Emperor Hirohito was actually right, the combat effectiveness of the new regiment was indeed terrifying.

Many elite units of the Japanese army who fought in China were killed in succession, and the four princes who were killed in the early days had already sat on their bones, which already showed how powerful the combat effectiveness of the new regiment was.

Gu Shoufu's 6th Division was one of the two divisions and regiments that the Japanese were most capable of fighting, and they were all ambushed and annihilated by the other side, so it can't explain the combat effectiveness of the new regiment?

Once such a formidable Chinese army grows to tens of thousands, this is enough to make the Japanese army near Hengshan tremble, right?

"Your Majesty, the Second Division is stationed in the Songhua River Valley, if the Second Division is transferred to the south, won't it weaken the strength of the Kwantung Army? The woolly bear in the west is very strong, and the second division is one of the most capable units of my Kwantung Army, so it's a bit ........ to be transferred into the customs like this."

Tojo Hideki thought about it, and still said with a twist.

Hirohito waved his hand and sneered: "The Kwantung Army is strong, hundreds of thousands of troops are enough to control the situation in Liaodong, and it is not a big deal to send the second division to secretly enter the south of the pass to suppress the new regiment." What's more, although the current confrontation between us and the woolly bear is severe, the hairy bear does not want to open up another battlefield in the east, and I still know it. The matter of transferring the second division into the south of Jin Province should be handled immediately! ”。

"Obey your orders!" Hirohito said so, Tojo Eiki and several other Japanese War Ministers were annihilated by the new regiment because of the incompetence of the 6th Division, and they were shouted by Hirohito that there was no momentum to resolutely deny Hirohito's orders in front of him, after all, the destruction of the 6th Division made the army helpless!

Hirohito secretly sneered, the royal family is noble, but Hirohito also intervenes from time to time to avoid becoming a mascot for military power.

"Alright, let's all go down and execute! This time, the 2nd Division was transferred to the south, and the commander of the 2nd Division was ordered to ensure that under the command of Naosaburo Okabe, a stabilization strategy was designated, and that a single blow would be used to completely annihilate the base area of the new 1st Regiment and its troops entrenched in the Hengshan Mountains. ”

Tojo Hideki and other ministers of the Japanese War Department bowed their waists and said, "Hai, Your Majesty! Obey the command! ”。

Subsequently, more than a dozen ministers of the army and navy of the Wa Kingdom withdrew from Hirohito's imperial study one after another. And Hirohito looked at the backs of the dozen ministers who bent down and exited the imperial study, and sneered at the corners of his mouth.

It's just that soon, Hirohito walked to a map of the provinces of China hanging on the wall of the side of the imperial study, and his eyes were fixed on Jin Province, "Bagaya Road, Li Yunlong's new regiment is so strong, the 6th Division has been ambushed and annihilated, it seems that this person is a little interesting!" ”

After returning to the War Department building one after another, the War Minister of the Japanese Army, who had withdrawn from the Imperial Study, secretly ordered the headquarters of the 2nd Division of the Japanese Army stationed in the Songhua River valley in Liaodong outside the Guanxi to assemble quickly within two days and then train south to enter the customs after a telegram from Hideki Tojo himself.

In order to keep secrets, the 2nd Division of the Japanese Army, which secretly entered the customs in the south, nominally took a train south to enter the customs, continued to go south after passing through Lu Province, and arrived at Jinling to rest and recuperate, and then advanced west along the river and joined the 11th Army sequence of Okamura Ninji, preparing to attack Wuhan.

Therefore, for the Eighth Route Army, the collection of intelligence of the Japanese army outside the customs was unexpectedly not noticed in time when the 2nd Division secretly entered the customs within two days.

However, at this time, for Okabe Naosaburo in Taiyuan City, Jin Province, the consequences of the total annihilation of the 6th Division made Okabe Naosaburo subsequently send a clear telegram in the name of Li Yunlong and the other three, Okabe Naosaburo immediately ordered the reinforcements of the 6th Division ambushed by Heixingguan to temporarily stop advancing. Alternatively, the reinforcements should be withdrawn and returned to their original positions.

At Taiyuan Castle, about 10 minutes after Hirohito decided to order the 2nd Division of the Japanese Army, which was stationed in the Songhua River valley outside the pass, to secretly enter the pass, Tojo's War Department ordered Tada to send a direct telegram to Tada Toshi.

Tada Jun then sent a direct report to Okabe Naosaburo, asking Okabe Naosaburo to prepare the 2nd Division's southward army of grain, grass and ammunition reserves, so as to prevent the 2nd Division from entering Jin Province when it went south and entered Jin Province, it was too late to prepare supplies.

In Taiyuan City, in the military headquarters of the First Army, Naosaburo Okabe handed the secret telegram translated after the urgent telegram from Tada Jun that he had just received to Taro Miyano, the chief of staff of the First Army.

"Look at it, Your Majesty is dissatisfied with me!" Okabe Naosaburo was actually a little complaining, after all, after Hirohito directly ordered the 6th Division to be airlifted north, although the 6th Division was directly under the First Army according to Hirohito's order.

However, not long after Okabe Naosaburo flew directly from Guisui to the south to Taiyuan City, the 6th Division followed closely and airlifted north. After Gu Shoufu arrived, Okabe Naosaburo could only follow Hirohito's order and order Gu Shoufu to send troops to attack the new base area of Hengshan, but he didn't expect that people would dare to take the initiative to ambush him.

Counting, so Okabe Naosaburo is still a little resentful of Hirohito's direct command.

It's just that in front of Taro Miyano and others, the performance is not too obvious.

"Your Excellency Commander, Your Majesty is very jealous of the new regiment, and even the 2nd Division will be transferred south to enter the customs so soon. As for the meaning of the telegram, we can just follow Admiral Tada's orders. Taro Miyano looked at the encrypted cipher sent by Tada Jun, and persuaded Naosaburo Okabe.

In other words, Okabe Naosaburo was only the commander of the Mongolian Xinjiang garrison army before, and he only controlled the headquarters of the 26th Division and the 2nd Independent Brigade in his hands, with a total of only 30,000 horses, but to defend Suiyuan and other vast areas, the pressure was actually very great.

Now, it is necessary to take into account the territory of Jin Province under the control and occupation of the Japanese First Army, in fact, even Miyano Taro feels that it is not easy for Okabe Naosaburo.

It's just that at present, the pressure of the new group has made even the emperor feel that it must be solved at all costs in a short period of time. Otherwise, judging from the content of the secret telegram sent by Tada Jun, once Li Yunlong's troops really grow to 20,000 or even 40,000 or 50,000 horses, with the combat effectiveness of the new regiment, all the men and horses of the First Army may not be able to eat Li Yunlong's troops at that time.

So for Hirohito's judgment, in fact, Taro Miyano agrees.

At present, all units of the First Army are under great pressure, and the Jin Sui Army, less than 100,000 Nationalist troops stationed in the mountains near Zhongtiao Mountain, and various units of the Eighth Route Army "entrenched" in the vast mountains and mountains in the southern part of Jin Province, have already contained the strength of the various units of the First Army of the Japanese Army.

It was not easy to rely on some troops with weak combat strength to attack the base area of the new regiment in Hengshan after the defeat of the 6th Division.

Then, it was only possible to transfer other Japanese troops into Jin Province to strengthen the strength of the Japanese First Army. At present, the only troops that can be dispatched are the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Kwantung Army stationed in the outer cantonment to confront the hairy bears at close range.

The transfer of a division from the Kwantung Army into the customs will actually have little impact on the current Kwantung Army's confrontation with the enemy group that threatens from the west. This is also Taro Miyano, who agrees with Hirohito's meaning.