After receiving such a telegram from Sato, the surprise of Major General Mikio Uemura, the commander of the Mukden Prisoner Detention Center, can be imagined. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 For the time being, I will not mention how General Uemura dispatched troops to prepare to support the Second Branch of Xi'an County in Mukden, but first mentioned that Yamada Otozo, commander of the Japanese Kwantung Army in Xinjing Special City, that is, Changchun, Jilin Province, was shocked and angry after receiving the same telegram.

What surprised him was that someone actually targeted the important prisoners held in the Xi'an County Prisoner Shelter! There are a large number of high-ranking Allied generals locked up there. If those people die, it will be fine, but if they are unfortunately rescued, not only will it affect the Imperial Japanese Army, but even he, the commander of the Kwantung Army, will not be able to eat and walk around!

What is angry is that the large number of unknown enemies who appeared around the prisoner camp in Xi'an County are who they are, and they are not lice on the bald man's head, it is obvious. In Manchuria, apart from Ren Laifeng's troops, who would dare to fight against the Kwantung Army with such fanfare?

Let the wind come to the wind, do you think I, the commander of the Kwantung Army, am an ornament? I've saved your face again and again, and I don't want to fall out with you. But you kicked your nose in the face, trying to drag me into the river. Since you have to force me, then let's have a never-ending battle of life and death!

Yamada Otozoichi gritted his teeth and stomped his feet ruthlessly, and directly mobilized five main divisions in the name of the commander of the Kwantung Army to assemble around Changchun. At the same time, a military meeting was convened to discuss how to fight this battle with Ren Laifeng.

Since Ren Laifeng came to Manchuria, he has fought against the Kwantung Army, and the two sides have won and lost each other in countless encounters in the past, but in the end it was Ren Laifeng who got the benefits. Ren Laifeng's troops are fighting more and more. Commander Yamada intends to take it seriously this time and must win this battle. He doesn't want to and can't lose anymore!

The chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, Yukio Kasawara, asked Yamada Otozo: "Your Excellency, Commander, how do you plan to fight this battle?" ”

What am I going to do? What am I going to do with you people? Yamada Otozo was quite unhappy with Yukio Kasahara's question. But Chief of Staff Kasawara was much older than him in the Kwantung Army, and Yamada Otozo didn't want to make Kasahara Yukio look ugly. He has always given enough respect to this veteran chief of staff, and this time is of course no exception, "Kasahara-kun has any good ideas to talk about." ”

Yukio Kasawara saw Yamada Otozo's unhappiness, and he didn't dare to sell Guanzi again, "Your Excellency, Commander, gentlemen, I have an idea for you to discuss. The commander had already mobilized five divisions to assemble near Xinjing. Five divisions, 100,000 people. With this force, it is entirely possible to defeat or even eliminate Ren Laifeng's army, which went to the Mukden prisoner camp to rescue prisoners of war. ”

"However, there is another possibility. What if Ren Laifeng finds out that our army is strong, he avoids it and does not fight, and finds a loophole to slip away from us? Or do you want to encircle and suppress the Ren Laifeng army in Qinggang and even Harbin like the previous times? We have tried this tactic several times, and it has not yielded any good results. Even if we do it again, we can't guarantee that it will be better than the previous ones. ”

The devils present, including Yamada Otozo, did not speak, and everyone was quietly listening to Yukio Kasawara's speech.

"I don't know if you have noticed, but now we are actually in a rather favorable situation. According to reliable information, Ren Laifeng personally led the rescue of prisoners of war. That is, Ren Laifeng led his small number of troops to the vicinity of Mukden, and he had already left his base camp Qinggang County and Harbin. ”

"The commander has dispatched five divisions and is assembling around Xinjing. In other words, our Kwantung Army has more than 100,000 troops between Mukden and Harbin, and our five divisions separate Ren Laifeng from Qinggang! ”

Speaking of this, Yukio Kasawara stopped talking, and he looked at Yamada Otozo and smiled. Show the way, and leave the matter of showing your face to the sir. Yukio Kasawara has known this for a long time, and he has always done so. Otherwise, Umezu Mijiro is gone, how can he stay in office and continue to be the chief of staff of the Kwantung Army? Because people can be people!

Sure enough, Commander Yamada saw that Yukio Kasahara didn't mean to continue, and he immediately picked up the conversation, "We will use these five divisions and 100,000 horses to guard the front line of Xinjing, so that Ren Laifeng cannot return to Beiman." What if he rescued the prisoners of war? We have five divisions blocking the way, and he can't go back to the north, and to the south, the North China Dispatch Army will not allow him to lead his troops over the Great Wall! ”

"Leaving Beiman, Ren Laifeng lost his foundation. Now that he had rescued Allied prisoners of war, he would not give up easily, and the Chongqing government in the south would not allow him to give up those prisoners of war. Therefore, Ren Laifeng has no possibility of absconding alone. We will use these five divisions to trap Ren Laifeng to death in Nanman! ”

"High, this is high!" "Clever plan, Your Excellency General is really a clever plan!" The staff officers present were full of admiration, and Yamada Otozo raised his chin proudly, and the corners of his mouth turned up slightly, showing that he was in a happy mood at the moment. Being praised by his men for his clever plan is one thing, and finding a way to deal with his old enemy, Ren Laifeng, is another aspect that makes him happy. Good things come in pairs, no wonder Yamada Otozo is so happy in his heart.

Yukio Kasawara moved his lips, and he didn't say anything he wanted to say. He always felt that it was not safe to do so, but he couldn't say where it was not safe. Anyway, if he were the commander of the Kwantung Army, he would never do this! But seeing Yamada Otozo's happy appearance, he couldn't bear to spoil the commander's interest. Let's wait until that's over.

This meeting enabled the Japanese Kwantung Army to determine the overall layout of this operation, that is, to hold the Changchun line, cut off the South Manchurian Railway, and not give Ren Laifeng the opportunity to lead his troops to return north!

The 100,000 men of the five divisions of the Kwantung Army seem to be a lot, but can they hold the land of more than 1,000 kilometers across northeast China with Changchun as the center? It's just a joke. Due to the well-developed railway network in Northeast China, the Japanese Kwantung Army has become accustomed to taking the train when they go out, but they have forgotten that for so many years, the Chinese soldiers have been more accustomed to riding horses or walking.

What about you keeping the railroad under control? If Ren Laifeng really wanted to go back to Qinggang County, he would have more ways to go! The vast white mountains and black waters in the northeast can be walked, and the vast Inner Mongolia prairie can be walked. Ren Laifeng really wants to go back to Qinggang, and no one can stop him.

Of course, Ren Laifeng can't think of the question of returning north or going south now, what he is thinking about now is how to complete this task excellently? How can those prisoners of war be rescued?