"According to German intelligence, 60 divisions were transferred to the Western Front, which is about 900,000 troops, which means that only 600,000 Soviet troops are in the Far East. The intelligence officer took the information intercepted from the German side and analyzed: "This information is an isolated evidence, so the credibility is not high. ”

As he spoke, he walked to the front of the map, pointed to several areas above with his whip, and introduced the situation separately: "The numbers of the Soviet troops we have found in these places are more than 50 divisions, so it is not correct to think that the main forces of the Soviet army in the Far East have been emptied. ”

"It is possible that the Soviets are exaggerating and deceiving the German army, so I think that the troops transferred should be 40 or 45 divisions, not the 60 divisions as shown in the German intelligence. The adjutant looked at the information in his hand, and finally said: "According to the intelligence, the current strength of the Soviet army in the Far East is about 900,000. ”

"Whoosh. Hideki Tojo nodded, then looked at Sugiyama Moto. In order to promote this plan to advance northward, they used a large number of spies to infiltrate the Soviet Union, of course, their subordinates did what they liked, and investigated a lot of corroboration evidence about the westward advance of the main force of the Soviet army.

But on the other hand, a firm belief is a firm conviction, but it cannot make up for the thick shadow in the hearts of the Japanese army. The last time they made trouble in the Nomenkan area, although the Japanese army could not be called a fiasco, it did not get any bargains. At least its strategy of going north was directly turned into a strategy of going south by the Soviet Union, which shows that it is still very jealous of the Soviet army in its heart.

In that battle, the Soviet army's 122 mm howitzer hit the pitiful 75 mm field gun in the hands of the Japanese army, and the Japanese troops even begged their own artillery not to return fire, so as not to provoke more fierce retaliation from the Soviet army. So much so that Pu Yi, the "Emperor Majesty" of the puppet Manchukuo, heard about it: the Soviets' artillery was so powerful that even the princes could not afford to provoke it.

As for those terrible Soviet tanks, the Japanese army had no way to deal with them, and the Japanese army had not had many armored units in Northeast China, and even after it was strengthened, the number of tanks that could be gathered was less than 600, which was about the same as the two armored divisions of the German army.

Combined, they were not as large as the total strength of a German Panzer Corps, and most of the 600 tanks were 95 hussar tanks and Type 89 medium tanks - even the Type 97 medium tanks, which were not eye-catching to the great powers, were pitiful. Trouble with the Soviets in this configuration is simply no different from suicide.

If this is not done well, the Soviet army deployed a T-34 armored battalion in the Far East, which is enough for the hundreds of Japanese cats and dogs to drink. It's not good that the Soviets can still play a tank trump card, and it is also the kind that destroys 100 tanks, and it sounds high-end and high-grade.

"This time, we avoided the Mongolian direction, used superior infantry, entered the mountain area to fight, did not compete with the Soviet armored forces for a while, and only aimed at capturing the Soviet supply base. Sugiyama stood up and motioned for the intelligence officer on the map to give him the whip, then he picked it up and pointed to the location on the map.

His whip was slashed on the side of northeastern China, and he said: "We will not start a decisive battle with the armored forces of the Soviet army in the direction of the wide Mongolian border, but attack directly from the area of the Great Khingan Mountains and the Lesser Khingan Mountains, and in areas where tanks are not suitable, attack with infantry!"

This Japan is very good at it, and the infantry of the Great Japanese Empire is the best in shooting and bayonet fighting, which is the conclusion reached after self-hypnosis within the army. If only the infantry side is contested, then all the army generals present here will think that their troops will not lose.

With a natural mountain barrier outside the Khingan Mountains, the Japanese infantry was not able to deal with the Soviet troops that had lost their superiority in armor? Excellent soldiers of the Imperial Japan could still do it if they fought two Soviet soldiers at a time, right? In short, if we exclude the absolute inferiority of the Japanese army in terms of armored forces, it seems that the war is not completely unwinnable.

The navy side can temporarily suppress the powerful US Navy with a sneak attack, so the army will definitely use the sneak attack to restrain the powerful Soviet army. As long as the Soviet Union loses about 100,000 to 200,000 troops in the border areas after a large-scale sneak attack, then this offensive operation can completely achieve the goal of snatching the strategic materials of the Soviet army.

As for holding the entire occupied area, this seems to be a little difficult for the Japanese army, but it is not difficult to cover the retreat of a large number of materials and return to their own defense line, as long as they return to the fortified northeast of China, then the Soviet army will not dare to counterattack even if it suffers losses.

As for what would happen if the Soviets really counterattacked, he didn't think about it at all -- just as the Japanese Navy didn't think about what would happen if the United States didn't surrender after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.

They believed that the Soviet army had a strong enemy, Germany, and would not erect a strong enemy Japan at all. Therefore, the Soviet Union will only swallow its anger and sue for peace with Japan, even at the expense of giving up some territories. Just as the Japanese Navy thought that the United States would surrender and give up some of its interests in Southeast Asia.

"Tojo-kun, Sugiyama-kun. With all due respect, we can no longer draw up half-baked strategic plans like this. A lieutenant general frowned and asked, "What should we do if the Soviets do not compromise and launch a counterattack?"

Yes, the Soviets should have begged for peace in humiliation, but if those old hairy men really showed off their brains and would not surrender even to death, and if they fought over, would Japan have the ability to hold the existing defensive line without collapsing? This question is not only unknown to Hideki Tojo, but also to Motomoto Sugiyama.

"Moreover, even if we solve the gap in the armored forces in the north, there is also the problem of artillery, our troops are accustomed to using small-caliber artillery that is easy to carry, which is determined by our transportation capacity, but the Soviet artillery has a longer range and greater power than our artillery, can we ignore this gap?" A general in charge of artillery also asked his own question helplessly.

Of course, there are many such problems, and further north in the northeast, many places are deserted areas, and these places are not much stronger than the tropical jungles of Burma.

Most of the Japanese generals present were not tempted by the beautiful pie sketched by Hideki Tojo and Motomo Sugiyama, and they kept their sanity. At this time, except for the frenzied Tojo and Sugiyama, everyone rationally thought that it would be extremely unwise to provoke a strong opponent.

After he couldn't get hold of China, he turned around and provoked the United States and used the United States to settle the war against China -- this is already very stupid, okay? Now that he can't defeat the United States, he has begun to attack the Soviet Union again, and he has used the Soviet Union to turn the Pacific theater upside down -- this mode of thinking is really against the sky.

"Adjourn the meeting! Adjo adjocate! This plan will continue to be perfected as a preparatory plan!" Hideki Tojo reluctantly gave up his plan to implement this plan at this stage, and he could only announce a temporary adjournment to alleviate the embarrassment of not being able to answer a single question.

Sugiyama Moto's side also let out a breath of turbidity, and he almost slapped the table just now to answer these questions with "The soldiers of the Great Japanese Empire have stronger faith, and His Majesty the Emperor protects us from defeat!"

This is a typical scoundrel: when you tell him about the gap in strength between the two sides, he tells you about the quality of the soldiers; when you tell him about the gap in weapons and equipment, he talks to you about the sacrifice spirit of the soldiers; when you tell him about the material reserves of both sides and the determination to fight, he starts to talk to you about the courage to challenge a strong enemy for the sake of the country.

The disadvantages in the Pacific theater and the defeat in the Southeast Asian War allowed the Japanese to finally find a little rationality, at least on the surface. Senior officers of the Army have temporarily dismissed some of their arrogant plans to invade the Soviet Union, and have begun to rebuke their old rivals, their naval colleagues, in response to the Navy's recent spate of retreats.

When the Japanese side rejected the offensive plan and began to discuss the accountability of the Japanese Navy after the adjournment, the Soviet command in the Far East also received a top-secret telegram: "In view of the increasingly unfavorable situation of the Soviet army on the Western Front, Stalin intends to secretly transfer another 10 divisions to the Moscow region to defend the absolute security of the capital." ”

"When are these troops moving?" asked a Soviet general with his hands behind his back.

"The order says, the sooner the better!" replied the Soviet staff officer, holding the telegram, bowing his head.

For the sake of the motherland, the Soviet army once again transferred 10 divisions of combat troops from the Far East and sent these young people to the bloodier "Western Front battlefield". Although the Soviet army has been expanded and still maintains more than 1 million troops in the Far East, its combat level has dropped considerably.

And this time, because the time was too tight and the means of confusion prepared were not enough, the news that the Soviet army had dispatched troops to their own western front was discovered by spies infiltrated by the Japanese side not long after.

"Kudo-kun! This is great news, at least seven Soviet standing divisions have disappeared from the border area! Our men have sneaked into the vicinity of their train station and found that their troops are being deployed on a large scale!" said a Japanese spy happily as he handed over the information in his hand to his superior.

"Yo Xi!" the intelligence officer named Kudo nodded excitedly and replied approvingly, "I will immediately send this information to His Excellency the Commander." ”――

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