Chapter 34: Bewilderment
"Japan is a country after all, and we may be able to take Kyushu Island now, but if we want to control the whole of Japan, it is not something we can easily do. www.biquge.info The Japanese have long had the idea of withdrawing from the Americas, and we are only helping them to promote this idea, and only when the Japanese completely retreat will we have a chance to fight. Zhuo Fei replied with a smile.
Pulling China into the plan to attack the Japanese mainland, Zhuo Fei was only for the purpose of taking advantage of the situation, the Japanese could not care about the hundreds of thousands of troops under the umbrella, but they could not ignore the threat of 3 million Chinese troops. The 300,000 New Army troops trained by the Umbrella with the help of the Nationalist Government completely changed the Japanese army's impression of the Chinese army, especially the New First Army commanded by Dai Anlan, which became a nightmare for the Japanese army in the Northeast Battlefield.
The fact that the Umbrella helped the Nationalist Government train two groups of New Army troops could not be concealed from the Japanese intelligence agencies, and the Japanese Army had reason to believe that more than one million troops who had been sent south by the Nationalist Government to Burma in the tightly sealed territory of Burma were currently undergoing a new round of training under the Umbrella. It has long been a well-known thing about the combat strength of the units of the new army, otherwise after the victory of the Japanese army in the Far East, it would definitely not have made a trend of shrinking.
The threat of 3 million Chinese troops weighed heavily on the hearts of the Japanese cabinet members and the emperor, and through Vivian, the Japanese finally understood what tricks the umbrella was going to unleash next, but this trick was definitely not what they wanted to see. As a result, the Japanese cabinet not only sent Junichiro Ogawa to Kyushu Island again, but also secretly ordered the special envoy to Chongqing to do everything possible to persuade the Chinese Government not to interfere in this matter.
Junichiro Ogawa is painful and happy these days, happy that he has finally been reused by the cabinet, but the heartache is that the responsibility he shoulders is too arduous, so that Junichiro Ogawa does not have much confidence in his heart. But anyway, Junichiro Ogawa, who was apprehensive in his heart, still came to Kyushu Island according to the order of the cabinet, and he met Vivian again very smoothly, but no matter how hard he tried, Vivian, who met him, still had the same attitude.
"Mr. Special Envoy, I know what you said, but I can only tell you with great regret now, I am very sorry, I am sorry, the decision made by the boss, I have no way to change." Vivian replied to Junichiro Ofune with a calm face, but in fact, she was already happy in her heart, if it wasn't for Vivian forcibly controlling her emotions all the time, maybe she would have laughed in front of Junichiro Ogawa.
Two days ago, the words Zhuo Fei had said were still echoing in Vivian's heart, and after coughing lightly, Vivian chuckled, "Mr. Special Envoy, although I can't change the decision that my boss has made, for the sake of these small gifts you gave me, I can reveal some news to you a little." Vivian's words instantly made Junichiro Ogawa come to his senses, only to see Vivian stretch out a finger to dip some coffee, and then quickly write a line of small words on the table, and when Junichiro Ogawa saw the line of words with a shocked face, Vivian immediately wiped the line of small words with the palm of his hand.
"Mr. Special Envoy, don't think I'm asking why, for I don't know either. I only came across the name of the place by chance from a battle plan, and I don't care if you believe it or not. Vivian's differentiation was an understatement, but Junichiro Ogawa had already opened his mouth to show a look of shock at this time, because the line that Vivian had just written on the table was Tsushima Island between Kyushu Island and the Korean Peninsula.
Tsushima Island is only 50 nautical miles from the southernmost part of the Korean Peninsula, and if you choose a clear day, you can even see Busan on the Korean Peninsula with the naked eye from the high point of Tsushima Island. Tsushima Island is blessed with a unique geographical location and is also a bridgehead for Japan's invasion of the Korean Peninsula, and Junichiro Ogawa wavers at the message that Vivien has just told him, and he cannot judge whether it is true or false. But he knew that once Tsushima Island was under the control of the umbrella, the millions of imperial troops and expatriates stranded in the southern part of the Korean Peninsula would probably not be able to return to their homeland.
Junichiro Ogawa, who knew that the stakes were high, refused Vivien's offer to provide a radio station, and instead chose to return to Kyoto once again to personally report the news to the cabinet and the emperor. A few hours later, news came back from both the Korean Peninsula and the northern part of Kyushu Island, claiming that there had been an unusual movement of the Umbrella troops. Combining these signs, even Hideki Tojo, who has always been praised for his wisdom, was a little panicked, and he suddenly couldn't understand the tactics of the umbrella.
"Hehe, what we want is to confuse them, only when the Japanese make mistakes in confusion, we can seize the opportunity to catch them off guard." Hideki Tojo didn't know that the information obtained by the military headquarters was a flaw deliberately exposed by the protective umbrella, and Zhuo Fei was gathering with his staff officers in the command headquarters at the moment, and the combat sand table placed between them was not Tsushima Island, but Shikoku Island, which MacArthur regarded as chicken ribs before.
"Shikoku Island has the most complex terrain among the four Japanese islands, and there are many mountains and few plains in the territory, so it is obviously not suitable to send the Dangkou army to attack Shikoku Island." Zhuo Fei tapped the long table where the combat sand table was placed with the wooden baton in his hand, and continued after looking around at everyone. "Therefore, I have transferred a group of servant troops from the rear, and when it comes to the ability to fight mountain warfare, I am afraid that the Japanese army will not be the opponent of these South Asian natives, especially the southern part of Shikoku Island is still a rainy place with high temperatures."
"General, why do we have to attack Shikoku? Why not attack Honshu Island directly? As long as we send troops to Honshu Island, the Japanese will definitely panic and be exhausted to deal with it, and at the same time, there will be more loopholes and flaws that we can exploit. Cruz, the operational staff officer who was poached from the German army with a high salary by the umbrella, suggested in a timely manner, and among these operational staff officers around Zhuo Fei, there were obviously many people who had the same doubts as Cruz.
Regarding Cruz's questions and new suggestions, Zhuo Fei did not answer directly, but found a copy of the previous information and handed it to Cruz. "This is a piece of information from our intelligence station inside China, dated last month, about a skirmish between the Kuomintang and Communist forces in Henan Province, which led to a skirmish. From the beginning of our false appearance of a complete withdrawal from China, the friction between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party became more and more frequent, and the withdrawal of the Japanese troops from China did not make them twist into a rope, but because of the retreat of the Japanese army, the contradictions between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party became more and more intense. ”
After reading the information that Zhuo Fei handed to him, Cruz still looked at Zhuo Fei with a puzzled expression, obviously, this information and what Zhuo Fei said just now did not make Cruz puzzled. "General, I still don't understand why a piece of intelligence from China is related to our war here? And I don't quite understand what a possible civil war in China has to do with our umbrella? ”
Cruz only saw the signs of civil war in China from a daily intelligence, Zhuo Fei was very happy about this, in the face of Cruz's doubts, Zhuo Fei continued to explain with great interest, "Although our umbrella is currently known as having millions of troops, in fact, the only thing we can really use for combat is the Dangkou Army and the newly integrated expeditionary force, and the remaining hundreds of thousands of servant troops are just cannon fodder who can only grab things and fight a good fight." ”
"Although Japan transferred a large number of elite troops to the American theater after withdrawing its troops from China, it is more of Japan itself and is the home of the Japanese army. Compared to Japan, our umbrella forces are not superior at all, and this is the home of the Japanese, as long as their emperor orders it, the Japanese can raise millions of reserve troops at any time. Although it is only a fable that ants can bite and kill elephants even though they are small, in the real world, it is not impossible to achieve. ”
"We have weak troops, and we can only gain a foothold on Kyushu Island by relying on surprise and sophisticated weapons and equipment, but if we want to continue to attack Honshu Island, I am afraid that we will not be able to rely on our umbrella alone, so I must pull China as our backing. At present, China's domestic situation is chaotic and cannot effectively help us at all, so we must not take too big a step in our attack, otherwise we will only make it difficult for us to ride the tiger in the end. Zhuo Fei explained like this, and Cruz finally understood why Zhuo Fei had just handed him the purpose of the information.
But as a result, a new question arose in Cruz's mind, "General, since we are only scaring the Japanese under the pretext that China is about to send troops, why do we still promise the Japanese that they will stop fighting for a week?" ”
"Naturally, we are confusing the Japanese, otherwise what would be the reason, is it possible that you really think that our umbrella will coexist peacefully with the Japanese, right?" Zhuo Fei didn't say his true intentions at this time, just looked around at everyone with a slight smile, and the answer he gave was only vague. Of course, Zhuo Fei did not really want to stop fighting with the Japanese army, he just wanted to put pressure on the Japanese army, and at the same time waited for the reaction and attitude of the country.
From the time Zhuo Fei and Vivian joined forces to deceive Junichiro Ogawa, Zhuo Fei had already prepared the umbrella to deal with the Japanese counterattack alone, waiting for the reaction and attitude of the country, which was just a small obsession in Zhuo Fei's heart. Zhuo Fei didn't want to see a civil war happen, but he couldn't stop the wheel of history from turning, no one knew what Zhuo Fei insisted on attacking the Japanese mainland, and Zhuo Fei never told others about his hidden intentions.