Prince Zairen, Chief of the General Staff of the Japanese Army Base Camp and Commander-in-Chief of the Far East Campaign, a decision beyond common sense, an unexpected personnel appointment, the impact on a cadre of Japanese generals is undoubtedly huge, of course, those division commanders and army commanders, only envy and jealousy, secretly hated themselves, why didn't they have such a chance to take shit luck, if they knew this, it was better to be in the conference room, find a stubble, and fight against the guys who are usually unpleasant!

Unlike those officers, including the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, General Minamijiro, they more or less saw some clues and had their own ideas, especially General Tanaka Shinichi, the commander of the Japanese and Korean garrisons, who had the label of Koichi Yonechi's faction on his body, and he couldn't think about it more!

In fact, General Tanaka is a little worried, at least so far, Prince Zairen has no intention of attacking the Korean garrison, including the Kwantung Army, it is not beautiful to act in a hurry, Prince Zairen, who is accustomed to playing with intrigues, knows it, and knows it well, he will not make such a mistake, anyway, it is all under his own hands, not in a hurry, Xu Tuzhi, sooner or later it will be in his own pocket!

Lieutenant General Ryuaki Shinno, chief of staff of the General Headquarters of the Far East Campaign, has mixed feelings in his heart, a little-known lieutenant general Haruhiko, his mother's ancestral grave smoked, dog urine moss turned over, became Ganoderma lucidum grass, climbed to the high position of deputy commander of the Far East Dispatch Army, and in a short time, he will take over the position of commander, and his dignified chief of staff of the headquarters has to command the temporary patchwork of the rear guard campaign cluster.

is also a confidant of Prince Zairen, and he also grew up eating the rice of the empire, why is the treatment so different, Lieutenant General Shinno felt sour in his heart. At the same time, he was also very puzzled, if this was the temporary intention of His Royal Highness the Prince, and he didn't believe it when he was killed, so many things could be done with a pat on the head? Don't have a total beforehand?

"It's not His Royal Highness the Prince, these unreasonable decisions are all made by that guy, and he has been absent from the headquarters for a long enough time, and this guy has become a confidant of His Royal Highness. According to the secret report of his own cronies, His Royal Highness the Prince was quite obedient to this guy, and found a reason to drive himself out of the campaign headquarters so that he could take over the position of chief of staff. Definitely! Lieutenant General Shinno thought so, with a vicious look in his eyes. But he viciously targeted Major General Yamada, head of the General Staff Headquarters of the General Headquarters.

Major General Yamada, as always, has a dead face. I can't see any fluctuations, in fact, His Royal Highness the Prince has a series of unexpected decisions and personnel appointments, and he really didn't know anything about it in advance, not even the slightest word. Of course, these have nothing to do with him, from an ordinary senior staff officer, suddenly rose to the high position of the third person in the Far Eastern Campaign Headquarters. Major General Yamada was already very satisfied.

When Lieutenant General Shinno's gaze swept over like a knife, Major General Yamada just glanced at it, and then looked away, ignoring the too much meaning in his eyes, and such a person, in such an occasion, conflicting, not to mention his identity, will leave a full laughing stock, some people, not worthy of being called opponents, directly ignoring, is the best way!

However, while looking away, Major General Yamada secretly sneered in his heart, "Stupid guy, a series of mistakes are enough to ruin your future, this release is a signal for His Royal Highness the Prince to alienate you, it's best, when blocking the Soviet army, this stupid guy who doesn't know how much he is pounding is broken for the empire!" ”

No matter how many unexpected things happened during this military meeting, and no matter how many high-ranking Japanese generals who participated in the meeting, each of them had their own henchmen, after the meeting, the Japanese generals returned to their troops as quickly as possible, and began to act urgently in accordance with the deployment of the military conference.

The deployment of the encirclement of the Soviet Far Eastern Front is proceeding gradually in accordance with the deployment of the commander-in-chief, Prince Zairen, and the rope around Zhukov's neck is getting tighter and tighter.

At this time, Zhukov could only wait anxiously, and the urgent telegram sent to Moscow has not yet been answered, but he does not want to repeat it again, in the telegram, the dangerous situation of the Far Eastern Front, he has already made it very clear, I believe that Comrade Stalin and the General Staff will have a correct judgment, one after another urgent telegrams, as if panicked, Zhukov disdains it!

Disdain is a kind of perseverance in the hearts of the arrogant, but for the current war situation, it has no effect at all, from the Kwantung Army troops to stop the endless entanglement, and out of the battlefield, retreat more than 50 kilometers, the establishment of a blocking line, the Japanese troops on both flanks, constantly squeezing the battlefield space of the Far Eastern Front, Zhukov knew very clearly that the supreme commander of the Japanese army in the Far East, the layout of the lore of his own troops, has been completed.

This hand layout completely smashed Zhukov's last line, the opportunity for a Jedi counterattack, as Prince Zairen predicted, Zhukov is not a mediocre hand, after determining that Moscow will not order the Trans-Khingan Mountains Front and the Baikal Front, turn around and return to help, there is indeed this plan, the content of the plan is very simple, on the contrary, concentrate all the troops of the Far Eastern Front, break through the positions of the Japanese Kwantung Army, and then, the whole army will enter Manchuria and fight.

Although it was a plan that the Far Eastern Front would eventually be annihilated, it was better than the end of being besieged and killed by a large number of Japanese troops here, Zhukov had already made a ruthless decision, and once Comrade Stalin did not approve the rescue, he would make a desperate bet, and before the time being, he would also kill the Japanese in Manchuria, which the Japanese had been running for many years, at least, before the Far Eastern Front was completely annihilated, inflicting heavy losses on the Japanese.

Zhukov sensibly realized that continuing to carry out the original plan of withdrawing to the direction of Chita and joining up with the Trans-Khinganling Front was a dead end, and the heavy forces of the Japanese army were concentrated in that direction, and the Far Eastern Front in motion would be attacked by the Japanese army head-on and fall faster.

This plan, with a desperate final madness, if the Far Eastern Front exerts all its strength to fight south, it will be unstoppable with the current strength and strength of the Kwantung Army, and this is also the final swan song prepared by Zhukov for himself and for the Far Eastern Front, if there are no reinforcements, the swan song will be performed on time.

In the midst of the roaring cannons, he locked himself in his tent and pondered and weighed with great painstaking consideration, and this plan to attack Manchuria was to burn the last flame with the lives of more than 1 million soldiers of the Far Eastern Front, and to give the largest Japanese occupation zone overseas the most severe destruction, and it was the last contribution Zhukov could make for the Soviets and Comrade Stalin.

The premise of this plan was based on the absence of reinforcements, and, Zhukov's intuitive premonition, there would be no reinforcements, and a wave of sourness and pain hit his heart, "Report to Comrade Commander, receive an urgent telegram from the front-line troops!" Outside the tent, the chief of staff, Lieutenant General Godayav, sounded, and the abrupt sound of the report interrupted his train of thought and drove away the sadness in his heart.

Zhukov, who had been interrupted from his train of thought, raised his blue-gray eyes, which were full of red blood, but still flashing with fine light, couldn't help frowning, looked at the tent curtain that was swinging in the wind, quickly adjusted his feelings, and shouted with a little displeasure: "Comrade Godayav, come in!" ”

Chief of Staff Godayav lifted the curtain of the tent, his face was blown red by the cold wind in the Far East, and his face was as haggard as Zhukov, "Commander, the front-line troops sent a telegram reporting an abnormal situation, the Japanese Kwantung Army, which had always maintained an offensive posture, suddenly broke away from the battle and withdrew its position more than 50 kilometers south, and the front-line troops sent scouts to reconnoiter and found that the Kwantung Army was taking advantage of the favorable terrain conditions to build a new blocking line in the retreat place!" ”

Zhukov took the telegram silently, read it with a blank expression, raised his head, looked at the outside of the tent with a somewhat empty gaze, the wind was still steep in May, blowing the dark sky of the Far East, and read the telegram again, and then, his haggard and tired face turned gray and white, and the brilliance in his eyes disappeared in an instant.

Unable to do it on the canvas marching chair, the telegram in Zhukov's hand quietly fell to the ground, silent for a long time, in the worried eyes of Chief of Staff Godayav, picked up the shell box, the plan that took him several days of painstaking efforts, page by page torn into pieces, broken confetti, snowflakes scattered, from beginning to end, Chief of Staff Godayav was silently looking at this qiē, he didn't know what to say?

"Alas!" A heavy and suppressed sigh came from Zhukov's chest, as if with endless helplessness and unwillingness, and the chief of staff of Godayav trembled in his heart, "The supreme commander of the Japanese army is a master of controlling the situation of the battle, he judged any unfavorable situations that may arise, and took precautions in advance, and did not even leave me with the opportunity to fight desperately!" Zhukov said to himself.

Chief of Staff Godayav instantly understood, Comrade Commander locked himself in a tent, what was he doing, his face was even more pale than Zhukov, "Commander, your plan is that in case there are no reinforcements, the Far Eastern Front will attack to the south and attack Manchuria in a desperate way?" And the Kwantung Army suddenly retreated from the battlefield in order to prevent us from doing the opposite? ”

Zhukov smiled miserably, nodded, and said: "However, the Japanese didn't even leave me this opportunity, we are facing a terrible opponent, but it is by no means Minamijiro, the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army!" ”

"Chief of Staff, did Moscow telegraph back?" Zhukov asked suddenly.

(To be continued)(To be continued......