There are really too many things that have embarrassed him. After Tojo said this, he closed his mouth, and he also knew that this was all his unilateral speculation, and it could not withstand actual scrutiny at all. Therefore, he was afraid that His Majesty the Emperor in front of him would ask something again, so that he would not be able to answer.

The situation in China's theater of operations is better, because because of the influence of national strength, it is obviously unrealistic to expect China to launch a strategic counterattack against Japan on the battlefield. The rugged mountainous and jungle terrain of Southeast Asia, as well as the poor logistical supply, also made it difficult for the Allies to launch a large-scale counterattack against Japan there.

Then the remaining direction is where Japan needs to strengthen its defenses as much as possible. The battle for islands in the Pacific Ocean has already been struggling to support Japan, and now it is nothing more than continuing to support it. What really worries the Japanese top brass is precisely the issue of the Far Eastern Theater, which has recently emerged, and if this problem is not done well, it is the biggest problem that will ultimately kill Japan.

Stretching out his palm, he stroked his forehead, the Japanese emperor is not an idiot. At that time, he himself also wanted to expand the territory and make a contribution to the community, but he listened to the one-sided words of the military, and found that making a fortune by relying on war and gambling was not as good as he imagined. Winning the First Sino-Japanese Naval War and winning the Russo-Japanese War does not mean that he can continue to win like this - at least for now, Japan has no hope of winning.

"Tojo-kun...... I will issue an edict to admit my mistakes to all the people, and then ask all the people of the Japanese Empire to endure for the last time for the Empire, and to contribute another 1.5 million men to the front line for the last holy war!" After saying that, he covered his face with his hands to prevent others from seeing his expression at this moment.

Hideki Tojo, who was sitting next to him, still felt the depression and loneliness of the emperor, who had witnessed Japan's defeat again and again since the beginning of the war. Now they have to carry the black cauldron of the base camp, and the next edict will send more than 1 million civilians to the front line......

He stood up, stooped and bowed, and one by his side, one after another, the Japanese generals stood up and bowed to show their determination. This is the last chance for all of them, and if they can't fulfill their promises, what awaits them is the real end of the world.

"Tojo-kun...... Are you really sure that you will hold the line in the northeast?" After walking out of the conference room, a Japanese general caught up with Hideki Tojo and asked, "I've heard that the Germans are very powerful tanks, and even the Soviets' T-36 and T-34 are no match for them. ”

"What else can I do? His Majesty the Emperor looked at me with pleading eyes, but I had to be ruthless and say to him, 'We have been defeated in battle, and we can only surrender?'" Hideki Tojo stopped his steps, looked at his men, and said fiercely: "No! I would rather die on the battlefield in the Far East! than see His Majesty's sad eyes again!"

"But, Tojo-kun, what are we going to do to fight the Americans and the Germans in this situation?" The army general was obviously a little overwhelmed by the current situation, he looked at Hideki Tojo and asked: "In the Far Eastern battlefield, we need to guard against German tanks and artillery, and we need a lot of anti-aircraft weapons and anti-tank guns...... In the Pacific theater, we are also in dire need of these weapons......"

He was a traditional soldier who was reluctant to study politics and other things, and from a purely military point of view, Japan was missing too much at the moment, which made him worry that the Japanese army would lose victory on the battlefield in the future: "At the very least, we should make some preparations to prevent our soldiers from dying in vain." ”

"Death for nothing? No, death is inevitable, but as samurai of the Great Japanese Empire, they have an obligation to be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor! Their deaths are all valuable, as long as they can stop the Germans for a few months, the stalemate will give us an advantage in the negotiations......" Hideki Tojo looked into the other party's eyes and said word by word.

The other party did not continue to say anything, because he had a lot of questions to ask, but the army general was already able to ask him from Hideki Tojo, and he could not ask any useful answers. He wondered if even if they were able to hold back the Germans in the Far East, would Yamamoto Isoroku be able to withstand the pressure of the Americans in the Pacific, and he wondered how even if they mobilized more soldiers, how those soldiers would use rifles against the German tanks and artillery.

They were overwhelmed by Soviet firepower in the Nomenkan area, and the Soviets were clearly disgraced by the Germans on the Soviet-German battlefield - just such a conjecture could not help but consider the superiority of the Germans in weapons.

Just as the results were discussed at the Japanese base camp and the troops were ready to be conscripted again to carry on the war, on the front line of Vladivostok in the Far East, the Japanese soldiers were in their trenches, feeling in horror a terrifying experience that they had never seen before. These battle-hardened main forces of the Japanese Kwantung Army suddenly found themselves overhead, with more enemy planes that they had never seen before.

The planes let out a terrible howl as they dived, traumatizing the Japanese soldiers, who had no anti-aircraft weapons in the trenches. These planes would dive very close to their targets, and then smash the bombs on the heads of the Japanese soldiers with precision, although the number of such planes was not large, but their accurate bomb delivery did make the Japanese soldiers despair.

"Your Excellency, my troops are bravely holding their positions......! But these planes bombed so accurately that they destroyed our main defensive positions, and the Soviet troops on the opposite side took the opportunity to attack......" Holding the phone, the commander of the Japanese front felt that his lips were dry, and his troops suffered heavy losses, but they could not even exert one-tenth of their strength in peacetime.

His soldiers, who had never seen such terrible air support, had been screaming and calling the enemy planes hovering in the sky devils. Obviously, those planes are not devils, but attack aircraft with a very successful design: "General Ishihara, please give the order to take off fighters to intercept it, if this continues, we really can't hold our positions." ”

In fact, the Japanese troops in the Far East fought in a somewhat similar way to the German blitzkrieg, and the Japanese army was not able to overwhelm the heavy artillery of the Soviet Far Eastern Army, so they also relied on their own air power to complete part of the task of suppressing ground artillery. However, when they lost their air supremacy, they found that their firepower shortcomings were infinitely expanded by the enemy.

Just like the Battle of Nomenkan, which could not win full air supremacy, the shortcomings of the Japanese army in the quantity and quality of heavy artillery made their battle fall to the brink of collapse. The troops of the Far Eastern Republic, replenished by the shells produced at the Chelyabinsk industrial base, immediately showed their strong suppressive power, and the superiority in the performance of the 122-mm howitzer immediately made the Japanese suffer enough.

The Japanese front-line troops, under the psychological devastation of the Stuka 2 attack aircraft and the suppression of Soviet heavy artillery, quickly abandoned part of the defensive positions, and Ishihara sent telegrams back to the base camp several times a day, hoping to get reinforcements as soon as possible so that he could maintain the current defensive line.

However, these telegrams did not receive a reply, and there were many reinforcements from China, but most of these reinforcements were only light weapons, and they did not play a role in a battle of this magnitude. Ishihara could only take it upon himself to dismantle these troops and use them as supplementary troops to supplement the troops on the front line who were really capable of fighting.

However, this method did not at all relieve the enormous pressure on the front-line troops, and after some tank units and heavy artillery units suffered heavy losses and could not be sustained, Ishihara's troops finally began to rout in some areas.

"The battle must go on! Before losing the position, the soldiers are allowed to break into pieces!" Ishihara can only give all kinds of orders to hold the position: "The aviation unit cannot take off to fight! Your request is not allowed...... If you lose your position, you should commit suicide and apologize to His Majesty the Emperor. ”

The Japanese general held the phone and bowed his head and promised: "I will hold on here, and if the position is lost, I will apologize here! General, please rest assured! However, the artillery fire of the Soviet army and those planes that may be Germans hope that the general can prepare as soon as possible." ”

"I'm not in a much better position than you! Applications for all kinds of weapons submitted to the rear have been rejected...... Anti-tank guns, anti-aircraft guns, tanks, anti-tank mines, all the weapons I can think of are underproduced, and the only thing that can be replenished to me is infantry with rifles. Ishihara said a little depressed on the other side of the phone.

The general on the other side of the phone was silent for a while, and then said with a wry smile: "Since it is destined not to be able to fight for a long time, then goodbye Biliangpo! I hope General Ishihara will take care!" After he finished speaking, he hung up his phone, and then looked at the friendly positions outside his headquarters that had been covered by artillery fire. Wisps of black smoke rose up, and the wailing voices of the Japanese soldiers covered in blood were muffled by the sound of artillery fire from time to time.

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