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Chapter 368: The War Expands!

After reading this letter, Hideki Tojo couldn't help but feel excited! Kazunari Ugaki, who is it?!

This Ugaki Kazunari is not a simple person! He has partnered with former Prime Minister Yoshiichi Tanaka many times and has great influence in the Japanese Army!

In September 1911, he became the head of the military division under the leadership of the director of the Military Affairs Bureau, Yoshiichi Tanaka, and was directly involved in the expansion of the army's armament and the plan to increase the number of divisions and regiments, thus making a name for himself in the army.

In July 1916, at the recommendation of Yoshiichi Tanaka, he became the head of the First General Staff Headquarters, and actively participated in the activities of military expansion abroad, such as forcing the Chinese authorities to sign the "Military Agreement on the Joint Defense of the Japanese and Chinese Army," planning to send troops to Siberia, and revising the national defense policy.

In 1923, in the Yamamoto Gonbei cabinet, Tanaka was the Minister of the Army, he was the Vice Minister of the Army, and the following year, on the recommendation of Tanaka, he became the Minister of War in the Kiyoura Cabinet, occupying the most influential position in the Army, and then successively served as the Minister of War in the Kato Takaaki Cabinet, the Wakatsuki Reijiro Cabinet, and the Hamaguchi Cabinet for 5 years!

Since 1925, Ugaki has pursued a policy of "military reduction" aimed at accelerating the modernization of the army, and has established a national mobilization war system with a high degree of centralized rule that puts the country's all-intelligence and omnipotence into account by reducing the number of troops, developing aircraft, chariots, machine guns, and other weapons of the armed forces, so that he has a very high prestige in the army!

Hideki Tojo couldn't help but tremble with excitement when such an old-timer actually wrote to him in person! It took a while to calm down, and then he opened the various materials of the divisions and regiments sent to him by his subordinates! to determine which unit will go to North Korea for military support.

Subsequently, the Japanese Army suddenly announced: Since the Korean garrison was attacked by the puppet Northeast Defense Army, in order to safeguard the "special interests of Manchukuo and Mongolia" of the Japanese Empire and implement the "Security Treaty between Manchukuo and Japan," Japan would send the 9th and 10th Divisions to Korea to fight in Manchuria! And the 11th Division will go to Shanghai to participate in the Battle of Songhu!

At the same time, Japan also announced that the Third Fleet would arrive in Shanghai to participate in the war! You must know that the Japanese Third Fleet has 4 cruisers, 4 destroyers, 2 aircraft carriers and more than 7,000 marines! In particular, Mukden has been occupied, and the Korean garrison can't defeat the Yalu River!

This made the General Staff decide to send the iron fist of the Ninth Division to completely smash the defense line arranged by Tu Qian's army on the Yalu River!

And the 10th Division, which was sent to support the Korean and Kwantung Army, was not simple! The 10th Division, a division of the Imperial Japanese Army, was one of the 17 standing divisions of the Japanese army before the outbreak of World War II. The current division commander, Lieutenant General Hirose Shousuke, is a graduate of the 11th phase of the Japanese Lushi!

It can be seen from this that this division is well-equipped and well-trained!

And the 11th Division that was deployed to the Songhu War was not a good one, and the commander of this division was the famous Japanese Nogi Noshinori! Subsequently, many celebrities, including the former land minister Yoshinori Shirakawa, were also born in this division!

And the current division commander of this division is Lieutenant General Atsutaro Atsuto, who participated in the Russo-Japanese War and served as an adjutant of the Liaodong Garrison Army, and later served as an adjutant of the Kwantung Governor's Office, and graduated from the Army University in November 1910!

In this way, the combat effectiveness of this division can be imagined!

The strength of the three standing divisions and nearly 80,000 people can't help but make the bigwigs of the Nanjing State Mansion explode! In contrast, the Third Fleet is less remarkable. After all, with 7,000 marines, it is impossible for those ships to sail directly ashore to fight, right?!

"Boom! Rumble!! "Boom ...... "At this time, the cannon outside Shanhaiguan rumbled! Dressed in a light military uniform without epaulettes, the soldier frowned at the strategic map in the simple tunnel of wisdom.

"Report!" At this time, the telegraph soldiers hurriedly entered and faced Tu Qianjun, which was a solemn standing! A telegram was then handed to Chandinand. Shang Dinan looked at it after the telegram, frowned and said to Tu Qianjun in a deep voice: "Report to the commander!" Mukden sent a telegram, and the Japanese army announced that it would send the 9th and 10th divisions to Korea to participate in the war against us! ”

"And, deploy the 11th and 14th Divisions, the 24th Independent Mixed Brigade, and the Navy's Third Fleet together to form the 'Shanghai Dispatch Army' to fight in Shanghai ()!"

Tu Qianjun heard Shang Dinan's words, but he didn't snort. He continued to look at the map with his head down, and after a while, he asked in a deep voice to Su Zongzhe, who had been standing beside him and had been silent.

"Where is the cavalry division?!" Su Zongzhe was stunned for a moment when he heard Tu Qianjun's question, then walked to the edge of the map, pointed to a point outside Shanhaiguan and said in a deep voice: "Now the location of the cavalry division is here, according to the report, they will be able to arrive at the predetermined location at noon tomorrow!" ”

Hearing this, Tu Qianjun threw down the pen in his hand, squinted his eyes and said in a deep voice: "Inform the troops, recuperate and recharge for a general attack tomorrow night!" I must take Shanhaiguan in one fell swoop, so that Zhou Tuolong of the Fourth Army must be dragged by me! At least drag me until we take Shanhaiguan! ”

As he spoke, Tu Qianjun propped up the table with the map and said coldly: "Since the Japanese want to continue playing, I naturally have no reason not to accompany me!" Then let's see who is playing to death! ”

Unlike the decision of the army, the meeting of the Nanjing government was silent. Jiang Zhongzheng looked at these veterans and said in a deep voice: "Now that the Japanese army has announced that it will strengthen its troops, Songhu has already become like this." Do you think we should continue to fight, or should we focus on peace talks?! ”

Everyone listened to Jiang Zhongzheng's words without squeaking, and beat it?! The combat effectiveness of the Japanese army has now been seen, and if the troops are increased again, then there is no doubt that the national government will not be able to support it.

Can you talk about peace?! Who would dare to open their mouths like that?! Whoever wants to propose peace talks will be called a traitor! No one in this country wants to bear this infamy! Zhang Xueliang: That's a lesson from the past! lost Manchuria, and now the whole country is scolding him to death!

It is said that he does not dare to go out of the door now! I'm afraid that those students will smash his car with rotten eggs! These big people here don't want to accept this treatment and become the target of public criticism on this cusp.

At this time, I heard a voice from outside the door: "Report!" Mr. Jensen, the consul of the United States, came to visit and asked to see you! ”