Eight Hundred and Eighty Japanese Grand Strategy

Fighting all the way south to the Middle East, "liberating" India and the entire Southeast Asia, fully occupying Australia, and driving the United States back to the mainland, this set of combat plans was completely shattered after the tragic failure of the Battle of Imphal.

The big figures in the headquarters of the Great Japanese Empire finally, like sleepwalkers who have woken up, clearly saw the gap between themselves and the western powers in terms of strategic deployment and campaign execution capabilities. The experience of relying on a little advantage to conquer the world in Asia is completely inapplicable, and the powerful Japanese navy is trapped in a dilemma in the waters of the Solomon Islands.

Here I want to talk about what the Japanese army base camp is. In fact, this so-called base camp is mainly headed by the chief of staff, the deputy chief of staff, and the chief of naval military orders. In fact, the Chief of Staff, the Army Staff Officer, and the Navy Staff Officer are responsible for the actual work. It consists of the Attaché, the Military Internal Affairs Bureau, the Directorate of Military Stations, the Department of Transportation and Communications, the Field Supervision Department, the Field Health Department, and the Management Department. After the outbreak of the Pacific War, a staff room and an intelligence room headquarters were added.

Such a well-equipped organization should be at least at the same level as the German Supreme Command? However, Japan does not have such a character like Akado who can make all the generals bow their heads and surrender, so this base camp has become a place where the army and navy are wrangling.

As a member of the army generals in the base camp, General Sugiyama Moto is in a very bad mood recently. As the Minister of the Army, he was in trouble because of the disastrous defeat of the 15th Army in Burma. His Majesty the Emperor has summoned him several times alone. Let him sit on pins and needles.

The 100,000 Japanese elite troops were defeated inexplicably in the process of going south, and the defeat was so ugly that it was simply horrible. Let's not mention being beaten up by the British, anyway, the British army has always been a world-class army, and it is not particularly embarrassing to lose, but what kind of trouble is it going to lose to the Chinese Expeditionary Force?

As for the group of Chinese Expeditionary Forces, weren't they just the little guys who used to do chores for the British on the side defense line? When the 15th Army was in full swing, it didn't even think about taking this Chinese army as a dish to deal with. It felt that after fighting Imphal, it would eat up this army incidentally.

However, things backfired. The Battle of Imphal ended with the total collapse of the Japanese army, and the most unbearable fact for the Japanese was that in the final stage of the battle, the Chinese Expeditionary Force, which was originally ignored, was killed in the deadliest battle. The time and the deadliest place gave the Japanese army the deadliest blow.

Fifteen thousand people! The loss alone was as much as 15,000, not to mention that the Japanese army's original marching plan was disrupted by the Chinese interception, resulting in starvation and scattered troops. The 100,000 Japanese troops at that time, minus the more than 20,000 people who fled back, got the result that almost 80,000 people were killed in battle.

Compare the feeling of heartache from top to bottom when the German army killed 10,000 people in Stalingrad.

You can understand the grief and indignation of General Sugiyama Moto. He can't wait to gather his forces now and fight to the death with the cunning squadron, but his plan has been completely dismissed, and the idea of ​​launching a full-scale war in China and completely defeating China has finally come to nothing.

If China can be defeated once and for all and turned into a submissive slave country or colony, then the Japanese will not have to work hard to go to the damn Southeast Asia to develop a second battlefield. It is only now that the Japanese high-level officials have remembered the fact that they are looking for trouble with the United States because they can no longer fight on the Chinese battlefield.

Now a quarter of the Japanese army is stuck in Southeast Asia and cannot get out, a quarter of the Japanese army is stuck in the frontal battlefield in China and cannot get out, and a quarter of the Japanese army is stuck in the Pacific battlefield and cannot get out. Anyway, the options that the Japanese army can choose now are really. Running out.

The only thing that can be counted as a field mobile force is the few remaining Kwantung Army in Northeast China whose elites have been transferred. This force is now entrenched in northern China, because the confrontation with the Soviet army did not start a war, relatively speaking, the military pressure is not great.

Sitting still, or being a quiet handsome man is obviously not the character of the army chief Sugiyama Moto. The main reason is that he is looking for an opportunity to revitalize the Japanese Army.

"Your Excellency, General! Your Excellency, General!" Ueno in the office was a young man, he ran into Sugiyama Moto's office in a hurry, and he didn't even care about the demeanor he needed to maintain.

Sugiyama Moto frowned, a little dissatisfied with the reckless behavior of his subordinates, he lowered his tone, and reprimanded in a teaching tone: "Baga! What are you panicking? Soldiers of the Empire of Japan must be in danger. Just stay calm and stay calm!"

"General! The top-secret information just came back from Vladivostok! General Yamashita said that this is the army's last chance to avenge its shame." Although Ueno's rank in the base camp was only a lieutenant officer, in conclusion, he was not even a minion. . But he is Sugiyama Moto's confidant, and he also has contacts with some senior army generals, and his status is not much lower than that of the frontline commander.

Sugiyama Moto received the information from the Far East border area, and after reading it carefully, he felt that his pores were about to open. One of the few opportunities left.

When Japanese spies were operating secretly in the Far East, they were lucky enough to discover and kill a spy from Germany. This was originally just an ordinary small incident in countless spy wars, but it allowed the Japanese army to obtain countless important information.

The German spy who was killed actually had a whole roll of microfilm on his body, which densely recorded the military points of the entire Soviet army in the Far East. This information is very important to the German army, but it is even more attractive to Japan.

Intelligence showed that in order to cope with the crazy German attack on Stalingrad, the Soviet Army once again deployed 30 divisions from the Far East to move westward. In addition to the troops transferred last time, the main force of the Soviet Army in the Far East was completely withdrawn, leaving only A mere 700,000 troops.

In order to prove the transfer of troops, a German spy in Chelyabinsk verified the material transfer and train timetable of the Soviet army, and confirmed the authenticity of the transfer.

In addition, the countless materials that the U.S. military aided the Soviet Union piled up like mountains on the east coast of the Soviet Union. Among them, only the strategic material oil that the Japanese army urgently needed was a full 1 million tons. If you count the machine gun equipment that Japan is very interested in, skilled workers, countless steel and rare metal reserves, as well as ammunition weapons and heavy armored vehicles, there is simply a big treasure trove.

"Heaven and I must take it!" This is the sentence that comes to Sugiyama Yuan's mind now. He feels that as long as the army captures the eastern part of the Soviet Union, all the difficulties of the Japanese army will be solved. There are at least enough supplies there. Japan will continue the war for another three years!

**Rapid wealth has been experienced too many times for Japan. The whole country fought to the death and defeated the Beiyang Navy of the Qing Dynasty. **Rapid wealth became the strongest in Asia; flirting with Britain, defeated it in one breath Tsarist Russia, who became a world power with its sudden wealth, is now taking another strategic adventure. This is obviously a moment to witness miracles again!

As a country of Japan, the experience that has been kept in mind from top to bottom is that every gamble must win such a smooth past, so this time it is just a matter of course to push out all the chips in your hand and play a smart stud?

"The Soviets have transferred 60 divisions of Far East troops? Why doesn't our intelligence department know about this?" Moto Sugiyama narrowed his eyes and looked at Ueno who was standing aside, not daring to speak out.

"Your Excellency, because of race, it is almost impossible for us to sneak into the Soviet army." Ueno defended his colleagues in the intelligence department: "Besides, we do not know anything about the mobilization of Soviet troops. You know, after repeated confirmation, we have detected that the numbers of 19 divisions of the Soviet Army disappeared in the Northeast.”

"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooomatic Ah." Moto Sugiyama stroked his bare chin, as if talking to himself.

Since Mutaguchi's idiot didn't complete his plan to capture Imphal and eat the British's strategic supplies, it's not unthinkable to go north to the Soviet Union, lay down the Soviet supply base, and eat Stalin's supplies.

Now, what makes Sugiyama Moto and Tojo Hideki dare not reach out easily is the unforgettable Nomenkan battle. Who can guarantee that the Soviet Union will not kill a second Zhukov this time, and use a hearty victory to completely sound the death knell for the Japanese army?

"This time, we can't make the mistake of being a rival in love again! We must concentrate our forces! We must prepare at least 400,000 soldiers and use 70% of the Manchurian forces to carry out this adventurous offensive plan." At the combat meeting in the base camp , Sugiyama Moto persuaded Hideki Tojo: "Even if the Germans are cheaper, they have to eat this batch of supplies, save the fate of the empire, and save His Majesty the Emperor, only the Army of the Empire of Japan!"

"Yo Xi!" Hideki Tojo nodded with murderous intent in his eyes.