Since the air force of the [***] team in the 10th theater of operations almost controls most of the air supremacy in North China, Umezu Mijiro's appointment has also become very low-key, and a special train car is added between civilian trains, so shabby is also forced out, if you use armored trains, I am afraid that you will be blown to pieces before you reach Shanhaiguan, let alone take an airplane, unless you sneak over at night, because the sky has become Chinese, Umezu Mijiro pondered why the war situation has become what it is today? In Rehe, Chahar, and Suiyuan, there was an entity that could compete with the empire on land? The capabilities of this entity even surpass that of China's only legitimate political axe, the Chinese National Political Axe? Isn't that a bit bizarre?

Umezu Mijiro believes that there must be a black hand behind Zhang Xuewu to support, the Soviet volunteer pilots who appeared in the skies over Wuhan and Xuzhou, as well as a large number of Soviet experts and technical arms in the 10th theater of Zhang Xuewu's department, all illustrate this problem, it is not that Zhang Xuewu is strong, but that the Soviet Russia behind it is strong, and it may be easy to defeat Zhang Xuewu, but the prerequisite is that it must first cut off its continuous backup, either defeat Soviet Russia, or conclude a secret treaty with Soviet Russia.

Moreover, Umezu Mijiro's appointment is not without conditions, that is, to transfer Anami Yuji to serve as the commander of the First Front Army, to reduce the existing three front armies of the Kwantung Army to two front armies, Yamashita Fumifumi to remain in office, Isoya Ryosuke to leave, and to give full support to the country, to form at least one mecha army with the best reading ability, the goal is to have 1,100 tanks, but also to organize a second air force, reorganize the 23rd mechanized division, and immediately put into production the latest medium tanks that have been finalized. He also demanded that Emperor Hirohito grant him the power to dispose of the removal and retention of officers of the rank of lieutenant general in order to correct the unhealthy tendencies of the Kwantung Army, which had not obeyed orders and made its own decisions since its establishment, and who had been rampant in the ranks.

Umezu Mijiro gave Emperor Hirohito a difficult problem, but this is exactly what Emperor Hirohito and the Ministry of War and the General Staff Headquarters are most worried about, they do not admit that they were defeated by Zhang Xuewu, thinking that in fact they were defeated by Soviet Russia, the mastermind behind the scenes, to teach Soviet Russia a lesson, or to conclude a secret agreement with it? Obviously, I have two choices, but now it is difficult to say that I have always been too simple-minded, because I am used to fighting with the fortunes of the country at every turn, and I have only one choice at most, and suddenly there is one more, and I am very inappropriate, and I am not used to it.

And not only that, the so-called latest new medium tanks demanded by Umezu Mijiro were secretly developed Type 1, Type 3, and Type 4 medium tanks in addition to Type 97, because the counterattack of the Jackal light tank equipped by the Rehe Army in the First Battle of Nanjing caused the Imperial Army to lose its armor and abandon its armor, and there was an example of total destruction of brigade-level troops, so the Ministry of War was ruthless and ordered Kawasaki, Mitsubishi, Fuji, Toshiba, and other companies to come up with a combat vehicle that could confront the Jackal, a combat vehicle of more than 20 tons, which was also called a light tank. Undoubtedly, in my own opinion, the Chinese are extremely shameless, because the most advanced Type 97 medium tank in the empire weighs no more than 15.3 tons in battle, carrying a crew of four, the commander and gunner are located in the turret, the driver is on the right side of the front of the hull, the machine gunner is on the left side of the driver, and the turret is located on the right side of the longitudinal center of the hull. The main armament is a Type 97 57 mm short-barreled gun, which can fire grenades and armor-piercing shells, carry 120 rounds, and its armor-piercing shells can penetrate 50 mm thick steel armor at a distance of 1,200 meters.

The auxiliary weapon is two ninety-seven style seven. Seven-millimeter heavy machine gun, carrying more than 4,000 rounds of ammunition, one of which is a front-mounted machine gun, the other is mounted on the right side of the rear of the turret, the body of the 97 type is a welded structure, the turret is a mixed structure of casting, welding and screwing, which is cast in three parts, and then welded, and the anti-shield part adopts the screwing method. This hybrid turret processing method, compared with the previous 95 type and ** type of the original riveting method of the tank is a big progress, but compared with the overall cast turret or all-welded turret, it is relatively easy in technology, but the actual combat has proved that the 97 type is not the opponent of the jackal light tank, at the same distance of 500 meters, the 97 type can only penetrate the tail of the jackal, and the jackal can penetrate any point of the 97 type, shooting accuracy, armor piercing thickness, power, rate of fire, The Type 97 57-mm short-barreled artillery produced by this is far inferior to the 50-mm German-made tank gun, which is 60 times the caliber of the barrel.

In terms of power, the 97 type is equipped with a 125 kW twelve-cylinder air-cooled diesel engine, which is located at the rear of the body; The maximum speed of the vehicle is 38 kilometers per hour, the driving wheel is in front, and the power needs to be transmitted to the gearbox and speed contender in the front of the car body through a very long transmission shaft, so the steering start is slower, and the jackal type cannot be said to be the same, so Umezu Mijiro asked for the immediate production of new tanks that have been dismounted to deal with the rolling iron flow of the 10th theater, Umezu Mijiro's reason is that after all, the warship cannot be loaded with bayonets, and the battle on land will ultimately have to rely on the army, if the whole of Manchuria is lost, Even if the Imperial Navy was equipping a thousand battleships, it would be useless.

Emperor Hirohito knew that he wanted to let Umezu Mijiro feel at ease to carry the black cauldron, and he didn't want to stop too much, Umezu Mijiro on the train mentioned the chariot in a row of five points and three copies of the secret telegram, especially in Baotou There is a new type of chariot appeared in the information, so Emperor Hirohito can only drag the tired body to convene the imperial meeting again, if Umezu Mijiro's request is met, then the previous naval shipbuilding plan is bound to be postponed again, several steel mills put into operation in the northeast are always frequently bombed, and the output is almost negligible, Therefore, Ben's biggest dependence at present is scrap steel imported from the United States.

The Americans' loans, oil, and rubber allowed him to maintain the war, and Emperor Hirohito ordered a decision to mass-produce four-type combat vehicles, but a Yamamoto Takumura Daisa from the Military Engineering Section of the General Staff Headquarters told Emperor Hirohito very regretfully that whether it is a three-type or a four-type, or even a five-type on the design drawing, it needs strong power, otherwise it can only become a soft-footed shrimp or a target, and the original plan for the four-type car is to use a ninety-eight type 800 horsepower engine improved from the BMW YB800H aviation gasoline engine, Although the design power is 800 horsepower, it can only reach 550 horsepower, which is too small for a tank weighing almost 30 tons.

The Type 4 is ready to use a 520 mm wide track, which has never been done for this tank, the design maximum speed is 45 kilometers per hour, many surnames can still be demonstrated in the data, and have not been actually tested, and the main weapon on the Type 4 medium tank is the Type 4 75 mm anti-aircraft gun, ready to use the automatic loader, if the speed of progress leads to a tight development time, it can only be forced to remove the automatic loader, temporarily installed on the Type 4 tank.

In addition, the tank gun modified from the 88-mm German-made anti-aircraft anti-aircraft gun captured on the battlefield in China has also entered the final test, and whether it can be installed in the Type 4 tank is still a question.

Emperor Hirohito listened dizzily for a long time, and finally realized that the so-called Type 4 medium tank Chito, which was originally boasted to be able to sweep through the 10th theater, was simply an unreliable thing, and the 88-mm tank gun that was guaranteed to be able to penetrate any tank in the 10th theater could not be installed on the tank? The vaunted autoloader is simply an idea that has never been put into practice?

Emperor Hirohito wanted to take a look in the mirror at the moment to see if he really looked like an idiot? An idiot who has been blindsided by the generals of the army and navy all day long? The frontier has been beaten to the ground, and he is still sitting firmly in the Diaoyutai in Tokyo, unleashing his rhetoric and wild words, becoming the object of ridicule from all over the world?

Syllable! Emperor Hirohito slapped his palm on the table, looked at the generals who were attending the meeting, and said in a deep voice with anger: "What I want is the result!" If the latest tank cannot be put into mass production within two months, and the installation cannot be completed within the required time of the Kwantung Army, the relevant people should commit suicide by disembowelment! Do you understand? ”

After the roar, Emperor Hirohito left directly, leaving behind a bunch of generals who looked at each other, and the anger of Emperor Hirohito naturally knew why, regardless of the real situation on the front line, he read out various achievements and good news on the radio every day, inspiring all the people to serve the country and be loyal to the monarch, and carry out the holy war to the end.

And the most critical thing is that now it is a pot of porridge with the 10th theater of operations in the middle [***], and the trusted commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army actually proposed the so-called final solution? That is, to solve the [***] black hand behind Zhang Xuewu first, without solving the problem of Soviet Russia, it is impossible to completely solve the threat of the tenth theater, it is difficult for the blood transfusion empire of Soviet Russia to defeat Zhang Xuewu's department in the tenth theater in a short period of time, and the enemy is also constantly growing and growing, every day of delay, the price of the empire to solve Zhang Xuewu in the future will be one point greater.

If you can sacrifice desperately, immediately after the battle of Chengde to send troops to fight again, I am afraid it will not be the situation today, stronger and bigger Zhang Xuewu has become almost as powerful as China's political axe, personnel from Shanxi and the northwest to enter, weapons and military aid from Mongolia in, people, guns, bullets, food, want to completely solve Zhang Xuewu is really not an easy thing, and Zhang Xuewu still has hole cards? No one knows that.

(To be continued)