Prince Zairen, chief of the general staff of the Japanese army base camp and commander-in-chief of the Far East Campaign, achieved his goal with a perfect performance, and also fulfilled a senior staff officer named Yamada.

He was waiting, waiting for the reply from the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, General Minamijiro, from the feeling in his heart, Zaihito thought that he could not completely control zhì, he had been operating in Manchuria for many years, not his own faction, the unruly Kwantung Army, to treat his own orders, Nanjiro may have two reactions, one is that he feels that his order is definitely to kill people with a knife, and he stabbed the matter directly to Koichi Mineichi.

Of course, just with Michichi Michi, he can't stop the orders within his authority, but there is one person who can invalidate all his orders with one sentence, and it's not bullshit, that person is his brother Emperor Hirohito, I'm afraid that Mitsuichi Yonechi will agitate like a reed and let his emperor's brother come to withdraw the fire, then it will be a big trouble for himself.

For the emperor's elder brother, Zairen still understands, suspicious by nature, rigid and self-serving, but his ears are soft, and he lacks a fixed opinion, if Nanjiro insists on doing this, then he has to take a risky move, dismiss Nanjiro from the post of commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, and replace him with Lieutenant General Ryuaki Shinno, chief of staff of the campaign headquarters, so that his plan can be thoroughly implemented, but the sequelae are also very strict.

Moreover, Ryuaki Shinno has been at the General Headquarters of the Kwantung Army for some time, and according to his secret telegram, the Commander-in-Chief of the Kwantung Army, General Minamijiro, is a difficult figure to entangle, and for many years, he has been up and down the Kwantung Army. The iron bucket of operation is general, the water can't be splashed, and it is difficult for outsiders to intervene, as if it is an independent kingdom, and it is very polite to itself, but in terms of actual command, it has no effect at all.

In other words, Ryuaki Shinno, the chief of staff of the lieutenant general of the general headquarters of the campaign, was treated as a Buddha in the general headquarters of the Kwantung Army. Eating and drinking well every day and entertaining it, it is a matter of not mixing with the command of the Kwantung Army, it belongs to the type that is not used in the middle, once it is replaced by Shinno Ryuzhao, I am afraid that with the prestige and qualifications of Shinno Ryuzhao. It is difficult to convince the public, and he can't command the arrogant generals of the Kwantung Army. Own plan. It's still in the soup.

Moreover, it was Nanjiro who was able to comprehend his own painstaking efforts, analyze and consider his own orders with the thinking of a commander of the imperial army with a strategic vision, obey the overall situation of the campaign, and take the huge losses of the Kwantung Army. Hold off the Soviet Far Eastern Front for two days to ensure the smooth progress of the Far Eastern campaign, if well commanded and properly used. The Kwantung Army is not necessarily a depleted ending.

But the loss of soldiers will be certain, the soldiers who can survive, no more than one-fifth, maybe, will be slumped because of this, all kinds of possibilities, hovering in Zairen's mind, a burst of anxiety and a burst of excitement, burned to the heart of the known for his calmness, quite a general's demeanor Prince Zairen, his heart is like a pot, restless, he irritably ripped off the collar of the military uniform, got up and walked to the window.

The night was like ink, there were no stars in sight, the earth seemed to be held by a huge black cauldron, it was depressing, and the cold wind blowing from the Sea of Okhotsk tore the branches of the trees outside the window, making a terrible scream, and from Zairen's current position, there were only a few faint lights in the whole city, as yellow and dim as ghost fire, and it became more and more that the city of the Soviet Far East, desolate and depressed, did not have some life.

At the gate of the headquarters station, two sentries with Type 38 rifles, under the miserable white light, the machinery walked back and forth, revealing boredom and dazedness, and then looked into the distance, it was pitch black, Zairen retracted his gaze suppressively, pressed the electric bell fiercely, and a staff officer cautiously pushed the door in, "Your Excellency the commander-in-chief, what do you command?" ”

Zairen gritted his teeth and said, "Inform the confidential department, all telegrams about the Kwantung Army will be sent to me as soon as possible, no matter how late!" ”

The staff officer agreed, stepped backwards and gently closed the door, Zairen turned off all the lights, and then, sitting on a chair, burying himself in the dark, closing his eyes, all he could do was wait, waiting for the call back from the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, General Minamijiro, and waiting, what was Zhukov doing?

In the Far Eastern Battlefield, even at night, the front line was still fierce, there were flashing fires everywhere, the sound of guns and cannons echoed in the open field, and the fighting between the Japanese Kwantung Army and the Soviet Far Eastern Front never stopped for a moment, but both Zhukov and Minamijiro maintained a certain degree of restraint and tried to avoid a decisive battle, and the strength of the two sides did not exceed 100,000 people.

In the midst of the rumbling cannons, the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, General Minamijiro, listened to the staff officer read the latest order of Prince Zaihito with a blank face, and after more than a month of continuous fighting, General Minamijiro was definitely the one who slept the least among the Japanese generals, and from his face, it could be seen that he was physically and mentally exhausted to the extreme.

The eye sockets are deep-set, the eyeballs are covered with red bloodshots, the face is haggard, with sallow yellow in the darkness, the lips are cracked with red blood, and the face is messy with stubble, which has not been taken care of for at least ten days, wearing an original straight general uniform, crumpled and covered with dust, and the three gold stars on the collar badge are also dim, if you look at it from the outside, it looks like a defeated general who has lost a battle and fled all the way!

Only the eyes of General Nanjiro are still ruthless and resolute, as fierce as a wounded wolf, for more than a month, Nanjiro knows what kind of life he is living, every day is a non-stop battle, every order given, is also a battle, and more than 4 million Soviet troops are fighting to the death with a disparity in strength, from the outer Khingan Mountains to the plains between the Burea Mountains and the Kukan Mountains, not killed by Zhukov, is already the favor of Amaterasu!

Every day, I heard the deafening roar of gunfire, the nose was filled with the choking smell of gunpowder smoke earl, the strong smell of blood, and what I saw was the bloody corpses everywhere, the stumps and broken arms, distinguished from the color of the uniforms, there were Soviet soldiers, but more of them were soldiers of the Great Japanese Empire, and General Minamijiro was numb to it, just as he was indifferent to the casualty figures reported by various divisions every day.

Desperately fighting and fighting with first-class blood by the Soviet army for more than a month, more than 1.8 million Kwantung Army troops were beaten to less than 800,000 people.

In fact, the entire Kwantung Army troops, also with a breath, are struggling to support, although the Kwantung Army's losses, more than two-thirds, but Minamijiro's heart, by no means discouraged or discouraged, he has his own pride, in the case of more than 4 million Soviet troops surrounded on all sides, reinforcements are far away, there is that the general of the Japanese Empire, can not be completely annihilated by the Soviet army, can he do it now, retain the vitality of the Kwantung Army?

General Minamijiro is confident that he will not be able to do this if he is any general of the empire, and he may have been eaten by the Soviets as early as ten days ago, blocking the only passage for the Kwantung Army to retreat into Manchuria, and the sudden withdrawal of hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops in Birobidzhan and Khabarovsk undoubtedly opened a passage of life for the Kwantung Army that was on the verge of despair.

However, an order from the General Staff of the base camp made the Kwantung Army, which was covered with bruises, breathe a sigh of relief, and turned into a cold heart, but the military order could not be violated, so he had to turn around, and he had to rely on the weakness of excessive blood loss, and with a little bit of fierceness, he was entangled with the Soviet Far Eastern Front.

However, the situation of the Kwantung Army was much better than in the previous days, the blockade of the main route into Manchuria, the Soviet troops in Birobidzhan and Khabarovsk had been withdrawn, supplies, guns, and ammunition from Manchuria were continuously delivered to the Kwantung Army troops, and more than 100,000 troops of the three divisions composed of local garrison units were also enriched into the troops.

However, Prince Jae-in, Chief of the General Staff of the Base Camp and Commander-in-Chief of the Far Eastern Campaign, came with another order, and this order was so unexpected, to devote all his forces and launch an offensive on all fronts, so that the Kwantung Army troops in the current situation could fight desperately with the Soviet Far Eastern Front!

In the tent, the faces of more than a dozen senior generals of the Kwantung Army were undisguised with anger, and there was an inexplicable flame of grief and indignation in their eyes, all of them were generals who led troops to fight, and they did not know the meaning of Prince Zaihito's order, so that the Kwantung Army, which was exhausted with less than 800,000 troops, took the initiative to attack the Soviet Far Eastern Front, which had not suffered too many losses, and no one doubted that the Kwantung Army troops would be exhausted in this offensive with disparity in strength and unequal strength!

"Borrow a knife to kill! - Prince Jaehito wants to take Zhukov's hand and destroy the Kwantung Army! The generals of the Kwantung Army suddenly had such a thought in their hearts, and the reason couldn't be more obvious, the Kwantung Army belonged to the direct line of the Minister of War, General Koichi Yonechi, while Prince Zaihito was the head of another department, and the open and secret struggle between the two factions, even the generals of the Kwantung Army, who had been fighting overseas, knew it.

The anger in the hearts of the generals of the Kwantung Army was completely burned, betrayed, despicable betrayal! A major general of the Kwantung Army, who was in his forties, stepped out of the queue and shouted in a hoarse voice: "Your Excellency the Commander-in-Chief...... the following words, but he could no longer say them.

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