Umezu Mijiro stood in front of the map and sighed: "The guys who can really influence the fate of the empire have always been self-righteous and high-minded, they never look at the overall strategy, and always use the theory of spiritual invincibility and uselessness of weapons as an excuse repeatedly, since weapons are useless, why does the navy build so many warships?" ”

Ishihara said helplessly: "The theory of uselessness of equipment seems to be only for our army, the army and navy have their own systems, take the aviation as an example, all countries in the European world, and even China you have the air force of reading, but the air force of the empire is divided into two halves, the army aviation unit and the naval aviation unit, the limited resources are divided and cannot be effectively used, the development of fighters lags behind Europe almost an era, and we are almost stuck in the first combat model of the two-wing open cockpit, The Type 96 ship battle is our latest all-metal monoplane fighter, but it is still an open cockpit, and the BF-109F fighter imported by Zhang Xuewu from Germany is a fully enclosed all-weather combat aircraft, although we shot down more than 30 of this BF-109F fighter in the sky over Nanjing, but our losses are? The number of warships destroyed by the army and navy aviation, together with the ships on the ground and on aircraft carriers, reached more than 370, an astonishing proportion! It's more than 10 to 1! ”

Umezu Mijiro was surprised: "Didn't the military department say that there were only two to one? And I remember that at that time, the military department was still hyping up the news of the total annihilation of the Rehe Air Force in China? Could it be that those guys in the military department are even deceived by the people in the country? ”

Ishihara shook his head and said, "Those guys in the military department are almost crazy, what else do they dare not do?" It is their patent to deceive the superior and the subordinate, and in this war they not only deceived His Majesty the Emperor and the people in the country, but even our own people did not let go, I investigated the bodies of the downed pilots of the Rehe Air Force in action, technical sergeants and corporals, and the flight time did not exceed 100 hours, and most of the pilots we lost were lieutenants, lieutenants, and young people, Morita, Manza and others were all senior and excellent pilots with more than 1,600 hours of flight time, and our losses were too great. Our pilots relied on their rich flight experience and teamwork to shoot down the combat planes of the Rehe Air Force, and the other side was just a group of newborn calves that were not afraid of tigers. Moreover, the pilots in the Rehe theater are very special, they seem to have inherited the consistent style of the China Air Force, even if they are shot down, they will never be captured, and they often save the last bullet for themselves. ”

Umezu Mijiro exhaled deeply and said, "If our army's new fighter jets are equipped, will we be able to have an advantage in terms of surname?"

Ishihara shook his head and said: "I'm afraid it will disappoint you Your Excellency Commander, what we got is only the model that Zhang Xuewu got four years ago, during this period, Rehe has updated and improved several BF-109 series models, and it is also equipped with a better Saker fighter, I believe they are also developing the next fighter, we are still lagging behind, but the lag is not so disparity." ”

Umezu Mijiro rubbed his hands in disbelief and said: "Then before the new fighters have formed combat effectiveness, our must keep a low profile, and the flight division of the Kwantung Army will be transferred to Seoul for flight training, otherwise if they are targeted by the damned enemy in the skies over Manchuria, they will become the target of hunting again, and I don't want our excellent pilots to be slaughtered because of the surname of the fighter." ”

Umezu Mijiro and Ishihara both know that the most powerful one is Zhang Xuewu now, because according to the intelligence of the empire, Zhang Xuewu went to the Soviet Union for a secret visit, and it is said that the two sides exchanged very pleasantly, and there was large-scale cooperation, although the empire was also secretly negotiating with the Soviet Union, but the Soviets were more concerned about whether the empire had concluded an agreement with Germany and Italy and the content of the agreement.

If the Soviet Union can conclude a treaty, then the Soviets will inevitably reduce the aid to Zhang Xuewu in Rehe to a minimum, which will be more beneficial to the Kwantung Army, and they will not have to face Zhang Xuewu's aggressive offensive, but now they must also endure the fun of meeting in the basement, the strafing and bombing of the Rehe Air Force headquarters have escalated from boredom to terror, and not an inch of land in Manchukuo is safe, And the loss of ground firepower against those fighters that came and went without a trace in the sky was not something that the Kwantung Army could afford.

Umezu Mijiro and Ishihara were very depressed, and Chiang Kai-shek in Wuhan was also very sad, because because of the Rehe War, he sat on the Fifth War Zone's nearly one million troops and watched the Kwantung Army and the Tenth War Zone fight hard, and missed the great opportunity of the extreme emptiness of the North China Army.

Although Dai Li, on the military side, personally issued a death order, closed down dozens of newspapers, and arrested hundreds of editors and reporters, but the overwhelming news is still surging, there is no wind and no waves, Chiang Kai-shek is from a political background, and his political means and abilities far exceed his military actions, so Chiang Kai-shek is sure that there must be a mastermind behind this, is it Zhang Xuewu or someone else in the party? There were so many enemies that he offended, and Chiang Kai-shek couldn't be sure for a while who was taking the opportunity to attack him.

It was not Chiang Kai-shek's intention to miss the opportunity, but he was frightened by Zhang Xuewu's strength, and a mere tenth war zone suddenly had the strength to compete with the national government? In just a few years, Zhang Xuewu actually connected Rehe, Suiyuan, Chahar and the northwest into a piece to exploit oil fields in Yumen? The Yumen Oilfield is the only oil field that can be exploited by the government to explore reserves, and now it is in the hands of Zhang Xuewu, which means that the only way for the government to import oil can only be imported through Hong Kong, and there are many restrictions on imports, and the British took the opportunity to make it difficult and blackmail, and Chiang Kai-shek was almost crazy about it.

Chiang Kai-shek supported the army to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and Zhang Xuewu naturally cut off all his Soviet aid materials, in Zhang Xuewu's words, that is, to give the anti-Japanese materials to the real anti-Japanese people, so Zhang Xuewu openly cut off the supply of Soviet aid materials to the national government, Chiang Kai-shek can be said to have no way to do this, the Ministry of Military Affairs and the Rehe Office negotiated many times, and they refused to transport it under the pretext of threatening the army.

When the Nationalist Axe informed the Soviet side to suspend the transportation of military aid, weapons, and ammunition, the Soviet side replied that all the materials had been handed over and all allocated to the 10th Theater of Operations, and that Li Xinkai, chief of staff of the theater, would receive them in the Dingyuan Camp. You must know that it only cost 20 million yuan for Zhang Zuolin to build China's largest Fengtian Arsenal, so that the Feng army could produce its own 38-type 75-millimeter field artillery and artillery shells, and the broadsword of the Northwest Army and the artillery of the Northeast Army were all things that the princes of all walks of life in China feared at that time.

Zhang Xuewu's attitude towards the government is also very obvious to show dissatisfaction, in this regard, the Ministry of Military Affairs is also helpless, Chiang Kai-shek also played a scoundrel when he was young, but Zhang Xuewu is such a blatant shameless thing He really has to hesitate, it can be said that Chiang Kai-shek, who is hovering between shame and shamelessness, cannot defeat Zhang Xuewu, who has been completely shameless.

Moreover, what made Chiang Kai-shek most angry was that Zhang Xuewu actually reorganized his headquarters into four clusters, and the northwest cluster was beginning to crack down on the local warlords such as Ningma and Ganma, originally these were local affairs, Chiang Kai-shek did not want to intervene, and he was most willing to see the dumping and consumption between local forces, but Zhang Xuewu was different, his tenth theater of war was too powerful, if the northwest was occupied by him, forming a stable rear, and he was in the northeast of the army, I am afraid that his own government would have to rule with it. And the premise is whether Zhang Xuewu is willing or not.

Chiang Kai-shek also regretted a little this time, but what he regretted was why the northwest was included in the sequence of the tenth theater of operations, originally wanted to let the fierce Ma Jiajun, who had never been obedient to the central government, contain Zhang Xuewu, but now Zhang Xuewu defeated the Ma Jiajun in the name of suppressing bandits, it is said that Zhang Xuewu invested all the light armored cavalry regiments, and the attack distance of 150 kilometers a day made the horse team that the Ma Jiajun was proud of was divided and annihilated before it was assembled.

Zhang Xuewu dared to fight a civil war in the face of the current situation of the great enemy? This was something that Chiang Kai-shek never expected, but Zhang Xuewu used the name of suppressing bandits, who didn't know that the Northwest Majiajun was started by bandits? Since ancient times, the family of soldiers and bandits, the family of police and bandits, there are a certain number of things, you Zhang Xuewu suppressed the bandits, and even the provincial party department and the provincial political axe of the national government have been suppressed together? This is a naked rebellion!

Zhang Xuewu can slap him Jiang someone's face, but it is difficult for him Jiang someone to pull it back, because if Zhang Xuewu wants to be charged with a hat, then it is necessary to move the sequence under the jurisdiction of the Tenth War Zone first, which is obviously a bit too much suspicion, Chiang Kai-shek is often very calm on this kind of issue, he wants to find a very good opportunity to first attack Zhang Xuewu's political prestige, for he has worked hard to establish a heroic image for Zhang Xuewu, Chiang Kai-shek's intestines are about to regret at the moment.

However, the cup of bitter wine that he Jiang made himself at the beginning is now in front of him, drink it? Apparently this bitter wine seems to have changed its container! Not a cup! It's a big jar! Self-inflicted!

(To be continued)