"What? The Chinese army has already captured Shenyang?! Hideki Tojo couldn't help but be taken aback when he got this information. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

In fact, it wasn't just Hideki Tojo who was surprised, Ken Sato and Suiichiro Sanada, who were also in the conference room, were taken aback, and Suiichiro Sanada was still a little dazed and didn't know what to do, Kenki Sato jumped up from the chair as if he had been pricked by a needle, and muttered to himself with a pale face: "Bastard, they really attacked Manchukuo!" ”

"Bastard!" Then I heard Hideki Tojo's scolding:

"The enemy has captured Shenyang, why do you report it now?!"

"What? Captured Shenyang in just one day? How can it be?! What's going on with the Third Front? Will they just let the enemy attack? Get it back for me right away, if you can't get it back, you can apologize! ”

Saying that, Hideki Tojo angrily threw the phone on the landline.

Seeing Hideki Tojo walking around his desk with a murderous look, Eiichiro Sanada and Kenko Sato didn't dare to speak, for fear of arousing Hideki Tojo's anger again. It wasn't until Hideki Tojo walked briskly to the map that they hurriedly followed.

"Just received information!" Hideki Tojo angrily pointed to the map and said, "Yesterday morning...... The Chinese troops landed from Arthur and then took Shenyang at a speed of 30 kilometers per hour along the road and railway, and before our defenders could prepare for the defense, they had already taken Shenyang! ”

"Your Excellency the Prime Minister!" Sato Ken couldn't help but gasp: "Shenyang is not only an important industrial town in Manzhou, but also the location of a large number of factories and mines, and a transportation hub between Manzhou and Chinese mainland...... If Shenyang is lost, it means that the connection between Manchu and the hundreds of thousands of troops fighting in the interior will be cut off, and the logistics supply will also be cut off! This ......"

"What's going on with this Third Front?" Sanada Suiichiro said: "They have an army of 300,000 and a large number of puppet troops, how could they let the enemy capture such an important city in just one day!" ”

"Humph!" Hideki Tojo said to Suiichiro Sanada with a very ugly face: "Didn't you say it last time...... The goal of the Chinese army is Okinawa, is it impossible to attack the state of Manchuria? ”

"Your Excellency the Prime Minister!" Sanada Suiichiro explained embarrassedly: "I didn't expect the Third Front Army to be so columsy, and it only took one day to lose Shenyang!" ”

"Your Excellency, Minister!" Kenri Sato objected: "Although the Third Front Army has a large number of troops, the area they defend is the entire Manchurian State, and they are still tasked with providing supplies and transportation for the front line, it is not easy to ensure the safety of railways and highways, so don't be too embarrassed by Naokabe!" ”

"Sato, you ......" Sanada Suiichiro was snatched by Sato Xian, and he couldn't help but be annoyed and angry.

"Stop arguing!" Hideki Tojo impatiently interrupted the open and secret battle between the two: "The most important thing now is how to stabilize the situation in Manchuria!" ”

"Your Excellency the Prime Minister!" Sanada replied: "The Chinese army is advancing alone, and this can also be said to be an opportunity for us to transfer troops from all sides and strangle them in the encirclement!" ”

Hideki Tojo didn't speak, although this was also his first reaction, but he doesn't trust Sanada so much now, because last time he mistrusted Sanada Suiichiro because he didn't listen to Sato Ken's warning, so he has today's situation.

In fact, the greater responsibility lies with Hideki Tojo himself, but of course he doesn't think so.

After thinking about it, Hideki Tojo asked Ken Sato, who was also silent: "What do you think?" ”

"Your Excellency the Prime Minister!" Sato Kenji frowned and replied: "The Chinese army dares to advance alone like this, I am afraid that it has made full preparations in the morning, and I am afraid that it will ...... It's not so easy to get rid of them! ”

After a pause, Sato Ken continued: "But Shenyang is our seven inches, and we have to take it back......"

Hideki Tojo nodded, which was also his dilemma.

"I see ......" After thinking about it, Sato Ken could only say helplessly: "The only way to do it is to mobilize troops to surround it first, as His Excellency said!" ”

In fact, the best way should be to recapture Port Arthur from the sea, so that the Chinese army will immediately become a real lone army, a lone army with no supplies and no reinforcements.

The question is...... At this time, the Japanese Combined Fleet was being chased around by the American fleet in the Philippine waters, and it was simply unable to seize Port Arthur, so it could only make a fuss on land.

But Ken Sato knew that this might not be enough, so he needed to find another way.

On the other hand, Roosevelt's side was even later than Hideki Tojo to get the news that the Chinese army had taken Shenyang.

This was not because the U.S. military was ill-informed, but because Roosevelt's attention during this time was simply not on the Chinese army attacking Manchuria.

As mentioned before, under MacArthur's analysis, Roosevelt also believed that the Chinese army would not do much in Manchuria, but the Chinese army could fight out some of the Japanese army's vital forces and at the same time temporarily prevent the Japanese army from continuing to move its forces to the Japanese mainland, and Roosevelt fully supported it.

At the same time, Roosevelt made the old calculation again, that is, to negotiate with the Soviet Union again.

What distressed Roosevelt was ...... Stalin, for his part, never backed down and insisted that all conditions be met before sending troops.

According to Stalin's words, it is: "This is not a war for the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union even signed a peace treaty with Japan, and if the Soviet Union wants to send troops, of course, there must be interests, otherwise why would the Soviet Union put these troops into the battlefield?" ”

As a result, Roosevelt was once again confronted with the question that Zhang Chi said: should he want short-term interests or long-term interests?

Of the conditions put forward by the Soviet Union, it was acceptable for Mongolia to maintain the status quo, but to remove the four northern islands of Japan and Port Arthur...... That is clearly to enter the Atlantic and compete with the United States for interests.

While Roosevelt was in a dilemma, Ernest sent a telegram with an excited expression.

"Mr. President!" Ernest said, "I think you should check this out!" ”

Roosevelt took the phone casually, glanced at it absentmindedly, but quickly widened his eyes, and then he looked at Ernest with an expression of disbelief and asked, "Are you sure they have captured Shenyang?" It only took one day?! ”

"Yes!" Ernest replied, "Absolutely true! Halsey told me...... That Chinese colonel used the 'blitzkrieg' of fascist Germany! ”

"Blitzkrieg!" Roosevelt couldn't help laughing: "It's so wonderful, the tactics of the Germans were used on the Japanese, well done!" This Chinese colonel taught us a lesson with practical actions, all of us! (To be continued.) )