Chapter 582: The Reaction of the Japanese Kwantung Army

The reaction of the Japanese Kwantung Army

"Chief of Staff, ladies and gentlemen. Since everyone thinks that our Kwantung Army troops should launch a retaliatory encirclement and suppression operation against the troops of the Eighth Route Army in the Mengshan area, so that the Eighth Route Army can pay off their blood debts and blood... So, let me ask you, this time in retaliation Xing encirclement and suppression operation, how many troops do our Kwantung Army troops need to be directly dispatched in order to be able to complete the final combat goal at the most casualties cost...."

"This... Your Excellency, Commander, I humbly believe that the Eighth Route Army has just gone through a bloody battle, and although it has completely annihilated hundreds of thousands of our troops, they will also pay a very huge price... If we take advantage of the vitality of the Eighth Route Army and the favorable opportunity when it has not yet recovered, we will suddenly launch an attack, and we will definitely not need to gather too many troops, and we will be able to successfully complete the task..."The deputy chief of staff of the major general said with an eager face...

"Heavy losses... Hehe, it seems that everyone here has not really understood our opponents... You must know that our opponent, but in the Eighth Route Army, Liu Hua, who has the title of God of War, and at the same time, this Liu Hua is also the number one enemy of the Empire....Chief of Staff, tell everyone how much casualties the Eighth Route Army has paid in this battle..."Commander General Umezu Mijiro said with a sneer...

"Yes, Commander, gentlemen. After my intelligence officers lurking inside the Eighth Route Army, the intelligence that has just been sent back shows. In this battle, the casualties of the Eighth Route Army were about 15,000. However, only forty percent of them were killed, less than six thousand..."

"Therefore, the current Eighth Route Army, after this battle, has lost a large number of soldiers. However, as senior officers, everyone knows that the battlefield is the best training ground. Those remaining soldiers, at this moment, are undoubtedly the sharpest veterans of a hundred battles. More importantly, with the addition of various anti-Japanese armed forces entrenched in the three northeastern provinces, coupled with a large number of captured weapons and ammunition, they were equipped into the troops of the Eighth Route Army. The overall combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army has not only not decreased, but has increased a lot..."The chief of staff nodded, and under the stunned gaze of everyone, he spoke...

"What? The overall combat effectiveness has risen instead of falling, how is it possible..."Baga, impossible, Chief of Staff, are you mistaken, the Eighth Route Army actually paid the price of less than 6,000 killed... The ratio of dead soldiers on both sides is more than ten to one... Impossible, absolutely impossible ...""Chief of Staff, are you long wrong, how can it be ...."...

Suddenly, the faces of more than a dozen officers in the entire command headquarters just fell with the words of the chief of staff. Immediately, he showed a shocked look, one after another, he raised the questions in his heart, and asked in disbelief....

"Yaga, this is the Supreme Command of the Kwantung Army of the Imperial Japanese Army, noisy and noisy, whatever the system, shut up for me..." The commander, General Umezu Mijiro, slammed the table in front of him and roared loudly... Then the entire command, after regaining its tranquility again, spoke...

"Ladies and gentlemen, what I want to tell you now is that there is no problem with the data just reported by the chief of staff....After this battle, the combat effectiveness of our opponent, the Eighth Route Army, has not decreased at all, but has improved... And all of this is because our opponent has changed from the original Yang Jingyu to the current Liu Hua... I believe that through this death ratio, everyone should be able to clearly understand that our opponent, Liu Hua, is terrible..."

Seeing everyone looking at him dumbfounded, Umezu Mijiro continued to say....

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is not the main thing, the important thing is that the Eighth Route Army now has enough back soldiers... In this battle, the Eighth Route Army captured more than 30,000 Manchurian soldiers in the area around Mengshan... I believe that everyone here knows well the loyalty of these Manchurian soldiers to our fight against the Japanese Imperial Army, and at the same time, they also understand the strength of the mobilization ability of the political and work cadres of the Eighth Route Army... If nothing else, these more than 30,000 captives, under the mobilization of the political work cadres of the Eighth Route Army, at least half of the soldiers will take off their military uniforms and join the Eighth Route Army... At that time, the total strength of our enemy, the Eighth Route Army, will rapidly swell to 40,000 people, and it will be 40,000 people with good equipment and sufficient ammunition...."

As the commander's voice fell, the entire command headquarters fell into silence again... At this moment, the entire command headquarters, except for the commander and the chief of staff, is recalling the commander's speech just now, thinking about the new opponents he will face in the future....,

And just when the atmosphere in the command was getting more and more solemn again, as time went by. A confident voice brought everyone who was in deep thought back to reality. A major general officer of the Shaozhuang faction stood up with a confident face, and said to the commander and the chief of staff in front of him....

"Your Excellency, Commander, I humbly believe that although the Eighth Route Army has a strength of more than 20,000 people, it has completely annihilated more than 40,000 of our army at a very high cost. However, the premise of this battle was that the Eighth Route Army had used a lot of stratagems to launch an attack after our army was in a situation where it ran out of ammunition and food... I believe that if there is a head-to-head decisive battle between hard against hard, the 20,000 troops of the Eighth Route Army will definitely not be the opponent of the troops of the Kwantung Army of our Great Japanese Empire...."

And as soon as the major general's officer's words fell, the eyes of more than a dozen big Xiao officers immediately showed a trace of edge. After that, several officers of the Young Zhuang faction immediately stood up and agreed with his statement. At the same time, he instigated the commander in front of him, General Umezu Mijiro, to send troops...

"Since Shigemoto-kun is so confident... So, it's still the question just now, I would like to ask Shigemoto-kun, this time in retaliation Xingxing encirclement and suppression operation, how many troops should be sent to the Kwantung Army of the Japanese Empire to go out to the expedition, in order to achieve the ultimate strategic goal with the most losses..."Regarding the first half of Major General Shigemoto's sentence, Senior General Umezu Mijiro nodded very approvingly. Immediately, he asked several major generals and officers in front of him...

As soon as the commander's words fell, the entire command headquarters once again fell into silence... Everyone, all of them lowered their heads and fell into thought... Thinking about the specific number of troops sent by the Kwantung Army

The 20,000 troops of the Eighth Route Army, and the 20,000 poorly equipped army, under the command of Liu Hua, the number one enemy of the empire, were able to completely annihilate hundreds of thousands of Imperial Japanese troops. Although, in the eyes of these officers, the cunning Eighth Route Army used a lot of tricks. However, the total annihilation of 100,000 troops is an ironclad fact...

At this moment, the total strength of the Eighth Route Army has reached an astonishing 40,000 people, and it is also a well-equipped army of 40,000 with combat experience in large corps... If 100,000 troops are dispatched, as long as the Eighth Route Army responds properly, the result will not be any surprises, and the 100,000 troops sent out will become a meal on the plate of the Eighth Route Army....

So, what about the 200,000 army....although the ratio of troops has reached five to one, it is also very difficult for the Eighth Route Army to deal with it... However, with the excellent command skills of Commander Liu Hua, the best result that can be achieved is also a dead net... And this result, but did not achieve the ultimate strategic goal...

After thinking about it, after careful consideration, in the minds of these Daxiao officers, they immediately set the specific strength of the troops at about 250,000....Thinking of this, the major general officer of the Shaozhuang faction who had just put forward his own opinion said...

"Report to Your Excellency the Commander, I humbly believe that in this retaliatory encirclement and suppression operation, as long as our army can touch the 250,000 troops, coupled with the cooperation of the air force, we will definitely be able to annihilate the Eighth Route Army in the Mengshan area and avenge the 60,000 warriors who died in battle..."

"Two hundred and fifty thousand troops... I heard you right... You are also the senior commander of our Kwantung Army, and you have a certain understanding of the deployment of our Kwantung Army. Do you think that now we have the ability to gather 250,000 troops in a short period of time and relaunch the encirclement and suppression operation against the Eighth Route Army? The commander shook his head and asked helplessly...

"But... Your Excellency the Commander..."In response to the commander's rhetorical question, Major General Shigemoto wanted to refute it. But. As soon as he said a sentence, he swallowed it back.

Because, what the commander said is very correct, the current Kwantung Army troops, in the case of being attacked from the back and abdomen, have no ability to assemble 250,000 troops in a short period of time...

At this moment, although the Kwantung Army troops have millions of people... But in order to prepare for the West, the Far East of the USSR, hundreds of thousands of sharp Red Army units led by Marshal Zhukov ... The command had to transfer nearly half of the Kwantung Army's forces and hoard them on the border line to confront the Soviet Red Army in order to deal with possible accidents...

At the same time, in order to prevent hundreds of thousands of main forces of the Northeast Field Army of the Eighth Route Army from leaving the customs and entering the three northeastern provinces... Almost 200,000 soldiers of the Kwantung Army, Chen Bing was on the front line of Shanhaiguan, waiting for the arrival of the Northeast Field Army of the Eighth Route Army... This army, like the 500,000 troops of Chen Bing on the border line, cannot be mobilized in any way..., more than 1 million troops, minus 500,000 troops on the border line, 200,000 troops at Shanhaiguan, and 60,000 troops that have just been wiped out... At this moment, there are only more than 300,000 people left... However, these more than 300,000 Kwantung Army, facing the huge northeastern three provinces, had to allocate a large number of troops as local garrisons...

In this way, at this moment, in the hands of the Kwantung Army Command, there are less than 100,000 mobile forces left that can be mobilized immediately... And if these 100,000 people are mobilized to attack, it will be tantamount to entering the mouth of the tiger and adding to the achievements of those Eighth Route Army troops...

Thinking of this, the faces of more than a dozen senior officers immediately showed a look of frustration, and in the end, they all lowered their heads and didn't say a word...

Seeing the group of officers who fell silent, the commander knew that his Fan Wen had achieved the effect... And now, what I have to do is not to let everyone lose confidence in the future of the Kwantung Army. Thinking of this, General Umezu Mijiro spoke again...

"Everyone, now everyone should understand why I have always disagreed, and now I have sent heavy troops to launch a retaliatory encirclement and suppression operation against the Eighth Route Army...."

"Hay, Your Excellency the Commander is wise..."More than a dozen officers replied in unison with their heads nodding at the same time...

"Ladies and gentlemen, although we do not have enough capabilities at the moment to completely annihilate this Eighth Route Army force. However, the three northeastern provinces are the rear of the Kwantung Army of the Great Japanese Empire, and under the current situation in which our Kwantung Army is under attack, we absolutely cannot tolerate this force, and in our large rear, unscrupulous development will go first. Therefore, what we can do now is to talk about this force and give it to the Mengshan area....now I command...."

As soon as the words of the commander Umezu Mijiro fell, more than a dozen big Xiao officers immediately raised their heads and stood in front of the commander in unison, waiting for the order to arrive...

"Reinforce the three main divisions of Baishan County, immediately stop the advance and return to the starting point along the Shanhaiguan Pass... In the area around Mengshan, the garrison troops of the strongholds in each county immediately contracted their defenses, concentrated their forces, and defended all strategic points and important county towns to prevent the Eighth Route Army from expanding outward..."

"The 27th and 28th divisions of the Kwantung Army immediately assembled to assist the local defenders, all the Jiao passages leading to the outside world in the Mengshan area, and the troops of the Eighth Route Army in the entire Mengshan area... As long as the time comes. We can chou redeploy our troops and launch a new round of retaliation Xing encirclement and suppression operations......." Glancing at the dozen or so officers in front of him, the commander, General Umezu Mijiro, ordered with a serious face...

The Mengshan base area, after several days of continuous fighting. Having just returned to the base area, all combat units, including all anti-Japanese armed forces willing to join the Eighth Route Army. At the first time, he threw down all kinds of equipment on his body, got into his barracks, and began to sleep heavily, replenishing the physical strength he had consumed in a few days of fighting...

In less than a few hours, in the dense forest, in the huge military camp, except for the sentries who were constantly patrolling. The entire barracks can only hear the constant sound of whirring and sleeping...

In the Supreme Headquarters of the Shimenling Base Area, Commander Liu Hua, Deputy Commander Yang Jingyu and others. Also the first time I returned to the base area, I began to rest....

At this moment, almost a night has passed since the troops returned to their base areas... However, because of the fatigue of the long battle, none of the commanders and fighters who had rested for the night woke up and were still asleep.

In this peaceful and quiet barracks, a cavalry warrior, riding a fast horse, quickly rushed into the barracks... After being inspected by the men's sentry, the cavalry soldiers did not stop at all, and immediately rushed to the high headquarters of the base area not far away...

"Commander, deputy commander, the latest news from the intelligence officers..."Rushing into the command headquarters, seeing the two commanders who were wearing military coats and sitting on stools, it seemed to be waiting for them, and the panting intelligence staff officers didn't have time to catch their breath, so they hurriedly replied...

"Let's talk about it, let's wipe out the entire army of 60,000 Xiao devils. After the Japanese Kwantung Army learned the news, did it make any moves, is it ready to retaliate against us..."

"Commander, this is the latest news that this is the intelligence personnel of our army who have entered the Kwantung Army of the Japanese army, and it has just come out... Due to the lack of troops, the Japanese army did not launch an encirclement and suppression operation in retaliation as usual. Only to the defenders of all the county strongholds around Mengshan, an order was issued to shrink the defense, concentrate the troops, and defend all the key roads of Jiao, in an attempt to seal us in the county seat of Baishan... At the same time, the Japanese army chou transferred the strength of the 27th and 28th main divisions to reinforce the Japanese defenders around us, and put our army in the Mengshan area...", "Commander, I really let you say it right. The current Kwantung Army of the Japanese army has millions of empty troops. However, now they can't take care of the head and tail, and after losing the three main divisions, they can't mobilize extra troops at all to encircle and suppress us..."As soon as the intelligence staff officer's words fell, Deputy Commander Yang Jingyu's face showed excitement, and he said with a smile on his face to Liu Hua beside him...

"In the west, Xiao devils have to guard against hundreds of thousands of Red Army troops in the Soviet Union. In the south, he also had to guard against hundreds of thousands of main forces of the Northeast Field Army that could leave the customs at any time and enter the northeast... At the same time, the three huge northeastern provinces also have to transfer a large number of troops as local garrisons... This time, it would already be very good that he was able to transfer two main divisions to deal with us..."Liu Hua pointed to the combat map in front of him and said with a smile on his face...

In fact, in his heart, he knew that there was another crucial reason why the Japanese Kwantung Army did not dare to send troops, that is, the Pearl Harbor incident was about to break out... With the outbreak of the Pearl Harbor incident, the Japanese Kwantung Army, which has first-class combat effectiveness, will definitely transfer a large number of troops to participate in the plan to go south... Therefore, the command of the Kwantung Army at this moment had to concentrate its troops in its own hands and send troops to participate in the plan to go south at any time ....

Of course, since this incident did not happen, Liu Hua, as the commander, can only bury it deep in his heart....

"Commander, since Xiao Devil is in a short period of time, he doesn't intend to provoke us... Then in the next stage, should we immediately carry out the primary and expand the existing base area..."Yang Jingyu proposed...

"It is necessary to expand and develop base areas. After all, only with a solid rear can we fight against the Japanese army without any worries... Now, however, our priority is to take a break... After the rest and recuperation of the troops, a unified reorganization of all combat units will be carried out... Only when the troops reach the real full strength can they form combat effectiveness..."Liu Hua nodded and said...