Kimura Hitaro looked up at Okamura Yiji and asked, "General, is the Soviet Union really over this time?"

"Well, it's really over. There will be no more surprises this time!"

Okamura Yanji nodded with certainty and said, "On the Soviet battlefield, the Soviet army had been beaten to the point where they could not raise their heads. They could only barely support them. Any small deterioration would make the Soviet Union doom.

This time, the Imperial Kwantung Army launched all-out attacks, which was more than a small deterioration for the Soviet Union. It was completely a trend of Mount Tai. The Soviet Union lost the food supply and industrial supplies from the Far East and would not be able to continue to survive!"

Kimura Hitaro frowned and said, "But unfortunately, the demise of the Soviet Union so quickly is not a good thing for the Great Japanese Empire."

"Kimura, why did you say this?"

Okamura Yasuji frowned and continued, "The demise of the Soviet Union is a great thing for the empire itself or the entire Axis Alliance!

Because in this way, the power balance between the Axis and Allies will undergo a major turning point. Although the Allies still have great advantages in the navy, they have a great advantage in the army and air force.

"At that time, the war resources and potential of war in the Axis Alliance will far exceed that of the Allied Powers. As long as there is no problem within the Axis Alliance, it will always be invincible!"

"Your Excellency General, as you said just now, I'm afraid there will be problems within the alliance."

But Hitaro Kimura shook his head and retorted: "The German army has almost occupied the entire European continent and most of the African continent, and its strength has become unprecedentedly powerful.

If they merged the Soviet Union so quickly, they would have obtained a larger amount of war resources, and the balance of power within the Axis Alliance will naturally have a serious proportional imbalance.

Faced with such a huge power gap, how could the Germans be willing to maintain a reciprocal position with the empire?”

At this time, Iida Yoshiro nodded and interrupted, "Yes, I have the same concerns about this.

I believe His Majesty the Emperor and the Base Camp also think so, otherwise how could it be that it would be delayed until now that it suddenly declared war on the Soviet Union?”

"Yes, the Soviet Union was destroyed by the Germans so quickly, which is really not a good thing for the empire!"

Several other senior Japanese generals also nodded and agreed.

In the face of huge interests, human nature is the most untestable thing, let alone between countries.

Okamura Yasuji frowned. He was unable to refute the common arguments of Kimura Hitotaro and others, because he also had such concerns.

However, then again, compared to the defeat of the Axis Alliance by the Allies and Japan lost its national destiny, Okamura Yasuji was more willing to choose the Axis Alliance to win a complete victory and Japan became a vassal of Germany!

Because Okamura Yasuji knew very well that the Japanese Empire was already going further and further on the road to death, and there was no way to go. Once the war was lost, even if the country and the race were not really destroyed, it would only mean that the sovereignty would be lost and the prisoner was reduced, and the Yamato nation would be difficult to turn over again!

However, these things are too far away. Even if Okamura Yanji can see them, he will not be able to control them. At most, he will just worry about them.

Pskov, an ancient city in northwestern Russia.

With loud train whistles sounded, a special special train slowly drove into Pskov Station 250 kilometers southwest of Leningrad.

As soon as the train stopped, Marshal William Ritter von Leb, commander-in-chief of the German Northern Army Group who had been waiting at the station for a long time, quickly walked towards the door of the train car that was being opened.

After getting on the train and passing through the layers of guard posts, Loeb finally saw the head of state with a blue face, and immediately solemnly greeted a standard arm-raising salute.

After replying to the courtesy, the head of state shouted in a sharp tone:

"I gave you two entire armies and two air force to give you the opportunity and glory to occupy the second capital of the Bolsheviks, but you stopped your own pace in front of a temporary defense line organized by the Russian people. This is simply a shame for yourself and the Third Reich. You disappointed me so much!"

The 65-year-old Marshal Loeb blushed and did not defend the reason. Instead, he lowered his head and admitted his mistake: "First of the People's Republic of China, the Northern Army Group was blocked by the banks of the Luga River. It is indeed my responsibility to be unable to take Petersburg as scheduled as you plan!"

Petersburg, the current Leningrad, was the Russian "Window of Europe" established by Peter the Great in 1703. It has been the capital of the vast Russian Empire for more than 200 years and the birthplace of the October Revolution. After Lenin's death in 1924, it was renamed Leningrad.

With the progress of German chariots and the fall of Moscow, the Soviet Union urgently mobilized millions of Leningrad residents in the past few months to build three lines of defense around Leningrad day and night.

The outermost one is centered on Luga City, starting from Shimsk on the west bank of Ilmen Lake in the south, scattering along the Luga River, and ending in the north to Jinjishep, the Luga defense line, which is about 300 kilometers long, and four infantry divisions and three militia divisions were deployed on this defense line.

Considering that the Finnish army was relatively weak in combat effectiveness in the northern direction, Voroshilov transferred 6 divisions and 1 brigade from the Northern Front to strengthen the defense of the Luga River line.

After the German Northern Army Group occupied Pskov, its main force was led by Reinhardt's 41st Armored Army and continued to attack along the Luga-Leningrad axis; the Manstein's 56th Armored Army attacked eastward.

The Soviet army fought to the death on the Luga defense line and launched a powerful attack on the side of the 56th Panzer Army of Manstein, who was detouring eastward, and drove it back.

Up to now, the German Northern Army Group and the Soviet army are stalemate on the front line of the Luga River, and the progress is very slow, and it is no longer possible to conquer Leningrad as the original time.

In a rage, the German head of state "individually commanded the army" and personally took a special train to the front line to supervise the battle. After meeting, he scolded and scolded him in a scattered manner, without considering that the other party was a 65-year-old coach.

"I came here not to admit my mistakes to you, nor did I come to provoke a criminal offense!"

Faced with Loeb's sincere apology, the head of state was still very dissatisfied and waved his hand and said, "The Russians have only one last breath left now. The Third Reich must take advantage of the victory and must not give him a chance to breathe. We must completely destroy Russia before the next severe winter comes. Do you understand what I mean?"

"Of course I understand, my head of state!"

Loeb replied loudly: "Please rest assured, the Head of State, we will definitely conquer Petersburg as fast as possible. I promise you that the Russians will never give the Russians another chance to survive this winter, and the final victory will only belong to the Third Reich."

"This is the result I want! Just remember one principle, that is, no matter how much the price you pay, you must take Petersburg and occupy and destroy this city within 10 days!"

The head of state waved with his trembling left hand, and said with a murderous intent in his mouth: "As for the aftermath of Petersburg, we must not be kind, and we must make every Russian tremble with fear!

We must trample on the meaningless laws of the old world, the Jewish-Christian tradition of the old world.

We don't need Russia, neither hostile Russia nor friendly Russia, we just need a piece of land in the East.

So we will never accept the surrender of Petersburg or the Russians. You must turn them into dust and let them disappear on the earth."
Chapter completed!