Said that he is a typical masochistic little pick, accustomed to making money in business, and it is very unbearable to suffer a loss, and the battle of Rehe has completely thrown the myth of the undefeated imperial army into the pit, Zhang Xuewu's crazy expansion of the army and the purchase of weapons, so that he himself also seriously feels threatened, and he is keenly aware that if they do not defeat Zhang Xuewu, let it continue to develop excessively, I am afraid it will not be a problem of Rehe, and the entire Manchuria will not be guaranteed, Lushun, Rehe, the two bloody places of the Imperial Army, will be all in vain after more than 30 years of painstaking management.

It is said that I have moved in the three eastern provinces, crazy plundering and sabotage of the mining surname to maintain its huge armament capital, and the Kwantung Army General Headquarters was stimulated by the attack of Zhang Xuewu's paratrooper special commando, and also formed a special force called Sakura, the main members of this force also went to Germany for parachute reconnaissance related training, Zhang Xuewu's former veteran said that he was compared to a stupid pig who remembers to eat and not to fight, and now it seems that he is indeed a bit insulting to a pig.

The speed at which he learned from the beatings was astonishing, and the new heavy artillery, a large number of tanks, and the upgrading of the flying team under the jurisdiction of the Kwantung Army to a flying division all showed that he was making large-scale preparations for war, and that he was being upgraded from the Kwantung Army Headquarters to the General Headquarters.

Frankly speaking, the Kwantung Army, which he has carefully built now, is seriously rigid in its tactical thinking, refuses to face up to the changes in military technology and tactics brought about by the progress of science and technology, but believes that the factor for accomplishing tasks is faith rather than knowledge, so that its combat doctrine still emphasizes the invincibility of white-edged doctrine and lacks training to deal with tanks and aircraft.

However, the current training exercises of the Kwantung Army made Zhang Xuewu a little worried, because although the four tank brigades formed and dispatched to the Kwantung Army from the mainland still lacked the necessary equipment, the Kwantung Army did not dismantle and use them? Zhang Xuewu estimated that this may be his concentrated use of chariots in Chengde to do short-distance assaults, which brought him some enlightenment to the field artillery wing of the 10th Division of the Yue Army.

The progress of the said person is not good news for Zhang Xuewu, because the surname of the army's first-class tank can be very poor on the battlefield, so the 95-type light combat vehicle, which was originally to be mass-produced in 1936, has also been mass-produced in advance.

The Type 95 light tank was mass-produced by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in early 1934, and it is the best quality and surname in the light tank, the main task of the Type 95 light tank is to support the infantry and accompany the rapid advance of the vehicle, which can quickly divide the enemy, but the Type 95 tank still inherits the advantages of the thin skin of the tank, and its armor is simply not worth mentioning, and the standard penetration of the 37 mm ** gun of 38 times the caliber of the body tube is 20 centimeters, which is only equivalent to the level of the German 20 mm Fubo gun. Even lower, the standard penetration of the German, American, and Soviet-made anti-tank guns was 40 centimeters, which was actually mainly due to the poor level of industrial metallurgy at that time.

Zhang Xuewu can judge from the types of troops and troop strength invested by the army that although he has been shouting for revenge, there has been no major deviation between his overall strategy and history, and he has not yet regarded Zhang Xuewu as a strategic-level opponent, nor has he even regarded China as a strategic-level opponent; there are now two voices in the military, one is to obtain sufficient strategic buffers for Manchuria and slowly encroach on China, and the other is to attack and swallow up on a large scale.

It can be said that Zhang Xuewu is not afraid of his own whale swallowing, but is afraid of its encroachment, because if China's political axe does not have the courage to fight with him and his determination to fight to the end, it is very easy for the army's strategic attempt to succeed, and his own politics is more inclined to serve the strategy, so it has a greater deceptive surname, and China has been deceived by himself more than once in history, and his shamelessness and untrustworthiness are also the special surnames of his nation.

With Zhou Ying's investment and financial support, most of Longtang's subordinate assets in Nanyang began to transfer to Rehe and Suiyuan, with the flow of capital, the entire Chahar, Rehe, and Suiyuan were active, Zhang Xuewu secretly handed over the export business of tungsten ore to Zhou Ying, so as not to be targeted by the Nanjing political axe, after all, Chiang Kai-shek, who was in the face of righteousness, could never afford to offend.

The four armies of the Northeast Army are also pressed on the front line of Shanhaiguan and are waiting for a tight battle, and Zhang Xueliang's echelon configuration of one, one, and two formations is a bit conservative in Zhang Xuewu's view, and it is completely necessary to put on an offensive posture of three or one to give him a certain amount of pressure, but he is not frightened, and his short-sightedness is his special surname, and the most important thing is that he can only be afraid of him, and it is difficult to frighten him, scaring me that many times may be counterproductive.

In order to better prevent annihilation and counter-espionage, Zhang Xuewu carried out the registration and management method of the household registration system, borrowed the detailed rules of the household registration and floating population management measures in later generations, conducted large-scale investigations and thorough investigations, and added the reward policy of rewarding suspicious elements, all household registration certificates must be handled in military management offices in various places, archived for the record, and Zhang Xuewu did not hesitate to attach photos to the documents, one is to facilitate identification, and the other is to a certain extent so that the forgers have nowhere to hide.

At the same time, Zhang Xuewu secretly set up a set of intelligence system to collect the movement of troops in the three northeastern provinces, Zhang Xuewu can be said to be unreliable at this point, the important surname of intelligence Zhang Xuewu knows better than anyone else, but in order to reduce the scruples of Nanjing, Zhang Xuewu can only secretly work in the audience, but Zhang Xuewu also knows that at this moment Chairman Jiang's mind is on the so-called suppression of bandits.

Prior to this, the Supreme Military Council set up a Nanchang camp in Nanchang, which had full authority to deal with military and political affairs in Jiangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, Hunan, and Hubei provinces, and Chiang Kai-shek personally organized and commanded the fifth encirclement and suppression of the Soviet areas on a larger scale. It was also decided to adopt the proposal of the multi-matter advisory group to advance the new strategy of protracted warfare and fortress warfare in parallel to encirclement and compression, and at the same time impose an economic and transportation blockade on the bandit areas in an attempt to gradually compress and destroy the bandit areas, and cooperate with Kangze's special task force on the principle of three parts military and seven points politics.

Chiang Kai-shek first convened a military conference in Lushan, opened a training regiment for officers to suppress bandits, and began to formulate a plan for encirclement and suppression, and stepped up preparations for encirclement and suppression. For this unprecedented scale of encirclement and suppression, Chiang Kai-shek mobilized 1 million troops, of which more than 500,000 troops were directly used to attack the central Soviet region, but this advance was unexpectedly interrupted by the "Fujian Incident", and it was not until February that the main force of the left wing of the Central Army was transferred back to the front line, and Zhang Xuewu estimated that it was likely that the final general offensive would be launched in the near future.

However, there was one thing that also gave Zhang Xuewu a headache, Yan Xishan, that old thing, actually submitted an official document to the Nanjing Political Axe Military and Political Department, saying that the combat effectiveness of the first division under the First Army of the Rehe Army had no side by side trip in China except for the teaching corps, and if such a strong brigade was transferred to suppress bandits, it would be done as soon as possible! Obviously, Yan Xishan spared no effort to find any opportunity to dig a pit for Zhang Xuewu, Zhang Xuewu really wanted to wave his army into Jin to solve Yan Xishan, occupy Shanxi and seek development, but Zhang Xuewu also knew that he could only think about it himself, if he really went to move the Jin army, I am afraid that even Chiang Kai-shek would not be able to protect himself.

In fact, Yan Xishan's suggestion Chiang Kai-shek had already been tempted, and the equipment of more than 120,000 people in Zhang Xuewu's department was the best in [***], and there were many veterans, and he had seen the battle formation, and more importantly, Zhang Xuewu's department did feel a little bit big? It is indeed a waste that such an elite army is not pulled into the battlefield.

However, Chiang Kai-shek's special large-scale exercise of the Kwantung Army made Chiang Kai-shek dispel the idea of sending one or two divisions to Hubei to suppress bandits, after all, Zhang Xuewu is now a gate of the Republic of China, and it has proved that Zhang Xueliang's Northeast Army is basically useless, and at the critical moment, he still has to guard the Central Army, which is responsible for defending the country, and his first two attacks were all because of his own life and his previous achievements were lost, so that he could not go all out.

In the name of suppressing bandits, Chiang Kai-shek has successfully infiltrated the central forces into Liangguang, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan-Guizhou, and after exterminating most of them, he drove the remnants of the bandits around and rightfully infiltrated the strength of the central government into all provinces and localities, and this is the real purpose of Chiang Kai-shek's painstaking efforts to suppress bandits, and the suppression of bandits is just a gimmick, and the real purpose is to unify the military and political power of the whole country and cut down the feudal domain!

Chiang Kai-shek was busy with how to use the bandits to cut down the feudal domain, Zhang Xuewu was busy building the Baotou Industrial Base, and after a large number of equipment installation and commissioning of the arsenals in the three eastern provinces, he had begun to gradually resume production, which made Zhang Xuewu the most happy, but in Shenyang at that time, it only took three days to dismantle the equipment, and it took more than four months to reinstall, which is also a kind of helplessness!

There is also a group of shameless people who are busy worrying about other people's things, this group of goods is the so-called Kwantung Army of the Great Empire, due to the promotion of the Kwantung Army, so it needs a person who can control both ability and prestige to serve as the commander, so Minamijiro, who was supposed to take over at the end of 1934, took over the post of commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army in advance.

Minamijiro was born in a poor old samurai family in Oita Prefecture, and it can be said that he was born as a bitter child when he was a child, and whether in politics or in the military, he was an opportunistic faction who saw the wind and steered the rudder, and he was able to hold a high position in everything without assertiveness, which can be described as a typical example of the bureaucratic talent of the army.

(To be continued)