Why doesn't Shouichi in the temple want to jump into the Central Plains and drink the Yangtze River immediately? The problem is that he can't do it now!

The Luokou Yellow River Bridge was bombed, and Jinpu Road was completely paralyzed; The Hutuo River railway bridge and highway bridge were bombed, and Pinghan Road was also paralyzed; The eastern section of the Longhai Road has not yet been repaired, and the only way to deliver supplies to the front line is to transport supplies to Qingdao by sea, and then to Jinan via the Jiaoji Railway, using the middle section of the Jinpu Road to transport supplies. But it can only be transported to the area of Teng County. The railway from Tengxian to Xuzhou has not yet been built, let alone transported through the eastern section of Longhai Road.

Not to mention anything else, logistics and supplies can't be transported, so how can we fight?

Terauchi Shouichi could only swear to Admiral Kantaro Suzuki, an attendant to the emperor, that when the Eighth Route Army's Xiao Siming Division was eliminated this time, the public security situation in North China would stabilize in the short term, and the North China Front Army would be able to draw the main force, wave its division south, and join the battlefield of the Battle of Wuhan.

Of course, it is impossible for Terauchi Shouichi to blindly blow the conch, he has to say it truthfully, otherwise, if he blows it out, he can't get it back, and he is still ashamed!

Shouichi Terauchi said that the time for the North China Front to participate in the Battle of Wuhan may be delayed, and it is unlikely that it will be too soon. The reason is that it is necessary to repair the section from Jinpu Road to Xuzhou and the Longhai Road from Lianyungang to Kaifeng, so as to ensure the supply of the army and be sure!

According to Shouichi Temple, if the Jinpu Road and Longhai Road are blocked, it will be impossible for the North China Front Army to join the Battle of Wuhan with all its might, and the battle plan of the base camp will have to be revised!

Admiral Suzuki Kantaro naturally would not agree with Admiral Terauchi Shouichi's statement, but the predicament of the North China Front was there, the First Army was trapped in the Shanxi battlefield and could not move, and the 16th Division of the Second Army was participating in the combat operation of encircling and annihilating Xiao Siming's Department of the Eighth Route Army.

However, as long as Xiao Siming's division is eliminated, the Fifth Division, the Sixteenth Division, the Third Independent Mixed Brigade, and the Fourth Independent Mixed Brigade will all be freed up and can be carried out in accordance with the base camp battle plan.

The Second Army of the Japanese Army originally had three divisions, the 10th Division, the 16th Division, and the 108th Division, and the 6th Brigade of Heavy Artillery, but after the 108th Division arrived in the North China Battlefield, it was used to fight on the Pinghan Line and capture Shijiazhuang.

After the Battle of Lanfeng, in view of the heavy losses of the 14th Division, which was originally subordinate to the First Army, and the need to deploy defenses and replenish on the spot in Kaifeng, the Japanese army transferred the 14th Division to the Second Army, and the 1st Brigade and Regiment of Field Heavy Artillery, which was directly under the command of the 14th Division, were also temporarily placed under the command of the First Army with the 14th Division.

The current Second Army of the Japanese Army has four divisions, namely the 10th Division, the 13th Division, the 14th Division, and the 16th Division. Except for the 13th Division, which was rebuilt in September last year, the other three divisions are all elite permanent divisions. It's just that the 10th Division deployed defenses in the areas of Bozhou and Zhoukou, the 14th Division confronted the troops of the First Theater while repairing and replenishing in Kaifeng, and the 16th Division participated in the combat operation of encircling and annihilating Xiao Siming's troops in northern Henan. In total, the only thing that the Second Army could use for the Battle of Wuhan was the 13th Division that was sent from Central China and transferred to the command of the Second Army.

The base camp of the Japanese army, the commander of the Central China Dispatch Army, General Toshiroku Hata, who was responsible for commanding the Battle of Wuhan, was looking forward to the return of the 16th Division as soon as possible, and the North China Front Army could mobilize the main force to go south to participate in the war, but General Terauchi Shouichi thought at this time that it was necessary to annihilate the Xiao Siming Department of the Eighth Route Army before mobilizing the main force to go south to participate in the battle, and also dispatched the elite Fifth Division and the 16th Division to North China to encircle and annihilate Xiao Siming's department.

Some people in the Japanese army even said that the reason why General Terauchi held on to the Fifth Division and the Sixteenth Division, causing the North China Front Army to not be able to concentrate its elite to participate in the Battle of Wuhan, was because he wanted to command the Battle of Wuhan. The headquarters handed over the command of the Battle of Wuhan to the commander of the Central China Dispatch Army, General Shunroku Hatata, and General Terauchi had an idea about it. Therefore, the elite Fifth Division and the Sixteenth Division could only travel behind the butt of the Eighth Route Army in North China, and they had to consume the precious ammunition, oil, and food of the Great Japanese Empire in vain!

Some people also privately argued that the reason why the North China Front did not actively participate in the Battle of Wuhan was because of a lack of courage and the courage of the Yamato samurai to regard death as home! The general of the temple was too tolerant of his subordinate generals and blindly protected them, causing the North China Front to be greedy for life and afraid of death from top to bottom! Otherwise, why did no one apologize to the units of the North China Front Army for a series of vicious incidents, such as the destruction of the Taiyuan Airport, the collective crushing of the 20th Cavalry Wing, the loss of Dezhou, and the destruction of the Taiyuan Airport? Shouldn't Major General Motokawa Province, the commander of the 109th Brigade of the 118th Division, be responsible for the heavy damage to Ishida Kanazzo Osatama and the 119th Wing? Shouldn't Lieutenant General Shan Gang Chonghou, commander of the 109th Division, be responsible for the loss of the county seat of Yuxian County, the battle of Nianzigou, the attack on the stone measuring station, the blowing up of the Taohe Bridge, and the capture of the north of Shouyang County? Shouldn't Lieutenant General Fumizaburo Kawagishi, commander of the 20th Division, be responsible for the destruction of Taiyuan Airport? With the Provisional Air Corps of the North China Front losing so many planes, fuel, and aviation ammunition at Taiyuan Airport and Shijiazhuang Airport, doesn't Lieutenant General Tokugawa Yoshitoshi need to give an explanation to His Majesty the Emperor?

What's more, some people even said that General Terauchi Shouichi was outdated in his thinking, outdated, and unfit to be the commander of the North China Front. Because it is the general of the temple to take office,

Of course, this is just the rhetoric of a few people within the Japanese army, and they dare not say it openly,

Unconsciously, in the eyes of some people in the Japanese army's base camp, General Terauchi Shouichi, the commander of the North China Front, who first proposed to attack Wuhan, has become a constraint affecting the Japanese army's strategy for the Battle of Wuhan!

This is really black humor!

Shouichi Terauchi was a strongman in the Japanese army, and through the "two? The "26 Incident" purged the Army, kicked out the "Imperial Road faction" that used to control the Central Committee of the Army, and changed the key departments of the General Staff Headquarters and the Army Ministry. In addition to Prince Zaihito Miyajihito, the chief of the General Staff, the former Minister Sugimoto, the Vice-Minister Mitsu Mijiro, the current Minister of the Land, Seishiro Itagaki, and the Vice-Minister Hideki Tojo, including the director of education Nishio Toshizo, one of the three commanders of the Army, were all his subordinates or people with whom he had a deep relationship, and no one would say a word about his opinion, and no one could persuade him.

The Chief of the General Staff, Prince Zaihito Miyaji, was too old to fly long distances; Emperor Hirohito and Prime Minister Fumima Konoe could not personally come to North China to persuade Terauchi Shouichi, so the Emperor had no choice but to send his own attendant, Admiral Kantaro Suzuki, to inspect the North China Front.

It turned out that the emperor's chamberlain, Admiral Kantaro Suzuki, came to inspect the North China Front on behalf of the emperor, and the main mission was to urge Terauchi Shouichi to send troops to participate in the Battle of Wuhan!