Chapter Forty-Nine: The Imperial Army Lacks Weapons

Hearing that the second prisoner of war containment had changed, the signal corps did not dare to delay any longer, and immediately put down the intercom and immediately reported to the chief of the telecommunications section. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 The head of the info section didn't dare to slack off, grabbed the phone and dialed directly into the front commander's office, "Moses Moses, I'm in the telecommunications room, and I have to report to Your Excellency the General if there is an emergency!" ”

Harem Zhen picked up the microphone and listened to the report, and his face froze instantly. The Xi'an County Prisoner Internment Camp is the second branch of the Mukden Prisoner Internment Camp, where a group of important Allied high-ranking prisoners of war are held.

When the time comes, the military will be dissatisfied and the emperor will be angry, and the responsibility will definitely be placed on the head of the Mukden prisoner camp. And His Excellency the General of the harem is the highest military commander of the Japanese Kwantung Army in Mukden, can he not be responsible for such a big thing at all? Can the relevant departments and relevant personnel let him go?

Harem Zhen rolled his eyes, grabbed the handle of the phone and shook it vigorously a few times, and put his face on the microphone, "I'm the harem, pick me up and pick up the village gan." ”

"Commander, I'm Kamimura Kamio." A slightly shrill voice from Major General Uemura came from the microphone.

"Shangcun, according to reliable information, the situation of the second branch of Xi'an County is critical, are you ready to deal with it?"

"Your Excellency, Commander, I am about to report this to you. The railway is blocked, and our reinforcements will certainly not arrive in time. Xiaguan thought that you needed to immediately draw troops from elsewhere and rush to Xi'an County, and also to get in touch with Commander Yamada and try to get Commander Yamada to send troops south from Mukden. There is also aviation, if it is too late to send troops in Mukden, then there will only be aviation to carry out indiscriminate bombing! ”

"Indiscriminate bombing?" Harem let out a sigh of relief. Indiscriminate bombing order, whether it is the prisoner of war, the prisoner of war camp guard, the Ren Laifeng troops attacking the prisoner of war camp, and the Xi'an County garrison that is fighting against the Ren Laifeng troops, are all finished! What a poisonous trick this Kamimura dry man came up with!

Major General Uemura on the other end of the phone heard the sound of the harem inhaling cool air through the microphone, and secretly screamed that it was not good! If the harem general was to mistakenly think that he was playing some trick and trying to calculate His Excellency, wouldn't he be extremely bad?

"Your Excellency, indiscriminate bombing is only a last resort, and we will try not to use it until the situation is at its worst. You better send troops to Xi'an County as soon as possible, if there are troops who can arrive in time, we can not use the last resort at all! ”

"yes, I understand." The harem hung up the phone silently, and his mood had completely deteriorated because of the indiscriminate bombing that Kamimura said.

Originally, the soldiers came to block the water and cover the earth, and let the wind lead the troops to attack, and our Third Front Army would do everything possible to fight him! Where did the indiscriminate bombing come from? Oh, whether it's your own people or enemies, blow them all up? Is this a war? This is obviously a massacre! And it's still a random slaughter that doesn't distinguish between the enemy and me! Once this news spreads, I am afraid that it will immediately cause an uproar!

Silently counted from zero to two hundred, and thought of a few happy things, which eased his mood a little. The harem began to dispatch troops.

The Third Front Army has two corps, 10 infantry divisions, three mixed brigades, and one chariot brigade. Its establishment is the largest front army in the Kwantung Army, and the largest number of troops in the Kwantung Army. Its code name uses one word: "strong".

But its combat effectiveness, then there is no way to mention. Most of them are veterans who have been re-recruited by returning military personnel who have been discharged from the army, as well as recruits who are not yet minors and half-grown children. Insufficient training, insufficient weapons, insufficient ammunition. Some brigades don't even have guns, and the soldiers are fighting with wooden guns for training on their shoulders, can this fight?

In the past, the Kwantung Army, which was strong and famous for its elite, how could it be so mixed up that it didn't even have a gun now? This is due to Japan's Pacific strategy. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Combined Fleet sent troops to various countries in the South Seas to compete with the US military in the Pacific.

In order to compete with the US military in the South China Sea and even defeat the US military, the Japanese military top brass transferred many elite divisions to the South China Sea. The elite divisions that were originally part of the Kwantung Army were all transferred. In order to control the vast territory of Manchuria and defend against Soviet Russia in the north, the Kwantung Army had to maintain a certain army size.

In order to achieve this goal, a large number of returned soldiers who had been discharged from the army were re-drafted, and countless young soldiers in Japan joined the army. It was in this general situation that the Third Front Army was formed. Basically, the vast majority of the weapons and munitions produced in Japan were supplied to the Southern Army, and the remaining armies of South China, Central China, and North China were gone, and when it was the turn of the Kwantung Army!

It can be said that the arms used by the Third Front Army are basically weapons and ammunition that have been eliminated by those elite divisions and regiments in the past, and this amount is not enough. In some counties and towns, the weapons of the imperial army are not as advanced as those of the puppet army.

This is the main reason why the Third Front Army is the weakest in combat effectiveness, although it has a large number of troops and a large number of troops. If you don't have a gun in your hand, how can you talk about combat effectiveness?

Takahashi Donkey Nosuke's independent mixed 134th Brigade is the most well-armed of the three directly subordinate brigades under the command of the Front Army, and they are almost not defeated without even touching the edge of Xi'an County. If you send reinforcements again, the reinforcements are easy to send, where will the weapons go? It looks like we have to find a way out of the puppet army.

Since the harem has started the idea of a puppet army, it is naturally better to do it sooner rather than later. As soon as His Excellency the General gave an order, the Mukden police and puppet army immediately surrendered their weapons. Of course, in order not to be particularly embarrassed on face, the Japanese officers who were sent over to receive the weapons openly declared the reason for the repair and replacement of these outdated old guns.

As a result, the weapon was handed in, and no one mentioned it again when he turned around and updated it. In the end, the police and puppet army in Mukden City handed over real guns, but what they recovered turned into wooden guns!

After finally having the cheekiness to trick the gun from the puppet army and rearming a brigade, the harem immediately ordered the independent mixed 79th Brigade to rush to Xi'an County.

In Xi'an County, the battlefield situation has actually tilted towards our army. The county garrison led by Sato Osaku was losing and retreating, and it is estimated that they were either defeated or driven back to the county seat before dark today. As for the guards and garrisons in the prisoner camps, they had no way to escape, and their gang was caught between the rioting prisoners of war and the troops who came to the wind, and they could not fight or run, and it seemed that it was only a matter of time before they were eliminated.