There is no impermeable wall in the world, Ying Detian, Miao Jianqiu, Sun Mingjiu and others fled to the [***] side, which also made the differentiation of the Northeast Army more rapid and extreme, but at this moment Zhang Xuewu is withdrawing troops on a large scale and rapidly, and the defense of Rehe, Chahar, and Suiyuan is the urgent need to delay.

The Double 12 Incident and the previous Liangguang Incident made me smell the smell of it, the ambitious Nanjiro has made the final preparations for the war, and the base camp, the General Staff Headquarters and the Ministry of War have repeatedly carried out war games and deductions for the large-scale offensive launched by this punishment China, but with reference to the combat effectiveness of the [***] team of German weapons in the Battle of Rehe, the results of the deduction are not too optimistic.

Minamijiro, who was recalled to his homeland to participate in the Imperial Council, was worried at the moment, and what Nanjiro was worried about was not the success of the punishment of the China Operation, but whether he could still be in the position of commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army? Or Minamijiro is aiming at a more exciting position, although this position has not yet been established, but with Nanjiro's hunch, there are as many as 60 divisions and regiments put into combat this time, once the Kwantung Army headquarters invades the northern branch area, then it is bound to become a unit at the level of the front army, and the northern branch dispatch army and the Shanghai dispatch army echoing each other are at the same level, so for both the northern branch dispatch army and the Shanghai dispatch army, after the completion of the first phase of combat missions, It is inevitable that there will also be an additional commander-in-chief of the Chinese dispatch force.

If he can get his wish, I am afraid that the post of marshal will no longer be a dream and empty talk, with a fervent hope to come to Tokyo Minamijiro this time can be described as a big spend, golden bullets paved the road, almost worship when he sees the temple, the generals who are on the horse to manage the army, dismount to manage the people and lead the army are all rich without exception, and he is naturally not exempt from vulgarity, especially the Kwantung Army that is frantically plundering in the three northeastern provinces.

However, today's meeting made Minamijiro hear different opinions, it can be said that the battle determination of the base camp has been issued for a long time, but the specific strategy, tactics and campaign synthesis can be said to be eight characters yet!

Because of the issue of the strategic deployment of the three routes, the plan of the General Staff Headquarters clashed with the plan formulated by the Strategic Department of the General Staff of the Base Battalion, and the General Staff Headquarters planned to directly adopt the method of a heavy group to attack the Zhang Xuewu Corps in Rehe, Chahar, and Suiyuan first, annihilating the thorn in the side of this empire, completely solving the worries of the future, and also achieving the effect of shocking the Chinese army.

However, the newly established General Staff and Strategy Department of the base camp held the opposite opinion, believing that the fiasco of the Chengde offensive had proved that the Imperial Army's ability to attack the fortified positions was insufficient, and even if the Imperial Army supplemented the new weapons and new large-caliber artillery, the Zhang Xuewu Division of the Zhina Army was also desperately reinforcing the key points of Chaoyang, Chengde, Chifeng, and Zhangjiakou, and attacking the fortress cities with a large number of permanent fortifications would definitely consume a lot of material supplies and time, and the troops would also pay serious casualties. For a three- to six-month plan to quickly bring the political axe of Nanking to its knees by adopting the tactics of advancing north and south, it took too much time.

And if the attack succeeds, it's okay to say, once the attack fails? Then it will affect the formulation and follow-up implementation of the strategy of the entire empire, and Zhang Xuewu is no longer the commander of the first division of the year, it has more than 100,000 troops, according to reliable information Zhang Xuewu has incorporated more than 50,000 well-trained officers and soldiers in the Northeast, with a strong defense line, fighters, combat vehicles, heavy artillery and enough mobile troops Zhang Xuewu Corps is so gnawed?

Nanjiro has always played the role of an open-minded counselor, he naturally doesn't want to offend the staff headquarters, and he can't be lazy in the base camp, this is Nanjiro's code of conduct, sleek! Never offend people when you talk and do things!

However, in Nanjiro's view, the concern about the base camp is absolutely justified, now Zhang Xuewu has about more than 200 combat aircraft, these aircraft can almost all surpass all the models in service in the empire, the Kwantung Army flight division does not have an advantage in air combat power, and the railway lines in Rehe, Chahar, and Suiyuan have long been the situation of the past, and now the convenient railway network can allow Zhang Xuewu to calmly and quickly transfer troops, forming a local military advantage.

Minamijiro remembered that before he left, the flight division was shot down by three reconnaissance planes by the Rehe side, and now the pilots of the flight division regiment must first write a suicide note to say goodbye when they mention entering Rehe for reconnaissance, and the sky of Rehe, Chahar, and Suiyuan is like an iron wall, and the loss of 11 reconnaissance planes has not yet brought back the aerial reconnaissance photos they need, so how many casualties will Zhang Xuewu have to pay? To be honest, Minamijiro doesn't have a bottom in his heart.

Emperor Hirohito also frowned and looked at the generals who were talking about the sword, spitting stars flying sideways, blushing and arguing with thick necks, it can be said that the fiasco of Rehe deeply stimulated Emperor Hirohito's nerves, just like some later generations, the man can keep winning, but as long as he loses once, the sky will completely collapse, in fact, this is the true face of the so-called Yamato nation, whether it is the Yamato empire or the Yamato nation, they can't afford to lose!

Emperor Hirohito, who was a little tired, finally turned his gaze to Nanjiro and said: "Qing is the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, you are the most qualified to speak, and you can make strategic plans and deployments at the staff headquarters and base camp, but to formulate tactical plans, you should listen to the words of the generals who are at the front, they have the deepest experience!" Although the empire has the most complete staff system and the best staff officers, it is difficult for us to avoid the fact that the brigade, wing, and brigade level units below carry out the tactics formulated by staff officers thousands of miles away on a map of 1/200,000. ”

Emperor Hirohito opened his mouth, and the attention of the two groups of people who had quarreled before was focused on Minamijiro at the moment, which would make Minamijiro also annoyed, how good would it be to send the chief of staff, Okamura Ninji, back if he knew that this was the case?

Lieutenant General Michiichi Aoki, the head of operations of Nanjiro's base camp, stared at the big bull's eye and said very unceremoniously: "Since His Majesty the Emperor's imperial mouth has been opened, then please listen to the high opinion of His Excellency Commander-in-Chief Nanjiro!" ”

Minamijiro is well-known in the army for being a good person, but his tactical and strategic attainments are really a little miserable, and it is polite to say that he has not made achievements, so Lieutenant General Aoki Michiichi, the head of operations of the base camp, will be so unkind, in Aoki Michiichi's opinion, Nanjiro must be with the mud again this time.

Expect Minamijiro to say something accomplished or practical? It's like looking forward to the autumn wind and white dew in Hokkaido, once in a few decades, God knows which year?

After all, it is related to his own reality, Nanjiro also hesitated, bowed respectfully to Emperor Hirohito, and said: "Your Majesty, listed as a colleague, the goal of the first phase of the Empire's three-way punishment operation is to eliminate Zhang Xuewu's army, and the troops will come to the city of Nanjing, forcing the Nanjing political axe to make the greatest concessions, so that North China can achieve autonomy and become a buffer zone for Manchukuo?" ”

Aoki Michichi nodded beside him and said: "On this point, the opinion of the General Staff Headquarters and the base camp is extremely the same, the empire cannot touch the interests of Britain, France, the United States and other countries in East China and South China, and it cannot be completely isolated by the international community, we need American loans, scrap steel and aero engines, and most importantly, the empire needs oil!" Moreover, the main enemy of the Imperial Army is not the Chinese people, but the red giant Soviet Russia, stabilizing Manchuria and trying to develop northward, occupying the large oil and gas fields of Soviet Russia in the Far East, this is the ultimate strategy of the Empire, otherwise the Empire's oil reserves can only last for a year, and the Combined Fleet is a pile of scrap iron if there is no oil supply. ”

Sitting on the opposite side, the chief of operations of the navy's base camp, the deputy commander of the navy, Mi Duoshan, glared at Aoki Michichi fiercely, and snorted heavily, because of the fiasco of the Chengde Army, the super warship program of the navy was forced to stop, and a large number of ships were waiting to update their weapons and equipment, and the navy was full of complaints.

Vice Minister Mazaki of the First Minister of the General Staff Headquarters has been watching all this coldly, as if the person who had just quarreled with Lieutenant General Fujiwara Motoyama was not him, Vice Minister Mazaki glared at Fujiwara Motoyama These remnants of the patriarchal faction, Emperor Hirohito's soft-heartedness made a guy like Fujiwara Motoyama have the life to stand here, in fact, two. The most important ones to be killed in the 26th are also these remnants of the party, they are the stumbling blocks to the development and progress of the Great Empire.

Deputy Chief Masaki glanced at Michichi Aoki, who was staring at Minamijiro, Vice Minister Mazaki knew the extent of Minamijiro, if he forced this good old man to tell the truth about the guy who was the best at seeing the wind and steering the rudder? Vice Minister Mazaki actually admires this guy Minamijiro, and he dares to be sloppy on issues related to his actual interests?

Vice Minister Masaki stood up slowly, first bowed to Emperor Hirohito to show his respect, and then said loudly: "After the Imperial Army passed through the crushing defeat under the city of Chengde, it can be said that it has been a strong army for more than three years. Why did I say that in the first battle of Chengde, the prestige of this imperial army would be lost? ”

Vice Chief Masaki looked around and yelled, "It's not that our soldiers can't do it, and it's not that our equipment can't do it!" Compared with the Chinese [***], our soldiers are well-trained, our firepower is several times stronger than the enemy, our army surrounds the enemy on all sides, and the strength is more than ten times that of the enemy. That is the result of the dereliction of duty, carelessness and contempt of the enemy by some of our generals! The determination to attack is not resolute, and it is necessary to have the determination to attack the mountain of corpses and blood when Lushun is in charge, Chengde can gnaw down even a stone, and the rear is careless and negligent, and the airfield and logistics supply transfer station are raided by a small group of elite enemy troops, so how can it be undefeated? ”

(To be continued)