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readx; There are really too many embarrassing things he has experienced. After Tojo finished speaking, he closed his mouth. He also knew that this was all his unilateral guesswork and could not stand up to actual scrutiny. So he was afraid that His Majesty the Emperor in front of him would ask something again, which would make him unable to answer.

The situation in the Chinese theater is better. Because of the influence of national power, it is obviously unrealistic to expect China to launch a strategic counterattack against Japan on the battlefield. The rugged mountainous jungle terrain in Southeast Asia, as well as the poor logistical supplies, also made it difficult for the Allied forces to launch a large-scale counterattack against Japan there.

Then the remaining direction is where Japan needs to strengthen its defense. Japan has been struggling to support the battle for islands in the Pacific Ocean, and now it is nothing more than continuing to support it. What really worries the Japanese high-level officials is precisely the latest issue of the Far East Theater, and if this issue is not handled well, it will be the biggest issue that will eventually kill Japan.

He stretched out his palm and stroked his forehead. The Emperor of Japan is not an idiot. At that time, he himself also wanted to expand the territory and make great contributions to the society, but he listened to the one-sided words of the military. Along the way, he realized that relying on war and gambling to make a fortune is not as good as he imagined. Winning the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War does not mean that he can continue to win like this. At least now, Japan has no hope of winning.

"Tojo-kun... I will issue an edict to admit my mistakes to all the people, and then ask all the people of the Empire of Japan to endure the last time for the empire, contribute another 1.5 million men to the front line, and carry out the last holy war!" Gritting his teeth, the Emperor of Japan exhausted all his strength to say these words. After finishing speaking, he covered his face with his hands to prevent others from seeing his expression at this moment.

Hideki Tojo, who was sitting beside him, still felt the emperor's depression and loneliness. Since the beginning of the war, Japan's destruction in Asia, His Majesty the Emperor has witnessed Japan's failure time and time again. Now we have to bear the scapegoat of the base camp, issue an edict of guilt, and send more than 1 million civilians to the front line...

He stood up and bowed. Beside him, one after another, the Japanese generals stood up, bowed and expressed their determination. This is the last chance for all of them. If they can't fulfill their promises, what awaits them may be the real end of the world.

"Tojo-kun... are you really sure you can hold the line of defense in the northeast?" After walking out of the conference room, a Japanese general caught up with Tojo Hideki and asked, "I've heard that the German tanks are very powerful. Even the t-36 and t-34 of the Soviets are no match."

"What else can I do? His Majesty the Emperor looked at me with pleading eyes, but I have to be hard-hearted and say to him, 'We are defeated, we can only surrender'?" Hideki Tojo stopped Looking at my subordinates, I said fiercely, "No! I would rather die on the battlefield in the Far East! I don't want to see His Majesty's sad eyes again!"

"But,

Mr. Tojo, in this situation, what do we use to fight the Americans and Germans? "The army general was obviously at a loss for the current situation. He looked at Hideki Tojo and asked: "In the Far East battlefield, we need to defend against German tanks and artillery, and we need a large number of anti-aircraft weapons and anti-aircraft weapons. Tank guns... on the Pacific battlefield, we also urgently need these weapons..."

He is a traditional soldier, unwilling to study politics and other things. From a purely military point of view, Japan lacks too many things now, which makes him worry that the Japanese army will lose victory on the battlefield in the future: "At least , we should make some preparations to prevent our soldiers from dying in vain."

"Death in vain? No, death is inevitable, but as samurai of the Japanese Empire, they have the obligation to be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor! Their deaths are valuable, as long as they can stop the Germans for a few months , the stalemate will give us an advantage in the negotiation..." Hideki Tojo looked into the other party's eyes and said word by word.

The other party didn't continue to say anything, because he had a lot of questions to ask, but the army general had been able to ask him from Hideki Tojo, and he couldn't ask any useful answers. He wanted to know that even if they could hold back the Germans in the Far East, would Yamamoto Fifty-Six have the ability to withstand the pressure of the Americans in the Pacific? He wondered how even if they mobilized more soldiers, how those soldiers would use their rifles against the German tanks and artillery.

They were overwhelmed by the firepower of the Soviets in the Nomenkan area, and the Soviets were obviously beaten to shame by the Germans on the Soviet-German battlefield. It was just such a speculation, and he had to consider the German weapon superiority.

Just when the results of the discussions in the Japanese base camp were reached and they were preparing to recruit troops to continue the war, on the front line of Vladivostok in the Far East, the Japanese soldiers were in their trenches, feeling horrified and terrified that they had never seen before. experience. The main force of the Japanese Kwantung Army, who had experienced many battles, suddenly found that there were more enemy planes above their heads that they had never seen before.

These planes would make a shrill howl when they dived, traumatizing the Japanese soldiers who had no anti-aircraft weapons in the trenches. These planes will dive to a height very close to their target, and then accurately drop the mounted bombs on the heads of the Japanese army. Although there are not many such planes, their precise bombing really makes the Japanese soldiers desperate .

"Your Excellency, my troops are bravely guarding their own positions! We have no hindrance... But these planes bombed too accurately. They destroyed our main defensive position, and the Soviet army on the opposite side took the opportunity Launch an attack..." While holding the phone, the Japanese frontline commander felt his lips were extremely dry. His troops suffered heavy losses, but they failed to display even one-tenth of their usual strength.

His soldiers screamed and called the enemy planes circling the sky the devil, for they had never seen such horrific air support. Obviously those planes are not devils, but a very successful attack plane: "General Ishihara, please order fighter jets to intercept. If this continues, we really can't hold our position."

In fact, the Japanese troops in the Far East fought in a somewhat similar way to the German blitz. The Japanese army did not have heavy artillery that could overwhelm the Soviet Far East troops, so they also relied on their own air power to complete part of the ground artillery suppression task. But when they lost air supremacy, they found that their firepower shortcomings were infinitely expanded by the enemy.

Just like the Battle of Nomenkan, where it was impossible to win full air supremacy, the Japanese army's shortcomings in the quantity and quality of heavy artillery brought their battle to the brink of collapse. After the troops of the Far Eastern Republic were supplemented by the shells produced by the Chelyabinsk Industrial Base, they immediately demonstrated their powerful suppressive force. The performance advantages of the 122mm caliber howitzer made the Japanese army suffer a lot.

Under the psychological devastation of the Stuka 2 attack aircraft and the suppression of the Soviet heavy artillery, the Japanese frontline troops quickly abandoned part of their defensive positions. Ishihara Kanji sent several telegrams back to the base camp a day, hoping to get reinforcements as soon as possible. So that he can maintain the current line of defense.

However, these telegrams did not receive a reply, and a lot of reinforcements from China came, but most of these reinforcements only had light weapons, and they could not play any role in a battle of this scale. Ishihara Wanji could only dismantle these troops on his own initiative, and use them as supplementary troops to supplement the frontline troops that can really fight.

However, this method could not alleviate the huge pressure on the front-line troops. After some tank troops and heavy artillery troops suffered heavy losses, Ishihara Wanji's troops finally began to defeat in some areas.

"The battle must go on! Before losing the position, the soldiers are allowed to be broken!" Under such circumstances, Ishihara Waner could only issue various orders to hold the position: "Aviation units cannot take off to fight! Your request is not to be defeated." Permitted... If you lose ground, kill yourself and apologize to His Majesty the Emperor."

"Hi! I understand!" the Japanese general promised while holding the phone, "I will stick to this place. If the position is lost, I will apologize here! General, please rest assured! But the Soviet army The artillery fire, and those planes that may be Germans, I hope the general can prepare early."

"The situation on my side is not much better than yours! The application for various weapons submitted to the rear has been rejected... Anti-tank guns, anti-aircraft guns, tanks, anti-tank mines, all the weapons I can think of are not produced enough , the only thing that can be supplemented to me is infantry with rifles." Ishihara Waner said a little depressed on the phone.

The general on the phone line was silent for a while, and then said with a wry smile: "Since it is doomed not to be able to use martial arts for a long time, then see you Biliangpo! I hope you will take care, General Shi Yuan!" He hung up the phone after finishing speaking. , and then looked outside his headquarters, those friendly positions that had been covered by artillery fire. Wisps of thick black smoke billowed up, and the wailing voices of the bloodied Japanese soldiers were covered up by the occasional artillery fire. ——

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