Volume 1: Inner Mongolia Fengyun] Chapter 558: The Panic of the Kwantung Army——

Chapter 558: The panic of the Kwantung Army

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, the good mood of General Yamada Otozo did not last long and was dispersed, because an urgent telegram came from the Japanese army base camp, saying that Han Yunhua, the first 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 department.

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 squadron, and even look down on the second-line garrison troops in their country, and they do not take the C-class divisions that have just been formed 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 state of 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 and counties should strengthen their fortifications to prevent a sneak attack by the troops.

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, Takamasa Iseki, did not wait for Yamada Otozo to speak, and then preemptively said: "Your Excellency Chief of Staff, are you ... [This chapter is not finished, please click on the next page to continue reading!] ］