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

The capital of Manchukuo was located in Shinkyo instead of Mukden, which was also known as Changchūn, the capital of Manchukuo, and the headquarters of the Kwantung Army. In winter, Shinkyo is covered with snow and the shops on the streets are tightly closed, which would be considered unopened in the south, but here it is definitely not.

Tatsunosuke was familiar with Manchuria, having served in the Kwantung Army for seven years before the war, having worked in both South and North Manchuria, and during that time he often came to Shinkyo and was very familiar with Shinkyo very well. At this moment, Xinjing looks like it was in previous years, the war is still far away, and the residents here have not yet heard the sound of gunfire. The biggest difference from Kannai is that Shinkyo was cleaned clean, there were no leaflets, and there were no assassinations.

The front of the Kwantung Army headquarters was as strict as ever, and the soldiers standing guard at the entrance of the mén were dressed in thick winter clothes, with their hats pulled down to cover their ears, and their hands were wearing gloves, except for their faces, which had to be exposed. But even so, a sentry is half as long as Kannai.

Tatsukanosuke walked into the Kwantung Army Headquarters building and felt a little strange, there were obviously more officers in the corridor than before, and there were whispers from time to time, Okamura looked at it, and didn't see any acquaintances, in a few years, the personnel of the Kwantung Army Headquarters has changed a lot, and the officers who were mixed with him at the beginning were either transferred or promoted, and most of the officers on this floor were below the junior sor.

Seeing the Venus on Tachitakanosuke's shoulder, the young officers immediately stopped talking and looked at him with complicated and dissatisfied eyes. Tatsunosuke was already a little numb to this gaze, and all he saw these days was this gaze. He had been here for two weeks, and he had not yet talked to the commander of the Kwantung Army, Umezu Mijiro, and he proposed to transfer the main force of the Kwantung Army to Jidong with no less than 300,000 troops, and when the China Army attacked Pingjin, it would join forces with the North China Dispatch Army to annihilate the China Army and Beiping outside the city.

This suggestion was categorically rejected by the chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, Yukio Kasawara, who believed that the strength of the Kwantung Army had been weakened to a very advantageous advantage, and that if the main force was transferred to eastern Hebei, the Soviet army would be out of control once it attacked the Far Eastern Theater and the Mongolian Theater, and Kotakanosuke believed that Manchukuo still had about 500,000 troops of the Wehrmacht and garrison, and all these troops could be sent to the front line.

But Kasawara Yukio told him that the Manchurian ** team would only fight if there was an imperial army supervising the battle, and if there was no imperial army supervising the battle, these soldiers would flee, which happened in the early Mongolian battle, 2,000 Soviet-Mongolian troops attacked 10,000 Manchurian Defense Army, and the battle lasted only half an hour, and the Manchurian Defense Army collapsed. In addition, without an order from the military headquarters, the Kwantung Army could not enter the customs without permission.

For the latter reason, Tatetakanosuke scoffed, from 918 to the present, the Kwantung Army has acted less without authorization. But Yukio Kasawara used this as a reason to make him unable to do anything. In addition to Kasawara Yukio's refusal, the commander of the Kwantung Army, Umezu Mijiro, has never seen him, which shows that Umezu Mijiro does not agree with Okamura Ninji's suggestion, it seems that his mission this time is likely to fail, and today he intends to make one last effort to try to meet Umezu Mijiro and convince him.

"Ligaojun."

Tatetakanosuke turned his head and saw that it was Lieutenant General Qin Hiko Saburo, deputy chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, Tachitakanosuke turned to salute Hatsuhiko Saburo, and then asked, "What's wrong today?" Can I help you? ”

"You don't know? Ishihara is gone. Although Qin Yan Saburo was slightly surprised, he didn't care.

"Ishihara? Total length? Tatsutakanosuke was a little surprised, and Qin Yan Saburo nodded: "Let's go, let's go up together." ”

Hatsuhiko Saburo didn't know the intention of Tachitakanosuke's intention, which was a military secret, and only the commanders Umezu Mijiro and Kasahara Yukio knew. Qin Yan Saburo didn't ask him, and led the way upstairs, with Tatsutakanosuke following behind him and Masanobu Tsuji following behind him.

Masanobu Tsuji also participated in the talks with Yukio Kasahara, and Tatsukanosuke didn't hate him, but he didn't like it either, but this time when he went to Shinkyo, he obviously felt that the Kwantung Army Command had two different attitudes towards this guy, middle and lower officers liked him very much, and senior generals hated him.

In the negotiations with Yukio Kasahara, Masanobu Tsuji said very little, and after the negotiations, Masanobu Tsuji disappeared and came back without telling him what he had done.

The situation on the second floor was much better than on the first floor, but when passing by the office entrance, Tatsunosuke also noticed that the expressions of the officers in the room were also a little strange, the Kwantung Army Headquarters building had three floors, and Umezu Mijiro's office was not on the third floor, but on the second floor.

Qin Yan Saburo brought Tatsu Takanosuke into his office, his office was next to the first lesson, the office was very traditional, not big but all the organs, Tatsuko no suke stood there and did not move, the rules of the Japanese army were very strict, the high rank did not speak, the junior officers could only stand, and Masanobu Tsuji stood two steps behind him.

"Ligaojun, don't be restrained, feel free." Qin Yan Saburo smiled, he had a good impression of Takanosuke, when the North China Dispatch Army and the Kwantung Army joined forces to promote the war against the Soviet Union, it was Qin Yan Saburo who came forward.

"Thank you," Tachitakanosuke still thanked Qin Yan Saburo first according to Japanese etiquette, and then took off the general's coat and threw it on the couch, while Tsuji Masanobu honestly took off the military coat, held it in the crook of his arm, and sat on the other side, and soon Qin Yan Saburo's orderly brought tea to the two.

"Go and report to Chief of Staff Kasahara, Litaka-kun has arrived." Qin Yan Saburo instructed the orderlys, and the orderlies turned around and went out after agreeing, and at the same time carefully pulled Mén up.

Qin Yan Saburo looked at Ligao Zhisuke and shook his head slightly: "Ligaojun, your mood is not high." ”

"I can't get high." Litakanosuke took a sip of tea: "The enemy situation in North China is serious, and the task paid by Commander Jiāo has not been completed, alas, Qin Yanjun, what will Ishihara do in the Kwantung Army in the future?" ”

Qin Yan Saburo sighed slightly, walked to the side of Tatsutaka and sat down, and said with a wry smile: "Ishihara-kun proposed a new strategy, but the cabinet did not approve it, so he had to find another way. ”

Qin Yan Saburo has connections with the country, and he is very clear about Ishihara's intentions, and his eyebrows are slightly raised: "Oh, Admiral Ishihara is an admirable senior, I don't know what his strategy is?" Is it giving up Jiangnan again? ”

"Part of it," said Qin Yan Saburo, "Ishihara proposed to abandon Jiangnan, withdraw all the Jiangnan troops and North China troops to Manchuria, and fight a decisive battle with the Chinese army on the outskirts of Manchuria, and destroy the Chinese army in a battle, forcing Chiang Kai-shek to sue for peace." ”

"Summation?" Tatsunosuke was stunned for a moment, and then saw Qin Yan Saburo's god sè, and understood that this was the opposite, and it was Japan that needed peace the most: "It seems that Commander Okamura and Admiral Ishihara have basically the same views on the decisive battle in North China, but they handle it differently." ”

"What? Commander Okamura also thought that the North China Dispatch Army should be withdrawn to Manchuria? "Qin Yan Saburo is a little strange, according to the tradition of the Japanese army, the impact of this retreat on the commander is very bad, it is cowardice, he will be ridiculed by his colleagues, and if it is serious, he will go to a military court.

Tatsunosuke shook his head and said with a wry smile: "No, it was the main force of the Kwantung Army that attacked North China and fought a decisive battle with the Shina Army in the Pingjin area. ”

Qin Yan Saburo couldn't help but be stupid, the main force of the Kwantung Army attacked North China? Don't want the Far East and Mongolia? After a long time, he smiled bitterly: "400,000 imperial troops." Six years ago, 100,000 imperial troops could be killed from Beiping to Taiyuan, and 300,000 imperial troops could be killed from Shanghai to Nanjing, but now, alas, I really didn't expect it. ”

Tatsutakanosuke also sighed heavily, and Masanobu Tsuji spoke at this time: "Sir, I think there is a reason for this, although the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army has risen, but it is far from that, I think that one imperial soldier can resist three Chinese soldiers, so calculated, the gap between the strength of the North China Dispatch Army and the China Army is not as big as imagined, and the Kwantung Army can send 100,000 reinforcements to North China, which can make up for the gap in strength." ”

Litakanosuke sneered twice in his heart, the Japanese army is still dreaming of that race, at the beginning of the war, I thought that a Japanese soldier could be regarded as ten soldiers, that was not because of any bushido, but because of the gap in equipment, the equipment of the squadron was too poor, except for a few troops from the southwest, the rest of the troops, a division, tens of thousands of people at a time could not catch up with a large group of the Japanese army.

But after six years of war, the squadron, at least the Chinese Jīng Rui faced by the North China Dispatch Army, had surpassed the Japanese in terms of equipment, in addition to having air superiority. The Battle of Northern Hubei, the Battle of Shandong, the Japanese army was defeated, and these battles were all the first squadron to gather four to five times the number of troops, but under such a force, the Japanese army had no power to fight back, which shows that the three-fold force ratio is not feasible at all, at most one to two, an increase of 100,000 troops, that is, 600,000 to 2 million, and the gap between the forces is still very large.

But neither Tatsutakanosuke nor Hatohiko Saburo had any intention of refuting Masanobu Tsuji, and Hahiko Saburo now understood why Yukio Kasahara was so worried after the last meeting. Yukio Kasawara served as chief of staff in North China, and he was the chief of staff in the Second Battle of Jinpu Road, and he knew the Chinese battlefield very well, and when he learned about Okamura Ninji's plan, he understood the difficulties.

"One hundred thousand?" Litakanosuke silently calculated in his heart, but showed a slightly wry smile: "The commander asks for 200,000 to 300,000, if it doesn't work, 100,000 may be able to go back." ”

"Is there 100,000, Okamura-kun will let you go back, how could he let North China Shuangbi leave?" Qin Yan Saburo made a joke, but in his heart he felt embarrassed, the Kwantung Army had already been evacuated and seriously weakened, and more than 100,000 troops were transferred to reinforce China, so would the Far East and Mongolia give up?

"Report," Qin Yan Saburo's orderly came in: "The commander asks General Ligao to come to his office." ”

Tatsutakanosuke stood up and straightened his military uniform, picked up his coat, and said goodbye to Hasahiko Saburo, but Masanobu Tsuji put on his coat and seemed to be going out. The two of them walked down a somewhat quiet corridor to Umezu Mijiro's office at the end of the corridor.

In Umezu Mijiro's office, there are not only Yukio Kasawara but also Ishihara Waner, and the three of them sat down, Ishihara was in the center, and Umezu Mijiro and Kasawara Yukio sat on the left and right.

"Ligaojun, come in and sit."

Without waiting for Tachitakanosuke to salute, Umezu Mijiro beckoned him in, and Tachitakanosuke saluted the three of them according to military etiquette before going in and sitting down.

"Ligaojun, it's been two weeks since you came, and I haven't seen you, do you know why? Because I don't know how to reply to Okamura-kun's request. ”

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