binnovel Chapter 541 The Japanese Army Has Another Option
Chapter 541 The Japanese Army Has Another Option
Ask these people who love to shirk responsibility when there will be a proper solution.
It would be better to ask Okamura Yasuji. Although none of his suggestions were adopted in the first two times, it was actually proved that his budget and analysis were not wrong. His considerations were also long-term.
Sakatan Seishirō, Arita Hachihachirō, Prince Asaka and others all set their sights on Okamura Yasuji.
Okamura Neiji stood up and said, "Your Excellency, Prime Minister, I do have two plans, but I don't know if they are feasible."
There are two. One of them is always appropriate. The Prime Minister hummed and smiled. "Then please tell us about it, Mr. Okamura."
On the back of the military meeting is a world map.
Okamura Neiji walked over to the military map and took the command pole from the side. "Please look here, everyone."
Needless to say, everyone present knew that talking alone would be worse than referring to a map, so everyone's eyes turned to Okamura Neiji.
Okamura Neiji coughed. "The reason why European and American countries, especially Britain, are increasing their assistance to Yamashiro now is because they sense the threat. If we move north, the pressure and threat they perceive will be reduced as we move north."
"What are you talking about here? If we go north, we will have to face Northern Soviet Union. Don't you think that we are currently capable of fighting them?" Director of the Operations Research Office, Yuan, was the first to object. The Empire really did not have such ability.
He was clear-headed, but Sakatan Seishiro and Asaka's eyes lit up. It was better to fight with Kitasu than with Europe and America.
The most excited person among them is the Minister of Finance. Since the outbreak of the war, the money in his hands has been spent like water, like a bottomless pit. Large amounts of materials have been transported out every day, and he feels very distressed.
Originally, it was somewhat better, but after European and American countries began to restrict transportation, his life became even more difficult.
According to what Okamura Neiji said, this is completely possible.
The threat from European and American countries will weaken as the Empire's policy moves northward, so they will not be able to restrict transportation to the Empire. After all, they and the North Soviet Union are hostile to each other because of their different political views.
"I think it's feasible." The Chancellor of the Exchequer was the first to speak.
"We object." The navy, who had been silent all this time, suddenly shouted.
Sakatan Seishirō was amazed at the navy who had been acting as dead men since the beginning; "What does this have to do with you?"
If you don't go north, then it naturally has nothing to do with my navy. If you go north, then it does matter.
What a joke! The main force heading north must be the army, which would cause a reversal in the distribution of materials in the empire. This is something the navy cannot possibly agree to and absolutely cannot tolerate.
If he agreed to this, he would probably be beaten to death by his naval colleagues when he returned.
"How can it have nothing to do with us? There are few people in the north. What are we going to do? We are going to be savages. We think that if we really want to divert the conflict, then the best way is to go south. How can we, as a great empire, allow these scoundrels to bully us like this? Don't you know that once there is a first move, there will be a second move? Our concession will only make them more aggressive."
That makes sense. The others began to grumble.
After a while, the conference room became noisy again, but unlike the aimless quarrel just now, this time there was a difference. At least, the navy, which had been silent all the time, joined in, and their voices were louder than anyone else's.
Amid the quarrel, the Prime Minister also fell into deep thought: Should he go north?
Zhou Weiguo brought Xiao Ya back from the war zone headquarters, and then went to a snack stand in Changsha to eat a bowl of stinky tofu each, and then staggered back to the independent regiment.
Entering the regiment headquarters, he took a look inside.
My goodness, this regiment headquarters used to have the most people, but now, only Jinxiu who is on duty at the radio station is left, and the rest are gone.
"Jinxiu, where are they?" Zhou Weiguo asked, cigarette in hand.
Jinxiu, who was sitting next to the duty officer, pointed to the backyard; "It's in the backyard."
The backyard is just the foundation of the house prepared by this family. There is nothing there. What are these people doing there?
Zhou Weiguo said "oh" in confusion and took Xiao Ya to the backyard.
Entering the backyard, he saw Fang Shengli, Shen Xin, Tian Jing, Sano Tadayoshi, and Kuroki Ichiro there. And Chao Xiang Xiuling was drawing something on the ground with a clothesline in her hand.
He squeezed in from Tian Jing with a cigarette in his mouth and took a look.
Asaka Hiderei is currently drawing a simple world map, but he did not draw the regions of each country. However, everyone present has graduated from professional schools, and they all know where the dividing lines are.
"What are you doing?" Zhou Weiguo poked Tian Jing beside him and asked.
Tian Jing glanced at the man in front of her, then pointed at Chao Xiang Xiuling who was busy.
"After you left, Xiuling mentioned that the Japanese army had another plan for aid from European and American countries. We felt it was difficult to discuss it at the regiment headquarters, so we moved it here."
Xiao Ya took out a cigarette from her pocket and handed it to Tian Jing. Xiao Ya actually smoked, but she seldom smoked in the past. After joining the army, once the battle started and the pressure came, she smoked a lot.
Almost everyone in the independent regiment smokes, so Xiao Ya got a second-hand cigarette production line from Kowloon a few months ago to produce cigarettes and provide them to the troops.
The cigarettes she smoked were very expensive, they were the Fairy brand of ladies' cigarettes, a pack cost about three yuan, but she was not short of money. Zhou Weiguo also did not allow her to smoke the inferior ones.
"What plan?" Xiao Ya took out an exquisite lighter, which was given to her by Ruth. It was small and exquisite.
Tian Jing took the cigarette and pointed to the outline of the world map that had appeared. "Go north."
Paji...
Zhou Weiguo, who was taking off his helmet and brushing off the dust, heard this and the helmet in his hand fell to the ground with a clang.
Zhao Shoutian quickly bent down and handed the helmet to Zhou Weiguo.
Just then, Xiang Xiuling finished the map. She looked up at Zhou Weiguo and said, "Are you back?"
"Yeah." Zhou Weiguo responded and pointed; "Tell me what you think."
Chao Xiang Xiuling hummed and saw that everyone was looking at her. She pointed to the map and said, "One of the Japanese plans is to attack Guangxi and cut off our foreign aid transportation line. This plan will cause our foreign aid to fall into a short period of difficulty, but it will increase the conflicts between other countries and the Japanese army. From a long-term perspective, we hope that the Japanese army will take this route, but there is another way, which is to go north."
She stretched out her hand and drew a circle on the map of the mountain city. "We remain in a stalemate here, and the Japanese army will hit the elite troops of the Kwantung Army and the local troops, and quickly launch a surprise attack on the north. The sense of crisis in several European and American countries will disappear directly, and they may even cancel the restrictions on the Japanese army. As for the reason, I think you should all understand."