When the Jiamusi Garrison Command sent the news of the capture of Zhao Shangzhi, the most active anti-Manchurian and anti-Japanese element in the North Manchurian region, to Changchun, where the Kwantung Army Headquarters was located, the entire Kwantung Army Command was overjoyed, and the new Kwantung Army Commander, General Yamada Otosan, immediately instructed the Jiamusi Japanese Army Garrison Command to treat Zhao Shangzhi at all costs, and to escort him to Xinjing completely, and he wanted to have a good look at this man who was called the most stubborn rebel in North Manchuria, whom His Excellency Umezu Mijiro called the most stubborn rebel in North Manchuria. （）

However, General Yamada Otosan's good mood did not last long and was dispersed, because an urgent telegram came from the Japanese army base camp, saying that Han Yunhua, the general of China, had gone north and had rushed to Ulanhot, and Han Yunhua and his guard troops ambushed the group and paratroopers sent by the North China Front to intercept and kill him on the way, and completely annihilated a brigade of paratroopers and a special operations squadron, and the base camp ordered Yamada Otozo to pay attention to the possibility of a large-scale attack on the northeast by Han Yunhua's headquarters.

This news was no less than a bolt from the blue for Yamada Otozo and the entire Kwantung Army, the harassment and attack of the anti-coalition forces in the northeast was enough to give the Kwantung Army a headache, nearly 200,000 elite Kwantung Army and a large number of puppet Manchukuo troops were pinned down in the northeast battlefield, coupled with the pressure of the Red Army of the Soviet Far East Military District, which had suddenly become aggressive recently, the Kwantung Army had already borne tremendous military pressure. If Han Yunhua's subordinates set their sights on the northeast again, then the good days of the Kwantung Army may come to an end.

Perhaps the vast majority of the officers of the Kwantung Army still regard themselves as the elite of the Great Japanese Empire, and look down on the squadrons, and even look down on the second-line garrison units in their own country, and they do not take the newly formed C-class divisions into account. But at the level of General Yamada Otosan, he is already qualified to see some top-secret information that others can't see. Therefore, Yamada Otozo will not be arrogant, and the current Kwantung Army can easily eliminate Han Yunhua's troops like eliminating the Anti-Japanese Federation or other bandits in the Northeast, and hundreds of thousands of elite troops of the Japanese Empire have proved a truth at the cost of blood, that is, Han Yunhua's troops are far more powerful than imagined.

In the past five years or so since the rise of Han Yunhua's department, there is only one person who has not suffered much loss in the hands of Han Yunhua, and that is Okamura Ningji, and the other Japanese officers who opposed Han Yunhua have almost no good deaths. Yamada Otozo didn't think that he, an army general who had been promoted to commander of the Kwantung Army, could be more qualified than Binyama Yuan or Tada Jun. Therefore, after receiving the telegram from the base camp, Yamada Otozo immediately ordered the officers above the division commander to immediately go to Xinjing in the puppet Manchukuo to convene an emergency meeting, and at the same time, the small units scattered in various areas immediately moved closer to the large strongholds, and all counties in the tun counties should strengthen their fortifications to prevent a sneak attack by the squadron.

In fact, Yamada Otozo has known for a long time that the mysterious Northeast Advance Army active in the three northeastern provinces is the Inner Mongolia Military Region under Han Yunhua, but according to intelligence, the total strength of the Northeast Advance Army is only a few infantry regiments, but it is just as big as those earth rats of the Anti-Japanese Federation, and the so-called division is only a thousand people, so he didn't care. But since Lu Zhengcao came to the Northeast, Yamada Otozo has obviously felt the pressure, originally Yamada Otozo had already formulated a battle plan to exterminate Lu Zhengcao's department, but he didn't expect that Han Yunhua himself would come in person.

To be honest, in Yamada Otozo's opinion, Han Yunhua is an unscrupulous plague god, and the great Japanese officers will be unlucky wherever he goes, which seems to have become a theorem. Although the imperial forces in Manchuria were indeed very strong, Yamada Otozo still had no confidence at all, after all, they knew too little about Han Yunhua's troops, because that army, like their commander, was too mysterious, mysterious like a cloud of fog, which was difficult to understand. …,

The cheers outside were disturbing, in the eyes of those stupid guys outside, killing Yang Jingyu and capturing Zhao Shangzhi alive was already a great achievement, and the "Southern Yang and Northern Zhao" boasted by the people of the branch were like chickens and dogs in front of the invincible Japanese Imperial Army, so they had reason to be happy and have reason to revel. But as everyone knows, the real god of death has descended on Manchuria, and Yamada Otozo doesn't think that Han Yunhua appeared in Ulanhot at this time to play soy sauce, and as soon as the plague god appeared, it was always accompanied by bloody rain and a big battle.

Maybe the middle-level officers outside have been scared by Zhao Shangzhi's Bing Tanzi ambush battle, but they don't know that the kind of battle that annihilates three hundred imperial soldiers is not a battle in the eyes of that devil and plague god, and that guy often shoots at the cost of destroying the entire division of the empire, and to be honest, he can't afford to hurt it.

The division commanders of the various divisions and regiments who rushed to Xinjing one after another found that His Excellency the Commander did not seem to be happy, and originally they thought that after Zhao Shangzhi was captured alive, the headquarters would definitely organize a major sweep in order to solve Zhao Shangzhi's headquarters in one fell swoop. But now it seems that their guess was wrong, and His Excellency the Commander did not mean it at all.

On March 16, officers above the commander of the Japanese Kwantung Army Division gathered in Xinjing (Changchun), the capital of the puppet state of Manchukuo, to attend an operational meeting presided over by General Otozo Yamada, commander of the Kwantung Army. Unlike the Japanese army in Kannai, the Kwantung Army still maintained the tradition of the Japanese Army, and even held meetings in a tatami mat style instead of the Japanese Army in Kannai, which adopted a round table meeting similar to that of the armies of various countries in modern times.

In a huge conference room, dozens of lieutenant generals and major generals knelt on the carpets on both sides, while General Yamada Otozo was sitting on the main seat. Yamada Otozo was educated and nurtured by the bushido spirit since he was a child, but Yamada Otozo was not a fanatical admirer of the bushido spirit, on the contrary, Yamada Otozo was a very rational person, he was like all the Japanese of that era, with a low body, but not strong, but looked very thin. However, none of the dozens of generals in the conference room dared to underestimate His Excellency the general, who had been promoted to army general for less than two years, and you must know that His Excellency the commander was one of the "three commanders" who held the power of the army in the past few years of the Pacific War, and he controlled the Japanese army together with Hideki Tojo and Mijiro Umezu.

Yamada Otozo's voice was still as low as ever: "Ladies and gentlemen, I just received a telegram from the base camp saying that the mysterious devil general of China suddenly appeared in Manchuria, and he also gave His Excellency Gangcun a resounding slap on the way, not only knocking out a complete paratrooper brigade of His Excellency Gangmura, but also severely damaging the aviation units in the Guannai, causing huge casualties to the North China Dispatch Army. ”

Lieutenant General Yukio Kasahara, the current chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, stood up and said: "Your Excellency, Commander, I think that Han Yunhua is definitely not to be underestimated, according to the intelligence department to collect intelligence, the advance army active in the North Manchurian region is Han Yunhua's troops, and that Lu Zhengcao is actually sent back to Manchuria by Han Yunhua. Besides, Han Yunhua's achievements in the Guannai really embarrassed us, the generals of the Great Japanese Empire, and our Kwantung Army and his troops have not been fighting for a day or two, but it is always us who suffer. He thought that Han Yunhua's appearance in Manchuria this time was actually a signal, and the people of China were ready to attack Manchuria, and they seemed to be undisguised, which showed that they were completely sure. Therefore, he believed that the headquarters should immediately send a telegram to the base camp asking for more troops to be sent to Manchuria, and it would be impossible to deal with the large-scale attack of Han Yunhua's headquarters with these 20 divisions in Manchuria alone. ”

General Yamada agreed with Yukio Kasahara's idea, but many of the participants were famous brave generals in the Japanese Army, and many people scoffed at Yukio Kasahara's words. The commander of the 14th Division, Iseki Takamasa, did not wait for Yamada Otozo to speak, and then preemptively said: "Your Excellency Chief of Staff, have you lost the blood of the Great Japanese Emperor, and just one Han Yunhua scared you like this?" We, the soldiers of the Great Japanese Empire, are not afraid of the enemy even if they are defeated, and it is simply a shame for the Great Japanese Emperor to speak of defeat without a battle like Your Excellency. Besides, there is no definite evidence that the main force of Han Yunhua's headquarters in China has gone north, don't forget that His Excellency General Okamura Ningji in the North China region has put huge military pressure on Han Yunhua's department, I am afraid that Han Yunhua will not have the strength to attack our Kwantung Army even if he really has the heart, and I still admire His Excellency Gangmura's command level. ”…,

"Baga, Jing Guanjun, this is an insult to me and my family, you will pay the price for your words and deeds, but before punishing you, I must first let you understand that it is not that I am greedy for life and afraid of death, as the chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, I know better than any of you how terrible Han Yunhua is. Jingguan-kun, you were transferred from the North China region to the Kwantung Army, and I think you should know better than any of us here about the combat effectiveness of Han Yunhua's troops. The courage of the puppet is not of the slightest benefit to the entire empire, and the reason why Han Yunhua was able to wipe out the troops sent by the Northern China in just a few years is to use you guys who have the courage of the puppet and disregard their own strength. Let me tell you, not long ago, Han Yunhua used only one guard regiment, which was less than the number of a fully formed infantry wing of the empire, and completely annihilated a paratrooper brigade of the Imperial Japanese Army. I'm afraid that everyone here understands the combat effectiveness of the paratrooper brigade, do you still think that Han Yunhua's department is really easy to deal with, and do you still think that I am alarmist? Lieutenant General Yukio Kasahara said angrily that he was a veteran of the Kwantung Army, and he had been in the Kwantung Army much longer than Yamada Otozo or Lieutenant General Takamasa Iseki, so he also had a clearer understanding of the strength of the squadron.

"Kasahara-kun, I don't deny the strength of Han Yunhua's department, but this is not something we can consider, as a warrior sent by the empire to fight, the value of my existence is to continue to fight, constantly clear all obstacles for the empire, and complete the glorious hegemony of Greater East Asia, even if that Han Yunhua is invincible, we must also show the courage to fight, the current situation of the empire I think all of you are clear, the empire has gone through 3 national mobilizations, and now there are still troops to reinforce us, Some time ago, I also heard that someone suggested that the base camp transfer some of the elite from our Kwantung Army to fight south, but it was stranded for various reasons. However, I don't think the top brass of the empire will let our 20 or so elite divisions continue to stay in Manchuria and rust, and it won't be long before the order to transfer our Kwantung Army south to fight in the Pacific islands will be issued, and will anyone care about our telegram asking for help, obviously not. Besides, it's just one Han Yunhua, not all the troops of the entire Inner Mongolia Military Region, if we are like the empire itself asking for help now, I'm afraid that it won't be a day before our Kwantung Army will become the biggest joke in the Japanese Empire and even the whole world this year, what do you think, Kasawara-kun? Lieutenant General Takamasa Iseki had no intention of saving face for Lieutenant General Yukio Kasahara, and his first-class mouth was as bitter and mean as a machine gun, and Yukio Kasahara was speechless when he spoke bluntly.

Yamada Otozo obviously didn't mean to come out to pull the fight, he knew very well what the two sides represented, Yamada Otozo is a very rational person, but it can also be said to be a very unprincipled person, which can be seen from his bow to Tojo Hideki, you must know that Tojo Hideki is her junior. Although he very much agreed with the opinion of the chief of staff in his heart, Iguan Takamasa represented the opinion of those young and strong factions, and Yamada Otozo on both sides could not be offended at will, because he himself had been the commander of the Kwantung Army for less than three months, and the water in Manchuria was very deep, and he had to rely on these people. He's waiting, and that side has the upper hand and that side supports that.

However, Yamada Otozo thought that it was still necessary to let these people know what Han Yunhua had done in Manchuria, otherwise he would definitely not be able to talk about anything like this, so he said softly: "Iseki and Kasahara, you two are both famous generals in the Kwantung Army, please don't quarrel, Asada tell me about the gains of your intelligence agency during this time." ”

Intelligence officer Saburo Asada was the only adjutant to attend the meeting, and the rest of the military ranks were all major generals at worst. I saw Asada Saburo get up and say: "Ladies and gentlemen, according to the intelligence detected by our intelligence department, Han Yunhua's main purpose to go north this time was to secretly meet with Major General Ivanov, commander-in-chief of the Far Eastern Military District of the Soviet Red Army. ”…,

As soon as the news came out, everyone was fried. Although Han Yunhua alone had heard that the general of the branch was difficult to deal with, and the results were enough to surprise them, no one was afraid. But when it comes to the Soviets, as long as they participated in the Battle of Nomenkan, no one does not tremble, and the overwhelming artillery and tanks, the proud bushido spirit of the Japanese is simply vulnerable.

"Yaga, Soviets?"

"Nani, you're not mistaken?" The expressions of the Japanese officers present were different, some were shocked and some shouted loudly, as if they had seen a ghost.

"Your Excellency Generals, the news is absolutely true, since Cheng Bin and others surrendered to the empire, it is much easier for us to obtain the news of the Anti-United Nations, although Ivanov was received by the Zhinalu Zhengcao Department, but it was passed by the defense area of the Anti-United Nations, so we can also get the information quickly. Therefore, on Ivanov's way back, our intelligence department sent the most elite squad to intercept and kill Ivanov, although it was repelled by the special combat team of the Chinese people, but we left more than ten corpses of Soviet people, in terms of weapons and equipment and other characteristics, it should be given to the elite fighters of the Soviet Red Army, so the meeting between Ivanov and Han Yunhua is real. Asada Saburo said unhurriedly, although his military rank is only a big sa, but with his performance in the intelligence department, it is inevitable to be promoted to major general, and because of the particularity of the intelligence department, he does not have to be afraid of these generals at all.

"Asada, can you find out what Ivanov and Han Yunhua talked about? This is extremely important for our Kwantung Army and the entire empire, you understand? Yukio Kasahara asked solemnly.

"No, because Ivanov and that Han Yunhua were talking in a secret room, no one was present except for the parties, and neither side left a record, and our intelligence department then monitored the telegram of Han Yunhua's department in China, but it was strongly interfered with and nothing was gained." Saburo Asada replied.

This time, even Iseki Takamasa knew the seriousness of the situation, whether it was Han Yunhua's headquarters or the troops in the Soviet Far East, any of them was enough to compete with the Kwantung Army. However, if it was only one side, the Kwantung Army still had the strength to fight, and these generals were not afraid. However, if Han Yunhua's headquarters and Han Yunhua's headquarters joined forces and launched an attack on the Kwantung Army at the same time, then the Kwantung Army might not be able to hold out for even a month. Now Iseki Takamasa didn't have the heart to quarrel with Kasawara Yukio, so he straightened out his thoughts and said: "With what I know about the Shina people, they will not let go of this good opportunity to jointly attack the empire, so it is very likely that the Shina and the Soviets have united." In addition, Han Yunhua belongs to China*, and he has the same faith as the Soviets, and the cooperation between them is the most normal, please pay attention to it, Commander. ”

Iseki Takamasa was really taken aback by the news thrown by Saburo Asada this time, weighing the pros and cons at this time, he could only compromise with Lieutenant General Yukio Kasawara, if he didn't ask for help from within the empire as soon as possible, I am afraid that when the Shina and the Soviets came from the north and south, it might be too late for the empire to think about any measures.

After more than two hours of meetings, Yamada finally decided to immediately ask for help from Japan, requesting that more land forces be mobilized to reinforce the Kwantung Army in case of a joint attack by China and the Soviet Union.

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