Chapter 700: The Little Devil's Base Camp Can't Sit!
And for some intellectuals, or people who are concerned about the international situation, when they see this news, they all understand!
This time, after the special combat team of their independent regiment killed Shunroku Hatata, this time is likely to shock the whole world!
In recent days, the situation of the Japanese army on the mainland has not been very good, and even if we do not look at the previous achievements, just if we look at the overall battle situation after the Battle of Xuzhou, we can find that the situation of the Japanese army on the mainland is becoming more and more tense.
The pace of their attack is also getting slower and slower!
And the resistance and will to fight on the part of the defenders are also getting stronger and stronger!
The casualties of the little devils are also gradually increasing!
In the Battle of Xuzhou, the Japanese army suffered heavy losses in Chihe, Dingyuan, Linhuaiguan, Tengxian, Zouxian, Taierzhuang and other places, and several divisions and regiments participating in the battle all suffered heavy blows, and the losses were very serious!
The North China side has been unable to gather effective forces in a short period of time to engage in a large-scale battle with the defenders!
In Central China, in the previous Battle of Wuhan, although the Japanese army still successfully occupied Wuhan, when attacking, it suffered desperate resistance from the defenders.
The victory of Wanjialing severely damaged a division of the Japanese army, and the entire division was almost wiped out! More than 10,000 dead and wounded!
After occupying Wuhan, the 3rd Division was attacked by the special forces of the Independent Regiment, and the division commander Fujita Jin and all the senior officers of the entire division were killed, although the 3rd Division regrouped and invaded Changsha, intending to take revenge!
However, under the resistance of Chen Qingzhi's independent regiment and Wang Yaowu's 51st Division, the 3rd Division was besieged, and an entire division was pinned down in Beishan Town, and then besieged by our army and annihilated!
Even the new division commander Yamarib Masataka also accompanied his division in Beishan Town!
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These battles one after another all show the fatigue of the Japanese army on the mainland battlefield and the fact that they lack stamina as a whole!
Up to now, the two front armies of North China and Central China, which were the main forces of the Japanese attack on the mainland, had suffered great losses and had to be forced to turn to the defensive!
Because they are now completely incapable of attacking the defenders!
Even the current North China and Central China Front armies are about to become frightened birds, for fear that the defenders will take the initiative to attack them at this time, and when the time comes, if they are inflicted heavy blows, this will be tantamount to adding insult to injury, and will only make their situation more passive!
In such a situation, this group of little devils is naturally in a hurry!
But even if they are in a hurry, there is no way to do it!
Because of the battle, North China and Central China suffered heavy losses, and there was a shortage of troops, so they could only defend passively, if they wanted to turn the tide of the war, unless they mobilized heavy troops from the Kwantung Army, or recruited soldiers again from the mainland, there was no other way!
But neither of these two solutions can be achieved in a period of time!
After all, to mobilize troops from the Kwantung Army, it is necessary to cross such a vast area, and during this period, they may also be attacked by the defenders along the way, and by the time they rush to North China and Central China, they may lose most of them!
This is a ploy that is absolutely not feasible!
For the way of the army, the most taboo is a long-distance march, after all, from the northeast to Central China, such a long-distance march, period
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No one can say what will happen in the intermittent situation!
And if you recruit soldiers from the mainland, not to mention the time it takes to mobilize the troops, plus the basic infantry training and the transportation of soldiers from the mainland to the mainland, it will take time!
Therefore, the current situation of the Japanese army is very embarrassing!
At present, they are isolated and can only defend passively, even if some border areas are provoked and sneak attacked by the defenders, they dare not chase them out, they can only defend passively!
This situation was not expected by the officers of the Japanese army, especially their top leaders!
Therefore, when this situation appeared, the Japanese army was immediately restrained and anxious because of panic......
In order to break this situation, the anxious little devils had no choice but to report the news to the local side, intending to let the local side come up with a charter and formulate a plan that they need to implement next!
After all, for the current Japanese army, this is no longer the time to let them do it at will!
At this time, they are at a disadvantage!
If they are acting arbitrarily, once the other party seizes the opportunity to conduct a large-scale battle again, and causes them heavy losses, it may make their empire completely lose the initiative on the mainland!
This is definitely not the situation they want to see!
Therefore, when the Central China, North China and Kwantung armies gathered the news, and the commanders of several front armies jointly sent the news to the mainland, the Japanese mainland immediately paid attention to it!
Prime Minister Hiroki Hirota, Minister of War Hideki Tojo, and Kwantung Army Commander Umezu Yoshijiro, who had traveled from the Kwantung Army to discuss matters, presided over a meeting that was attended by Fumiro Konoe and Emperor Hirohito, who were prime ministers at the time.
During this period, the Chief Cabinet Secretary, the Chief of the Army General Staff, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and others were all present!
At this meeting, it can be said that the entire army system of the Japanese army was all present, and the pattern was very high!
And this time, the main problem is to discuss the war situation on the mainland!
In view of the recent assassination and killing of several division commanders, as well as the heavy losses and even total annihilation of a succession of divisions and regiments, coupled with the death of Shunroku Hata and the repeated impact caused by it, a plan to deal with it was discussed.
In a conference room in the Imperial Palace, more than a dozen high-ranking military officers were all in the dojo, with Emperor Hirohito sitting at the top, and at the head of him was then Prime Minister Fumiro Konoe, and below were senior officers and generals from various army departments.
As for those lieutenant generals who are all feudal officials outside, they can only sit at the end of the table here, and they are not even qualified to speak, so they can only listen silently, and are always ready to record the opinions and suggestions of several commanders!
When all the officers were present, the meeting officially began.
And from the beginning, Emperor Hirohito's face was not very good-looking, and Konoe Fumito's face was even more unsightly, and even faintly iron-blue.
As for the officers who attacked, they were also pale and angry!
"It's a shame!"
As soon as they thought of the topic they were about to discuss, this thought came to their minds, and the anger in their hearts rose even more!