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Chapter 793: Imperial Meeting (3)

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    "Then what are your army's countermeasures?" The emperor's voice sounded from behind the gauze curtain.

    Itagaki Seishiro's eyes suddenly lit up and he said hurriedly: "Your Majesty, in fact, after the Zhang Gufeng incident last year, our army was considering whether Xiong Russia would directly intervene in the war between China and Japan. Therefore, Ishihara Wan of the Staff Headquarters  Your Excellency then formulated a corresponding counterattack plan!"

    "Keep talking!" the emperor said.

    "First, the Kwantung Army crossed the Dongning, Suifen River, and Wusuli River lines from the eastern front to defeat the Soviet army and occupied the shores of Xingkai Lake and the Shuangchengzi area. Then it defeated the Soviet army from the Buleya River and Jieya River areas in the north.  The Soviet army occupied Hailanpao and its surrounding areas."

    Then Itagaki Seishiro continued: "The other branch of the Kwantung Army attacked from the west of the Daxingan Mountains and occupied the vicinity of Chita. The troops used by the imperial army to implement this plan, in addition to the Kwantung Army, the North China Front Army was the left wing of the operation; Central China sent  The army contracted the battlefield, leaving only three divisions to control the Shanghai area, and the rest of the troops were transferred to the northeast to participate in the battle against the Soviet Union."

    "However, this plan was re-optimized not long ago. Colonel Masazumi Inada, chief of the operations section of the headquarters, and staff members proposed the "Operation Plan No. 8" based on Kanji Ishihara's vision. There are three main phases of this plan. The first  In the early stage of the battle, the Kwantung Army adopted the deployment of "resistance in the east and advance in the west" and the tactics of "quick victory" from the northeast of our country. The infantry moved from the east of Manzhouli and along the Ergun River to Jilalin, and the armored troops and motorcycles  The chemical infantry moved from the west of Manzhouli to the Qiuba Mountain area to capture Chita in a roundabout way. At this time, the North China Front advanced northward in the Ujimqin area in eastern Inner Mongolia to provide support and cooperation."

    "In the second phase of the operation, the above-mentioned troops continued to attack northwest, defeated the main force of the Soviet army, and occupied the Ulan-Ude area east of Lake Baikal. The North China Front army entered from the north of Jining via the Second Company, and the other unit went north from Baotou.  Mongolia, advance towards Ulaanbaatar, and cooperate with the Kwantung Army to occupy the Transbaikal region of the Soviet Union and the Mongolian People's Republic."

    "The main purpose of fighting in the east is to create conditions for the westward advance to prevent Soviet troops from entering the northeast from the eastern region during the westward advance."

    "The countermeasures in the east are mainly as follows: in addition to the built border fortification areas in Dongning, Suifenhe, Mishan, Hutou, and Raohe on the first line; Hunchun, Chengzigou, Suiyang, and Muling on the second line  , Jixi, Xingkai, Longtou, Baoqing, and Fujin form a shallow and deep defensive line; and a third defensive position will be built near the east of the railway line along Tumen, Mudanjiang, Jiamusi, and Hegang."

    Everyone¡¯s brains are running at high speed following Itagaki Seishiro¡¯s words, but because the area involved is so large, many people don¡¯t even understand what this plan is like!

    "Itagaki, is your plan feasible?" Hiranuma Kiichiro said solemnly.

    "Of course there is. In fact, the Kwantung Army has already begun preparations for this, but the impact of adhering to the conditions has not been very effective!" Itagaki Seishiro said.

    "What if there is government support?"

    Itagaki Seishiro was stunned at first, and then said with a hint of excitement: "If there is support from the government, everything will be easier, and our No. 8 combat plan can be carried out smoothly!"

    Hiranuma Kiichiro nodded and fell into deep thought.

    As a high-ranking Prime Minister, Hiranuma Kiichiro looks a bit unworthy of the audience. He has a long donkey face, a wide forehead, protruding eyes, a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, a beard like sesame dots under his nose, and thick lips.  With a slender figure, he would look like an ugly, old bastard among the crowd.

    But everyone present, from the emperor down to ordinary high-ranking officials, did not dare to look down upon Hiranuma Kiichiro.  He is the general representative of the judicial bureaucracy of the imperial system. The authoritarian ideological theory and authoritarian judicial system he founded provided theoretical basis and institutional guarantee for the development of Japanese militarism.

    ¡° Moreover, during the 10 years that Hiranuma Kiichiro Hiranuma was in the judicial field, he successively held important positions such as the president of the Grand Court of Justice and the prosecutor general, and his ties with the political circles became closer and closer. At the same time, he focused on cultivating his personal power, contacting dignitaries, and currying favor with the military.

    In addition, the "Kunimotosha" he founded also has a great influence in the country, including Hara Yoshichichi, Suzuki Kisaburo, and Yamaoka Mannosuke in the judicial circle, Goto Fumio, the internal affairs bureaucrat, Kato Kanji and Suezue Nobumasa in the navy, and Araki Sadara in the army.  Husband, Masaki Jinzaburo, Koiso Kuniaki and others all gathered under his banner. Most of these people were the backbone members of Japan's war of aggression.

    In view of Hiranuma Kiichiro's huge influence, both the army and navy want to win over him. With his support, any action will be easier to carry out.

    "What's the current situation on the northern front?"Kiichiro asked in a deep voice.

    "It's not bad. The imperial army now has 8 powerful divisions in Manchuria. Although there is only one division in the Nomenkan area, it seems that the situation can be maintained for now, but it will be difficult to say if Xiong and Russia continue to increase their troops.  !¡±

    "Yo Xi, in principle, I don't want the situation to escalate. It would be best if it can be solved through diplomacy. But if it must be solved by war, then our government will fully cooperate. But should we fight or fight?  When we get back to the negotiating table, His Majesty the Emperor still needs to make a decision!" Hiranuma Kiichiro said.

    At this time, everyone¡¯s eyes were fixed on the curtain, and it was true that only His Majesty the Emperor could make a decision on the current situation.

    However, at this moment, Emperor Hirohito hesitated.

    To be honest, this war has been beyond the control of Emperor Hirohito until now.

    Originally, he thought that as long as Peiping and Shanghai were occupied, the Chinese government would surrender. By then, things would be like what they were in the 21st year of Guangxu's reign. Everything would return to the negotiating table, and the Imperial Japanese Army would put forward its demands. Both sides  Start a back-and-forth negotiation.

    Emperor Hirohito never thought about biting China to death. That would be unrealistic. He just wanted to tear off a piece of flesh and blood from this ancient and weak country.

    But the development of the matter was far beyond his expectation. The Chinese government was extremely stubborn and a little sensitive. It was just a partial delivery in Peiping. The Chinese government issued the Lushan Speech, and the war continued to expand. First, the Battle of Peking and Tianjin,  Then came the Battle of Songhu, the Battle of Taiyuan, the Battle of Xuzhou, and the Battle of Wuhan.

    When Nanjing was attacked, the frontline officers said that the Chinese government would surrender as long as Nanjing was captured. As a result, the Chinese government moved the command center to Wuhan.

    During the attack on Xuzhou, the officers on the front line also said that as long as hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops on the Xuzhou front line were annihilated, the Chinese government would definitely surrender.

    The results of it?

    They did occupy Xuzhou in the Battle of Xuzhou. However, in the Battle of Xuzhou, their political goals failed to be achieved, and the front line was expanded by thousands of miles. At present, the military strength was obviously insufficient, and the Chinese government had no intention of surrendering.

    So they fought the Battle of Wuhan again. Before the war, his generals still said the same thing. As long as Wuhan was captured, the Chinese government would inevitably collapse.

    The fact is that they captured Wuhan, but the Chinese government moved to Chongqing again and continued to direct the national troops to fight.

    However, his generals did not seem to see this. While going to war with China, they actually went to war with Xiong Russia and Mongolia at the same time. This made Emperor Hirohito feel relieved.

    Starting a war with Xiong Er is definitely a life-and-death decision!

    Not only the civil and military ministers who attended the meeting knew it, but Emperor Hirohito also understood that his decision would affect the fate of the empire.

    A weak China plunged the Japanese Empire into the quagmire of war and was unable to extricate itself. Going to war with the powerful Xiong Russia was definitely a crazy decision. The country that only Genghis Khan and his army had conquered was by no means that easy to defeat.  .

    This choice was too difficult. A sense of confusion and pain that "sees the end of the world" filled Emperor Hirohito's heart, leaving him speechless for a long time.

    "As for the military showdown, he is still very confident. After all, the Kwantung Army is invincible, and the Soviet army in the Far East is not strong.

    More importantly, the Imperial Japanese Army had a psychological advantage over the Soviet Army. This advantage originated from the Russo-Japanese War in 1905.

    As the victor of the war, the Japanese army has always looked down upon the Russian army, and by the way, the Soviet Red Army also despised it.

    Just like China after the Sino-Japanese War, Japan has since developed a ridiculous arrogance towards Russia, believing that Russia is barbaric and backward, and is no match for the Westernized "Imperial Japanese Army".

    But war is not the only factor. Once Xiong Russia refuses to surrender like China, the empire will be in trouble!  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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