[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 161: Give up Beiman (ask for subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

On January 20, just after the Third Route Army captured Songyuan, the anxious Kwantung Army Headquarters was in a hurry, and immediately urgently ordered the 64th Division and the 13th Infantry Division of the puppet Manchukuo Defense Army to immediately build a defensive line on the front line of Pingfeng, Miaodongtun, and Xinmiao on the periphery of Songyuan to block Yang Chengwu's headquarters. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

However, the opportunity has passed, and in the face of powerful mechanized troops, the almost rigid defense of the Japanese infantry divisions and regiments has fundamentally started to the desired effect.

At 4 o'clock in the afternoon of the 21st, after 22 hours of hard fighting, Yang Chengwu's troops finally defeated all the Japanese puppet troops on the periphery of Songyuan, and the army gained a firm foothold in Songyuan.

Songyuan, located in the central and western part of the ancient forest, is located in the triangle of Harbin, Changchun and Daqing, at the southern end of the Songnen Plain, and is located on the bank of the beautiful Songhua River. It is adjacent to Changchun and Siping City in the south, borders Baicheng City and Tongliao City in the west, and faces Heilongjiang Province across the Songhua River in the north.

The fall of Matsubara was the cause of Yamada Otozo's domestic criticism, and even the base camp, which had always watched directly and did not express opinions, sent a special telegram to the Kwantung Army Headquarters to reprimand the Kwantung Army Command for its inaction.

General Yamada Oto-san already had a most ominous premonition, although the troops in South Manchuria performed well, and nearly 300,000 troops in China were dragged in the South Manchurian region, the battle situation in the Central Manchurian and North Manchurian regions was not very optimistic.

First of all, on the North Manchurian side, the administrative regions of the four provinces and two special cities of the puppet Manchukuo have long since ceased to be as grand as they used to be. Soon after the start of the war, Sam Giang Province and North Hung Yen Province were also captured by the Chinese army within two days, and so far three provinces have fallen to two, and another six provinces are under absolute threat from the Chinese army.

More importantly, in the battle on the second day of the war, the Kwantung Army found that at least 300 Soviet fighters were fighting with the Chinese people, and it was because of so many Soviet fighters participating in the war that the Kwantung Army's strong air superiority was completely neutralized, otherwise the ground forces would not have suffered heavy losses.

At present, the Kwantung Army and the puppet Manchukuo have lost nearly 150,000 troops of nearly 750,000 troops, and in just five days after the start of the war, two divisions have been completely annihilated, five divisions have been defeated, and four more divisions have become toothless tigers. In addition, nearly 50,000 Manchukuo soldiers were either annihilated or surrendered voluntarily, and 150,000 is just a conservative number.

It's only been 5 days, and at this rate, the entire Kwantung Army will completely collapse in half a month at most, and the consequences are too serious.

Regardless of his own face and the honor of his soldiers, General Yamada Otozo almost pleaded with the country for help, hoping that Japan could mobilize at least 200,000 reinforcements to reinforce the puppet Manchurian region, otherwise it would be difficult for the Kwantung Army to hold Japan's money bag under the joint attack of China and the Soviet Union.

The importance of the puppet Manchurian region to Japan is self-evident, and in the final analysis, the Japanese invaded China for the sake of interests, and only when they were driven by interests would they be so disrespectful and honest. The Tohoku region is also rich in natural resources, so it is natural that the Japanese are competing for it.

According to the 1936 resource survey report of the "State Council" of the puppet Manchukuo, the coal reserves in the puppet Manchukuo region were about 3 billion tons and the iron reserves were about 4 billion tons. Other minerals are gold, magnesite, bauxite, oil shale, diamond, etc. Forestry and fishery resources are also very abundant, and most of these things cannot be produced by barren Japan, for Japan, the Northeast region is not only their money bag, but also an important resource base for them to dominate Asia and dominate the world.

In order to exploit it, more directly, it should be to plunder the resources of Northeast China, which the Japanese can be described as painstakingly managed. They established iron and steel and chemical industrial bases in Anshan and Benxi, coal industry centers in Fushun, Benxi, and Fuxin, magnesite mining in Haicheng and Dashiqiao, hydropower generation in Gulin and Yalu River, machinery, munitions, and aircraft industries in Fengtian (now Shenyang), and light industries such as textiles and food in Dalian, Dandong, Harbin, and Qiqihar.

At the same time, after the establishment of the puppet Manchukuo, the funds of other Japanese chaebols quickly poured into the puppet Manchukuo. After 1937, the puppet state of Manchukuo adopted a policy of economic control over the industrial sector, implementing the principle of "one industry and one company", and a monopoly company was established in each industry.

According to this principle, the Manchurian Railway handed over its own industrial division, which was reorganized to form the huge Kang Tseen - Manchuria Heavy Industry Joint Stock Company (Manchukuo), which monopolized all the steel, coal, chemical and electric power industries in the territory of the puppet Manchukuo. In addition, more than 40 special companies, such as the puppet Manchurian telegraph (telephone and telegraph) company, the puppet Manchurian Machinery Manufacturing Company, the puppet Manchurian Mining Company, the puppet Manchurian airline, the Manchurian artificial oil company, and the puppet Manchurian Development Commune, were also established.

These clubs were jointly funded by Japanese investors and the puppet Manchukuo, and when they made profits, they were divided according to the proportion of the shares of both parties, and when they lost money, the puppet Manchukuo government guaranteed 10 percent of the profits from the Japanese investment. Therefore, the puppet Manchurian region is a community of interests between the Japanese government and the Japanese chaebols, and the Japanese chaebols' investment in China's northeast region accounts for more than 80 percent of their overseas investments.

Although the fighting in Southeast Asia continued to escalate, and the progress of the Japanese Southern Army was not smooth, and the Burma battlefield was defeated and retreated, the opinions of the whole Japanese were surprisingly unanimous, and they immediately sent troops to reinforce the puppet Manchurian region.

However, there are opinions on how to reinforce this reinforcement, and some people advocate mobilizing troops from within the country to go north for reinforcements. However, more people believe that the mainland is now threatened by the Americans, and American warships have appeared on the islands of Okinawa several times, as if they want to use them as a springboard for attacking the Japanese mainland.

At present, there are not many troops in Japan, and several general armies are not enough, so they cannot cope with the future war situation. Moreover, the Southern Army can't ignore it, the puppet Manchukuo side is the Sino-Soviet Army, but the Southern Army is facing the Sino-US coalition army, compared to the Sino-US coalition army is more worrying, Bi Jing is now the Soviet Union's main focus is still on Europe, so the vast majority of people advocate mobilizing troops from North China or Central China or South China to the north for reinforcements.

After studying the matter, the Japanese military department decided to mobilize the 37th and 69th Divisions of the North China Front, the 13th Division of the Central China Front, and the 104th Division of the 23rd Army stationed in South China to reinforce the Kwantung Army.

However, these Japanese divisions and regiments all have their own combat missions, and it will take a while to assemble, so the base camp will load the two infantry divisions that have just been formed in China and transport them to the northeast region.

After receiving a clear reply from the base camp, General Yamada Otozo did not appear very happy, because judging from the current situation, it would be difficult to resist the attack of the Chinese and Soviet troops without a large number of planes and heavy weapons such as tanks.

Especially the air force, the entire Kwantung Army aviation unit is extremely weak now, on the other hand, during this period of time, the fighters of the China people have made frequent sorties, and the scale is getting bigger and bigger.

According to information obtained by the intelligence department, which did not hesitate to expose spies who had been hidden for many years, the Ma Zheng unit now has nearly 800 fighters, and although these fighters are of a large variety of types, including those of the United States, the Soviet Union, the United States, and even the Empire-made Type 96 fighters, the combat effectiveness of this air force is not bad.

In addition, Ma Zheng's chariot unit is also extremely powerful, with nearly 900 tanks of various tanks, which is equivalent to two complete chariot divisions. Together with the aviation forces on the Soviet side, the Kwantung Army was already far behind the combined forces of China and the USSR in terms of heavy weapons.

However, General Yamada Otozo knew that it would be difficult to get domestic aid, and he also knew about the domestic situation, and the economic crisis of '29 almost destroyed the entire national economy of Japan, and if it were not for the plundering of a large amount of materials with the help of foreign wars, Japan would have declined long ago.

In the early days of the war, Japan won one after another, and the plundered resources were extremely huge, so the war made Japan rich.

However, after being trapped in the quagmire of the Chinese battlefield, Japan's economy began to decline rapidly, and after the outbreak of the Pacific War, huge military expenditures were about to bring down Japan's finances, which had almost dried up.

At present, the domestic economy is sluggish, and for the sake of war, Japan not only plundered the economy of its colonies, but also used the domestic economy cruelly, making Japan's domestic economic development extremely deformed. The national industry and mining industry withered, the rural economy went bankrupt, and the national economy served only for war.

Now it is impossible to come up with a large amount of money to form a new mechanized army in the country, and it is too late in time.

After careful consideration, General Yamada Otozo decided to abandon the entire Northern Manchurian plan and withdraw all the troops to Central Manchurian and Southern Manchuria, as long as they held on until the arrival of imperial reinforcements, then the Kwantung Army still had a lot to do.