"Then, let's do it!" Stalin looked at Zhukov, lit the pipe in his hand, and then smiled and said: "I support you! I support you in the name of the leader of the Soviet Union, go and repel the invaders! Comrade Zhukov!"

"Hum!" The huge conference room was boiling all at once, and everyone was talking about it, I don't know why, what was the reason why Stalin would give such a firm order to go south, and in a few days, the supreme leader of the Soviet Union had the idea that he had to go south for a decisive battle?

In fact, it is very simple, because of a military intelligence from the Far East, this information is still absolutely secret, because once this secret is made public, then many wall-riding factions within the Soviet Union will be shaken. Because this information was very simple, the Japanese army mobilized 100,000 elite troops in North China, Shandong and other regions, and began to secretly move north along the railway line and highway line.

It is said that it was secretly going north, but the actions of the Japanese army will inevitably be discovered by some people with good intentions, after all, the 100,000 troops will be adjusted and reorganized and marching towards special environmental areas, and the movement can be said to be as big as it must be -- at that time, there were not many railways and highways in China, and there were no conditions to hide at all.

In order to maintain law and order in the area, the Japanese army also forcibly expanded part of the puppet army in the Chinese occupation area, and recruited many local teenagers and middle-aged people who were not of the same age to serve in these areas where troops were transferred, so as to ensure the absolute security of the occupied area. These troops were so much worse than the ones that were removed, and all of a sudden they gave the Japanese immigrants in these areas a sense of decline.

Before the start of World War II, Germany barely managed to scrape together a population of 100 million, including the Germanic remnants in the surrounding areas and some forces in the pro-German areas, and integrated the industrial resources of the occupied areas, and the final armed troops were still stretched thin in number.

Japan's industrial base is not as good as Germany's, and its population is not as large as Germany's -- but I think that Japan's strategy is really too bad, so Japan's front is longer than Germany's. This has made Japan's lack of troops more prominent and deadly.

It is still compared to Germany, although the German forces are not very large compared to the size of the occupied territories. However, most of the German army has a high military quality, and the proportion of armored forces and mechanization ranks first in the world, which allows the German army to make up for at least part of the quantitative deficiency in terms of quality.

However, Japan's idea of expanding its military is almost the same as that of Hitler's Nazi Germany in another time and space. It's a bit too child's to train a recruit for a few days, and then give him a rifle and use it as a non-soldier.

An infantry division is not a combat unit composed of infantry alone, in order to have the ability to fight against most of the enemy's forces, an infantry division often needs to be integrated into an artillery unit to provide fire support, and an anti-tank artillery unit to provide anti-armor capabilities, so an infantry division is not actually a "pure" infantry division.

And now, in order to support the production of the navy, Japan has reduced almost all the production capacity that can be reduced. There are very few luxuries such as cannons, and they are basically supplied to the first-class and second-class divisions, and the divisions and regiments established later basically do not have any decent artillery.

105 mm caliber heavy guns (refer to the Japanese definition of heavy tanks, don't make a fuss) did not have them, so they had to be replaced by 75 mm field guns, and 75 mm field guns were not produced enough, so they were replaced with 60 mm mortars...... In the end, the replacement became grenadiers, grenades.

The original number of Class A divisions was more than 28,000 people, which was almost several times that of a Chinese division. As a result, the B-level division formed during the expansion of the army was a bit sad, and the number of people attenuated to 24,000, but there was still a skeleton. By now, Japan's C-level and D-class divisions numbered 13,000 or even 11,000 at every turn, and in April 1939, Japan's divisions and regiments were finally born freaks with the same number as China's division-level troops.

Later, some of the units formed by the Japanese army, in fact, to put it bluntly, according to the standards of the German Wehrmacht, they could only be regarded as infantry regiments with a large number of people at most, and it was really reluctant to call them divisions. Of course, if you count the so-called armored forces of the Japanese army, the specifications of the Japanese troops make people in the industry even more desperate.

Counting Japan's armored forces, those so-called armored brigades, and even brigade wings, are estimated to be about the same combat effectiveness as a German armored battalion, which is still the result of simple conversion of combat power. If there is a real fight, it is estimated that the Japanese tanks will be completely wiped out by the German armored forces, and they will not be able to destroy a single German tank.

The Japanese Division A had exhausted the famous 7th Division (partially) in the Second Battle of Hawaii, and then the newly formed 23rd Division on Wake Island, and then at the end of the Battle of Imphal, the 15th Division was completely wiped out by the Chinese army.

Under these circumstances, the Japanese army brazenly transferred the elite 17th Division, two ordinary Class B Divisions, and five Class C Divisions to form a new army and prepare to attack the Soviet Union in the north -- plus the 1st Division, the 8th Division, the 9th Division, the 10th Division, the 11th Division, the 12th Division, the 14th Division, and the 23rd Division under the Kwantung Army, as well as the 24th, 25th, 28th, and 29th Divisions. The 57th Division's five B-class divisions and regiments gathered almost 600,000 offensive troops.

With such a large-scale transport of troops to the front line, as long as the Soviets are not blind, they can detect the slightest clue. For example, the general who now commands the only mobile army group of Soviet troops stationed in the Far East is only 39-year-old Chuikov. Therefore, these Soviet generals immediately transmitted the crisis of the Japanese army's increase in northeastern China back to the Soviet Union, and urgently mobilized 100,000 recruits in the Far East.

Coupled with the fact that the Soviets had maintained more than 1 million troops in the Far East (and these units were not very combat-ready), the Soviets expanded their forces in the Far East to 1.1 million at any cost.

"Baga! 100,000 troops are hurrying on the North China Plain, and their walk is dusty...... If the enemy is not blind, he knows that we are sending more troops to Manchuria. "Hideki Tojo was furious in the conference room when he heard that his troops were still rushing in the old way more than ten years ago.

Sugiyama Mototo, sitting on the sofa, looked at his colleagues, and finally reluctantly explained: "Tojo-kun, our troops lack the ability to mechanize and move quickly, and can only rely on those incoherent and technologically backward railways and backward roads on the Chinese battlefield. ”

What he was embarrassed to say was that while the Germans had already figured out how to use railways and roads, trains, automobiles, and airplanes to transport troops and supplies, his troops were still relying on horses and livestock to transport them. The 17th Division is better, and those C-level divisions are basically relying on the "11th Road" to move.

"In this way, we don't have any chance of a so-called 'covert raid' at all!" Hideki Tojo frowned for a moment, and then looked at Sugiyama Moto: "Sugiyama-kun, the intelligence department has confirmed that the Soviet army is strengthening its forces in the Far East, which shows that our intentions have been discovered by the Soviets!"

"I've heard this news too, and I think that the battle in the northeast can't be ...... with the commander of Seishiro Itagaki" Sugiyama Mototo suddenly changed the topic, which made Tojo Hideki a little uncomfortable, but Sugiyama Moto's subsequent words made Tojo Hideki feel very reasonable: "General Yamashita Fumifumi has returned to the Pacific Theater, and General Itagaki Seishiro must stabilize the situation on the Shina battlefield - there are not many generals we can use in the northward expansion strategy." ”

It is not an easy task to deal with the battle-hardened Soviet Red Army, and if tens of thousands of Chinese troops are killed, it is estimated that an administrative general like Hideki Tojo can personally go into battle and command it. However, in the face of the Soviet army, which had added an infinite psychological shadow to the Japanese army, Hideki Tojo and Sugiyama Mototo, both felt that they were not sure of victory.

Naturally, everyone will grab the credit, but when they encounter such a dangerous thing, most people will still choose to seek good fortune and avoid evil. At least Hideki Tojo and Gen Sugiyama didn't think about directing this matter themselves, but were seriously considering the right person.

Suddenly, Hideki Tojo slapped his thigh and remembered such a person: Ishihara Waner! This Japanese general's command skills and strategic vision are not bad, at least he is second to none in the Japanese army, and he is said to be a bit of Rommel and Guderian's "imperial duo" along with Seishiro Itagaki. The two of them are known as "Ishihara no Chi" and "Itagaki no Guts" in Japanese military circles.

As soon as Sugiyama Yuan heard it, he knew that Hideki Tojo had a bad heart this time. Ishihara Waner has a conflict with Hideki Tojo, and at this time, he launched his own rivalry, which naturally became a great joy for everyone, and lost the rhythm of falling into the well.

But knowing that Hideki Tojo was unkind and preventing him from doing so were two different things. So Sugiyama wiped his sweat, nodded and agreed to Hideki Tojo's proposal, and found a good reason for Hideki Tojo: "Ishihara-kun has been to Germany and learned the command of advanced armored forces, and it is estimated that he can also understand and speculate on the military habits of the Soviets...... In this case, it is only fitting that he should be in command. ”――

Because of the error in the starting point update, I will put two changes for the time being today, I hope you understand, after the update is restored, the dragon spirit will continue to make up for the drop T-T