The third part of the bloody and fire war of resistance, the tenth chapter, the third section of the war drums

Umezu Yoshijiro looked very amiable, completely devoid of superiors, and appeared polite, in Takitakanosuke's impression, Umezu Yoshijiro was a Japanese soldier who openly opposed military interference in politics, and he was extremely disgusted with the Japanese army's tradition of inferior and superior forces, especially the army's frequent use of means to overthrow the government, but this prevented him from allowing the subordinates of the Kwantung Army and the North China Dispatch Army to join forces with the Bī cabinet to agree to start a war against the Soviet Union a few years ago. \、ǒM//

"Why? Excellency. Tatetakanosuke was a little puzzled, whether he agreed or disagreed, but he didn't know how to answer, which made him very puzzled.

"The decisive battle in North China has been completed," Umezu Mijiro stood up and walked to the table next to him to pick up the map, spread it out on the coffee table, and Tachitakanosuke found that this was a map of North China: "The number of the China Army has been identified as 1.5 million, and the strength of the North Line China Army is not known, the North China Dispatch Army has about 450,000 troops, and if it is the imperial army at the time of the Lugou Bridge Incident, the 450,000 troops are slightly insufficient."

During the battle of Songhu, the Imperial Army invested about 400,000 troops, and the China Army invested about 800,000 jīng Rui, and after six years of war, the China Army greatly improved both equipment and training, but on the contrary, the strength of the Imperial Army was," Umezu Mijiro paused slightly: "Unfortunately, I think it is declining, and this is mainly reflected in the soldiers and equipment. ”

Tatsunosuke felt that when Umezu Mijiro said that the strength of the imperial army had decreased, Masanobu Tsuji's mood behind him fluctuated slightly, but it passed in a flash.

"I've studied General Shina," Tatetakanosuke sighed and swelled with pride in his heart, among the Japanese generals, there are many Mr. Studies, and none of the Japanese generals have defeated Mr., from Matsui Ishine to Okamura Ninji, to the generals who have been to China, it seems that only Hideki Tojo has not been defeated at the hands of Mr., that is, he has been in China for a short time, and he has not been to the south. Mr. attacked everything, invincible, the Japanese generals were proud to defeat Mr., Okamura Ninji studied him, Nishio Shouzo studied him, Itagaki Seishiro studied him, but I didn't expect that Umezu Mijiro, who was far away in Manchuria, was also studying him.

"From Nanjing to the Battle of Shandong, I studied all the operational deployments that General Shina could find, this is a very cautious person, but this time he is unusual, showing all his strength so early, what is the purpose of it?" Umezu Mijiro said categorically after a deep sink: "He wants to fight a decisive battle, he hopes that the empire will concentrate on Jīng Rui and fight him in the North China Plain, and he has full confidence in victory." ”

"There are 1.5 million in the Chinese army, of which at least 1.2 million are reorganized in the Chinese division, and the reorganized Chinese army is two to one compared with the combat effectiveness of the imperial army, in addition, the Chinese general also has air superiority, which is the source of the confidence of the Chinese general. However, I think that his confidence is very reasonable, and the decisive battle in North China will be beneficial to the general of China. ”

Tachitakanosuke's heart sank, and Umezu Mijiro's judgment was the same as his, so he hoped that a decisive battle would be fought in North China, and it would be best to put a part of the Kwantung Army, such as 100,000 or 550,000 Japanese troops, just to satisfy his appetite.

"But,..." As soon as Tatsutakanosuke opened his mouth, he was stopped by Umezu Mijiro, who continued, "Why don't you fight a decisive battle in North China?" Ishihara-kun proposed to retreat to the Manchurian border, but the loss of Pingjin had a great impact on the entire war situation, and Soviet Russia is still relatively quiet, but if Pingjin is lost, what will Soviet Russia react to?

The Kwantung Army was very weakened, and if the Chinese Army approached Manchukuo, the Soviets would never sit idly by, and they would definitely try to get into the Northeast first. At that time, the Kwantung Army and the North China Dispatch Army would face a two-front attack by the Chinese Army and the Soviet Army, and the situation would become even more dangerous. ”

Speaking of this, Umezu Mijiro walked up to Takitanosuke's side and patted him on the shoulder: "Ritaka-kun, you are a double wall in North China, and you are extremely strategically outstanding, I want to hear your point of view." Attention, I don't want Okamura-kun. ”

This last addition made Tachitakanosuke extremely embarrassed. In Umezu Mijiro's view, Okamura Ning secondarily held North China, which was what he had to do as the commander of the North China Dispatch Army. But he didn't want Tatsunosuke to talk about it in the same way that he had completed Okamura's mission.

But as a member of the North China Dispatch Army, Tatetakanosuke should naturally stand on the position of the North China Dispatch Army; But what Umezu Mijiro asked was to stand on the overall situation, and take the Chinese battlefield and the Soviet Russian battlefield, the North China Dispatch Army and the Kwantung Army as a whole.

Tatsunosuke was silent, thought slightly, tapped his fingers lightly on the map, Kasawara Yukio and Ishihara Waner looked at him with great interest, Kasawara Yukio knew him, and in the second Battle of Tsuura, Tatsunosuke left an extremely deep impression on him.

Ishihara had met Tatsunosuke for the first time, and had heard his name before, and he watched with some curiosity and some scrutiny, wanting to hear the opinion of this man who was on a par with his proud disciple.

Tatsunosuke quickly made a judgment, he believed that Umezu Yoshijiro and Ishihara Guaner affirmed that Jiāo had exchanged opinions, and that Ishihara's purpose was to withdraw the North China Dispatch Army to the Manchurian border, join the Kwantung Army, and use the terrain of the Manchurian border area to fight a decisive battle with the squadron. But this plan had to persuade Okamura Ninji to give up the decisive battle in North China and give up Pingjin, but Ishihara had just come from North China and knew Okamura Ninji's attitude, so they chose the breakthrough on him.

"Judging from the whole battle situation, the unfavorable situation of the imperial army is very obvious," Ligao Nosuke's tone was slow: "After the victory of the Chinese army in the Battle of Northern Hubei and the Battle of Shandong, the morale of the army is very high, I have read the manual of the whole army of the Chinese army, as well as the tactical manual of the general of the Chinese army, frankly speaking, if the Chinese army is completely trained in accordance with this manual, it will be very dangerous."

According to the information we have received, the Chinese army now has about 2.6 million troops that have undergone retraining, half of which are in the Jiangnan and Burma theaters, and about 130 to 400,000 in the North China theater. Judging from the comparison of troops, in the decisive battle in North China, the Chinese army had an absolute advantage. ”

"We are now facing a big problem, the decisive battle in North China, the imperial army is at a disadvantage, although this disadvantage can be shortened by jīng gods, training and tactics. But the difference in strength is too big, Your Excellency just said one to two, to be honest, it is to save face for the imperial army, in my heart, I think it is only one to one to five, I don't know if you have studied the Wang Tong resistance battle, in this operation, the Chinese army has not invested in the reorganized troops. It can be said that the first strong army in China, the 49th Group Army, has 100,000 troops, and these 100,000 can offset at least 80,000 imperial troops."

Tatsutakanosuke analyzed the changes that the Shina army had shown since the Battle of Northern Hubei, especially the changes in training and tactics, and also specifically analyzed the Shina general: "As Your Excellency said, the Shina general is very cautious in combat, so it is very difficult to fool him. Judging from the previous situation, General Shina was very cunning, and what he showed can hardly be said to be implemented in the end. So the information he has obtained so far can hardly be said to be his real plan. ”

"As Your Excellency said, the strategy we should adopt is to abandon Pingjin and retreat to the border of Manchukuo, and as Your Excellency fears, abandoning Pingjin will have a very bad political impact and may affect the attitude of Soviet Russia in the Far East.

From a tactical point of view, the terrain of the Reheshan customs area is extremely favorable to the imperial army, which can save troops to the greatest extent, but there is also another problem, the people of China almost did not fight to recover Pingjin, so that the army of China has enough time to reorganize the army. ”

But when Tatsutakanosuke said this, Ishihara Waner frowned slightly, according to his assumption, the Shina army would continue to attack, continue to attack, and then smash in front of the imperial army.

"Judging from the whole war situation, the battlefield in China is progressing very quickly, the US army is still fighting for islands with the imperial army in the Pacific Ocean, the Soviet-German war has not changed significantly, especially the US army, I estimate that it will take at least another year for the US army to threaten the imperial mainland before it is possible to land on the mainland. During this period, the Chinese would make full use of the airfields in Jiaodong and North China to bomb the mainland. In addition, the Chinese can also send an army north to invade Mongolia, or they can make a detour from Inner Mongolia to attack Heilongjiang. There are many strategies to choose from. ”

"Special bombing, once the people of China bomb the mainland, taking into account the sentiment of the people, Your Majesty and the cabinet will demand that the Kwantung Army attack and destroy the Air Force of China from the land, at that time, what choice will Your Excellency make?"

"In view of these considerations, Your Excellency, I still agree with Commander Okamura's plan to fight a decisive battle in Pingjin."

When Tachitakanosuke said this conclusion, his expression was very calm: "The decisive battle of Pingjin, we are not without a chance, General Shina is very confident now, but it can also be regarded as pride, since ancient times, the arrogant army will be defeated, he made a mistake."

The Kwantung Army only needed 300,000 troops, together with 45 troops from the North China Dispatch Army. The North China Dispatch Army fought a decisive battle with the China Army on the front line, and the main force of the Kwantung Army secretly entered the customs and concealed it in eastern Hebei. Part was concentrated at Yingkou, and the navy assembled a fleet and, if necessary, landed at Tianjin. We have a 70% chance of winning this battle. ”

Tatsunosuke finished his tirade, picked up the tea in front of him, moistened his throat with some smoke, Yukio Kasahara looked at Ishihara Waner and Umezu Mijiro, both of them were thinking silently, Tachikanosuke's argument could not be said to have completely moved them, but they thought of something else from Tachitakanosuke's words.

Ishihara believed that the only way to win was to negotiate peace with Chiang Kai-shek and go all out to meet the US military. But if Pingjin is abandoned, the people of China can transfer the main force to the south and attack the Jiangnan theater with all their might, so that Japan will have no more bargaining chips in its hands, and can only exchange Manchukuo as a jiāo, but will the cabinet accept it?

"I think the biggest worry of the Imperial Army is not the strength of the army, but confidence!"

Masanobu Tsuji suddenly spoke, breaking the silence in the room, and Ishihara and Umezu Mijiro looked at him with some surprise. According to the tradition of the Japanese army, an officer of his rank is not qualified to speak up in such a situation when his superiors have not inquired about it.

Tatetakanosuke was very happy in his heart, Masanobu Tsuji finally jumped out, this guy is not a quiet person, he will definitely not let go of this critical moment.

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