Tanaka Shinichi's request for "instructions", Yamashita Fengfumi wanted to move it, and then remembered that he was the commander of the front army, what did he do earlier All the generals of the Sixth Division were beheaded by the Chinese Expeditionary Force to build a Jingguan that had already made Yamashita Fumimi angry, and the most taboo thing for the Japanese officers and soldiers was to be beheaded, because the lonely soul who lost his head could not find his way home, that is to say, he could not be reincarnated, especially the terrifying Jingguan on those airdrop leaflets, which was a devastating blow to the morale of the troops, and he did not expect that the reinforcements that Tanaka Shinichi swore were so useless Yamashita Fengfu naturally knows the reason why Tanaka Shinichi hates him, and it is precisely for this reason that he has been suppressing Tanaka Shinichi, it can be said that whether it is Yamashita Fengfu or Tanaka Shinichi, they are just victims of the balance between the two main forces of royalism and hardliners.
Yamashita Fengwen Shiranaka Shinichi tried to set himself on fire to the sinister intentions and purposes, he must not let this fire burn to India's own side, it was also the people of the Kawasho faction who pushed Tanaka Shinichi to serve as the commander of the Burmese garrison in the base camp, I believe that now whether it is the royalists led by Minjiro Nishishi, or the hardliners led by Hideki Tojo, they all hope to see the old guys of the Kawashoku faction unlucky.
For the vast India, many natural deep-water ports can allow the Japanese Navy to obtain supplies, and more importantly, the occupation of India is equivalent to opening an important passage to the Middle East, the significance of occupying India is far greater than that of Burma, and the occupation of India is equivalent to controlling the Indian Ocean and the entire Bay of Bengal, and the British power will completely withdraw from Asia and no longer have a place to stand, completely cutting off the last supply base for international aid to China.
In that case, all the supplies that arrived in China through India could be cut off, and the American planes that brought great damage to the imperial army could only stay on the ground and be destroyed because of the lack of fuel and ammunition, or became the trophies of the imperial army, and the Chinese expeditionary force, which was the heart of the imperial army, was like a tiger with its teeth and claws cut off, and the prospect of capturing India was too tempting, and in Yamashita Fengfumi's opinion, even if it was worth sacrificing 200,000 or even 300,000 troops for this goal, This was an opportunity to settle the Shina incident once and for all, and considering the current international situation, Yamashita believed that this opportunity would probably be an important opportunity for the empire to grasp in the end.
If Tanaka Shinichi is allowed to retreat to India, it is difficult for Yamashita to imagine that the Chinese Expeditionary Force will follow suit, unlike Burma, India is mostly a vast plain area, and most of the Chinese Expeditionary Force is a mechanized force, which is suitable for mobile operations in the plain area, and its combat effectiveness in the plain area will be several times that of Burma.
Moreover, in the front-line counterattack a few days ago, the Chinese Expeditionary Force dispatched dozens of medium combat vehicles to cover the counterattack of the British and Indian troops, and if it were not for the decisive order of the commander of the Second Division Okazaki Kiyozaburo Division to cover the artillery fire at that time, the consequences would be unimaginable, and after the decisive and fierce artillery fire completely gave the British and Indian troops a annihilating blow, the tank units of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, which had lost infantry cover, were forced to retreat.
Calcutta had an unknown number of Chinese chariot troops, which had always been a major problem for Yamashita and hung over his head like a sword of Damocles.
So Yamashita Bongwen has been waiting for news from Chandras, hoping that he can bring him good news like Imphal, the strongest combat force left in Myanmar is the Sixth Division and the Eighteenth Division, now the Sixth Division has become history, and the Eighteenth Division is Tanaka's new reliance, Burma seems to have become a dead end, Yamashita Bongwen must not allow a squadron equipped with tanks and armored vehicles with strong mobility and absolute superiority in firepower to appear behind his own ground, If the Chinese expeditionary force took advantage of the situation, the attacking army would probably fall into a desperate situation, and the supplies he carried were not abundant, and the offensive and defensive battles in Calcutta did not seem to be a complete battle.
Yamashita is clear.
He could not afford to make such a big decision.
So he immediately reported Tanaka's request for Shinichi to the base camp. 3 a.m. on May 11.
When the earth was still in darkness.
Located in a mountain col on the outskirts of Tokyo, Japan, the staff headquarters of the base camp in Nakaji did not care about the light control at all.
Even the street lights outside the gate were lit.
Cars with curtains on them kept driving into the compound.
The sound of the boots and the ground making the otherwise sleepy Sentinel feel extra energetic.
Especially after the arrival of several black cars with chrysanthemum flags.
The local gendarmes who came with them added double posts to each post.
Completely heavily guarded.
Even stupid people can understand this posture when they see it.
There must have been something big wrong at the front.
Otherwise, these big shots, who are rarely seen on weekdays, will definitely not rush to the third department of the staff headquarters in the early hours of the morning.
Wait until all the big people arrive.
All the lights went out instantly.
It was as if everything was swallowed up by darkness. just Hideki Tojo stopped.
The sudden darkness gave him a sense of premonition.
Inside the cherry blossom hall.
Emperor Hirohito wiped his glasses with a gloomy face.
Hideki Tojo was silent.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Minister of the Interior and the Interior, and others directly chose to stay in other places.
Sit cross-legged on the side of the low table.
It seems to be moving away from the center of power This cherry blossom hall is not a formal conference hall.
It is a lounge for the exclusive use of the emperor.
Due to the special content of today's meeting. and anti-aircraft lights are needed.
So the meeting was moved here.
The first is that the main forces of the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy had a fierce battle with the main force of the U.S.
Pacific Fleet at 2 a.m. on May 11, 19, one hundred and fifty nautical miles southeast of the Guadalcanal Islands.
The second is that the Burmese left-behind troops of the Burmese Front under the Southern Army were cut off by the Chinese army after the reinforcement of the Sixth Division of Myitkyina was stubbornly blocked by the Chinese army, and faced the danger of being divided and annihilated by the enemy on their backs.
The recent successive defeats and defeats on the battlefield of China and the battlefield in Burma have completely numbed the senior staff and deputy chiefs of the base camp, and the first deputy chief of staff of the base camp, Miyamoto Kii, repeatedly looked through the telegram of request for instructions transmitted by Yamashita Fengwen and frowned unhappily and said: "These useless guys, they know about asking for this and that all day long, and it seems that it is difficult for us to hear some good news in the Imperial Army."
Onotaka, who was the vice minister of the navy, looked at Hideki Tojo, who was also the Minister of War and the prime minister of the cabinet, and said wittily: "I'm afraid it's because of the submachine gun or the chariot this time, should we stop building the Daiho or dismantle the bushido spirit that the Musashi Army keeps saying."
Hirohito's cold gaze made Ono Taka who was about to take advantage of the situation suddenly lose his voice, Tojo Hideki glanced at Ono Taka expressionlessly, as if he had seen nothing, he knew that Ono Taka was just a mad dog released by his opponent, if he fought back, it would be equivalent to becoming the same as a mad dog, and not fighting back would give people a more solid feeling.
Hideki Tojo is not a well-cultivated person, otherwise he would not have the nickname of Razorface to be famous, and this time he rarely did not fight back at Ono Taka, in fact, he had to do it.
The decoy fleet under the command of Admiral Yamamoto 56 has been surrounded by the 17th, 18th, and 20th task forces of the US Pacific Fleet, and the US Fifth Pacific Fleet, which has been wandering outside the Guadalcanal Islands, is even more eyeing it, and the number of US warships in the Pacific waters has clearly exceeded that of the Combined Fleet.
Although Yamamoto Fifty-six repeatedly contradicted him, the prime minister, but at the critical moment, Yamamoto's sacrificial spirit was incomparable to Ono Taka's cowardly straw bag who only shouted empty slogans and had a fat belly.
Hideki Tojo sorted out his thoughts for a while, and then spoke: "The battle of Kuah Island has broken out, we can only sit quietly and listen to its voice, any interference and inquiry can only add a burden to the soldiers on the front line, please Your Majesty the Emperor send an inspirational edict to praise all the generals on the front line, especially the naval generals."
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Emperor Hirohito nodded cautiously, took the tea handed to him, sniffed it, and said, "Then what should Myanmar do with that?"
Tojo Hideki looked at the successor emperor who was held up to the altar by the army, it seemed that the emperor was quite dissatisfied with the army's control of the imperial power, Tojo Hideki looked at it all, he said leisurely: "You in the base camp must have thought and hesitated repeatedly between India and Burma, I believe that the losses of the Indian attack corps and the Burmese garrison are what we don't want and don't want to see, but the actual situation now is that due to the incompetence of some generals, the war situation in Myanmar is rotten to the point that it can't be cleaned up." ” Hideki Tojo was vigorously attacking the Army, and everyone present had a very bad premonition, they were worried that Tojo was using a more violent attack to transfer the crisis after attacking the Army, which was already an old trick that Tojo had tried and tried.
Hideki Tojo looked around at everyone, and suddenly said loudly: "We must not let the defeat of Burma affect the Indian battlefield at a critical juncture, my opinion is that the Burmese garrison is elected as a capable person to take unified command, and the troops will immediately turn to Yangon to break through, and Watanabe Masao's 56th Division can be used as a receiving force." ” Everyone knows that whether they can break through the encirclement depends on whether the Burmese garrison has enough time and determination to break through the enemy advancing north and south of Mandalay, of course, they are only decision-makers, and the specific tactical implementation must be completed by the generals below, and the quality of the completion is naturally the best example of the ability of the generals.
Emperor Hirohito, who was worried about the Combined Fleet, waved his hand without thinking about it, signaling that he agreed to Hideki Tojo's plan, and Emperor Hirohito was going to the temple in Fukuoka to pray for all the generals of the Combined Fleet
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