It is an important stronghold on the Jinpu Road, after the Japanese army captured here, it sent a wing to garrison here, the wing commander Takeda Osahara was the wing commander of the 10th Field Division, from the field unit to the garrison, it was a sign of loss in the Japanese army, Takeda was very dissatisfied in his heart, for which he had protested to his superiors, but his superiors insisted on the same, he had no choice but to stay. \\、0m//

However, after staying, he gradually adapted to life here, and what made him a little uncomfortable was his deputy Nakajima Yasendo, it is said that this Nakajima Yasuken is a top student of the Imperial Army University, and is very appreciated by several veterans of the school, but what makes Kataoka a little puzzled is how such a top student was sent to Texas instead of going to the field division to make contributions. But soon he understood that this Nakajima was originally a follower of Ishihara Wan'er, and he opposed the expansion of the war against China, and with the end of Ishihara, he naturally had no future in the army, and it was already his best destination to come to Dexian, otherwise he would have been dismissed from his military post and sent back to his hometown.

After learning this, Kataoka felt that he should take on the mission of saving this high-achieving student and rekindle his passion for samurai, so he discussed the fate of the empire and the conquest of China with Nakajima from time to time, and every time good news came, he would pull Nakajima to celebrate.

However, Nakajima did not seem to appreciate his hospitality, nor did he care much about the operations near Texas, but on the contrary, he urged the troops to speed up the construction of the Texas base, and built a new base in just half a year.

The new base is built in the southwest of Dezhou City, in the triangle of the Tianjin-Pudong Railway, the Deshi Highway, and the Canal.

The base is full of reinforced concrete bunkers, bunkers, and trenches all around, and each firing point is carefully designed. For this base, the evaluation of Kataodi is that it cannot be defeated without ten times the number of troops.

Kataoka wasn't really enthusiastic about building a base, he first thought that the war would end in three months, then within a year, but whenever he mentioned it, Nakajima had a mocking look on his face, obviously disapproving of his judgment and not wanting to argue with him, which made Kataoka a little worried.

I don't know if Nakajima felt that his attitude was inappropriate, or that he needed the support of Katagang to carry out his work, so he had an in-depth exchange with Katagang after the Spring Festival.

During this exchange, Kataoka felt that his months of saving Nakajima did not have the slightest effect, and on the contrary, he was almost persuaded by Nakajima.

Nakajima's argument was simple: he first decided that the war would not end within a year, and that the Tokyo bureaucrats were gambling on the fate of Japan, and that they were all thieves who had misled the country.

This first sentence made Katagang almost jump. Subsequently, Nakajima argued the conclusion of the protracted Sino-Japanese war from five aspects.

"We can all see that the industrial capacity of the Great Japanese Empire surpasses that of China. Organizational skills surpass them. But we have overlooked China's geographical advantages. First of all, China has a vast territory. Even if we occupy the eastern region. The Chinese government can still rely on the west to maneuver with us; Secondly, Chinese culture has a long history. Many people underestimate Chinese culture. In fact, Chinese culture is a very resilient culture. Chinese culture is equally inclusive and exclusive. Inclusiveness means that he can absorb foreign cultures that are beneficial to him. For example, Buddhism. Xenophobia means that any foreign culture will eventually be changed. Change to conform to Chinese culture; We only see the Manchu Mongols conquering the Central Plains. But I didn't see it. The Manchus actually surrendered to the Han culture in the end. It took nearly a hundred years for the Mongols to conquer China. And they conquered the Middle East, Russia, Eastern Europe. It took less than twenty years; That's the resilience of this culture. Third. China's real estate industry capacity is low. But it is precisely this low industrial capacity that makes them extremely strong in the regional economy. They do not have a physical industrial economic center. So no matter what it takes to occupy Shanghai. Or Nanjing. The Chinese conquest can continue to resist. This is why Chinese warlords can stand on their own. It's hard to eliminate. Fourth, the blockade of China is very difficult to achieve. China has a vast western part of the country. Guangxi, Yunnan can be contacted by Vietnam, Myanmar. Xinjiang has access to Soviet Russia. As long as you want. Roads and railways can be built in both places. access to a steady stream of foreign aid; Fifth, Europe, the United States, and the Soviet Union will not sit idly by and watch us conquer China. They will support China in every way. Especially the United States and Soviet Russia. ”

Nakajima talks about Chinese culture. Kataoka felt that he was not a soldier sitting on the ground opposite. It's a university professor. His expression was so serious and yearning.

Later, Nakajima analyzed the current military strategy. He refuted the military department's strategy to the point that it was worthless. It is believed that the defeat in the battle of Nanking was not a tactical defeat but a strategic defeat.

"China has always been conquered from the north to the south. There has never been a conquest from east to west; At present, the forces of the empire are mainly concentrated in the Jiangnan region. Even if the Jinpu line is opened. It can only be pushed from east to west; After the Chinese abandoned the east. It seems to be a losing day. However, it has always grasped the strategic initiative. ”

"Why is the sword of Damocles terrible? It's because I don't know when he will fall. Our local strategy should be to resolutely abandon Shanghai. Leave Shanghai and Nanjing to China. And blockade the Huangpu River with a fleet. Threats harassing Gangnam. forced the Nanjing government to keep heavy troops in the south of the Yangtze River. And the main force is divided into three ways. All the way to the west. conquering Shaanxi; then crossed the Qinling Mountains and went south to Sichuan; The other way is along the Pinghan line to Wuhan. The third road was to go south along the Jinpu Road to capture Shandong. In this way, the main force of the ** team is outflanked from a large area. The main force of the squadron was surrounded in the Jiangnan Plain. Push them to have the best showdown with us here. This is the best strategy to conquer China. ”

According to this strategy, the Japanese side had to invest at least two million troops to cross the Qinling Mountains to attack Sichuan, and how many troops would be needed to protect the long logistics line? How many occupation troops would it take to occupy such a vast area? The combat effectiveness of the Sichuan army exceeded the military's expectations, and the troops attacking Sichuan would be at least 200,000, and the number of troops protecting the logistics line would only be twice as high.

"The war to the present situation is a double mistake of the top level of the imperial government, and the refusal to negotiate with the Chiang Kai-shek government is a mistake among mistakes." Nakajima finally came to a conclusion for his series of analyses, and his eyes were still so disdainful and arrogant.

Kataoka didn't know how he fell asleep that night, his mind was full of Nakajima's words, a long-term war, the consumption of Japan's national strength is very terrible, and the Japanese military and government have always tried to avoid it, but now the long-term war is inevitable.

From the second day, Kataoka began to support Nakajima's action to build a new base.

The island has only managed to build a new base in just a few months.

What Kataoka never expected was that such a beautiful new base was actually ridiculed by Shouichi Terauchi, the commander of the North China Front.

"Yo Sai, the new base is very beautiful, more beautiful than the villa at the foot of Mt. Fuji, but, Kataoka Osa, Nakajima Nakasa, did you choose the wrong place? You should go down to Mt. Fuji. ”

Looking at Shouichi Terauchi's mocking face, Kataoka couldn't wait to lower a crack so that he could get in. But Nakajima beside him was as calm as water, and in the face of the ridicule in the temple, he replied neither humbly nor arrogantly: "The foundation of the offensive is built on good defense, and with this new base, the defense force can be saved to the greatest extent." The area in charge of this garrison is vast, but there are only three brigades, but there are only 4,000 troops, but we are responsible for six counties and regions, as well as the safety of the Tianjin-Pudong Railway, and the number of troops is seriously insufficient. ”

Nakajima gave the temple a soft nail, this move surprised the officers in the mainland, including Kataoka, you must know that the temple is a famous family, the shogunate era is a nobleman with a surname, and his father is also one of the fathers of the Meiji Restoration, is a veritable famous family, and has a high status in the army. But now this little-known little Nakasa dares to contradict him, which makes the officers, including the chief of staff, Okabe Naosaburo, a little uneasy.

"Yo Xi, it seems that you still have some research on strategy," Terauchi Shouichi was not angry, and smiled a little tolerantly under the shaking of his broad head: "Nakajima Nakasa, what do you think of this Jinpu Road battle?" ”

Okabe Naosaburo was really a little surprised at this time, so many general-level officers were here, but Terauchi Shouichi ran to ask a little Nakasa, which was too surprising.

"I think that the strategic direction is wrong," Nakajima was not frightened, and was not frightened by the many generals in front of him, and replied with his head held high: "The troops in Jiangnan should be transferred back to North China, and then divided into two routes, one to attack Shandong, the other to attack Henan, and then go straight to Wuhan; After occupying Wuhan, he transferred troops to the northwest to capture Shaanxi, cutting off the connection between the northwest and southwest of China. ”

"Presumptuous!" Okabe Naosaburo shouted before he finished listening: "You dare to discuss the battle plan formulated by the military department as a small Nakasa, you don't know what to do, do you really think you are a strategic expert?" So many generals are not as good as you? ”

Nakajima was not ashamed at all, he just looked at Okabe Naosaburo and Terauchi Shouichi in silence, Terauchi Shouichi waved his hand to stop Okabe Naosaburo, and then said lightly: "Nakajima Nakasa, what I let you say is the prospect of this Jinpu Road battle, not the strategic direction." ”

"Hey," Nakajima replied, "I think this battle will be very difficult, the Chinese defenders adopted the tactics of luring the enemy into depth, abandoning many strategic points, including Jinan, although the imperial army is advancing quickly, but it has not captured the main force of the Chinese army, so so far, this battle is only the beginning, and next, our army will face a real battle." ”

Shouichi Terauchi didn't say anything and turned his head to Naosaburo Okabe and other generals and said: "This Nakajima Nakasa is Ishihara's proud apprentice, and he has the title of strategic wizard at the Army University, and he is known as the most talented strategic expert of this generation, and he defeated the guy of Muto Akira in the Army University exercise. ”

"Oh, it was him." Okabe Naosaburo suddenly realized, the Imperial Army University broke a piece of news that year, the deputy minister of education, Muto Zhang, was defeated by a student of Lu University in a map exercise, which caused a sensation in the entire Lu University, but then there was no news, today Okabe Naosaburo only understood why there was no news about this student later, with Nakajima's character, it was lucky to be promoted to Nakasa in the army, instead of being relieved of his military position and going home.

Terauchi Shouichi came to Dexian to personally command the Jinpu Road operation, and the same as the southern front, in order to carry out the Jinpu Road operation, the North China Front Army formed the Jinpu Road Combat Cluster, the commander-in-chief was Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo, and the former enemy commander-in-chief was Lieutenant General Isoya Ryosuke, but Terauchi Shouichi was not satisfied, the defeat of the emperor's ** team in Nanjing made his heart full of anger, when the real news of Nanjing came, he was playing chess and overturned the chessboard, scolded Matsui Shigen for being a waste, and he decided to personally wash away the shame of Nanjing.

In order to achieve this goal, he established a headquarters in Dexian County, and he was to personally command the operation on the northern front of Jinpu Road.

After Terauchi Shouichi made it difficult for the Dexian garrison at the beginning of getting off the bus, he was still very satisfied with this base, both in terms of site selection and firepower configuration, and what surprised him was that if this base was to be fully filled, at least two full brigades would be added, which virtually solved the problem of the accommodation of the garrison troops and staff officers he came with.

Terauchi Shouyi went to live in Dexian, Jinan's Nishio Shouzo couldn't sit still, Dexian is not too far from Jinan, the functions of the two high-level command centers overlapped obviously, and the actions of the temple actually interfered with his command of the battlefield, which was equivalent to depriving him of the command of the battlefield, which made Nishio difficult to accept anyway, so Nishio simply moved the command forward and moved his command to Tai'an.

Nishio moved to Tai'an, and the functions of Ryosuke Isoya's former enemy commander-in-chief were weakened, and the 109th Division and the 108th Division on the left and right flanks directly consulted Nishio Shouzo on some matters, which brought a trace of confusion to the Japanese battlefield command system.

However, the actions in the temple caused the Japanese command system to advance layer by layer, and the Japanese offensive became more fierce, and the 5th and 16th Divisions of Itagaki that occupied the water launched an attack on Lin.

Alum Valley Ryosuke commanded the Japanese army in the middle to cross the Dawenkou and launch an attack on Qufu, and the 109th Division pounced on Mengyin after occupying Laiwu; After the 108th Division and the Yamamoto Brigade captured Feicheng, they turned to Wenshang and prepared to outflank Yanzhou.

Compared with the "devastating" attack of the Japanese army on the northern front, the Japanese army on the southern front began to feel the pressure of resistance from the Chinese defenders.

The Japanese army on the southern front began to divide its forces after conquering the county, launching an attack on Dingyuan with the 3rd Division on the left flank, and attacking Mingguang along the Jinpu Road with the 6th and 9th Divisions and the 106th Division.

On 21 June, the 3rd Division conquered the mountain and engaged in a fierce battle with the 92nd Army of Li Xianzhou of the Central Army, which was blocking in front of it, and after resisting for a day, the 92nd Army took the initiative to withdraw across the Chihe River and joined forces with the 46th Army of Fan Songpu on the north bank of the Chihe River to continue to block the Japanese army.

On the same day, the Japanese army on the right flank, led by the 6th Division, followed up by the 9th Division to launch an attack on Mingguang, and met with the 59th outpost position at Sanjie Town, and the battle on the southern front began.

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