Japanese Prime Minister Kiichiro Hiranuma was very dissatisfied with the telegram sent by Hu Bin, and he did not want to agree to any of Hu Bin's conditions, while Hideki Tojo told him that their side was about to cooperate with Germany in the war, that is, the situation in the northeast could not change significantly.

"Damn, what do you mean by your army, do you want Hu Bin to go around behind Jianchang and Ningcheng, so won't the defense line of Shanhaiguan be broken through by the Chinese troops? Will we be able to hold the line behind us? Kiichiro Hiranuma looked at Hideki Tojo and said.

"Now that we have broken through, I think you saw the telegram last night, Qinhuangdao has been occupied by Chinese troops, and our two divisions in front must retreat, and if they don't retreat, they will be sent to the Chinese army.

The troops in Manchuria and the Far East, unlike the troops in Southeast Asia and the United States, are all soldiers of our empire, and they can't just be broken on the front line. Hideki Tojo reminded Kiichiro Hiranuma again.

"So what do you mean?" Mitsumasa Yonechi, Minister of the Navy, looked at Hideki Tojo and asked.

"Talk to the Chinese side, give us 2 days, we retreat, retreat from Jianchang and Ningcheng, so that we will not only not lose those troops, but also strengthen the strength of the second line of defense!" Hideki Tojo said.

"Yo Xi, it's also a way, but China may not give you 2 days, and now they are going to save people, how can they give us 2 days?" Mitsumasa Yonechi said as he looked at Hideki Tojo.

When Hideki Tojo heard this, he immediately fell silent, he also knew that China would definitely not give them that much time, but now he didn't want to fight with China, and he couldn't start a war with China unless he had to, otherwise it would affect Japan's entire plans in the Far East.

Once the Chinese troops launched an attack at this time, then it was inevitable that Japan would be forced to draw more troops from the Far East to the south, which would weaken the strength of the Far East, and the troops in the Far East would not be sure of victory in the face of the Soviet Union, let alone a Chinese force behind them, so he did not know what to do now.

"Time is running out, Hu Bin wants us to reply at 10 o'clock, and if we don't reply, they will attack." A cabinet minister glanced at the clock in the distance and spoke.

"Let's talk about it, what to do, either fight, or let Hu Bin's troops go around behind us, this is very dangerous, it is equivalent to letting the Chinese troops cut off the back road for the retreat of the two divisions in front of us, these two divisions, we basically don't have to count on it!" Kiichiro Hiranuma said as he looked at Hideki Tojo and the other ministers.

"Prime Minister Lu, I would like to ask, will the Chinese troops be able to take Mukden before March? I mean, on the premise that we send reinforcements, will the Chinese forces be able to take Mukden before the end of March? Mitsumasa Yonechi said as he looked at Hideki Tojo.

"If we mobilize five divisions from the Far East to the south now to reinforce Mukden, there will be no problem at all in defending until the end of March next year, and the troops in Yan'an, China, can use about 400,000 troops to fight in North China, although they also have more than 600,000 troops there, but not every local force can be mobilized.

They also have to defend, and we have mobilized five divisions to move south, which is similar to the Chinese troops, so I think they can hold it, but we can't completely rule out the possibility of defeat.

After all, our air force is inferior to China's air force, and once we lose air supremacy, it is also a question whether our ground forces can stop the steel torrent of Chinese troops, so if we want to transfer troops south, it is a gamble! Hideki Tojo said.

"Yo-shey, what do you mean?" Mitsumasa Yonechi said as he looked at the others.

"My opinion is, once we agree to Hu Bin's request, our morale will be very low!" An army minister spoke.

"Then fight, we'll talk after the fight, if we hold it in Mukden, then we'll be better to talk! When the time comes, we will be able to bring China to the negotiating table.

In addition, I have a proposal to mobilize 1 million Southeast Asian troops from Australia to the Far East and allocate 200,000 to Mukden, I don't believe that the Chinese troops can kill so many of our troops, and their logistics will definitely not be able to keep up! Kiichiro Hiranuma spoke.

"Yo Xi, I agree with that. However, I think that as soon as we think that Mukden cannot hold on, we will let all the other 400,000 troops in the whole of Manchuria retreat to the Far East, and on the northeast side, we will simply give up, so that we can also talk to China and see if we can get them not to attack our troops in the Far East, and we will pay some price. A cabinet minister spoke.

"What do you mean, Lu Xiang?" Mitsumasa Yonechi said as he looked at Hideki Tojo.

"If you choose so, then our troops in the southern part of Manchuria will all be eaten by China, and the troops on the Mongolian side will also be eaten by Chinese troops, but there are 600,000 troops in it, which are the troops of our empire, and if we call them back, we will be able to grow to at least 3 million troops.

At present, Okamura Ninjijun is still sending us a large number of young Indian laborers from India. We can actually let Hu Bin's troops pass, and at most we will lose 2 divisions of troops.

But if we promise China's conditions this time, the next time we talk to China, I think the Chinese side will also take into account that we have given them convenience, wouldn't it be better to talk?

Now you are thinking about the honor of our country, and you have not thought about how much impact it will have on the entire Far East once our troops in the south of Manchuria are defeated, as well as the consumption of materials.

Chinese troops can now be sent from North China, Central China, Northwest China, and Wuhan to Manchuria, and we have no troops enough to consume on the Chinese side, and Hu Bin is now well, in Manchuria, in the Far East, I know that no general dares to say that he will win when facing Hu Bin.

There are too many generals on our side who are broken in Hu Bin's hands, this person is not fighting according to the routine at all, I dare to say, now Hu Bin is waiting for our refusal, once we refuse, Hu Bin's troops will immediately attack, if our side does not respond effectively, then, Fengtian, may be occupied by Hu Bin in a few days! Hideki Tojo said a little excitedly.

He didn't want to fight in the northeast and China, so that the casualties of their army would be very large, and now he meant that he hoped that the army troops could finish the rice country quickly, as long as the rice country was finished, so that he could mobilize more troops to the Chinese battlefield.

If the United States does not finish the war, the Chinese side is still there, and then the Soviet troops in the Far East will have to be dragged down, and a small country will fight against three such large countries, and once one side loses, Japan will fall into the point of no return.

"You mean we let the Chinese troops go around behind Jianchang?" Japanese Prime Minister Kiichiro Hiranuma looked at Hideki Tojo and asked.

"Hey, this is the wisest, China at this time, will not take the initiative to attack our Mukden, the first is cold, the second is the supply difficulties in the winter, once we and them fall into a stalemate, they will consume a lot of supplies. Therefore, I dare to judge that the Chinese side does not want to fight either! Hideki Tojo said as he sat there.

"Baga, you mean that you want us to trust your judgment and believe that China will not take the initiative to attack the Northeast?" Kiichiro Hiranuma looked at Hideki Tojo and said.

"Hey!" Hideki Tojo nodded and said.

Hiranuma Kiichiro saw him nodding, stared at him tightly for dozens of seconds, and saw that Hideki Tojo was still with his head down like this.

"Hmph, what do you mean? Let us have 2 fully formed divisions and regiments, just like this, surrounded by Chinese troops? Kiichiro Hiranuma withdrew his gaze, then looked at the people in the room.

"I, I agree with Tojo-kun's judgment!" At this time, Mitsumasa Yonechi suddenly opened his mouth and said, he was against Hideki Tojo before, why did he suddenly change his position, and the other people didn't understand it at all, they all looked at Mitsumasa Yonechi.

"Give me an explanation!" Kiichiro Hiranuma looked at Mitsumasa Yonechi and said.

"It's very simple, with the three big powers at the same time, we Japan can't have a single defeat, and in China, we are very likely to fail, and once we fail in China, you think about the consequences.

The troops in the Far East are not safe, our Japanese islands are not safe, and even the Bering Strait is not safe. Now the most important thing is to defeat the United States, drag the Soviet Union, China's affairs, we can put it down first, as long as we defeat the United States, the Soviet Union is defeated by Germany, and we can take back those lost places.

What's more, Tojo-kun just said a lot, our hundreds of thousands of troops, if they join India and Southeast Asia's recruits, can have several million, just these troops, put in China, it is enough for them to fight in China, not such a simple jade shatter on the battlefield in China. Mitsumasa Yonechi said.

The others heard it and nodded, it is indeed as Mitsumasa Mine said, it would be a pity if all these troops were broken into China, it would be a pity, it would be better to let them train the recruit troops, and then after the defeat of the United States and the Soviet Union, they would go to fight China, so that it would be more safe.

"Yo Xi!" Hiranuma Kiichiro also nodded and said.

"Okay, I'll write a telegram, over there in Manchuria, we can't fight, we really can't fight!" At this time, Hideki Tojo heard Kiichiro Hiranuma's words, stood up, and prepared to write a telegram. (To be continued.) )