Eto sneered slightly, and he couldn't be so polite to Nishimura: "A miscellaneous card in the ** army scares you like this, Nishimura, are you still an imperial samurai?" ”

Tachitaka immediately stood up to support Nishimura, but Eto was his immediate boss, although now he had the faint ability to stand up to him. qВ5、ｃ0M

"Jiang Teng-kun, Nishimura's concerns are not unreasonable, since the start of the war, the performance of the ** miscellaneous army is no worse than that of the Central Army, during the last battle, the 40th Army's insistence on Linyi was an important reason for General Itagaki's defeat, which is also the ** miscellaneous army."

Jiang Teng's face turned red and pointed at Ligao and shouted angrily, "Ligao-kun! But he couldn't say anything, so he froze, turned to Sugiyama and said, "Your Excellency, decide, don't hesitate any longer!" ”

Sugiyama Yuan frowned, Jiang Teng's performance disappointed him too much, military arguments must be based on facts for reasonable inference, not rash thinking, Jiang Teng did not refute the other party's facts and inferences at all, only with enthusiasm and spirit, this is enough for grassroots officers, but it is too far behind for senior generals.

Sugiyama didn't think that the extra miscellaneous Second Army Corps would cause much damage to the Imperial Army, but the two main points proposed by Ligao - the air force and battle damage - were his heart disease. In the sky, China has gained superiority, which even the Japanese air force generals dare not deny. Ito and Yoshio Shinozuka were attacked by the Chinese Air Force during their attacks on Cao and Shan counties, and war reports from the Air Force showed that the Air Force had lost nearly 100 planes in just a few days, an average of nearly 30 planes per day, which was very staggering.

Secondly, after nearly two months of fighting, the losses of the troops were very large, there were only more than 30,000 left of the 100,000 troops of Honma, and the attacks on the eastern front Yoshio Shinozuka and Toshiyoshi Ando fought hard along the way, and the losses were also as high as more than 60,000 people, and he did not know the situation on the southern front, but the losses would never be less than 60,000 people, and the counterattack of the ** army in the southern section of the Tsuura Road caused great difficulties to Haneda.

The troops fought continuously, it was very difficult, and the current situation was very similar to the situation of the Songhu operation, and the ** army also looked exhausted and fled in a hurry, but they inflicted heavy losses on the imperial army under the city of Nanjing, and the shadow of Matsui Shigen was more and more strongly shrouded in Sugiyama Yuan's heart.

"Your Excellency," the Chief of Staff, Naosaburo Okabe, felt that he couldn't help but open his mouth when he saw this situation, he had been watching the argument between Tachitaka and Eto coldly before, and to be honest, he didn't agree with the opinions of the two, and he didn't oppose it, Okabe Naosaburo said slowly: "What Eto and Takataka put forward is the truth, however, I think that Tachitaka-kun is too cautious, and Eto-kun is too bold." ”

Naosaburo Okabe attracted everyone's attention at this moment, and everyone focused on him to hear his opinion.

"The ** army north of the Yellow River has been transferred to the south, and the ** army commanded by Xue Yue is about 120,000, of which about 20,000 are in Hebei to block our army, and the remaining about 100,000 people will all be used to the east of Kaifeng, or Shangqiu." Although Okabe Naosaburo's tone still has the usual toughness of Japanese officers, it is very slow, even a little heavy: "And the 49th Group Army, the first strong army, has disappeared from the battlefield, and the troops of the **2nd Army and the 3rd Army are fighting against the Imperial Army in Cao County and Shanxian County, and there is no figure of the 49th Group Army, I estimate that they should be resting near Shangqiu, or the counterattack force prepared by the ** general; In this way, coupled with Xue Yue's 100,000 army, General ** can completely form a counterattack force of about 150,000 people with the 19th Group Army as the core near Shangqiu, which is a force to be reckoned with. ”

Speaking of this, Okabe Naosaburo looked at the officers around him, Eto's face was snow-white, but his demeanor was relatively calm, and he was even more upset about Ligao support in his heart.

"As Li Gaojun said, our army suffered great losses in the early operations, but I think that the losses of the ** army are even greater, according to the ratio of one to two, I think that the losses of the ** army should be about 300,000, their losses are very large, it is not advisable to let them rest and recuperate, but if our army continues to attack, the battle line is only flattened, and it has little impact on the development of the war situation. I propose to slow down the pace of the attack, telegraph the troops on the southern front to speed up the pace of the attack, conquer Haozhou as soon as possible, insert into eastern Henan, cut off the rear support of the ** army, and cooperate with our army in front to completely encircle and annihilate the ** army near Shangqiu. ”

"But, Your Excellency," asked Ligao with hesitation, "will the troops of the Southern Front be able to accomplish such a task?" Although Haneda's troops attacking Haozhou had four divisions and regiments, the total strength was less than 100,000, and the ** army in front of them had more than 100,000 troops, and they were the ** army from the southwest. ”

Eto also questioned Okabe Naosaburo's opinion: "Your Excellency, can Tani Toshio's four divisions block such a vast area?" As you said, General ** has amassed more than 100,000 troops in Shangqiu, including the strongest 49th Army, and in the southeast the 5th and 21st Divisions under the command of General Toshiyoshi Ando and the 16th and 7th Divisions under the command of General Yamashita Fumi, how do they act? ”

This situation has already appeared more than once, and Naosaburo Okabe is helpless in his heart, and his situation is clear to all the officers in the command that his authority has been lost long after the last defeat.

"Toshiyoshi Ando must continue to attack until Dangshan is taken, and General Yamashita Hofumi's actions should be slowed down." Okabe Naosaburo said resolutely: "Our strategic purpose is to force Chiang Kai-shek to sue for peace, and this goal can only be achieved by annihilating the main force. ”

"Your Excellency," said Ligao again, "I still think that we should stop the offensive, for the Empire has caused emptiness everywhere by drawing troops from within the country and from all over the country for the sake of this offensive; In Jizhong, the Eighth Route Army of the Communist Party has returned, about 20 counties have fallen into their hands again, the northern section of the Pinghan Line and the Jinpu Line has been frequently urgent, military transportation has been seriously threatened, and what is even more dangerous is that the domestic army has also been exhausted, and there are only some new armies left in the northeast region that have only been formed for a short time, and this situation is very dangerous, and the imperial army cannot take risks, because once we are damaged, we will not have the strength to fill it. ”

In order to organize this attack, the military department has transferred all the troops that can be transferred, and there is only one Guards Division left in the country, only one main division in the northeast, and the rest of the troops are all units that have only been formed recently, and the combat effectiveness is obviously different from that of the old troops. What's even more terrifying. Once the attack failed, the squadron counterattacked, and from Tokyo to Nanking to Peiping did not know where to draw troops to plug the gap, and emergency shipping like last time was impossible, because there were no troops.

Okabe Naosaburo's heart was cold, Sugiyama Moto's face sank like water, Eto opened his mouth to speak, but finally closed his mouth, now you can't talk nonsense, the exit is to take the head as a guarantee, if Sugiyama Mototo adopts your suggestion, once it fails, there is only one way to apologize. What's more critical is that with the lessons of Nanjing and Xuzhou, no one dares to say that the ** general will not fight back.

All the questions, all the worries were handed over to Sugiyama Moto, and Sugiyama Moto's thoughts were as confused as the claims of his staff, on the one hand, he wanted to attack, according to military common sense, in this situation, he should attack and defeat the enemy army in one fell swoop; But on the other hand, the losses of the troops were very large, and the ** general gathered a large number of troops in Shangqiu, although I don't know what the situation of these troops is, but once they counterattack, the consequences are unpredictable.

Sugiyama Motomo hesitated and couldn't decide, so he decided to hand over the contradictions, so that Nishio Shouzo would have to worry about his brains, and the troops on the northern front ordered Ando Toshiyoshi to speed up the pace of attack and seize Dangshan as soon as possible, while the rest of the troops warned them to be careful and beware of the counterattack of the ** army.

Ligao sighed in his heart, he had to find an opportunity to persuade Sugiyama to stop the attack, this order was too vague, and it was difficult to say whether the Japanese generals on the front line would obey it.

The concerns of Ligao's support were quickly confirmed, all the Japanese generals on the front line put Sugiyama Moto's advice behind them, and the successive victories made the Japanese generals and soldiers very excited, and declared before the war that as long as Xuzhou was taken, the ** government would sue for peace, and the war would end, as soon as they thought of this, the Japanese soldiers were afraid of losing the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, and they seized every opportunity to attack, attack, and attack again.

"Yuan, how many tanks do you have in your troops?"

When Sugiyama Yuan was hesitating whether to stop the attack, the vanguard of the fast column rushed to Shangqiu under the leadership of Qiu Qingquan.

"One hundred tanks, sixty-five armored vehicles, and sixty more cars." Qiu Qingquan replied in a regular manner, he was very excited to serve as the deputy commander of China's first mechanized division, he first studied engineering in Germany and then went to the Berlin Army University to learn tank combat, although he was the first general to go to Germany to learn tank command, but he did not dare to underestimate this commander, in addition to the time in Guangzhou, there was also in Berlin to hear General Guderian, the first person of the German tank, talk about Zhuang Jihua.

"Well," Zhuang Jihua nodded, one hundred and ten tanks, sixty-five armored vehicles, Chiang Kai-shek had already taken out the old book: "Yu'an, how is the training?" Tanks are a high-level thing, and without good training, they're just decorations. ”

"Please rest assured, the commander took care of the training of the 200th Division with my own hands," Speaking of this, Qiu Qingquan laughed twice, Zhuang Jihua looked at him a little strangely, and didn't understand what he was laughing at, Qiu Qingquan hurriedly explained: "Actually, this is thanks to the seniors, when teaching the corps, the troops lacked gasoline and artillery shells, and the training was insufficient. The training was carried out under the personal guidance of Soviet Russian advisers, and it took longer than the time to teach the corps to fly tanks. ”

Qiu Qingquan was laughing, but Zhuang Jihua was startled, it was longer than the time to drive a tank when teaching the corps, how much time did it take to teach the corps to drive a tank? I don't think it's just about tanks.

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