Chapter 619: Tojo's Calculations
At this time, Tojo remembered Yoshiko Kawashima's reminder that the east of the Urals had lost the strategic significance of Japan, and the Korean Peninsula itself was in civil strife.
When the Korean Peninsula is occupied by the Japanese army, then their bombers will be directed at the Japanese mainland, and if Japan does not make a quick response in such a major crisis, it may face the catastrophe of annihilation in the future.
Hideki Tojo now trusts Yoshiko Kawashima, who is just a spy, and every reminder from Yoshiko Kawashima has an important meaning for him;
However, he is now only a deputy army commander, and he has more power to control the situation in the country, so now Tojo has begun to move, and the target is Prime Minister Konoe Fumima, who has a lot of trust in him;
He had now set up two of his immediate superiors, and the last time he had spoken at a meeting had spread throughout the Japanese War Department, and he was called a strategist and strategist by the ambitious but only tendonous staff officers;
He fiercely despised Ishihara Wan'er, who was trapped in the Tohoku Fortress to replace him, and now it seemed who was a superior soldier.
This time, he is ready to directly push the first three Lu Minister Ono from power, so he will take the initiative to mention the Ural fortress and the Korean Peninsula.
Hearing Hideki Tojo's worried question, Prince Zaihito of the Idle House Palace behaved unfathomably as always, but Ono Maesan as the land minister could not help but analyze these things, but just like Hideki Tojo's consistent opinion. Ono's IQ in the top three is not very high, and as soon as he asked, this Ono sat down and said:
"The Ural fortress group has not been contacted until now. Our troops have not been able to open a passage to any place, and now it seems that there is a lot of bad luck in the area, and I will report to the Emperor together with Prime Minister Konoe Fumima, where the Imperial Army is already loyal to the Empire;
Kwantung Army ...... I only hope that His Majesty the Emperor will mourn, this is the army he established with his own hands, and it will be completely wiped out in China, which is a major blow to His Majesty the Emperor;
I will have the memorial tablets of the fallen soldiers enshrined in the Yasukuni Shrine. Let future generations understand that the warriors of the Great Japanese Empire once buried their bones in a good place for them to live;
As for the Korean Peninsula, where our War Department cannot make a decision on the withdrawal of troops. But I'll try to consult with the Prime Minister and the Emperor. ”
Hideki Tojo smiled coldly in his heart, he had already begun to preach the benefits of withdrawing troops before this, even if many radicals threw eggs at him;
He has even repeatedly explained to the Prime Minister and the Emperor the feasibility and safety of the new plan, as long as the new strategy is completed. Only then will the Japanese Empire have the power to dominate the Pacific. The opportunity to have more territories.
Let this conservative land minister express his opinion, this is simply a matter of losing points among the people and the army, the War Department once upon a time needed to delay in making decisions, if nothing happened, if something happened, he, the land minister, could not be inappropriate, and the best person to take over this position was him, the deputy chief of the army, who was still a lieutenant general.
Ono Riku expressed his opinion, and Prince Zairen of the Idle Yuan Palace only nodded slightly. Hideki Tojo knows that this old guy can't be underestimated;
As the imperial prince, Prince Miyachihito served in the Japanese Army for a long time, and participated in the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War. In 12 years, he was promoted to general, in 16 years, he was responsible for planning the assassination of Zhang Zuolin and the invasion of Northeast China, and in 19 years, he was promoted to marshal;
Prince Zairen of the Idle Yuan Palace has been the chief of staff since the third year, and holds the command of the army, as for the post of land minister, in addition to making strategies and decisions, if the troops want to obey the command, this old guy has the final say;
So Hideki Tojo was going to calculate with him this time, and he said lightly to Prince Zaihito of the Idle Yuan Palace according to the words that his advisor Yoshiko Kawashima said now:
"Your Majesty, as the Chief of the General Staff of the War Department, I don't know what advice you have for hundreds of thousands of Far Eastern Army Corps being trapped, and you must know that our War Department does not want those hundreds of thousands of troops to become ice sculptures in the ice and snow of Siberia;
Although His Excellency Ono said that he would give up so many Emperor warriors, the final decision was in the hands of His Excellency and His Majesty the Emperor, and I believe that as a veteran of the Empire, His Excellency Prince Zaihito of the Residence Palace will definitely have a better idea. ”
Hideki Tojo is simply going to rectify the person, and the one who can't fix the other party's bad luck is himself, but he believes that with the detailed information he got from Yoshiko Kawashima, it is absolutely possible to deal with these two bosses who are in power in the War Department and remove their constraints, so he said this with a faint hint of provocation.
Prince Zairen of Xianyuan Palace is still holding his eyes, what he has on his mouth is not Ren Dan Hu, the long white mustache is slightly upturned, and the nose is slightly open with a hint of cold air blowing his beard to make Tojo Hideki feel comfortable, this is not something that a few people can do when the old man blows his beard.
An old man who is over seventy-two years old completely controls the command of the army, which is not allowed by Hideki Tojo, who is bent on doing great things, looking at Prince Zaihito Miyaji, who has begun to grow age spots on his face, Hideki Tojo continued:
"I think that His Royal Highness the Prince participated in the Sino-Japanese naval war and the Russian-Japanese war, and found a better opportunity for the Japanese Empire to send troops to Northeast China, but now under the successive failures of our War Department, the Admiralty has completely suppressed us;
Looking at the funds approved by the cabinet recently, the Admiralty has several times more than our War Ministry, and if hundreds of thousands of people died on the Ural front this time, perhaps our heroic army samurai of the Great Japanese Empire would not even be equipped with enough weapons. ”
Completely provoke this scheming old man, this is the advice given by Yoshiko Kawashima, although no one dares to provoke this old man, it is because he is too powerful and because he is the uncle of Showa Emperor Hirohito;
But because of this, every land minister of the War Department is a supporting role, and the chief of staff of the General Staff under the War Department said that suppressing this is nothing, so Tojo Hideki is ready to solve the two mountains on his head at once, especially this old immortal.
Talking about the old man's heroic posture back then is to force this old guy who has not expressed his position for a long time, and no one dares to refute his statement to make a decision, Tojo Hideki already has countless plans in his heart;
Whatever this old man says, he will push the old guy into the troubled water and completely unable to get up, only then can he completely control all the armies and complete his grand plan. (To be continued......)