War has made every decision-maker anxious. Because you never know when your opponent will be as shrewd as Zhuge Kongming, and you don't know when they will be so stupid that they don't even tell the truth. So Accardo was wiping his ass under his men, Stalin was so anxious that he couldn't sleep, and Hideki Tojo and others in the Japanese base camp were also busy to the point of collapse.

"Do the Americans really have so many supplies and give them to the Soviets for free?" A Japanese general disdainfully tapped the document in front of him and lashed out at Hideki Tojo's policy of going north for the second time: "I think the source of this information in your hands is very unreliable, and it is completely made up by yourself!"

On the other side, other generals are also talking to each other, after all, for a country that is already a little at the end of its rope, there is no fundamental difference between adjusting its strategic offensive direction again and committing suicide. It was not that they felt that the Soviet side could not be defeated, but that it took too long to prepare for adjusting the direction of the strategic offensive, and the variables were too great.

Ever since the end of the "Nomenkan Incident," the Japanese side, especially the army side, has long since given up its desire to go north, so it has gathered its troops and won a series of brilliant victories in the south. This was praised by many army generals as an "unprecedentedly great strategy", and now they want to give up the strategy of going south and continue to go north, which makes many people feel that their faces are being pumped hot.

It's not just that it's hard to get over face, in fact, many "technical stream" bureaucrats within the Japanese army feel that it is not a very wise thing to go north to provoke the Soviet Union: the outcome of the Nomenkan incident proves that there is a clear gap between the armored forces of the Japanese army and the armored forces of the Soviet army, and the two sides will clash again, and the Japanese army is likely to be defeated again.

"There is no doubt about the advanced nature of the main force of the armored forces in the hands of the USSR, that is, the T-26 tank, gentlemen. A general in charge of the armored weapons of the Imperial Japanese Empire said helplessly: "You need to be very cautious to challenge an opponent of this level. ”

However, in this regard, it is obvious that the Japanese army aviation is much more optimistic, because they did not suffer many big losses last time, so their mentality is much better than that of the troops on land: "It should be easy to defeat the Soviet air force in the Far East, but the key is how to achieve the occupation." ”

Putting aside these superficial problems, just the things that need to be adjusted secretly are already so numerous and terrifying: because of Japan's southward strategy, the overall deployment of material reserves is biased towards the south, and if there is a war in the north, then most of these materials need to be transferred to Northeast China, which is simply a fantasy for Japan.

You must know that even in Europe, where railways and highways are developed, it is a very huge project for the German army to deploy materials from south to north or from west to east, and the train dispatching and transportation safety, plus the secrecy work and the purpose of doing so, must be carefully studied.

In China, which is so backward that there are basically no railways and the road system is worse than that of the Soviet Union, it is not possible to complete the transfer of materials needed for the deployment of a huge strategic level troops.

It is an indisputable fact that most of the Japanese personnel relied on their legs, plus bicycles, mules and horses, and combined with automobiles and railways - their degree of mechanization was low, and the degree of dependence on materials was also small. However, the assault on a player of this level in the Soviet Union could not be solved by bayonet bikes alone.

Because of the strength of the opponent, the Japanese army must also prepare corresponding countermeasures, such as more advanced Type 97 medium tanks, large-caliber support artillery, and trains and cars necessary for rapid assault - these things are large consumers of materials, and for the Japanese army, they are all high-level equipment that swallows gold coins.

The 97 tank was a new tank developed by the Japanese army in 1936, and its performance was indeed not weak at that time (the No. 3 and No. 4 played by Accardo in advance were not in the scope of comparison), and compared to the Soviet T-26 tank, it was also full of bright spots. At that time, small tanks were popular, and it was indeed not a Japanese family that did this.

The key is the positioning of tanks in various countries, which directly affects the performance and intuitive performance of Japanese tanks. Here people are speechless and speechless in the definition of this medium-sized tank of the Japanese army, which completely makes the user feel that he has spent a lot of money but has not bought a good thing. It's like buying a Japanese Toyota Camry, gritting your teeth and saying that your C-class car is hard to compare with the BMW 750, it's not that the Camry is bad, the key is that it's really not the same level of things.

There are Japanese 97 tanks in the world's armies, such as the German Army's No. 3 assault gun, such as the Soviet Union's T-26, and the U.S. Army's M3lee, etc., but unfortunately there is no country in the world that calls this level of tank a medium tank.

In March 1939, the Germans were still using chassis 3 purely for economic reasons, and the No. 3 assault gun in production was also an armored vehicle to support the infantry, not an armored decisive weapon, the mainstay of the German armored forces was the Leopard tank, the American army was also doing the same work with the M4, and the Soviets were already playing T-34 and Stalin.

At this time, the Japanese still hugged the thigh of their 15-ton Type 97 tank, insisting that this was a medium tank, and also used it as the main tank, which is a typical behavior of chasing ducks to the shelves. In fact, the Type 97 that the Japanese army intends to use against the T-26 tank is nothing more than a little stronger than the old T-26 "old man".

This involves a philosophical issue, not that everyone insists on belittling the poor who ride an electric car, after all, many people can't afford to buy an electric car - but riding an electric car has to be more face-saving than the Ferrari sports car, then it's not that everyone hates the rich and maliciously splashes dirty water.

Of course, in fact, the Japanese Type 4 tank, which is about the same as the main German tank Leopard on paper, is still in the imagination of the tank designers, and as for the Type 1 tank, which is about the same level as the No. 3, it is still only something on the drawings, not even a model.

Although Japan was the only "power" in Asia at that time that was able to develop tank technology on its own together with the Western powers. But after all, the family background is limited, and the essence of Chafu cannot be changed, and the things he has made are indeed a certain gap with the real armored power.

In addition, Japan has always had a glorious tradition of "giving half of the soup to the navy", and when the army was desperately trying to produce a few more small tanks, the navy itself was still playing the more superior "AAV" (now called EFV) fireboats, so it is not surprising that there is such a tragic situation.

Since the Japanese Army has a history of studying aircraft carriers, please stop making a fuss about the fact that the Japanese Navy is developing and equipping amphibious tanks on its own. Marshal Yamamoto Fifty-six is still trapped in a dilemma in the Solomon Islands, isn't it because of the army's strange insistence on fighting Imphal?

Just when everyone was talking, Tojo Hideki and Sugiyama Yuan exchanged glances with each other, Sugiyama Yuan coughed twice, and said: "Quiet! This time against the Soviet Union, we have the intention to calculate the other party's intentions, naturally we will have an advantage, the specific advantages, I and a few generals have analyzed it, let Tojo-kun talk about it for everyone." ”

Hideki Tojo picked up the document in front of him and said slowly: "First, our spy personnel are confirming the specific strength of the Soviet army in the Far East...... It is also analyzing how much material the United States provided to the Soviet Union. ”

"The Soviets did a better job of secrecy than we thought they would have done, and we explored some of the Soviets' supply bases where they were hoarding American supplies. There are indeed a lot of materials in the dough, and the specific quantity is being counted. A Japanese soldier in charge of intelligence humbly said to all the generals present: "What is certain is that there are a lot of supplies, and the amount is unimaginable. ”

The specific military strength of the Soviet army in the Far East cannot be verified, because before the start of the Soviet-German war, the Soviet army deployed in the Far East should have been around 1.5 million, a figure that the Japanese army could not afford to provoke in any case. Therefore, although the Japanese army has more than 60,000 soldiers in the northeast, it is really frightened.

It is precisely because of this that after the Japanese army tested the combat effectiveness of the Soviet army in the Nomenkan incident, they did not mention anything about going north, and started to build a bunch of strong fortifications in the northeast of China -- anyway, the amount of work was not small, and the things that the tyrant Yingzheng did in the drama (digging graves and repairing the "defense line") in the drama were carried out in a different way and in a different place.

Isn't this a joke? The number of people is not as large as that of the Soviet Union, the equipment is not as good as that of the Soviet Union, and there is still a little bit of courage in squatting in the fortress, so isn't it asking for one's own death when you go out? This is the thinking of most of the Japanese officers and men at the grassroots level, which is very simple and closely related to the lives of the big guys.

Therefore, when the adjutant of military intelligence began to report on the military forces in the border areas of the Soviet Union, many of the generals present felt a sense of relief. Because the intelligence on the Japanese side showed that although the Soviet army reduced the garrison force in the border area, it still maintained a huge strength advantage over the Japanese Kwantung Army.

The number of confirmed Soviet troops withdrawn exceeded 700,000 men, which was about half of the total strength of the Soviet army in the Far East. Even so, the Soviet army is conservatively estimated to be about one million, which is still not something that can be shaken by a mere 600,000 Japanese troops.

At least the existing forces and intelligence do not support Japan's launching of a war of northern expansion in the Far East, and this is the consensus of all the Japanese generals present here.

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