The Imperial House of the Japanese Emperor.

"Your Majesty, this is a telegram sent back by the Ambassador of Rio. Please read it to your Majesty!"

After receiving a telegram from the Embassy in the United States, Foreign Minister Arida Hachiro came to the door to see the Japanese emperor as it was important because of the serious consequences.

At this time, Chief of Staff, Miyamiya Yasuhito, Secretary of Army Seishiro Itagaki, and Director of Education of the Army Yozo Yamada were discussing the national policy on the development of the army with Hirohito at the Emperor Imperial Office.

According to the Japanese Constitution of 1889, the Emperor of Japan was the supreme head of state and the supreme commander of the Japanese army and navy. He could command all troops in the country.

But in fact, due to the strong power of Japanese warlords after the 20th century, soldiers were influential in national policy direction. The most powerful military figures were the Army Minister, Chief of Staff and Director of Army Education, who was known at the time as the "Three Chiefs of the Japanese Army".

The Minister of the Army is the head of the Japanese Army Province, in charge of government defense policies, troops mobilization, defense budget, weapon development, etc. For military and political issues, you can submit a report to the Emperor side by side with the Prime Minister or the Chief of Staff, or you can submit a report to the Emperor alone;

The Chief of Staff is the head of the Japanese General Staff Headquarters. His main responsibility is to assist the Emperor in commanding the army and issue combat orders on behalf of the Emperor;

The Army Education Director controls all primary and intermediate military academies of all branches of the Japanese Army.

Therefore, the tendency of the "three chiefs" of the Japanese army often determines the decision-making direction of the Japanese military.

If the Japanese military is dissatisfied with the policy of a certain Japanese cabinet, it will not send active lieutenant generals or generals to the government as military ministers, making the cabinet unable to emerge or collapse. Through this method, Japanese warlords can manipulate the country's policy direction.

"Yo Xi!"

Hirohito nodded, then picked up the message and started reading it. He just looked at it for a few seconds and his eyebrows became tight. After a while, he asked Itagaki Seishiro in an unhappy tone:

"Adei Sakagaki, what's going on? What did Takashi Tsubasa do in Shandong? It's so complicated that even the US president personally asked about it?"

Seishiro Itagaki frowned slightly and said in a deep voice: "I received a telegram from the 12th Army a few days ago. His Highness Jae-in and I have discussed this matter specifically!

At that time, it was decided to let the 12th Army defend the Yellow River Defense Line, Jinan Prefecture and Taishan Defense Line, and urgently dispatched two divisions to support the 12th Army and imposed a military siege on the Chinese Tiger Army!

I guess the Tai Gaoguizang held the Chinese people as a meat shield because he was under the strong military pressure of the Chinese Tiger Army and it was difficult to stick to the existing cities and defense lines. Let’s take a temporary measure!”

Zairen of Xianyuan nodded and said, "Your Majesty, this is true! Although the method of hiding the tail high turtle is a bit excessive, the results are currently quite good. At least the Chinese Tiger Army stopped the offensive and became helpless!

Otherwise, they would not use this inefficient diplomatic method to put pressure on it, obviously this is their weakness!

After all, Chinese people have always liked to seek fame. I think the empire can make good use of this to curb the expansion speed of the Chinese Tiger Army and gain some time for the growth of the imperial army!"

"The emperor's uncle said it very reasonably!"

After understanding the whole story, Hirohito pondered for a while and said, "But doing so has a great impact on the empire's reputation. It's fine if Britain, France and Japan are weak, but the United States is not like this!

The United States holds the strategic resources we need in our hands, and the empire's resource reserves are far from enough!

There is no need to worry about the politicians and oligarchs in the US government. They are a group of profit-oriented capitalists in the face of economic interests!

But the power of the people behind these capitalists cannot be ignored. For votes and hypocritical values, those politicians are likely to make decisions that are unfavorable to the empire!

There is a saying that people have to bow their heads under the roof, and the empire must give the US government some face!"

"His Majesty the Emperor is wise!"

Seishiro Itagaki nodded, and then said: "A little impatience will cause trouble. We do need to do it cleanly and neatly!

But we cannot give up this deterrent method now. The Imperial Army needs more time to be reborn from the ashes!"

Arida Hachiro said at this time: "Since the Chinese Tiger Army can engage in public opinion wars, the Japanese Empire can do the same!

Why don’t we send NHK Radio to do the show to keep a close eye on it and let the world know that the Chinese Hu Ben Army is framed?”

"Suoga! What I'm saying is very true!"

Hirohito suddenly showed his eyebrows. The strength of the Chinese Tiger Army had reached a very terrifying height. If the Japanese Army wants to gather and annihilate it at the current stage, it must concentrate more than 15 full divisions!

However, Japan is not ready for such a large-scale battle at present, not to mention that the Japanese army's weapons and equipment are relatively backward. Even if it is easy to encircle and annihilate the Chinese Tiger Army at any cost, the casualties and consumption paid are definitely an unbearable astronomical figure!

Therefore, Japan is holding back its energy and is intensively expanding the coal liquefaction industry, building a stronger military industrial system, and developing new anti-tank weapons, new combat vehicles and new aircraft.

All of this requires time and massive resources, so even if the Chinese Tiger Army repeatedly expands and "provokes", Hirohito and other Japanese senior executives did not intend to fight Yang Fan in the short term.

Shandong Jinan 12th Army Headquarters.

Soon, Otaka Kasumi received a telegram from the General Staff Headquarters.

After reading the telegram, Takashi Tsubasa snorted coldly: "Does the lion need to pay attention to the protests of sheep? These Chinese cowards cannot defeat the Imperial Japanese Army on the battlefield, and they actually put pressure on despicable means!"

Kobayashi Asano Rou smiled and said, "It seems that our strategy of strengthening the walls and clearing the wilderness is very effective. They are exhausted!"

"Suoga! Since that's the case, let's continue to use this trick to make those false benevolent and righteous Chinese Hu Ben Army helpless!"

Otaka Tutsu laughed out loud in a very arrogant way. It seemed that they were really winners, and they did not feel any guilt at all for committing a series of crimes against humanity massacre!

Kobayashi Asazaburo shook his head gently and said, "No, Otaka, we still have to implement the commands of the base camp! After all, the Japanese Empire currently needs to rely on the war resources of the United States. Our enemies are China and the Soviet Union, not the entire world!"

"That's right, let the imperial warriors on the frontline treat the Chinese people well! After all, China and Japan are kind to each other and build the Greater East Asia common prosperity circle! Haha!"

Wei Gaoguizang smiled coldly. Now the 17th Division and the 35th Division have been reinforced, and the 12th Army has more than 70,000 troops under its jurisdiction!

Although there is still a big gap compared with the Chinese Tiger Ben Army, it has the advantage of defensive geographical advantages, and with the use of ordinary people as bargaining chips, Taigao Turtle is very confident that it can hold on and siege the Chinese Tiger Ben Army.
Chapter completed!