. The four million square kilometers of the Republic of Simperia are the world of Rì himself! I just don't know that by that time, there would be no one in Rìben......

Prince Zaihito of the Idle Yuan Palace now has a basic understanding of the battle situation on the Chita front, and has also figured out the essence of this Russo-Russian war - it is a damn war of attrition at all! It depends on who has more things and more lives! Well, it seems that rìben is not dominant in either of these aspects!

He slammed the table: "I already understand what you mean!" This war seems to be more cruel and difficult than imagined! However, such a little difficulty could not frighten the samurai of the Great Rì Empire...... For the sake of four million square kilometers of fertile soil. Even the cost of a million lives is totally worth it! As a samurai of His Majesty the Emperor, you must have such an awareness! The officer's determination has been decided, and the army sent by Xianbeia will fight to the death with the Soviet Russian Red Army in Chita! At the same time, the officer will also propose to the military department to build a large increase in troops to Simberia, and by the end of this year, 20 divisions will arrive at the front in any case! By the first half of next year. The size of the troops will be doubled! Even if it is filled with human life, it is also necessary to fill in the four million square kilometers of the Xianbeilian Republic into the xīnjiāng soil of the Great Rì Empire! ”

This Prince Rì is a hardcore militarist in history, and it is not too much to say that his hands are stained with the blood of the Chinese people! In this time and space, I don't know how many GC fighters in Soviet Russia are going to be killed by this militarist demon?

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At this time in Irkutsk, the commander of the Eastern Front of Soviet Russia, Frunze, and the chairman of the military council, Skryansky, were also attending an important military meeting. And the person presiding over this meeting was Stalin, a member of the Russian Gzhōngyāng Political Bureau!

Stalin came to Irkutsk as a minister of the Russian gzhōngyāng bureau. Since Soviet Russia was now facing an enemy from three sides, the Russian Political Bureau made a decision at the end of July to appoint Stalin to Irkutsk as the representative of the Political Bureau to lead the operation on the Eastern Front. Trotsky, on the other hand, would take overall responsibility for the operations on the Western Front.

"The Red Army's enemies on the Eastern Front were mainly Rìben and China, of which Rìben was the main opponent. At present, the main forces of the Eastern Front are also concentrated in the Far Eastern Theater and compete with the Rì Army for Chita, the transportation hub of the Trans-Siberian Railway and the Eastern Railway. If we can take the city. It would be possible to cut off the possibility of supplying the Eastern Railway to Guò, which had long since lost most of its capacity due to the destruction of the Red Army partisans. In addition, if we take Chita, it will also open the door to the eastward expansion into Manchuria, and it is possible that the war will be burned to the heart of China, which should force China to withdraw from the war and abandon the Mongols......

Therefore, the overall battle plan of the Eastern Front at present is drawn up around the battle for Chita. The Eastern Front was conceived like this: with the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Armies. The Eastern Army and other main forces launched a fierce attack on the enemy forces in Chita, striving to attract the main forces of the Rì Army and the Northeast Chinese Army to the Chita line. The 1st and 2nd Cavalry Corps were then concentrated to form the 1st Cavalry Army. With the cooperation of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Army, it crossed the steppe area of northern Mongolia and plunged directly into the Hulunbuir steppe region of China. Attack the logistical lifeline of the Chita Rì Army, the Eastern Railway! Fight to encircle the main forces of the Rì Army and the Northeast Chinese Army in the Chita area!

At the same time, we are also preparing to instigate the Mongols in Manchuria in China, the Koreans on the Korean Peninsula to launch an uprising to cooperate with our military operations, and we are also planning to support the Manchu revolutionaries in Manchuria in assassinating the Chinese reactionary warlord Chiang J-shi. In addition, the matter of launching an uprising of the Chinese working class in Manchuria is also being studied......"

Pointing to the huge military map to introduce Stalin to the battle plan was Mikhail Murphy, commander of the Eastern Front. Vasilvich. Frunze. This man is a rare military wizard! The reason why he is said to be a genius is because he did not receive a systematic military education, and he became a military strategist completely by self-study, and he was also the kind of invincible military strategist, so much so that later the Soviet Red Army named the military academy with his surname!

Stalin, another great military strategist who was even more powerful than Frunze in history, listened to Frunze's speech with a straight face, and only coughed lightly when he heard that Frunze was planning to incite the common people of China and his own territory to rise up in rebellion. Interrupted: "Who is going to lead those uprisings?" Is there any involvement of Chinese GCD party members? ”

Frunze frowned and glanced at Skryansky, inciting rebellion is usually the responsibility of political commissars. Skryansky took the question and replied: "The specific leader of these uprisings is Comrade Shumyatsky, chairman of the Russian Far East Bureau, in addition, the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party and the Korean GCD will also participate in the leadership of the uprising, but the Chinese GCD ......"

"There is no involvement of the G. Was it possible to unleash an uprising of the working class in Manchuria? Stalin glanced at Skryansky and said coldly: "It is better to cancel the plan to launch a workers' uprising in Manchuria." Concentrate on supporting the other three uprising plans, by the way, what kind of Manchu revolutionaries do you want to assassinate Chiang J Shi? Is there a Manchurian GCD? ”

Skryansky shook his head: "Without the Manchurian GCD, Comrade Shumyatsky's idea is to contact the upper Manchu nobility through the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, instigate and support them to assassinate Chiang J Shi. The Chinese nationals were now very harsh in their liquidation of these Manchurian aristocracy. Many were arrested, and many more were wanted and their property confiscated...... Of course, we didn't have much hope for them, just the idea of trying it out, even if we didn't succeed, we would have nothing to lose, and maybe we could still separate the relationship between Jiang Jshi and Chang Ruiqing or Rì himself. ”

Stalin nodded, and there seemed to be a smile on the corner of his mouth: "What is the situation of the Eastern Army now?" And what about Zhang Guotao, Huang Baopei, and Tang Jiu? Do you have any complaints and strange things about the party? ”

"Their affection is not too high, and they are very negative in their respective jobs, and they rarely speak, so there are no complaints and strange words." Skryansky paused for a moment and asked: "Comrade Stalin, are we going to take any preventive measures against them?" ”

Stalin shook his head: "Not for the time being, these people may still need it...... It is better for them to be unreliable than Chen Duxiu and Chang Ruiqing, and the mission of liberating the Chinese people will fall on them in the future. As he spoke, he furrowed his eyebrows again and looked at Frunze with burning eyes: "Comrade Frunze, now the shape of the Soviet Motherland is very critical, the Polish invaders have captured the whole of Lithuania, and the Polish army has also occupied Minsk, the capital of Belarus, in October this month!" And half of our army was pinned down on the Eastern Front...... Therefore, the Political Bureau and the Revolutionary Military Council hope that you can fight a quick battle, and the Revolutionary Military Committee will do everything possible to support the Eastern Front battlefield. However, you must make sure to defeat Rìben and China before next year's chūn season, and then use your forces on the Western Front. For this, you can do whatever it takes! Not a qiē means! ”

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In the reception room of the Prime Minister's Residence, the atmosphere is surprisingly heavy. At the moment, the real helmsman of the Empire, Aritomo Yamaprefecture and Konobo Saionji, were sitting side by side, while Prime Minister Hara Kei and Riku Yoshiichi Tanaka, and the chief of the Army Staff Headquarters, Yusaku Uehara, were sitting opposite them.

Yuan Jing's face was as blue as iron, and in his trembling right hand he was holding a report on the mobilization and formation of a new division that had just been submitted by the Ministry of the Army. looked at Xiyuan Temple and Shan County fixedly, and said distressedly: "...... There's no money to it. There really is no money left! The additional recurrent and special expenses for the army and navy allocated for the current year have been fully utilized. Moreover, military spending now accounts for 60 percent of this year's fiscal expenditures...... The Ministry of War is now proposing an additional special military budget of 300 million yuan for this year's military expansion and 250 million yuan for the Xianbeilian operation. zhèngfǔ is not able to change money......"

Yoshiichi Tanaka, who had always had a calm face, suddenly interjected: "Why can't you make money?" Isn't the national zhèngfǔ of the branch being turned into money? They can do it, why can't the empire? ”

Yuan Jing glanced at the soldier with a wry smile: "The national zhèngfǔ of China got 500 tons of gold from White Russia, which is almost equivalent to 500 million US dollars, which is enough to support the issuance of three billion Chinese yuan!" And they still have about 20 silver dollars and 200 million taels of silver in the country, and these precious metals can support the issuance of billions of banknotes...... That's why they can rely on the issuance of banknotes to sustain the situation in the short term. However, the people of Shina are now also working on the reconstruction of the fiscal system, and it is expected that from next year, they will be able to achieve fiscal balance...... Moreover, they have now begun to impose wartime economic controls, implement quota management on the purchase and sale of foreign exchange, gold and silver, and strictly control the import and export of materials......"

Yusaku Uehara interrupted with a cold face: "If China can implement wartime economic control, why can't the empire implement it?" The empire should be like China. Strictly regulate the country's economy to ensure that wealth is spent in the best interests of the country's strength! ”

"This, this, this...... The imperial zhèngfǔ control over the economy is already very strict, and if it is to be more strictly controlled, I am afraid that the people will have opinions, and the chaebol will also ......"

Hara's words are not finished. Youpeng in Shanxian said coldly: "The people should be able to understand the importance of the Xianbeilian operation!" As for the chaebols, their wealth is supposed to serve the country! He turned his head and looked at the public of Xiyuan Temple: "Xiyuan Temple-kun, what do you think?" ”

Xiyuan Temple frowned and remained silent, their so-called "mínzhǔ faction" was actually supported by the chaebol. The current rì本zhèngfǔ is a combination of chaebols and warlords, but now the power of the warlord group headed by Yamaguchi Aritomo has swelled dramatically through the Xianbeilian War. Faintly want to control the entire rì ben cāo in his hands, and turn the rì ben into a militaristic state like Prussia!

"The Simberian War was much more difficult than expected." Yuan Jing muttered: "It turned out that there were 15 divisions and regiments that would be able to win the battle. But now ......"

"For four million square kilometers of land, it is worth the price!" Shanxian once again interrupted Yuan Jing's speech: "Now that Soviet Russia has implemented national mobilization, and China has implemented a wartime economic system, only the empire is still the same, and there is no consciousness of fighting a war of national fortunes at all!" Even compared to the Qing War of that year, the Russian War was lax, so there was no way to win the war. As he spoke, he turned around, bowed to the Duke of Xiyuan Temple, and said with a full heart: "Xiyuan Temple-kun, please!" Please support the Army's plan to expand the army and increase the military budget. ”

Yoshiichi Tanaka and Yusaku Uehara also shouted in unison: "Please stand with the army, the First World War of Xianbeilia is related to the national fortune of the imperial country in the next thousand years, and it must not fail!" ”

Hearing Tanaka and Uehara's words, Saionji Gongwang also sighed. Although he disagrees with many of the Army's practices. But that didn't mean he wanted to see his country lose the war, and he knew that if Rìben lost the battle of Simberia, the country would lose more than just the Republic of Simberia!

He nodded slightly at Yuan Jing and sighed: "Yuan Jun, now is the critical moment for the rise and fall of the imperial state, please don't think about any fiscal revenues and expenditures, foreign exchange reserves and inflation...... In short, the victory in the war is higher than one qiē! The Empire can't afford to lose! ”

Yuan Jing looked at Xiyuan Temple and Yama County with a long face: "With an additional 550 million yuan in military expenses and an additional 20 divisions, will the empire be able to win Xianbeilia?" ”

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