"Then, go and do it!" Stalin looked at Zhukov, lit the pipe in his hand, then put it on his mouth and smiled, "I support you! I support you in the name of the Soviet leader, and fight back the invaders! Comrade Zhukov!"

"Buzz!" The huge conference room suddenly became boiling, and everyone was talking about it. I wonder why Stalin issued such a firm order to go south. What was the reason? In more than ten days, the supreme leader of the Soviet Union had the idea of ​​going south to fight?

In fact, it is very simple. Because a military intelligence from the Far East is still absolutely confidential. Once this secret is made public, many fenceists within the Soviet Union will be shaken. Because this information is very simple, the Japanese army mobilized 10,000 elite troops from North China and Shandong, and began to secretly head north along railway lines and highway lines.

It was said that it was a secret to head north, but the Japanese army's actions were inevitably discovered by some people who were interested. After all, they adjusted the army of 10,000 to advance to special environmental areas. The movement can be said to be as big as possible. China had not had many railways and highways at that time, and there were no conditions to hide at all.

In order to maintain local public order, the Japanese army also forcibly expanded some of the puppet troops in the Chinese occupied areas and recruited many local unsuitable young people and middle-aged people to serve in these areas where troops were drawn to ensure the absolute safety of the occupied areas. These troops were much worse than those who were removed, which suddenly made the Japanese immigrants in these areas feel like they were declining.

Before the start of World War II, Germany included the German survivors in the surrounding areas and some forces in the pro-Germany region, barely gathered up 100 million people and integrated the industrial resources of the occupied areas. The number of troops that were finally armed was still short of their numbers.

Japan's industrial foundation is not as good as Germany and its population is not as large as Germany. But I thought Japan's strategy was too bad, so Japan's front line was longer than Germany. This made Japan's lack of troops more prominent and more deadly.

It is still relatively Germany. Although Germany's military strength is not much compared to the huge size of the occupied areas, most of the German troops have high military qualities, and the proportion of armored troops and mechanization ranks first in the world, which allows the German troops to make up for some of the quantity shortcomings in terms of quality.

But in contrast, Japan's idea of ​​expanding its army was exactly the same as that of Hitler and Nazi Germany in another desperate time and space. It was a bit too much to train the newly recruited soldiers for a few days, then send a rifle, and use it as a soldier.

Infantry divisions are not simply combat troops composed of infantry. In order to have the ability to fight against most enemy troops, infantry divisions often need to be incorporated into artillery units to provide fire support and anti-tank artillery units to provide anti-armor capabilities. Therefore, an infantry division is actually not a "pure" infantry division.

Nowadays, in order to support the navy's production, Japan has almost compressed all the production capacity that can be compressed. There are very few luxury goods such as cannons, and they are basically supplied to Class A and Class B divisions. The divisions established later basically have no decent artillery.

If there is no 15mm caliber heavy artillery (refer to the Japanese definition of heavy tanks, don’t make a fuss). If there is no such thing as 75mm field guns, it is necessary to replace them; if the output of 75mm field guns is not enough, use 6mm mortars to replace them... The final replacement is a grenade launcher and a grenade.

The Class A Division was originally appointed to have more than 2 people, which was almost several times that of a Chinese division. As a result, the Class B Division formed when the army was expanded was a bit sad, with its number declining to 24, but at least it still had a skeleton. Now, the Japanese Class C Division and Class D Division often had 13,000 or even 10,000 people. The Japanese Division finally gave birth to a freak with the same number of people as the Chinese division-level troops in April 1939.

To put it bluntly, according to the standards of the German Wehrmacht, it can only be considered an infantry regiment with a large number of people at most, and it is a bit reluctant to call it a division. Of course, if you consider the so-called armored troops of the Japanese army, the specifications of the Japanese army will make the industry even more desperate.

Taking the Japanese armored troops into account, the combat effectiveness of the so-called armored brigades and even brigades is probably similar to that of an armored battalion of the German army. This is the result of simply converting combat power. If it really starts, it is estimated that the Japanese tank will be wiped out by the German armored troops, and it will not be able to destroy a German tank.

The Japanese Class A Division defeated the famous 7th Division (part) during the Second Battle of Hawaii, and then fought over the newly formed new division on Wake Island. Then at the end of the Battle of Impal, the 15th Division was intercepted and killed by the Chinese team.

Under such circumstances, the Japanese army actually pulled the elite 17th Division, two ordinary Class B divisions and five Class C divisions to form a new army, preparing to go north to attack the Soviet Union, plus the 1st Division, the 9th Division, the 1st Division, the 1st Division, the 1st Division, the 1st Division, the 12th Division, the 14th Division, the 14th Division, and the 57th Division, and the 57th Division, gathered about 60,000 attack forces.

With such a large-scale transport of troops to the front line, as long as the Soviets are not blind, they can detect any clues. Many of the generals who presided over the Soviet defense work in the Far East are capable Soviet troops with foundation. For example, the only general who commanded the Soviet army to station in the Far East is Cui Kov, who was only 39 years old. Therefore, these Soviet generals immediately passed on the crisis of the Japanese army's increase in troops in Northeast China back to the Soviet Union, and urgently mobilized 10,000 new recruits in the Far East.

In addition, the Soviet army has maintained more than 10,000 troops in the Far East (these troops are not strong in combat effectiveness), and the Soviet Union expanded its troops in the Far East to 110,000 by any cost.

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

Sugiyama Tsuki sat on the sofa and looked at his colleagues. Finally, he spoke helplessly and explained: "Tojo-kun, our troops lack mechanized and fast maneuverability and can only rely on the incoherent and backward railways on the Chinese battlefield that are not coherent and backward, as well as backward highways."

What he didn't feel embarrassed to say was that when the Germans had already found ways 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 to transport them. The 17th Division was better, and those Class C divisions were basically relying on "Road 11" to move.

"In this way, we have no chance of so-called 'hidden raid'!" Hideki Tojo frowned and then looked at Sugiyama Moto: "Sugiyama, the intelligence department has confirmed that the Soviet army is strengthening its strength in the Far East, which shows that our intention has been discovered by the Soviets!"

"I have heard of this news, and I think that the commander of Itagaki Seishiro in the battle of Northeast China cannot be controlled by the commander of Itagaki Seishiro..." Sugiyama Moto suddenly changed the topic, which made Tojo Hideki a little uncomfortable, but Sugiyama Moto's subsequent words made Tojo Hideki feel very reasonable: "General Tomoto Yamashita has returned to the Pacific battlefield. General Itagaki Seishiro must stabilize the situation on the Sino-China battlefield. We can use the strategy of northward advancement, and there are not many generals."

It is not an easy task to deal with the Soviet Red Army that has been through the battlefield. If you kill a team of tens of thousands of cents of the country, it is estimated that administrative generals like Hideki Tojo can be able to go to the battlefield personally and command it. However, facing the Soviet army that added infinite psychological shadow to the Japanese army, Hideki Tojo and Moto Sugiyama both felt that they were not sure of winning.

Of course, everyone will take advantage of the credit, but when encountering such dangerous things, most people will still choose to avoid misfortune. At least Hideki Tojo and Metamorphosis Sugiyama did not think about commanding this matter themselves, but were seriously considering the right candidate.

Suddenly, Hideki Tojo slapped his thigh and remembered such a person: Ishihara Kanir! The command technology and strategic vision of this Japanese general are pretty good, at least they are the best among the Japanese army. He is known as the "Two Gates of the Empire" together with Itagaki Seishiro, which is quite a bit like Rommel and Guderian. They are called "Ishihara Nothing" and "Ishigaki's Gallbladder" in the Japanese military.

When Sugiyama Sora heard this, he knew that Hideki Tojo had a bad intention this time. Ishihara Kanji and Hideki Tojo had a conflict. At this time, he would naturally be happy when he came to him and lost the rhythm of taking advantage of the situation.

But knowing that Hideki Tojo is uneasy and stopping him from doing this is completely different. So Sugiyama Moto wiped his sweat, nodded in agreement with Hideki Tojo's proposal, and found a good reason for Hideki Tojo: "Ishihara has been to Germany, learned advanced armored troops command, and probably can understand the military habits of the speculative Soviets... In this case, it would be more appropriate to let him come to command himself." ——
Chapter completed!