Who is Hyotaro Kimura? He was the Vice-Minister of the Ministry of War of the Imperial Japan, in other words, the equivalent of the Deputy Minister of Defense in charge of the work, a position that was quite awesome. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The supreme governor of the Ministry of War is the Minister of War, and is now held by Hideki Tojo. With Hideki Tojo's current position, it is naturally impossible to manage the specific affairs of the Ministry of the Army, so Hyotaro Kimura is the actual person in charge of the Ministry of the Army. So don't look at Umezu Mijiro is the commander of the Kwantung Army, and his rank is also a general, but the two of them are really not much worse when they pick up their status, seeing Umezu Mijiro such a bullish look that he doesn't want to explain, the fire in Kimura Hyotaro's heart can naturally be imagined.

"Very good...... Kimura Hyotaro smiled angrily: "Since Commander Umezu doesn't want to explain to me, a little lieutenant general, then I won't ask, I will truthfully report your answer to His Majesty the Emperor and Prime Minister Tojo when I go back, I hope you can answer His Majesty's personal inquiries so hard when you return to the mainland to report on your work, and take your leave!" ”

After saying that, Hyotaro Kimura stood up and was about to leave.

"Huh...... Lord Kimura, please wait a minute! Yoshimoto Sada, who was on the side, was anxious when he saw it, if he really let Kimura Hyotaro go like this, I am afraid that the next time it will not be the officers who came to inquire, but the planes and gendarmes directly under the base camp. If you really want to offend Hirohito and the people sent by the base camp, then it will be a big problem.

What kind of person is Hideki Tojo, that's a person who will repay his eyes. Senior General Nishio Toshizo, who had just stepped down from his post as commander-in-chief of the Huaxia Dispatch Army, went to Kansai a few days ago to inspect the area, and while answering a reporter's question, he casually said: "I don't know about this matter, so you can ask the guy who rummaged through the garbage bin every morning." Although Nishio Shouzo did not name him, everyone knows that this is actually talking about Hideki Tojo. Because one of Tojo's hobbies is to check the garbage in the garbage bins to see if anyone eats big fish and meat, and wastes extravagantly when the country is in trouble. Now it's okay, Hideki Tojo was furious when he found out, and immediately ordered the senior General Nishio to be incorporated into the reserve. If Umezu Mijiro offends Nishimura Hyotaro again, his fate will only be worse than Nishio Shouzo.

Yoshimoto Sadachi hurriedly stepped forward to stop Kimura Hyotaro, bowed deeply to him and said sincerely: "Kimura-kun, Commander Umezu has such a temper, but please believe that his loyalty to His Majesty the Emperor and the empire is beyond doubt, everyone is serving the emperor and the empire, so please don't worry about His Excellency the commander, please!" After speaking, Yoshimoto Sadachi bowed deeply to Kimura again.

"Okay!" Kimura Hyotaro didn't want to leave like this in the first place, and although he could return to the mainland immediately in a fit of rage, if he went back like this, the south would also leave the impression that the cabinet bosses were not good for doing things and were frivolous.

After sitting down again, Kimura Hyotaro said solemnly: "Commander Umezu, what you just said was too general, can you tell us more about what happened?" ”

"Absolutely."

Umezu Mijiro also calmed down, nodded slightly at Kimura Hyotaro and said, "Kimura-kun, I'm really sorry, I was a little out of shape just now, please don't care." ”

Kimura Hyotaro shook his head and said: "Your Excellency Commander, you have been under pressure these days for all to see, if Su Jin is really so easy to deal with, His Excellency Nishio will not return to China in disgrace." ”

Hearing this, Umezu Mijiro also sighed. Nishio Shouzo is really unlucky, in the past few years, Nishio Shouzo has been thinking about how to eliminate Su Jin and his Third Army, and even launched several large-scale attacks for this. But not only did he fail to eliminate Su Jin, but he made him bigger and bigger, not only lost Zhejiang and Fujian in a row, but even Guangdong was a little dangerous, and now Su Jin stretched out his hand to Manchuria, and a telegram from the unbearable base camp transferred Nishio Shouzo back to the mainland. Nishio Shouzo, who returned to his homeland and became a military senator, inadvertently offended Hideki Tojo again, and was simply put in the reserve for retirement.

After settling down, Umezu Mijiro said: "Su Jin's ability to take Fengtian has its accidental factors, and there are also his inevitable factors. I have to admit that we all underestimate him, this man is definitely the biggest enemy of the Empire, and if this person is not eliminated for a day, the Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere of the Great Japanese Empire will not be realized! ”

Kimura Hyotaro asked calmly, "Can you tell me about the Mukden Arsenal again?" Why didn't you blow up both the arsenal and the Mukden factories before you evacuated Mukden? ”

Umezu Mijiro asked rhetorically, "If they are all blown up, is it still necessary to recover Mukden?" ”

"This ......" Kimura Hyotaro couldn't help but be dumbfounded, and Umezu Mijiro's words got to the point. If Mukden is reduced to ruins, is it worth the Empire's efforts to recover?

Seeing that Kimura Hyotaro didn't speak, Umezu Mijiro said: "If Mukden is destroyed, the Empire's troops in China will lose sixty percent of their material supplies, and this pressure will overwhelm the Empire, so no matter what, I will ensure that Mukden is intact, even if it is temporarily let fall into the hands of the Shina people, can you understand my painstaking efforts?" ”

"I think I get it."

Kimura Hyotaro nodded solemnly, there is a saying in China that you are not afraid to wear shoes with bare feet, the Fengtian Arsenal was not Su Jin's in the first place, it is good to be able to occupy it, if it is bombed by the Japanese army, he will have no loss. The Kwantung Army, on the other hand, is different, and to this day, the common people from Emperor Hirohito to Japan all regard Manchuria as Japan's territory, and they naturally feel distressed about their own things. Moreover, the weapons and materials produced by the Mukden Arsenal accounted for 60 percent of the entire supply of the Japanese army in China, and once it was blown up, it would be catastrophic for the Japanese soldiers, so no matter how bold Umezu Mijiro was, he would not dare to blow up this Japanese arsenal that had been operated by Japan for more than ten years. ”

"Soga!"

Kimura took a deep breath before saying, "In that case, I won't ask any more, I'll be here on behalf of His Majesty the Emperor on behalf of the base camp to see when Commander Umezu can recapture Mukden!" ”

"It's coming!" Umezu Mijiro shook his teeth loudly: "I have mobilized eight divisions to encircle Fengtian, if Su Jin is interested, it will be enough to return Fengtian to the empire intact, if he is not interested in holding on to Fengtian or daring to blow up Fengtian's various facilities when he evacuates Fengtian, I will let him taste the taste of life is worse than death!" ”

Looking at Umezu Mijiro, who was gritting his teeth, Sadachi Yoshimoto on the side also showed a worried expression on his face. Through these days, he also had a profound and intuitive understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Third Army, which was a national army unit unlike any other he had ever seen. This unit was outrageously well-equipped, and when the war was fought, the shells were thrown desperately as if they didn't need money, and with the air supremacy, the accurate shooting and stabbing that the imperial soldiers were good at in the war had no room to play, and each soldier could only be killed in vain by the shells that fell from the sky and the bullets that were as dense as raindrops.

Therefore, Yoshimoto Sadachi has a hunch that if Su Jin and his Third Army cannot be wiped out here in one fell swoop this time, then hundreds of thousands of Kwantung Army will probably be beaten into the abyss by Su Jin's backhand, and the Kwantung Army, which has been glorious for decades, may really be removed by Su Jin......

Umezu Mijiro was deploying troops everywhere, and Su Jin was not idle. Since the main force of Japan's combined fleet has been firmly dragged by the US military in the Pacific theater, Zhou Yusheng, who is in charge of the work in Hangzhou, is preparing to organize a large-scale sea transportation and prepare to ship some heavy equipment and troops to the northeast to reduce the pressure on air transportation.

Although the Japanese gritted their teeth at this overhead air transport line, they also repeatedly sent fighters to attack the transport planes. In view of the fact that the distance from Hangzhou to Huludao is more than 2,000 kilometers, the range of the existing P47 and shrew fighters is simply not enough to support such a long-distance escort mission, so Su Jin came up with a two-headed escort method. That is, when a group of transport planes departed from Hangzhou, a group of fighters were dispatched from Hangzhou to escort the transport planes all the way, and when the escort was halfway through, another group of fighters taking off from Huludao also arrived almost at the same time to take over the escort task, so that the transport planes could be escorted throughout the whole process.

However, this kind of escort is only an expedient measure, after all, the troops to be consumed in this way are too large, and no one can stand it for a long time. Moreover, in order to make up for the lack of range of the P47 Thunderbolt fighter and the F6F Vixen fighter, Su Jinyi gritted his teeth and cashed in the addition of 60 P-51 Mustang fighters to supplement the troops, and formed an escort group, which was specially responsible for long-range escort missions. When 60 P-51s, which were claimed to be all-purpose fighters in another time and space, were put into the aviation unit, they immediately caused a sensation.

The maximum combat radius of this fighter has reached a jaw-dropping 2092 kilometers, that is to say, the pilot who piloted it can fly from Hangzhou to Fengtian in the morning to conduct an air battle with the Japanese, and then fly back to Hangzhou leisurely for lunch.

And the news that the Third Army was equipped with P-51s soon reached the ears of the American Observer Mission, and as the head of the Observation Mission, Lieutenant Colonel Crawford almost had a crooked nose......