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Chapter 1,546: Overthrow of the Cabinet (5)

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    Regarding the situation on the Chinese battlefield, Tojo is still very clear, because after the Japanese First Deputy Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Harumiya Jun and the Chief of Operations Major General Sanada Joichiro inspected the southern battlefield in the Philippines on May 31, when they returned to China and passed through Shanghai, they met  Lieutenant General Matsui Tairo, Chief of General Staff of China's Expeditionary Forces, and Major General Nobuhide Hashimoto of the 5th Air Force met.

    During this meeting, Lieutenant General Matsui reported to Harem Jun and others on the situation on the Chinese battlefield.

    Afterwards, Tojo sent the second deputy chief of staff, Qin Yanzaburo, to the battlefield in China's Kansai area to inspect and study combat-related matters.

    On June 4, Colonel Sasaka Arunemura, Lieutenant Colonel Kondo Den8, Iwakoshi Senroku, and Major Hideo Ohno, who accompanied Qin Yanzaburo to China, arrived at the 11th Army Headquarters of Yokoyama Isamu in Puqi County, Hubei Province on June 5  .

    Hengshan reported to Qin on the current combat situation and issues, and believed that based on the current combat strength and combat situation, the planned Hunan and Guangxi combat missions could be completed, but he also put forward many opinions and suggestions that needed improvement.

    Yokoyama Isamu believes that the current logistics work of the Imperial Japanese Army needs to be strengthened, otherwise it will not be able to carry out long-term operations in an area of ??hundreds of thousands of square kilometers.

    In addition, in order to unify the command of operations in South China, a front-level command organization should be established, and the results of operations in Hunan and Guangxi should be used to launch an attack on Chongqing.

    After that, Qin Yanzaburo immediately went to the North China battlefield to inspect, and went to the Chinese Expeditionary Forces Forward Command Post in Hankou to convey Tojo's request to attack Xi'an to destroy the Chinese Air Force Base.

    On June 14, Qin Yanzaburo returned to Japan and made a detailed report to Tojo based on the inspection situation.

    According to Qin Yanzaburo's inspection, the Japanese army currently has an absolute advantage in the battles in Hunan and Guangxi, and they are confident that they can complete the scheduled combat missions. The problem is future supplies.

    In addition, the key issue now is the air force. The air power of China and Japan has been outnumbered by three to one, sometimes reaching four to one.

    The U.S. air power in China is not as strong as that in Myanmar, and its main weakness is the lack of air transportation and supply. At present, bombs over 250 kilograms have not been used on the battlefield, and aviation fuel is not very sufficient. Therefore, in Hengyang and Guilin  During the climax of the operation, the strength of the 5th Air Force must be concentrated.

    And China has decided to switch to Yunnan¡¯s expeditionary force, which will start moving from June to July and can reach Guilin as early as early July.  The main force needs to arrive on the battlefield from August to mid-September or even later.

    The Chinese dispatched troops and the North China Front have considered the Xi'an operation and plan to carry it out against all odds in order to destroy the Chinese air force base in the area.  But it can be seen that the B-29s of the US military will definitely come to bomb Manchuria, Kyushu and other places.

    ¡°In addition, Qin Yanzaburo also said that the security in the rear area occupied by the Imperial Japanese Army is currently good, but it will definitely deteriorate in the future.

    ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????OUT out of stock of military supplies in China, but when the Hunan-Guangxi battle, especially the decisive battle, the base camp must consider supplementing it.

    After Qin Yanzaburo inspected and reported on the Hunan and North China battlefields, the Chief of Operations, Major General Joichiro Sanada, and others, based on the fact that all Japanese troops were killed in Saipan on July 7 and the Mariana Islands were all captured by the US military, believed that the order  The remaining sea routes will be completely blocked by the US military.

    Therefore, the battle to open up the mainland transportation line through China needs to be completed with all efforts. Only in this way can we maintain the future land military transportation line through Vietnam and Thailand to Malaya and Singapore.

    Overall, the situation on the Chinese battlefield is still very good, especially after the 34th Division and the 58th Division captured Changsha. The Imperial Japanese Army has formed a strategic suppression of the Japanese Army in Central China. If it can  Concentrating forces to open up the mainland's communication lines will definitely defeat the Chinese government within one to two years and force it to surrender across the board.

    But there is still a hard nut facing the Imperial Japanese Army, and that is the important town of Hengyang.

    At present, Hengyang is one of the three central cities in China during the war, along with Chongqing and Kunming. Its tax revenue ranks second in the country, and it is known as "Little Nanjing" and "Little Shanghai".

    And Hengyang is located at the intersection of the Guangdong-Hankong Railway and the Hunan-Guangxi-Guizhou Railway. It is the gateway and military throat of southwest China.  Because of its important strategic position, the Imperial Japanese Army must capture this place if they want to open up communication lines with the mainland.

    ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Before and after the fall of Liuyang, Changsha and Ningxiang in Liuyang, Changsha and Ningxiang, the Hengshan Yongcheng Kuomintang¡¯s 9th Theater was temporarily in chaos and had not yet completed the new defense system. It has issued an order to the 11th Army to quickly advance forward to capture Hengyang.

    "But Tojo felt that Yokoyama Isamu's order was still too vague and not enough to reflect the determination of the Imperial Japanese Army.

    On June 20, Hideki Tojo went to the front line in the name of Prime Minister LuThe troops issued a combat order to occupy Hengyang, limiting the time for launching the attack to three days.

    At the same time, Tojo Hideki required the frontline troops not only to capture Hengyang, but also to encircle and annihilate the newly arrived reinforcements of the Kuomintang army and the main forces of the 27th and 30th Group Armies gathered in the Liling area south of Liuyang.

    With Tojo¡¯s order, the situation on the front line became tense again.

    While Tojo was busy saving himself, the Japanese ministers in Tokyo did not want to give Tojo this opportunity, so they accelerated the overthrow of the cabinet.

    At present, most of the important ministers unanimously believe that in order to solve the current situation, the only positive way is to drive Tojo out of office.  Especially after the situation in Mariana deteriorated, the action became concrete.

    In order to overthrow the cabinet, we must stop Prime Minister Tojo's plan to reorganize the cabinet.

    ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? away from the invitation to the cabinet and to cooperate with the cabinet members who seem dissatisfied with Prime Minister Tojo is enough.

    In order to prevent Prime Minister Tojo's plan to strengthen the cabinet, seven important ministers agreed to gather at Hiranuma's house for consultation.

    Except for General Abe, everyone agrees that reshuffling the cabinet at this time will not be helpful to the current situation with a difficult future.  It was necessary to build a strong and unified cabinet that could control the hearts of the nation and solve the current situation. Based on this opinion, we contacted the Kido Inner Prefecture with the intention of reporting this opinion of the important ministers to the Emperor through the Kido Inner Prefecture.

    The words and deeds of the Kido Imperial Household who serve the Emperor directly and indirectly have a great influence on His Majesty's thoughts.

    The Kido Uchifu was originally Tojo¡¯s recommender, so he supported Prime Minister Tojo for a relatively long time.  The attitude of the Imperial Household towards important ministers is also to prevent them from directly reporting their opinions to the Emperor individually, and to hope that they will report their opinions to the Emperor through the Imperial Household.  Therefore, among the important ministers, headed by the Imperial Guard, there were some who did not have a good impression of the inner government.

    The Kido Household Government was fully aware of the atmosphere in which the ministers wanted to overthrow the Tojo cabinet, but he himself never took an active role and always insisted on a third-party position.

    On the other hand, Kido Naifu's thoughts on the future of the war are the same as those of most of the important ministers, and they hope to end the war as soon as possible.

    Based on this idea, the Imperial Household Office contacted the ministers and leaders from all walks of life. Especially after Shigemitsu became the foreign minister, he was strongly inclined to desire peace, so he must share the idea of ????the ministers wanting to overthrow the Tojo cabinet.

    In this atmosphere, when the cabinet discussed with Prime Minister Tojo how to reverse the situation, they put forward three conditions.

    Faced with the menacing moves by the aggressive ministers to overthrow the cabinet, Prime Minister Tojo could only accept the three conditions proposed by the Kido Household Government.

    Although Tojo also believes that it is indeed difficult to implement the conditions proposed by the Kido Household Government under the current situation, he is still determined to implement them faithfully.

    Tojo firmly believes that the current difficult situation, such as changing the political situation, can only benefit the enemy and must be avoided at all costs, so he would rather give up the post of chief of staff.

    But the problem is to replace Shimada Kaixiang, which really makes Tojo feel a bit difficult.

    This request mainly came from the two generals Okada and Yoneuchi. The main reason why they wanted to remove Marine Minister Shimada was that Shimada was too close to the army, and the navy failed to achieve strategic success under Shimada's leadership.  Breakthroughs were met with defeats, which aroused dissatisfaction among these people.

    But it was difficult for Prime Minister Tojo to say this to his colleague who had shared weal and woe since the war began, and who had always focused on the overall situation and sometimes exercised restraint on the opinions within the Navy Ministry.

    After much hesitation and consideration, Tojo decided to aggrieve his colleague, and General Shimada also gave Tojo a lot of face. Considering the overall situation, he happily obeyed the order and recommended General Nomura Naokuni, the chief of Wu Zhenfu, to succeed the Prime Minister.

    Tojo has completed two of the three conditions proposed by the Kido Inner Government, but the last condition has become a big problem, which ultimately led to the collapse of Tojo's cabinet.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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