[The Iron Blood King of the Anti-Japanese Resistance] Chapter 530: Responsibility (Ask for subscriptions, ask for monthly passes, ask for everything!) ）

However, it backfired, they wanted to be ostriches to stabilize the situation, but Ma Zheng's department did not give them this opportunity, the large-scale gathering of troops was by no means a joke, it must be that this branch of the army was going to do something against the front army again. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In desperation, Sugiyama immediately convened a military meeting of senior officers of the North China Front Army to urgently deploy response strategies.

In view of the emptiness of garrisons in North China, especially in the Pingjin region, a large number of troops were pinned down in Shanxi, Hebei, and other battlefields in Shandong, resulting in a serious shortage of internal garrison forces. However, Ma Zheng's unit is not a unit in the ordinary sense, and its combat effectiveness is extremely strong, and it poses a great threat to the front army.

Therefore, after some research, Sugiyama decided to order the 21st Division, which was stationed in the Xuzhou area of Shandong, and the 32nd Division, which was stationed in Jinan, to go north in order to deal with a possible big battle.

Although the Suicha Military Region needs time to develop, since the domestic situation requires the Suicha Military Region to make sacrifices, then give up the small self for the big self, and for the sake of the overall situation, Ma Zheng does not care about being targeted by the Japanese.

Since it was inevitable to fight with the Japanese, it was better to take the initiative in the war than to let the Japanese army take the initiative to attack. Moreover, if the Suicha Military Region has more than 100,000 troops and has been doing nothing, not only will Lao Chiang, who is far away in Chongqing, be dissatisfied, but even the people of the whole country will be dissatisfied with the Suicha Military Region and even the entire Eighth Route Army.

Ma Zheng is such a person, and since this is the case, then he will use his actions to tell the people of the whole country that the Suicha Military Region is still the original Suicha Military Region, that he Ma Zheng is still the original Ma Zheng, and that the Japanese are still as vulnerable as they were in front of him.

No one knows better than Ma Zheng how hard the fall of Wuhan hit the people. China really needs a hearty victory to speak out, otherwise when peace is made between the Soviet Union and Japan after a while, the atmosphere of despair among the people will be even stronger.

Although it is indeed not appropriate to launch such a large-scale battle for the Suicha Military Region at this time, this time interrupting the ongoing industrialization construction of the Suicha Military Region. However, Ma Zheng understands better that what he wants to do now is not for the benefit of a small number of people, but to do his best to lay a solid foundation for the take-off of the Chinese nation and the revival of the ancient Chinese civilization.

Of course, Nanchang was still occupied by the Japanese army as in history, and Wuhan fell as always, history seems to have played a big joke with him, and everything seems to have returned to the origin of history.

But Ma Zheng knew that what he was doing was not meaningless, and on the surface, Japan still had an absolute advantage as it did in history. In reality, however, this was far from the case, and he was well aware of the situation in Japan at this time.

Japan is an island country, limited by its basic domestic conditions, Japan lacks resources, and almost all strategic materials and a large part of civilian materials are dependent on imports.

As we all know, imports require a lot of money, and Japan's economic strength, which has just recovered from the economic crisis of the Great Depression and collapse, is not very strong. At the very least, Japan's economic performance is extremely poor.

Although the Japanese government implemented many effective methods to save the economic crisis, it was limited by the weakness of the economy itself, and Japan had to finally choose to use foreign expansion and aggression against China to alleviate its own losses.

However, as it stands, Japan has been able to temporarily contain the spread of the economic crisis by using the raw materials it has plundered from China and the vast market in eastern China, but it is still some time before the economy can fully recover. If the war drags on, it will inevitably collapse the already overwhelmed Japanese economy.

Of course, Ma Zheng is not saying this, nor is he taking it for granted, all of this has a historical basis. According to the history of the Japanese army, the total amount of gold in Japan's reserves at the time of the July 7 Incident, including the reserves for banknotes, was only 1.35 billion yen. For any country, it was actually its gold reserves that played a role in restricting the scale of the war, which meant that Japan's positive currency reserves limited the scale of the war from the beginning.

However, from the beginning of this war, it had already deviated from the track set for him by the Japanese high-level, and the Chinese people were not the lambs that the Japanese imagined, and the heroic Chinese anti-Japanese army gave the Japanese army great casualties. A series of large-scale battles, such as the Battle of Songhu, the Battle of Xuzhou, the Battle of Taiyuan, and the Battle of Wuhan, finally aborted Japan's plan to "seek an early solution," and Japan inevitably fell into the quagmire of war.

As everyone knows, war is not only about the weaponry and the quality of the soldiers, but also about the quality of the soldiers. The military is important, but the economy is the most important support.

Without a strong economy as a backing, no matter how powerful an army is, it is a paper tiger. When your good soldier doesn't have a bullet in a good rifle, you suddenly realize that the economy is the heart of war.

In order to maintain the war of aggression against China, Japan made relatively adequate preparations and imported a large number of strategic materials, and the total amount of military supplies imported from overseas in the 12th year of Showa (1937) alone reached 960 million yen. Most of these were imported from the United States on the west coast of the ocean, and both in terms of quantity and price, Japan was greatly bleeding.

By June of the following year, in order to carry out the Battle of Wuhan, Japan tightened its belts to get by, and the whole country donated money and materials to support the government in fighting this war. However, at that time, the Japanese economy was on the verge of collapse, and in order to build more troops, even the rifles used by school instructors in Japan were withdrawn and used to equip the expanded army.

This is only one manifestation of Japan's recession, and it is only superficial, and it does not show the deep inner workings of Japan's economic deterioration. As an elite commander of a republic in the new century, Ma Zheng knew exactly what that meant.

Due to the needs of the war, Japan transferred a large number of young and strong men from the country to join the army, and the continuous increase in the number of soldiers directly led to the shortage of labor, food, and energy in Japan. By 1939, after the Battle of Wuhan, Japan's military expenditure had reached 6.156 billion yen, far exceeding Japan's national reserves, thus sharply impoverishing Japan's national strength and losing its ability to fully guarantee the supply of military materials to the army.

If an army loses sufficient logistical support, then the combat effectiveness of this army can be imagined. However, this is not absolute, and the Eighth Route Army and a large number of guerrillas do not need so much logistical support, but their combat effectiveness is still very good, because this army has been fighting without sufficient logistical support since its formation.

From this aspect alone, the Japanese army was no match for the Eighth Route Army in any case. It is precisely because of this reason that the pain and pressure on the brain of the Japanese Central Command have been greatly aggravated, so much so that its chief of staff and the land minister claimed to themselves: "A strong foreign force and a cadre in the middle are a portrayal of our country today, and it will not be able to maintain it after a long time."

Although he and his soldiers have not been able to change China's disadvantages in the past two years of hard fighting, Ma Zheng also figured out that he is just an ordinary soldier who understands a little bit of history. Compared with the long river of the entire history, he is just a drop in the ocean, and he is nothing.

Japan is now a paper tiger that is overdrawing its life, and as long as it keeps hitting it, it can be dragged down, and let it bleed to death.

Moreover, the battle in front of him is not only needed by the Nationalist Government, but also very anxious for him in Shandong. If the little devils in North China were not completely mobilized, the 12th Army in Shandong would definitely launch a large-scale encirclement and suppression against his Shandong First Division in a short period of time. Since it is beneficial to everyone, he has the responsibility to fight this battle. (To be continued.) )