The Japanese and Manchurian regimes in Mukden and Shinkyo were engaged in intense discussions over the ultimatum sent from the base camp. The entry of the Eighth Route Army made the Japanese Kwantung Army extremely nervous. Commander General Otozo Yamada, Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Akira Muto, Deputy Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Iimura Sui, Major General Hirabayashi Morito, Supreme Adviser to the Manchurian State, Major General Saburo Endo, Commander of the Air Corps, Major General Endo Saburo, Commander of the Military Police, Major General Yoshihiro Fukahori, Minister of Special Intelligence, Major General Kenichi Kamata Commander of the Continental Railway, Yasunao Yoshioka, Imperial Adviser of the Imperial Office of the Manchurian State, Tokumi Komai, Minister of Special Services of the Kwantung Army, Hatsuhiko Saburo, Chief of the Harbin Special Service of the Kwantung Army, and some divisional and regimental-level officers discussed the matter of crusading against the Anti-Japanese Alliance.

Lieutenant General Muto Akira, chief of staff, pointed to the huge map of Manchukuo to introduce the scope of the anti-union activities in the North Manchurian region and said: "Since we used to devote our main energy to the mainland operations in the Zhina Pass, there were less than 10 divisions left in the northeast, of which five divisions were mainly deployed against the Soviet Union, and the security of Manchukuo basically relied on the Manchurian Imperial Allied Army and the second-line troops. Large areas beyond the lines of communication are empty. “

In May 1939, a skirmish between the Manchurian and Mongol armies at Nomenkhan turned into a head-to-head confrontation between the Kwantung Army and the Soviet Red Army. Zhukov commanded six brigades of 70,000 Soviet Far Eastern Army, defeating two divisions of about 40,000 Kwantung Army with mechanized units. 18,000 Japanese soldiers were killed or wounded. "Taking advantage of the weakness of our army, the anti-Japanese armed forces, which had been confined to the deep mountains and dense forests, became active again, and under the leadership of the thug named Meng Qingshan, they attacked and harassed the empty county town of Manchukuo everywhere, destroyed the county offices along the way, killed and injured tens of thousands of public police officers and gendarmes, looted materials and armed all walks of life, and incorporated various anti-Japanese armed forces, and the ranks were expanded, gradually growing from small to large, and now they have grown into more than 100,000 armed forces."

"In the North Manchurian region, it occupied Tangyuan, Nahe, Dedu, Sunwu, Keshan, Kedong and other counties, cut off the railway transportation between North and South Manchuria, and called it the Northeast Military Region to the outside world, with more than 80,000 people in four divisions. According to the analysis of the combat results, the department is good at mobile warfare, has a large number of cavalry, is equipped with more automatic weapons and artillery, and its combat effectiveness is higher than that of the Imperial Allied Army, which is used for the garrison of the Imperial Army, and slightly lower than that of the regular divisions and regiments of the Empire. ”

"In less than three years, it has clashed with our Imperial Japanese Army several times, and the results ended in the defeat of our army, and several generals have been killed, he has now become a cancer in our Manchukuo, and he can no longer be allowed to be so rampant, in order to make our Kwantung Army have the object of honing the troops, I did not expect that he slaughtered tens of thousands of imperial soldiers with a miscellaneous army, and the troops have grown to more than 80,000 people, and they have plundered countless materials, so if we continue to develop, will there be peaceful days in our Manchukuo?"

"The task of our Kwantung Army is to stabilize the empire's rule in Manchuria, protect the economic interests of Japanese enterprises and expatriates, guard against the attack of Soviet Russia, and test the strength and determination of Soviet Russia to fight. Personally, I don't think we can be satisfied with protecting the territory and the people, and be willing to be a local garrison. We are the most adventurous and enterprising battle group in the Imperial Army, and we have been pushing the boundaries of the Empire, and we should continue to do so. ”

All officers of the Japanese army were proud to enter the Kwantung Army because of the many opportunities, great merit, and quick promotion. It has become a glorious tradition that every soldier of the Kwantung Army has a strong desire to make meritorious contributions, even if it violates the established principles and plans, as long as he takes risks to succeed and brings tangible benefits to the empire, he will not be held accountable and blamed, but will become an enviable hero.

"However, in order to eliminate the motley army of the Anti-Japanese Federation, our Imperial Japanese Army has successively had several general-level officers and tens of thousands of imperial soldiers spilled their blood on the battlefield, and sacrificed their young lives to defend the stability of Manchukuo, this kind of loss makes His Majesty the Emperor very angry, such as today His Majesty ordered us to eliminate the Anti-Japanese Federation before the end of the year, I don't know if you have the confidence to complete the task assigned to us by His Majesty the Emperor."

"Yes."

"Yo Xi! Our Kwantung Army has the title of the first army in the Imperial Japanese Army, we cannot let a motley army composed of bandits and peasants provoke, we must wash away our previous shame with their blood, and at the same time, we also want the whole world to see the strength of our Kwantung Army of the Great Japanese Empire, long live the Kwantung Army, long live His Majesty the Emperor. ”

"Long live the Kwantung Army, long live His Majesty the Emperor."

After Meng Qingshan ordered the whole unit to be divided into parts, the representatives of each column returned to their respective stations with a large amount of materials under the transportation of the logistics convoy to convey the course of the meeting, so the troops that had just finished a battle and had not yet finished repairing got up in an activity, went up to the regimental headquarters and down to the company to start the pre-war general mobilization to convey the spirit of the meeting, the first column and the second division remained in the Shangjiang area, and the sixth division and the column organs, with the cooperation of the seventh division, eliminated a squadron of Japanese troops and a battalion of puppet troops guarding the shore of the Japanese army, and tore a hole in the Japanese army's river defense. In the next short night, the 1st Column 6th Division and the column organs all completed the crossing of the river, when the 23rd Infantry Wing of the 4th Division of Jiamusi rushed over under the leadership of the wing commander Okamoto Zhenchen Dasa, only to see the marks all over the ground, judging from the footprints, the footprints were the anti-Lian flow in the Shangjiang area, and immediately reported the situation to the division commander Yamashita Fengwen, when Yamashita Fengwen knew about it, he immediately ordered the 23rd Wing to pursue.

Okamoto Zhenchen, who got the order, immediately led the 23rd Infantry Wing to follow the footprints left by the Anti-Union to pursue, but before he walked out of the ten mile road, he found that the footprints suddenly became two strands, in order to pursue Okamoto Zhenchen immediately divided a brigade, in the next less than thirty miles away, Okamoto Zhenchen was completely blindfolded, after continuous division of troops to pursue, he now only has a squadron of troops left around him, looking at the footprints that appeared in front of him, he completely did not know what to do, because four more roads appeared in front of him, After the analysis of Okamoto Zhenchen, in a short distance of less than 100 kilometers, this army was actually divided into more than 20 units, and there were fewer and fewer units, and finally it was concluded that the people of the branch were scattered while walking.

The Second Column left the Eighth Division to operate in Longjiang, and the rest of the people, with the Third Division as the vanguard, cleared the obstacles for the follow-up troops and marched all the way, and the Third Division did not live up to the expectations of the column, and the momentum along the way was like a bamboo; in less than 15 days, the Second Column arrived at Kulun County, the southernmost part of Hung Yen South Province, the Third Division left a brigade to protect the construction base of the column's organs, and the remaining three regiments went south to Jinzhou on the spot, and the Fifth Division developed all the way east, from Kangping to Jinchuan.

The 10th Division of the 3rd Column stayed north of Binjiang, and the 1st and 9th Divisions of the column circled around Harbin and came to the territory of Wuchang County, where the 1st Division developed in the areas of Qian'an, Fuyu, Yushu, and Shulan, and the 9th Division developed in the areas of Zhuhe, Weihe, Baoning, and Muling.

The Fourth Column was led by the deputy commander to lead the cavalry division to the south, and the remaining two infantry divisions stayed in the Daxinganling to guard against the Hailar Japanese division, defending the headquarters and guarding the northern defense line.

After Meng Qingshan finished the meeting, he immediately called Wang Wennian, commander of the left-behind corps, and Lu Dongsheng, commander of the reclamation corps, and discussed for several hours at the meeting, and after the two returned to their respective headquarters, they immediately mobilized the troops and began to build large-scale fortifications, full of traps and mines.

At 8 p.m. on June 1, Akira Muto, chief of staff of the Japanese Kwantung Army, received a report from the cavalry wing that it had arrived at the periphery of Qiqihar. Judging from the investigation, Qiqihar does not have any anti-United Nations armed forces. What should I do?

Captain Honda Takeo Nakasa, the commander of the 2nd Cavalry Wing who was familiar with the tactics of the Anti-United Nations, was worried that the Anti-United Nations would repeat his old tricks in Qiqihar City. If he eats his cavalry wing again, he strictly orders the cavalry wing to build fortifications on the spot. Monitor Qiqihar and wait for the main force of the division to arrive.

At half past eight in the evening, the vanguard of the 1st Division of the Kwantung Army's Expeditionary Corps also arrived outside Qiqihar City. Still afraid to enter, fearing that there would be an ambush of the anti-coalition forces in the city, they waited for the main force on the spot.

When the main forces of the 8th and 1st Divisions arrived, it was already 11 o'clock in the evening. After the two armies met. The two lieutenant generals, Ryosuke Alum and Kyosuke Kawamura, discussed. He built a tight defensive line in the south and west of the city, and sent several squadrons into the city to investigate the reality in the city.

At half past eleven o'clock in the evening, the situation was finally clarified, and there was not a single anti-union soldier in Qiqihar City! The search team also brought back a small number of Japanese expatriates and friends of the imperial army who welcomed the imperial army to regain Qiqihar under the sun flag, and according to them, there was still a large anti-Japanese army in the city yesterday, but they opened up just as the Japanese troops arrived. As for where the anti-coalition forces went, none of these people could say clearly.

The Japanese army entered the city in a big way, and the city of Qiqihar was immediately filled with the roar of tanks, armored vehicles, and car motors, gunshots, and the neighing of men and horses.

After Lieutenant General Ryosuke Alum and Lieutenant General Kyosuke Kawamura entered the city, they went directly to the headquarters of the former 11th Division. I saw that the headquarters of the 11th Division at this time had become a ruin, and on the way back, Ryosuke Alum and Kyosuke Kawamura saw that all the shops opened by the Japanese had been looted, and even the signs on them had been packed and taken away, and the tracks of the train track had also been stripped clean, and only empty houses were left in the field hospital, and even the telephone poles and wires in the city had been uprooted, and the two looked at each other and smiled bitterly. Sighing, he found a chair and sat down, and then ordered someone to report the good news of the recovery of Qiqihar to General Yamada Otosan.

General Yamada was shocked when he received the telegram, he could not have imagined that he would go to great lengths to mobilize three divisions and several tens of thousands of troops, ******** thinking of encircling and annihilating the main force of the Anti-United Nations under the city of Qiqihar, but as a result, the main force of the Anti-United Nations escaped, and even the anti-United Nations forces that were active in the north of Binjiang disappeared without a trace, as if the world had evaporated.

Yamada Otozo was so angry that he tore off the buttons on his military uniform, ran out of the headquarters and came to the place where Yamamuro Munetake was being held, with a small leather whip and a candle.

After fighting for more than half an hour, General Yamada Otosan returned to the war room after he was angry, and said coldly to the chief of staff, Lieutenant General Iimura: It's all to blame for that coward of Yamamuro Sowu, if he hadn't withdrawn from Qiqihar privately, we would not have been able to figure out the reality of Qiqihar at all, so that the troops were empty, and Meng Qingshan abandoned the city. ”

"Your Excellency General, don't be anxious, this time we will concentrate the strength of the four divisions, no matter where Meng Qingshan is hiding, we will find him out and completely eliminate him."

"Yo Xi! Meng Qingshan: This time, I'll see if you can save the day again. Yamada Otozo said with a smile on his face. (To be continued.) )