Central China Expeditionary Army Headquarters

"Everyone, this is the latest news we have received. The leader of the local troops in Chahar has defeated the Soviets. This news has been confirmed by the Imperial Mei organs. Nearly hundreds of thousands of Soviet soldiers have lined up to Mongolia. They are going to build a railway there to Irkutsk in the Soviet Union." General Matsui Ishione presided over the meeting.

He threw up the newspaper on the table. This was too ridiculous. The news was actually true. Until now, he didn't believe that the news was true. He thought that the Mei agency of the Empire had made the matter wrong. But now so many photos have been published, and it is absolutely impossible to be fake.

"If these things are true, it means we will not get the resources of the Kwantung Army. If their war with the Soviets failed, we may still get support. The troops confronting the Kwantung Army on the front line will likely naturally converge. The Kwantung Army can also draw two divisions to support us. Now that they have won, I guess the reinforcements in China will also tend to be inclined to the Kwantung Army first." said Ichiro Takeshita, chief of staff of the Expeditionary Army.

"We have just organized five infantry divisions in our country and originally agreed to supplement our four divisions. Now it seems that it would be amazing to give us two at most. After all, in the eyes of the old man in the Imperial Base Camp, the Northeast is the most important, and the Kwantung Army is their own son. Our Central China Expeditionary Army is not that important. We have not attacked Xia Nan Jinglai for so long. There are many people in the base camp who are already dissatisfied with us." Originally, the position of Prince Hirohiko Asagakuen was the deputy chief of staff, but it is not easy to arrange for her to give him such a low position, so under the Central China Expeditionary Army, another Shanghai Expeditionary Army was established. Now he is the commander of Shanghai Expeditionary Army.

"Please be careful. The arrangements of the domestic base camp are not something we can comment randomly. The base camp has their own ideas for everything they do, so what we have to do now is how to use the troops in our hands to give a fatal blow to the enemy in front of us. Our current situation has caused dissatisfaction with the base camp." If the prince continues to comment, the meeting will probably not be held again.

This was the case a few times before, and it turned out to be a meeting where this guy criticized the base camp. The others were ordinary officers but they did not have such a prominent identity. Who dared to talk about the base camp randomly? If you don’t have the title of prince, you would have been sent by the base camp to Hokkaido to see the sea long ago because you are so disrespectful.

"The Commander is joking. It is impossible for the troops we are in our hands to launch a fatal attack on the Chinese soldiers. The army we can attack now is only about 50,000. The opposite Chinese army has more than 400,000, which is more than eight times that of ours. And they can use the favorable terrain. Recently, I see that they have added a lot of weapons and ammunition, and have already formed a strength to give us a battle in terms of weapons, so they cannot underestimate them. It is not easy for our current troops to defend all positions. Please continue to ask the Commander to continue to ask the base camp for support!" The prince's words were so domineering. General Matsui was used to it. People could not use respectful words to the commander, which was already very good. I should thank him if I didn't slapped the table on the spot.

"Prince, please forgive me. The battlefield in North China is as important as the battlefield in Northeast China. If the Chengde area is lost, the entire Rehe may become a Chinese. The contact between the North China Expeditionary Army and the Kwantung Army may be interrupted. The Kwantung Army area can supply nearly one-third of our entire army. Once the railway line is cut off, the North China Expeditionary Army will likely form an isolated army. At that time, the safety of the 200,000 imperial soldiers of the North China Expeditionary Army will become a major issue. I believe that none of us can bear this responsibility, so the new recruits in the empire will definitely give priority to the Kwantung Army. No matter how many telegrams we send, it is already quite good to give us two divisions." Takeshita Ichiro saw this matter quite clearly.

He knew that Commander Matsui was unwilling to talk to this guy at ordinary times, so it was time for him to come forward.

"The Kwantung Army is all a bunch of stupid pigs. They have hundreds of thousands of troops, but they can't even do anything to a small local government. When I was in the capital, I said that these people were useless. They didn't kill thousands of people, and they even made people grow and grow. Is it now growing to hundreds of thousands? If we want to destroy them, we should kill them desperately back then." The best thing this prince is to do is to hindsight. What was like back then and what was like now, this is what he often said.

Regarding the Chahar local government, he always said that if he had been an officer in the North China Expeditionary Army, he would have been very likely to have done anything to others. This is what he often said, but we can't refute, who would be the prince?

In fact, all the people here understand the difficulties of the Kanto Army. They used to have the same view as the Prince. Your Kanto Army is known as the flower of the Japanese Army. You can directly bypass the Army's headquarters and be responsible for the base camp. You are given priority to all military equipment. Moreover, you have such a strong heavy industry in the Northeast region, and everything can be self-sufficient. It is a matter of one word that you want to expand your army. Why can't you defeat the local government of Chahar?

Of course, this is just the idea of ​​the past. Now that people have directly captured hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops, the officers here cannot say that no matter how strong the Kwantung Army is, they cannot defeat the Soviet troops in their hearts. Although the Russo-Japanese War was won by us, the price we paid was indeed much more than that of the Russians, so even if we faced the Soviet Union, we would suffer a lot.
Chapter completed!