Age of Conquest Reborn

Chapter 871: The Rampant Ueda Kenkichi

Hirohito is not a fool. He knows very well that the value of the Liaodong Peninsula and Fengtian is definitely hundreds of times more than five thousand kilograms of gold. In other words, it is not measured in gold at all. With the advantage Tang Qiuli's troops currently have, this point

Money simply couldn't satisfy the appetite of that Chinese devil, so he took the opportunity to capture the entire Manchuria, and he had the ability to do so. In this case, the loss to the empire would not be due to the five thousand kilograms of gold.

The only way now is to pay as little as possible in exchange for Tang Qiuli withdrawing his troops and retreating to the original defense line. This matter is too big and Emperor Hirohito cannot make the decision. He can only summon his close ministers to discuss it together.

Countermeasures.

These ministers who were urgently summoned to the palace were all dumbfounded when they heard that five thousand kilograms of gold were to be taken out. These five thousand kilograms of gold are in the Japanese treasury. The key is that generations of Japanese

People tightened their belts and had to resort to selling iron to save more than 200 tons. Tang Qiuli had to leave five tons at once, and no one could stand it.

According to His Majesty the Emperor, it is more than this. Thinking about it, Tang Qiuli has the upper hand now. I am afraid that these five tons of gold cannot be spent. Is there any good way? Fight and fail. The Kwantung Army troops that can fight,

They are all fighting the Soviets in the Far East, and Soviet reinforcements are constantly arriving in the Far East.

If the situation continues to deteriorate, the Kwantung Army will face a joint attack by the Soviets and Tang Qiuli's troops. Manchuria will definitely be lost. There is no other way but to choose the lesser of two evils and deal exclusively with the Soviets. After all, Tang Qiuli proposed

The conditions have passed, but now the Soviets are jealous and will not stop at all.

The result of the Kwantung Army's cessation was that it suffered hundreds of thousands of casualties and had not yet captured the Far East. Tang Qiuli on this side took the opportunity to occupy Manchuria. The Japanese were overwhelmed and gained nothing. This is difficult. It is difficult to die. Take advantage steadily.

The battle that ended like this was all caused by that damn China devil Tang Qiuli who stabbed a knife in the back, and that Nagano Shuzo who deserved to die ten thousand times for screwing up everything.

Several important ministers couldn't help cursing Tang Qiuli. Army Minister Bin Shanyuan reminded: "Gentlemen, this is not the first time that our empire has suffered a loss from this China devil. We should know his true nature. The key to the problem now is, how to

How to deal with this situation? Your Majesty hopes that you can find a good way."

The final result of the imperial meeting could only be to pay the minimum price in exchange for Tang Qiuli withdrawing his troops from the Liaodong Peninsula and Fengtian. Otherwise, if the current situation continues, even if the gold in the treasury is emptied, nothing can be done

Satisfy the appetite of this Chinese devil.

The only way is to transfer most of the Kwantung Army troops back from the Far East to temporarily curb the ferocious offensive of Tang Qiuli's troops, and then sit down for negotiations, or to push Tang Qiuli's troops back to the Jinzhou line and let the empire negotiate.

There are more chips. Although this is difficult, it is also the only feasible way.

Lieutenant General Ishihara Ichiro, deputy chief of the general staff of the base camp, expressed a different opinion. The Kwantung Army was at a critical moment when it was encircling and annihilating Timoshenko's troops. Wouldn't the deployment of troops at this time allow the Soviets to take a breather? The troops invested in the early stage were very material and amounted to

If the effect is less than my perfection, it will be a loss for the empire, and I think it is inappropriate.

As soon as Ishihara Ichiro finished speaking, he saw Emperor Hirohito looking at him the same way he looked at Nagano Shuzo, as if he was an idiot, "How did this guy become a lieutenant general? Can the strategic position of the Far East be compared with Manchuria? Then

It is the foundation of the empire," Hirohito thought secretly, and in his heart, Ishihara Ichiro was already classified in another book.

Ueda Kenkichi, who was working happily on the Far East front line, could not believe his eyes after receiving the order from the base camp. He saw that Timoshenko was breathing his last breath. In two or three days, the remaining

The hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops were about to be completely annihilated. At this time, if troops were transferred from the Far East to support the Liaodong Peninsula, the entire Far East campaign would fall short. What was the order given by that weak-minded and idiot?

Seeing the signature of the Chief of General Staff of the base camp, Prince Kanin Miyazaihito on the order, Ueda Kenkichi almost cursed, but thinking of the other party's identity, he swallowed back the swear words he was about to say, but it did not prevent him from finishing the order.

Zai Ren's female relatives sent their greetings countless times in their hearts, and of course, they also brought with them the nervous Majesty in the palace.

Faced with the great cause that was about to be achieved, Ueda Kenkichi was like a red-eyed gambler. He said, "The general is out, and the emperor's orders are not accepted." He tore the orders of the General Staff to pieces and commanded the troops to continue to attack the stubborn defense.

The remnants of Timoshenko's army in Arsenyev.

Four hours later, another order was received. This time it was an order signed by His Majesty Emperor Hirohito himself. It was very simple. In the order, Hirohito asked Ueda Kenkichi to immediately mobilize more than 200,000 troops from the Far East front to quickly

Head to the Liaodong Peninsula to stop Tang Qiuli's troops from continuing to attack other areas of Manchuria.

Perhaps it was estimated that Ueda Kenkichi would not be willing to mobilize troops in the face of such a big temptation. In the order, Emperor Hirohito strictly ordered: "If the Kwantung Army does not quickly execute the order and restrain Tang Qiuli's troops from continuing to attack other areas of Manchuria,

Then all the senior officers of the Kwantung Army Headquarters will immediately perform a caesarean section to apologize. The empire does not need generals who ignore the overall situation."

Ueda Kenkichi lost his temper. No matter how courageous he was, he would not dare to disobey the big boss's order unless he did not want to hang out in Japan. On November 8, Ueda Kenkichi attacked Arsenyev's troops.

Deploy 250,000 troops and rush to the Liaodong Peninsula as quickly as possible.

He had no choice. Both the First and Second Armies of the Kwantung Army were entangled by the Soviet army and could not escape. If any of the troops were mobilized, the Soviet army would take the opportunity to go south and join Timoshenko's troops. Instead, they would attack the attacking troops.

The Third and Fourth Army units of the Kwantung Army posed the threat of flanking attacks from both front and rear.

He could only mobilize troops from the Arsenyev battlefield where he had an absolute advantage in strength. If there were less troops, it would not be enough. The Chinese devil Tang Qiuli's troops numbered more than 200,000. If he transferred tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands, that would be

The sheep enters the tiger's mouth. As a result, the Kwantung Army troops attacking Timoshenko's Far East Second Army had less than 130,000 troops. The intensity of the Kwantung Army's attack immediately dropped.

More than 200,000 troops were dispatched. Kenkichi Ueda fell from extreme excitement to the bottom of despair. It felt like he was waging war on a peerless beauty and was about to reach the peak of happiness when he was suddenly attacked by someone.

He slapped him hard on the back and told him expressionlessly, "The time is up, come down immediately."

Ueda Kenkichi was depressed, so depressed that he wanted to commit suicide, and he was so disappointed that he wanted to commit suicide. He was like a wounded wild wolf, staring with fierce eyes in the frontline headquarters. He didn't like anything he looked at.

My favorite confidential secretary, Miss Sadako, also received a few slaps from His Excellency the Commander, until her face turned pale.

As for the staff officers who had been punched and kicked by the Commander, there were countless of them. Kenkichi Ueda was on the verge of exploding. He didn’t understand the thoughts of the senior officials in the base camp. Why did they do such a thing when he had achieved a complete victory?

Bastard's orders.

It now seems that it is extremely difficult to eliminate Timoshenko's troops. He still can't understand that the Soviets on the opposite side are like cockroaches that cannot be killed. They have tenacious vitality and are brave and good at fighting against his more than 400,000 soldiers.

The Kwantung Army soldiers fought for more than two months, and even though they were breathing their last breath, they would not die.

The Kwantung Army also paid a price of hundreds of thousands of people. Shouldn't Soviet Russian soldiers be so tenacious in combat? According to military seniors who participated in the Russo-Japanese War, as long as the Russian soldiers were surrounded, these poorly equipped Russians would

, would immediately raise their hands and surrender. Therefore, in the first Russo-Japanese War, the imperial soldiers dared to attack thousands of Russian soldiers with a force of a thousand.

But after more than two months of bloody battles with the Russian army, this is not the case at all. If what the seniors in the army say is true, how can we explain the situation in front of us? If the seniors in the army lie, there is no need to fart and fool these juniors.

Ueda Kenkichi couldn't figure it out, so he was even more depressed and looked a little stupid.

The captain of the guard was smart. Seeing that the commander continued to be depressed like this, he might go crazy, so he came up with a good idea and led dozens of captured Soviet soldiers to let the commander vent his anger.

This trick worked really well. Ueda Kenkichi chopped off the heads of more than a dozen Soviet prisoners in one breath. The resentment and depression in his heart were followed by the heads rolling on the ground, the pungent smell of blood, and the Soviet corpses scattered everywhere.

, gradually dissipated, and the whole person regained his energy, and then, with satisfaction, he ordered the troops to stop attacking and instead encircle. Each department established blocking positions to prevent the Soviets from breaking out. As long as the Soviets were still in the net, they would not be able to escape.

The first person to feel the weakening of the Kwantung Army's offensive power was the almost desperate Timoshenko. After more than two months of fierce fighting, the Second Far East Army suffered heavy losses, and its strength was reduced from the initial 280,000 to less than 100,000.

Were it not for the continuous airdrop of ammunition and supplies by the Far East Military Region Air Force, the group army would have long since ceased to exist and was submerged in the tidal offensive of the Kwantung Army.

Since September 10th, the artillery fire in the Far East has not stopped. There are flames all over the place, the sound of gunfire day and night, the sea breeze blowing from the Sea of ​​Japan, and the smoke that never disperses in the sky. At the outer position of Arsenyev,

I don’t know how many times it changed hands, for

On a highland of less than one square kilometer, the Japanese and the Soviets invested tens of thousands of troops in a desperate fight. The corpses of soldiers from both sides were piled stiffly on the frozen ground in layers. The cold wind overnight, the flowing blood, and the frozen ground.

Mottled dark red.

Timoshenko has become numb. He repeats the same orders every day to regain the lost positions. Thousands of Soviet soldiers are engaged in a deadly defensive battle. Without the glimmer of hope of the Transcaucasian Front, there is no Far East Military District.

He himself did not have the confidence to support the air supply channels established by the Air Force.

(To be continued)