The Third Reich in Desperation

"Führer!" Ribbentrop raised his glass excitedly, wanting to toast.But he suddenly found that there was no more wine in his glass, and he had finished drinking just now.

"Pour the wine." Reinhardt looked at the servant at the side and instructed with heartache.

While pouring wine, Reinhardt reminded Ribbentrop: "By the way, in a few days, you remember to propose to the UK 'ask Poland to send a plenipotentiary envoy to Berlin for negotiations'."

After being stunned for a few seconds, Ribbentrop immediately realized what Reinhardt meant, and promised with a smile: "Please rest assured, the head of state, I will definitely do my job of public opinion facing the world and try my best to confuse Britain, France and other countries."

"It's good to understand," Reinhard said absent-mindedly as the servant poured half a glass of red wine for Ribbentrop.

Bastard, that's a big oval glass!This servant has too little eyesight. Feelings are not your own wine, so you won't be distressed anyway.

Seeing that after drinking like this, the top Bordeaux red wine that Krupp had finally obtained should have bottomed out, Reinhardt quickly changed his face: "Oh, oh, why is my stomach feeling a little uncomfortable... ...Let’s stop here for today, and I will invite you to dinner another day.”

Ribbentrop didn't see Reinhard's inner thoughts and said with concern: "Führer, are you okay, do you want me to call a doctor for you?"

It's no wonder that Ribbentrop, who is usually quite excited, didn't see Reinhard's real intentions. Who would have thought that the head of state of a country, the real boss behind Germany's largest financial conglomerate, the Rhein Group, would be so stingy that he felt distressed. bottle of wine!

Although it has been more than 10 years, Reinhardt still hasn't got rid of that preoccupied thinking.As a national leader, his qualities are very suitable for resource-poor Germany.But as a boss, he felt wronged by his subordinates.

"No need!" Reinhard hurriedly stopped, waved his hand and said, "You go back first, I have to go to the bathroom here. Another day... another day, I will definitely ask you out for dinner again."

Text Chapter 155 The Belated Northward Advance

In the Japanese base camp, General Gen Sugiyama, who had always been calm, was pacing back and forth holding a piece of information, sometimes anxiously looking at the big map on the wall, and sometimes comparing the contents of the information in his hand in doubt.

"General!" As Sugiyama Moto's confidant, Lieutenant General Dizhou Libing rushed over after receiving the notification, and already knew a thing or two about the information in Sugiyama Moto's hands.At this moment, he was looking at Sugiyama Moto with a hesitant expression.

In fact, Sugiyama Moto knew what he wanted to say without Dizhou Libing opening his mouth.This information came in such a timely manner that it was as if it was tailor-made for the Japanese army.

"The Soviet Union is about to attack Poland across the board, and it will be difficult to mobilize new troops to the Far East in the short term!"

Such a piece of information was too important to Sugiyama Moto.

On the Huaxia battlefield, millions of Japanese troops worked in vain. Many divisions this year have almost stood still, in stark contrast to the rapid advances at the beginning of the war.Everyone can see that it is almost impossible to defeat the Chinese army in a short period of time.Throughout the Huaxia battlefield, the Japanese army's forces have become more and more scattered and exhausted.

Although within this month, the headquarters had already made a decision to send another 40 people from the mainland to the Huaxia battlefield.But even with the addition of these 40 people, Sugiyama Yuan does not think that the Japanese army can quickly open up the situation and resolve the war in China.

In stark contrast to the millions of troops trapped in the quagmire of China, the Kwantung Army, which has 11 people in 23 divisions, has been staying in the garrison to waste time and waste troops.Although using this force to confront the seemingly stronger Soviet army is the established policy established by the base camp long ago, it doesn't seem like a good way to keep an elite force standing still.

No matter how elite the troops are, if they don't fight for five or eight years, can they still be elite troops?Without the tempering of the flames of war, no amount of training can make up for the rust that started from the bones.It's not that training is useless, but actual combat is a must for a unit that really wants to be called elite.

Besides, the style of the Japanese Army has never been to sit still.At the beginning, the Northeast Army had 30 soldiers, armed with aircraft, tanks and cannons, but they were driven away by the 1 Kwantung Army.Although it was a fluke, it was also a classic victory with less.

However, since then, Huaxia's resistance has become more and more tough and unyielding.The record of the Kwantung Army has remained in that initial battle.

But now, the "Northern Movement" supported by Sugiyama Yuan can't do it anymore. They urgently need a war to suppress the southward strategy proposed by those guys in the Navy, a war that is overwhelming!

At the beginning, the Northward Movement still hid the secret anti-tank weapons obtained from Germany and did not use them to this day.The purpose is to give the unknowing Soviet Union a head-on blow in the future.But now, the war has been fought for so many years, and the secret weapons are still hidden and not used, and the elite troops are kept out of order.

"What do you think of this information?" Moto Sugiyama thought for a long time but couldn't come up with anything, and began to ask Major General Dizhou Libing for his opinion.

"General, first of all, I'm not very optimistic about the source of this information. I heard that it was sent secretly by Mr. Hans, the German ambassador to Japan, isn't it?" Dizhou Libing said respectfully.

Sugiyama Moto didn't speak, but just nodded his head, acquiescing to Dizhou Libing's question just now.

"Then, the authenticity of this information is quite problematic. Since we launched a full-scale war against China, the Germans have almost cut off official contact with us. In recent years, Germany and Japan have even stopped all exchanges. At this time, the German ambassador to Japan suddenly handed over a piece of Soviet intelligence to us, isn't it too strange?" As Sugiyama Moto's confidant, Dizhou Libing has no scruples when speaking, and he speaks bluntly Tell each other.

In fact, the sordidness between Germany and Japan does not stop there.During the Battle of Songhu, the Japanese army found a large number of Chinese soldiers with German helmets on their heads and holding German weapons, and immediately questioned Germany.

As a result, the reply from the Germans can almost piss people off. At that time, Ribbentrop of the German Foreign Ministry replied, "Check, Germany will investigate this matter thoroughly, and will definitely find out the truth. Please Japan. Waiting for the results."

This time, it is two years......

To this day, Germany has "but" not found a result.

As a result, today, the German side, which has not been in contact for two years, suddenly sent such urgently needed information to the headquarters of the "Northern Movement", and the motive is inevitably a bit suspicious.

"Yoxi... Although the relationship between the Germans and us has been tepid in recent years, we are still the treaty countries that signed the "Anti-Soviet Agreement" together. In terms of relations with the Soviet Union, our interests are the same. "As a general, Moto Sugiyama naturally knows a lot of internal information, which of course includes the "Anti-Soviet Treaty" secretly signed by Germany and Japan 15 years ago.

Speaking of which, Moto Sugiyama at that time was still good friends with Major General Kuko Umekawa who went to Germany to sign the treaty.

That was a major general who left a deep impression on Sugiyama Moto.He was the first officer to talk to himself, who was still the head of the military section, and talked about the importance of the Army Aviation, and he was also recognized as the most promising young officer in the country at that time.Sugiyama Moto believes that if he is still alive, his current achievements may be comparable to that of the German head of state!

The headquarters of the Japanese army, this comprehensive organization under the joint responsibility of the Minister of War and the Minister of the Navy, and the daily guidance of the Chief of Staff, the Deputy Chief of Staff, and the Chief of Navy Commander, should have existed the same as the German Supreme Command.

It's a pity that there is no one in Japan who can command all the generals like Reinhardt, so this organization that should have played a coordinating role has now become a place where the army and the navy are wrangling.

And the major general who was most likely to integrate this organization, it is said that he was shot in the head by the current German head of state on the land of Germany, which he most hoped to unite!

Sugiyama still remembers that before his departure, Major General Mei Chuan threatened to bring back the most needed weapon technology and the most powerful ally in the world for the Empire of Japan.As a result, weapon technology was brought back, but people stayed there.

This major general who has never participated in factional struggles, and is very good at taking advantage of the contradictions between the Northern Movement and the Southern Movement to reap the benefits of the fisherman.When he first set off for Germany, he was still a neutral person who did not interfere on both sides. When the body was sent back, he was rumored to be a staunch supporter of the "Southern Movement".

And I heard that Hiroshi Oshima, who was accompanying Major General Meichuan at that time, had rumors that Major General Meichuan was murdered by the domestic Northern Movement and Reinhardt.

This kind of argument is quite popular in Japan. How about explaining to others why the Germans immediately sold them to the Northern Movement to deal with the Soviet armored forces after killing Major General Meichuan?It must have been in contact a long time ago, knowing what the Beijin faction wanted in advance, and then casually killed Major General Mei Chuan for the Beijin faction.

Besides, Major General Mei Chuan had never been to Germany before, and he had no grievances or enmities with the Germans, so there was no reason for others to harm him.In this way, everything became a big game played by the Beijin faction.

Fortunately, the Nanjin faction didn't seem to know that Major General Meichuan was from their side, and the Germans also gave the Nanjin faction, that is, part of the technical assistance to the Japanese Navy.The emperor quickly sent someone to intervene in the mediation, so this matter did not make a big fuss in the end.

However, there was also an impact, because Major General Umekawa killed Inukai Takeshi, who was the first in history to propose sending troops to Nomonkan, so the Battle of Nomonkan, which was supposed to break out in May 1939, was delayed until September.

Text Chapter 156 Goal Normen Threshold

"No matter what, we have cooperated with Germany after all. It is also in the interests of the Germans for the Japanese army to go north to contain the Soviet Union, so there is no need for them to lie about this information." Moto Sugiyama stroked his mustache, both like He was convincing Dizhou Libing, and he reasoned as if he was convincing himself.

Although Germany and Japan are not allies, there has been no hostility between the two countries. To some extent, Germany may indeed send the Soviet military intelligence they obtained to Japan.On the surface, the people are selling favors to Japan, but in fact, isn’t it also for their own interests?

"The interests of the Germans, the interests of the Germans..." Sugiyama Moto said to himself as if he had discovered something.

"So that's it! I understand, I finally figured it out! Once the Soviet Union captures Poland, Germany will have a border with the Soviet Union. That's why the Germans were the first to get the information that the Soviet Union was planning to attack Poland. Immediately notify us of the time to lure us to sneak attack on the Soviet Union from behind. They are begging us, the Great Japanese Empire, quack quack..." Sugiyama Moto looked at his confidant Dizhou Libing with bright eyes Major General said.

"Souga!" Dizhou Libing also nodded and said, "Then shall we follow the suggestion sent by the German ambassador and launch an attack on their Far East after the Soviet Union sent troops to Poland?"

"Yes, of course we have to sell this face to Germany." Sugiyama Moto laughed and said: "You think, the Northern Movement of the Empire has been looking for opportunities to defeat the Soviet Union and achieve true dominance in Asia. It can be said , even if the Germans did not send this information, we will soon start fighting against the Soviet Union. Therefore, even if it seems that the Germans are hiding behind the cheap, this does not actually violate the strategy of the Great Japanese Empire direction. On the contrary, the information sent by the German ambassador has really helped us a lot.”

Do us a favor?Dizhou Libing suddenly discovered something from these words, and raised his head to look at Sugiyama Yuan in surprise.

"It seems that you have already guessed it. That's right, the empire has long planned the opportunity to fight against Su. Now it seems that we are very likely to be the executors of this plan." Sugiyama Moto smiled slightly: "I will be The highest person in charge of this battle, and you are my forward general."

"Then..." Dizhou Libing stared deeply at Sugiyama Yuandao: "If the vanguard of this war will fall on my shoulders, where should I start the attack? Should we find out first."

"First attack the Mongolian People's Republic in the Nomonhan area, and occupy the Haraha region in the east, as a springboard for invading the Soviet Far East in the next step, and then realize the plan to move north." Sugiyama Moto said slowly: To open up the situation around the threshold, how to fight the following battles is my task."

"Your Excellency, General!" A major staff officer hurriedly opened the door and ran into Sugiyama Moto's office with a telegram.

Sugiyama Moto waved his hands with a flat expression and said, "Tell me, is there a new mission coming?"