Eight Hundred and Ninety-Three, What Do You Think?

"According to German intelligence, 60 divisions were transferred to the western front, which is about 900,000 troops, which means that only 600,000 Soviet troops are in the Far East." Bian analyzed the intercepted information: "This information is isolated evidence, so the credibility is not high."

As he spoke, he walked to the front of the map, pointed to several areas above with a pointer, and introduced the situation respectively: "The number of Soviet troops we found in these places has more than 50 divisions, so we think that the Soviet Army in the Far East It’s not right that the main force is being conditioned.”

"The Soviet army may be exaggerating to deceive the German army, so I think that the transferred troops should be in 40 divisions or 45 divisions, not the 60 divisions shown in the German intelligence." The adjutant officer looked at the information in his hand, Finally he said: "According to intelligence estimates, the current strength of the Soviet Army in the Far East is about 900,000."

"Whoosh." Hideki Tojo nodded, and then looked at Moto Sugiyama. In order to facilitate this northward advance plan, they used a large number of spies to sneak into the Soviet Union. Of course, their subordinates did what they wanted, and investigated a lot of evidence about the main force of the Soviet army's westward advance. Although these evidences are very vague, they firmly established Sugiyama. General Yuan's belief in going north to avenge his shame.

But on the other hand, a firm belief is a firm belief, but it cannot make up for the deep shadow in the hearts of the Japanese army. The last time there was trouble in the Nuomenkan area, although the Japanese army could not be called a disastrous defeat, they did not get any advantages. At least its northward strategy was directly converted into a southward strategy by the Soviet Union, which shows that it is still very afraid of the Soviet army in its heart.

In that battle, the 12mm caliber howitzer of the Soviet army beat the pitiful 75mm field gun in the hands of the Japanese army. The Japanese army even asked their artillery not to fight back, so as not to provoke more violent retaliation from the Soviet army. . Even Puyi, the "His Majesty the Emperor" of the Puppet Manchukuo, has heard: the Soviets' cannons are so powerful that they can't even offend the princes.

As for those terrible Soviet tanks, the Japanese army has no way to deal with them. The Japanese army has not had many armored troops in Northeast China. Even after strengthening, the number of tanks that can be assembled is less than 600. The two armored divisions are about the same.

The sum is not as good as the total strength of a German armored army. Most of the 600 tanks are 95 light cavalry tanks and 89 medium tanks-even the 97 medium tanks that the great powers look down upon are pitifully few. This configuration went to trouble the Soviets, and it was no different from suicide.

If this fails, the Soviet army deploys a t-34 armored battalion in the Far East, which will be enough for hundreds of cats and dogs in Japan to drink a pot. If there is trouble, the Soviets can still play a tank ace, which is also the kind that destroys a hundred tanks. It sounds high-end and classy.

"This time we avoid the direction of Mongolia, use the superior infantry, and enter the mountain area to fight. We don't compete with the Soviet armored forces for a moment, and only aim to capture the Soviet supply base." Sugiyama Moto stood up and gestured to the side of the map. The intelligence officer gave him the pointer, and he picked it up,

He pointed to the location on the map and said.

His pointer swiped at the side of Northeast China, and said: "We will not start a decisive battle with the Soviet armored forces in the direction of the broad Mongolian border, but directly attack from the Greater Khingan Mountains and the Lesser Khingan Mountains. In areas where tanks are not suitable, Attack with infantry!"

This Japan is very good at it. The infantry of the Imperial Japanese Empire is the best in shooting and bayonet fighting. This is the conclusion drawn by the army's internal self-hypnosis. If only infantry contests were held, then all the army generals present thought that their troops would not lose.

There is a natural mountain barrier outside the Xing'an Mountains. Isn't it easy for the Japanese infantry to deal with the Soviet troops who have lost their armor advantage? Excellent Imperial Japanese soldiers, one can beat two Soviet soldiers, can they still do it? In short, if the absolute disadvantage of the Japanese army in armored forces is excluded, it seems that the war is not completely unwinnable.

If the navy can temporarily suppress the powerful U.S. Navy with sneak attacks, then the army will definitely be able to use sneak attacks to restrain the powerful Soviet army. As long as a large-scale sneak attack causes the Soviet Union to lose about 100,000 to 200,000 troops in the border area, then this offensive operation can completely achieve the goal of robbing the Soviet army's strategic materials.

As for defending the entire occupied area, it seems difficult for the Japanese army, but it is not difficult to return to their own line of defense while covering the retreat of a large amount of supplies. , and dare not fight back.

This is the wishful thinking of Sugiyama Moto and Tojo Hideki. As for what would happen if the Soviet army really counterattacked, he didn't think about it at all-just as the Japanese navy didn't consider that after the attack on Pearl Harbor, if the United States did not If you surrender, what should you do?

They believe that the Soviet army has a strong enemy Germany pressing down on the border, and they will never erect another strong enemy Japan. Therefore, the Soviet Union would only swallow its anger and seek peace with Japan, even at the expense of giving up some territories. Just like when the Japanese navy thought that the United States would swallow its humiliation and surrender, giving up part of its interests in Southeast Asia.

"Tojo-kun, Sugiyama-kun. With all due respect, we can no longer draw up half-baked strategic plans like this." A lieutenant general frowned and raised his own doubts: "If the Soviet Union does not compromise and seek peace, but Launch a counterattack, so what should we do?"

Yes, the Soviets should be humiliated and seek peace, but if those old men really show their brains and refuse to surrender even if they die, and they fight over, will Japan have the ability to hold the existing defense line without collapsing? This problem is not only unknown to Hideki Tojo, but also Moto Sugiyama.

"Moreover, even if we solve the gap between the armored forces in the north and the problem of artillery, our troops are used to using small-caliber artillery that is easy to carry. Cannons have a longer range and greater power, can we ignore this gap?" A general in charge of artillery also raised his own question helplessly.

Of course, there are still many such problems. Going northeast and north, many places are desolate and uninhabited areas. These places are not much stronger than the tropical jungles of Myanmar. When fighting in such places, how much is the consumption of materials? How terrible it is, the Japanese Army, which has just experienced the Battle of Imphal, is of course very clear.

Most of the Japanese generals present were not tempted by the beautiful pancakes outlined by Hideki Tojo and Moto Sugiyama, and they maintained their sanity. At this time, except for Tojo and Sugiyama, who were insane, everyone rationally believed that it would be extremely unwise to provoke another powerful opponent.

Nima's still let people live? If you can't deal with China, turn around and provoke the United States, and use the United States to solve the Chinese war-this is already stupid, okay? Now that they can't beat the United States, they have started to attack the Soviet Union again, and use the Soviet Union to attack the Pacific battlefield—this way of thinking is really against the sky.

"Adjourn! Adjourn! This plan will continue to be perfected as a preliminary plan!" Hideki Tojo reluctantly gave up his plan to implement this plan at this stage. He could only announce a temporary adjournment to ease the embarrassment that he couldn't answer a single question.

Sugiyama Moto also let out a sigh of relief. He almost slapped the table just now and answered these doubts with "The soldiers of the Great Japanese Empire have stronger beliefs. His Majesty the Emperor protects us from failure!"

This is a typical rogue: when you tell him about the gap in the strength of the two sides, he tells you about the quality of the soldiers; when you tell him about the gap in weapons and equipment, he talks about the spirit of sacrifice of the soldiers; When the battle was decided, he began to talk to you about bravely challenging powerful enemies for the sake of the country.

The disadvantages on the Pacific battlefield and the failure of the Southeast Asian War made the Japanese finally regain a little rationality, at least on the surface. The senior officials of the army temporarily denied the somewhat arrogant plan to invade the Soviet Union, and began to blame their old opponents, the navy colleagues, for the recent series of retreats of the navy.

The Japanese army denied the offensive plan, and when the Japanese navy was discussed and held accountable after the adjournment, the Soviet Command in the Far East also received a top-secret telegram: It is planned to secretly mobilize another 10 divisions to the Moscow area to protect the absolute security of the capital."

"When will these troops start to move?" A Soviet general asked with his hands behind his back.

"The order said, the sooner the better!" The Soviet staff member holding the telegram replied with his head bowed.

For the sake of the motherland, the Soviet Army once again mobilized 10 divisions of combat troops from the Far East and sent these young people to the bloodier "Western Front". Although the Soviet army has been expanded and still maintains a strength of more than 1 million troops in the Far East, its combat level has dropped a lot.

And this time, because the time was too tight and the preparations for confusion were not enough, the news that the Soviet army had dispatched troops to their own western front was discovered by spies infiltrated by Japan not long after.

"Kudo-kun! This is really great news. At least 7 Soviet standing division numbers have disappeared from the border area! Our people sneaked into their train station and found that their troops are being dispatched on a large scale! "A Japanese spy handed over the information in his hand to his superior and said happily.

"Yoshi!" The intelligence officer named Kudo nodded excitedly, and replied approvingly: "I will immediately send this information to Your Excellency, Commander."

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