"Your Excellency the Prime Minister!" Kenri Sato hurriedly ran into Hideki Tojo's office, handed over a telegram with a bloodless report, and said, "The Kwantung Army...... The institute and the water purification plant are lost! ”

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"No, it's Unit 516 in Qiqihar and Unit 731 in Harbin!"

"What?" Hideki Tojo couldn't help but jump up from his chair.

He originally thought that Xinjing was already capable of blocking the momentum of the Chinese army's offensive, and just yesterday he sent a telegram commending Sasa Shinnosuke, but he did not expect that the situation of the battle would be reversed today.

"What's going on?" Hideki Tojo took the telegram and looked at it for a while, and asked suspiciously, "Is there a mistake in the information?" Aren't the Chinese troops in Xinjing? How could it suddenly occupy Qiqihar and Harbin? ”

"It's airborne, Prime Minister!" Kenri Sato replied: "The Chinese troops carried out parachute operations and raided these two places!" ”

"Parachute combat?!"

"Yes!"

Hideki Tojo was stunned for a while before he sat back on the chair and said weakly: "Bastard, we have all been deceived by the Chinese!" ”

Sato Kenki knew what Tojo Hideki meant, and the Chinese troops put on a posture of attacking Xinjing, making everyone think that they would attack Xinjing with all their might, but in the blink of an eye, the two most important strongholds of Manchukuo were pulled out...... This made Tojo Hideki feel like he was deceived, especially when he was deceived by the Chinese he looked down upon, which made him even more annoyed.

However, Sato Ken knew that this was actually underestimating the enemy's strength...... The Chinese army has never carried out airborne operations, so the Japanese generals, including Ken Sato, habitually estimate the expeditionary force on the basis that the Chinese army will not be airborne, and now Ken Sato knows that this is not the case.

But...... It's too late to say anything, 516 and 731 can be said to be the last trump card of Manchukuo, but this trump card was destroyed before it could be used.

"Where's Okabe?" Hideki Tojo asked.

"He was on his way to Harbin, and he was afraid that he didn't know about these situations at this time!"

Okabe Naosaburo was originally in Xinjing, and before the expeditionary force attacked Xinjing, Okabe took the imperial family of Manchukuo to Harbin...... After all, it was the royal family of Manchukuo, even if it was controlled by the Japanese army, it was still the imperial family, and if it was captured alive by the enemy, it would undoubtedly cause an unimaginable psychological blow to the entire Manchukuo.

However, as Kenri Sato said, because the Japanese army's communication basically relied on radio, Okabe Naosaburo's unit could not be contacted without turning on the phone during the march, so I really didn't know the situation at this time.

"What's going on with General Okamura?" Hideki Tojo asked again.

"Your Excellency Prime Minister......" Kenji Sato hesitated for a moment, then replied, "General Okamura...... Only two divisions were transferred back, he thinks...... The main forces should continue to attack south! ”

"Bastard!" Hideki Tojo scolded: "Doesn't he know the importance of Manchukuo?!" ”

Ken Sato didn't answer, he actually understood Ninji Okamura...... Manchukuo is important, but if it costs hundreds of thousands of troops, is it worth it? If there are no troops, then what is the use of keeping the important place of Manchukuo?!

"It's over!" Hideki Tojo sighed, at this time he was already in chaos, because the loss of Manchukuo meant that his plan to move to China to engage in a long war of attrition with the American army was stillborn.

"Your Excellency the Prime Minister!" Kenri Sato suggested, "Why don't you ...... Let's bring back the troops on the Manchurian-Mongolian border! ”

"Manchurian and Mongolian border ......" Hideki Tojo shook his head: "The Soviets are staring at us there!" ”

Hideki Tojo suddenly had a feeling of being embattled.

Sato Ken was also a little helpless, because he knew that the Soviet-Japanese friendship treaty was just a piece of paper, and the Soviets would go south at any time.

On the other side of Moscow, NKVD Beria handed Stalin a piece of information and whispered a few words in Stalin's ear, which took Stalin by surprise and then took his pipe from his mouth and fell into deep thought.

After a while, Stalin, who came to his senses, asked: "The Chinese actually took Harbin and Qiqihar?" ”

"Laid down the poison gas factory and bacteriological factory that the Japanese had there!" Beria replied: "But Harbin and Qiqihar are not far away, and the Japanese do not have many troops deployed in these two places!" ”

"Hmmm! You mean...... The Japanese are short of troops? ”

"Yes!"

Stalin thoughtfully took a few puffs of his pipe in his mouth, as if he were afraid of interrupting the thoughts in his mind.

"No wonder the American side will refuse our request!" Beria said: "I didn't expect the Japanese Kwantung Army to be so vulnerable! ”

"No!" Stalin shook his head: "It's not that the Kwantung Army is vulnerable, it's that this Chinese army is too powerful...... This is a battle-hardened elite force, and the use of the Germans' 'blitzkrieg' after mechanization was impressive enough, and now it ...... It was still this army that actually carried out airborne operations! ”

After thinking about it, Stalin asked: "The Japanese still have four divisions on the Manchurian-Mongolian border, don't they?" ”

"Yes! But they did not dare to retreat en masse because they were afraid of us! ”

Stalin nodded and said: "Well, you need to give them some confidence, understand?" ”

"Understood!"

As a result, Hideki Tojo soon received goodwill from the Soviet troops on the Manchurian-Mongolian border...... Soviet soldiers distributed leaflets of "Soviet-Japanese friendship" to the Japanese troops, and even took the initiative to send some food to the Japanese troops, who were seriously short of supplies.

"Do you think this could be a trap?" Hideki Tojo asked Ken Sato with some concern: "Could it be that the Soviets are deceiving us and waiting for us to call back our forces before they attack?" ”

"I don't think so!" Kenri Sato replied: "At this time, the Soviet Union has just driven Germany out, and it is already a big loss of vitality, and their main battlefield is still Europe, at this time they will not want to fight on both fronts at the same time!" ”

"Hmm!" Hideki Tojo nodded: "Then ...... they are"

"I think they might be hoping that we can defend with confidence!"

Hideki Tojo couldn't help but be silent.

"Your Excellency the Prime Minister!" Ken Sato persuaded him, "Make up your mind!" Even if we don't defend back, wait for Chinese to attack Manchukuo...... There is only one possibility for these troops to retreat! There is no way back! ”

"Hmm!" Hideki Tojo gritted his teeth, and then ordered: "Leave one division and withdraw three divisions...... Two of the divisions attacked the Qiqihar direction, and one division attacked the Siping direction! (To be continued.) )