"Prime Minister!" Ken Sato hurried into Hideki Tojo's office, handed over a telegram and said with a bloodless report: "The Kanto Army...the research institute and the water purification plant are both lost!"

"You mean Xinkyo?" Hideki Tojo hadn't reacted yet.

"No, it's Qiqihar's 516 unit and Harbin's 731 unit!"

"What?" Hideki Tojo couldn't help but jumped up from the chair.

He originally thought that Shinkyo had the ability to block the offensive momentum of the Chinese team. Just yesterday he sent a telegram to commend Sasa Manosuke, but he didn't expect that the battle situation would reverse today.

"What's going on?" Hideki Tojo looked at the telegram for a while, and asked skeptically: "Did you get the information wrong? Aren't the Chinese troops in Xinjing? Why did they suddenly occupy Qiqihar and Harbin?"

"It's airborne, Prime Minister!" Ken Sato replied: "Chinese troops carried out parachute operations and raided these two places!"

"Parameter landing combat?!"

"Yes!"

Tojo Hideki was stunned for a while before sitting back on the chair and said weakly: "Bastard, we have all been deceived by the Chinese!"

Ken Sato knew what Hideki Tojo said, and the Chinese troops were posing in a large-scale attack in Xinjing, making everyone think that they would attack Xinjing with all their might, but in a blink of an eye, they pulled out the two most important strongholds of Manchukuo... This made Hideki Tojo feel like he was deceived, especially when he was deceived by the Chinese people he looked down upon, which made him even more annoyed.

However, Kenya Sato knew that this was actually underestimating the enemy's strength... The Chinese team had never carried out airborne operations, so Japanese generals, including Kenya Sato, were used to estimating the expeditionary force by not airborne. Kenya Sato knew that this was not the case.

But... it's too late to say anything now. 516 and 731 can be said to be the last ace in Manchukuo, but this ace was destroyed before it could be used.

"Where is Okabe?" asked Hideki Tojo.

"He was on his way to Harbin, and I'm afraid he didn't know these situations yet!"

Naosaburo Okabe was originally in Xinjing. Before the Expeditionary Force attacked Xinjing, Okabe took the Manchukuo royal family to Harbin... After all, it was the Manchukuo royal family, and even the royal family controlled by the Japanese army would be the royal family. If captured alive by the enemy, it would undoubtedly cause an unimaginable psychological blow to the entire Manchukuo.

However, as Kenya Sato said, because the Japanese army's communications basically depend on radio stations, Okabe Naosabu's troops could not contact us without turning on the computer during the marching, so I really don't know the situation at this moment.

"What's going on with General Okamura?" Hideki Tojo asked again.

"Prime Minister..." Ken Sato hesitated for a moment and replied: "General Okamura... has only transferred two divisions back. He believes... the main force should continue to attack south!"

"Bastard!" Hideki Tojo cursed: "Don't he know the importance of Manchukuo?!"

Kenya Sato did not answer. He actually understood Okamura Yanji... Manchukuo is important, but if it is to cost hundreds of thousands of troops, is it worth it? If there is no troops left, what's the use of keeping Manchukuo as a key place?!

"It's over!" Hideki Tojo sighed. At this time, he was in chaos. Because the loss of Manchukuo means that his plan to move to China to engage in a long war of attrition with the US military was still alive.

"Prime Minister!" Ken Sato suggested: "Or... we will transfer the troops on the Manchuria-Mongolia border back!"

"The Manchuria-Mongolia border..." Hideki Tojo shook his head: "The Soviets are staring at us!"

Hideki Tojo suddenly felt like he was surrounded by enemies.

Kenya Sato was also a little helpless because he knew that the Soviet-Japanese friendship treaty was just a piece of paper, and the Soviets would go south at any time.

In Moscow on the other side, the People's Commissar of the Internal Affairs, Beria, handed Stalin a piece of information and whispered a few words in Stalin's ear. Stalin was shocked, then took the pipe from his mouth and fell into deep thought.

After a while, Stalin, who came to his senses, asked: "The Chinese actually captured Harbin and Qiqihar?"

"The Japanese were killed!" Beria replied: "But Harbin and Qiqihar are not far away. The Japanese did not deploy much troops in these two places!"

"Well! Are you saying... the Japanese are not strong enough?"

"Yes!"

Stalin thoughtfully put the pipe in his mouth and took a few sips, his movements were as if he was afraid of interrupting the thoughts in his mind.

"No wonder the United States rejected our request!" Beria said: "I didn't expect the Japanese Kwantung Army to be so vulnerable!"

"No!" Stalin shook his head: "It's not that the Kwantung Army is vulnerable, but that this Chinese team is too powerful... This is an elite force that has been through the battlefield. It was already impressive enough to use the Germans' "blitz war" after mechanization before. Now... it's still this army that actually carried out airborne operations!"

After thinking about it, Stalin asked: "The Japanese still have four divisions on the Manchuria-Mongolia border, right?"

"Yes! But they didn't dare to retreat in large numbers because they were worried about us!"

Stalin nodded and said, "So, you need to give them some confidence, do you understand?"

"clear!"

So, Hideki Tojo soon received goodwill from the Soviet army on the Manchuria-Mongolia border... Soviet soldiers distributed leaflets of "Soviet-Japan friendship" to the Japanese army, and even took the initiative to send some food to the Japanese army with severely insufficient supplies.

"Do you think this is a trap?" Hideki Tojo asked Ken Sato with some concern: "Will the Soviets deceive us and wait for us to pull back our troops, and they will launch an attack?"

"I don't think so!" Ken Sato replied: "The Soviet Union just drove Germany out just now, and it was already very damaged. Moreover, their main battlefield was still Europe. At this time, they would not want to fight on both sides at the same time!"

"Yeah!" Hideki Tojo nodded: "Then they are..."

"I think they may hope we can return to defense with confidence!"

Hideki Tojo couldn't help but remain silent.

"Prime Minister!" Ken Sato persuaded: "Make up your mind! Even if we don't return to defense, wait for the Chinese to attack Manchukuo... these troops can only retreat! We have no way out!"
Chapter completed!