"His Majesty the Emperor is wise!"

Hideki Tojo immediately paused with excitement and said: "The Imperial Army has assembled three combat troops of more than 300,000 troops. Not only is it equipped with a large number of attack artillery and new tanks, but it is also equipped with a large number of aviation regiments!

The Imperial Japanese Army has already made up its mind that as long as His Majesty the Emperor gives the order, the Imperial Japanese Army will definitely fight bravely to the enemy, and a battle will be decided!"

Tojo Hideki used to stay in the Kwantung Army as the commander of the military police. He returned to China the previous year as a second-ranking army officer. Until he took office as Prime Minister Lu a few days ago, although he had never fought with Yang Fan, he had a lot of information.

Knowing that this is an extremely difficult and powerful opponent, Hideki Tojo is still full of confidence and has no fear or worry at all. Instead, he can't wait to dream of destroying the biggest opponent of the Imperial Army in his hands.

Seeing Hideki Tojo's excited look, Hirohito was a little worried and quickly reminded him:

"According to relevant information, Yang Fan has been building defensive fortifications over the years, and has long built an extremely solid and complete defense system, and even many indestructible steel fortresses.

Moreover, the Chinese Tiger Army also has extremely powerful tank troops and air force units, so we must pay the highest attention and must not make the stupid mistake of underestimating the enemy again!"

At the beginning, Yang Fan accidentally killed him so much that he was so unsuccessful that he had lost his armor. He suffered heavy casualties. He could use carelessness. His opponent was too cunning to comfort himself.

But later, several straightforward struggles were fought, especially the time when heavy troops were gathered to encircle and annihilate Yang Fan, who was determined to tear Yang Fan to pieces, but the final result was that there was no breakthrough in the outer defense line, and the Japanese army caused heavy casualties and deaths of tens of thousands!

With the lessons of the past, even though the Japanese army has been greatly strengthened now, especially the heavy troops arranged around the Shandong Peninsula, it can be said that they have reached the teeth.

However, when he was about to take advantage of the famous Chinese Tiger Army, which was known for its good deeds at all costs, Yuhito was still a little scared, fearing that he would not be able to show off again and instead betrayed.

Hideki Tojo said confidently: "Please rest assured that the emperor, the army has equipped with a large number of anti-aircraft guns, anti-aircraft machine guns, and various caliber artillery. Even the Type 90 240mm train cannons, 280mm heavy howitzers and other attacking giant cannons have been mobilized to the front line.

Even if they built fortifications comparable to those of the Russian Lushun Fortress, they would only turn into piles of ruins without any breath of life within the range of the giant cannon."

The 280mm heavy howitzer mentioned in Tojo Hidekiguchi is a 280mm howitzer introduced and produced from Italy in 1884.

However, this cannon was not original by Italians, but was originally a large-caliber howitzer developed by the British Armstrong Whitworth Company.

The short and thick barrel of this type of howitzer has 10 times the caliber, which makes it have similar characteristics to the mortars commonly equipped at that time, namely, a large firing angle and a large ballistic arc.

Its huge caliber of 280 mm and its 2*g-weight shell were enough to make the iron armor of any warship at that time daunted.

After the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese army truly appreciated the horror of modern fortifications.

From the Battle of Yalu River, Nanshan, to the Battle of Liaoyang, and even the Battle of Lushun offensive and defensive war.

Relying on favorable terrain, the Russian army built strong reinforced concrete fortifications, and with the powerful firepower of various light and heavy artillery and a large number of new Maxim m1910 machine guns, it caused huge damage to the attacking Japanese army.

Especially when the Japanese army besieged the Lushun Fortress, when the third Japanese army led by Nogi Kidino launched the first round of general attack, they were helpless in front of the rock-solid fortresses and trenches. The 150mm and 90mm siege mortars on hand could not destroy the Russian army's solid fortifications at all.

At the end of the day, the Japanese army used their strength to capture a small position on Panlong Mountain, but left 50,000 corpses in front of the position.

Such casualties were transmitted back to China, which was a big uproar. The base camp once suspected that the translator had mistakenly added a zero when translating the casualties.

Until later, the Japanese spent a lot of effort to draw 18 280mm heavy howitzers from the base camp were transported to the Lushun front line to solve the urgent problem.

Before the Third Army launched the second general attack in Lushun, 18 howitzers were in place and immediately launched artillery bombardment at Lushun Fortress.

When the shells hit the Russian positions heavily, the huge explosion made the entire fortress tremble. After several rounds of artillery attacks, the positions outside the Russian fortress were almost destroyed, and the solid concrete fortifications were also damaged to varying degrees.

Therefore, this time, it was determined to eradicate the Chinese Tiger Army, and the Japanese Army would naturally use this attacking artifact to deal with the fortresses and fortresses that Yang Fan had worked hard to build.

Hearing this, Hirohito nodded slightly with confidence: "Even so, the Imperial Army must be careful and do a complete military chess and strategic deployment, and must not make a rash move!"

"Hayi!"

Hideki Tojo bowed his head heavily, as long as he allowed the fight, everything else was trivial.

At this time, Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka spoke, "His Majesty the Emperor, Yang Fan not only maintained passenger routes with the United States and the United Kingdom under the name of joint ventures and trade, but also built so-called industrial parks in Qingdao and other places. This is a hidden danger and trouble for us.

Do we need to send diplomatic notes to the United States and Britain in advance and ask them to evacuate early to avoid causing diplomatic conflicts?”

Hideki Tojo said disdainfully: "It's just selling dog meat with the help of sheep. There are not many Americans and British people on the Shandong Peninsula. I think there is no need to notify you in advance. Doing so will only leak the empire's encirclement and annihilation plan in advance!"

Yoshida Shingo retorted a little unhappy: "Hundreds of thousands of troops are being mobilized under his nose. Do you still want to keep it a secret? You really think that others are blind!"

"alright!"

Hirohito waved his hand, pondered for a moment and nodded, "You can send a note to the US and the UK first. This is a positional battle, and it is indeed impossible to achieve the surprise attack, so it is also a gesture for us to sell personal favors in advance!"

"His Majesty the Emperor is wise!"

Yoshida Shingo immediately replied, with a hint of pleasure in his eyes, as if he had won a battle.

"Hayi!"

Matsuoka Yoyou was ordered to be ordered by the leader.

"That's all today. After you go on, you will agree on the specific implementation strategy as soon as possible. It is of great importance and I need to review it myself!"

Then after nearly an hour of discussion, Hirohito waved his hand to disband the meeting.

After everyone else left, Xianyuan Gong Zairen, who had not spoken, suddenly said, "Your Majesty, have you really made up your mind to encircle and annihilate the Chinese Tiger Army at all costs?"

Hirohito was slightly stunned, turned to look at Zairen, the palace in Xianyuan and said, "Uncle Emperor, do you think there is anything wrong with it? Shouldn't this great trouble be eradicated as soon as possible?"
Chapter completed!