Hearing Kawamoto Yoshitaro's narration, Chen Mingxiang knew that the Japanese army base camp had been defeated in the battle of Filipino and had made a way to retreat, no wonder Ono Osa did not come to drink tea and eat during this time, and dared to receive instructions from the base camp to assist in the defense of the port.

Shanghai is the location of the headquarters of the Japanese Navy's Huaxia Fleet, and the other is the station of the Third Fleet, in fact, it is customary to call it the Third Fleet, but in fact it is called the First Detachment Fleet, on August 20, the 32nd year of the Republic of China, the First Detachment Fleet was downgraded to the Yangtze River Special Base Force, and the base is still in Shanghai, referred to as the Yangtze River Tegen.

However, the task carried out has not changed, and it is still to protect the safety of Jiangcheng, Jiujiang, Jinling and other strongholds, and ensure the normal navigation of the Yangtze River. But with the current strength, only a few river gunboats can still be used, and the rest are either withdrawn or cannot be used.

"Yesterday, Lieutenant General Sakanishi Kazuyoshi and Chief of Staff Fukutomi accompanied Kura Osa, arrived in Jiangcheng, and Chief of General Staff Matsui Taikuro said to me that it is not enough to have a Yokoyama Yong, and the base camp has sent another difficult general over, is this because the dispatch army is not chaotic enough?" Yazaki Kanju said.

"Yazaki-kun, you're talking about Sakanishi Kazura, the commander of the Twentieth Army, right? Why, he's also coming to Kannai? Kinoshita Eichi said in surprise.

"This was put forward by Senior General Okamura Ningji of the Sixth Front Army on the 11th, the 11th Army is now busy attacking Gui Province, and the occupied area of Hunan Province is the rear, and there should be a corps-level headquarters in command, responsible for the remnants of the local government against the mountain city, administrative affairs and logistical support."

"After studying the base camp, on the 28th, he ordered Lieutenant General Sakanishi Kazuyoshi and the Twentieth Army Headquarters to be transferred to Hengzhou, and he and the chief of staff reported to the Sixth Front Army Headquarters in advance." Yazaki Kanju said.

"Listening to your conversation, could it be that this Lieutenant General Sakanishi Kazuyoshi is also a very old and unruly character?" Chen Mingxiang asked curiously.

"His qualifications among the army generals are average, the twenty-third phase of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School, but to say that his personality and temper are much more powerful than Lieutenant General Isamu Yokoyama, when he was promoted to the army chief and served as the head of the investigation squad of the Ministry of the Army, he once insulted the senior generals at the banquet of the Minister of the Army, General Hayashi Mijuro, and sat on the cold bench for half a year."

"This guy is the son-in-law of Sakanishi Rihachiro's predecessors, and he joined the Banxi family, and his surname was Padada, and on February 28, the 32nd year of the Republic of China, he was appointed as the division commander of the 35th Division of the 12th Army of the North China Front. On April 8 of the following year, he was appointed commander of the Twentieth Army of the First Front of the Kwantung Army. ”

"In August of this year, the base camp wanted to appoint him as the commander of the 32nd Army in Okinawa, but he was not in good health some time ago, and considering this factor, he finally appointed Lieutenant General Ushijima Mitsuru to this post and sent him to Central China." Yazaki Kanju said.

"I've heard of him, his temper is quite short-tempered, he likes to disobey orders and find fault with the higher-level leadership organs the most, and even sometimes scolds openly without scruples, he has a good relationship with General Tu Feiyuan, and there is really no way to deal with him." Kinoshita Eichi said.

"It's not surprising that General Tohi Yuan was single-handedly promoted by Sakanishi Rihachiro's predecessors, and as the son-in-law of Sakanishi Rihachiro's predecessors, he naturally obeyed General Tohi Yuan's words, and in the twenty-sixth year of the Republic of China, General Tu Fei Yuan served as the division commander of the 14th Division, and he was the wing commander of the 59th Infantry Wing of the 27th Infantry Brigade under his subordinates." Yazaki Kanju said.

As for the military operations of Major General Oka Shouao of the 60th Division of the Japanese Army and the 55th Infantry Brigade, Chen Mingxiang did not know about it at the beginning, but the bureau headquarters had already sent a telegram to inform them.

All the energy of the subordinate station was focused on the military operations of the 11th Army and the 23rd Army, and it was really unable to go to the coastal areas at the junction of Fujian and Zhejiang to collect intelligence.

More importantly, although Fujian Province also has the power to carry out work in name, the Fujian, Jiangxi, Hubei and Hunan offices, he has never sent people into the territory of Fujian Province, and his own territory is already very large, and he will definitely be hated if he does not know the convergence.

"Since the Eleventh Army has arrived near Guizhou, it seems that it has not heard any movement during this time?" Chen Mingxiang said.

"The main thing is to wait for the 104th Division and the 22nd Division of the 23rd Army, which will be independently mixed into the 22nd Brigade and the 23rd Brigade, and they have now arrived in Wuzhou, because they have been marching and fighting continuously for as many as 22 days, and the troops need to rest, replenish their troops and carry out logistical support work, and prepare for the next attack on Liuzhou."

"According to the agreed time, the 23rd Army needs to launch an offensive first, and the main force of the 11th Army will not be dispatched until the Laibin and Wuxuan lines near Liuzhou, and it will be about the end of October.

"The empire received news that the 31st Army of the Shancheng government was mainly defending Guizhou City, with the 20th Army and the 26th Army in the area of Gongcheng and Lipu in the south, the 93rd Army in the Yongfu area in the southwest, and the 97th Army in the Yining and Longsheng areas in the north."

"And the intelligence from the Shancheng government is that the other party is ready to continue to transfer troops here, coupled with the local terrain advantage, this battle is not easy to fight, so it is appropriate to be cautious." Yoshitaro Kawamoto said.

After this conversation, Chen Mingxiang also basically figured out the context of the Japanese army, so he asked Wang Zhen to send a telegram to the bureau headquarters to inform the Military Commission.

The Japanese army's operational plan for this attack on Guizhou Province was that the 23rd Army would first start from Wuzhou, and the 11th Army would launch an attack on Guizhou at the end of the month, depending on the situation.

Moreover, he made a detailed report on some of the measures taken by the Japanese army to prevent the landing of US troops along the coast, as well as the strategic intentions of the Japanese army, and the Yamashiro government could not count on it, so it could only listen to the good news of the US military for the time being.

"In view of some of General Stilwell's opinions on this battle, the old man has proposed to the U.S. government for the third time that he wants to replace General Stilwell, and this time his attitude is very firm, and the U.S. government should compromise." Boss Dai said.

After receiving Chen Mingxiang's telegram, he was talking to two confidants in his office, and the contradictions between the old man and Stilwell became more and more acute, to the point that it was difficult to reconcile, and he actually asked the US president to remove Stilwell from his post again.

Stilwell, a US general who flew from Burma to Guizhou on 14 September, learned from the theater commander about the previous operations at the front and believed that if the battle continued like this, with such deployment of troops and such command, Guizhou and Liuzhou would certainly fall into the hands of the enemy.

Stilwell ordered the U.S. military to withdraw all the materials and equipment in the two areas, except for the airfields that are still in use and the aviation and combat materials that support the current operation, and to make preparations for destruction.