Eight Hundred and Ninety-Eight

"Then, let's do it!" Stalin looked at Zhukov, lit the pipe in his hand, then smiled and said with his mouth in his mouth: "I support you! I support you in the name of the leader of the Soviet Union, go and repel the invaders ! Comrade Zhukov!"

"Hum!" The huge meeting room suddenly boiled over, and everyone was talking about it. I don't know why Stalin would issue such a firm order to go south. What was the reason? The supreme leader of the Soviet Union had the idea that he must go south for a decisive battle?

In fact, it is very simple, because a piece of military intelligence from the Far East is still classified as an absolute secret, because once this secret is made public, many wall-riding factions in the Soviet Union will be shaken. Because the information was very simple, the Japanese army mobilized 100,000 elite troops from North China and Shandong, and began to secretly go north along the railway and highway lines.

It is said that it was a secret move to the north, but the actions of the Japanese army will inevitably be discovered by some interested people. After all, a whole 100,000 troops were deployed to move into special environmental areas. There is nothing to hide at all.

In order to maintain local law and order, the Japanese army also forcibly expanded part of the puppet troops in the Chinese occupied areas, and recruited many local youths and middle-aged people who were not of the right age to serve in these areas where the troops were transferred to ensure the absolute security of the occupied areas. Compared with the troops that were removed, these troops were far behind, which suddenly made the Japanese immigrants in these areas feel a little bit fading away.

Before the start of World War II, Germany, counting the Germanic survivors in the surrounding areas and some forces in the pro-German areas, barely made up a population of 100 million, integrated the industrial resources of the occupied areas, and finally armed the troops in The number is still stretched.

Japan's industrial base is not as good as Germany's, and its population is not as large as Germany's—but it is thought that Japan's strategy is too bad, so Japan's front is longer than Germany's. This made Japan's shortage of troops more prominent and more deadly.

Still compare Germany, although Germany's military strength is not much compared with the huge occupied area. However, most of the German army has high military quality, and the proportion of armored forces and mechanization ranks first in the world, which allows the German army to at least make up for part of the lack of quantity in terms of quality.

But looking back at Japan, its thinking on military expansion is exactly the same as that of Hitler's Nazi Germany in another time and space at the end of the road. It is a bit too childish to train newly recruited soldiers for a few days, and then issue a rifle and use it as a non-soldier.

Infantry divisions are not simply combat units composed of infantry. In order to have the ability to fight against most of the enemy's troops, infantry divisions often need to incorporate artillery units to provide fire support and anti-tank artillery units to provide anti-armor capabilities. Therefore, a Infantry divisions are not in fact "pure" infantry divisions either.

And now in Japan,

In order to support the production of the Navy, almost all the production capacity that can be compressed has been compressed. There are very few luxuries such as cannons, and basically all of them are supplied to the first-level and second-level divisions, and the divisions established later basically do not have any decent artillery.

105mm caliber heavy guns (refer to the Japanese definition of heavy tanks, don’t make a fuss) No, have to use 75mm field guns instead; 75mm field guns are not produced enough, use 60mm mortars instead... the final replacement It became a grenade, a grenade.

The Class A division originally had a staff of more than 28,000 people, which is almost several times that of a division in China. As a result, the second-tier division formed during the expansion of the army was a bit sad, and the number declined to 24,000, but at least there were still skeletons. And now, the number of Japanese C-level divisions and D-level divisions is 13,000 or even 11,000 people-the Japanese division was finally born in April 1939, and the Chinese division was born. Freaks with the same number of troops.

Later, some units formed by the Japanese army, in fact, to put it bluntly, according to the standards of the German Wehrmacht, at most they can only be regarded as infantry regiments with a large number of people, and it is a bit reluctant to call them divisions. Of course, if you count the so-called armored units of the Japanese army, the specifications of the Japanese army make people in the industry even more desperate.

Including the Japanese armored forces, the combat effectiveness of those so-called armored brigades, or even brigades and regiments, is estimated to be similar to that of an armored battalion of the German army. If there is a real fight, it is estimated that the Japanese tanks will be wiped out by the German armored forces, and they will not be able to damage a German tank.

Japan's Class A Division wiped out the famous 7th Division (part) during the second battle for Hawaii, and then wiped out the newly formed 23rd Division on Wake Island. At the end of the Battle of Imphal, the 15th Division was intercepted and killed by the squadron.

Under such circumstances, the Japanese army brazenly mobilized the elite 17th Division, two ordinary B-level divisions and five C-level divisions to form a new army, preparing to go north to attack the Soviet Union—— Plus the 1st Division, 8th Division, 9th Division, 10th Division, 11th Division, 12th Division, 14th Division, and 23rd Division under the Kwantung Army There are also five second-tier divisions, the 24th Division, the 25th Division, the 28th Division, the 29th Division, and the 57th Division, which have collected almost 600,000 offensive troops.

Such a large-scale transport of troops to the front line, as long as the Soviets are not blind, they can detect a trace of clues. Many of the generals who presided over the defense of the Soviet army in the Far East were capable people of the Soviet army. For example, the only general of the mobile group army commanding the Soviet army stationed in the Far East is Cuikov, who is only 39 years old. Therefore, these Soviet generals immediately conveyed the crisis of the Japanese army's increase in Northeast China back to the Soviet Union, and urgently mobilized 100,000 recruits in the Far East.

Coupled with the fact that the Soviet army has always maintained more than 1 million troops in the Far East (the combat effectiveness of these troops is not strong), the Soviet Union expanded its forces in the Far East to 1.1 million through expansion at any cost.

"Baga! One hundred thousand troops are rushing on the North China Plain, walking in dust... If the enemy is not blind, they will know that we are sending more troops to Manchuria." Tojo Hideki heard that his troops were still using When the old method from more than ten years ago was on his way, he lost his temper in the conference room.

Sugiyama Moto sat on the sofa, looked at his colleagues, and finally explained helplessly: "Tojo-kun, our troops lack mechanized and fast mobility, and can only rely on the incoherent and backward-technical railways on the Chinese battlefield. , and backward roads.”

What he didn't have the nerve to say was that when the Germans had already figured out how to use railways and roads, and used trains, cars and planes to transport troops and supplies, his troops were still relying on horses and livestock for transportation. The 17th Division is better. Those C-level divisions are basically relying on the "11th Road" to move.

"In this way, we don't have any chance of the so-called 'covert raid'!" Hideki Tojo frowned, and then looked at Yuan Sugiyama: "Mr. Sugiyama, the intelligence department has confirmed that the Soviet army is strengthening Our strength in the Far East shows that our intentions have been discovered by the Soviets!"

"I've also heard the news, and I think Seishiro Itagaki cannot be used as a commander in the Northeast battle..." Moto Sugiyama suddenly changed the subject, which made Hideki Tojo a little uncomfortable, but Moto Sugiyama's subsequent words made Tojo feel uncomfortable. Jo Hideki thought it made sense: "General Yamashita Fufumi has returned to the Pacific battlefield, and General Itagaki Seishiro must stabilize the situation on the China battlefield—there are not many generals we can use in our northward strategy."

Dealing with the battle-tested Soviet Red Army is not an easy job. If tens of thousands of squadrons are killed, it is estimated that an administrative general like Hideki Tojo can do it in person and command. However, in the face of the Soviet army, which had added an infinite psychological shadow area to the Japanese army at the Nomenkan, both Hideki Tojo and Moto Sugiyama felt that they were not sure of victory.

Naturally, everyone will grab the credit, but when encountering such a dangerous situation, most people will still choose to seek good luck and avoid evil. At least Hideki Tojo and Moto Sugiyama haven't thought about directing this matter themselves, but are seriously considering suitable candidates.

Suddenly, Hideki Tojo slapped his thigh and thought of such a person: Ishihara Waner! The Japanese general's command skills and strategic vision are pretty good, at least among the leading figures in the Japanese army, and said with Itagaki Seishiro, it's a little like Rommel and Guderian's "Empire Twin Walls". The two of them were called "Ishihara Zhizhi" and "Itagaki Bravery" together in the Japanese military circles.

As soon as Sugiyama heard it, he knew that Hideki Tojo had a bad intention this time. Ishihara Wanji had a conflict with Hideki Tojo, and at this time, he pushed out his enemy, which naturally made everyone happy, and lost the rhythm of making things worse.

But knowing that Hideki Tojo is uneasy and kind, and preventing him from doing so are completely different things. So Moto Sugiyama wiped his sweat, nodded and agreed with Hideki Tojo's proposal, and found a good reason for Hideki Tojo: "Ishihara-kun has been to Germany and studied advanced armored force command, so he probably can understand it." Speculate on the military habits of the Soviets... Under such circumstances, it is most appropriate for him to personally command."——

Because of an error in the update of the starting point, there will be two updates for the time being today. I hope everyone understands. After the update over there is restored, Longling will continue to make up for it t-t