Chapter 155: Belated Northward Advance

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In the base camp of the Japanese army, the always calm General Sugiyama was pacing back and forth with a piece of information, sometimes anxiously looking at the large map on the wall, sometimes puzzled by the content of the opponent's intelligence.

"General!" As a close confidant of Sugiyama Moto, Lieutenant General Ogisu Libing, who rushed to the scene after receiving the notice, already knew a little about the content of the information in Sugiyama Moto's hands. At this moment, he was looking at Sugiyama Yuan with an expression of wanting to speak.

In fact, there is no need for Ogishu Libing to speak, and Sugiyama Gen also knows what he wants to say. This information came too timely, as if it was specially tailored for the Japanese army.

"The Soviet Union is about to attack Poland on all fronts, and it will be difficult to mobilize new troops to the Far East in the short term!"

Such a letter of information is too important for Sugiyama Moto.

On the battlefield in China, the Japanese army's millions of troops worked to no avail, and many divisions and regiments this year were almost standing still, in sharp contrast to the rapid advance in the early days of the war. Everyone can see that it is almost impossible to defeat the Chinese army in a short period of time. Throughout the Chinese battlefield, the Japanese army's forces have become more and more scattered and tired.

Although within this month, the base camp has made a decision to send another 400,000 people from the mainland to the Chinese battlefield. But even with the addition of these 400,000 people, Sugiyama did not think that the Japanese army could quickly open up the situation and solve the war in China.

In stark contrast to the million-strong army that was mired in the quagmire of China, the Kwantung Army, which had 230,000 men in 11 divisions, remained in the garrison to waste its time and waste its troops. Although it is the established policy of the base camp to use this force to confront the Soviets, who seem to be more powerful, it is not a good way to hold an elite unit still.

No matter how elite the troops are, if they don't fight every five or eight years, can they still be elite troops? Without the tempering of war, no amount of training can make up for the rust that starts from the bones. It's not that training isn't useful, but actual combat is inevitable for a force that really wants to be called elite.

Besides, the style of the Japanese Army has never been to sit idly by. At the beginning, the 300,000 people of the Northeast Army had airplanes, tanks, and artillery, but they were not driven away by the 10,000 people of the Kwantung Army. Although it was a fluke, it was also a classic to win more with less.

Since then, however, Huaxia's resistance has become tougher and more unyielding. And the record of the Kwantung Army has always stayed in the first battle.

But now, the "northward expansion faction" supported by Sugiyama Mototo can't do it, and they desperately need a war to suppress the southward expansion strategy proposed by the group of guys in the navy, a war that is like a bamboo!

At the beginning, the secret anti-tank weapon obtained from Germany is still hidden and not used by the Beijin faction to this day. In order to give the unsuspecting Soviet Union a head-on blow in the future. And now, the war has been fought for so many years, and there are still secret weapons hidden, and the elite troops are not adjusted, which is simply occupying the pit and not - heaven is intolerable!

"What do you think of this information?" Sugiyama Moto, who had been thinking about it for a long time and didn't come up with anything, began to ask for the opinion of Major General Ogisu Tatsubing instead.

"General, first of all, I am not very optimistic about the source of this information. I heard that it was secretly sent by the German ambassador to Japan, Mr. Hans, right? Ogishu Libing said respectfully.

Sugiyama didn't speak, just nodded, acquiescing to Ogisu Libing's question just now.

"Well, the veracity of this information is quite questionable. Ever since we had waged a full-scale war against China, the Germans had almost cut off official ties with us. In recent years, Germany and Japan have stopped all exchanges. Isn't it too strange that the German ambassador to Japan suddenly took out a copy of the Soviet intelligence and sent it to us at this time? As a close confidant of Sugiyama Moto, Ogizhou Libing has no scruples when he speaks, and he is all blunt.

In fact, the sordid relations between Germany and Japan do not end there. At the beginning of the Battle of Songhu, the Japanese army found a large number of Chinese soldiers wearing German steel helmets and holding German weapons, which immediately questioned Germany.

At that time, Ribbentrop of the German Foreign Office replied, "Investigation, Germany will investigate this matter to the end, and it will definitely find out, please wait for the results of the Japanese side." ”

This is two years........

To this day, the German side has "but" not found a single result.

As a result, today, the German side, which has not been in contact for two years, suddenly sent such a piece of information urgently needed by the "northward advance faction" to the base camp, and the motive is inevitably somewhat suspicious.

"Yo Xi... Although relations between the Germans and us have been tepid in recent years, we are, after all, a treaty party that signed the "Anti-Soviet Agreement" together. In relations with the Soviet Union, our interests coincide. As a general, Sugiyama Mototo, of course, knows a lot of inside information, including the "Anti-Soviet Treaty" that Germany and Japan secretly signed 15 years ago.

Speaking of which, at that time, Sugiyama Moto, was also a good friend of Major General Kuko Umekawa, who went to Germany to sign a treaty.

It was a major general who made a deep impression on Sugiyama Moto. He was the first officer to find himself, who was still the head of the military section at the time, to talk about the importance of army aviation, and he was also recognized as the most promising young officer in the country at that time. Sugiyama believes that if he were still alive, his current achievements might be comparable to that of the German Führer!

The headquarters of the Japanese army, which was under the joint responsibility of the Minister of War and the Minister of the Navy, and was presided over by the Chief of Staff, the Deputy Chief of Staff, and the Chief of the Naval Command, was supposed to exist in the same way as the German High Command.

Unfortunately, Japan did not have a man who could command all the generals like Reinhardt, so this body, which was supposed to play a coordinating role, has now become a place where the army and navy are at odds.

And the major general, who was most likely to integrate this institution, was shot in the head by the current German Führer on the land of Germany, which he most wanted to unite!

Sugiyama still remembers that before his departure, Rear Admiral Umegawa threatened to bring back to the Empire the weapons and technology that would be most needed in the future, along with the world's most powerful allies. As a result, the weapons and technology were brought back, but the people remained there.

This major general, who has never participated in factional struggles, and is good at taking advantage of the contradictions between the northern and southern factions to reap the benefits of the fisherman. When he first set out for Germany, he was a neutral who did not interfere with both sides, but when the body was returned, he was rumored to be a staunch supporter of the "southward movement".

I heard that Hiroshi Oshima, who was accompanying Major General Umegawa at the time, had rumored that Major General Umegawa was murdered by the domestic northward expansion faction and Reinhardt.

This argument is quite popular in Japan, so how can we explain why the Germans, after killing Major General Umegawa, immediately sold them to the Kitajin faction to deal with the Soviet armored forces? must have been in contact for a long time, and he knew in advance what the Beijin faction wanted, and then casually killed Major General Mei Chuan for the Beijin faction.

Besides, Major General Umegawa had never been to Germany before, so he had no grievances with the Germans, and there was no reason for others to harm him. In this way, everything has become a big game of chess under the Beijin faction.

Fortunately, the Nanjin faction itself did not seem to know that Rear Admiral Umegawa was on their side, and the Germans also gave the Nanjin faction, that is, a part of the technical assistance to the Japanese Navy. The emperor quickly intervened to mediate, so the matter did not make a big deal in the end.

However, there was also an impact, because Major General Umegawa killed Inuyang Yi, the first in history to propose to send troops to Nomenkan, so the Battle of Nomenkan, which was supposed to break out in May 1939, was not started until September. Reading, a better reading experience.