The Kwantung Army Headquarters Building should be the best office building in Changchun City, the decoration is luxurious in this era, and the conference room looks beautiful. It is a pity that the officers of the various departments of the Kwantung Army Command who attended the meeting today were not in the mood to admire the luxurious decoration of the conference room, and they were all like defeated roosters, unable to lift their spirits.

When His Excellency the Commander asked questions, Major General Yoshitomi Tamura, chief of staff of the Supply Prison, had no choice but to stand up and report that all units of the Kwantung Army had been in a state of readiness for war, that ammunition and supplies were sufficient, that the combat units had five bases of ammunition reserves, and that there were sufficient ammunition reserves in Xinjing, Harbin, Hailar, Manchuria, Jixi, Ulaanbaatar, Chita, and Vladivostok, which could fully support the main forces of the Kwantung Army in launching counterattacks. However, since all the heavy industry and military industry in Manchuria were concentrated in Mukden and Kwantung Prefecture, and now all of them fell into Liu Yimin's hands, if the main force of the Kwantung Army could not quickly eliminate Liu Yimin's forces, not only would the supply of the Kwantung Army's long-term operations in the future become a big problem, and it could only be supplied from the mainland, but also Liu Yimin's troops would get the arms and materials supplied by Mukden and Kwantung Prefecture, and they would become stronger and stronger and continue to expand their troops. Therefore, it is recommended that His Excellency the Commander quickly mobilize a large army to annihilate Liu Yimin's troops in one fell swoop and recapture Mukden, Jinzhou, and Kwantung Prefecture.

As if to emphasize the truth of what he said, Major General Yoshitomi Tamura went so far as to report on the annual output of steel, coal, oil, airplanes, automobiles, artillery, trains, guns, ammunition, and grain in Mukden and Kanto Prefectures. The North China Front, which relied on the Kwantung Army to provide ammunition and food supplies, will also face great difficulties, and the Central and South China troops and the Southern Army, which are dispatched by China, will also face the problem of supplying weapons and ammunition. The Imperial Japanese Navy no longer had the ability to build large ships, and the Army no longer had the ability to provide tanks, armored vehicles, automobiles, and artillery to its troops.

What Major General Yoshitomi Tamura said was like a funeral. Hearing this, Yamada Otozo's psychology was half cold. However, Yamada Otozo's mind was clear at this time, and he didn't roar anymore and smiled. Putting on a posture of victory, he said confidently: "Tamura-kun is too worried, the Japanese army and navy are invincible in the world, and no matter how strong and murderous Liu Yimin's troops are, after all, they are only a force in China." Can he be stronger than the Soviet army, better than the American and British armies? The princes were greatly relieved that the Kwantung Army was strong. Well-equipped, well-trained, and coordinated by the navy and the North China Front and Southern Army, it will be possible to quickly annihilate Liu Yimin's troops who had invaded Kwantung Prefecture and Manchukuo. Mine, great confidence, and you must also have faith and lift your spirits! ”

These words are **naked bragging, but the officers of the Kwantung Army at this time need Yamada Otozo to brag and cheer up! What's more, Yamada Otozo didn't talk nonsense. What he said was the truth, the main forces of the Kwantung Army were indeed unscathed, and the Kwantung Defense Army lost too much of the main forces. But the Kwantung Defense Army itself is a garrison force, and it is the last unit in the Kwantung Army, and it will be the New Year without it!

Lieutenant General Teramoto Kumaichi, the head of the 2nd Flying Group who fled back from Shenyang, immediately stood up and asked for battle, and reported that he asked His Excellency the Commander to rebuild the 2nd Flying Group, and that he would lead the emperor's air pride to return to the blue sky, destroy the damned Northeast People's Anti-Japanese Democratic Alliance Air Force, blow up Liu Yimin and his wife and children, and avenge the tens of thousands of Taikawa warriors of Umezu Mijiro, Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadachi, Lieutenant General Yasui Toji, Vice Admiral Kobayashi, and Tamamashi!

It makes sense for Lieutenant General Teramoto Kumaichi to ask for battle, first, his elite flying second group, which spans the battlefields of Japan and the Soviet Union and the battlefields of China, was wiped out in the blink of an eye, and he was psychologically unconvinced. The second is that he pretended to apologize for his crimes. Stopped by Admiral Umezu Mijiro. Now that Senior General Umezu Mijiro is dead, as soon as General Yamada Otozo came up, he arrested Lieutenant General Takeuchi Hiroshi, commander of the military police, and brought him back to Japan for trial.

The Japanese army has already lost one general, three lieutenant generals. At this time, Yamada Otozo will definitely not destroy the Great Wall again and force Lieutenant General Teramoto Kumaichi to apologize. The reason for the arrest of Takeuchi was because Emperor Hirohito said that the Kwantung Army Military Police Headquarters was not well guarded, and even let the assassins infiltrate Shinkyo and infiltrate the Military Police Headquarters building to snipe General Umezu Mijiro, and the military police of the Kwantung Army Military Police Headquarters should all be damned! This is an extraordinary time, and the emperor's words are also angry, and Yamada Otozo naturally will not force the Kwantung Army military police to apologize for their crimes, but Takeuchi Kan will not be able to save him in any case, and he will not be able to judge and execute him, and he will not be able to explain to the dead General Umezu Mijiro, nor can he explain to the domestic people who love and trust the Japanese Army. Yamada Otozo is naturally going to take Takeuchi wide for the knife!

Speaking of this, the Lieutenant General of the Temple Bear City was able to escape back to Shenyang, which was indeed a fluke. After the Eighth Route Army Air Brigade bombed the airfields of the Second Flying Group, Teramoto Kumaichi was busy repairing the airfields and assembling planes in preparation for restoring combat effectiveness. However, Liu Yimin did not give him a chance, bombed in the early morning, landed at Huayuankou at night, and killed Dalian, Shenyang and other places the next day. In just two days, Teramoto Kumashi can't even repair the airstrip, how many planes can be assembled? As soon as he heard that our army had attacked and occupied the Lushun, Jinzhou, and Dalian railway stations, he immediately ordered the evacuation of personnel from all airports, and priority was given to the evacuation of pilots and maintenance technicians. As a result, some airports have really withdrawn some pilots and maintenance technicians by relying on the aircraft assembled in the past two days. After he fled to Changchun, in one episode, he even gathered three squadrons of fighters and one hundred and ten pilots.

With some capital in hand, Lieutenant General Teramoto Kumaichi began to clamore for the rebuilding of the Second Flight Group!

After Yamada Otozo entered Changchun, this was the first time he heard that a general took the initiative to ask for battle, and the happy eight-character beard trembled, and even shouted Yo Xi, praising Lieutenant General Teramoto Kumaichi for being worthy of being a hero of the Japanese Army Aviation and ambitious!

After the commendation, Yamada Otozo told Lieutenant General Ando Saburo and Lieutenant General Kumaichi Teramoto, commanders of the group, that the top priority at the moment was to find out the strength and direction of Liu Yimin's troops so that they could make arrangements for counterattack operations. However, because Liu Yimin's troops were making too rapid progress, it was too late to send infantry to search and reconnaiten, and the secret services were too late to organize intelligence, so it was necessary to mobilize fighter planes to reconnoiter and bomb to find out the enemy's situation and delay the speed of Liu Yimin's attack.

Yamada Otozo brought with him an escort flight squadron, Hakujoko had a flight instruction team, the Kwantung Army Headquarters had a fighter squadron dedicated to escorting the commander, plus the three flight squadrons cobbled together by Lieutenant General Kumachi Teramoto, which already had a certain amount of air combat effectiveness. The situation was so critical that Yamada Otozo was unwilling to waste time and delay the military planes, so he was about to take action and send the only air forces at hand to the Liaoning area to carry out reconnaissance and bombing.

Yamada Otozo did not fight Liu Yimin, but Muto Akira was a defeated general under Liu Yimin. When he was the deputy chief of staff of the North China Front, Muto Akira and the chief of staff, Yamashita Fengwenzi, set up an ambush east of Xuzhou to ambush Liu Yimin, who returned to Shandong from northern Jiangsu. But Muto Zhang and they did not gain nothing, the Longhai Road Breakout Battle, Liu Yimin's losses were not small, and An Jingjing, the president of the "Popular Daily" and a famous talented woman of the Eighth Route Army, was sacrificed in this battle.

To be honest, don't look at Emperor Hirohito hiding in the palace, he is indeed very clear in employing people, and knows who can be his gong dog. He chose General Yamada Otozo as the commander of the Kwantung Army because Yamada Otozo had served as the commander of the 12th Division, the commander of the Third Army, and the commander of the Central China Dispatch Army. Muto Zhang was selected as the chief of staff of the Kwantung Army because Muto Zhang was a well-known strategist in the Japanese army and had a clear mind, and at the same time, Muto Zhang had fought with Liu Yimin in North China and understood the operational characteristics of Liu Yimin's department. If it weren't for these two points, the dignified post of chief of staff of the Kwantung Army would not have fallen to Muto Zhang.

Muto Akira, who had a fairly deep understanding of Liu Yimin's department, supplemented Yamada Oto's order. He suggested that Yamada Otozo revise the order, and that the accompanying flight group should first do a good job of concealment, put the fighters into the hangar, and place camouflaged wooden frame planes on the airfield before carrying out combat missions. As this is not counted, Muto Akira suggested that the fighters that went to the skies over Liaoning to carry out reconnaissance and bombing missions should cancel their bombing missions, not load bombs at all, but only conduct reconnaissance, and focus on ascertaining the situation and preserving their strength, and then carry out high-intensity bombing of the Eighth Route Army after the Fourth Group returns to the northeast.

Yamada Otozo took Muto Akira's suggestion and was full of praise for Muto Akira.

Muto Zhang further suggested that Liu Yimin's battles did not follow common sense, and often fought in unexpected places for the imperial army. Therefore, after figuring out the direction of Liu Yimin's attack, one is to use a part of the troops to delay and block Liu Yimin's forces to cover the assembly of the main force; The other is to quickly gather the scattered garrisons in various places to avoid being wiped out by the Eighth Route Army and causing heavy losses. The third is to surprise the troops, carry out a surprise attack on the weak points of Liu Yimin's department, and reverse the passive situation of the war.

Muto Akira said one, and Yamada Otozo affirmed one. For a time, the commander and chief of staff of the Kwantung Army urinated into a pot.

Yamada Otozo did not have time for a long meeting, so he could only order Chief of Staff Akira Muto and Deputy Chief of Staff Major General Qin Hiko Saburo to lead the staff officers to contact the various units to find out the losses and quickly report the situation of the enemy in front of them and draw up a battle plan. He himself did not bother to rest and wash, and after the meeting ended, he went directly to contact the base camp to inquire about the movement of reinforcements.