When Ueda Kenkichi saw that Shiro Ishii and Kazuo Morita were blaming each other, he immediately said unhappily: "I don't care what you have to do with the military department and the staff headquarters, this is the Kwantung Army, and I am the commander of the General Army!" If you waste the precious supplies of the empire in vain, Unit 569 and Unit 731 will be history tomorrow, and Shiro Ishii and Kazuo Morita will also be tried by military law, understand? ”

Ueda Kenkichi's words made Shiro Ishii and Kazuo Morita suddenly break out in a cold sweat, Ueda Kenkichi's words have clearly expressed the meaning, that is, the Kwantung Army does not raise idle meals, and this idle meal is still a lord who eats and drinks a lot of money every day and is almost extravagant and wasteful, 10 million yuan is a huge amount for Ueda Kenkichi who is the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, at least it is something he can't decide, and it can only be approved through the Imperial Council of the Military Department. Someone squandered it quietly under their noses? Can Kenkichi Ueda not be angry?

According to the glorious tradition of the Imperial Army, if this money is handled by Ueda Kenkichi, at least 15 percent of this money will be withheld as special office funds, and this so-called special office funds are actually equal to the commander's personal money. So it is equivalent to Shiro Ishii taking 1.5 million yuan from Kenkichi Ueda's personal pocket.

That's a lot of money! Shiro Ishii knew, Kazuo Morita also knew, and Kenkichi Ueda frowned and tapped his fingers on the table with displeasure, such a large sum of money could go around the Eastern Army? I'm afraid it's only the Army Staff Headquarters.

Shiro Ishii and Kazuo Morita realized that in front of Commander Kenkichi Ueda, it was not a place for them to slander each other and fight lawsuits, and it would be bad if they all came together, so Kazuo Morita immediately said: "If you start from the perspective of actual combat, there is no doubt that it is the most ideal to release the cholera virus, and if you have the conditions, you can try to release a variety of highly contagious viruses at the same time to make it cross the epidemic, which makes the spread faster and difficult to control." ”

Shiro Ishii nodded and agreed: "The two biological types of cholera can be transmitted through water, food, flies and daily contact, water transmission is the most important way, because water is most susceptible to contamination by the excrement of infected people, and Vibrio cholerae survives in water for a long time, generally more than a week, can be as long as dozens of days, contaminated water can contaminate many raw and cold food, the role of food transmission is second only to water, Vibrio cholerae can survive on food for several weeks or even longer. Moreover, cholera can be said to infect people regardless of race, surname and age, and they are generally susceptible to cholera, and they can obtain a certain degree of immunity after illness, but there are also possible surnames for reinfection. Cholera is an intestinal infection, one of two Class A infectious diseases, caused by the contamination of water and food by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. It is clinically characterized by a rapid onset, severe diarrhea and vomiting, excretion of large amounts of rice-swill-like intestinal contents, dehydration, muscle spasms, oliguria, and anuria. In severe cases, death can occur from shock, uremia, or acidosis, and the mortality rate is very high and inexpensive in the context of poor medical care and inadequate treatment. ”

Ueda Kenkichi nodded with satisfaction and said: "Within two weeks, Unit 569 and Unit 731 must come up with enough virus, as for the way to drop it, it can be airdropped, although it is not easy to bomb Rehe, Chahar, and Suiyuan, but it is still easy for a few planes to penetrate alone." ”

When Ueda Kenkichi was plotting to give Zhang Xuewu a fatal blow, the Ohara Tachie Chariot Division and the 23rd Mechanized Division commanded by Tojo Hideki also faced a huge problem, which Tojo Hideki had never expected before, or had not considered it at all, and said that after suffering the big loss of Zhang Xuewu's mechanized troops, he also formed a mechanized division and a chariot division, but he ignored the fact that they did not have qualified professional mechanized unit commanders at all. Ohara Tachie has only commanded the cavalry wing, and the commander of the 23rd Mechanized Division, Lieutenant General and Division Commander Yamashita Daichi, has been serving as the head of the Strategy Department in the General Staff Headquarters before that, both of them are top-heavy guys, plus a bayonet is more reliable than a chariot, and at the critical moment, it seems difficult for Hideki Tojo, the two most elite divisions of the Kwantung Army, not to be tragic?

A distance of several hundred kilometers may not seem far, but for the long-distance march of mechanized troops, especially tanks, the quality of his mechanical maintenance personnel is still not enough, and the intact rate of vehicles has always been about 70 percent. After all, the bayonet hung behind the butt and left directly, and there was no danger of losing it, and the chariot was different, a large piece of cold iron, which cost so much unjustly money, and it all broke down on the road? Ohara Tachie and Yamashita Daiichi have to listen to the nagging and roaring of Hideki Tojo almost every day, and it is very reluctant to advance 50 kilometers a day? This makes Hideki Tojo really unacceptable? Where is this surprise attack? It's clearly a tortoise in a race.

Said that the army mechanized troops attacked Baotou? This was like a thunderbolt blow to Zhang Xuewu, who was preparing to inflict heavy losses on the Kwantung Army in the Chaoyang area, so Hao Wenbin, deputy commander of the 10th Theater of Operations, immediately rushed to Baotou by plane from the Dingyuan Battalion to prepare to take over the defensive counterattack, and one supplementary regiment was transferred from the First Armored Division and the Second Armored Division in Baotou for training to prepare for the formation of the Third Armored Division, but now most of the commanders of the Third Armored Division have not yet been transferred to the First and Second Divisions, so there is an urgent need for a weighty figure like Hao Wenbin to go to the town.

After Hao Wenbin arrived in Baotou, he made a request to Zhang Xuewu for an air raid on the army, and on the other hand, he quickly requisitioned all the trainees of the armored force academy temporarily, so that the personnel of 260 jackal light tanks and 220 iron cavalry medium main battle tanks were fully equipped.

There are no weak soldiers under the strong generals? This sentence is often on Hao Wenbin's lips, but it is Zhang Xuewu who says it, and now he can be said to be very entangled? Because Baotou itself is a huge industrial circle, there are not too many permanent defense fortifications, Hao Wenbin, who barely drove the tank personnel, really can't find anyone to stick to Baotou, the defense line that shows the wind on all sides, no matter where he attacks from, where is Baotou's weakness, more than 400 tanks seem to be a lot, but it is a drop in the bucket to sprinkle on the long defense line, and the most important thing is that Hao Wenbin can only be deployed by him with more than 8,000 people from a Baotou garrison division?

And the person he is about to face is that he has two divisions? In particular, he said that his tank division is a very special organization, and the tank cluster of the army is different from the armored division of the 10th theater, and it is generally written as "tank regiment" in the text, which is not only a very "special" organization, but also a very common structure.

The specific establishment of the "chariot regiment" of the army may be a chariot division, a chariot brigade, a chariot detachment, a chariot group, and so on, and the "chariot regiment" of the army is precisely a temporary formation of troops, similar to the "battle group" or "armored combat group" in Europe and the United States at that time, and the same as the "battle group" is that the "chariot regiment" of the chariot army is not a permanent surname, but is temporarily organized according to the combat mission, and the chariot division is undoubtedly the largest among them, not only has four chariot wings, but also is equipped with no less than two motorized infantry wings, anti-aircraft guns, Combat anti-artillery units.

Each tank wing has more than 1,100 combatants, 78 tracked vehicles, 20 wheeled vehicles, 2 light tanks, 1 medium tank, 1 light tank squadron, 1 light tank squadron, 10 light tanks, 1 medium tank squadron, 2 light tanks, 10 medium tanks, 1 artillery tank squadron, 2 light tanks, 10 artillery tanks, 2 light tanks, 10 artillery tanks, and 78 ironclad vehicles and trucks for the maintenance squadron. The motorized infantry wing of the mechanized division of the Chinese army is to be equipped with 220 armored vehicles and 90 wheeled vehicles.

Baotou is the heart of the entire 10th Theater of Operations, and it is not a problem to deal with the two divisions of the whole theater, the key is how to reduce the losses in Baotou? Baotou Industrial Zone can be described as Zhang Xuewu's heart and soul baby, reluctant to lose any bit, if the city is defended? Even if the Yue army is defeated, I am afraid that Baotou will have to destroy most of it, Hao Wenbin estimates that he is likely to plan this way, setting the battlefield in Baotou, even if they lose, it is still Baotou that is smashed, so he boldly bypassed a garrison division in Datong and attacked Baotou directly.

Hao Wenbin made a very bold and important decision, he decided to use 100 iron cavalry medium main battle tanks as the main force, with 50 jackal light tanks on each wing, and put all 75 75 mm "bantams" and 105 mm "strike" automatic guns using the chassis of jackal light tanks into battle behind the main attack of the iron cavalry cluster, so as to give the menacing Yue himself a head-on blow!

In Hao Wenbin's view, no matter what, Baotou can't have any losses! Because Baotou really can't afford to lose!

Before this, Hao Wenbin had never seen so many tanks and self-propelled guns put into battle, and before the battle started, Hao Wenbin already felt why Zhang Xuewu didn't put the armored division into use easily, it turned out that this thing was too expensive? Fuel, ammunition, spare parts, and logistics supply support for 100 iron cavalry medium main battle tanks and 400 combatants, followed by a mechanized infantry regiment and a comprehensive support cluster of more than 2,000 people!

(To be continued)