Chapter 871: The rampaging Ueda Kenkichi

Hirohito is not a fool, he knows very well that the value of the Liaodong Peninsula and Mukden is definitely hundreds of times more than five thousand kilograms of gold, or rather, it is not measured in gold at all, with the advantage that Tang Qiuli now has in his army, this money cannot satisfy the appetite of that devil at all, he is afraid, he took the opportunity to capture the whole of Manchuria, and has the ability to do it, in this way, the loss of the empire is not the matter of these five thousand kilograms of gold.

The only way now is to pay as little as possible, in exchange for Tang Qiu's retreat and retreat to the original defense line, this matter is too big, and Emperor Hirohito can't be the master, he can only convene his confidants and ministers to discuss countermeasures together.

These ministers who were urgently summoned to the palace were dumbfounded when they heard that they had to take out 5,000 kilograms of gold, these 5,000 kilograms of gold, there are in the Japanese treasury, and they can get it, the key is that several generations of Japanese have tightened their belts, and they almost smashed the pot and sold iron, and they only saved more than 200 tons, and Tang Qiuli had to leave five tons at once, and no one could stand it.

Listening to the meaning of His Majesty the Emperor, there is more than this number, think about it, Tang Qiuli is now having the upper hand, I am afraid that these five tons of gold will not be able to send away, what good way can there be? The Kwantung Army units that could fight were all fighting with the Soviets in the Far East, and the Soviets' reinforcements were constantly driving to the Far East.

If the situation continues to deteriorate, the Kwantung Army will have to face a joint attack by the Soviets and Tang Qiuli's troops, and Manchuria will definitely be lost, and there is no choice but to choose the lesser of two evils and deal exclusively with the Soviets, after all, Tang Qiuli has put forward conditions, and the current Soviets have already fought and will not stop at all.

The result of the Kwantung Army's halt was that there were more than 100,000 casualties, and the Far East had not yet been obtained, Tang Qiuli on this side, and then took the opportunity to occupy Manchuria, and the Japanese were beaten by jī flying eggs, and they didn't catch anything.

Several important ministers couldn't help but curse Tang Qiu leaving, and the Minister of War Bin Shan Yuan reminded: "Gentlemen, it's not the first time that our empire has suffered a loss from this devil, we should know his essence, and now the key to the problem is, how to deal with this situation?" His Majesty hopes that you can have a good way. ”

The final result of the imperial council can only be to pay the minimum price in exchange for Tang Qiuli's withdrawal of troops from the Liaodong Peninsula and Mukden, otherwise, according to the current situation, the gold in the treasury will be emptied, and it will not be able to satisfy the appetite of this devil.

The only way is to transfer most of the Kwantung Army troops back from the Far East, temporarily contain the ferocious offensive of Tang Qiuli's troops, and then sit down to negotiate, or push Tang Qiuli's troops back to the Jinzhou line, and the empire will have more bargaining chips, although this is difficult and the only feasible way.

Lieutenant General Ishihara Ichiro, deputy chief of the General Staff of the base camp, raised a different opinion, and the Kwantung Army was encircling and annihilating Timoshenko's troops at a critical moment, and at this time, Chōu transferred troops, didn't it make the Soviets breathe? The troops invested in the early stage are very material, and they can't achieve my perfect effect, and they are the loss of the empire, which I think is inappropriate.

As soon as Ishihara Ichiro's words fell, he saw Emperor Hirohito looking at him with the same eyes as he looked at Shuzo Nagano, like an idiot, "How did this guy get to lieutenant general?" Can the strategic position of the Far East be compared with that of Manchuria? That's the foundation of the empire," Hirohito thought to himself, and in his heart, he had put Ishihara Ichiro in a separate book.

Kenkichi Ueda, who was doing a good job on the Far Eastern front, couldn't believe his eyes after receiving the order from the base camp, seeing that Timoshenko had his last breath left, and in two or three days, the remaining 100,000 Soviet troops would be completely annihilated.

Looking at the order and the signature of Prince Zaihito of the Palace of the Chief of Staff of the Base Camp, Ueda Kenji almost scolded, but thinking of the identity of the other party, Shengsheng swallowed the foul mouth that was about to burst back into his stomach, but it did not prevent him from greeting Zairen's relatives countless times in his heart, and of course, he also carried the nervous majesty in the palace.

In the face of the great cause that was about to be accomplished, Ueda Kenkichi was like a red-eyed gambler, and he tore apart the orders of the General Staff and commanded the troops to continue to storm the remnants of Timoshenko's army stubbornly defending in Arseniev.

Four hours later, he received another order, this time signed by Emperor Hirohito himself, very simple, Hirohito in the order, asked Ueda Kenkichi to immediately mobilize more than 200,000 troops from the Far Eastern front, and quickly set off to the Liaodong Peninsula to prevent Tang Qiuli from leaving the army and continue to attack other parts of Manchuria.

Perhaps it was estimated that it was impossible for Ueda Kenkichi to willingly transfer troops in front of such a big yòuhuò, and in the order, Emperor Hirohito strictly ordered: "If the Kwantung Army does not quickly carry out the order and curb Tang Qiuli's troops from continuing to attack other parts of Manchuria, all the senior officers of the Kwantung Army Headquarters will immediately apologize, and the empire does not need generals who disregard the overall situation." ”

Ueda Kenkichi lost his temper, no matter how bold he was to the order of the big boss, he would not dare to disobey it, unless he didn't want to be in Japan, on November 8, Ueda Kenkichi transferred 250,000 troops from the troops attacking Arseniyev and rushed to the Liaodong Peninsula as quickly as possible.

He also had no choice, the first and second armies of the Kwantung Army were entangled by the Soviet army and could not get out at all, if Chōu transferred any troops, the Soviet army would take the opportunity to move south and join up with Timoshenko's troops, but instead pose a threat of flanking front and rear to the attacking troops of the Third and Fourth Armies of the Kwantung Army.

He could only transfer troops from the Arsenyev battlefield, which had an absolute advantage in troops, and it would not work if it was less, and the troops of the devil Tang Qiuli had more than 200,000 people, and tens of thousands of people were transferred, which was a sheep into the mouth of the tiger, so that the Kwantung Army troops attacking the Second Army of the Timoshenko Far East had less than 130,000 people, and the intensity of the Kwantung Army's attack was immediately reduced.

More than 200,000 troops were dispatched, and Ueda Kenkichi fell to the bottom of disappointment from extreme excitement, and it felt like he was wantonly conquering a peerless beauty NV, and when he was about to reach the peak of happiness, he was suddenly slapped on the back, and he told him expressionlessly, "It's time, come down immediately." ”

Ueda Kenkichi was depressed, so depressed that he wanted to kill, disappointed, disappointed to the point of suicide, he was like a wounded wolf, in the front-line headquarters, staring at the fierce eyes, looking at anything that was not pleasing to the eye, even the most favored confidential secretary, Miss Sadako, was slapped a few times by His Excellency the commander, and the face became sè.

As for the staff officers who were punched and kicked by His Excellency the Commander, there were countless of them, Ueda Kenkichi was already on the verge of exploding, and he didn't understand the thoughts of the high-ranking officials in the base camp, why he gave such an order when he had achieved a complete victory.

Eliminating Timoshenko's troops now seems to have become extremely difficult, and he still can't understand that the Soviets on the other side are like cockroaches that can't be killed, with tenacious vitality, and his more than 400,000 brave and good Kwantung Army soldiers have fought for more than two months, although they have their last breath left, that is, they will not die.

And the Kwantung Army also paid the price of more than 100,000 people, shouldn't the Soviet Russian soldiers have such tenacious combat effectiveness? According to the seniors in the army who participated in the Russo-Japanese War, as long as the Russian soldiers were surrounded, these poorly equipped Russians would immediately raise their hands and surrender, so in the first Russo-Japanese War, the imperial soldiers dared to attack the Russian soldiers of several thousand with a force of 1,000 people.

It has been a bloody battle with the Russian ** team for more than two months, and this is not the case at all, if what the seniors in the army said is true, then how to explain the situation in front of you? If the seniors in the army lie, why is it necessary to fart and fool these juniors? Ueda Kenkichi couldn't figure it out, so he was even more depressed, and the whole person was a little stupid.

It was still his guard captain who was smart, and seeing that His Excellency the Commander was depressed like this, maybe he would be nervous and had a good idea, and took the captured Soviet soldiers over dozens of people, so that His Excellency the Commander was angry.

This trick is really good, Ueda Kenkichi cut off the heads of more than a dozen Soviet prisoners in one breath, the resentment and depression in his heart, with the heads rolling all over the ground, the pungent smell of blood, and the corpses of the Soviets, gradually dissipated, and the whole person also recovered the gods, and then, satisfied, ordered the troops, stop the attack, and encircled instead, and all departments established blocking positions to strictly prevent the Soviets from breaking through, as long as the Soviets were still in the net, they couldn't escape.

In more than two months of fighting, the Second Army in the Far East suffered heavy losses, the strength of the 280,000 troops at the beginning was reduced to less than 100,000, and all tanks were lost, almost more than two-thirds of the artillery.

Since 10 September, the artillery fire in the Far East has not stopped, the fire everywhere, the sound of guns and cannon-stop day and night, the sea breeze blowing from the Sea of Japan, the smoke of gunpowder that cannot disperse the sky, in the outer positions of Arseniev, I don't know how many times, for a high ground of less than one square kilometer, the Japanese and the Soviets invested tens of thousands of troops, desperately fighting, the corpses of soldiers on both sides, layer by layer, pile upon pile of stiffness on the frozen ground, the cold wind all night, the blood flowing, frozen into mottled dark red sè.

Timoshenko was already numb, and every day he repeated the same orders to recapture the lost positions, and thousands of Soviet soldiers were thrown into a defensive battle to the death, without the hope of the Transcaucasian Front, without the air supply channels established by the Air Force of the Far Eastern Military District, he himself did not have the confidence to support it.