[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 1115: Yamada Otozo (Ask for subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

The North China Front cannot move for the time being, but it does not mean that all the Japanese troops cannot move, and the Kwantung Army is a good opponent. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Ma Zheng had been busy with the expansion of the army and the construction of the defense area, so he was unwilling to fight the Kwantung Army before his wings were full, and now the strength of the Saibei Corps has exceeded 800,000, in addition to 200,000 new recruits are being recruited.

More importantly, after six years of construction, Ma Zheng believes that the defense industry in the north is enough to support the combat consumption of the army under his command. Therefore, Ma Zheng believed that the time was ripe for a move against the Kwantung Army.

When Ma Zheng formulated the battle plan to seize the Northeast, he divided the whole plan into three steps, the first step was to advance into the Suidong prairie, Chen Bing Suidong, and then make other plans, so the next time is to work hard to achieve this combat goal!

On September 25, after more than 20 days of changing guards, more than 200,000 troops in Tianjin and northwest Shandong were finally transferred back to Saibei.

Two days later, Ma Zheng ordered the formation of the former enemy command of the Suidong Campaign, with him personally serving as the commander-in-chief, Ma Desheng and Xu Hu as the deputy commanders-in-chief, and Xu Yinghui as the chief of staff.

Ma Zheng decided to use 20 infantry divisions and all the armored troops and aviation units, plus almost half of the artillery of the whole army, which can be said to be the best of the best.

In the next few days, the Saibei Corps and the North China Corps made frequent movements, which caused a period of tension among the Japanese North China Front and the Kwantung Army.

Fortunately, the base camp did not dare to slack off, and immediately called Okamura Ninji and the new commander of the Kwantung Army, General Yamada Otozo, saying that a large number of reinforcements were on the way and were expected to arrive on the Chinese battlefield in a week.

With the arrival of a large number of reinforcements, the Japanese army's uneasiness was finally suppressed, and now the base camp was in northern Burma and the Allied forces were struggling. The Americans, meanwhile, were engaged in a decisive battle with the navy off the coast of the Philippines, and the base camp really did not want another major battle on the Chinese battlefield.

However, to Okamura Ningji's relief, although Ma Zheng's troops were frequently mobilized, they were constantly shrinking their forces in North China, and it seemed that they had no intention of attacking.

Seeing that Ma Zheng's headquarters had no intention of attacking the North China Front, Okamura's Ningji division continued to carry out the third sweep in southern Hebei, northern Henan, southern Lunan and other places, and at the same time adopted a policy of "encroachment" and blockade against the Japanese base areas.

That is, through such brutal means as digging ditches, building walls, opening rivers, building roads, building blockhouses, and creating no-man's land, they attempted to sever the ties between the base areas and the enemy-occupied areas, between the base areas, and between the base areas and the plains.

Okamura has his own theory of "encroachment" warfare, he is a China expert, familiar with China's human geography, he believes that in ancient times, China's rulers surrounded the city wall as a protection measure against enemy invasion, and built the Great Wall between China mainland and Manchuria and Mongolia.

It is another matter how much the Great Wall will defend against foreign invasions, but it is a symbol of protection for the Chinese mainland and its people. At a time when the people are fighting for the people with the resistance forces in China, the people under the protection of the Imperial Japanese Army are surrounded by such a separation line and drawn a boundary to protect them, which not only ensures the stability of the residents, but also has a great effect on encouraging the people to move closer to us.

The construction of appropriate separating ditches or small forts at the junction of quasi-security and non-security areas was an effective way to deter the invasion of the Shina army, as it was widely used by Jiokamura Ninji in the Japanese-occupied areas.

Leaving aside whether Okamura Ninji's tactics can succeed for the time being, this passage alone shows that Okamura, an old devil, understands China and Chinese culture, and that he does not fight hard against the Chinese like other high-ranking Japanese officers.

The muscles are to be shown, but the head and melon seeds must also be turned, and the combination of rigidity and softness shows the difficulty of this person.

Going back to General Yamada Otozo, this person was supposed to come to the Tohoku after Hideki Tojo lost power, but because the Allied attack was too sharp, the base camp urgently needed a handsome man like Umezu Mijiro to return to China to clean up the mess, so he sent Yamada Otozo to the northeast.

In the eyes of those bigwigs in the base camp, the Northeast is now a good time for singing and dancing, at most there are some sporadic battles on the Suidong steppe, which is not in the way, and it is a waste for Umezu Mijiro to stay in the Kwantung Army, it is better to return to China to preside over the overall situation.

However, less than a month after General Yamada Otozo took office, he received news that hundreds of thousands of troops from the Saibei Corps were advancing eastward.

After receiving the news, General Yamada Otozo was extremely angry, he didn't expect that the people of Shina would be so ignorant to come to provoke the powerful Kwantung Army, and they really didn't know whether they were alive or dead.

However, General Yamada Otozo is not an impulsive person, and officers of his age have the rare vision of most young officers in addition to being ruthless.

In Yamada Otozo's view, the abnormal behavior of the Saibei Corps is clearly of profound significance, not to mention how to solve the supply of food, grass and ammunition for such a large army moving eastward? At that time, as long as a few more air regiments are sent to bomb, then the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Northern Saibei Corps will face an embarrassing and dangerous situation of having no guns and ammunition.

This time, Ma Zheng's department behaved abnormally and obviously a little weird, with Ma Zheng's operational command Shui Pin, he would not have thought of such a simple problem, so he must have been completely sure of the eastward march of the Eighth Route Army this time, otherwise Ma Zheng's department would not be so ignorant.

Coupled with the fact that the Kwantung Army had just sabotaged an espionage case involving the Soviets not long ago, this could not but make General Otozo Yamada think of a lot of things. In the whole of Northeast Asia, there was only one army that could pose a threat to a military group like the Kwantung Army, and that was the Soviet Red Army stationed in the Far East.

Although Ma Zheng's department is also very combative, in Yamada Otozo's opinion, it is much worse than the Kwantung Army. Although Ma Zheng's troops defeated the North China Front Army some time ago, can the North China Front Army compare with the Kwantung Army?

The North China Front Army was not comparable with the Kwantung Army in terms of numbers, the quality of its soldiers, or its weapons and equipment, so General Yamada Oto's troops did not believe that Ma Zheng's troops had the strength to annihilate the Kwantung Army.

This was not the case with the Soviet Red Army stationed in the Far East, where Japan, with the support of the United States and Britain, wanted to annex the Far East as early as the summer of 1919.

However, the nascent Soviet Union was not as fragile as US imperialism imagined, and the Russian Red Army led by Lenin launched a counteroffensive against the Kolchak regime and the armed intervention forces of Japan, the United States, and Britain in the Far East. Red Army soldiers fought valiantly in the sparsely populated expanse of Siberian fields and finally consolidated Soviet power in the east.

At the same time, the victory of the Russian Red Army in the Far East dispersed the attempts of the Japanese militarists to annex the Far East, and it was also the first time that the Japanese militarists saw what the real Soviet army was.

Although the strength of the Soviet Red Army now stationed in the Far East was not as strong as before, in the face of the continuous expansion of the war, a large number of infantry divisions with rich combat experience in the Far Eastern Military District were transferred to fight in Eastern Europe. But even so, the Red Army in the Far East should not be underestimated. Therefore, at this time, the Far Eastern Red Army still maintained tremendous military pressure on the Japanese army in the territory of puppet Manchukuo, pinning down more than 70 elite Japanese Kwantung Army.

Despite the fact that the Soviet Union and Japan had signed a non-aggression pact, the two countries were ostensibly non-hostile countries. But everyone knows that the so-called treaties are nothing more than things to tear up, and for a large country like the USSR, a piece of paper is nothing. Therefore, neither of the two countries dared to let down their vigilance, and the battle of Nomenkan was a lesson. Once the two countries are at war, the losses are not one or two regiments, but often in the tens of thousands.

This time, Ma Zheng's department suddenly and unexpectedly moved eastward, which was of great significance to Yamada Otozo, and it was likely that Ma Zheng's department had already made contact with the Soviet Red Army in the Far East, and even reached a tacit understanding.

If this is the case, then the matter is a big deal, although the Kwantung Army is strong, it may not be the opponent of the Soviet Army.

In this regard, Yamada Otozo did not dare to slack off, and immediately ordered the troops to strengthen their vigilance, and at the same time reported the situation to the base camp.